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Close-Up
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 20, 2013
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
The film tells the story of the real-life trial of a man (Hossain Sabzian) who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. It features the people involved, acting as themselves. A film about human iden read more
How To Make Money or How Hollywood Completely Destroyed Itself
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 19, 2013
With the recent announcement of a potential sequel to Taxi Driver a It’s A Wonderful Life 2 scheduled for 2015 and the serial remakes,
sequels, prequels, etc. Added to that the superheroes series birthing every
week featuring more and more CGI special effects, similar stories.
This gives le read more
Hairspray (1988)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 18, 2013
Hairspray (John Waters, 1988)
The original campy comedy that generated a Broadway hit musical and an average remake in 2007, John Waters’ Hairspray is a whole lot of fun. With the last appearance of the star of his trashy films like Pink Flamingo, Divine, Hairspray celebrates music and the ev read more
Stranger Than Paradise
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 15, 2013
Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
Widely known as the precursor of Independent American Cinema, Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise is so hip that it the term hipster could have been invented just for it. The late Pauline Kael compared Jarmusch‘s film to Samuel Beckett’ read more
Gloria (1980)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 13, 2013
Gloria (John Cassavetes, 1980)
It tells the story of a gangster's girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have.
As much as director John Cassavetes hit a home run with his film A Woman Under the Influence starring his wife Ge read more
The Hangover Part III
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 12, 2013
The Hangover Part III (Todd Phillips, 2013)
Our four forced friends of Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Doug (Justin Bartha), and Alan (Zack
Galifianakis) returned with Chow (Ken
Jeong) for a new adventure with a story centered more on Chow and his
illicit behaviors. Obviously the four get in read more
The Passenger (Professione: reporter)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 11, 2013
The Passenger (Professione : reporter) (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a television journalist making a documentary film on post-colonial Africa. To finish the film, he is in the Sahara desert seeking to meet with and interview rebel fighters involved in Chad's ci read more
The Cabin in the Woods
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 8, 2013
The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012)
While getting into things as the typical horror slasher film
where every character must be typecast and situations of scares and behaviors like having sex in
the woods or reciting an ancient formula to rise their death, The Cabin in the Woods twis read more
A Separation
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 6, 2013
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
My personal knowledge of Iranian Cinema started with The Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami and ended there. This masterpiece was my only encounter with the films of this part of the world except the short film The House is Black. In the later years, I wanted to read more
Down by Law
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 4, 2013
Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986)
Jack (John Lurie), Zack (Tom Waits), and Bob (Roberto Benigni) three complete strangers, are put together in the same prison cell for crimes they did not commit. One day, Bob tells them how they could escape.
Jim Jarmusch’s film centers on the relationship read more
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Nov 1, 2013
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen, 1993)
Larry Lipton (Woody Allen) and his wife Carol (Diane Keaton) meet their new next-door neighbors Paul (Jerry Adler) and Lilian (Lynn Cohen) House. They meet at the Houses' apartment for coffee, and they discover they have common interests. The next night, read more
Re-Animator
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Oct 31, 2013
Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
Gory as hell and funny as it could be, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator
is a horror film lover’s wet dream. With enough classic elements of Sci-fi and
Horror with the genius turned mad scientist in Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) openly based on H.P. Lovecraft& read more
Scream
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Oct 31, 2013
Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
Scream is a 1996
American slasher film written by Kevin
Williamson and directed by Wes
Craven. The film stars Neve Campbell,
Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore, and David
Arquette. It follows the character of Sidney Prescott (Campbell), a high
school student in the fictional read more
The Wicker Man (1973)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Oct 30, 2013
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
Often praised by critics and recommended by one of my friends, Christian Audet an Independent filmmaker and Horror aficionado, The Wicker Man is an intriguing and very interesting movie. Sgt Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) is a catholic investigating the Summerisle c read more
An American Werewolf in London
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Oct 29, 2013
An American Werewolf in London (John Landis, 1981)
David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are two young men on a backpacking trip in Europe beginning by England and then fleeing to Italy. After a long day of walking in the rain, they attend a weird pub where they get expelled for asking a read more
Don't Look Now
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Oct 28, 2013
Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
After the accidental death by drowning of their daughter, a couple (Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland) goes to Venice for a contract of church restoration. Laura (Christie) meets a couple of elderly sisters that told her that her daughter his still with read more
Nouvelle Vague
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Oct 25, 2013
Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard, 1990)
Of Jean-Luc Godard’s post masterpiece era, his films made after 1968 the year he discovered Maoism and let the traditional narratives of Cinema away to make a more instinctive form of films that are quite unique and complex but also not accessible for a read more
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Oct 24, 2013
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1977)
This Gothic homage to F.W. Murnau’s Expressionistic masterpiece of 1922, brings to the big screen another vision of the classic story of Dracula. Shot simultaneously in German and in English, Werner Herzog’s version of Nosferatu highlights the read more
Nosferatu
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Oct 23, 2013
Nosferatu (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922)
A classic canon of Films with a major F and one of the earliest instalments of Horror in movies, Murnau’s Nosferatu has inspired, influenced, been copied, and idolized. This review won’t try to repeat the thousands of analysis and critics it al read more
Carrie (1976)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Oct 22, 2013
Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
With the reinterpretation of Stephen King’s novel by Kimberly Pierce lately, it was natural that the classic Horror film that amongst all film enthusiasts, Quentin Tarantino himself ranks as one of his favorite films of all time would be revisited. And for Hallow read more