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The superb folks at Anomalous Material gave me a white card and a mic. It wouldn't be long that I would use this speaker to spread the love for movies, films, pictures, talkies. Well, call them anyway you want but I now have a new place to write and it's been pretty inspiring my dear friend read more

Artificial Intelligence : AI (Steven Spielberg, 2001) A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother. Written by Stanley Kubrick and directed by Steven Spielberg, AI has divided diehard fans of Kubrick and Spielberg aficionados in t read more

Those are films of my childhood from this Steven Spielberg protégé. Did I mentioned that Marty McFly was one of my childhood heroes? Well, this explains why. 1. Back to the Future trilogy (1985-1990) 2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 3. Forrest Gump (1994) 4. Death Becomes Her (1992) 5. The read more

In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Ôshima, 1976) Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself. This cult film and its title al read more

The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998) "Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it. How a film goes to a cult status in almost fifteen years? First throw one of the most beloved duo of bros fi read more

Recently I've moved into my first house with my wife. It explains my quasi radio silence on the blog and in your comments sections. For your information, the painting and the moving went very well thanks to all those who helped us along the way we couldn't have done it without them! Don't forget to read more

On Canada day I’ve decided to bring you the 10 best Canadian films of all time by the critics of the Toronto International Film Festival of 2004. This poll has been done since 1984 every ten years and the number one film, Mon Oncle Antoine has been number one ever since. As you may notice t read more

Animal House (John Landis, 1978) At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him. In my quest of watching every film on the list of the 1000 Greatest films of all time of the always pertinent fol read more

Last year circa September, I’ve made a list of films I wanted to watch before the end of 2011. For some reasons I did not achieve the list. While browsing into my Archives I found it and decided to complete it and maybe add one or two titles in the way while scratching the ones I managed to wa read more

Celebrating the St. Jean Baptiste, June 24th, in Québec is like our 4th of July for Americans or our Bastille Day for the French. For this event, I wanted to give you a list of the most respected films made in our North-eastern Province of North America. The feature Je me souviens that I’ve be read more

This is my contribution to the LAMB Acting School 101 of June 2012. In the case here, I like the fact that they named it 101 because Schwarzie should have failed his 101 acting class and take some English lessons. However, having been born in the 1980’s his films are part of my childhood memor read more

 This year’s poll asks you to : first name the ten (10) most influential directors of all time and after to name his/her best film. To ease your votes and lists I give you this grid below that you only have to fill and return to me at lmdcine@gmail.com . The Most Influentia read more

Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them. Starring Tippi Hedren as the title role and Sean Connery has Mark the man who falls in love with her and wants to “ read more

Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999) An epic mosaic of several interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. The ensemble cast of P.T. Anderson’s Magnolia include a lot of his previous films stars and even more bigger names Julianne Moore, read more

I didn't thought that my name would come up in this superb relay race. But I must say that I am very glad to have been chosen to put a little bit of myself into it. Originally conceived by the genius Nostra of My Filmviews, and passed on to me by Bonjour Tristesse, the concept of this blog-a-thon i read more

 Akira Kurosawa once said, “The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression. Toshiro Mifune needed only three feet.” The filmmaker certainly gave Mifune a lot of space, however: over the course of sixteen collaborations, the actor and the director read more

Fury (Fritz Lang, 1936) The first American movie from German director Fritz Lang after he fled from Paris escaping the Nazi regime in Germany. The story told by Lang himself was that he was offered the position of the head of the German Cinema Institute – UFA (later accepted by Leni Riefens read more

Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) This first attempt at sound from Carl Th. Dreyer separates cinephiles that love and cherish his later work Day of Wrath, Ordet, and Gertrud but also the admirers of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. Without being perfectly bleak and mastered like, let’s say Ordet read more

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927) Master of German Expressionism, Freidrich Wilhelm Murnau was along G.W. Pabst and Fritz Lang the most important German director of its time. He is also one of the main influence on the young career of Alfred Hitchcock. It is interesting and also a read more

Often nickname by his good friend and multiple times director John Ford as “the Big Log”, John Wayne aka The Duke, was the ultimate father figure and the representation of conservatism and the Hollywood tough man. His cat style walk and Johnny Cash voice are some of the many things that read more