Guillermo's Ghost

Cronos

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Credits

Original title :
El espinazo del diablo
Country :
Mexique
Year :
1992
Director :
Guillermo del Toro
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
93 minutes
Actors :
Federico Luppi, Claudio Brook, Ron Perlman, Margarita Isabel, Daniel Jiménez Cacho
Awards :
Grand Prix, Semaine de la critique (Cannes) 1992

synopsis

In the 16th century, an alchemist invents a strange mechanism that allows access to eternal life. In present-day Mexico, Jesús Gris, an elderly antiques dealer, discovers the Cronos clock hidden inside a statue. The object injects him with a powerful venom that restores his strength and youth, but makes him dependent on human blood. Transformed into a monster, Jesús can only rely on the help of his granddaughter…

Visuel de Cronos

Avec 'Cronos', son premier film, Guillermo del Toro visait l’extraordinaire. Et il fit mouche. La redécouverte de cette rareté force l’admiration.

Télérama

Nourri de multiples influences (le gothique de Bava, le corps métamorphe chez Cronenberg, et meme Romero, son vampire ayant les chairs putrescentes d’un zombie), Cronos impressionne par sa maîtrise plastique et ses effets. Son charme indéniable tient aussi a sa mélancolie et a l’hybridation des genres.

Libération

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Citizen Kane

Home Programme Citizen Kane

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1941
Director :
Orson Welles
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
119 minutes
Actors :
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Dorothy Comingore, Ruth Warrick
Awards :
Best Screenplay, Oscars 1942

synopsis

“Rosebud.” By uttering this enigmatic word on his deathbed, billionaire Charles Foster Kane seems to reveal the key to the mystery that was his life…

 

 

Visuel Citizen Kane : un homme prononce un discours devant un immense portrait de lui-même, sur une estrade décorée de drapeaux.

Le film qui a tout changé. En 1940, Welles a 25 ans et une liberté totale pour réaliser ce premier film. L’histoire évoque beaucoup la vie du magnat de la presse William Hearst, à qui ça ne plaira pas du tout. Welles ‘truque’ un plan sur quatre, creuse les sols, traverse les plafonds, multiplie des profondeurs de champ audacieuses, insensées. D’une insolente jeunesse, le film fait encore chavirer le spectateur, jusqu’à l’explication finale qui fait triompher l’innocence sur ce qui est censé mener le monde : l’argent, la gloire et même l’amour. 

Télérama

The Orson Welles film is generally considered the greatest American film of the sound period, and it may be more fun than any other great movie. 

Pauline Kael

Visuel Citizen Kane : un homme souriant en manteau et chapeau, accompagné d’une femme en robe élégante, avance parmi des policiers et des journalistes.

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

Orson Welles

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The Devil's Backbone

Home Programme Guillermo's Ghost The Devil's Backbone

Credits

Original title :
El espinazo del diablo
Country :
Spain-Mexico
Year :
2001
Director :
Guillermo del Toro
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
108 minutes
Actors :
Fernando Tielve, Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi
Awards :
Nomination, Cinénygma Luxembourg International Film Festival 2003

synopsis

When Carlos, a 12-year-old boy, is admitted to an orphanage after the execution of his father, a Republican, in 1939 Spain, he makes a horrid discovery by lifting the veil on the tragic secrets of the school.

 

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Ghosts are more interesting when they have their reasons. They should have unfinished affairs of the heart or soul. The Devil’s Backbone, a mournful and beautiful new ghost story by Guillermo del Toro, understands that most ghosts are sad, and are attempting not to frighten us but to urgently communicate something that must be known so that they can rest. 

Roger Ebert

This is not a good advert for Hollywood. Del Toro's poised and poignant ghost story contains more substance and is executed with more style than a half dozen Hollywood monster movies. 

Empire

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Doris Day & Rock Hudson

Send Me No Flowers

Home Programme Doris Day & Rock Hudson Send Me No Flowers

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1964
Director :
Norman Jewison
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
100 minutes
Actors :
Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde, Hal March

synopsis

After listening to his doctor talk about another patient, George, a hypochondriac, becomes convinced that he is the one in the terminal stage. Believing he is about to die, George asks his friend Arnold to help him find a new husband for Judy, his wife. But George’s strange behavior leads Judy to suspect that he is having an affair with another woman…

 

 

 

Send Me No Flowers

It is a beautiful farce situation, and Julius Epstein has written it, from a play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, with nimble inventiveness and style.

The New York Times

Jewison's cockeyed comedy works its romantic magic with the flighty entanglement of the Hudson-Day, charming-kooky connection.

Movie Eye

Send Me No Flowers

Probably the best of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson vehicles, extracting a surprising amount of black (though sugar-coated) comedy out of the situation in which hypochondriac Rock, mistakenly believing he is dying, thoughtfully tries to arrange a remarriage for his widow-to-be with an old flame.

Time Out

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Home Programme The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Credits

Original title :
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Country :
Italy-Spain-Germany
Year :
1966
Director :
Sergio Leone
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
179 minutes
Actors :
Clint Eastwood, Elli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli

synopsis

During the Civil War, three men, more interested in their own gain than anything else, set out in search of a chest containing gold stolen from the Confederate army. Tuco knows the treasure is hidden in a cemetery; Joe knows the name inscribed on the tombstone that marks the cache. Each needs the other. But a third man enters the race: Sentenza, a brute who does not hesitate to kill to get what he wants…

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Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.

Rotten Tomatoes

It still looks a treat and is a bold and largely successful attempt to recast the traditions of the genre in a new, sometimes critical, almost operatic way.

Evening Standard

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Of all the great films of the 1960s, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of a fistful that can be truly appreciated only on the big screen.

Detroit Free Press

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Cinematic Siblings

Im Westen nichts Neues

Home Programme Cinematic Siblings Im Westen nichts Neues

Credits

Original title :
All Quiet on the Western Front 
Country :
Germany
Year :
2022
Director :
Edward Berger
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
147 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Daniel Brühl
Awards :
9 nominations including Best Picture and 4 wins including Best International Feature, Oscars 2023
Age classification :
16+
Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque

synopsis

Teenagers Paul Bäumer and his friends Albert and Müller voluntarily enlist in the German army at the start of WWI, riding a wave of patriotic fervour that dissipates once they face the brutal realities of the front. Paul’s preconceptions about the enemy and the rights and wrongs of the conflict start to crumble…

Im Wester nichts Neues

A film that feels both aesthetically dazzling and full of necessary truths: an antiwar drama that transcends the bombast of propaganda because it’s so artfully and indelibly made.

Entertainment Weekly

Unter der Regie von Edward Berger wird das Schreckensszenario an der Westfront authentisch und in ehrfurchtgebietender Ästhetik dargestellt. Mit den eindrucksvollen Bildern, dem Gänsehaut-hervorrufendem Sound Design sowie dem beklemmenden Score von Volker Bertelmann brennt sich der Horror-Trip in eure Hirnwindungen, sodass ihr den Film nicht allzu schnell wieder vergessen werdet.

Kino.de

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