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. »

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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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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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Marcel Pagnol

Fanny

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Credits

Country :
France 
Year :
1932
Director :
Marc Allégret
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
127 minutes
Format :
digital | New 4K Restoration
Actors :
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Charpin

synopsis

Marius has left for “Malaysia,” abandoning his father, the old César, and Fanny, his fiancée who is carrying his child. A kind-hearted man, Panisse, marries her and adopts little Césariot, whom he loves as if he were his own son. But one day, Marius returns…

Le second volet de la Trilogie marseillaise est sans doute le meilleur. Le pittoresque s’efface un peu face au mélodrame assumé et Pagnol utilise avec brio les possibilités du cinéma parlant, accordant une place prépondérante au dialogue.

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Fanny

Deuxième volet de la trilogie marseillaise de Marcel Pagnol, Fanny en est l’épisode le plus mélo. Sacrifiée a l’ardeur voyageuse de son amant, l’innocente ‘séduite’ et résignée se donne à un homme mur. Sur ce canevas larmoyant, Pagnol brode finement son propos, drôle et touchant.

Télérama

Pagnol gives the illusion of naturalism through the vivid energy and affection of his characters.

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Vengeance au féminin

Carrie

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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.

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Cinematic Siblings

Dragon Inn

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Original title :
Long Men Ke Zhan
Country :
Taïwan
Year :
1967
Director :
King Hu
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
111 minutes
Format :
digital | New Restoration
Actors :
Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai

synopsis

In 1457, a group of wandering swordsmen converge at the Dragon Gate Inn near the northern Chinese border, where the imperial secret police lie in wait. A fierce battle of strategy and swordplay ensues, turning the inn into a battleground for justice and survival.

Dragon Inn

Dragon Inn is to the martial arts genre what Stagecoach is to the Western. Hu evokes an entire world in his awe-inspiring wide-angle camerawork and graceful, still-unpredictable action scenes.

RogerEbert.com

Like most action filmmakers, Hu gets little credit for his direction of actors. But in each of his films he finds in his cast’s idiosyncratic expressions, their artful containment and deployment of energy, a beautiful counterpoint to his own stylistic flourishes – a mortal dimension to ground his metaphysical flights.

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Milos Forman

Loves of a Blonde

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Credits

Original title :
Lásky jedné plavovlásky
Country :
Tchécoslovaquie
Year :
1965
Director :
Milos Forman
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
81 minutes
Format :
digital | Digital Restoration
Actors :
Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Mensík
Awards :
Best Foreign Language Film, Oscars 1967

synopsis

With sixteen women to each man, the odds are against Andula in her desperate search for love – that is, until a rakish piano player visits her small factory town and temporarily eases her longings… 

Loves of a Blonde

Much of Forman’s humour comes from the fact that his characters peer out at the world like timid nocturnal animals, always prepared to defend themselves against attack, but constantly having the ground cut from under their feet by the discovery that people are never quite what they seem at first glance. (…) Using mostly non-professional actors, letting them improvise, then refining, shaping and perfecting, he achieves something indescribably exact, touching and funny.

Time Out

Couched in this seemingly innocuous little gem is a subtle and subversive critique of Stalinism that kept Eastern Europe under the cosh – politically and socially – during the grim 1960s, before the Prague Spring – for a while – put an end to it all.

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Between Feierdeeg Screenings

Sirât

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Country :
Espagne-France 
Year :
2025
Director :
Oliver Laxe
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
115 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Sergi López, Bruno Núnez
Awards :
Prix du Jury, Cannes 2025
Age classification :
16+

synopsis

Luis travels through southern Morocco with his son, Esteban. They are searching for his daughter, Mar, who disappeared several months earlier during a rave. Guided by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers on their way to one last party, hoping that Mar will be there.

 
 

Laxe pummels us emotionally and psychologically in ways we can’t predict, and have done little to deserve. To be clear: This is both a heavy caution and a high compliment. Not many movies can trigger your flight instinct while rooting you to your seat.

Variety

Visuel de Sirat

A fever dream in the bleakest sense, Sirât is a wild and apocalyptic epic, mythological in scale but intimate in its story about family.

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Ciné-Théâtre

Le Dernier métro

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Credits

Original title :
The Last Metro
Country :
France
Year :
1980
Director :
François Truffaut
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
131 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol
Awards :
10 wins inclusding Best Film, César 1981; nominee Best Foreign Language Film, Oscars 1981

synopsis

Paris, September 1942. Lucas Steiner, the director of the Montmartre Theatre, has been forced to flee because he is Jewish. His wife, Marion, takes over the theatre and hires Bernard Granger to perform alongside her. Until opening night, the troupe faces the threats of a fierce and hostile critic…

Toutes les qualités qui caractérisent le cinéma de François Truffaut. Rigueur de la mise en scène, perfection tant du découpage que du montage, scénario chevillé et dialogues dont chaque mot est essentiel.

Le Parisien

Visuel : Le dernier métro

A romantic delight: a full-bodied, gentle, passionate cross between Casablanca and Day for Night. It is also an inspiring (but not preachy) indictment of anti-Jewish and anti-homosexual cruelty.

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Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes

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Credits

Country :
France
Director :
Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
Version :
French version
Duration :
77 minutes
Format :
digital 
Awards :
Prix du public, Festival du Film d’Animation d’Annecy 2025 ; Sélection officielle, Cannes 2025
Age classification :
6+ | Recommandé à partir de 8 ans
D’après le roman d’Amélie Notomb

synopsis

Amélie is a little Belgian girl born in Japan. Thanks to her kind nanny, Nishio-san, the world is full of adventures and discoveries. But on her third birthday, an event changes the course of her life, for at that age, for Amélie, everything is at stake : happiness as well as tragedy.

 

Visuel : Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes

Le célèbre roman d’Amélie Nothomb se transforme en pépite pop, drôle et poétique, pour une délicate fusion entre animation française et japonaise.

Télérama

Teinté de réflexions philosophiques et socio-culturelles, le premier longmétrage d’animation de Mailys Vallade et Liane-Cho Han fait mouche grâce à une esthétique assumée et à un très joli pouvoir évocateur.

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Cinema XXL

The Irishman

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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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