Analysis without concession of an America divided between puritanism and the sexual revolution, The Winner quickly became the icon of a society which was present its cultural upheavals. Of course, Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf ? had cardstock in 1966 in between furiously the two holy monsters Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a brilliant […]
THE structural member OF THE “GENERAL” – in theatres In the 09/08/2017
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 In meeting the 26/07/2017
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 POINT OF NO RETURN – in theatres in the 07/06/17
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 […]
THE PRIVATE rooms the 28/06/2017
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 […]
The SUMMER OF KIKUJIRO – in THEATRES IN THE 09/08/2017
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 […]
The SHADOW Of A DOUBT – MEETING THE 02/08/2017
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 […]