2015-09-25

1000th Post : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Myself and Let the Words Do the Talking

1000th Post : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Myself and Let the Words Do the Talking

Over the time, the reviews, the blogathons, the posts, the comments, and the stats my main blog Le Mot du Cinephiliaque has evolved as my escape from my everyday life. At first, it was a place that helped to write about my passion for films. Then, my obsession with lists, tops, and blogging has become my main motivation.

When I started, I wanted to be the cool kid with the most popular blog, to win Lammies, have more and more traffic, and more followers, etc. But that vanished and I discovered that I am the blogger that I am. Which is pretty much like myself; I like to know everyone but I don’t need to be friends with everyone. I like to have close friends that I will treat with respect and love. There are a few of those blogging friends that stick around and I’m sure they’ll recognize themselves when reading those lines.


2015-09-15

Misery

Note : this review is my contribution to The Lauren Bacall blogathon hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood.

Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990)

Few days after being rescued and sheltered from a car crash caused by a blizzard by a nurse who claims to be his number one fan, a well-known author begins suspecting the mental health of his savior.

Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is a widely known best-selling author who just finished his more recent novel in a remote cabin in the Colorado. Being very superstitious he always has the same routine when he finishes a write-up and he takes his Mustang on the road just before a huge snowstorm. Obviously, he leaves the road and is badly hurt but someone saw him and saves him from a certain death. It is nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) who is also her number one fan. Slowly we understand that she keeps him from the rest of the world and he is hers. She forces him to destroy his latest novel and asks him to write a new Misery novel. Slowly recovering from his accident, Sheldon had both legs broken at several places and an arm in bad shape too. He is reduced to a wheel chair for a moment. Annie also locks his room and quickly becomes aggressive and dangerous. Paul knows he’ll have to escape if he wants to survive.


2015-09-10

Repo Man

Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)

Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result.

Lately, I’ve joined the Cult Film Club and Alex Cox’s Sci-fi amalgam of counter culture of punk rockers blended with a metaphor on American Capitalism was the subject of their latest podcast. Having never seen this film before, I was intrigued with the poster on the website of the club. Added to that, Repo Man was included for the first time in the 2015 list of They Shoot Pictures1000 greatest films of all time.


2015-09-09

Ten

Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)

Ten sequences examine the emotional lives of women at significant junctures.

Filmed with digital cameras attached to the dashboard and shot entirely in the car driven by Mania Akbari, Ten paints a picture of a woman that wanted to be more than a submitted housewife in a world of that sadly repressive men are still accepted. The first sequence with her son Amin (Amin Maher) presents her as a divorced woman that has been remarried with a man she loves and that her son doesn’t. Amin seems already trained to be carrying the stereotypes his father told him.


2015-09-03

Aloha

Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015)

A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watch-dog assigned to him.

The setting : Hawaii. The cast : Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, John Krasinski, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin. The director : Cameron Crowe. Well, what could possibly go wrong? As much as a new Cameron Crowe film makes us wish for a return into his top form of his Almost Famous days or just his Say Anything inspiration, it would be something very very nice.


2015-09-02

A Short Film About Love


A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1987)

An innocent virgin spies on his frontal neighbor and falls in love with her, thus starts using tricks on her which he hopes will lead to them meeting.


2015-09-01

Announcing: The Winter Sports blogathon



Guess what? In more than six years of activity and postings on this blog I’ve never hosted a proper blogathon!

So I wanted to mix two things I like a lot : winter sports and movies.



This is again yours truly on a snowboard circa 1998.

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