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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 4, 2012
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953)
The beautiful pairing of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell with Producer/Director Howard Hawks couldn’t be more enjoyable than that. Opening with a Cabaret-like number the two stars present themselves as two little girls from little rock and the wr read more
Top Films of Carl Th. Dreyer by LMdC
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 2, 2012
1. Ordet (1955)
2. Day of Wrath (1943)
3. La passion de Jeanne D'Arc (1928)
4. Vampyr (1932)
5. Gertrud (1964)
I still need to see: The Parson's Widow (1920) Michael (1924) Master of the House (1925) read more
Saturday Morning Music Post
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 31, 2012
The idea of this series of Music post came to me with my other blogs where I discuss about music and that wasn't really visited and/or commented. I've decided to condense my thoughts on the presentation of the albums I discovered lately and let you know what is out there. Since this blog is movies o read more
New York City
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 29, 2012
As we are planning our trip to NYC, my wife and I, for Easter week-end I would like to ask you what are your recommendations for a cinephile like me. I’ve already been there three times and this time I will be Record hunting, wandering in the streets, Central Park, Cafés, restaurants, maybe go read more
Top Films of Joel and Ethan Coen by LMdC
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 26, 2012
1. Fargo (1995)
2. No Country For Old Men (2007)
3. Barton Fink (1991)
4. Blood Simple (1984)
5. The Big Lebowski (1998)
6. Raising Arizona (1987)
7. Miller's Crossing (1990)
8. Burn After Reading (2008)
9. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
10. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
11. A Serious Man (2009)
I still n read more
A guide to discern Von Sternberg from Von Stroheim
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 23, 2012
Lately, I’ve been having some sort of growing interest towards Josef von Sternberg’s films. With my recent review of his 1930 masterpiece and cinematic cornerstone The Blue Angel, I’ve decided to take a trip into his oeuvre. However, around the same time in the 1920’s another read more
The Blue Angel
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 22, 2012
The Blue Angel aka Der blaue Engel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)
The first sound film of the Weimar Republic picture two of the most famous actors of their time Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich. This is the film that made Dietrich became the sex symbol she represented for years. It also was the las read more
Hunger
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 21, 2012
Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
The first film of director Steve McQueen, no not the actor who did action films in the 1970's, but the same director who made Shame in 2011, both films starring one of the most interesting actors of the moment, Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, A read more
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 20, 2012
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut aka A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956) Robert Bresson is the kind of director that not everyone gets and likes. Almost everyone of his films involves religion and faith in some manner. With Un condamné à mort s'est échappé, Bresson read more
Top Films of Orson Welles by LMdC
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 19, 2012
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Trial (1963)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
4. Othello (1952)
5. Touch of Evil (1958)
6. Lady From Shanghai (1948)
7. Chimes at Midnight (1966)
8. Macbeth (1948)
9. The Stranger (1946)
10. Mr. Arkadin (1955)
I still need to see: Don Quixote (1955) The Fountain of read more
The 15 greatest Alter egos in the History of Cinema
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 17, 2012
John Ford and John Wayne
One of the most successful association in movie History. The two John made their trademarks as Western filmmakers and a few War films. This is one of the reasons why they are on this prestigious list. And a film list is not a real film list if there are no mention of John Fo read more
The Usual Suspects
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 16, 2012
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
Holding the spot of number 25 on IMDb's Top 250 voted by regular voters, this movie couldn't be more of an impostor than it actually is. Stealing from every cheap film noir that preceded it and using one of the most lazy plot twist of the mystery pl read more
The Wind
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 15, 2012
The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928) Only by being on Mediafilm's masterpiece list, this Silent film masterpiece was one of the film I deeply desired to watch since many years. Moreover, it is from one of the most notable Silent Film directors Victor Sjöström or as credited in the film Seastrom. Sjöstr read more
Fitzcarraldo
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 14, 2012
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
There is a popular admiration towards Fitzcarraldo in the world of film buffs, the film itself and the making of the film is almost unbelievable. Let's get to it already, the major aspect of the story and the real challenge for Herzog and his crew was to shoot in read more
Hatari!
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 13, 2012
Note: this review is a translation of my original review of the movie I've seen in 2009. Since it was one of my first long reviews I've decided to translate it for everyone's benefit. I will do series of re-edits for the films that actually were reviewed in French in the first moments of this b read more
Top films of F.W. Murnau by LMdC
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 12, 2012
Of the greats of Cinema, few filmmakers have influenced their peers as much as D.W. Griffith, Sergeï M. Eisenstein, and John Ford. Well, F.W. Murnau might be one of the most face changing figures of the seventh Art, he directly influenced Alfred Hitchcock while working in Germany. Later, in his way read more
Les doigts croches
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 9, 2012
Les doigts croches (Ken Scott, 2009) This is Ken Scott's first directorial effort after his work as a screenwriter for Maurice Richard and La grande séduction. With an all Québécois star cast of Roy Dupuis(Maurice Richard), Patrice Robitaille (Québec-Montréal), Claude Legault (Les 7 jours du Talion read more
Borderline
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 8, 2012
Borderline (Lyne Charlebois, 2007) Adapted from Marie-Sissi Labrèche's novel, Borderline is the story of a woman who suffers from the syndrome of being "borderline". This is a state of mind that makes these people emotionally fragile. They have a problem differencing their inside and outside emotio read more
Elvis Gratton: Le king des kings
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 7, 2012
Elvis Gratton: Le king des kings (Pierre Falardeau & Julien Poulin, 1985) This compilation of many short films directed by Pierre Falardeau and Julien Poulin sure made its way into the cultural references of every Québécois out there. You can't say "Yeah!" like Elvis Presley without having the read more
Québec-Montréal
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 6, 2012
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