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Michaël Parent Le Mot du Cinephiliaquehttp://cinephiliaque.blogspot.com/1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Orson Welles 3. John Ford 4. Jean Renoir 5. F.W. Murnau 6. Stanley Kubrick 7. Akira Kurosawa 8. Jean-Luc Godard 9. David Wark Griffith 10. Charles Ch read more

Rich and Strange aka East of Shanghai (Alfred Hitchcock, 1931) The films of the thrities all have a light and happy feeling to them, especially the films of Ernst Lubitsch. Alfred Hitchcock's Rich and Strange feels like an attempt to make a Lubitsch film with Hitchcock themes. But, read more

TSPDT Greatest Films #422 A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964) - Retrospective/1001 Movies You Must SeeDoes this film really needs a presentation? I don't think so, but just for the context let's do it anyway.The Beatles; the greatest band in the history of music, four of the most prolific musi read more

This is the new project of the young Filmmaker Lucas McNelly. He needs to raise money to produce his next film. So please feel free to donate as much as you can.The goal is 4000$. Donate here!Here is McNelly message:After my last film, BLANC DE BLANC (www.blancdeblancfilm.com) had a short theatrica read more

Entourage Season 1 (2004)The story: The emerging Hollywood young star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) from New York lives with his brother Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) an unemployed actor, his best friend/career advisor Eric Murphy (Kevin Connlly) and Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) the guy that takes care of read more

Les films de ma vie by François Truffaut is a recollection of many film reviews he has written during his years at Les Cahiers du Cinéma and during his career as a "cinéaste" of the "Nouvelle Vague" (French New Wave). Of the many filmmakers the French New Wave put light on, Truffaut is the one I read more

The General (Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton, 1927) In the 1920's there was a big opposition between moviegoers: the Chaplin side against the Keaton side. Chaplin's tramp was more emotionnal and had more sensivity in his adventures. While on his side, Buster Keaton was more of a mime, the same read more

Besides the celebration around the 150th post of this blog I would like to mention the death of an important movie Blog: The Oldest Established Really Important Movie Club. R.I.P.On the happier side I remind you that there is still time to vote for the 25 Most Influential Directors of all Time!You j read more

This is my journey through the 1000 greatest films of the website They Shoot Pictures Don't They?. This is a compilation of thousands of lists from critics, cinephiles and specialists of Cinema. The 1000 Greatest films list is updated once a year in December. Then I have 1000-491 = 509 films t read more

Tired of his perfect life as a father ogre, Shrek signs a deal with Rumpelstiltskin. The terms of his deal is that Shrek has to give one day of his life to Rumpel to be able to live a day where he can be real ogre again.The plot seems like a modern day adaptation of Goethe's Faust. But, the comparis read more

This compilation of lists of films is a Film diary of the films I want to see. Well, it is probably impossible to see all the films in the world in one life but these are my priorities. Many great directors have all their films listed below, the ones I have'nt seen yet. The films of Alfred Hitchcock read more

Having only seen some episodes of the celebrated TV show of the same name and the first movie I can't say that I am a fan or an expert of the show. My recent viewing of Sex And the City 2 was mainly influenced by my girlfriend who loved the TV show. I am a good public when it comes to comedy, and th read more

The Trial (Orson Welles, 1963) First of all, Orson Welles' films are so dense and deep that this simple review or text does not pretend to condense and analyze the oeuvre that is The Trial adapted from Kafka's novel. His entire career Orson Welles had to fight to get financing to make films, to ge read more

221-11 = 210 first times so far in 2010 Here you will find the films I've seen so far this year. Some critics claim to see 800 films per year. I planned to see 200 films I've never seen before in 2009. For 2010, I wanted to keep this number and to see more films from the 1000 Greatest Films of All T read more

For those who wondered where I was all that time, don't worry anymore! I'm back for more movie blogging, classic film reviews, new releases criticism, the Top 25 most influential directors of all time poll and more surprises to come!During this month of may vacations I've been to San Francisco, Sono read more

I will be in California for the Month of May! So don't be upset if I don't answer to your comments! When I'll come back I promise to feed this Blog with better reviews than ever and bring more recent movie reviewed too!Remember to vote for the ongoing poll of the 25 Most Influential Directors of All read more

All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976) Recalling the inspired work of the two journalists of the Washington Post that brought light into the scandal that moved America and made President Richard Nixon dismiss: the Watergate. Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) read more

Taking from a MEME I've seen this year on some Blogs I've dig through my film memories to try to find all the films I've seen that were made in 1983 aka the year I was born. Well, the first I've seen from this year is without a doubt The Return of the Jedi directed by Richard Marquand(!?!), by autom read more

I don't usually review television shows but when it comes to history and quality I let go the fact that it was aired on television. I did my major in History at the University and I visited Italy from North to Pompei, so I had grand interest in that show.Starting with the end of the War of Gaulle an read more

Recently reviewed on Le Mot du Cinephiliaque, Michael Mann's Miami Vice was a precedent to this review of his film of last year: Public Enemies. I'll try not to repeat myself on some of the qualities of Mann's films, I promess. My expectations for Public Enemies were really high, first because like read more