Classics Before Christmas

Remember the Night

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1941
Director :
Mitchell Leisen
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
94 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson

synopsis

A Bittersweet Barbara Stanwyck Christmas

Accused of theft, Lee Leander is released on bail and placed under the care of lawyer John Sargent. He takes her to spend the holidays with his family in Indiana, and over the days, an unexpected love story develops between them.

Visuel : Remember the Night

Premier film du duo Stanwyck-MacMurray, développant une chimie magique que l’on retrouvera plus tard dans Double Indemnity de Billy Wilder et There’s Always Tomorrow de Douglas Sirk. Le film est scénarisé par Preston Sturges, son dernier film à titre de scénariste avant de passer à la réalisation, et réalisé par un ‘petit maitre’ de la comédie américaine, Mitchell Leisen. Le film n’est pas la plus grand réussite de Leisen, ni de Sturges, mais il a un charme indéniable, dû entre autres à quelques trouvailles scénaristiques et à une distribution impeccable. »

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Blessed with a characteristically brut champagne script by Preston Sturges, Mitchell Leisen’s Remember the Night is special even by the bright standards of the romantic comedies that Hollywood studios pulled off so breezily in 1940. It’s the cinematic equivalent of oven-warm gingerbread.

The Guardian

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Christmas in Connecticut

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1945
Director :
Peter Godfrey
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
102 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardener
🎄 The screening on December 18 will be preceded by a Christmas Drink starting at 6:30 PM | Single ticket price for this screening: €6

synopsis

A Bittersweet Barbara Stanwyck Christmas

Elizabeth successfully manages the lifestyle and family column in a major popular newspaper. Although she is unable to cook an egg, she has always managed to convince her boss that she lives on a large farm. She finally agrees to marry her long-time suitor, as he owns a farm in Connecticut. Everyone will gather there for a rather eventful Christmas celebration…

Visuel : Christmas in Connecticut

Cette comédie de Noël attendrissante mais jamais mièvre est un cadeau idéal pour les fêtes de fin d’année. Signée par un réalisateur peu connu, c’est une sorte de mélo à rebondissement qui a la vivacité heureuse de certaines comédies du grand Lubitsch. Cette comédie culinaire devient vite un chassé-croisé amoureux entre Stanwyck, fausse femme mariée, et Morgan, authentique crooner sexy. La scène du baiser qui n’en finit pas de ne pas venir est fabuleuse de suspense malin.

Libération

Delightfully cheerful screwball comedy that is especially suited for the Christmas holidays.

Dennis Schwartz

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Three Days of the Condor

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1975
Director :
Sydney Pollack
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
122 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow
📖 D’après : le roman de James Grady

synopsis

A CIA agent discovers an enemy network within the agency. When his colleagues are killed, he becomes the target…

Visuel : Three Days of the Condor

Ce film dénonçant les méthodes de la CIA suit à la trace les thrillers de Hitchcock. Mise en scène fluide et brillante, suspense habile et deux grands atouts : Robert Redford devant la caméra et Sydney Pollack derrière.

Télérama

This peerless Sydney Pollack thriller hasn’t just aged well, it’s become positively prophetic, or at least eerily resonant.

The Times

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All the President’s Men

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1976
Director :
Alan J. Pakula
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
138 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Jason Robards
Awards :
4 wins including Best Screenplay, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Robards), Oscars 1977
📖 Based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

synopsis

In 1972, two Washington Post journalists conduct a gripping investigation that ultimately uncovers the Watergate scandal…

Nec plus ultra du film de journalisme d’investigation, le scoop du siècle séduit constamment par l’intelligence qu’on y voit a l’oeuvre. Il figure parmi les thrillers les plus captivants bien qu’il repose sur des faits connus dont la conclusion ne fait jamais aucun doute.

1001 films, Éd. Omnibus

Visuel : All the President’s Men

It provides the most observant study of working journalists we’re ever likely to see in a feature film. And it succeeds brilliantly in suggesting the mixture of exhilaration, paranoia, self-doubt, and courage that permeated the Washington Post as its two young reporters went after a presidency.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Out of Africa

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1985
Director :
Sydney Pollack
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
161 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen
Awards :
7 wins including Best Picture, Oscars 1986

synopsis

In early 20th-century Kenya, Danish woman Karen Blixen runs a coffee plantation and meets the adventurous Denys Finch Hatton. Amid stunning landscapes, their passionate and complicated love unfolds against the wild beauty of Africa…

Visuel : Out of Africa

Ce qui est remarquable dans cette belle adaptation de grande ampleur, c’est la façon dont Sydney Pollack a su traiter avec délicatesse et retenue les émotions et donner au récit une dimension philosophique. Il s’inscrit ainsi en marge du cinéma hollywoodien classique qui a toujours une fâcheuse tendance a nous fabriquer de l’épique au kilomètre. Out of Africa est non seulement un émerveillement pour les yeux mais aussi une ode à la Nature, une réflexion sur les rapports humains et touche à la définition de l’humanité. L’un des films les plus parfaits dans son dosage.

L’OEil sur l’écran

It is a movie with the courage to be about complex, sweeping emotions, and to use the star power of its actors without apology.

Chicago Sun-Times

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TWST : Things We Said Today

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Credits

Country :
Roumanie-France
Year :
2024
Director :
Andrei Ujica
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
86 minutes
Format :
digital | documentaire
Awards :
Venice & New York film festivals, 2024

synopsis

A chronicle of New York between August 13 and 15, 1965 — the days marking the Beatles’ arrival in the city and their concert at Shea Stadium. The film blends archival footage and concert images with fictional characters added through animation.

TWST : Things We Said Today

Le cinéaste crée, sans le verbaliser, un dialogue pertinent avec ce qu’étaient les Beatles – le groupe refusait de jouer dans des salles où avait cours la ségrégation, par exemple – et, avec poésie et une douceur touchante, donne à ressentir une époque qui vibrait d’un espoir furieusement transformateur.

CinemaTeaser

Les personnages, inspirés par des vies bien réelles, servent un projet littéraire qui court souterrainement à travers l’oeuvre du cinéaste. Les existences minuscules et les gestes anonymes qui animent la grande symphonie urbaine se lient aux rêveries des flâneurs.

Cahiers du cinéma

Visuel : Things We Said Today

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All Is Lost

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
2013
Director :
J.C. Chandor
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
106 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Robert Redford

synopsis

During a solo voyage across the Indian Ocean, a man wakes to find that the hull of his 12-meter sailboat has been punctured in a collision with a drifting container. Without his radio or navigation equipment, he becomes caught in a violent storm…

Un Gravity marin dont on ressort puissamment transformé, et émotionnellement secoué par la virtuosité de la réalisation et le jeu sans compromis d’un Robert Redford épatant dans le désespoir…

àVoir-àLire.com

The movie is an impressively realized work of minimalist storytelling that foregrounds Redford’s physicality more than any other role in his celebrated career. His performance defines the movie to an almost shockingly experimental degree.

IndieWire

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Funny Girl

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1968
Director :
William Wyler
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
155 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis
Awards :
Best Actress (Streisand), Oscars 1969

synopsis

Fanny Brice is hired as a performer in the revue Keeney’s Music Hall. There, she meets Nick Arnstein, a sophisticated gentleman, and impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who chooses her as the star of his famous Ziegfeld Follies. But fame never lasts forever.

Visuel : Funny Girl

Comblés, nous le sommes, en premier lieu, par la créatrice du rôle principal de Funny Girl à Broadway, par ce monstre de vitalité et de drôlerie, par cette comédienne étourdissante, chanteuse hors pair, danseuse et acrobate à l’occasion, qu’est Barbra Streisand.

Le Monde

The musical biography of comedian Fanny Brice emerges as a true classic, as enthralling as the day it was released. It is a superb example of Hollywood craftsmanship in which all elements have been blended to perfection with inspired artistry.

Los Angeles Times

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The Way We Were

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1973
Director :
Sydney Pollack
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
118 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford
Awards :
Best Song (‘The Way We Were’) & Best Music, Oscars 1974

synopsis

At the end of World War II, Katie unexpectedly runs into Hubbell at a party; he has just been discharged from the army. She recalls her college years, when this young man from high society had already caught her eye — she, the staunch communist activist…

Sydney Pollack a réussi, comme souvent, a mêler une histoire romanesque à la grande Histoire de son pays. (…) Le film, qui assume sa part de romantisme rétro, doit aussi beaucoup à son couple vedette. Barbra Streisand et Robert Redford, l’un comme l’autre au sommet de leur carrière, dégagent un charme indéniable tout a fait propice.

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Visuel : The Way we Were

Près d’un demi-siècle plus tard, la nostalgie poétique de ces images est magique.

Le Nouvel Obs

The movie has the look of a big Hollywood romantic film but because director Pollack looks corruption in the face and exposes it for what it feels like, The Way We Were emerges as one of the least sentimental love stories ever filmed.

The Hollywood Reporter

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Plácido

Home Programme Classics Before Christmas Plácido

Credits

Country :
Espagne
Director :
Luis García Berlanga
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
85 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Casto Sendra ‘Cassen’, José Luis López Vázquez, Gabino Quintanilla, Elvira Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre
Awards :
Nominee Best Foreign Language Film (Spain), Oscars 1962

synopsis

In a small Spanish town, a group of elderly ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a dinner called “Invite a Poor Person to Your Table”: each wealthy household will host a homeless person for dinner that evening.

Visuel : Placido

Luis García Berlanga signe une comédie d’une lucidité féroce sous ses airs de satire de Noël et déploie un spectacle hilarant mais dantesque de l’ordre bourgeois, révélant l’obscénité de cet ordre social et la menace de dérèglement permanente qui couve sous l’apparence de l’ordre.

Critikat.com

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