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As you may already know, I am a huge fan of Hollywood’s Golden Age, movies from the 1930′s and the 1940′s, and also film noir. For the French reading this blog who want to see some very good movies made by the Warner Brothers during the Great Depression, don’t miss the Cinéma de Minuit on French channel television France3. A movie is aired each Saturday night, in original English version with English subtitles. Gold Diggers of 1933, Wild Boys of The Road, Confessions of a Nazi Spy and Juarez have already aired but Casablanca (one of my favorite movies), Mission to Moscow, Hitler Lives (short movie) and To Have and Have Not will air within the next weeks. This ‘Cycle‘ is about the Warner Bros and the Roosevelt Administration, and it shows how the studio (under the leadership of Harry Warner) re-defined the American film industry as a cultural medium….⇒ READ MORE

I was recently part of an interesting debatewith sharp-minded people about the role of media in the society, and since some of you expressed a keen interest for my thinking over a specific issue, I wanted to share my thoughts with you about that topic. I promess my next post will definitely be on a lighter note. Every day seems to bring a new round of bad news, punctuated by good news getting quickly lost within a continuous flow of information. If I wanted to be cynical (for a change), I would say it is like a soap show we are watching every day, with new plots and new characters. Remember last year, when I wrote about Sarkozy rolling out the red carpet for Colonel Moammar Gaddafi (When Gaddafi met Sarkozy: faked orgasm?), I referred to this event as a new episode in the French presidency show, quickly followed by…⇒ READ MORE

Last February I posted an article about car chases: Car chases in movies: Bullitt, Terminator 2, Mad Max 2…. I mentioned several movies with great chase scenes like Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Thelma & Louise, The Blues Brothers, The French Connection, Grindhouse/Death Proof… And of course, Bullitt. Steve McQueendriving his Mustang GT390 at full speed in the streets of San Francisco was captivating. But as you maybe know if you carefully watched the scene (or if you know the place because you actually live in San Francisco), the chase has been often cut from one place to another although the continuity didn’t really suffer of the cuts. Knowing I like Bullitt and especially the chase scene, a friend sent me a link showing the in-movie car chase scene AND its GPS track. So you won’t miss a second of it, very cool VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM SEERO

This topic is like any other of its kind when it comes to violence, wherever and against whoever it is: awful. In 2004, Amnesty International launched its global Stop Violence Against Women Campaign and last week Amnesty International France released a short ‘punchy‘ movie (02:30) directed by Olivier Dahan(La Môme/La Vie en Rose) starring Didier Bourdon, Clotilde Courau and Claude Perron. This movie instantly caught my attention. It is inspired by 1920′s silent movies (I mentioned this period in this post), no words but ‘ordinary‘ domestic violent gestures filmed in Chaplin-style. The contrast between the comical directing and the tragedy of the situation is appalling of cruelty. And it is increasing until someone finally break the silence. Like I said in one of my post about Darfur: Silence kills, make some noise and keep your voice loud. It is applicable to all kind of violence, all injustices, everywhere in the…⇒ READ MORE