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Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) In a tribute to the musicals of the 1950's and introducing the style of Jacques Demy's films, Godard with Une femme est une femme assimitated his influences and reinterpreted them in his very own particular way. In the 1960's no director was more pro read more

Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) No presentation needed here for Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, The Departed, Shine a Light) an Academy Award winner for Best Director (The Departed). Scorsese, is probably the best American director breathing right now. With a cast o read more

Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna) (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) Cold Nordic Sweden is depicted in Ingmar Bergman's second part of his Silence of God trilogy Winter Light. Winter is the setting of this drama that shows a pastor, his lost of meaning in his faith, the fall of Christianity that is announce read more

Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)It's strange to see that there wasn't much about Moon when it came out last year. But its DVD release has been good for its spread over the sci-fi film lovers.Sam Bell, an astronaut of the Lunar Entreprise has been for nearly three years on the moon. A loneliness only temper read more

What's next for Cinema?I've heard those thoughts while I was reading about Roberto Rossellini some weeks ago a text that demonstrated how Rossellini himself save Cinema itself with his Neorealist approach in the 1940's. His style, far from the classic Hollywood techniques and rules was closer to the read more

Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)In the vein of Great Wersterns Winchester '73 is often overlooked. It's obvious that the Western spaghetti genre revolutionned or revisionnized the way Western were made. But before this revolution, the genre always been one of the most popular in American Cinema. read more

Le fantôme de la liberté aka The Phantom of Liberty   (Luis Buñuel, 1974) What characterizes Luis Bunuel in the history of films is the fact that he is probably one of the few filmmakers who adapted the surrealist concepts on the big screen in the 1920's, well during the surrealist period read more

Destry Rides Again (George Marshall, 1939)A young James Stewart plays the new deputy (Destry) in the little town of Bottleneck. The city has no real order and the criminals seem to runs the place (ain't talking about politicians here.. well). The Last Chance Saloon where Frenchie (Marlene Dietrich) read more

Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945)Fritz Lang had an unique life, he escaped Germany when the Nazi party took the power. He was the greatest filmmaker at that time and his life is sprinkled with many twists. However, some historians prouved that he invented or romantized many elements of his tremend read more

Love Affair (Leo McCarey, 1939)From the recently repraised and rediscovered Leo McCarey, who's brilliant masterpiece Make Way For Tomorrow has been released by the great folks at Criterion Collection, it's like a cinephile revival of McCarey's films. Earlier this year Leonard Maltin was praising his read more

Il grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957)Known for his films from 1960 (L'avventura) to his death in 2007, Michelangelo Antonioni is a deep meaningful italian director. For many his artistic peak was L'avventura or Red Desert, personnally Blow-Up is his best offer. But as a true cinephile I must admit read more

À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) One day I've read somewhere that everything has been written, but not by me. Well, this review or essay will try to do what Godard did himself with À bout de souffle; everything has been done but not by him. I have to admit that the first time I watched read more

Meet John Doe (Frank Capra, 1941)Forged like many Frank Capra's films, Meet John Doe is an efficient feelgood entertainment. Beginning with the fraud of the invention of the character John Doe (Gary Cooper) itself, Ann (Barbara Stanwyck) is an opportunist daughter of a great thinker. The values carr read more

Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) To many critics, Viaggio in Italia is the culmination of Roberto Rossellini's oeuvre. Well, far from being his worst film it's his most personal offering and maybe his best collaboration with Ingrid Bergman. Katherine (Ingrid Bergman) and Alex (George read more

TSPDT Greatest Films #835 Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931)From one of the best director of Horror films, Tod Browning, the greatest horror novel of all time comes alive with the best impersonnator of the greatest vampire!The story, if you haven't seen it or read it already, tells how the count Dracula read more

TSPDT Greatest Films #812 Requiem For A Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000) This film has been equally adored and equally hated by cinephiles since it came out. From the director of the celebrated The Wrestler and the esoteric The Fountain. He may not manage to show as much talent as a P.T. Anderson for read more

TSPDT Greatest Films #20 La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)I often get questions like: What is the best film of all-time? or What are the true cinematic masterpieces? Well, most of the times we hear Citizen Kane, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bicycle Thieves, La règle du jeu, Seve read more

Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944) In Hitchcock's oeuvre, Lifeboat is a deviation from his own style which was more like the "Eisenstein technique" of editing multiple points of view. He generally did not go with the long take (exception here and Rope especially). With his many success Hitchcock de read more

TSPDT Greatest Films #520 Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)The first collaboration of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini. It is during the production of Stromboli that Bergman had an extra-marital affair with Rossellini and got pregnant. At the time she got blacklisted by Holl read more

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Carlos Saldanha & Mike Thurmeier, 2009)The third chapter of one of the most grossing animation franchise in Cinema History hit us back in 2009. While we are invaded by dozens and dozens of animated features each year some classics like Toy Story, Shrek, and Ice Ag read more