March 2010

Film du mois

Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) 1941



Top Ten


1. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) 1941
2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 1976
3. Men In War (Anthony Mann) 1957
4. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
5. Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle) 1994
6. The Big Clock (John Farrow) 1948
7. Way Down East (D.W. Griffith) 1920
8. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Michael Henry Wilson, Martin Scorsese) 1995
9. Death Takes A Holiday (Mitchell Leisen) 1934
10. Celebrity (Woody Allen) 1998


Découvertes

26 films.

Par ordre chronologique.

Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle) 1994 - B
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies 1995 - B+
Coffee & Cigarettes (Jim Jarmush) 2003 - D
Men In War (Anthony Mann) 1957 - B+
Ministry Of Fear (Fritz Lang) 1944 - C
All The King's Men (King Hu) 1983 - D+
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) 2003 - D+
Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov) 1962 - C
Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) 1941 - A
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 1976 - B+
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah) 1970 - C
Pittsburgh (Lewis Seiler) 1942 - C
Frenchman's Creek (Mitchell Leisen) 1944 - C
Masquerade In Mexico (Mitchell Leisen) 1945 - E
Father Was A Fullback (John M. Stahl) 1949 - C
The Indian Fighter (Andre De Toth) 1955 - C
Death Takes A Holiday (Mitchell Leisen) 1934 - C+
Babes In Toyland (Gus Meins, Charley Rogers) 1934 - E
Celebrity (Woody Allen) 1998 - C
Way Down East (D.W. Griffith) 1920 - B
The Big Clock (John Farrow) 1948 - B
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin) 1931 - B+
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) 1991 - D-
Copie Conforme (Jean Dreville) 1947 - C
No Country For Old Men (Coen) 2007 - D
Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah) 1954 - C-

Films revus

Les Sept Samourais (Akira Kurosawa) 1954 - A++++++
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh) 1941 - A
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra) 1934 - B+
The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann) 1955 - B
The Postman Always Ring Twice (Tay Garnett) 1946 - B


Frivolités

Biggest Surprise Of The Month : The Ballad Of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah), Vanya on 42nd Street, Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov), Death Takes A Holiday (Mitchell Leisen), The Big Clock, Men In War,

Biggest Disappointment Of The Month : Babes In Toyland, My Own Private Idaho, No Country For Old Men, Coffee & Cigarettes


The Ingrid Bergman Award : Joan Bennett (Man Hunt, 1941)



The Clark Gable Award : Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver, 1976)


The Dark Vador Award : Georges Sanders, chef de la gestapo dans Man Hunt




Notation : ABCDE

February 2010

Film du mois

Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam / Les SS Frappent La Nuit (Robert Siodmak) 1957



Découvertes


Bite The Bullet (Richard Brooks) 1975 - C-
Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville) - C-
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World (Stanley Kramer) 1963 - D-
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni) 1975 - D
The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston) 1975 - B+
Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam / Les SS Frappent La Nuit (Robert Siodmak) 1957 - A
Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe (Jean Renoir) Paul Meurisse, Catherine Rouvel 1959 - D
Sometimes A Great Notion (Paul Newman) 1970 - C-
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan) 2009 - D
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B.DeMille) 1965 - B+
L'Emmerdeur (Edouard Molinaro)1973 - C-
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel) 1973 - B-
A King In New York (Charlie Chaplin) 1957 - B-
Paisà (Roberto Rossellini) 1946 - B-
My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle) 1981 - B+
Forty Shades Of Blue (Ira Sachs) 2005 - E
More Than A Game (Kristopher Belman) 2008 - D
Inside Daisy Clover (Robert Mulligan) 1965 - C-
Shadows & Fog (Woody Allen) 1991 - B
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith) 1916 - A
Dr. Zhivago (David Lean) 1965 - B+


Films revus

The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston) 1950 - B+
The Lovers (Tsui Hark)1994 - A+
Rio Grande (John Ford) 1950 - B
A Distant Trumpet (Raoul Walsh) 1964 - C-

Notation : ABCDE

30 Personal Favorites Of 2009

1. Roman Holiday (William Wyler) 1953
2. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) 1964
3. Il Sorpaso / Le Fanfaron (Dino Risi) 1962
4. The Great Ziegfield (Robert Z.Leonard) 1936
5. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick) 1964

6. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Douglas Sirk) 1952
7. The Aquatic Life With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) 2004
8. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk) 1955
9. Never Say Goodbye (James V.Kern) 1946
10. Spendor In The Grass (Elia Kazan) 1961

11. Monika (Ingmar Bergman) 1953
12. Jour de Fête (Jacques Tati) 1949
13. Parlons Femmes (Ettore Scola) 1964
14. The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen) 1985
15. The Intruder (Roger Corman)1962

16. Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi) 1996
17. The Children's Hour (William Wyler) 1961
18. Quand Passent Les Cigognes (Mikhail Kalatozov) 1958
19. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
20. No Highway In The Sky (Henry Koster) 1951

21. The Road To Memphis (Richard Pearce & Robert Kenner) 2003
22. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock) 1944
23. The Foutainhead (King Vidor) 1949
24. En Compagnie De Max Linder (Trois films de sa période américaine début 20's)
25. Bonne Chance ! (Sacha Guitry) 1935

26. Le Gout De La Cerise (Abbas Kiaromasti) 1997
27. Le Vase De Sable (Yoshitaro Nomura) 1974
28. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey) 1937
29. The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick) 1951
30. Guess Who's Coming For Dinner (Stanley Kramer) 1967



Et pour quelques films de plus : Hatari (Howard Hawks), Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks) 1964, One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch) 1932, Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch) 1932 Magnificient Obsession (Douglas Sirk) 1954, No Room For The Groom (Douglas Sirk) 1952, Boomerang! (Elia Kazan) 1947, Wild River (Elia Kazan) 1960, The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock) 1956, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Irving Reis) 1947, Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon) 1933, Atlantic City U.S.A (Louis Malle) 1980, The Big Combo (Joseph H.Lewis) 1955, Kiss Of Death (Henry Hathaway) 1947, Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding) 1947, Stormy Weather (Andrew L.Stone) 1943, Deliverance (John Boorman) 1972, Knock (Guy Lefranc) 1951, The Valley Of Decision (Tay Garnett) 1945, A Letter To Three Wives (Joseph L.Mankiewicz) 1949, Sciuscià (Vittorio De Sica) 1946, The Brink's Job (William Friedkin), Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks) 1960, The Macomber Affair (Zoltan Korda) 1947, Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer) 1961, The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood) 1942, Young Mr Lincoln (John Ford) 1939, Tin Star (Anthony Mann) 1957, A Nous La Liberté (René Clair) 1931, La Nuit Américaine (Francois Truffaut) 1973, Casino (Martin Scorsese) 1995, The Bad News Bears (Michael Richie) 1976, A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) 2006

Top Ten, January 2010

29 films.




1. ex aequo New York, New York (Martin Scorsese) 1977 / To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan) 1962
3. Trust (Hal Hartley) 1990
4. The War Game (Peter Watkins) 1965
5. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin) 1947
6. Boys Don't Cry (Kimberley Peirce) 1999
7. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley) 1989
8. Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura) 1976
9. Le Cimetière De La Morale (Kinji Fukusaku) 1975
10. Annie Hall (Woody Allen) 1977

Top Ten, December 2009

23 films.


1. No Highway In The Sky (Henry Koster) 1951
2. The Brink's Job (William Friedkin) 1978
3. Melinda & Melinda (Woody Allen) 2004
4. The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton) 1974
5. An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey) 1957
6. Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen) 1993
7. This Earth Of Mine (Henry King) 1959
8. Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman) 2008
9. Lo Scopone Scitentifica / L'Argent de la Vieille (Luigi Comencini) 1972
10. Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo) 1998

Top Ten, November 2009

20 films.

1. The Aquatic Life With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) 2004
2. The Macomber Affair (Zoltan Korda) 1947
3. The Valley Of Decision (Tay Garnett) 1945
4. Days Of Glory (Jacques Tourneur) 1944
5. Angel (Ernst Lubitsch) 1937
6. The War Of The Roses (Danny DeVito) 1988
7. Barton Fink (Coen's brotha) 1991
8. American Gangster (Ridley Scott) 2007
9. La Vie D'un Honnête Homme (Sacha Guitry) 1952
10. The Great Sinner (Robert Siodmak) 1949

FLOP : The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma) 2006, Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh) 1951

Top Ten, October 2009

30 films.

1. Never Say Goodbye (James V.Kern) Errol Flynn 1946
2. A Letter To Three Wives (Joseph L.Mankiewicz) 1949
3. The Children's Hour (William Wyler) 1961
4. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer) 1961
5. Alice (Woody Allen) 1990
6. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner) 1989
7. Victor Victoria (Blake Edwards) 1982
8. The Far Country (Anthony Mann) 1954
9. Man's Favorite Sport ? (Howard Hawks) 1964
10. Tin Star (Anthony Mann) 1957

11e ex-aequo : The Panic In Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg) 1971, L'Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes (Truffaut) 1977, A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) 2006

Bottom : Taken (Pierre Morel) 2008, Du Mouron Pour Les Petits Oiseaux (Marcel Carné) 1963, Witness (Peter Weir) 1985