Month: November 2018

Buster Keaton, like Chaplin, has marked the comic cinema of its footprint. The master of burlesque offers us, with THE MECHANIC OF THE “GENERAL”, one of the greatest films in the history of the 7th Art. The absolute master of the burlesque, Buster Keaton has always sought, in his cinema, to tie its narrative threads, […]

The student with Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel is the subject of an advert at the cinema. Directed by Edouard Molinaro, this classic is strongly impregnated with the leg of Francis Veber. Directed by the expert adaptations of the plays Edouard Molinaro (who has previously made Oscar and Hibernatus, and later La Cage Aux Folles), […]

The first american film by John Boorman – 5 years before Issue and 13 pre-Excalibur -, is a revenge movie called The point of no return. It appears in film this June 7, 2017 ! The story: This is the account of his friend Reese that Walker, accompanied by his wife, picks up in the […]

In adapting The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler, this is not so much the character of Philip Marlowe as referred to Robert Altman, but rather the metamorphosis of an America that lost its points of reference. After the triumph of MASH (Palme d’or at Cannes in 1970) and the successive failures of Brewter McCloud (1970), John […]

With his masterpiece Hana-Bi (1997), golden Lion in Venice, but, paradoxically, successful, modest, Takeshi Kitano has finally become a film director considered in his country. Adept blending of genres, it launches with playfully in The summer of Kikujiro, comedy, offbeat, tender and cruel on the bottom of olibrius rejected by the company in japanese. Like […]

In the vast filmography of Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a doubt (Shadow of a Doubt) was his favorite. Perhaps because it symbolizes the quintessence of this fuzzy area that separates good from evil, innocence from guilt. This between two who will never stop to haunt the master of suspense. When he began the realization […]

Manila: In the claws of darkness (1975) has been reviewed by Antoine in the framework of the topic Reflections and Poetic. After Insiang (1976), last June, it was the turn of another masterpiece, MANILA : IN THE CLAWS OF DARKNESS (1975), the film-maker, filipino Lino Brocka out in cinemas, via Carlotta Films. While Brillante Mendoza […]