Films à voir/The Most Wanted

This compilation of lists of films is a Film diary of the films I want to see. Well, it is probably impossible to see all the films in the world in one life but these are my priorities. Many great directors have all their films listed below, the ones I have'nt seen yet. The films of Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, John Ford, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Jean Renoir, Werner Herzog, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, Murnau, Federico Fellini, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Antonioni, Lubitsch, Bunuel, Douglas Sirk and many other!

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Cette compilation de listes de films est un carnet de bord personnel qui retrace tous les films que je veux voir le plus et depuis très longtemps!
Probablement que cette liste n'aboutira jamais car lorsque l'on visionne un film il y en a 10 autres que l'on veut voir par la suite... Un peu comme 1 de perdu 10 de retrouvés. Bref, on peut compter dans cette liste sans qu'ils apparaissent; tous les films de Alfred Hitchcock, de Jean-Luc Godard, de Fritz Lang, de John Ford, de Frank Capra, de Howard Hawks, de Jean Renoir, de Werner Herzog, de Michael Powell et Emeric Pressburger, de Murnau, de Federico Fellini, de Ozu, de Mizoguchi, de Kurosawa, de Antonioni, de Lubitsch, de Bunuel, de Douglas Sirk et bien, bien d'autres illustres réalisateurs!

Priorités/Priorities

Shoah ( , )
The Crowd (King Vidor, )
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, )
The Spirit of Beehive (Victor Erice, )
White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949)
In The Realm of Senses (Oshima, 1976)
Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
The Time To Live and The Time To Die (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hopper)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1989)
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty)
Aliens (James Cameron)
The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
Wavelenght (Michael Snow)
Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
Closely Watched Trains
Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
Come and See (Elem Klimov)
Pyaasa
Memories of Underdevelopment

Par Réalisateur / By Director

Abbott, Jennifer & Mark Achbar (1): The Corporation (2003)
Akerman, Chantal (1): Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (19-- )

Aldrich, Robert (1): Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Allen, Woody (17) : Take the Money and Run (196-) A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (198-) Zelig (1983) Broadway Danny Rose (1984) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Radio Days (1987) September (198-) Another Woman (198-) Alice (198-) Shadows and Fog (199-) Manhattan Murder Mystery (199-) Don't Drink the Water (----) Mighty Aphrodite (1995) Everyone Says I Love You (1996) Sweet and Lowdown (1999) Cassandra's Dream (200-) Whatever Works (2009)

Almodovar, Pedro (3): Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown (199-) All About My Mother (1999) Broken Embraces (2009)

Altman, Robert (11): The James Dean Story (196-) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) The Long Goodbye (1973) Thieves Like Us (1974) California Split (1974) Buffalo Bill and the Indians (197-) 3 Women (1977) The Player (1992) Kansas City (199-) The Gingerbread Man (199-) A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Amenabar, Alejandro (1): The Others (2001)

Anderson, Paul Thomas (2) : Hard Eight (1996) Boogie Nights (1997)

Anderson, Thom (1): Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
Angelopoulos, Theo (1+): The Traveling Players (1975)

Antonioni, Michelangelo (3): L'Eclisse (1962) Red Desert (1963) The Passenger (1975)

Arcand, Denys (3): Jesus de Montréal (19--) Stardom (199-) L'âge des ténèbres (200-)

Aronofsky, Darren (2): The Fountain (2006) Black Swan (2010)

Becker, Jacques (1): Casque d'or (195_)

Bergman, Ingmar (11): Sawdust and Tinsel (195-) Smiles of A Summer Night (195-) Through A Glass Darkly (1961) All These Women (196-) Vargtimmen (196-) The Passion of Anna (197-) The Touch (1971) The Serpent's Egg (197-) From The Life of the Marionnettes (198-) The Magic Flute (198-) After the Rehearsal (199-)

Bertolucci, Bernardo (6): La Commare Secca (196-) Before the Revolution (196-) The Spider's Stratagem (196-) Luna (197-) The Last Emperor (198-) The Dreamers (200-)

Boorman, John (1): Point Blank (197-)

Boyle, Danny (3): Shallow Grave (198-) Millions (200-) Sunshine (200-)

Bresson, Robert (8): Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (195-) Un Condamné à mort s'est échappé (195-) Mouchette (196-) A Gentle Woman (1969) Four Nights of as Dreamer (197-) Lancelot du Lac (197-) Le diable probablement (1977) L'argent (1983)

Brooks, Mel (3) : Twelve Chairs (19--) History of the World Part I (19--) Life Stinks (19--)

Bunuel, Luis (12): Los Olvidados (1950) El Bruto (195-) El (1952) The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De La Cruz (1955) Nazarin (1958) Exterminating Angel (1962) Journal d'une femme de chambre (1964) Simon du désert (1965) Milky Way (1969) Tristana (1970) Cet obscur objet du désir (1977)

Burton, Tim (1) : Pee-wee's Big Adventure (199-)

Campion, Jane (2): The Piano (199-) Bright Star (2009)

Capra, Frank (3): The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Cassavetes, John (9): Shadows (1959) Faces (1968) Husbands (1970) Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) A Woman Under the Influence (1974) The Killing of A Chinese Bookie (1976) Opening Night (1977) Gloria (1980) Love Streams (1984)

Chaplin, Charles (1): Countess from Hong Kong (19--)

Chomet, Sylvain (1): Les triplettes de Belleville (2003)

Clément, René (1): Les Jeux Interdits (193-)

Clouzot, Henri-Georges (6) : Le Corbeau (194-) Manon (19--) The Mystery of Picasso (19--) Les Espions (19--) La Vérité (19--) La Prisonnière (1968)

Coen, Joel & Ethan (3) : O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) The Ladykillers (200-)

Coppola, Francis Ford (4): One From The Heart (1976) The Cotton Club (198-) Youth Without Youth (200-) Tetro (2009)

Coppola, Sofia (1) : Lick The Star (199-) Somewhere (2011)

Costa-Gravas, Constantin (1): Missing (197-)

Cronenberg, David (8): Shivers (19--) Rabid (19--) Fast Company (19--) The Brood (19--) Scanners (19--) The Dead Zone (198-) Spider (200-) A Dangerous Method (2011)

Cukor, George (16): Dinner at Eight (1933) Little Women (1933) David Copperfield (1935) Camille (1936) Holiday (1938) The Women (1939) A Woman's Face (1941) Gaslight (1944) Adam's Rib (1949) Born Yesterday (1950) The Actress (1953) A Star is Born (1954) It Should Happen to You (1954) Bhowani Junction (1956) Heller in Pink Tight (1960) My Fair Lady (1964)

Dardenne, Jen-Pierre et Luc (3): Rosetta (1999) Le fils (2001) Le Silence de Lorna (2009)

Darnell, Eric & Lawrence Guterman (1): Antz (1998)

Davies, Terence (1): The House of Mirth (2000)

De Palma, Brian (3): Sisters (197-) Obsession (197-) Dressed to Kill (197-)

Demy, Jacques (1): Les Jeunes Filles de Rochefort (1967)
Dreyer, Carl Theodore (9) : The President (19--) The Parson's Widow (19--) Blade of Satan's Bog (19--) Love One Another (19--) Once Upon A Time (19--) Michael (1924) Master of The House (19--) Bride of Glomdal (19--) Two People (1945)

Eastwood, Clint (9): High Plains Drifter (197-) The Outlaw Josey Wales (197-) The Gauntlet (197-) Sudden Impact (198-) Bird (199-) The Bridges of Madison County (199-) Flags of Our Fathers (200-) Changeling (2008) Invictus (2009)

Egoyan, Atom (1): The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhail (4) : Strike (192-) The General Line (192-) Romance sentimentale (1930) Que Viva Mexico (193-)

Eustache, Jean (1): La Maman et la Putain (19--)

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (8): The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Fox and His Friends (1975) In a Year With 13 Moons (1978) The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978) Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) Veronika Voss (1982)

Fellini, Federico (11) : Variety Lights (195-) Il Bidone (196-) Juliet of the Spirits (196-) A Director's Notebook (196-) The Clowns (197-) Orchestra Rehearsal (197-) City of Women (197-) And the Ship Sails on (19--) Ginger and Fred (19--) Intervista (19--) La Voce della Luna (19--)

Field, Todd (1): In The Bedroom (2001)

Ford, John (15): The Lost Patrol (1934) The Informer (1935) Mary of Scotland (1937) Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) The Long Voyage Home (1940) Tobacco Road (1940) The Fugitive (1947) 3 Godfathers (194-) Wagon Master (1950) Rio Grande (1951) The Quiet Man (195-) The Wings of Eagles (1957) Two Rode Together (1962) Cheyenne Autumn (196-) 7 Women (196-)

Frears, Stephen (1): High Fidelity (2000)

Friedkin, William (1): Sorcerer (1977)

Fuller, Samuel (4): I Shot Jesse James (1941) Fixed Bayonets! (1951), Pick Up On South Street (1953), Shock Corridor (1963)

Gallo, Vincent (1): Buffalo 66' (1997)

Gilliam, Terry (6) : Jabberwocky (19--) Time Bandits (19--) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (19--) The Fisher King (198-) The Brothers Grimm (200-) Tideland (200-)
Godard, Jean-Luc (16): Les carabiniers (1963) La Chinoise (1967) Un Film comme les autres (1968) Sympathy for the Devil (1968) Le Gai Savoir (19--) Numéro deux (197-) La Passion (1982) Je vous salue Marie (1983) Détective (1985) Le roi Lear (198-) Garde ta droite (1987) Nouvelle vague (1990) Hélas pour moi (1993) For ever Mozart (1996) Notre musique (2004) Histoire(s) du Cinéma (1988-1998)

Hamer, Robert (1+): Kind Hearts and Coronets (19--)

Hammer, Lance (1): Ballast (2008)

Haneke, Michael (7): The Seventh Continent (198-) Benny's Video (198-) 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (199-) Funny Games (1997) Code Unknown (----) The Piano Teacher (200-) Time of the Wolf (200-)

Hartley, Hal (1): Henry Fool (1997)

Hawks, Howard (8): Tiger Shark (1932) Twentieth Century (193-) Ceiling Zero (1936) To Have and Have Not (194-) The Thing From Another World (195-) The Big Sky (1952) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (195-) Rio Lobo (19--)

Haynes, Todd (3) : Poison (199-) Safe (199-) Velvet Goldmine (199-)

Herzog, Werner (11): Even Dwarfs Started Small (196-) Lessons of Darkness (19--) Land of Silence and Darkness (19--) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (197-) Heart of Glass (197-) Stroszek (197-) Woyzeck (19--) Where the Green Ants Dream (19--) Cobra Verde (198-) Grizzly Man (200-) Encounters at the End of the World (200-)
Hitchcock, Alfred (15) : The Pleasure Garden (19--) The Lodger (1926) The Ring (1927) Downhill (19--) Easy Virtue (1928) The Farmer's Wife (1928) Champagne (1928) The Manxman (1929) Juno and the Paycock (1930) Murder! (19--) Mary (19--) The Skin Game (1931) Number 17 (1932) Waltzes from Vienna (19--) Under Capricorn (194-)

Huston, John (9): Key Largo (194-) Moulin Rouge (1952) The Unforgiven (195-) The Misfits (195-) Freud (1962) Fat City (1972) Under the Volcano (198-) Prizzi's Honor (198-) The Dead (1987)

Jarmusch, Jim (5): Permanent Vacation (198-) Stranger Than Paradise (198-) Down By Law (198-) Mystery Train (198-) Night on Earth (199-)
Kazan, Elia (12): Gentleman's Agreement (19--) Panic in the Streets (19--) Viva Zapata! (1952) Man on a Tightrope (1953) Baby Doll (195-) A Face in the Crowd (19--) Wild River (19--) Splendor in the Grass (19--) America, America (1963) The Arrangement (19--) The Visitors (1972) The Last Tycoon (19--)

Keaton, Buster (2): Our Hospitality (with John G. Blystone, 1923) The Cameraman (with Edward Sedgwick, 1928)

Kerrigan, Lodge (1): Keane (2004)

Kiarostami, Abbas (1): The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

Kieslowski, Krzysztof (4): A Short Film About Love (1988) A Short Film About Killing (1988) The Decalogue (1989-1990) La double vie de Véronique (1991)

Kitano, Takeshi (1): Hana-Bi (1997)

Kurosawa, Akira (14) : Sanshiro Sugata (194-) The Most Beautiful (194-) Sanshiro Sugata Part II (194-) The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (194-) Those Who Make Tomorrow (194-) No Regrets For Our Youth (194-) The Quiet Duel (194-) Scandal (194-) I Live in Fear (195-) Dodes Ka Den (196-) Dersu Uzala (197-) Dreams (199-) Rhapsody in August (199-) Madadayo (199-)

Lang, Fritz (13): Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (192-) Die Nibelungen (192-) Spies (192-) Fury (193-) You Only Live Once (1937) The Woman in the Window (1944) Clash by Night (194-) The Big Heat (195-) Moonfleet (195-) While the City Sleeps (1956) Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) The Tiger of Eshnapur / The Indian Tomb (195-) 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1968)

Lean, David (8): In Which We Serve (19--) This Happy Breed (19--) Blithe Spirit (19--) Oliver Twist (19--) Summertime (19--) Doctor Zhivago (196-) Ryan's Daughter (19--) A Passage To India (19--)

Lee, Ang (2): The Ice Storm (1997) Ride with The Devil (1999)

Leone, Sergio (1) : Colossus of Rhodes (196-)

Linklater, Richard (3): Slacker (19--) Dazed and Confused (199-) School of Rock (200-)
Losey, Joseph (1): The Servant (19--)

Lubitsch, Ernst (9): The Oyster Princess (1919) The Marriage Circle (1924) The Patriot (1928) The Love Parade (1929) Broken Lullaby (1932) The Merry Widow (1934) Angel (1937) The Shop Around The Corner (1940) Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Lumet, Sydney (4): Fail-Safe (1964) The Hill (1965) The Verdict (1982) Running On Empty (1988)

Maddin, Guy (1): My Winnipeg (2007)

Malle, Louis (9): Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (19--) Les Amants (196-) Fire Within (196-) Murmure du coeur (1970) Humain, trop humain (197-) Black Moon (1975) Atlantic City (197-) Mon diner avec André (19--) Au revoir les enfants (198-)

Mamet, David (1): The Spanish Prisoner (1997)

Mann, Michael (3): The Last of the Mohicans (199-) The Insider (1999) Ali (2000)

Marker, Chris (1): Sans soleil (1983)

McCarey, Leo (4): Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) The Awful Truth (1937) The Bells of St.Mary's (1945) An Affair to Remember (1957)

McGehee, Scott & David Siegel (1): The Deep End (2001)

Mendes, Sam (1) : Jarhead (200-) Mildred Pierce (2011)

Minnelli, Vincente (5): Cabin in the Sky (194-) Meet Me In St.Louis (194-) The Bad and the Beautiful (195-) Gigi (195-) Some Came Running (195-)

Mizoguchi, Kenji (2): Story of the Late Chrysenthums (1939) The Life of Oharu (1952)

Moore, Michael (1): Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Murnau, Freidrich Wilhelm (4) : The Burning Soil (1922) The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924) City Girl (19--) Tabu (1931)

Nolan, Christopher (1) : Following (19--)

Nunez, Victor (1): Ulee's Gold (1997)

Oldman, Gary (1): Nil by Mouth (1997)

Ophüls, Max (6): Liebelei (1933) La Sigora di Tutti (1934) Caught (1949) The Wreckless Moment (1949) Le Plaisir (1951) Madame de... (1953)

Ozu, Yasujiro (8): Early Spring (1956) Tokyo Twilight (1957) Equinox Flower (1958) Good Morning (19--) Floating Weeds (1959) Late Autumn (1959) The End of Summer (19--) An Autumn Afternoon (19--)

Pasolini, Pier Paolo (8): Accatone (19--) The Hawks and the Sparrows (196-) Oedipus Rex (196-) Porcile (196-) Medea (1970) The Decameron (197-) The Canterbury Tales (197-) Arabian Nights (197-)

Payne, Alexander (2): Citizen Ruth (199-) Election (1999)

Peckinpah, Sam (10) : The Deadly Companions (19--) Major Dundee (19--) Noon Wine (19--) Junior Bonner (197-) The Getaway (197-) Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) The Killer Elite (197-) Cross of Iron (197-) Convoy (197-) The Osterman Weekend (197-)

Philibert, Nicolas (1): Être et Avoir (2002)

Polanski, Roman (9) : Knife in the Water (19--) Cul-de-sac (19--) Fearless Vampire Killers (197-) Macbeth (197-) Diary of Forbidden Dreams (19--) Tess (19--) Pirates (19--) Bitter Moon (19--) Death and the Maiden (19--)
Pontecorvo, Gillo (1): The Battle of Algiers (196-)

Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger (5): 49th Parallel (194-) A Canterbury Tale (194-) A Matter of Life and Death (194-) The Tales of Hoffmann (19--) Peeping Tom (196-)

Preminger, Otto (1): Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

Pulcini, Robert & Shari Springer Berman (1): American Splendor (2003)

Raimi, Sam (4) : Crimewave (198-) A Simple Plan (1998) For the Love of the Game (----) The Gift (----)

Ray, Nicholas (7): They Live by Night (1949) A Woman's Secret (1949) Knock on Any Door (1949) On Dangerous Ground (1951) Johnny Guitar (1953) Bigger Than Life (1956) King of Kings (196-)

Ray, Satyajit (2+): The Music Room (----) Charulata (----)

Reichardt, Kelly (1): Wendy and Lucy (2008) Meek's Cutoff (2011)

Renoir, Jean (10): La Chienne (193-) Madame Bovary (1933) Partie de campagne (1936) La vie est à nous (1936) Les bas-fonds (1936) La Marseillaise (1938) La bête humaine (1938) Diary of a Chambermaid (194-) The Golden Coach (195-) Elena and Her Men (19--)

Resnais, Alain (4): L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961) Muriel (1963) Providence (1977) Les herbes folles (2009)

Rivette, Jacques (1): Céline et Julie vont en Bateau (1974)
Roeg, Nicolas (4): Performance (1970) Walkabout (19--) Bad Timing (19--) Eureka (1984)

Rohmer, Éric (22): Conte d'automne (1998)

Rossellini, Roberto (7): Paisà (1946) The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) Europa '51 (1951) Voyage to Italy (1954) General della rovere (1959) The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) Beaubourg (1977)
Sasanatieng, Wisit (1): The Tears of the Balck Tiger (2000)

Sayles, John (1): Sunshine State (2002)

Scorsese, Martin (3) : Cape Fear (1993) Kundun (1997) No Direction Home (2005)

Scott, Ridley (2) : Black Hawk Down (200-) Kingdom of Heaven (2000-)

Sembene, Ousmane (1): Moolaadé (2004)

Sirk, Douglas (10): Sleep My Love (1948) Shockproof (1949) Thunder On The Hill (1951) Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952) All I Desire (1953) All That Heaven Allows (1955) There's Always Tomorrow (1956) Written On The Wind (1956) Interlude (1957) The Tarnished Angels (1957) Imitation of Life (1959)

Sjöstrom, Victor (1): The Wind (1928)

Soderbergh, Steven (8): Schizopolis (199-) Out of Sight (199-) The Limey (1999) Full Frontal (200-) Bubble (2005) The Good German (200-) The Girlfriend Experience (2009) The Informant (2009)

Solondz, Todd (2): Happiness (1998) Storytelling (2001)

Spielberg, Steven (6) : The Sugarland Express (1974) 1941 (1979) The Color Purple (1985) Empire of the Sun (1987) Amistad (1997) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Sturges, Preston (6): Christmas In July (1940) The Palm Beach Story (1942) Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) The Great Moment (1944) Hail The Conquering Hero (1944) Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Tarkovsky, Andrei (4) : The Steamroller and the Violon (19--) Stalker (19--) Voyage in Time (19--) The Sacrifice (19--)

Tati, Jacques (4): Jour de fête (195-) Mon oncle (196-) Trafic (197-) Parade (1974)

Timoner, Ondi (1): DiG! (2004)

Truffaut, François (11): Tire-au-flan 62 (1962) Antoine et Colette (196-) Fahrenheit 451 (196-) The Bride Wore Black (196-) Mississippi Mermaid (197-) L'enfant sauvage (197-) Une belle fille comme moi (197-) L'histoire d'Adèle H (197-) Small Change (197-) La chambre verte (19--) La femme d'à côté (19--)

Tykwer, Tom (1): Heaven (2001)

Van Sant, Gus (4): Drugstore Cowboy (198-) My Own Private Idaho (198-) Good Will Hunting (199-) Gerry (2001)

Visconti, Luchino (9): Ossessione (1942) Bellissima (19--) Senso (1954) Le Notti Bianche (19--) Rocco and his Brothers (1960) The Damned (1969) Ludwig (1973) Conversation Piece (19--) The Innocent (19--)

von Sternberg, Josef (1): The Blue Angel (1930)

von Stroheim, Erich (4): Foolish Wives (192-) Merry-Go-Round (192-) The Merry Widow (1925) Queen Kelly (192-)

von Trier, Lars (10): The Element of Crime (19--) Epidemic (19--) Medea (19--) Europa (199-) The Kingdom (199-) Breaking the Waves (199-) The Kingdom II (199-) The Idiots (199-) Manderlay (200-) Boss of it All (200-)

Wachowski, Andy & Larry (1): Bound (1996)

Wajda, Andrzej (4): Man of Marble (197-) Man of Iron (1981) Danton (198-) Katyn (2007)

Welles, Orson (4): Macbeth (1948) The Immortal Story (1968) F for Fake (197-) Filming "Othello" (1978)

Wenders, Wim (4): Alice in the Cities (197-) Kings of the Road (197-) Hammett (198-) Until the End of the World (198-)

Wilder, Billy (13): The Major and the Minor (1942) Five Graves to Cairo (1943) The Lost Weekend (1945) A Foreign Affair (1948) Ace in the Hole (1951) Sabrina (1954) The Seven Year Itch (195-) Witness For The Prosecution (1957) One, Two, Three (1961) Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) The Fortune Cookie (196-) The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Avanti! (1972)

Winterbottom, Michael (1): Wonderland (1999)

Wise, Robert (9): The Curse of the Cat People (194-) The Body Snatcher (195-) Born to Kill (195-) Run Silent, Run Deep (19--) I Want to Live! (196-) Odds Against Tomorrow (196-) The Haunting (196-) The Andromeda Strain (197-) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (197-)

Wong, Kar-Wai (6): As Tears Go By (19--) Days of Being Wild (19--) Chungking Express (199-) Ashes of Time (199-) Fallen Angels (199-) Happy Together (199-)

Wyler, William (5): Dodsworth (1936) The Heiress (1949) Detective Story (1951) Roman Holiday (1953) Ben-Hur (1959)

Zonca, Erick (1): La Vie Rêvée des Anges (1998)

Zwigoff, Terry (2): Crumb (1995) Ghost World (2001)

District 9 un film de Neill Blomkamp

A Sci-Fi movie set in South Africa telling the relocalisation of aliens that lived like a group excluded from society. Does it ring a bell here... Shot in a documentary style and produced by Peter Jackson: expectations were high!

We follow Wikus (Sharlto Copley, who reminded me of a young Robert De Niro) the nervous and young executive son in law of the chief of MNU in charge of the Aliens. He is designated to be in charge of the Alien deportation. The film opens with the preparations of the eviction. We follow the leader of this mission: Wikus. His team enters into the Alien ghetto until things turns bad for the mission and for Wikus...

One thing that I truly love about Science-Fiction is the parallels made with real events and how the writers manage to translate them into a fiction. Like the "Apartheid" on the Aliens in District 9 or the imminent communist attack translated by the alien in the form of a man in The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), etc. We could go on forever with the many translations Sci-fi films gave us. In this case, District 9 picks up with the great tradition of pure Science-Fiction and refresh the genre with a different approach. It does not reinvent the genre, but it gives a new breath because it's been a while since movie goers had a good Sci-Fi flick.

A very good film that deserved his unattended Oscar nominations. It has the depth to be a fun ride and make you do a reflexion on intolerance and "alien" nations.


A Film Review by Michaël Parent

(500) Days of Summer un film de Marc Webb

Telling the 500 days of the relationship between Summer (Zooey Deschanels) and Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in unchronological order, (500) Days of Summer is a charming American indie film.

Without falling into absolute cheesyness and thousand times seen clichés the story is taught on Tom's point of view of their relationship. Gordon-Levitt gives a strong and touching performance in his 80's indie music lover/wannabe architect greeting card writer instead. The soundtrack is amazing with forgotten bands like The Smiths, The Clash and indie rock bands of the moment like Mumm-Ra. Well, since I'm a music lover when the music of a film fell in my tastes I tend to appreciate the film a little bit more.

The character of Tom is so real and well nuanced by Gordon-Levitt' performance that I easily identified myself to him. (Well, it's easy since we approximately have the same age, music tastes, and personnalities...) Enough of me!

Summer portrayed by Zooey Deschanel who gives a very good performance in an uncommon character. Sometimes she is too distant in the character and her presence could have been a little stronger in the more dramatic scenes.

For Marc Webb, the director this is a great sophomore effort and I think he did what I would do if I someday I could direct my films; please myself with classic foreign films references... I'm not gonna list them here but let's say if you're into Ingmar Bergman you'll have a good laugh...

I truly loved (500) Days of Summer, it doesn't reinvent the genre but it refresh it in a very good way. One of the runners-up to my Top 10 of 2009.


A Film Review by Michaël Parent

The Virgin Spring

TSPDT Greatest Films #707 The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960)


Bergman's films are pieces of pure Cinema. For some contemporary viewers his style may tend to be too theatrical and dramatic. The acting is, in fact, too much and that's a thing I really had troubles to get into his films. The Virgin Spring is the tenth film from Ingmar Bergman I've seen and one of the good ones. In my opinion, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Persona, Cries and Whispers and even Fanny and Alexander are far better works.

Bergman's filmography is far too dense to name my favorite (maybe Fanny and Alexander... tomorrow it would be another one...). I didn't even seen half of the films he has done.

The Virgin Spring is the story of a farmer's family in Medieval time. His daughter is his pride and he loves her very much. But on her way to a distant church she is raped and killed by goat herders. Those goat herders ask for a roof and food for the night to the peasant parents of their victim.

The themes of The Virgin Spring are universal; virginity, rape, murder, revenge, good vs. bad. The story is set in Medieval time but could happen in any time period. It reminded me the film currently in theaters by Daniel Grou a.k.a. Podz Les 7 jours du talion.

I liked The Virgin Spring as a piece of the history of Cinema but I would go back to The Seventh Seal or Wild Strawberries way before watching again The Virgin Spring if I want to go back to rewatch Bergman's films...

A Film Retrospective by Michaël Parent

La Ronde un film de Max Ophüls - Retrospective

TSPDT Greatest Films #636 La Ronde (Max Ophüls, 1950)

Max Ophüls is considered by many as one of the best directors of all time, I am ashamed to say I have only seen Letter From an Unknown Woman and Lola Montès. Both are exquisite masterpieces, especially Lola Montès, his last film, praised as maybe the best film of all time.

La Ronde is a story told by Anton Walbrook who plays a debut XXth century "cupid"/ "metteur en scène" of love or as he says a lover of the art of love. He is the element that makes La Ronde go round. Told in ten sketches Walbrook's character joins the sketches together. At some point there's an allusion to a well known french expression; to live of love and fresh water: many characters ask for a glass of water only. And they are always more thirsty than hungry. As many of Ophüls films he likes to finish his films at the place they started. He is an amazing storyteller and all his films took us on unforgettable journeys.

The photography is sublime and the black and white is somtimes over lighted or low lighted which makes pretty contrasts to the images. One of the most Ophülsians aspects is the movement of camera that are fluids and sincere all over the film. It's a very haunting film very well scored by Oscar Strauss that transports us into 1900's Vienna.

A beautiful masterpiece that I wish I could have seen in a theater instead of my computer screen (damn you Region 6 DVDs). I will put more films from Max Ophüls on my Most Wanted film list because he was an important filmmaker.

The Scarlet Empress

The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
I impose to myself many obligations or discipline; I want ot see the entire list of Masterpiece of Mediafilm, They Shoot Pictures Don't They? 1000 Greatest films, AFI's 100, Bfi polls, etc. The Scarlet Empress is one of the films that was initially on the first list of films I ever read; Mediafilm's Masterpieces! To me it was like finding the klondike, I had only seen three or four films of this list and I was dreaming of the hundred and thirty others.

With great expectations I sat in front of my television to discover my first von Sternberg film and my third Marlene Dietrich movie. An interesting story about how Catherine II got the power in Russia in the XVIIIth century. Populated with gothic statues and overacting The Scarlet Empress has an unique touch of madness and movement. Madness for the first sequences where Russia is described as near as hell with some female breasts on the screen (remember that you are reading about a 1934 film!) and many scenes of simulated torture. Movement, because all along the film the editing is very fast and there is always something moving on the screen. I was surprised by the freshness the film had, von Sternberg has a vibrant approach. I'm looking forward to see more of his work very soon because I know he is an important filmmaker of the early days of Cinema.

The Scarlet Empress was probably a big spectacle for its time like a Cecil B. De Mille or a David W. Griffith film, not like a James Cameron one... Instead of Cameron; De Mille, Griffith, and von Sternberg have spirit and deepness and it's reflected into their films.

Fantasia un film de Ben Sharpsteen - Retrospective

TSPDT Greatest Films #264 Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen, 1940)


Considered by many as the greatest animated film of all time Walt Disney's Fantasia is more than a regular cartoon picture. First of all, I think it's not an animated film especially for children not because of inappropriate material but because a child needs more of a story to hold up to and maybe more action to it. The many parts with juxtaposition of music and animated images is sublime and I must say as a Disney aficianado; I really liked it! Especially, for all the work behind the film of the many many artists shadowed by the prestance of Walt Disney. The film did not do good at its release and it's long time after it got the recognition it deserved.

With the exception of the narration of Deems Taylor there ain't no links between the musical parts. I easily understand why the public didn't rushed into the theaters when it was released. Disney wanted to show to the moviegoers an other side of classic music. But, the classic music fan base wasn't the same crown that got to the Cinema. Without interest in the music the images may be as beautiful as they are they could not hold the audience as he did with Snow White.

Many songs used in Fantasia are common classic songs we often hear in Cinema. Having a different vision of them is refereshing and also sometimes it's not the image we have in mind that is on the screen so it changes the meaning of the song. I compare the entertainment value of Fantasia to a great fireworks show. The music fits the image and they compement each other. But, would you sit through two hours of a fireworks show? I would answer yes! If you ask yourself to watch it or not you can ask yourself this question. I can say to you that this fireworks show is pretty damn good!

Drag Me to Hell un film de Sam Raimi

Sam Raimi has made cult horror films for my generation of film buffs with The Evil Dead trilogy, landmark comic book adaptations Darkman, Spider-Man I-II-III (I wish I could erase this last one from my memory). He has done an excellent western "à la Leone" The Quick and the Dead and after maybe his only disaster, Spider-Man 3 (yes I say it again), he goes back to his beginning genre; Horror.

Drag Me to Hell is the story of Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) who works at a bank and attempts to earn an advancement for her career but also to impress the parents of her 1 year boyfriend, Clay (Justin Long). One day an old woman ask for a loan and to impress her boss Brown refuses to the woman who turns out to be a gypsie... The crazy gypsie curse Christine and now begind the madness of Drag me to Hell. I'm not a big fan of horror films and I don't like to be surprised by jumping creatures in calm moments but Drag Me to Hell is a very efficient movie. The directing is top notch and the horror parts are very creepy and mad. There's not much of blood or gore effects but some disgusting parts make this one a PG-13.

Even if horror isn't my cup of tea I think Drag me to Hell is a very good film and Sam Raimi sure is still one of the best filmmaker of horror films! He doesn't loose his touch at all, I think he even got better even if The Evil Dead had this juvenile urge to create and churn out something new and uncommon...

8.2/10

A Film Review by Michaël Parent

Zombieland un film de Ruben Fleischer

I must say that zombie movies is my favorite subgenre in Horror. From Night of the Living Dead to Shaun of the Dead I always enjoy a zombie brain being smashed. It's like they are not people getting kill; they're already dead! From Romero's films that denounced racism, consumerism and all the XXth century "diseases" to the zombie/romantic comedy of Shaun of the Dead I think that zombie flick are great. I excuse myself now of being enthusiastic. With that done we'll get to the review.

Zombieland doesn't start progressively to how the earth became dead, it's already done. We follow a small group of four that will try to live as normal as they can in a world surrounded by zombies. It's not a film where you try to figure out the meaning of life or how to save the planet from being devastated. We don't learn a lesson from the story either but we embark on a ride of fun. From the opening credits which are the best I've seen in years til the end I've laugh myself out loud and I was clapping my lap all along. The many allusions to the film of my childhood (which I'm not gonna spoil for you here) was a big pleasure for me.

It is far from the many nihilistic zombie films we are accostumed. I found this film to be fresh, appealing, and a big load of fun!

8.8/10

A Film Review by Michaël Parent

On the Town un film de Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly - Retrospective

TSPDT Greatest Films #515 On the Town (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1949)
On my quest to see the 1000 Greatest Films of all time from They Shoot Pictures Don't They? I have the luck to have a television channel (Cine Pop) that presents classic films from the 40's to this day. This morning was the presentation of one of the best technicolor musicals of the 40's; Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's On the Town. The story is very simple, three sailors have a 24 hour permission in New York City. One of them wants to see all the landmarks (Sinatra), the other wants to meet a girl (Kelly) (well the three of them ends with a girl, please don't act surprised here!) and the last one just want ot have fun (Munshin).
A predecessor to their 1952 masterpiece Singin' In The Rain, this one is entertainning as well and very well choregraphed too. But it doesn't have the depths we can find in the story of Singin'In The Rain. Some scenes are written to present the wonderful dances by Kelly and the numerous girls of the film. The funny side is more present here too. The dance in the Natural Museum is hilarious and has a cartoonish look.
I think the thing that bothered me the most was the precipitated ending and that some gags don't hold up enough for the quality of the feature. For an musical comedy fans this is a Highly Recommended film and I personnally would recommend it to anyone who appreciate a classic entertainment of the 40's.

A Film retrospective by Michaël Parent

Merci YouTube!!! Part XIV

Shohei Immamura's Ballad of Narayama of 1983.

Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice un film de Yasujiro Ozu - Retrospective

Ozu's films are often categorized in periods or chapters of his filmography (Early or Silent films Late Ozu or Materpiece period). The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice of 1952 can be categorized as one of his later masterpieces. Just before his main film Tokyo Story (1953) and after Early Summer (1951). Being the fourth film I've seen from him this is made the one I appreciated the most. Why? I think it may not be that far better than Tokyo Story, Late Spring, or Early Summer but I think this is a director which the most films you see of him the more you appreciate his style, his vision, his storytelling, and his directing qualities.

The more japanese of japanese directors always been frown upon and snobbed for his two main contemporaries Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi. They were always the representants of Japan in Cannes and in the international festivals. Like many artists sadly, it's after his death he becma to be habilited into world Cinema and regarded as one of the main figures of his art. The stories depicted in his films are common and regular issues of normal japanese people, with contemporary stories, without swordsmen/samurais, without spectacular scenes or events, and during the little moments of our lives.

His style, with a low camera and few movements of it is very contemplative. He is, of the three main japanese directors of his period the closest to documentary style and natural life emotions.

In The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice one of his recurring theme is used to illustrate the main story of his film; food. When the husband illustrate to his wife how he sees life and happiness through simple food and he compares them together to green tea penetrating the rice to make a dish that he finds really good it makes the best scene of the film. Without being spectacular or too emotive it's a magical moment made by Ozu here. It's a simple story about simple people not too dramatic or comical but just the right touch to it to make it a comedy of manners signed Ozu. Visually it's a stunning film with few movements of camera that accentuate the scenes and the nice rythm of the film.

It's weird but also I think it's there, it has a touch of a feel good movie where at the end every piece falls into it's right place.

A filme review by Michaël Parent

Visite à la Cinémathèque québécoise

For my day job (Archivist) I had the chance to work at the Cinémathèque québécoise. A place I am ashamed to say, I had never visited before. There is an exhibition of pictures taken during the production of many films made by Quebec's finest directors. Curently, there's a free projection of a hommage made to Alfred Hitchcock with professionnal imitators and filmed with all his own directing style.
As an Archivist, I could take and dip into the Cinémathèque's Archives to discover many boxes with the names of Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault, Claude Jutra, etc. Well, if I only had the chance to open those boxes and go through these documents I'm sure there are many treasures in there.
If I were living in Montréal I would certainly be a member of the Cinémathèque because their programmation is very interesting and there's a good variety of films shown. Presently there's a Glauber Rocha retrospective running on.
I recommand a visit at the Cinémathèque québécoise to anyone interested by the 7th art for his expositions on the history of television and Cinema but also for his awesome programmation.



Dans le cadre de mon travail (je suis archiviste) j'ai eu la chance de travailler dernièrement à la Cinémathèque québécoise. J'ai honte de vous l'avouer, mais je n'avais jamais visité cette institution. Près du hall d'entrée il y a une exposition de photographies de tournages de films des plus éminents cinéastes québécois. De plus, gratuitement près de ce hall il y a une projection faite avec des imitateurs professionnels d'Alfred Hitchcock pour lui rendre hommage. Tourné avec le même style unique d'Hitchcock, ce court métrage vaut le détour.
Comme j'ai eu à y travaillé et vue mon statut professionnel j'ai été en mesure de me faire inviter dans la réserve des Archives de la Cinémathèque. Endroit ou sont stockées plusieurs boîtes d'Archives de cinéastes et scénaristes du Québec. Des boîtes identifiées Michel Brault, Claude Jutra, Pierre Perreault, etc. Bref, je n'ai pas osé ouvrir ces boîtes mais juste d'imaginer leur contenu j'en salivais déjà!
Si j'avais le malheur d'être établi à Montréal soyez assuré que je serais membre de la Cinémathèque pour sa programmation et la variété des projections proposées. Par exemple, présentement il y a une rétrospective sur Glauber Rocha, des films de Louis Feuillade et plusieurs films de divers horizons sur 16 mm, 35 mm, Beta, etc.
Je recommande donc une visite à tout maniaque de Cinéma qui se respecte à la Cinémathèque québécoise autant pour son exposition sur l'histoire de la télévision et du Cinéma que pour sa superbe programmation!

Merci YouTube!!! Part XII

Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff made in 1954. A true masterpiece!

Sansho dayu de Kenji Mizoguchi de 1954. Un vrai chef-d'œuvre!

Merci YouTube!!! Part XI

The Shop Around the Corner de Ernst Lubitsch (1940)

Une excellente comédie romantique signée Lubitsch, un cinéaste dont j'aimerais voir plus de films et qui vaut vraiment le détour!

Bon visionnement!

A great romantic comedy from Lubitsch, a director that I'm looking forward to see more of his films!

In A Lonely Place de Nicholas Ray Restrospective

TSPDT Greatest Films #301 In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

Tout récemment j'ai fait la découverte de deux films de l'un des plus grands Cinéastes américain; Nicholas Ray. En premier lieu, c'est son Rebel Without A Cause qui me le fait connaître. Avec James Dean en tête d'affiche, ce film sublime ne m'avait pas attiré en premier lieu. Cependant, le visionnement de ce film m'a démontré la sensibilité franche de Ray et sa compréhension universelle du passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte par le cheminement ingrat mais obligatoire qu'est l'adolescence. Rebel est un film qui n'a pris aucune ride avec le temps. À voir absolument!

Le second film que j'aborde est le chef d'oeuvre qui réunit Humphrey Bogart à Nicholas Ray; In A Lonely Place. Tourné en 1950 en plein dans l'explosion du film policier américain qui plus tard deviendra le genre reconnu aujourd'hui comme le Film Noir, In A Lonely Place est un tour de force tant par sa réalisation serrée que par son scénario imprévisible. Ray démontre une grande force dans son utilisation de la tension entre les personnages dans son récit. On peut comparer sa manipulation de l'auditoire, d'une certaine manière, à ce qu'Alfred Hitchcock réussit à faire avec ses meilleures œuvres.

C'est un film à voir tant pour son histoire qui évoque le genre Thriller que pour la maitrise de Nicholas Ray et que pour le jeu très nuancé de Bogart