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Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981) A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents read more

21 Jump Street (Phil Lord and Chris Miller, 2012) A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring. This Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum picture reboots the buddy cop series of the same name that aired during the second half of t read more

Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. The most popular and known Kurosawa film of all time has just been named the seventeenth best film of all time by the latest Sight and Sound poll (2012) read more

Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, 1943) An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld. Continuing the quest into my first goal in film watching, to watch the entire list of the 1000 Greatest Films of All Time of TSPDT, read more

As I stated earlier in June this year those are the movies I was supposed to watch during the month of October: Rightly titled for this month. The films TheInnocents Halloween The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) The Devils Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Cat People (1942) I Walked with read more

Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view. If I remember correctly, Rashômon was the third Kurosawa film I ever saw back in 2002, right after Yojimbo and Sanjuro and just before The Seven Samurai. Since then I saw most of his read more

The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983) Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in showbiz, by resorting to stalking his idol, a late night talk show host who craves his own privacy. The post-Raging Bull era of Martin Scorsese’s career has been very difficult. Many c read more

Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941) A director of escapist films goes on the road as a hobo to learn about Life...which gives him a rude awakening. – IMDb This masterpiece by Preston Sturges is perhaps the finest movie-about-a-movie ever made. Hollywood director Joel McCrea, read more

Helvetica (Gary Hustwit, 2007) A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture. The first instalment of Gary Hustwit on design and the humanized world surrounding our contemporary urban lives is about typography and more specifically on the font Helvetica. Presented a read more

Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton, 1923) A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family. Buster Keaton with his second full length feature film shows sparks of read more

 As a serious music enthusiast and amateur musician, my life is filled with music. Every kind and every genre possible from The Beatles to Black Sabbath while going into Mastodon, Animal Collective, Santigold, Deltron, Buddy Rich to Bob Dylan I love this sublime art. To narrow the genres and read more

Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011) A family travel to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple who are forced to confront their differing views of a perfect life. Directing a film per year since the early 1970’s, Woody Allen might become one of the mo read more

"Although known for their caustic wit, Wilder’s films fluctuate between two polarities—the utterly romantic and the utterly cynical. The best of his work—Avanti (1972), The Apartment (1960), Sunset Boulevard (1949)—blends the two. At the extremes, however, we have the romanti read more

 As you are reading the lines of my 600th post, you might have helped this blog to reach the 200,000th pageview of Le Mot du Cinephiliaque #LMdC. All of this is a work of love for Films, Cinema in general, and writing about the two aforementioned elements that populate this blog. Just to get read more

Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing cha read more

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, 1970) When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster. At sixty-two years old, Billy Wilder directed some of the be read more

Québec City's Film Festival This year is the second edition of our Film festival and I wanted to highlight the fact that we have some interesting projections. Living in a Metropolitan area where we have so few Theaters, an event like this one is a do not miss.  À MOI SEULE Frédé read more

The Muppets (James Bobin, 2011) With the help of three fans, The Muppets must reunite to save their old theater from a greedy oil tycoon. Having not published my Top 10 films of 2011 yet is one of the most shameful issues that I have with this blog. Each time I look in my drafts it stands ther read more

American Reunion (John Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg, 2012) Jim, Michelle, Stifler, and their friends reunite in East Great Falls, Michigan for their high school reunion. Having been approx the same age that those dudes were back in 1999, I always felt connected with Jim (Jason Biggs), Kevi read more

Note: this a new series of reviews I'm installing on Le Mot du Cinephiliaque. Since I was born and raised in the Province of Québec I've decided to present and review some of the films that populate my culture and that represents the Cinema of here. The feature will be called after our license plate read more