Hommage à Diane Keaton

Annie Hall

Home Programme Hommage à Diane Keaton Annie Hall

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1977
Director :
Woody Allen
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
93 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Awards :
4 wins including Best Actress (Keaton) & Best Picture, Oscars 1978

synopsis

Tribute to Diane Keaton (1946 - 2025)

As he approaches his fortieth birthday, Alvy Singer takes stock of his life. A self-reflective look at his last relationship, Annie Hall, who has just left him, and a tribute to the city he loves — New York.

Visuel : Annie Hall

Cette presque histoire d’amour est surtout prétexte à un savoureux feu d’artifice drôlatique. Passant du monologue à la bande dessinée, du rêve à la caricature, Woody Allen et Diane Keaton jouent avec une verve souvent éblouissante.

Positif

A movie about a man who is always looking for the loopholes in perfection. Who can turn everything into a joke, and wishes he couldn’t.

Roger Ebert

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Classics Before Christmas

The Apartment

Home Programme Classics Before Christmas The Apartment

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1960
Director :
Billy Wilder
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
125 minutes
Format :
digital | 4K Restoration
Actors :
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Hope Holiday, Jack Kruschen
Awards :
5 wins including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Oscars 1961

synopsis

Baxter, a New York insurance employee eager for a promotion, lends his apartment to his married and unfaithful boss. On Christmas Eve, he discovers one of his colleagues, who attempted suicide, in his bed…

Visuel : The Apartment

En dépit de son humour, c’est une critique sociale acerbe et une analyse des moeurs sexuelles de l’Amérique. Superbement photographié en CinemaScope, le film mêle habilement plusieurs genres, en commençant en satire, se transformant en drame poignant puis finissant en comédie sentimentale.

1001 films, Éd. Omnibus

Diamond-sharp satire with a brilliant performance from Lemmon.

Time Out Film Guide

Wilder and Diamond’s screenplay is the foundation of this well-told tale. It makes masterly use of set-ups and payoffs, most of them encoded in props. The movie is a masterpiece, structure-wise and otherwise.

RogerEbert.com

Visuel : The Apartment

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Redford Remembered

Ordinary People

Home Programme Redford Remembered Ordinary People

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1980
Director :
Robert Redford
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
124 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton
Awards :
4 wins including Best Picture and Best Director (Redford), Oscars 1980

synopsis

Calvin and Beth Jarrett form an ideal couple of the American upper-middle class; their son swims and sings in the high school choir. Behind the façade of their comfortable home, the Jarrett family is on the brink of collapse…

Visuel : Ordinary People

Ordinary People bénéficie de l’extraordinaire qualité des acteurs pour donner corps aux sentiments enfouis de cette famille au bord de l’implosion. Redford, en tant qu’acteur, a su tirer d’eux le meilleur et livre ainsi une oeuvre magistrale. La réalisation, très discrète, mais essentielle, sait jouer avec les non-dits de manière proprement saisissante. Toujours dans la retenue, avec une grande pudeur, le cinéaste plonge au coeur des névroses cachées de ses personnages. Avec peu de musique et une attention de chaque instant à la justesse de jeu, Ordinary People n’en rajoute jamais dans le mélo et se soustrait sans cesse au pathos pour mieux bouleverser le spectateur.

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Redford Remembered

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Home Programme Redford Remembered Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1969
Director :
George Roy Hill
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
113 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Awards :
4 wins including Best Screenplay & Best Cinematography, Oscars 1970

synopsis

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid are partners in all kinds of robberies. Mischievous outlaws, they roam early 1900s America, constantly thumbing their noses at the authorities…

Visuel : Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Peu importe que le vrai Butch Cassidy et son acolyte aient été de douteux personnages. Le film apporte sa joyeuse contribution aux mythes fondateurs américains, y insuffle la légèreté de la comédie, le rythme trépidant des films d’action. Un romantisme solaire éclaire le récit, y compris à l’heure tragique de sa conclusion. Et la savoureuse autodérision de ce western tardif lui donne, en prime, un petit gout de spaghetti.

Télérama

Butch Cassidy was thoroughly modern, a star-making vehicle for Newman and Redford that reflected a need for the genre to turn the page and that feels as much of its time as it does authentic to Wyoming in the late 1890s. With Katharine Ross at the center of a love triangle between friends, the film attempted to bring Jules and Jim to the American mainstream, taking a lesson from the French new wave on how to revivify old Hollywood craft.

The Guardian

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Ciné-concerts | Philharmonie

Vertigo

Home Programme Ciné-concerts | Philharmonie Vertigo

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1958
Director :
Alfred Hitchcock
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
128 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Awards :
Greatest Film of All Time, Sight & Sound poll 2012
Coproduction Philharmonie and Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg

synopsis

Vertigo is a masterclass in cinema produced in 1958 by Alfred Hitchcock. Using San Francisco and its bay as a backdrop, he captures with extraordinary mastery the dreamlike and tortuous love story between Kim Novak and James Stewart, exploring the torments of desire and guilt.

 

Musical accompaniment

The musical accompaniment is provided by the Luxembourg Philharmonic, under the direction of Ben Palmer.

Vertigo

Le chef-d’œuvre d’Hitchcock, tant par la mise en scène, absolument parfaite, que par le scénario, complètement déroutant. L’originalité de l’œuvre repose sur la double fin, puisqu’aux deux tiers du film, on connaît la clé de l’énigme et l’histoire repart vers une nouvelle direction, tout à fait inattendue. Tout le film baigne dans une atmosphère étrange, à la limite du fantastique, accompagnée par une sublime musique de Bernard Herrmann.

Guide des films, Éd. Laffont

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Ciné-concerts | Philharmonie

Dances with Wolves

Home Programme Ciné-concerts | Philharmonie Dances with Wolves

Credits

Country :
USA-UK
Year :
1990
Director :
Kevin Costner
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
181 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene
Awards :
7 Oscars, dont Meilleur film et Meilleur réalisateur

synopsis

Dances with Wolves marks actor Kevin Costner’s directorial debut and also stars him in the lead role. Winner of seven Oscars, this humanist fresco set against the backdrop of the American Civil War conjures up wide open spaces, poignant fraternisation and a moving love story, the whole thing underpinned by John Barry’s grandiose score.

 

Musical accompaniment

The musical accompaniment is provided by the Luxembourg Philharmonic, under the direction of Kevin Griffiths.

Kevin Griffiths

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Saturday Night Fever

The Blues Brothers

Home Programme Saturday Night Fever The Blues Brothers

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1980
Director :
John Landis
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
148 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Carrie Fisher, Ray Charles

synopsis

Upon his release from prison, Jake Blues is taken by his brother Elwood to see Sister Mary Stigmata, who runs the Catholic orphanage where they were raised. They must raise $5,000 to save the institution — otherwise, it will be shut down.

 

The Blues Brothers

One of the great American comedy films… It’s just a joy to watch even forty-three years on. John Belushi was never better as the lead. He’s funny just standing there. 

BBC

For brilliantly executed slapstick comedy, wildly inventive car chases, unforgettable lines and a stonking blues soundtrack, you just can’t beat 'The Blues Brothers'.

Eye for Film

Blues Brothers

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Doris Day & Rock Hudson

Pillow Talk

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1959
Director :
Michael Gordon
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
102 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams
Awards :
Best Screenplay, Oscars 1960

synopsis

The numerous romantic escapades of Brad Allen, a composer and playboy, annoy his neighbor, Jan Morrow, an interior decorator who shares a party telephone line with him and overhears all his flirtatious conversations. After Jan, who has never seen Brad, unsuccessfully files a complaint against him, Brad decides to seduce her by pretending to be a sincere and honest Texan rancher…

It’s the perfect first-date movie: It’s flirty and romantic and a little bit saucy, but it leaves viewers with just a peck on the cheek at the end of the night.

The A.V. Club

Doris Day & Rock Hudson

The most exciting thing about it is that, under the surprisingly sophisticated direction of Michael Gordon, Rock Hudson undergoes the metamorphosis from stock leading man to one of the best light comedians in the business. 

The Hollywood Reporter

The zippy title song and the match of Rock’s granite jaw with Doris’ equally solid hairstyle are as representative of 1959 mainstream style as finned cars and kidney-shaped coffee tables. Now, Doris Day’s films look smart again, and we can see that 'Sex And The City' or most Julia Roberts/Cameron Diaz movies basically rework the successful recipe of Day’s best vehicles. 

Empire

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Afternoon Adventures

E.T. the Extraterrestrial

Home Programme Afternoon Adventures E.T. the Extraterrestrial

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1982
Director :
Steven Spielberg
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
115 minutes
Actors :
Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore
Age classification :
EA | Recommended for ages 7 and up

synopsis

Abandoned by his own kind during an exploration mission on Earth, a little extraterrestrial takes refuge in a suburban home, where he is discovered by Elliott, a ten-year-old boy. Brought together through a telepathic connection, they soon become friends.

Visuel de E.T.

Le réalisateur invite le spectateur à vivre aux côtés d'Elliot et d'E.T. une aventure au-delà du réel, à partager leur innocence, et leur amitié qui n'en est que plus bouleversante. Sensible, maladroit et très expressif, E.T. peut transmettre au garçon ses émotions. Avec humour et poésie, Spielberg initie le jeune spectateur à l'empathie. Par l'un des sujets les plus universels qui soit et avec une histoire des plus extraordinaires, le cinéaste nous renvoie à « l'autre » qui n'est pas si différent de nous.

Benshi.fr

Seeing E.T. again reminds us of how much we've remained the same, how gratified we still are by a film that connects so beautifully to our sense of wonder and joy.

Los Angeles Times

E.T. – Der Außerirdische

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Cinematic Siblings

All Quiet on the Western Front

Home Programme Cinematic Siblings All Quiet on the Western Front

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1930
Director :
Lewis Milestone
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
137 minutes
Actors :
Louis Wolheim, Lewis Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander
Awards :
Best Picture and Best Director, Oscars 1930
Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque

synopsis

With a mind aflame with patriotic fervour and the glory of war, young idealist Paul Bäumer and his flag-waving classmates enlist in the German Army at the outset of World War I. The unripe, chest-thumping men set foot on the muddy battlefield, dreaming of performing heroic feats. Instead, only the horrors of war await the inexperienced brothers-in-arms. As the battle-scarred soldiers end up serving as cannon fodder, they are forced to witness the merciless extermination of their comrades.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Displaying technical brilliance – in particular the stupendous tracking shots over trenches where lines of infantry stand in wait – this doesn’t skimp on the misery either. It hammers home a distressingly realistic vision of the inanity of war. This deserves a place alongside Renoir’s 'La Grande llusion' and Kubrick’s 'Paths Of Glory' as one of the most effective pacifist arguments ever committed to celluloid.

BBC

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