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Scorsese, again, on the streets of New York (film: Bringing Out the Dead – Martin Scorsese, 1999)

I can’t remember why I missed seeing ‘Bringing Out the Dead‘ (1999). I’ve been a fan of Martin Scorsese since ‘Taxi Driver’ and I thought I hadn’t missed any of his movies since then. And yet, it’s the first time … Continue reading

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the price of the life of a soldier (film: The Monuments Men – George Clooney, 2014)

The story in ‘The Monuments Men‘ directed by George Clooney and released on screens in 2014 is worth telling. In the last year of World War II, a small group of Allied soldiers, most of them experts in the arts, … Continue reading

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survival (film: 10 Cloverfield Lane – Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)

If you are not a claustrophobic person and have not become one during this year 2020 and if your escapist entertainments these days include horror movies you can try ‘10 Cloverfield Lane‘ (2016) directed by Dan Trachtenberg. It is the … Continue reading

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a study in vice (Film: The Gambler – Mark Wahlberg, 2014)

The vice of gambling inspired quite a number of literary and cinematographic works, starting maybe with Dostoevsky’s novel which shares the name with the films that inspired it until the almost masterpiece movie “House of Games” written and directed by … Continue reading

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a thriller in the swamps (Film: In the Electric Mist – Tommy Lee Jones, 2009)

Some films deserve a better fate. This is in my opinion the case with ‘In the Electric Mist’ which is totally unknown to most of the cinema fans because it seems to not having been released in cinema theaters in … Continue reading

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… and the rest is NOT silence (Film: The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)

The Artist is a good and entertaining film, and it may deserve the handful of Oscar prizes that it received. I missed it in the theaters, then I bought the DVD when I was in Paris, and it’s only now … Continue reading

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