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The Long Goodbye

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1973
Director :
Robert Altman
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
112 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell
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synopsis

At his request, Philip Marlowe urgently escorts his friend Terry Lennox to the Mexican border. But upon returning to Los Angeles, he is arrested for complicity in murder: Terry’s wife has been murdered…

The Long Goodbye

Philip Marlowe à jamais garde pour nous le visage de Bogart. Mais on peut se prendre d’affection pour le Marlowe d’Elliott Gould, qui pourrait être le fils du précédent. Un Marlowe qui se balade dans une Amérique inconnue de Chandler (mort en 1959), mais aussi vraie, aussi pourrie que la sienne. La brillance de la mise en scène, la façon dont Altman joue des reflets et des couleurs traduisent le même univers de solitude et de mensonges que le noir et blanc de Howard Hawks.

Le Guide cinéma, Ed. Télérama

An ice-cold noir that retains Robert Altman's idiosyncratic sensibilities, The Long Goodbye ranks among the smartest and most satisfying Marlowe mysteries.

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Sunset Boulevard

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1950
Director :
Billy Wilder
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
110 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Buster Keaton, Cecil B. DeMille
Age classification :
6+
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synopsis

A former silent-film star lives in forgotten isolation in a sumptuous, outdated mansion on Sunset Boulevard. When a young screenwriter enters her life, she asks him to write a screenplay that will allow her to become the star she once was again. 

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Vengeance au féminin

Promising Young Woman

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Credits

Country :
USA-UK
Year :
2020
Director :
Emerald Fennell
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
114 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie
Awards :
Best Original Screenplay & 4 nominations including Best Director, Oscars 2021
Age classification :
12+

synopsis

Cassie, a former medical student, works in a café. But her life is not what it seems. When night falls, the thirty-something leads a double life…

Visuel : Promising Young Woman

Emerald Fennell jongle avec les codes du film noir, de la comédie romantique et de la satire horrifique pour mieux aiguiser son discours ultraféministe, entre scènes tarantinesques et moments d’émotion, et frapper là où ça fait mal.

Le Journal du Dimanche

There’s no denying that Fennell is playing with dynamite here, and knows it; the brashness of her approach and style is welcome, and her work is often riotously funny (especially when edging into darker territory).

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The Karate Kid

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Credits

Country :
USA 
Year :
1984
Director :
John G. Avildsen
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
126 minutes
Format :
 vostFR | digital 
Actors :
Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, Elisabeth Shue
Awards :
Nomination Best Supporting Actor (Morita), Oscars 1985
Age classification :
6+ | Recommandé à partir de 10 ans

synopsis

A teenager bullied by his classmates befriends a martial arts master. By his side, he learns about life and the right techniques to take down his cruel rivals.

 

Visuel : The Karate Kid

Au cinéma, certains films traversent les époques, et dont le legs, de suites en remakes, semble éternel. Sorti il y a 40 ans, The Karate Kid appartient a cette catégorie.

LeDevoir.com

John G. Avildsen is back in the Rocky ring with The Karate Kid. More precisely, it is a Rocky for kids. Morita is simply terrific, bringing the appropriate authority and wisdom to the part.

Variety

While this may be as soppy and predictable as they come, it still reminds you why you used to enjoy ’80s teen flicks so much in the first place.

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

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Country :
USA
Year :
1965
Director :
Russ Meyer
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
83 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams

synopsis

Led by Varla, three young women set out on a sports car road trip. Along the way, they encounter a naive young couple, whom Varla does not hesitate to provoke.

De mon point de vue, le meilleur exemple de violence sexuelle déchaînée et fétichiste au cinéma. 

Nicolas Winding Refn

Visuel : Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

What attracts audiences is not sex and not really violence, either, but a Pop Art fantasy image of powerful women, filmed with high energy and exaggerated in a way that seems bizarre and unnatural, until you realize Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal play more or less the same characters. Without the bras, of course. 

Chicago Sun-Times

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The McCarey Way

Love Affair

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1939
Director :
Leo McCarey
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
87 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
Awards :
6 nominations, Oscars 1940
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synopsis

During a cruise, Terry, a former cabaret singer, falls in love with Michel, a confirmed bachelor. They agree to meet again six months later, on July 1st at 5 p.m., on the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building in New York…

Visuel : Love Affair

Brillant, rapide, le film est très drôle dans sa première partie (la romance à bord du paquebot) et bouleversant dans sa seconde (sa déception à lui, son refus à elle d’imposer son infirmité). Irene Dunne est pétillante et émouvante.

Le Guide cinéma, Éd. Télérama

One of those beautiful romantic comedies which take you in directions you would have never expected.

Rob Aldam

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Cult Fiction

Friday the 13th: Uncut

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1980
Director :
Sean S. Cunningham
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
95 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor
In collaboration with Cinélunatique
Film introduction by Jacques “Le Rippeur” Molitor (Cinélunatique)

synopsis

A group of young summer camp counselors attempt to reopen a summer camp abandoned after a tragic past, but they are stalked by a mysterious and relentless killer.

This is the original movie, the ancestral prequel or origin myth machinetooled to create a franchise, that readies the noisome and mostly offscreen figure of Jason Voorhees as an almost supernatural surviving villain of the future series.

The Guardian

You’re doomed! You’re all doomed!

Crazy Ralph

Visuel : Friday the 13th

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Gone Girl

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
2014
Director :
David Fincher
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
149 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris
Awards :
Nomination Best Actress in a Leading Role (Pike), Oscars 2015 ; 4 nominations, Golden Globes 2015
Age classification :
16+
📖 Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn

synopsis

On the occasion of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports the disappearance of his wife, Amy. Under pressure from the police and amid media frenzy, the image of the model couple begins to crumble…

 

Renouant avec la noirceur hyperréaliste de Zodiac et les symptômes d’une paranoïa contagieuse, ce whodunit aux faux-airs de Mulholland Drive catapulte Fincher à son meilleur.

Critikat.com

Gone Girl

Not only brutal but also brutally funny, Gone Girl mixes top-notch suspenseful storytelling with the kind of razor-edged wit that slashes so quick and clean you’re still watching the blade go past before you notice you’re bleeding.

The Wrap

Fincher proves himself yet again to be a better cinematic psychologist of (in-)human nature than almost any other director alive.

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Make Way for Tomorrow

Home Programme The McCarey Way Make Way for Tomorrow

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1937
Director :
Leo McCarey
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
92 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter

synopsis

Lucy and Barkley Cooper announce to their children that they risk losing their house. Each child has a good reason to avoid paying the bill, and in the end, Lucy and Barkley have to live separately with their children. The living arrangements quickly become difficult.

Que va-t-on faire des vieux ? La réponse donnée par l’indémodable McCarey au temps qui passe est aussi ironique que bouleversante.

Les Inrockuptibles

Make Way for Tomorrow

It would make a stone cry.

Orson Welles

A nearly-forgotten American film made in the Depression. The great final arc of Make Way for Tomorrow is beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s easy to imagine it being sentimentalized by a studio executive, being made more upbeat for the audience. That’s not McCarey.

Roger Ebert

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Back to the Future

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1985
Director :
 Robert Zemeckis 
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
116 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Age classification :
6+ | Recommended for ages 10 and up

synopsis

Thanks to a mad scientist’s machine, young Marty travels back in time to save his parents’ marriage…

Comme tous les scénarios fondés sur ce qu’on appelle le paradoxe spatio- temporel, celui-ci est excitant et improbable. Quand on a la chance de pouvoir se projeter dans le passé, a-t-on le droit et la possibilité d’influer le futur ? Le film est une comédie farfelue qui ne s’embarrasse ni de vraisemblance ni de rigueur scientifique.

Télérama

Back to the Future

One of the mid-’80s most enduring and enjoyable confections: an infectious mix of comedy, fantasy, satire, excitement, and nostalgia.

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