Vengeance au féminin

9 to 5

Home Programme Vengeance au féminin 9 to 5

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1980
Director :
Collin Higgins
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
110 minutes
Format :
vostFR
Actors :
Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Dabney Coleman 
Awards :
#74 in the American Film Institute’s ‘100 Funniest Movies’ ; Nomination Best Song, Oscars 198

synopsis

Judy, Violet, and Doralee work at the Consolidated Corporation and have problems with their boss. All they can think about is getting revenge…

A good-hearted, simple-minded comedy that will win a place in film history, I suspect, primarily because it contains the movie debut of Dolly Parton. She is, on the basis of this one film, a natural-born movie star, a performer who holds our attention so easily that it’s hard to believe it’s her first film.

Roger Ebert

9 to 5

The way Coleman asserts his masculinity with phrases like ‘cut the balls off the competition,’ and the way our heroic trio works together to sculpt a worker’s paradise – complete with flex-time and day-care facilities – serves as an effective summary of the era’s hot-button issues.

The AV Club

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Milos Forman

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
135
Director :
Milos Forman
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
135 minutes
Format :
digital | 4K Restoration
Actors :
Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito
Awards :
5 wins including Best Director & Best Picture, Oscars 1976 
📖 Based on the novel by Ken Kesey 

synopsis

Randall P. McMurphy has himself committed to a psychiatric hospital to avoid prison. Discovering the staff’s oppression and the patients’ distress, he instigates a rebellion within the institution…

Milos Forman mêle l’esprit frondeur de ses réalisations tchèque et les ressorts du cinéma hollywoodien de contestation. Plus qu’un réquisitoire contre le fonctionnement des hôpitaux psychiatriques, le film devient, de séquences jubilatoires en moments d’émotion intenses, la métaphore d’une société qui repose sur des systèmes répressifs et des phénomènes d’exclusion. Hymne tragique à la liberté et à la résistance. »

Le Guide Cinéma, Éd. Télérama

One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The acting honors are shared by Nicholson with a large and almost totally unfamiliar but meticulously well-chosen supporting cast. He and they constitute an ensemble whose quality is such that they always seem characters colliding and never acting.

Los Angeles Times

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The McCarey Way

Duck Soup

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1933
Director :
Leo McCarey
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
66 minutes
Format :
vostFR
Actors :
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern

synopsis

The eccentric Rufus T. Firefly is appointed head of state of the Republic of Freedonia and goes to war with his scheming neighbor, Sylvania…

The Marx Brothers’ best movie and, not coincidentally, the one with the strongest director – Leo McCarey, who had the flexibility to give the boys their head and the discipline to make some formal sense of it.

Chicago Reader

A breathtakingly funny and imaginative spoof of war movie heroics. Totally irreverent towards patriotism, religion, diplomacy, courtroom justice, andanything even vaguely respectable… A masterpiece. »

Time Out Film Guide

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Vengeance au féminin

Carrie

Home Programme Vengeance au féminin Carrie

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1976
Director :
Brian De Palma
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
100 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving 
Awards :
Nominee Best Actress (Spacek) & Best Supporting Actress (Laurie), Oscars 1977

synopsis

Raised by a fanatical mother, Carrie White is the target of her classmates’ cruelty. Terrified by the onset of her period, she discovers that she possesses telekinetic powers…

Carrie

Première adaptation cinématographique d’une œuvre de Stephen King, Carrie est bel et bien estampillé De Palma et montre la force libertaire qui émaillait le cinéma de genre dans les années soixante-dix.

Repérages

The reason Carrie is still held in such high regard as a horror classic is very simple: it’s all in the sheer directorial bravado. De Palma at the top of his game.

Empire

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Great Restorations

Wanda

Home Programme Great Restorations Wanda

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1970
Director :
Barbara Loden
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
102 minutes
Format :
digital | 4K Restoration
Actors :
Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Frank Jourdano
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film (in English) | 18:30 : start of the film

synopsis

Wanda Goronski can no longer bear the miserable environment she lives in. Fired from the factory where she worked, she decides to leave her miner husband and their two children without looking back. She begins to drift through the city, eventually clinging to Norman Dennis, a shabby traveling salesman who makes ends meet by stealing.

Visuel : Wanda

To say that Wanda deglamorizes the American crime film is both entirely accurate and something of an understatement. Loden’s first and only film as a director is a searingly honest character study whose jagged, unvarnished aesthetic — inspired in part by Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and the films of Andy Warhol — stood in stark contrast to the slick Hollywood dramatic tradition epitomized by, among others, Loden’s husband, the director Elia Kazan.

Los Angeles Times

To watch Wanda today is to be knocked over anew by the film’s unsettled emotional terrain, which slips and shifts beneath your feet from scene to scene.

WBUR’s Art and Culture

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Afternoon Adventures

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Home Programme Afternoon Adventures The Nightmare Before Christmas

Credits

Country :
USA 
Year :
1993
Director :
Henry Selick 
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
76 minutes
Format :
digital
Age classification :
6+ | Recommandé à partir de 9 ans
✒️ Based on the eponymous poem by Tim Burton

synopsis

Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King and leader of Halloween Town, is bored. After centuries of organizing the same Halloween celebration year after year, he longs for something new. Then he comes up with a brilliant idea — to take over Christmas itself…

 

Visuel : Nightmare Before Christmas

L’Étrange Noël de M. Jack fait coexister deux univers antagonistes : le merveilleux et l’inquiétant, le laid et le beau, les lumières de Noël et les ombres d’Halloween City.

Libération

Une référence cinématographique intemporelle qui doit autant à Tim Burton qu’au fantastique talent d’Henry Selick. Magistral !

Screentune.com

Viuel : Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas has something to offer just about everyone. For the kids, it’s a fantasy celebrating two holidays. For the adults, it’s an opportunity to experience some entertainment while marvelling at how adept Hollywood has become at these techniques. There are songs, laughs, and a little romance. In short, The Nightmare Before Christmas does what it intends to: entertain.

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Cinema XXL

Le Guépard

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Credits

Original title :
Il Gattopardo
Country :
Italie-France
Year :
1963
Director :
Luchino Visconti
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
185 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon
Awards :
Palme d’Or, Cannes 1963
📖 Based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

synopsis

In memoriam Claudia Cardinale

In 1860, as Sicily is swept up in the upheavals led by Garibaldi and his Red Shirts, Prince Salina travels with his entire family to their estate in Donnafugata. Foreseeing the decline of the aristocracy, he consents to a mismatched union, marrying his nephew Tancredi to the mayor’s daughter — a symbol of the rising social class.

Le génie de Visconti s’applique au moindre détail et confère à son film une dimension à la fois opératique et vériste. Ce chef-d’oeuvre aux proportions gigantesques est avant tout un tableau intimiste, et intime.

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Great Restorations

L'Incompris

Home Programme Great Restorations L'Incompris

Credits

Original title :
Incompreso
Country :
Italie
Year :
1966
Director :
Luigi Comencini
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
105 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Anthony Quayle, Stefano Colagrande, Simone Giannozzi, John Sharp, Adriana Facchetti
Awards :
Compétition, Festival de Cannes 1978
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film (in French) | 18:30 : Film begins
In collaboration with the Fondation Cavour

synopsis

The British consul in Florence has just lost his wife. Shaken by grief, he shares the news with his eldest son, Andrea, but chooses to hide the truth from the youngest, Milo. Despite their shared games and deep bond, the two brothers are divided by their father’s behavior: while he shows tenderness toward little Milo, whose health is fragile, he neglects Andrea, whom he sees as cold and irresponsible…

 

Visuel : L'incomrpis

Un mariage parfait de profondeur psychologique, de rigueur dans la mise en scène et de délicatesse du regard fait de L’Incompris l’un des plus beaux films de Comencini.

Le Monde

Une peinture exceptionnelle de l’enfance, dans un drame pudique totalement bouleversant. Beau à pleurer.

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Cult Fiction

Die Hard

Home Programme Cult Fiction Die Hard

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1988
Director :
John MCTieman
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
132 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov

synopsis

John McClane, a New York police officer, joins his estranged wife in Los Angeles for Christmas. Hoping for reconciliation, he goes to the party organized by the corporation where she works. Soon, a commando unit storms the building.

Visuel : Die Hard

L’une des grandes réussites de Die Hard, c’est naturellement son protagoniste joué par un Bruce Willis au sommet de sa forme. Ce derniers’abandonne à une attitude grinçante tout bonnement, mais son personnage tranche surtout avec les repères fixés par des ‘action heroes’ indestructibles aux muscles sur-développés qui sévirent durant toute la décennie 80 (Schwarzy et Stallone en tête).

àVoir-àLire.com

Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, it’s a goddamn Bruce Willis movie.

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Cinema XXL

The Irishman

Home Programme Cinema XXL The Irishman

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
2019
Director :
Martin Scorsese
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
209 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci
Awards :
10 Oscar Nominations 2020, including Meilleur Film

synopsis

A mafia hitman, suspected of having been involved in the murder of Jimmy Hoffa, recalls the events.

Visuel : The Irishman

Rife with characters, incidents, ideas, history, and as such, it will benefit from multiple viewings. But even after the first watch, The Irishman hits hard, and it’s a reminder that nearly 30 years after Goodfellas, Scorsese still has fascinating mob tales to tell, and fascinating ways to tell them.

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