June 2010

Film du mois


Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955)





Top Ten


1. Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955)
2. Silver Lode (Allan Dwan, 1954)
3. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1923)
4. The Cigarette Girl From Moscow (Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, 1924)
5. Mother, 1905 (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926)
6. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-Eda, 2004)
7. Hot Water (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1924)
8. Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007)
9. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
10. Gideon's Day (John Ford, 1958)




Découvertes


21 découvertes.


Silver Lode (Allan Dwan, 1954) - B+
Steamboy (Katsuhiro Otomo, 2004) - C-
Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg, 1929) - C-
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004) - B
Slightly Scarlett (Allan Dwan, 1956) - C
Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955) - B+
It's Always Sunday (Allan Dwan, 1956) - C-
High Air (Allan Dwan, 1956) - C-
Castle Keep (Sidney Pollack, 1969) - D-
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007) - B-
Hot Water (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1924) - B
Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1923) - B+
Gideon's Day (John Ford, 1958) - C
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru Hosoda, 2006) - C
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979) - C+
J'accuse (Abel Gance, 1938) - C+
The Cigarette Girl From Moscow (Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, 1924) - B
La Femme est l'Avenir de l'Homme (Hong Sangsoon, 2004) - C-
Escape to Burma (Allan Dwan, 1955) - D
Pearl of the South Pacific (Allan Dwan, 1955) - D
Mother, 1905 (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926) - B+



Films revus


Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Surges, 1948) - B
I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks, 1949) - B-
My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) - A



Frivolities


Surprises : Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007)


Disappointments : Castle Keep (Sidney Pollack, 1969), Escape to Burma (Allan Dwan, 1955)


The Joan Blondell Award : Rondha Fleming (Tennessee's Partner & Slightly Scarlett)



The Cary Grant Award : Harold Lloyd (Safety Last!, 1923)




The Lionel "Mr. Potter" Barrymore Award : The angry mob (Silver Lode) or the Russian army (La Mère)



Top 5 Quotes



1. Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham : "Champagne ?"
Cowpoke : "No thanks"
Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham : "Whiskey ?"
Cowpoke : "Cold water if you don't mind."
Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham : "Anything you want. Sabrina, cold water for the gentleman."
Sabrina : "Bath ?"
Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham : "No, drink."
Sabrina : "My goodness."

(Rhonda Fleming & Ronald Reagan, Tennessee's Partner)


2. TENNESSEE : "Were you from ?"
COWPOKE : "Arizona. Ever been there ?"
TENNESSEE : "Yeah I was run out of the Arizona' territory three years ago. I was run out of New Mexico too. And Colorado, Utah, Texas and Oregon."
COWPOKE : "You've got to be a little bit careful here in California. I understand there's an ocean outta here someplace."

(John Payne & Ronald Reagan, Tennessee's Partner)


3. TENNESSEE : "I never even knew his name!"

John Payne, Tennessee's Partner)


4. Un écriteau devant la "maison" de la tenancière Rhonda Fleming :

Marriage Market : Young ladies all able to cook, all desirous of finding decent husbands. Manager : Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham
GRUBSTAKE McNIVEN : "Gosh wish I could read"

(Tennessee's Partner)


5. Jenna: I Hate My Husband Pie... You take bittersweet chocolate and don't sweeten it. You make it into a pudding and drown it in caramel.
Jenna: Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having An Affair Pie... You smash blackberries and raspberries into a chocolate crust
Jenna: I Can't Have No Affair Because It's Wrong And I Don't Want Earl To Kill Me Pie... Vanilla custard with banana. Hold the banana.

(Keri Russell, Waitress)



Livre Cinéma du Mois

Hitchcock at Work (Bill Krohn)



Rating : ABCDE