Michel Legrand on Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjWPi0J2yII
Watch Beauty and the Beast on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/beauty-and-the-beast-jean-cocteau-vod
Beauty and the Beast is recommended by Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Pascale Ferran, Christophe Gans, Jerry Schatzberg, Agnès Jaoui, Jaco Van Dormael and Francis Veber.
Watch the greatest films handpicked by directors on LaCinetek.
]]>Discover an exclusive video of Michel Hazanavicius on The Crowd by King Vidor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PqL-RWAw7Y
The Crowd is available for a limited time with your LaCinetek subscription: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/subscription
Watch the greatest films handpicked by directors on LaCinetek.
]]>Reda Kateb on Diabolique by Henri-Georges Clouzot: youtu.be/RJSmAxjRk1U?si=eQI7I9cTWIzjfOnw
Watch Diabolique on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/diabolique-henri-george-clouzot-vod
]]>Guillaume Brac on Superbad by Greg Mottola: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYm0Cp_CFQ
Watch Superbad on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/superbad-greg-mottola-vod
]]>Alexandre Astier on Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg: youtu.be/dVGUmRZZ5d0?si=CAeCNHlVrxWp-xIx
Watch Jaws on LaCinetek:
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Alain Chabat on Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard directed by André Hunebelle:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDXI_aSMEwk
Watch Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard on LaCinetek:
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Rebecca Marder on Elevator to the Gallows directed by Louis Malle:
youtu.be/6CU48UrAjKU?si=t41Sey2jKv0T1kFT
Watch Elevator to the Gallows on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/elevator-to-the-gallows-louis-malle-vod
Patricia Mazuy on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance directed by John Ford:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBaZQUlTe1Q&t=2s
Watch The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on LaCinetek:
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Robert Guédiguian on The Straight Story directed by David Lynch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_QW8H4sNWM
Watch The Straight Story on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/une-histoire-vraie-david-lynch-vod
Sandrine Bonnaire on The Land of the Wandering Souls directed by Rithy Panh:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDMi7DbiHDY
Watch The Land of the Wandering Souls on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/la-terre-des-ames-errantes-rithy-pan-vod
Christophe Honoré on Mystery Train directed by Jim Jarmusch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQvrrohLeLE&list=PL63RdSN0DsV6bjjRHzjzUhh9fEvHdS1tR&index=198
Watch Mystery Train on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/mystery-train-jim-jarmusch-vod
Charlotte Gainsbourg on Belle de Jour directed by Luis Buñuel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FtUGHyF7Q4&t=21s
Watch Belle de Jour on LaCinetek:
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Park Chan-wook on Don't Look Now directed by Nicolas Roeg: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrKDVmqsB8
Watch Don't Look Now on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/don-t-look-now-nicolas-roeg-vod
]]>Cédric Klapisch on Madadayo directed by Akira Kurosawa:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=If79eFdWbaw
Watch Madadayo on LaCinetek:
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Léa Drucker on Peeping Tom directed by Michael Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxhXwbBYAI&list=PL63RdSN0DsV6bjjRHzjzUhh9fEvHdS1tR&index=21
Watch peeping Tom on LaCinetek:
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Alain Guiraudie on What Have I Done to Deserve This? directed by Pedro Almodóvar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfkZaKqmD0g
Watch What Have I Done to Deserve This? on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/what-have-i-done-to-deserve-this-pedro-almodovar-vod
Pascale Ferran on Every Man for Himself directed by Jean-Luc Godard:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=brozDjN66HY&t=268s
Watch Every Man for Himself on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/sauve-qui-peut-la-vie-jean-luc-godard-vod
Laurent Cantet was a founding member of LaCinetek.
Laurent Cantet on Cruel Story of Youth directed by Nagisa Ōshima:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG734hGEGDo
Rebecca Zlotowski on Lions Love directed by Agnès Varda:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SIL8OQwnM
Watch Lions Love on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/lions-love-and-lies-agnes-varda-vod
Albert Dupontel on Hana-bi (Fireworks) directed by Takeshi Kitano:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBHuffvmVb0
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic on The Clowns directed by Federico Fellini:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfq6C57TS5M
Watch The Clowns on LaCinetek:
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Bertrand Bonello on The Fog directed by John Carpenter:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HceiQtsQUA0&list=PL63RdSN0DsV6bjjRHzjzUhh9fEvHdS1tR&index=206
Watch The Fog on LaCinetek :
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Béatrice Dalle on Accattone directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvu_KFjQcLw
Watch Accattone on LaCinetek:
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Joachim Trier on Mirror directed by Andreï Tarkovski:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxQN7kf13PY&list=PL63RdSN0DsV5Vi6dkhILHjmXqcjNH9OI2&index=5
Watch Mirror on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/le-miroir-andrei-tarkovski-vod
Monica Bellucci on L'Avventura directed by Michelangelo Antonioni:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=byJOxaEVyng
Watch L'Avventura on LaCinetek:
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Sophie Letourneur on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial directed by Steven Spielberg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJyTBAMXMTI
Watch E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on LaCinetek:
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Vincent Lacoste on Punch-Drunk Love directed by Paul Thomas Anderson:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMzQtnCDHA
Watch Punch-Drunk Love on LaCinetek:
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Jonás Trueba on Stromboli directed by Roberto Rossellini
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag30Cb09T0g
Watch Stromboli on LaCinetek:
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Noémie Lvosky on There Was a Father directed by Yasujiro Ozu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRue0a1wLE8
Watch There Was a Father on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/il-etait-un-pere-yasujiro-ozu-vod
Cédrick Klapisch on Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QElD7rY5noI
Watch Rear Window on LaCinetek :
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Céline Sciamma on The Umbrellas of Cherbourg directed by Jacques Demy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAmBWSfglg0&list=PL63RdSN0DsV4x8z4k8krkBssjGSwK9oXR
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Park Chan-wook on Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWZHkrAj2Yk
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Paul Kircher on The Beautiful Person directed by Christophe Honoré :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMj1LY73PuE
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Arthur Teboul on Persepolis directed by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPGpNbz5Bj0&t=3s
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Céleste Brunnquell on Some Like It Hot directed by Billy Wider
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY3--Ijq8MA
Agnès Jaoui on Donkey Skin directed by Jacques Demy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZw8I7MQf_E
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Dominik Moll on Nosferatu directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-M8xiIzB8
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French director born in 1955 in Paris.
Yolande Zauberman began her career alongside Amos Gitai before directing her first film, Classified People (1987). This documentary about apartheid, shot clandestinely in South Africa, already outlines the contours of her cinema: Zauberman has continually questioned the absurdity of oppressive political situations through their impact on the intimacy of individuals. Confronting taboos and silences—particularly in M, winner of the César for Best Documentary Film in 2019, where she addresses sexual abuse within the Orthodox Jewish community—she has created a body of work of profound humanity, broadcast and awarded worldwide. The relationships between communities or individuals living in the same space without sharing the same beliefs or views are at the heart of both her fiction and documentary films, from Moi Ivan toi Abraham (1993) to Would You Have Sex With an Arab? (2011). Her films are portraits of marginalized people, such as La Belle de Gaza (2024), which follows the journey of young Palestinian trans individuals in Tel Aviv.
Discover her list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/yolande-zauberman
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria)
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Xavier Dolan's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/xavier-dolan
His list, all flash and fire, oscillates between introspection, blood and boiling feelings. There's a taste for tormented characters and heady passions, for complex portraits of the human soul, and for the intersection of independent cinema and pop culture. While New Hollywood takesa prominent place, contemporary cinema - from the 90s to 2010 - is also given pride of place.
His filmography : I Killed My Mother (2009) - Heartbeats (2010) - Laurence Anyways (2012) - Tom a the Farm (2013) - Mommy (2014) - It's Only the End of the World (2016) - The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018) - Matthias & Maxime (2019) - The Night Logan Woke Up (2022)
...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Payal Kapadia, Indian filmmaker, was born in 1986 in Mumbai.
Payal Kapadia developed an early interest in cinema, particularly experimental cinema, which she discovered at film festivals in Mumbai.
While studying at the Film and Television Institute of India, she experienced her first political engagements. These experiences influenced her first feature film, A Night of Knowing Nothing, for which she received the Golden Eye award at Cannes in 2021, as well as a Special Mention at the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival.
Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the film takes a freeform approach to question the state of the world, playing on the ambiguities of images, echoing the post-truth era. She continues to explore this hybridization in All We Imagine as Light, a diptych fiction infused with documentary elements and an impressionistic dimension.
This portrayal of India through the stories of three women won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 2024.
Discover her list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/payal-kapadia
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria)
...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Austrian filmmaker, born in Munich in 1942.
The son of actor parents, Michael Haneke studied philosophy, psychology, and the dramatic arts at the University of Vienna. After his début in theatre, where he staged works by Goethe, Kleist, Strindberg, and Duras, he became a television director, then turned to film.
His first feature, The Seventh Continent (1989), inaugurated his Austrian trilogy known as “emotional glaciation”. The filmmaker’s style was already apparent through the X-ray vision of his almost clinical staging of human impulses and feelings. Later, he would endlessly and starkly reveal the violence of the contemporary world, all the better to explore the “ordinary evil” of our societies – from Funny Games to The Piano Teacher, Caché to The White Ribbon. His œuvre, richly endowed with a dozen films, has received the highest honours, including two Palmes d’or at Cannes. In 2012, with Amour, he gave Jean-Louis Trintignant one of his finest roles, who was at that time also at the zenith of his art.
Discover his list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/michael-haneke
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]]>French filmmaker, was born in 1948 in Lyon.
After beginning her career as an actress, Diane Kurys turned to writing and directing in the late 1970s. Her first film, Peppermint Soda, which reflects on her high school years, won the Louis Delluc Prize and achieved great public success in 1977. Often autobiographical, her films frequently intertwine family history with larger historical contexts through the intimate journeys of her characters (Cocktail Molotov in 1980, Entre Nous in 1983, C'est la Vie in 1990, For a Woman in 2013). Her body of work, comprising around fifteen films that she wrote, directed, and produced, offers strong female characters portrayed by actresses such as Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Nathalie Baye, Juliette Binoche, Sylvie Testud, and Fanny Ardant. She has also portrayed literary figures like George Sand and Françoise Sagan.
Discover her list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/diane-kurys
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]]>In 2018, Martin Scorsese sent a letter to Cédric Klapisch.
In it, the ever-passionate cinephile discusses the choices of films that make up his lists (yes, there are several), available on LaCinetek. He reflects on the challenges inherent in such an exercise, especially when it comes to expressing preferences in cinema.
Martin Scorsese gave LaCinetek two lists: a formative one and and this one, an alternative list just as extensive, eclectic and rich.
Read the full letter here: letterboxd.com/lacinetek/story/martin-scorseses-letter-to-cedric-klapisch/
...plus 83 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Spanish film director, born in Banyoles (Catalonia) in 1975.
After studying philology and literature at the University of Barcelona, Albert Serra switched to cinema. His works take an original approach and explore the great figures of the past, both literary and real, starting with Honor of the Knights (2006), a free adaptation of Don Quixote, followed by Birdsong (2009) and Story of my Death, which features a meeting between Casanova and Dracula (winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 2013). For The Death of Louis XIV, a masterly chiaroscuro work starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, he won the Prix Jean Vigo, before directing Roi Soleil in 2018, an experimental variation on the same theme. The following year, Liberté, starring Helmut Berger, tells the story of libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI. In 2022, Pacifiction broke away from historical painting for a suspended dive into the political arcana of a Polynesian island. A great critical success, the film offered Benoît Magimel an extraordinary playground, which earned him the César for Best Actor in 2023
Discover his list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/albert-serra
...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Amat Escalante's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/amat-escalante-67
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Blood (2005) – The Bastards (2008) – Revolución – segment El cura Nicolas colgado (2010)
– Heli (2013) – The Untamed (2016)
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]]>Discover Christoph Hochhäusler’s influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/christoph-hochhausler
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
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]]>Discover Patrice Leconte's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/patrice-leconte
Exclusive March list ! Each month LaCinetek reveals the influences of a director. His list for LaCinetek, like his filmography, crosses various genres. On the program: humor and eccentricity (one would expect nothing less from the collaborator of Le Splendid, author of the cult trilogy of French Fried Vacation), intimate dramas and thrillers.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur (1976) - French Fried Vacation (1978) - French Fried Vacation 2 (1979) - Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine (1981) - Ma femme s'appelle reviens (1982) - Circulez y'a rien à voir (1983) - Les Spécialistes (1985) - Tandem (1987) - Monsieur Hire (1989) - The Haidresser's Husband (1990) - Contre l'oubli (1991) - Tango (1993) - Le Parfum d'Yvonne (1994) - Lumière and Compagny (1995) - Ridicule (1996) - Les Grands Ducs (1996) - Une chance sur deux (1998) - Girl on the Bridge (1999) - The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000) - Félix et Lola (2001) - Rue des plaisirs (2002) - The Man on the Train (2002) - Intimate Strangers (2004) - Dogora : Ouvrons les yeux (2004) - French Fried Vacation 3 (2006) - My Best Friend (2006) - Beauties at War (2008) - Voir la mer (2011) - The Suicide Shop (2012) - A Promise (2013) - Do Not Disturb (2014) - Salauds de pauvres (2019) - Maigret (2022)
...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Philippe Garrel's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/philippe-garrel
This month, director Philippe Garrel has compiled a list of films that reflects his taste for the insurrectional breath of the youth and the intensity of the loving affects.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
His filmography : Marie pour mémoire (1967) - Le Révélateur (1968) - La Concentration (1968) - Actua 120 (1968) - Anémone (1968) - Le Lit de la Vierge (1969) - The Inner Scar (1971) - Les Hautes Solitudes (1973) - Un ange passe (1975) - Le Berceau de cristal (1976) - Le Bleu des origines (1979) - L'Enfant secret (1982) - Liberty at Night (1983) - She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985) - Les Ministères de l'art (1988) - Les Baisers de secours (1989) - I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore (1991) - The Birth of Love (1993) - The Phantom Heart (1996) - Night Wind (1999) - Wild Innocence (2001) - Regular Lovers (2005) - Frontier of Dawn (2008) - A Burning Summer (2011) - Jealousy (2013) - In the Shadow of Women (2015) - Lover for a Day (2017) - The Salt of Tears (2020)
...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Catherine Corsini's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/catherine-corsini-82
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Poker (1988) – Interdit d’amour – TV (1992) – Lovers (1994) – The New Eve (1999) – Replay (2001) – The Very Merry Widows (2003) – Ambitious (2006) – Leaving (2009) – Three Worlds (2012) – Summertime (2015) – An Impossible Love (2018) – The Divide (2021)
...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Lucile Hadzihalilovic's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/lucile-hadzihalilovic
Her list, like her filmography, draws from the source of genre cinema and collects itself in the intimacy of the huis clos.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Her filmography: Short films: La Première Mort de Nono (1987) - La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996) - Good Boys Use Condoms (1998) - Nectar (2014) - De Natura (2018)
Feature films: Innocence (2005) - Évolution (2015) - Earwig (2021)
...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Rebecca Zlotowski's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/rebecca-zlotowski
Her energetic, eclectic list is packed with never-before-seen films, including many that are sometimes unjustly relegated to the back burner of film history. In these films, identities are fluid, powerful and eccentric; bodies are sensual and fictions emancipatory (the margins are on fire: witchcraft, truancy, street school). And the wide variety of filmic forms are in tune with this freedom.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Her filmography: Belle Épine (2010) - Grand Central (2013) - Planetarium (2016) - An Easy Girl (2019) - Other People's Children (2022)
...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Guillaume Brac's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/guillaume-brac
Like his own films, his list places great emphasis on nature and youth, with a keen eye on the relationship between people and their environment, particularly their professional environment, as if to better explore the different faces of a society.
Her list blends a wide variety of cinematic genres and periods: there are recognized masterpieces and more discreet films, offbeat love stories and bittersweet comedies, as well as a certain predilection for under-represented characters. There's also a strong emphasis on contemporary cinema.
His filmography: Regarde-moi (le joli corps) (short film, 2004) - Le Funambule (short film, 2005) - Le Naufragé (short film, 2009) - Un monde sans femmes (2011) - Tonnerre (2014) - Le Repos des braves (short film, 2016) - July Tales (2017) - Treasure Island (2018) - À l'abordage (2020)
...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Dominik Moll's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010
www.lacinetek.com/fr/la-liste-de/dominik-moll
French director and screenwriter, born in 1962 in Germany.
Dominik Moll's passion for cinema began when he discovered the films of Alfred Hitchcock. He studied at the City University of New York, where he made his first short films, and at IDHEC, where he met Gilles Marchand and Laurent Cantet. His second film, the thriller With a Friend Like Harry (2000), was a big hit with audiences and critics alike. In his subsequent films (Lemming, The Monk, News From Planet Mars, Only the Animals), Moll continued to explore, through different genres, the disruption of everyday life as it struggles with the irrational. He has also made two forays into the series, with The Tunnel (2013) and Eden (2019), in which he tackles the delicate subject of refugees. His latest film, The Night of the 12th, about an unresolved police investigation, was a favourite at the 2023 Césars awards. Most of the scripts for his films were written with Gilles Marchand, whom he also co-wrote for Black Heaven and Into the Forest.
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Discover Riad Sattouf's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/riad-sattouf-93
Filmography : The French Kissers (2009) – Mes Colocs (2010) – Jacky in the Kingdom of Women (2014) – Les Cahiers d'Esther (série animée) (2019)
...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Discover Nabil Ayouch's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/nabil-ayouch
Filmography : Mektoub (1997) – Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets 2000) – A Minute of Sun Less TV (2002) - Whatever Lola Wants (2007) – My Land (2011) – Horses of God (2021) – Much Loved (2015) – Razzia (2017) – Casablanca Beats (2021)
...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Discover Emmanuelle Bercot's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/emmanuelle-bercot
Filmography : Short films : True Romanès (1995) – Les Vacances (1997) – Sweetie (1998)
Feature films : Le Choix d'Élodie (TV) (1998) – La Faute au vent (2000) – Clement (2001) – Quelqu'un vous aime... (2003) – À poil ! (2004) – Backstage (2004) – Tirez sur le caviste, collection Suite noire (TV) (2009) – Student Services (TV) (2009) – The Players - segment La Question (2012) – On My Way (2013) – Standing Tall (2015) – 150 Milligrams (2016) – Peaceful (2021)
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Cédric Klapisch’s influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005: www.lacinetek.com/director-list/cedric-klapisch-18
Cédric Klapisch is co-founder of LaCinetek
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Maasaïïtis (1989) – Little nothings (1992) – Good old daze (1994) – Family resemblances (1996) – When the cat's away (1996) – Maybe (1999) – Pot Luck (2002) – Not for or Against... (2003) – The Russian Dolls (2005) – Paris (2008) – My piece of the pie (2011) – Chinese Puzzle (2013) – Back to Burgundy (2017) – Someone, Somewhere (2019)
...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Nicole Garcia's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005: whttps://www.lacinetek.com/director-list/nicole-garcia
Exclusive January's list !
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Every Other Weekend (1990) - The Favourite Son (1994) - Place Vendôme (1998) - The Adversary (2002) - Charlie Says (2006) - A View of Love (2010) - Going Away (2014) - From the Land of the Moon (2016) - Lovers (2020)
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Ira Sachs' influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/ira-sachs
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : The Delta (1996) – Underground Zero (segment Untitled) (2002) – Forty Shades of Blue (2005) – Married Life (2007) – Keep the Lights On (2012) – Love Is Strange (2014) – Brooklyn Village (2016)
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]]>Francis Veber, a French director and screenwriter born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1937.
After working as a journalist, Francis Veber dedicated himself entirely to writing. The public success of one of his early plays, "The Kidnapping" (1968), encouraged him to pursue this path. He then began a career as a screenwriter and penned numerous successful comedies, such as Yves Robert's The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) and Édouard Molinaro's A Pain in the Ass (1973). He soon transitioned to directing with The Toy (1976), and continued his fruitful collaboration with Pierre Richard in La Chèvre (1981) and The ComDads, where the actor formed a duo with Gérard Depardieu. In the 1980s, Francis Veber moved to the United States, working as a script doctor for Disney and directing the American remake of The Fugitives. Upon his return to France, his play The Dinner Game and its film adaptation achieved immense success. In 1999, Jacques Villeret won the César Award for Best Actor for the role of François Pignon, Veber's signature character who appears throughout his filmography: a modern innocent, struggling to navigate the cruelty of the world around him.
His list of favorite films includes Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood, A Night at the Opera directed by Sam Wood and Soylent Green directed by Richard Fleischer.
Discover his complete list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/director-list/francis-veber
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]]>Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Japanese director, born in 1978.
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi worked as assistant director before he joined the Tokyo University of the Arts, where one of his professors was Kiyoshi Kurosawa. His graduation film, Passion (2008), gets him immediate acclaim in Japan. He then co-directs a documentary trilogy in which he interviewed witnesses of the 2011 tsunami. He returns to feature film with Happy Hour, released in 2015. This movie, which was the fruit of an artistic residency with non-professional actors, granted him an international recognition that has continued to grow since then. His following movies received numerous awards, such as the 2022 Oscar for Best International Feature Film for for Drive My Car — adapted from a novel by Murakami — and the 2023 Grand Jury Prize in Venice for Evil Does Not Exist. Hamaguchi’s subtle exploration of human feelings tinged with melancholia established him as one of the most important Japanese directors of his time.
Discover his list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/ryusuke-hamaguchi
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
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]]>Discover Xavier Beauvois' influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/xavier-beauvois
His list draws its strength from epic genres such as the western (classic or spaghetti), the war film or the adventure film. These films explore environments under tension, with deleterious systems of power and risk-taking characters in search of independence.
The vast territories explored by the list also include Normandy (from the D-Day beaches to the working-class countryside), the homeland of the director of Nord.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
His filmography: Le Matou (short film, 1986) - North (1991)- Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995) - To Matthieu (2000) - The Young Lieutenant (2005) - Notre ami Chopin (short film, 2009) - Of Gods and Men (2010) - The Price of Fame (2014) - Les Gardiennes (2017) - Albatros (2021)
...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Alice Diop's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/alice-diop
This month, director Alice Diop has compiled a list of films that favours urban explorations, stories of wandering and autobiography. These are all forms that allow us to encounter reality, in its intimate and political aspects, armed with lucidity and poetry.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Her filmography : La Tour du monde (2005) - Clichy pour l'exemple (2005) - Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise (2007) - La Mort de Danton (2011) - La Permanence (2016) - Vers la tendresse (2016) - RER B (2017) - Nous (2021) - Saint Omer (2022)
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Alexandre Astier's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/alexandre-astier
For LaCinetek, Astier revisits the rogue history of French cinema: discover comedies and detective films shaped by Michel Audiard, Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Louis de Funès and the Blier family, father and son. As for Hollywood, Astier takes us into the factory of rebellious heroes: shark hunters for Spielberg, astronauts, thriller investigators caught up in the turmoil of genre films or American political history. All of this with a marked taste for sharp dialogues and settings that give the actors a lot of credit.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Jonás Truebas influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/jonas-trueba
At LaCinetek, this young talent from the Iberian Peninsula guides us along delicate and sunny cinematic paths, woven with subtle romances, hypnotic documentaries, and genre films (westerns, comedies, pirate films...) sublimated into existential quests.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
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]]>Discover Pedro Costa’s influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/pedro-costa
His list of 50 films surveys territories that are both powerfully poetic and anchored in reality, favouring works with parallel economies and assertive styles: from low-budget Hollywood film noir to neo-realist gestures, via the modern essays of Godard, Truffaut or Rivette, to the contemplative investigations of Naruse or Wang Bing.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Elia Suleiman’s influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/elia-suleiman-
This month, director Elia Suleiman shares with us his tragi-comic cinephilia, where characters in search of their identity wander through strange universes: from cold Nordic humor to British nonsense, from period fables (Japanese, French or Italian) to the stylized worlds of modernity (from Antonioni to Claire Denis).
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Claire Simon's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/claire-simon
This month, director Claire Simon has compiled a list of films that are resolutely humanistic and that shed light on the beauty of the world as well as its dangers.
Like her career, her 50 favorite films blur the line between fiction and documentary. The fictions are political and documented and the documentaries probe the myths and legends of ordinary life.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Her focumentaries : Les Patients (1989) - Récréations (1992) - At all costs (1995) - 800 km de différence/Romance (2000) - Mimi (2002) - Géographie humaine (2013) - Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits (2016) - Le Concours (2016) - Premières solitudes (2018) - Le Fils de l'épicière, le Maire, le Village et le Monde (2020)
Her fiction movies : Sinon, oui (1997) - Ça, c'est vraiment toi (1999) - Ça brûle (2006) - Les Bureaux de Dieu (2008) -Gare du Nord (2013) - Vous ne désirez que moi (2021)
...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Miguel Gomes's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/miguel-gomes
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : The Face You Deserve (2004) – Our Beloved Month of August (2008) – Tabu (2012) – Arabian Nights (2015) – The Tsugua Diaries (2021)
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Corneliu Porumboiu's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/corneliu-porumboiu-27
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : 12h08 East of Bucharest (2006) – Police, adjective (2009) – When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013) – The Second Game (2013) – The Treasure (2015) – Football infini (2018) – The Whistlers (2019)
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Yann Gonzalez's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/yann-gonzalez
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography :
Short :
By the Kiss (2006) – Intermission (2007) – I Hate You Little Girls (2008) – Three Celestial Bodies (2009) – We Will Never Be Alone Again (2012) – Land of my dreams (2012) – Islands (2017) – Fou de Bassan (2021)
Feature Movies :
You and the Night (2013) – Knife+Heart (2018)
...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Alain Guiraudie's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/alain-guiraudie
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography :
Medium-length film :
Sunshine for the Poor (2001) – That Old Dream That Moves (2001)
Feature film :
No Rest for the Brave (2003) – Voici venu le temps (2005) – The King of Escape (2009) – Stranger by the Lake (2013) – Staying Vertical (2016) – Nobody's Hero (2021)
...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Gérard Krawczyk's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/gerard-krawczyk
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : I hate actors (1986) – Summer on a gentle slope (1987) – Héroïnes (1997) – Taxi 2 (2000) – Wasabi (2001) – Taxi 3 (2003) – Fanfan la Tulipe (2003) – It's Our Life! (2005) – Taxi 4 (2007) – The Red Inn (2007) – Taxi: Brooklyn (2014)
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Jean-Pierre Bekolo's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005: www.lacinetek.com/director-list/jean-pierre-bekolo
Exclusive February's list ! Each month LaCinetek reveal's the influences of a director. This month the list of Jean-Pierre Bekolo explores sub-Saharan, Caribbean and African-American cultures and cinematographies. We also find an attraction for the cinema of the East, Europe and Hollywood, privileging social subjects treated with style, inventiveness and dreaminess.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Quartier Mozart (1992) - Le Complot d'Aristote (1996) - La Grammaire de grand-mère (1996) - Les Saignantes (2005) - Imagine Afrika (2007) - Le Président (2013) - Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe (2015) - Naked Reality (2016) - Afrique, la Pensée en Mouvement (2017) - Miraculous Weapons (2017) - Our Wishes (2020).
...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover John Woo's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/john-woo
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Tie han rou qing (1974) - Nu zi tai quan qun ying hui (1975) - Princess Chang Ping (1976) - - Shao Lin men (1976) - Fa qian han (1977) - Da sha xing yu xiao mei tou (1978) - Ha luo, ye gui ren (1978) – Hao xia (1979) - Qian zuo guai (1980) - Hua ji shi dai (1981) - Mo deng tian shi (1982) - Ba cai Lin Ya Zhen (1982) - Xiao jiang (1985) - Liang zhi lao hu (1985) - Ying hung boon sik (1986) - Ying xiong wu lei (1986) - Ying hung boon sik II (1987) - Dip huet seung hung (1989) - Yi dan qun ying (1989) - Die xue jie tou (1990) - Zong heng si hai (1991) - Lat sau san taam (1992) – Hard Target (1993) - Broken Arrow (1996) - Face/Off (1997) - Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) - Windtalkers (2002) – Paycheck (2003) - All the Invisible Children - "Song Song and Little Cat" (2005) – Chi bi (2008) - Chi bi: Jue zhan tian xia (2009) - The Crossing (2014) - The Crossing 2 (2015) – Manhunt (2015)
...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Christian Rouaud's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/christian-rouaud
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Allez les petits (1991) – Retour au quartier nord (1992) – Bagad (1994) – Quel chantier ! (1997) – Histoires de paysans (2002) – La bonne longueur pour les jambes (2002) – Paysan et Rebelle, un portrait de Bernard Lambert (2002) – Bretana (2003) – Dans la maison radieuse (2004) – L'Homme dévisagé (2005) – L'Eau, la Terre et le Paysan (2006) – LIP : The LIP factor - Imagination in power (2007) – Le Grand Dédé (2009) – Larzac (2011) – Avec Dédé (2013)
...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Cristian Mungiu's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/cristian-mungiu
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : West (2002) – 4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile) (2007) – Tales from the Golden Age (Amintiri Din Epoca de Aur) (2009) – Beyond the hills (După dealuri) (2012) – Graduation (2016)
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Paul Vecchiali's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/paul-vecchiali
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Les Petits drames (1961) – Les Ruses du diable (1965) – L’Étrangleur (1972) – Femmes Femmes (1974) –Change pas de main (1975) – La Machine (1977) – Corps à cœur (1978) – That's Life (1980) – At the Top of the Stairs (1983) – Trous de mémoire (1984) – Rosa la rose, fille publique (1985) – Once More (1987) – The Guys in the Cafe (1988) – Wonderboy (1994) – Zone franche (1996) – Love Reinvented (1996) – À vot’ bon cœur (2004) – Bareback ou la guerre des sens (2005) – Et + si @ff (2006) – …Et tremble d’être heureux (2007) – Humeurs et Rumeurs (2008) – Les Gens d’en-bas (2010) – Retour à Mayerling (2011) – Faux Accords (2013) – Nuits blanches sur la jetée (2015) – C’est l’amour (2015) – Le Cancre (2016) – Les Sept Déserteurs ou la guerre en vrac (2017) – Train de vies ou les voyages d’Angélique (2018) – Un soupçon d’amour (2019)
...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Lodge Kerrigan's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/lodge-kerrigan
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Clean, Shaven (1994) – Claire Dolan (1998) – Keane (2004) – Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (2010) – The Girlfriend Experience (série TV) (2016)
...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Ira Sachs' influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/ira-sachs
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Wild Target (1993) – The Apprentices (1995) – White lies (1997) – The Sandmen (2000) – Après vous… (2003) – Priceless (2006) – Beautiful lies (2010) – In the courtyard (2014) – The Trouble with You (2018)
...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Christian Petzold's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : whttps://www.lacinetek.com/director-list/christian-petzold-7
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Contrôle d’identité (2000) – L’Ombre de l’enfant (2003) – Fantômes (2005) – Yella (2007) – Jerichow (2009) – Barbara (2012) – Phoenix (2014) – Transit (2018) – Ondine (2020)
...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Jerry Schatzberg's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/jerry-schatzberg
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) – The Panic in Needle Park (1971) – Scarecrow (1973) – Sweet Revenge (1976) – The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) – Show Bus (1980) – Misunderstood (1984) – No Small Affair (1984) – Street Smart (1987) – Reunion (1989) – The Day the Ponies Come Back (2001)
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Guillaume Nicloux's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/guillaume-nicloux
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Les Enfants volants (1990) – Faut pas rire du bonheur (1994) – Le Poulpe (1998) – A Private Affair (2002) – That Woman (2003) – Le Concile de pierre (2006) – The Key (2007) – Holiday (2010) – The Nun (2013) – The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014) – Valley of Love (2015) – The End (2016) – To the Ends of the World (2018) – Thalasso (2019)
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover William Friedkin's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/william-friedkin
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Good Times (1967) – The Birthday Party (1968) – The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) – The Boys in the Band (1970) – French Connection (1971) – The Exorcist (1973) – Sorcerer (1977) – The Brink's Job (1978) – Cruising (1980) – Deal of the Century (1983) – To Live and Die in L.A (1985) – Rampage (1987) – The Guardian (1990) – Blue Chips (1994) – Jade (1995) – Rules of Engagement (2000) – The Hunted (2003) – Bug (2006) – Killer Joe (2011)
...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Mahamat Saleh Haroun's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/mahamat-saleh-haroun-59
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Bye Bye Africa (1999) – Abouna (2002) – Daratt (2006) – A Screaming Man (2010) – Grigris (2013) – Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy (2016) – A Season in France (2017) – Lingui (2021)
...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Patricia Mazuy's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005: www.lacinetek.com/director-list/patricia-mazuy
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography : Thick Skinned (1988) – Des Taureaux et des vaches (1992) – Travolta et moi (TV) (1993) – La finale (TV) (1996) – The King's Daughters (2000) – Basse Normandie (2004) – Sport de filles (2012) – Paul Sanchez est revenu ! (2018)
...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Discover Bruno Podalydès' influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005: www.lacinetek.com/director-list/bruno-podalydes
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
Filmography :
Medium-length movie
Versailles rive gauche (1992) – Voilà (1994)
Full-length movie
1998 : Only God Sees Me (1998) – Freedom-Oléron (2001) – The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003) – The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005) – Park Benches (2009) – Granny's Funneral (2012) – The Sweat Escape (2015) – Bécassine (2018) – French Tech (2020)
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>It’s very easy. Just go to the website, order a film, and start watching. Yes, that’s it—under “My Account,” “My Films”... Even Liliane Rovère can do it! And it’s worth it—you’ll even find The Passion of Joan of Arc! By Dreyer? By Dreyer!
To discover LaCinetek’s offers, visit: www.lacinetek.com/nos-offres
]]>Citizen Kane by Orson Welles is listed by 17 filmmakers on LaCinetek:
Martin Scorsese
François Truffaut
Stanley Kubrick
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jacques Doillon
Christophe Gans
James Gray
Cédric Klapisch
Cristian Mungiu
Jerry Schatzberg
Bertrand Blier
Atom Egoyan
Todd Haynes
Corneliu Porumboiu
Jaco Van Dormael
Paul Schrader
Pete Docter
"Rosebud" will be the last word of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper magnate who has just taken his last breath in his Xanadu mansion. Journalist Jerry Thompson is hired to reconstruct the billionaire's biography and, above all, to uncover the meaning of this mysterious "Rosebud."
Notes: Citizen Kane is the first film directed by Orson Welles, who was 25 years old at the time. Inspired by the life of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Citizen Kane also resonates with the life of its director. Orphaned at the age of 6, Welles himself became the heir to a vast fortune. He was haunted throughout his life by a sense of guilt, which would later give rise to another of his masterpieces: The Trial.
Watch great films handpicked by directors on LaCinetek.
]]>"In France, cooking is both an art form and a national sport."—Julia Child, American chef
In December, LaCinetek goes all out!
As the holidays approach, we invite you to indulge in all the pleasures of the table, from Tokyo to Bombay, from New York to Paris. On the menu: a variety of culinary know-how, the precision of service gestures, or the social aspect of a meal that loosens tongues and encourages encounters. From everyday cooking to fine dining, from take-away to a simple café, ten films to whet your appetite, at the risk of literally having eyes bigger than your stomach.
The films in the subscription this month:
Julie & Julia directed by Nora Ephron (2009)
The Lunchbox directed by Ritesh Batra (2013)
Sweet Bean directed by Naomi Kawase (2015)
Babette’s Feast directed by Gabriel Axel (1987)
Eat Drink Man Woman directed by Ang Lee (1994)
Waiter! directed by Claude Sautet (1983)
My Dinner with Andre directed by Louis Malle (1981)
Family Resemblances directed by Cédric Klapisch (1996)
Coffee and Cigarettes directed by Jim Jarmusch (2003)
Bagdad Cafe directed by Percy Adlon (1987)
If, like François Civil, you're a fan of hot tears — the type to watch films that tear your soul apart and empty your tissue boxes — we highly recommend following Souheila Yacoub's advice and rushing to watch Imitation of Life by Douglas Sirk on LaCinetek.
Discover LaCinetek’s offers here: https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/ways-to-watch
]]>Her list of favorite films includes Incendies directed by Denis Villeneuve, Bright Star directed by Jane Campion and 8 Mile directed by Curtis Hanson.
French director born in 1955 in Paris.
Yolande Zauberman began her career alongside Amos Gitai before directing her first film, Classified People (1987). This documentary about apartheid, shot clandestinely in South Africa, already outlines the contours of her cinema: Zauberman has continually questioned the absurdity of oppressive political situations through their impact on the intimacy of individuals. Confronting taboos and silences—particularly in M, winner of the César for Best Documentary Film in 2019, where she addresses sexual abuse within the Orthodox Jewish community—she has created a body of work of profound humanity, broadcast and awarded worldwide. The relationships between communities or individuals living in the same space without sharing the same beliefs or views are at the heart of both her fiction and documentary films, from Ivan & Abraham (1993) to Would You Have Sex With an Arab? (2011). Her films are portraits of marginalized people, such as La Belle de Gaza (2024), which follows the journey of young Palestinian trans individuals in Tel Aviv.
Discover her full list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/yolande-zauberman
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]]>Michel Legrand on Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TjWPi0J2yII
Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand hits French cinemas today, do not miss it!
Watch Beauty and the Beast on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/beauty-and-the-beast-jean-cocteau-vod
Beauty and the Beast is recommended by Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Pascale Ferran, Christophe Gans, Jerry Schatzberg, Agnès Jaoui, Jaco Van Dormael and Francis Veber.
]]>Still looking for the perfect Christmas gift? Love sharing your favorite films with friends and family? By the way, have you seen Ugetsu? No?! Don’t worry—it’s on LaCinetek! And we promise, if you haven’t watched it yet, we won’t tell Camille Cottin...
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]]>Mulholland Drive by David Lynch is listed by 15 filmmakers on LaCinetek:
Bertrand Bonello
Cédric Klapisch
Alain Guiraudie
Park Chan-wook
Maren Ade
Christian Petzold
Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu
Lukas Dhont
Albert Dupontel
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Patrice Leconte
Joanna Hogg
Michael Haneke
A brunette woman wanders through Hollywood at night, lost and shocked after a car accident. She seeks refuge in a house she believes to be uninhabited. Betty, a naive actress who has just arrived in the city, comes to settle there and discovers the young accident victim, who is clearly amnesiac. Together, they try to uncover the true identity of the woman who has chosen "Rita" as her name.
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]]>His list of favorite films includes The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming, Train of Shadows by José Luis Guerín, and Céline and Julie Go Boating by Jacques Rivette.
Portuguese director, born in Lisbon in 1972.
Miguel Gomes, winner of the Best Director prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, sees his latest film Grand Tour hit French cinemas today.
Until December 3rd, his 2012 masterpiece Tabu is also available with your LaCinetek subscription, featured among Payal Kapadia's 50 favorite films.
After studying at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School, Miguel Gomes began his career as a film critic for the newspaper Público. Starting in 1999, he directed several short films before making his feature film debut in 2004 with The Face You Deserve, a story about a thirty-year-old man who refuses to grow up. He then made Our Beloved Month of August (2008), a work blending fiction and documentary that portrays life in a small mountain village. In 2012, Tabu, a melancholic poem and homage to Murnau, won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and introduced him to international audiences. Arabian Nights, a three-part film, loosely tells the story of the austerity years that plagued Portugal, presented as a tale. The film was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2015. He returned to the Directors’ Fortnight in 2021 with The Tsugua Diaries, a film shot during lockdown in a country house in Portugal during the health crisis. After a journey across various Asian countries in the spring of 2023, he shot Grand Tour, partially on 16mm film.
]]>His list of favorite films includes Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis, Rififi by Jules Dassin, and Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino.
French director, born in Paris in 1967.
A graduate of the École des Arts de Cergy-Pontoise, Michel Hazanavicius began his career in 1988 as a scriptwriter for Canal+, working notably with the comedy group Les Nuls. He made his directorial debut in 1992 with parodic television films such as Derrick contre Superman and La classe américaine, as well as advertising campaigns.
In 1999, he directed his first feature film, Sitcom, A Movie, and gained widespread recognition with OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) and its sequel OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009), both critical and commercial hits. His 2011 film The Artist marked a career milestone, winning numerous international awards, including five Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Jean Dujardin.
Hazanavicius's recent work includes The Search (2014), Godard Mon Amour (2017), and Final Cut (2022), as well as his latest film, The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024). All of them were selected in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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]]>"What photography reproduces to infinity has only occurred once." —Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
In November, the films in this selection are capturing you!
In the game of the photographer being photographed, cinema reigns supreme. Characters armed with cameras populate the history of the seventh art, offering a mise en abyme of the filmmakers’ gaze. They expose the craft of framing and the challenges of perspective, even turning their lenses on the audience, reversing the dynamic of who watches whom. Like cinema, photography captures reality while unlocking the doors to imagination. It seizes the present moment, transforming it into traces that become memories or specters.
The films in the subscription this month:
Model Shop directed by Jacques Demy (1969)
Alice in the Cities directed by Wim Wenders (1974)
The Magic Box directed by John Boulting (1951)
The Salt of the Earth directed by Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado (2014)
Distant directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2002)
Delirious directed by Tom DiCillo (2006)
The Strange Case of Angelica directed by Manoel de Oliveira (2010)
Ulysse directed by Agnès Varda (1982)
Finding Vivian Maier directed by John Maloof & Charlie Siskel (2013)
City of God directed by Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund (2002)
Alix's Pictures directed by Jean Eustache (1980)
His list of favorite films includes It Happened One Night by Frank Capra, Blood Simple by Joel Coen, and Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero.
French director, born in Paris in 1952.
After studying literature (he considered a career as a teacher), Jacques Audiard turned to cinema. He began as an assistant on Roman Polanski's The Tenant and Patrice Chéreau's Judith Therpauve. He then worked as an editor before becoming a recognized screenwriter. His directorial debut in 1994 with See How They Fall, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Mathieu Kassovitz, earned him the César for Best First Film in 1994. His second film, A Self-Made Hero, is an adaptation of Jean-François Deniau's novel. He followed with Read My Lips, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Prophet, and Rust and Bone, each of which won numerous international awards and enjoyed great public success. The same is true for his more recent films: Dheepan won the Palme d’Or in 2015, the Western The Sisters Brothers earned him the César for Best Director in 2019, and in 2021, Paris, 13th District was in competition at Cannes.
In 2024, he won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Emilia Pérez, as well as the Best Actress Award for the ensemble cast, including Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz.
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]]>Discover an exclusive video of Reda Kateb on Diabolique by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
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]]>His list of favorite films includes Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki, and Lost Highway by David Lynch.
French comic book artist and director, born in Paris in 1978.
Passionate about comics since childhood, Riad Sattouf first attended an applied arts school before joining the prestigious Gobelins school, where he focused on animation. It was ultimately through comic books such as Pascal Brutal that he gained recognition in the early 2000s. The exploration of adolescence, already at the heart of his series La Vie secrète des jeunes, which was published for nearly 10 years in Charlie Hebdo, would later be reflected in his first feature film The French Kissers (2009), which introduced actor Vincent Lacoste. A huge success both commercially and critically, the film allowed Sattouf to develop new projects, including web series, before directing his second feature film: Jacky in the Kingdom of Women (2014).
He then returned to comics, focusing on a more autobiographical angle with L’Arabe du futur, a series about his childhood in Libya and Syria. The series, which currently consists of five volumes, has achieved immense international success and won numerous awards. In parallel, Sattouf also draws and publishes Les Cahiers d’Esther, which chronicles the life of a middle school girl, later adapted into an animated series for Canal+.
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]]>Guillaume Brac on Superbad by Greg Mottola: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYm0Cp_CFQ
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Guillaume Brac's list of favorite films is on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/lacinetek/list/guillaume-bracs-list-of-50-films/
]]>Portraits of major political figures who have shaped the history of the United States (from Abraham Lincoln to Harvey Milk), behind-the-scenes glimpses of state institutions, collusions between journalists and politicians, influences of espionage networks, military dystopias, or activist actions: as the American elections approach, LaCinetek offers you a selection of films to explore the representations of political life across the Atlantic from various angles, like pieces of a tumultuous national narrative.
We've added the name of a director recommending each film, though many others have listed them as favorites. Discover them all on LaCinetek: https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/selection/elections-americaines
Making an American Citizen by Alice Guy-Blaché, recommended by FPA Classics
Abraham Lincoln by D.W. Griffith, recommended by Pedro Costa
Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, recommended by Martin Scorsese
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Frank Capra, recommended by Pete Docter
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by John Ford, recommended by Agnès Jaoui
Advise & Consent by Otto Preminger, recommended by Robert Guédiguian
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Stanley Kubrick, recommended by James Gray
Three Days of the Condor by Sydney Pollack, recommended by Christian Petzold
All the President’s Men by Alan J. Pakula, recommended by Diane Kurys
Missing by Costa-Gavras, recommended by Patricia Mazuy
The Times of Harvey Milk by Rob Epstein, recommended by John Cameron Mitchell
Citizenfour by Laura Poitras, recommended by Ira Sachs
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]]>On the occasion of the release of Sean Baker's latest film, Anora (Palme d'Or 2024), which tells the story of a romance between a young sex worker and the son of a Russian oligarch, LaCinetek invites you to explore various representations of what has been called 'the world's oldest profession.' From clichés to realism, these films question the place given to sex workers. Their portrayal also serves as a mirror held up to society, reflecting the dynamics that run through it and the appearances it tends to present.
We've added the name of a director recommending each film, though many others have listed them as favorites. Discover them all on LaCinetek: https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/selection/le-plus-vieux-metier.
Le Plaisir by Max Ophüls, recommended by Stanley Kubrick
Elena and Her Men by Jean Renoir, recommended by François Truffaut
Street of Shame by Kenji Mizoguchi, recommended by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini, recommended by Bong Joon-ho
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs by Mikio Naruse, recommended by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Mamma Roma by Pier Paolo Pasolini, recommended by Chantal Akerman
Belle de Jour by Luis Buñuel, recommended by James Gray
Funeral Parade of Roses by Toshio Matsumoto, recommended by Ira Sachs
Deep End by Jerzy Skolimowski, recommended by Céline Sciamma
Klute by Alan J. Pakula, recommended by Christian Petzold
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Chantal Akerman, recommended by Lukas Dhont
American Gigolo by Paul Schrader, recommended by Christophe Honoré
Lola by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, recommended by Todd Haynes
Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders, recommended by Agnès Varda
Leaving Las Vegas by Mike Figgis, recommended by Jacques Audiard
Claire Dolan by Lodge Kerrigan, recommended by Rebecca Zlotowski
Flowers of Shanghai by Hou Hsiao-hsien, recommended by Bertrand Bonello
All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar, recommended by Cristian Mungiu
Mysterious Skin by Gregg Araki, recommended by Xavier Dolan
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]]>Discover an exclusive video of Park Chan-wook on Don't Look Now by Nicolas Roeg.
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His list of favorite films includes Millennium Mambo by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Two Weeks in Another Town by Vincente Minnelli, and Zodiac by David Fincher.
French director, born in Nice in 1968.
A professional musician, he accompanied artists such as Françoise Hardy or Daniel Darc in the 1990s, while directing his first short films. His first feature film, Something Organic, was presented at the Panorama du Festival de Berlin in 1998. His next film, The Pornographer, obtained the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes in 2001. Tiresia (2003) and On War (2008) followed, along with an acclaimed short film, Cindy: The Doll is Mine, in which Asia Argento played a character inspired by Cindy Sherman. In 2011, House of Tolerance (in competition at Cannes) received wide critical acclaim. Saint Laurent, based on the life of the fashion designer, was selected at Cannes in 2014 and obtained ten César nominations. His latest films, Nocturama (2016), Zombi Child (2019), Coma (2022) and The Beast (2023) have all been screened in numerous festivals and received several nominations.
In 2024, Bertrand Bonello was the first director to present one of his favorite films, Millennium Mambo, for LaCinetek's Film Club in Paris, France.
Discover his full list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/bertrand-bonello
]]>With the release of Three Kilometers to the End of the World by Emanuel Pârvu in France, LaCinetek is highlighting Romanian cinema.
A country marked by decades of dictatorship, Romania has seen the rise of a cinema deeply rooted in social critique, often denouncing authority and the customs in place. From Reconstruction by Lucian Pintilie (1968) to The Death of Mr. Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu (2005), these films offer a sharp yet subtle critique, imbued with dark humor, where characters suffer the consequences of abuses of power. It is always the most irrational figures who hold sway, leading to systematic and inevitable injustices. Unfortunately, no way to triumph seems possible, except to leave...
Forest of the Hanged by Liviu Ciulei, recommended by Corneliu Porumboiu
Reconstruction by Lucian Pintilie, recommended by Cristian Mungiu, Corneliu Porumboiu and Alice Rohrwacher
Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica? by Lucian Pintilie, recommended by Corneliu Porumboiu
The Oak by Lucian Pintilie, recommended by Corneliu Porumbioiu, Nicole Garcia, and Michael Hanekle
An Unforgettable Summer by Lucian Pintilie, recommended by Corneliu Porumboiu
The Snails’ Senator by Mircea Danieluc, recommended by Corneliu Porumboiu
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu, recommended by Albert Serra, Maren Ade, Nadav Lapid, Nicolas Philipbert
12:08 East of Bucharest by Corneliu Porumboiu, recommended by Christian Rouaud
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu, recommended by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Saeed Roustaee
Police, adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu, recommended by Maren Ade
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]]>We have been eagerly awaiting them, the films from 2010-2015 are finally here!
The filmmakers associated with LaCinetek have been asked to name their favorite films from this period, the ones they highly recommend to you: a selection of new releases that we will unveil over the coming months.
This first selection reveals beautiful portraits of women, shaping new perspectives on female characters while questioning masculinity. From Turkey to Canada, France, Spain, Germany, and the United States, these films reflect the richness of contemporary cinema, which embraces all genres—from thriller to comedy—to capture or anticipate the changes and aspirations that are stirring the world today.
Blue Is the Warmest Color recommended by Nabil Ayouch
Carol recommended by Catherine Corsini
Julieta recommended by Philippe Garel and Ira Sachs
Ida recommended by Patrice Leconte
Elena recommended by Nicole Garcia
On the Edge recommended by Rebecca Zlotowski
Foxfire recommended by Dominik Moll
Boyhood recommended by Guillaume Brac
Frances Ha recommended by Cédric Klapisch
Laurence Anyways recommended by Nabil Ayouch
Mommy recommended by Emmanuelle Bercot, Nicole Garcia and Nabil Ayouch
Everyone Else recommended by Ira Sachs
Drive recommended by Amat Escalante
Winter Sleep recommended by Riad Sattouf
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia recommended by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Christoph Hochhäusler, Amat Escalante and Riad Sattouf
His list of favorite films includes The Adventures of Pinocchio by Luigi Comencini, Colorado Territory by Raoul Walsh and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vincente Minnelli.
French director born in 1964 in Villefranche de Rouergue.
Born into a farming family, Alain Guiraudie wrote several unpublished novels at a very young age. He then directed several short and mid-length films, including That Old Dream That Moves (2001), presented at the Directors’ Fortnight. Jean-Luc Godard consecrated it as “the best film at Cannes”. Continuing to shoot in his native southwest, Alain Guiraudie directed his first feature film, No Rest for the Brave, in 2003. Time Has Come (2005) and The King of Escape (2009) were to follow. In 2013, Stranger by the Lake was a huge hit. Selected at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, it received the Best Director Award and the Queer Palm. In 2014, he published his first novel Ici commence la nuit with Éditions POL. His most recent film, Misericordia premiered in the Cannes Premiere section and was released in October 2024.
]]>"Theater has the task of representing the movements of the soul, the spirit, the world, and history." Ariane Mnouchkine
In October, LaCinetek shines in the spotlight!
The relationship between the performing arts and screen arts has enriched the history of cinema since its inception, like a game of mirrors between two collective artistic practices that echo the societal issues of their times. The work of acting, the mysterious aspect of interpretation, has often been explored by filmmakers through theatrical rehearsal. However, the stage, where fiction and reality are separated only by a thin curtain of velvet, is also the privileged place for illusions and revealing masks.
The films in the subscription this month:
Molière directed by Ariane Mnouchkine
To Be or Not to Be directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Floating Weeds directed by Yasujirō Ozu
The Girls directed by Mai Zetterling
Gang of Four directed by Jacques Rivette
Esther Kahn directed by Arnaud Desplechin
The Private Life of an Actor directed by Sacha Guitry
Limelight directed by Charlie Chaplin
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d’acteur directed by Jacques Rivette
Casting directed by Arthur Joffé
Discover an exclusive video of Rebecca Marder on Elevator to the Gallows directed by Louis Malle.
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]]>Her list of favorite films includes Love in the Time of Malaria directed by Sanjiv Shah, Unknown Pleasures directed by Jia Zhangke and Cléo from 5 to 7 directed by Agnès Varda.
Payal Kapadia, Indian filmmaker, was born in 1986 in Mumbai.
Payal Kapadia developed an early interest in cinema, particularly experimental cinema, which she discovered at film festivals in Mumbai.
While studying at the Film and Television Institute of India, she experienced her first political engagements. These experiences influenced her first feature film, A Night of Knowing Nothing, for which she received the Golden Eye award at Cannes in 2021, as well as a Special Mention at the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival.
Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the film takes a freeform approach to question the state of the world, playing on the ambiguities of images, echoing the post-truth era. She continues to explore this hybridization in All We Imagine as Light, a diptych fiction infused with documentary elements and an impressionistic dimension. This portrayal of India through the stories of three women won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 2024.
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"Before I met both of you, I never laughed. I made faces like this..."
Catherine/Jeanne goes through three serious pouts before her laughter bursts forth, derailing the flow of images. Cinema becomes a photographic instant, trying to freeze her image like a joyful yet always disappointed hope of capturing the emerging icon.
This happens in Jules et Jim. It's 1962, and the face of French cinema has opalescent eyes and a voice so fatal. This face and voice belong to Jeanne Moreau, who traverses the arts, bringing them closer together, uniting them in their demands and audacity. She embodies dreams while anchoring them in reality, playing on the edge of a raw tone, with an intensity that touches on the poetic.
LaCinetek presents a selection of these debut films that were, at the time, a true cinematic renewal for French cinema.
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Actress:
Elevator to the Gallows directed by Louis Malle
Les Amants directed by Louis Malle
Seven Days… Seven Nights directed by Peter Brook
Jules et Jim directed by François Truffaut
Eva directed by Joseph Losey
Diary of a Chambermaid directed by Luis Buñuel
The Immortal Story directed by Orson Welles
Querelle directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Time to Leave directed by François Ozon
Director:
Lumière directed by Jeanne Moreau
The Adolescent directed by Jeanne Moreau
Lillian Gish directed by Jeanne Moreau
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Discover exclusive interviews with film personalities about some of these films:
Rebecca Marder on Elevator to the Gallows directed by Louis Malle
Cédric Klapisch on Elevator to the Gallows directed by Louis Malle
Wim Wenders on Jules et Jim directed by François Truffaut
]]>His list of favorite films includes Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki, Before Sunset by Richard Linklater and Meet Me in St. Louis by Vincente Minnelli.
A French-American director, born in 1985 in Providence (United States).
A fan of jazz and Jacques Demy’s musicals, Damien Chazelle expresses his passion for music in all of his films. During his film studies at Harvard, he met Justin Hurwitz who became his roommate and later the official composer of his films. Initially intended as his end-of-year thesis, Damien Chazelle directed Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench in 2009, a low-budget musical shot with friends and hailed by the critics. In 2014, he adapted his short film Whiplash into a long version, which won three Oscars and several prizes at the Sundance and Deauville Festivals. Triumph came with La La Land (2016), a musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, which picked up six Oscars including Best Director and Best Original Score, followed by First Man in 2018. He directs The Eddy, a Netflix series set in a Paris jazz club. In 2023, Damien Chazelle is chosen to preside over the Venice Mostra jury.
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]]>In September, LaCinetek confronts you with choices!
While the imagination opens the door wide to possibilities and its many life choices, most of the protagonists in our selection face very real decisions: impossible dilemmas, intimate commitments, tiny, incongruous, or fatal choices.
Ten films to explore the spectrum of decisions that shape our existential journeys.
The films in the subscription this month:
Mr. Nobody directed by Jaco Van Dormael
Only Lover Left Alive directed by Jim Jarmusch
Blind Chance directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Wrong Move directed Wim Wenders
High and Low directed Akira Kurosawa
I Hired a Contract Killer directed Aki Kaurismäki
Mary and Max directed by Adam Elliot
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms
I Knew Her Well directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
Dieu seul me voit (Versailles-Chantiers) - version interminable (6 episodes) directed by Bruno Podalydès
Their list of favorite films includes Tarzan the Ape Man directed by W.S. Van Dyke, That Obscure Object of Desire directed by Luis Buñuel and Sunshine for the Poor directed by Alain Guiraudie
French directors, born in Lourdes in 1966 and 1965 respectively.
Born in the Hautes-Pyrénées, they developed a passion for both the mountains and cinema thanks to their grandfather, an amateur filmmaker. After studying philosophy, they directed numerous short and medium-length films, including Fin d'Eté (1999), and Roland's Pass (2000) featuring Mathieu Amalric, which was selected at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. They would go on to collaborate with the actor in three more feature films, starting with their first, A Man, A Real One (2003). In 2005, To Paint or Make Love starring Daniel Auteuil and Sabine Azéma was selected for the official competition at Cannes. This was followed by Le Voyage aux Pyrénées (Directors' Fortnight, 2008) and Happy End (2009). "Our idea has often been to take actors out of their comfort zones by bringing them to unfamiliar territories, while also disorienting ourselves by watching them evolve in familiar landscapes," they said. They reunited with Amalric for the thriller Love is the Perfect Crime in 2014 and directed 21 Nights with Pattie (2015) starring Karin Viard and Isabelle Carré, which won the screenplay award at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Borrowing from musical comedy and slapstick, they then directed the film Tralala, which was released in 2021. Their latest film, Jim's Story, starring Karim Leklou and Laetitia Dosch is also set in a mountainous landscape that is dear to them.
Discover their complete list on LaCinetek:
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His list of favorite films includes Gentleman Jim directed by Raoul Walsh, La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and The Incredible Shrinking Man directed by Jack Arnold.
French director, born in 1953 in Roanne.
Self-taught, Jean-Pierre Jeunet began his career by directing commercials and music videos for Étienne Daho, Julien Clerc, and Lio. His name has long been associated with Marc Caro, a designer with whom he directed several animated short films, including The Carousel and The Bunker of the Last Gunshots, both of which won awards at numerous festivals. Together, they co-directed their first two feature films, Delicatessen (which won the César Awards for Best First Feature Film and Best Screenplay in 1992) and The City of Lost Children in 1995. He then pursued his career alone in the United States, where he directed Alien: Resurrection. In 2000, he returned to France to direct Amélie, a massive success worldwide. After The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013), Jean-Pierre Jeunet directed a satirical science fiction film, Big Bug, released in 2022.
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John Woo grew up in Hong Kong and began his career as a production assistant at the famous Shaw Brothers studios before directing his first feature film, The Young Dragons (1974). Influenced by traditional Chinese values of chivalry, he directed several martial arts films, including Hand of Death with Jackie Chan. In 1983, he had a pivotal encounter with director Tsui Hark, who produced his A Better Tomorrow trilogy, which became a huge success. Woo then directed The Killer (1989) and Bullet in the Head (1990), which gained him international recognition and admiration from directors like Tarantino and Coppola. After moving to Los Angeles, he directed his first American film, Hard Target, in 1993. This was followed by the thriller Face/Off (1997), starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, and Mission Impossible 2 (2000). Since then, John Woo has alternated between Chinese and American productions.
His list of favorite films includes Rebel Without a Cause directed by Nicholas Ray, The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah and Seven Samurai directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Until September 7th, the Venice Film Festival is in full swing amid the canals of the Serenissima! Experience the festival from home with a selection echoing the films showcased at the Biennale, featuring previous works by the filmmakers competing in the "Venice Classics" program.
Discover this selection on LaCinetek
Filmmakers in competition:
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Shall We Kiss directed by Emmanuel Mouret
Central Station directed by Walter Salles
Fengming: A Chinese Memoir directed by Wang Bing
Filmmakers out of competition:
Fists in the Pocket directed by Marco Bellocchio
Beetlejuice directed by Tim Burton
Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Kadosh directed by Amos Gitai
Fireworks directed by Takeshi Kitano
Videograms of a Revolution directed by Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujică
The Celebration directed by Thomas Vinterberg
La Notte directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
The Gold of Naples directed by Vittorio De Sica
Forbidden Games directed by René Clément
His Girl Friday directed by Howard Hawks
The Big Heat directed by Fritz Lang
Bend of the River directed by Anthony Mann
Ecce Bombo directed by Nanni Moretti
The Soft Skin directed by François Truffaut
Diane Kurys, French filmmaker, was born in 1948 in Lyon.
After beginning her career as an actress, Diane Kurys turned to writing and directing in the late 1970s. Her first film, Peppermint Soda, which reflects on her high school years, won the Louis Delluc Prize and achieved great public success in 1977. Often autobiographical, her films frequently intertwine family history with larger historical contexts through the intimate journeys of her characters (Cocktail Molotov in 1980, Entre Nous in 1983, C'est la Vie in 1990, For a Woman in 2013). Her body of work, comprising around fifteen films that she wrote, directed, and produced, offers strong female characters portrayed by actresses such as Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Nathalie Baye, Juliette Binoche, Sylvie Testud, and Fanny Ardant. She has also portrayed literary figures like George Sand and Françoise Sagan.
Her list of favorite films includes Saturday Night and Sunday Morning directed by Karel Reisz, Every Other Weekend directed by Nicole Garcia and Almost Famous directed by Cameron Crowe.
Discover her complete list on LaCinetek:
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LaCinetek pays tribute to Gena Rowlands, who passed away on August 15th.
Invoke her name, and images emerge from the lights of the night. With Cassavetes, of course, but also with others, notably Jarmusch, she brings the intensity of her performance to the filmmakers she encounters. On screen, she embodies the struggles of women, their daily battles. Faltering, she rises again, developing a unique bodily language. Even the expressions on her face evoke the masks of Greek tragedy to express the torments of the contemporary soul.
Discover a spotlight on some of her most iconic roles on LaCinetek:
https://www.lacinetek.com/selection/hommage-a-gena-rowlands
This focus includes:
- Minnie and Moskowitz directed by John Cassavetes (This film figures in Michael Haneke's list of favorite films)
- Gloria directed by John Cassavetes (This film figures in Akira Kurosawa's list of favorite films)
- Night on Earth directed by Jim Jarmusch (This film figures in Cristian Mungiu’s list of favorite films)
- The Skeleton Key directed by Iain Softley
]]>LaCinetek pays tribute to Alain Delon, who passed away on August 18.
His high standards led him to work with some of the greatest filmmakers of their time, from Antonioni to Godard, from Visconti to Losey.
From an early age, his acting was distinguished by a magnetic presence that would unsettle the compass of cinema. The softness of his facial features could mask emotion, revealing only the shadow of turmoil, sealing secrets and intentions. A boundary actor, he flirted with limits, playing both cop and criminal, always blurring the lines. From Purple Noon, this art of duplicity made him a unique figure on the big screen. The mysterious aura and charm of his silent eloquence—perfectly highlighted by Melville (Le Samouraï, Le Cercle Rouge )—pervades his entire filmography and beyond: this ambivalence is also evident in the blurred line he maintained between his roles and the public persona he created.
Discover a spotlight on some of his most iconic roles on LaCinetek:
https://www.lacinetek.com/selection/hommage-a-alain-delon
This focus includes:
- Purple Noon directed by René Clément (This film figures in Akira Kurosawa's list of favorite films)
- L'Eclisse directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (This film figures in Todd Haynes' list and Dario Argento's list of favorite films)
- Any Number Can Win directed by Henri Verneuil (This film figures in Rebecca Zlotowski's list of favorite films)
- Le Cercle Rouge directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (This film figures in John Woo's list of favorite films)
- Un Flic directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (This films figures in Park Chan-wook's list and Marjane Satrapi's list of favorite films)
- Mr. Klein directed by Joseph Losey (This film figures in Park Chan-wook's list and Christoph Hochhäusler’s list of favorite films)
- Actors directed by Bertrand Blier (This film figures in Alexandre Astier's list of favorite films)
]]>"Je t'aime, moi non plus"
- Serge Gainsbourg
In August, LaCinetek has a racing heart!
Love and marriage don't always go hand in hand, for while the heart has its reasons that reason ignores, marriage is above all a matter of contract. Reconciling the two can sometimes be a challenge, as desires clash with social conventions. Even once an agreement is found, things are not so simple: where fairy tales stop at the edge of marriage, suggesting that it marks the end of adventures, several works take the opposite approach, questioning the sustainability of the couple once they are settled.
Re-negotiating the expectations of the couple is the driving force behind the "comedies of remarriage," dear to Hollywood cinema of the 1940s and 50s. Through various adventures and twists, carried by lively dialogues, the heroes manage to redefine the terms of their relationship. Howard Hawks, a master of the genre, offers us a beautiful example with His Girl Friday (1940).
The evolution of the couple and the art of compromise are not limited to these comedies: in 1952, Yasujirō Ozu also depicts a form of reconciliation in The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, where a couple that is fundamentally different learns to know each other, finding a form of peace in the simplicity celebrated by the Japanese filmmaker. While the starting point of "The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice" is an arranged marriage, the film shifts the stakes around the generational conflict.
This is not the case with Late Marriage (Dover Koshashvili, 2001), which tackles the issue head-on and tragically, deciphering the manipulations and pressures exerted by the family in view of a union that meets their expectations. Zaza, the main character, and the woman he loves face a dilemma: go against his family at the risk of losing all contact or comply with their will and renounce his own aspirations.
With The Wedding Banquet (1993), Ang Lee chooses the tone of comedy to address a similar theme, pushing to the extreme the absurd situations resulting from such family pressures: a young Chinese man immigrated to the United States pretends to be married to a friend to hide his homosexuality from his parents. Events take a different turn when they announce they are coming for the ceremony...
These films clearly show: one of the paradoxes of marriage is that it takes the couple out of the sphere of intimacy, making the relationship "official," and thus compelled to face the scrutiny of others. In Claire's Knee (1970) and Husbands and Wives (1992), love is seen through the eyes of others—an author friend in Éric Rohmer's film, the friends of a couple in crisis struggling with their separation in Woody Allen's. It's not called a love story for nothing: these stories cause gossip, intrigue, and fuel literary narratives and evening conversations.
In a different register, Deep Water (Michel Deville, 1981) reverses this kind of benign voyeurism: adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel, Michel Delville delves into the disturbing relationship between two spouses, the husband observing his wife while she sees other men. Here, it is the outside world that intrudes into the private sphere rather than the other way around, exploring jealousy and other dark impulses as a symptom and driver of love.
The tension between public and private space also translates into critical depictions of society through intimate experiences. It is no coincidence that many of these films focus on female characters, who are more often crushed by expectations and conventions, and sometimes rebel against them, as is the case with Taeko in Ozu's film. This dimension is also found in Hawks' films, in a typical gesture of remarriage comedies, which highlight strong women questioning the place and roles of men: a critique of patriarchy allowed by the seemingly light comedy. The "His Girl Friday" heroine, Hildy, not only manages to express her vision of the couple, but she also fights for her work as a journalist to be recognized at its true value.
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979), too, under its romantic epic guise, is primarily a reading of a world where ideals and love are inevitably corrupted by capitalist society: everything becomes a matter of negotiation, with market value dominating all others. Behind a certain naturalism in the staging, a multitude of genre tones unfolds, creating a kaleidoscopic portrayal of post-war Germany.
Through individual trajectories, Agnès Varda and Ida Lupino come to derail the perfectly oiled mechanics of the marital system. At first glance, their two films are completely opposed: The Bigamist (1953) presents the classic structure of a framed narrative unfolding in flashbacks, with a certain formal sobriety, whereas Le Bonheur (1965) works with color in its material, giving way to a series of symbolic shots, sometimes bordering on abstraction. But the aesthetic sheen of warm tones in "Le Bonheur" barely hides a certain icy dimension of the relationship, which crumbles despite its idyllic appearance. A similar contrast between reality and appearance is found in Lupino's film, where, behind the use of traditional codes, the American filmmaker dissects social conventions, pushing them to an aporia: the one who seeks to act morally to protect his loved ones is ultimately judged much more harshly than those who take advantage of general hypocrisy. Like "The Wedding Banquet," she also offers an alternative vision of the couple and family, one that is more open and liberated.
]]>Six years ago, Martin Scorsese sent a letter to Cédric Klapisch.
In it, the ever-passionate cinephile discusses the choices of films that make up his lists (yes, there are several), available on LaCinetek. He reflects on the challenges inherent in such an exercise, especially when it comes to expressing preferences in cinema.
Never before published in its original form, we are thrilled to share this letter with you today—undoubtedly one of our most treasured gems.
8/8/2018
"Dear Cédric,
As I perform this task, I'm trying to clarify my thinking. This is always a problem for me, no matter what the task. Especially, when it involves stating my preferences in the matter of cinema.
What is a "preference" in the art of cinema? What does it mean? Preferences change with time and according to where you are in your experience. Is it fair or just to attempt to separate those films that shocked you with their beauty and power in the early years of your life from the ones that impressed you at 30? Or 50? Or 72?
The films that overwhelmed and obsessed me during the early years of my life are formative and mind-altering for me, and they became the inspiration and the road to a vocabulary for the films I made. Many of them when I re-experience them, are still a well from which I continue to draw-others are not.
So, is this, finally, a selection of films that were formative for me? That's what I've attempted. But then where does that leave all those films and filmmakers who enriched my life and the work I tried to do as I grew older?
I'm thinking of Frank Borzage, who I "discovered" in 1989. I started searching out as many of his pictures as I could find, I looked at many of them for two years straight, prints and duped videotapes, and I remember being struck- the suddenness of it--by Living on Velvet and I've Always Loved You.
I'm thinking of my long period of fascination with Ozu, over many years, during which the films themselves slowly and gradually taught me how to "see" them.
I'm thinking of Mikio Naruse, a director I'd heard about back in the 70s but whose work I wasn't able to view on a big screen until about a decade ago - a revelation.
And then I'm thinking of mood and preference based on nothing more than the fact that it's a certain day at a certain moment in my life, and I' d like to visit that picture instead of this picture. Take to Jacques Tourneur films: has Out of the Past "influenced" me more than I Walked with a Zombie? Maybe, but sometimes I'd rather spend time with one as opposed to the other, or with The Leopard Man or Cat People, or maybe with a minor picture like Circle of Danger. Or maybe a minor movie made by a lesser director than Tourneur, with
a quality that I miss. In the end, every movie is in conversation with every other movie.
And then there are the Powell-Pressburger pictures, a treasure for me. The Red Shoes was formative, but I saw the other pictures gradually, over the years. Some I saw under less than optimum conditions, like The Tales of Hoffmann, which I saw for the first time on black and white commercial television. Or The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, which I saw only in its truncated version for many years - I only saw the picture as they intended that it be seen in 1985. And it was many years before I saw I Know Where I'm Going or A Canterbury
Tale for the first time. So, discovering the work of Powell and Pressburger has been long unfolding, throughout my whole life.
And then, how do you choose which picture by Orson Welles? Because every time I catch even a glimpse of one of his films, I feel that it might be the best of all of them.
For instance. "F" for Fake, which I "discovered last year, when I was finally, at long last, able to see itcalmly and without preconceptions.
And what about the many films and filmmakers that do not appear on these lists, and that are beloved by me…
So. I tried to make a "formative" list and an alternate list of films, some of which I may love even more than those on the "formative" list.
I'm sure it's all un-fair."
M. Scorsese
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/martin-scorsese-5
His formative list includes Accattone directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages directed by D.W. Griffith, Jules and Jim directed by François Truffaut and Murder by Contract directed by Irving Lerner.
His alternative list includes The Day of the Jackal directed by Fred Zinnemann, Sansho the Bailif directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, Pickpocket directed by Robert Bresson and Vagabond directed by Agnès Varda.
]]>Francis Veber, a French director and screenwriter born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1937.
After working as a journalist, Francis Veber dedicated himself entirely to writing. The public success of one of his early plays, "The Kidnapping" (1968), encouraged him to pursue this path. He then began a career as a screenwriter and penned numerous successful comedies, such as Yves Robert's The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) and Édouard Molinaro's A Pain in the Ass (1973). He soon transitioned to directing with The Toy (1976), and continued his fruitful collaboration with Pierre Richard in La Chèvre (1981) and The ComDads, where the actor formed a duo with Gérard Depardieu. In the 1980s, Francis Veber moved to the United States, working as a script doctor for Disney and directing the American remake of The Fugitives. Upon his return to France, his play The Dinner Game and its film adaptation achieved immense success. In 1999, Jacques Villeret won the César Award for Best Actor for the role of François Pignon, Veber's signature character who appears throughout his filmography: a modern innocent, struggling to navigate the cruelty of the world around him.
His list of favorite films includes Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood, A Night at the Opera directed by Sam Wood and Soylent Green directed by Richard Fleischer.
Discover his complete list on LaCinetek:
https://www.lacinetek.com/director-list/francis-veber
In July, LaCinetek blushes!
The art of makeup, like that of the mask, is as ancient as live performance itself. Its ritual, which physically transforms the actor into their character, is a recurring theme in films about the theater. However, other transformations go far beyond this framework by embracing the rules of genre films.
Ten films to pay tribute to the great makeup artists of cinema and to explore the joys of multiple identities, hybridization, and transformations in plain sight.
The films in the subscription this month:
Marie Antoinette directed by Sofia Coppola
Children of Paradise directed by Marcel Carné
Farewell My Concubine directed by Chen Kaige
Lola directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
On Tour directed by Mathieu Amalric
C.R.A.Z.Y. directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
High Heels directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? directed by William Klein
Tetsuo: The Iron Man directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
The Howling directed by Joe Dante
They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They’s 1,000 Greatest Films project has gradually become one of the most referenced film listings on the internet. It comprises the 1,000 most critically acclaimed films of all time, based on They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They’s calculations (utilising over 16,000 critics and filmmaker lists, including all the filmmaker selections at LaCinetek). Included here is a selection of a mere 30 of these 1,000 titles. They have been chosen fairly randomly, but embody nicely the astonishing quality of cinema through the years. Silent cinema is represented, as are screwball comedies, film noir, 50s melodrama, the Nouvelle Vague, and arthouse cinema.
Discover their selection on LaCinetek: https://www.lacinetek.com/selection/they-shoot-pictures-dont-they
This selection includes Husbands directed by John Cassavetes, Johnny Guitar directed by Nicholas Ray and Mysteries of Lisbon directed by Raúl Ruiz.
]]>Between 1989 and 1999, from Love Without Pity to Human Resources, a new generation of filmmakers emerged in French cinema.
In ten years, initiated by the double critical and public success of Love Without Pity by Éric Rochant (1989) and The Discreet by Christian Vincent (1990), both produced by Alain Rocca at Lazennec, about thirty debut films followed in their wake and were noted for the diversity of their voices, the quality of their direction, or the narrative boldness of their authors. It was also the first time that a generation of filmmakers included so many female directors.
Their cinematic influences – from Pialat to Resnais, from the French New Wave to New Hollywood – were as varied as their training. Organized by friendly archipelagos, unknown to each other, this was not an aesthetic movement but rather an emerging generation, connected by a number of common points.
They were around 35 years old. Most had made notable short films before moving on to their first feature. They were often accompanied by a young producer who also moved from shorts to features with the director whose short films they had initially produced. The youth of these directors, in tune with their times, allowed them to capture the pulse of societal or geopolitical transformations of the period, while also bringing to the fore a new generation of actors and actresses who became their faces.
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Feature Films:
Thick Skinned directed by Patricia Mazuy
The Sentinel directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Sabine directed by Philippe Faucon
Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional directed by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Métisse directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Wild Target directed by Pierre Salvadori
See How They Fall directed by Jacques Audiard
Coming to Terms with the Dead directed by Pascale Ferran
Nobody Loves Me directed by Marion Vernoux
Good Old Daze directed by Cédric Klapisch
Forget Me directed by Noémie Lvovsky
The Sanguinaires directed by Laurent Cantet
Only God Sees Me directed by Bruno Podalydès
Short Films:
Paris Ficelle directed by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Il ne faut jurer de rien directed by Christian Vincent
Comme les doigts de la main directed by Eric Rochant
Présence féminine directed by Eric Rochant
Ce qui me meut directed by Cédric Klapisch
Fierrot le pou directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Le Baiser directed by Pascale Ferran
Ménage directed by Pierre Salvadori
Voilà directed by Bruno Podalydès
Tous à la manif directed by Laurent Cantet
Summer Games directed by Laurent Cantet
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Pascale Ferran on Coming to Terms with the Dead
Cédric Klapisch on Good Old Daze
Jacques Audiard on See How They Fall
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa on Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
]]>Austrian filmmaker, born in Munich in 1942.
The son of actor parents, Michael Haneke studied philosophy, psychology, and the dramatic arts at the University of Vienna. After his début in theatre, where he staged works by Goethe, Kleist, Strindberg, and Duras, he became a television director, then turned to film.
His first feature, The Seventh Continent (1989), inaugurated his Austrian trilogy known as “emotional glaciation”. The filmmaker’s style was already apparent through the X-ray vision of his almost clinical staging of human impulses and feelings. Later, he would endlessly and starkly reveal the violence of the contemporary world, all the better to explore the “ordinary evil” of our societies – from Funny Games to The Piano Teacher, Caché to The White Ribbon. His œuvre, richly endowed with a dozen films, has received the highest honours, including two Palmes d’or at Cannes. In 2012, with Amour, he gave Jean-Louis Trintignant one of his finest roles, who was at that time also at the zenith of his art.
His list of favorite films includes Contempt directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Persona directed by Ingmar Bergman and The Idiots directed by Lars Von Trier.
Discover his complete list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/director-list/michael-haneke
"Work is an elevated, dignified, excellent, and moral thing, but rather tedious in the long run."
- Léon-Paul Fargue, La Lanterne magique
In June, LaCinetek puts its heart into work!
Train conductor, department store salesman, hairdresser, gas station attendant, dockworker… our selection showcases professions that are often underrepresented on screen. The heroes of our 10 films share with us their daily lives, their hopes, or their struggles. Whether the filmmaker's perspective is one of realism, burlesque, or expressionism, it also aims to pay tribute to the beauty of the gestures and skills.
The films in the subscription this month:
Maine-Ocean Express directed by Jacques Rozier
Safety Last! directed by Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor
The Hairdresser's Husband directed by Patrice Leconte
Raining Stones directed by Ken Loach
So Long, Stooge directed by Claude Berri
Le Sabotier du Val de Loire directed by Jacques Demy
The Last Laugh directed by F. W. Murnau
On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan
Moonlighting directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman directed by Helke Misselwitz
British film-maker, born Nuneaton in 1936.
While studying law at Oxford, Loach joined the university theatre company, marking the start of his acting career. He soon moved behind the camera, working for the BBC from the early 1960s. His committed, humanist cinema adopted certain documentary codes to best accompany the social dimension of his work. He won critical and public acclaim with his second feature, Kes (1969), a portrait of a teenager in a small mining town with a passion for falcons. Throughout his career - which includes more than thirty films for the cinema - Loach has endeavoured to give a voice to the underdogs of the contemporary world, while regularly bringing to the screen the history of struggles, such as that of the Irish War of Independence in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, winner of the 2006 Palme d'Or. Ten years later, he won a second Palme d'Or for I, Daniel Blake.
Discover his list on LaCinetek:
https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/la-liste-de/ken-loach-
His list of favorite films includes Loves of a Blonde directed by Miloš Forman, The Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and Take My Eyes directed by Icíar Bollaín.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria)
]]>As part of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, LaCinetek invites you to (re)discover the lists of filmmakers presenting their films in the festival's prestigious selections.
Screening today in Official Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
The Most Precious of Cargoes
Michel Hazanavicius
French film director, born in Paris in 1967.
A graduate of the École d'Arts de Cergy-Pontoise, Michel Hazanavicius began his career in 1988 as a scriptwriter for Canal+, notably for Les Nuls (The Dummies). He switched to directing in 1992, working on spoof programmes and commercials. He worked on the writing of feature films, before directing Sitcom, A Movie, his first film, in 1999. His next two films, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and its sequel OSS 117: Lost in Rio, were major public and critical successes. Then, in 2011, he directed The Artist, which won numerous international awards, including the Oscars for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for Jean Dujardin. His next three films each made an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival: The Search (2014) and Godard, Mon Amour (2017) were presented in Official Competition, and Final Cut! opened the 2022 edition.
(Re)Discover his list: https://www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/michel-hazanavicius
His list of favorite films includes War of the Buttons directed by Yves Robert, Shrek directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson and The Getaway directed by Sam Peckinpah.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
]]>As part of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, LaCinetek invites you to (re)discover the lists of filmmakers presenting their films in the festival's prestigious selections.
Screening today in Official Competition at the Palais des Festivals: Grand Tour
Miguel Gomes
Portuguese director, born in Lisbon in 1972.
After studying at the Higher School of Theatre and Cinema in Lisbon, Miguel Gomes began his career as a film critic for the daily newspaper Público. From 1999 onwards, he directed several short films before moving on to feature films in 2004 with The Face You Deserve, the story of a thirty-year-old man who refuses to grow up. This was followed by Our Beloved Month of August (2008), a blend of fiction and documentary that depicts the life of a small mountain village. In 2012, Tabu, a melancholy poem and homage to Murnau, won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin Festival and brought him to international attention. Arabian Nights, in three parts, tells a very free tale of the years of austerity that plagued Portugal. The film was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes in 2015. He returns to the Fortnight in 2021 with The Tsugua Diaries, a film shot in confinement in a country house in Portugal during the health crisis. After a trip to various Asian countries in spring 2023, he shot Grand Tour, partly in 16mm.
(Re)Discover his list: https://www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/miguel-gomes
His list of favorite films includes The Fog directed by John Carpenter, Train of Shadows directed by José Luis Guerín and Detour directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).
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