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I love Hollywood’s Golden Age, I have wrote several times about this magic era: Scarface: first and second impact, Davis, Flynn, Dietrich… They did it their way, About the Warner Bros and the Roosevelt Administration and I even shared with you: A few pages of my movie script / book, for your eyes only!. The silent movies, the rise of talkies, the life in Hollywoodland… Hollywood’s Golden Age, from the late 1920′s to the mid-1930′s is my favorite movie decade. So when I heard about the movie director Michel Hazanavicius was about to make, needless to say I was very excited about it. The Artist, shot at the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank, takes place between 1927 and 1932 in Hollywood: as silent movie star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller (Bérénice Béjo), a…⇒ READ MORE

Remakes are nothing new in Hollywood but when it comes to your favorite movies, you often hope there will be ‘nothing new’, at all. In Scarface: first and second impact, I explained how some movies inspired my creativity and made me write my first short stories; Scarface is definitely one of these great movies that changed my life. In Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Nip/Tuck, House M.D… Addicted!, it was about The Twilight Zone (and The Prisoner) and the way the TV show fulled my imagination when I was a very young teenager. Blade Runner was one of the most important film of my childhood. I could feel the oppressive and stifling atmosphere, it was dark and always raining. The synthesiser-made music and most of all, the dystopian/cyberpunk world really impressed me (and maybe is the reason for my interest in #Steampunk). It’s only years later that I realized Blade Runner was heavily…⇒ READ MORE

We all watched Back To The Future movies at least once, and I was among the ones who wished the hover board was real. If it is still not, the good news is that Michael J. Fox‘s shoes from Back To The Future II are. 1500 pairs of the 2011 Nike MAG are currently auctioned on eBay with all net proceeds going directly to The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Each day for the duration of the 10-day auction, 150 of the 2011 Nike MAG shoes will be made available via eBay’s Fashion Vault. The auction starts September 8, 8:30PM PST, and will end September 18. A lucky friend of mine already got his, so if you’re willing to live your dream and wear the shoes of Marty McFly, check this page on Ebay and be ready to spend your savings for the pair!  

Quand la Cinémathèque présente mes cinéastes préférés : Stanley Kubrick, Jacques Tati, Blake Edwards et Fritz Lang. Tous ont été ou bien vont l’être prochainement, mis à l’honneur par la Cinémathèque Française. L’occasion donc de revenir sur ces cinéastes emblématiques de leur époque qui tiennent une place toute particulière dans ce qui constitue mon inspiration quotidienne. Il y a un peu plus de quatre ans (diantre, que le temps passe vite…), j’ai publié (en juillet 2007 donc) : Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned The Power Of Satire. J’y exprimais dans la langue de Shakespeare tout mon intérêt de cinéphile pour #Stanley Kubrick. Docteur folamour (qui n’a rien à voir avec le Dr. Dave Bowman, on s’en doute) dans sa traduction française, est un film incontournable pour qui aime la satire, le dédoublement d’acteur avec le non moins incontournable #Peter Sellers, sans oublier l’excellent George C. Scott. Un film qui nourrit mon inspiration, même de…⇒ READ MORE

Les aventures extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec opens tomorrow in France and Luc Besson‘s adaptation of Jacques Tardi‘s Adele Blanc-Sec sounds great. In 2007 (jeez, time flies!) I wrote about the director/producer in: From Scarface to Smokin’ Aces: the art of the gun sceneand I mentioned several of the movies he made like Nikita, Le Grand Bleu and Léon. Les aventures extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec is an adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters and other distractions such as a pterodactyl unleashed on France’s capital city and a speaking mummy. I have no idea if the film is going to be released in other countries but I am pretty sure it will. Enjoy the trailer!