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My new feature for Anomalous Material
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jul 23, 2012
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
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jul 17, 2012
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
Top Films of Robert Zemeckis by LMdC
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jul 16, 2012
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
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jul 12, 2012
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
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jul 5, 2012
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
Happy Birthday America!
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jul 4, 2012
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
The 10 Best Canadian Films of All Time
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jul 1, 2012
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
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 27, 2012
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
My Most Wanted List of Films For 2012
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 26, 2012
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
The Best Films of the Province of Québec
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 23, 2012
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
Top 10 Performances of Arnold Schwarzenegger by LMdC
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 22, 2012
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
The Ten Most Influential Directors of All Time Poll Simplified
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 21, 2012
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
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 21, 2012
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
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 20, 2012
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
Ten Best Actresses of All Time Relay Race
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 19, 2012
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
Top Performances of Toshiro Mifune by LMdC
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 18, 2012
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 (1936)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 14, 2012
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
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 13, 2012
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
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 12, 2012
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
Top Performances of John Wayne by LMdC
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Jun 11, 2012
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