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first: samurai rules... I sound like a kid. [smile] and I'm not ... I saw when they release them at the movie theatre: Jaws, Midway, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones... some James Bond... I�ve been a fan of movies for years, and getting to have my own collection of movies is a hobby and even more, It is a sickness that I have. Hey, don't worry being broke is a great cure... And to have this collection at home is great also, you want to watch a movie? You just pick it from the shelves. Though lately, I tend to rewatch lighter film... Also attending regularly to discussions about movies with friends, who are writing for a living on that subject. Contributes to feed this passion.
Comme genre j'aime mieux les : films anim� ou d'animations, pour l'aspect r�ve, l'originalit�, le choc culturel pour les anim�s films de guerre pour la camaraderie, l'action, aussi les films d'espionages et de guerre froide, j'aime bien le suspense et le code d'honneur que les espions (dans les films, j'entend) avaient les Westerns pour les chevaux, la nature, les duels, les valeurs v�hicul�s ou pas, Samurai j'aime bien voir un duel de samourai. Dommage que je ne connaisse pas le Japonnais.
A top 10 list is always subject to change, because we are changing as well so this list is from 2004.
mes meilleurs / pr�f�r�s: Top 5 Films:1 Il �tait une fois dans l�ouest (C�era una volta il West) 2 Casablanca 3 The Godfather trilogy 4 Nuevo cinema Paradiso 5 Yojimbo
Also special mention to movies I watch often: (in order) The Hunt for Red October Groundhog day Grumpy Old Man Porco Rosso Annie Hall & Radio Days As good as it gets Three days of the condor Amadeus Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) The Sting Jeremiah Johnson Leolo All the president's men Die Hard Band of Brothers Nobody's Fool About a boy Love actually Being there Zatoichi to Yojimbo High Fidelity Grosse Pointe Blank Four weddings and a funeral A Christmas Story Broadcast News Without a Clue
The Lord of the Ring trilogy I realize that I've watch it only once, since I have it on DVD. It's too long... maybe. Great movies but I don't watch it. [sad]
what I've appreciated lately :
In 2008:
3:10 to Yuma
Juno
The Hidden blade
Before the devil knows your dead
Dan in the real life
Mon meilleur ami
In 2007:
The Queen
Eastern promises
Weeds, Jericho (tv show)
Le couperet
You kill me
In 2006:
Children of men
The departed
Inside man
Le labyrinthe de pan
The oh in Ohio
Thank you for smoking
V for Vendetta
in 2005 I appreciated :
The cooler
HBO/BBC's Rome
Pieces of April
[popcorn]
Les films anim�s, dessins anim�s a voir:
Tous les dessins des studios Ghibli, Aussi les dessins anim�s de l'ONF sont aussi originals.Voici une liste des films que j'ai vu que je pr�f�re.
Spirited Away (l'histoire, les personnages, le monde magique, les effets de transparences) Akira (la qualit� est encore l� malgr� qu'il est �t� fait en 1988) Porco Rosso (le film d'anim� que j'ai vu le plus souvent avec ces th�mes sur la libert�, la simplicit� de la vie... La version francaise est excellente avec Jean Reno et Merci Disney de l'avoir inclus dans le DVD.) Les douzes travaux d'Ast�rix (ceci me rappelle les noels d'antans ou on avait � tous les soir sur T�l�-Qu�bec Cin�-Cadeau... confidence ca existe encore de nos jours et c'est toujours un plaisir de revoir les films d'Ast�rix. Celui-ci est mon pr�f�r� de la s�rie. How the grinch stole Christmas (parlant de Noel, la voix de Boris Karloff en fait un classique parmi les classiques, malheureusement j'ai connu ce film qu'une fois adulte. vaut mieux tard que jamais. ) Lucky Luke, Daisy Town (m�me concept que les films d'Ast�rix pendant le cong� de Noel. Celui est mon pr�f�r� de tous les films, tenez-vous loin de l;a s�rie t�l� contrairement � Tintin la s�rie t�l� est vraiment poche.) Tintin (la s�rie t�l� est inspir� des films et la qualit� de l'animation est tr�s proche des films) Studio Ghibli : Porco Rosso Nausicaa de la vall�e du vent Tenku no shiro Laputa /Castle in the sky Spirited Away / Sen to Chiriho no kamikashi Kiki's delivery My neighbor Totoro Princess Monoke / Mononoke Hime Grave of the fireflies Only Yesterday / Omohide poro poro Whisper of the heart Pom Poko the Yamadas The Cat return Owl's castle Those are the ones I know from the studio Ghibli Hopefully, I'll discovers the rest of them so far none of them have disapointed me.
L'homme qui plantait des arbres de Fr�d�ric Back (Un excellent film po�tique en faite toute la production de M. Back est de la grande animation) Les Triplettes de Belleville
Voici ceux de Disney qui m'ont marqu�s Blanche Neige et les sept nains / Snow White and the seven dwarf (I love the fact that in those days they translated the signs drawns on the screens. I have a copy on VHS that have all the names of the dwarfs written in french on their bed board... I'm treasuring it. The level of details, such as translating the images, was much higher in thoses days. If they did it in french, they must have done it in other languages as well. This is on VHS tape, will we have this on DVD or even Blu-ray I don't think so, now the edition are not too regional but there is only one edition for a continent if not the world) Le livre de la Jungle / The Jungle Book (pour les chansons et baloo) Aladdin (Robin Williams dans le g�nie est justement g�nial) La belle au bois dormant / Sleeping beauty (1959 et la m�chante Maleficente est vraiment m�chante :) Alice aux pays des merveilles / Alice in Wonderland (quelles sont tous les sous-entendus du films, il doit y en avoir des tonnes.) Winnie l'ourson / Winnie the Poe (un jour il va falloir que je lise les livres) Bambi Cendrillon / Cinderella Fantasia Pinochio Peter Pan la belle et le clochard other studios The Incredibles Bugs Life Antz (pour entendre Woody Allen se plaindre ... en fourmi commence bien le film) Monster Inc. Shrek (quelle belle id�e de jouer sur les vieux contes et en utilis� les personnages ) Chicken Run, Haunted house, Over the edge, Flushed away Ratatouille
Ghost in the shell Ghost in the shell 2 : Inosensu (wow ce fut vraiment quelques choses � voir sur le petit �cran j'aurais aim� voir ca sur le grand �cran) Parlant de Ghost in the shell : Stand alone project est excellent mais revenont aux films Jin-Roh: The wolf Brigade (l'histoire est int�ressante et ressort de ce que l'on voit normalement + politique) Blood: the last vampire (la texture est vraiment bien mais a �t� d�pass�e maintenant le film est trop court ) Vampire Hunter D; Bloodlust Memories (parlant de court , ce sont trois court m�trages qui sont excellent, j'ai chercher mais je n'ai pas de pr�f�r�, mais the Stink bomb est pas mal dr�le.) Millenium Actress Ninja scroll (pour l'action, mais il faut prendre en consid�ration la date de sortie car l'animation a mal vieilli.) Steamboy Spriggan
Une mention sp�ciale pour Les Looney Tunes Mon excuse est qu'ils �taient pr�sent�s dans les cin�ma avant de devenir des �missions de t�l�. Who framed Roger Rabbit
Voici ceux que je me rappelle... et que j'aime il va falloir que je les mettent en ordre de pr�f�rence et ca c'est pas fait... [smile]
serie anime que j'aime Ghost in the shell; Stand alone complex Cowboy Bebop Last Exile Samurai Champloo Witch Hunter Robin Berserk Noir Love Hina Neon Genesis Evangelion Hellsing Genshiken Samurai 7 Peacemaker Serial Experiments Lain Wolf's Rain Fullmetal Alchemist Samurai Deeper Kyo Crying Freeman
Series that i've just started: Gilgamesh Hyper Police Nadia: the secret of the blue water
Lately animated movies are too commercial, (I don't blame them for wanting to make money) but besides movies like haunted house or even over the edge, I've grown detach from my favorite medium; please just leave the penguins alone...
films d'anime ou d'animation qui m'ont d�cu (ce qui ne veut pas dire qu'il ne sont pas int�rressant) disapointing Finding Nemo Final Fantasy (l'animation est excellent les cheveux wow, mais l'histoire faut croire aussi que je n'�tais pas un gamer) Heavy Metal (je me rappelle d'avoir vu ca sur une copie tellement utiliser que l'on avait des lignes dans l'image, J'avais aim�. Maintenant je suis rest� sur ma faim. Les chanson et surtout l'�pisode du taxi est cool.) Titan A.E. Treasure Planet Trigun too much yelling I probably need to watch more... Amazing nurse Nanako supposed to be sexy and funny, well... I didn't think so.
here is a start of my top animated movie list (working on it 2008)
1- L�homme qui plantait des arbres 1- Snow White and the seven dwarf 1- L�homme qui plantait des arbres (1993) Fr�d�ric Back (short +/-30min) 2- Snow White and the seven dwarf (1937) Disney 3- Grave of the fireflies / Hotaru no haka (1988) Isao Takahata 4- Spirited Away / Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi(2001) Hayao Miyasaki 5- My Neighbor Totoro / Tonari no Totoro(1988) Hayao Miyasaki
6- Aladdin (1992) Clements / Musker 7- Les douzes travaux d�Ast�rix (1976) Goscinny 8- Porco Rosso / Kurenai no buta (1992) Hayao Miyasaki 9- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind / Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984) Hayao Miyasaki 10-Shrek (2001) Adamson / Jenson
11-Kiki�s delivery service 12-Castle in the Sky 13-A Charlie Brown Christmas 14-Ghost in the Shell 2; Inosensu 15-Alice in wonderland 16-How the grinch stole Christmas 17-The iron giant 18-Jin-Roh; the wolf brigade 19-The Nightmare Before Christmas 20-Lucky Lyke : Daisy Town
Akira Fantasia Toy Story Over the edge Ratatouille Flushed away Chicken Run Monster Inc. Sleeping Beauty Jungle Book Tekkonkinkreet Monster House Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust Blood the last vampire Toy Story 2 Bambi
I started a poll on the animation board to have the top 100 animated movies. here are a few linksStill working on it...(update) not anymore... finally, it was too much time and the irregular attendance didn't help. Too bad, I like the idea of having everyone contribute to an ever evolving list... I salute the group of people that make the list over the classic film group, I realise how dedicated you have to be to make it work...
Westerns
1 - C'era una volta il west (Once upon a time in the west): Leone
2 - Jeremiah Johnson: Pollack
3 - The man who shot Liberty Valance : Ford
4 - Unforgiven : Eastwood (one of the best ending)
5 - High noon : Zinnemann
6 - McCabe & Mrs. Miller : Altman
7 - Il bueno, il bruto, il cattivo (the good, the bad and the ugly) : Leone
8 - Dances with Wolves : Costner
9 - Rio Bravo : Hawks
10 - Shane : Stevens
special mention to : 800 Balas : De la Iglesia
and also to those series
Lonesome dove
Deadwood
left out with regrets?
My darling clementine : Ford
The searchers : Ford (just for the scenery, dialogue kinda lame)
Il grande silencio : Corbucci
The outlaw Josey Whales : Eastwood
High plains drifter : Eastwood
The wild bunch : Peckinpah
also
3:10 to Yuma : James Mangold
J'essai de garder un journal des films que je vois au cin�ma contrairement � la maison. http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11136029 Voici une liste des meilleurs films qu�becois, mais il y en a qui sont trop loin dans ma m�moire, il me faudra les revisit�s avant de les mettre dans cette liste. http://us.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=15102948
Acteurs:
Working on it
but Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon will be part of it. And together they're the best...Toshir� Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Shintar� Katsu Takashi Shimura Paul Newman Steve McQueen Jack Nicholson Robert DeNiro Gregory Peck ** Omar Shariff** Henry Fonda Robert Duvall Albert Brooks ** so funny Albert Finney David Niven Marcello Mastroianni Samuel L. Jackson Johnny Depp Ben Kingsley Burgess Meredith Jean Gabin Paul Giamatti Robert Redford Philip Seymour Hoffman Jean-Louis Milette Jean-Louis Roux Albert Millaire David Paymer Micheal Caine
Actrices:
1 Ingrid Bergman 2 Meryl Streep 3 Vera Miles 4 Catherine Deneuve 5 Katherine Hepburn 6 Faye Dunaway 7 Sophia Loren 8 Deborah Kerr 9 Shirley MacLaine 10 Rita Hayworth 11 Jennifer Jason Leigh 12 Claudia Cardinal 13 Audrey Hepburn 14 Lauren Bacall 15 Annie Girardot 16 Vanessa Redgrave 17 Mia Farrow 18 Donna Reed 19 Grace Kelly 20 Elizabeth Taylor 21 Toni Collette 22 Diane Keaton 23 Simone Signoret 24 Jessica Tandy 25 Joan Cusack 26 Monica Belluci 27 Carrie-Anne Moss 28 Rachel WeiszEmma Thompson Ingrid Bergman to be added somewhere in there
So charming and beautiful: so well filmed and photographed I love those images of them Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca Donna Reed in It's a wonderful life
working on it...
Best directors:
1- Akira Kurosawa 2- Alfred Hitchcock 3- Federico Fellini 4- Michelangelo Antonioni 5- Ingmar Bergman 6- Yasujiro Ozu 7- Charles Chaplin 8- Orson Welles 9- Hayao Miyasaki 10- Sergio Leone 11- Jean-Pierre Jeunet 12- David Cronenberg 13- Stanley Kubrick 14- Billy Wilder 15- Jean Renoir 16- Clint Eastwood 17- Krzysztof Kieslowski 18- Jean-Claude Lauzon 19- Martin Scorsese 20- Georges Romero 21- Francois Truffaut 22- John Ford 23- Steven Spielberg 24- Joel and Ethan Coen 25- Steven Soderberg 26- Howard Hawks 27- Denys Arcand 28- Woody Allen 29- Buster Keaton 30- David Fincher 31- Francis Ford Coppola 32- Roman Polanski 33- Alexander Payne 34- Frank Capra 35- Milos Forman 36- Wes Anderson 37- David Lean 38- Spike Jonze 39- Sam Mendes 40- Robert Lepage 41- Terry Gilliam 42- Tim Burton 43- Micheal Mann 44- Christopher Nolan 45- Quentin Tarantino 46- Sam Peckinpah 47- Hal Ashby 48- Peter Weir 49- Giusseppe Tornatore 50- Sam Raimi 51- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 52- John Carpenter 53- Jim Sheridan 54- Fran�is Veber 55- Sydney Pollack 56- Guillermo Del Toro 57- Michel Gondry 58- Michel Brault
Prefered directors: (including the best... of course.) Sydney Pollack
to be included in one of the above list : ...
Seinfeld's girls:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Paula Marshall (NYU journalist) was a peach in it and still is.
also
Jane Leeves (the virgin)
Terri Hatcher (yeah, they're real and ...)
Megan Mullally (the implants)
Denise Ritchards (poke and peek)
Catherine Keener (Nina the painter)
Heidi Swedberg (George's Suzanne)
Suzanne Snyder (the facist Eva)
Nurrit Koppel (Rava) she was hot but...
Andrea Parker (nurse in the contest) Hot but just for a sec.
Dans le but de vous dire qui je suis voici de grande personnalit�s que j'admire, que je veux connaitre et comprendre :
Albert Einstein : Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assured you that mine are still greater. Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Violence sometimes may have cleared away some obstructions clickly, but it never has proved itself creative. The most important endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.Mahatma Ghandi :
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Unusual movie theatre experiences :The first film I saw was in the basement of a church and it was an animated film, Tintin et le lac aux requins je crois ...
Midway (1976) In Qu�bec city, Od�on Charest. They had construction scafold on both sides of the theatre above empty seats to support the newly huge speakers to accomodate the sound of this release. Was it temporary just for this movie or was it included in the architecture at my next visit, they were gone or invisible. Cape Fear (1991) in Acapulco in English subtitles in spanish; first movie I saw in another country. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) at the University of Vancouver in french subtitled in english Pearl Harbour (2001) AMC25 theatre on 42nd St. in New York with a packed room and people shouting at the screen not because it was a bad movie by the way. The people behind me almost knock me off my seat so much they were moving in their seats. When a plane was coming towards us... you get the pictures... There's your average audience (that comment was snobish, oh well) Les triplettes de Belleville (2003) at the Marketplace on Jamboree, Irvine, Los Angeles Les Invasions Barbares (2003) still in L.A. for the oscars so that was cool.
For fun, here is a picture of myself. Good or bad please keep it to yourself. Nonude by the way, you'll thank me later.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f376/Chauffard/NYlateshowcarl.jpg
Salut [wave]
my growing DVD collection http://www.invelos.com/dvdcollection.aspx/Chauffard
by the way i always put this link towards my collection not to brag but to attest that I love movies and to tell you what I've seen or own.