Galveston : Just Like Ike
French director Mélanie Laurent just made her “first american movie” adapted from Nic Pizzolatto’s first novel. We had a coup de foudre for this film noir.
In English
Fortunately not translated by Bing/Google.
Norman Spinrad : “There is a difference between the religion of islam by itself and middle-eastern politics”
Norman Spinrad, author of Bug Jack Barron and The Iron Dream, among numerous other works, gave us the honor of an interview. A unique chance to talk about the core subject of his 30th novel, Osama the Gun.
Souvenir from 2008: Yes. We. Can.
As the U.S. prepare to choose a new leader, let’s look back a the video campaign that enchanted democrats, liberals and optimists around the world in 2008.
Into serious VR
Notes On Blindness – Into Darkness aired in Cannes 2016 as a VR experience into the loss of one and more senses.
Familiar things in Stranger Things
You call this homage, we call this plagiarism.
Stranger Things : Stand By Them
Netflix’s new series aims to reboot the 80’s as they were told by Spielberg.
Stromae against social networks
Ssnce Alors on danse, Stromae became for a part of the world, the new pop sensation. In is last video, dated 2015, the singer literally shits on social networks. With subtitles.
Where are you, O my brother
Our « short of the week of the month » comes for algerian director Yanis Koussim.
« Je suis Charlie » was a Spartacus moment
« Je suis Charlie » became the most shared picture and hashtag in the hours following the Paris attacks of January 7. Because of Kubrick
Half flesh, half computer, all consciousness
And here is the sci-fi short with the quality of a long Hollywood feature we
I’ve got a bad feeling about Star Wars VII
Yesterday, J.J. Abrams twitted a mini-teaser to show the world and Batman vs Superman director
War, what is it good for? Psychiatry, absolutly
An ex-shrink became a documentarist to tell the story of the soldiersback from the First World War with an invisible illness : psychosis.
Ahoy Frances Ha!
Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha is the hipster version of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall.
This Land Is Mined
Nina Paley’s cartoon about the conflict in Palestine and Israël was created in 2012. But the current bloodshed made it viral again.
Sherlock Holmes : a game of brokeback detectives
What does it take to make a sequel? The same ingredients but double the dose,
Bollywood’s indie dream came true
Lucia, The first crowdfunded indian movie in Kannada language has a plot and soul far away from the average western-american comedies. Not just a feel-good movie. Definitively a very-feel-good movie.
In limbo with Frankenstein
Subject Two has been screened in numerous festivals before disappearing in limbo. A film that you cannot see is a film that does not exist, that you cannot feel.
Hello/ Is it me/ you’re looking/ for?
The best definition of mashup is to describe it as Lionel Ritchie meeting Planet Of The Apes.
La isla not bonita
Another rare footage that the internet made not so rare : Isle of flowers, an essay-documentary that will make the viewer alternatively amused and uncomfortable, and then uncorfomagle.
La Classe américaine: a french classic
While Michel Hazanavicius triumphed in 2012 with The Artist, we all remembered, or not, that he was also the co-author of a hilarious mash-up comedy in the early 90’s starring John Wayne, Orson Welles, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman…