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Mother Kusters’ Trip to Heaven
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 12, 2016
Mother Kusters’ Trip to
Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
Frau Kusters (Brigitte Mira) is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary
afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters
wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law read more
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Part I ‘’The Punishment Begins’’
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 16, 2016
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980) Adapted from the Alfred Döblin novel of the same name, the short series of 15 ½ hours is an achievement in storytelling and book adaptation. With the boldness of Herr Fassbinder and his fascination for the History of Germany in the first half of the 20th Cent read more
In a Year With 13 Moons
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 14, 2016
In a Year With 13 Moons
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
This drama follows the last few days
in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a
co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman,"
he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to salva read more
Veronika Voss
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 8, 2016
Veronika Voss
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
Munich, 1955: A sports journalist
meets Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech), an
UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is
kept by her "kind" doctor, Dr. Katz, supplying her house, food, clean
clothes and her favourite: mor read more
Lola (1981)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 4, 2016
Lola
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)
West Germany, late 1950s: Lola is a
singing prostitute working in a brothel that the town's bigwigs, even the
mayor, like to frequent. To the annoyance of the corrupt construction
entrepreneurs, especially a crass man named Schukert, the town's new building
c read more
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 1, 2016
The Marriage of Maria
Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
A World War II widow seeks to adjust
to life in postwar Germany.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films have this in your face
quality that few filmmakers have achieved even when trying. When your main
character gets married in Berl read more
88th Oscars Predictions: The Results
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Feb 29, 2016
In a ceremony hosted by Chris Rock's master hands filled with more humor and gags than before and with a nice pace between the awards and performances and presentations I had a pretty good run at predicting most of the awards. The only half-surprise is the win of Spotlight over The Revenant. read more
88th Oscars Predictions
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Feb 28, 2016
Even if I haven't been that much active lately on Le Mot du Cinephiliaque I wanted to bring my two cents into the ocean of Oscars predictions lists going on all around. Of all the nominees, I only watched Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, and The Martian. Each film I enjoyed at different levels. I i read more
The Martian
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Feb 12, 2016
The Martian
(Ridley Scott, 2015)
During a manned mission to Mars,
Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon)
is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney
has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With
only meager supplies, he must draw upon read more
Titanic
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Feb 10, 2016
Titanic
(James Cameron, 1997)
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
With a budget
of over 200 millions of dollars, this epic romance disaster movie is one of the
most iconic film of the 1990’s for being t read more
Flight of the Red Balloon
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Feb 3, 2016
Flight of the Red
Balloon aka Le voyage du ballon rouge (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007)
A
little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their
adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.
Taiwan
director Hou Hsiao-hsien was asked
to pay homage to Albert Lamori read more
The Revenant
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Feb 1, 2016
The Revenant
(Alejandro G. Inarittu, 2016)
A frontiersman on a fur trading
expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and
left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
The bear,
almost everything about The Revenant
has been revolving around the famous bear at read more
Mad Max : Fury Road
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jan 29, 2016
Mad Max : Fury Road
(George Miller, 2015)
A woman rebels against a
tyrannical ruler in post apocalyptic Australia in search for her homeland with
the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter
named Max.
In this tale
of survival, Max (Tom Hardy) is in a
dys read more
I Was Born, But…
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jan 25, 2016
I Was Born, But… (Yasujiro
Ozu, 1932)
Two young brothers become the leaders
of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Their father is an office clerk who
tries for advancement by playing up his boss. When the boys visit the boss'
house with their father, they discover that their dad has been read more
Takashi Shimura and Akira Kurosawa
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jan 23, 2016
Note : this review is a
contribution to Symbiotic Collaborations blogathon
hosted by CineMaven’s Essays From the Couch.
Takashi Shimura and Akira Kurosawa
While
Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa
doesn’t need an introduction amongst cinephiles, actor Takashi Shimura is read more
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jan 5, 2016
The Ballad of Narayama
(Shohei Imamura, 1983)
In a poor 19th century
rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a
nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and
we follow her last days with her family.
Japanese
films have always been read more
Best Music of 2015
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Dec 18, 2015
Here it is the mandatory year end list; my own top 10 of the best music of 2015. Surprise, no Adele!
Enjoy and please share your picks!
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Best Metal of 2015
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Dec 18, 2015
This is a companion piece to my Top 10 albums of 2015.
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Music Review : Costin Chioreanu – The Quest For A Morning Star (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Dec 17, 2015
Music Review : Costin Chioreanu –
The Quest For A Morning
Star (2015, Avantgarde
Music)
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Music Review : Grave Forsaken – The Fight Goes On (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Dec 16, 2015
Music Review : Grave Forsaken – The Fight Goes On (2015, Soundmass)
Just like Iron
Maiden and New Wave equal the 1980’s, thrash metal more often than not is the
same case if not a nostalgia of a time or a form of music once iconic but now a
shadow of itself. In fact, don’t read more