400th Post on Le Mot du Cinephiliaque

Wow! It’s been more than two years since I started to ramble about movies on this modest but passion driven blog. At first, with only some reviews of theatrical releases I struggled to write in French and English at the same time. Later, I choose to only express my thoughts in the tongue of Shakespeare, which isn’t my mother tongue by the way. I know sometimes that my “propos” isn’t as clear as I wanted it to be or that some reviews may need to be rewritten or revised, but the soul is there and I think that I could maintain and elevate my writing with the years to come. This little hobby has become a passion and maybe an obsession.

In the beginnings, the comments were few and I had to fight through the jungle that is movie blogging to find my own niche and recurring readers.

But now, with other classic films/repertoire/foreign films enthusiasts I think I found many great bloggers to share my thoughts and comment on their own lairs.

As to this date I’ve decided to impose myself a number of goals to attain before the end of the year 2011. Here they are:
*Obtain my 50th follower.
*Post my 500th post
*Watch 150 films (total for 2011) I’ve never seen
*Improve my writing skills and my ability with HTML
*Post a comment on a new blog everyday

All of these goals will help me maintain the quality and the quantity of LMdC as a whole. Moreover, it will help me to be a perfect candidate for the Online Film Critics Society.

I’d like to thank everyone who comments and participate in this great adventure that is movie blogging with me and our community of bloggers!

See you next post!

100th Post on LMdC - 100ème Publication sur LMdC

Wow! This is already the 100th post on this Blog I started last August! So many films seen and so many films to see!

Thanks to all the readers the regular as to the first timers too!

To commemorate this Milestone I'd like to list some of the films I liked the most since I've been doing Le Mot du Cinephiliaque.

Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place

Orson Welles' The Lady From Shanghai

Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising

Federico Fellini's The White Sheik

Howard Hawks' Hatari!

Arnaud Desplechin's Un Conte de Noël

Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives

Yasujiro Ozu's The Flavor of Green tea Over Rice

Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Michael Haneke' Das Weisse Band

Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland

My contract with you, my readers, will be to post more often my reviews of more films from my personal best of and more reviews of obscure films and/or lesser known!

Michaël Parent

* I illustrate this milestone with the picture of the 100th all time leader in points of the NHL. Also, the Québec Nordiques was the Team of my City...
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Déjà ma 100ème publication sur Le Mot du Cinephiliaque! Tellement de films vus depuis ce départ en août 2009 et tellement de films à voir se sont rajoutés.

Merci à tous mes lecteurs autant aux assidus qu'aux nouveaux!

Voici mes coup de coeurs cinématographiques depuis le début du présent Blogue.

Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place

Orson Welles' The Lady From Shanghai

Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising

Federico Fellini's The White Sheik

Howard Hawks' Hatari!

Arnaud Desplechin's Un Conte de Noël

Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives

Yasujiro Ozu's The Flavor of Green tea Over Rice

Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Michael Haneke' Das Weisse Band

Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland

Je m'engage donc envers mes lecteurs à publier plus de critiques et retrospectives de mes films préférés et à vous tenir informés de films plus obscures et de films étrangers. De ce fait, LMdC tentera de se démarquer tant pour avoir sa propre saveur que pour apporter une vision différente de ce qui s'offre déjà dans le monde du Blogue cinématographique.

L'un de mes défis personnel est de voir tous les films qui se retrouvent sur la liste des 1000 meilleurs films du site web They Shoot Pictures Don't They?. En plus, de découvrir les films méconnus de grands cinéastes étrangers comme Yasujiro Ozu et de voir les classiques hollywoodiens incontournables!