Pascale Ferran on Every Man for Himself directed by Jean-Luc Godard:
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Laurent Cantet was a founding member of LaCinetek.

Laurent Cantet on Cruel Story of Youth directed by Nagisa Ōshima:
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Rebecca Zlotowski on Lions Love directed by Agnès Varda:
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Albert Dupontel on Hana-bi (Fireworks) directed by Takeshi Kitano:
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic on The Clowns directed by Federico Fellini:
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Bertrand Bonello on The Fog directed by John Carpenter:
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Béatrice Dalle on Accattone directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini:
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Joachim Trier on Mirror directed by Andreï Tarkovski:
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Monica Bellucci on L'Avventura directed by Michelangelo Antonioni:
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Sophie Letourneur on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial directed by Steven Spielberg
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Vincent Lacoste on Punch-Drunk Love directed by Paul Thomas Anderson:
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Jonás Trueba on Stromboli directed by Roberto Rossellini
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Noémie Lvosky on There Was a Father directed by Yasujiro Ozu
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Cédrick Klapisch on Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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Céline Sciamma on The Umbrellas of Cherbourg directed by Jacques Demy

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Park Chan-wook on Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese
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Paul Kircher on The Beautiful Person directed by Christophe Honoré :
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Arthur Teboul on Persepolis directed by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
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Céleste Brunnquell on Some Like It Hot directed by Billy Wider
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Agnès Jaoui on Donkey Skin directed by Jacques Demy
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Dominik Moll on Nosferatu directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
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• Dance, Girl, Dance
• Under the Skin of the City
• The Gleaners and I
• Forever a Woman
• The Silences of the Palace
• The Girl with the Hat Box
• Sarraounia
• The Green Ray
• The Earrings of Madame de...

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.

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• Cutter's Way
• Trash
• Entranced Earth
• The Wheelchair
• Charley Varrick
• Indian Summer
• The Idiots
• Gone to Earth
• One-Eyed Jacks
• Brigadoon

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LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world.

Discover Laurent Cantet's influences through his list of 50 favorite films : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/laurent-cantet

Filmography : Les Sanguinaires (1997) – Human Resources (2000) – Time Out (2001) – Heading south (2005) – Between the Walls (2008) – 7 Days in Havana (segment La Fuente) (2012) – Foxfire (2013) – Return to Ithaca (2014) – The Workshop (2017) – Arthur Rambo (2021)

• You Can't Take It with You
• The Great Dictator
• Rio Bravo
• The Ladies Man
• The Battle of Algiers
• Love Streams
• The Incredible Shrinking Man
• La Notte
• Summer with Monika
• Fanny and Alexander

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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.

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LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

• Rue de l'Estrapade
• Ride Lonesome
• The Trial of Joan of Arc
• Too Late Blues
• The Bridesmaid
• Eastern Promises
• Abraham's Valley
• Trouble Every Day
• Day of Wrath
• Hereafter

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Discover Joachim Trier's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/wim-wenders-22

Filmography :

Fictions
Summer in the City (1970) – The Goalkeeper's fear of the Penalty (1971) – The Scarlet Letter (1972) – Alice in the Cities (1974) – The Wrong Move (1975) – Kings of the Road (1976) – The American Friend (1977) – Hammett (1982) – The State of Things (1982) – Paris, Texas (1984) – Wings of Desire (1987) – Until the End of the World (1991) – Faraway, So Close ! (1993) – Lisbon Story (1994) – Beyond the Clouds (1995) – A Trick of Lights (1996) – The End of Violence (1997) – The Million Dollar Hotel (1999) – Land of Plenty (2004) – Don't Come Knocking (2005) – Palerme Shooting (2008) – Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015) – The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016) – Submergence (2017)

Documentaries
Nick's Movie (1980) – Tokyo-Ga (1985) – Carnets de notes sur vêtements et villes (1989) – Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1999) – Buena Vista Social Club (1999) – Viel passiert – Der BAP-Film (2002) – The Soul of a Man (2003) – Pina (2011) – The Salt of the Earth (2014) – Le Pape François – Pop Francis : A Man of the Word (2018)

• Central Station
• Chocolat
• Napoleon
• A Tale of the Wind
• Written on the Wind
• The Girl Can't Help It
• The Lusty Men
• Under the Bridges
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Dead Man

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You can check out the alternative list and the letter he wrote to Cédric Klapisch here : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/martin-scorsese-5

Filmography : Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967) – Bertha Boxcar (1972) – Mean Streets (1973) – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) – Taxi Driver (1976) – New York, New York (1977) – The Last Waltz (1978) – Raging Bull (1980) – The King of Comedy (1983) – After Hours (1985) – The Color Of Money (1986) – The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) – GoodFellas (1990) – Cape Fear (1991) – The Age of Innocence (1993) – Casino (1995) – A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Throught American Movies (1995) – From Mali to Mississippi (2003) –Kundun (1997) – Bringing Out The dead (1999) – Il Mio viaggio in Italia (1999) – Gangs of New York (2002) – Aviator (2004) - No Direction Home (2005) – The Departed (2006) – Shine a Light (2008) – Shutter Island (2010) – A Letter to Elia (2010) – Public Speaking: Fran Lebowitz (2010) – Hugo Cabret (2011) – George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011) – The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) – The 50 Year Argument (2014) – Silence (2016) – The Irishman (2019)

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• 8½
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
• Murder by Contract
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
• East of Eden
• 9 Variations on a Dance Theme
• A Star Is Born
• America America
• Antonio das Mortes

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John Cameron Mitchell first made a name for himself as a stage and television actor. In 1998, he wrote a rock musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, about a queer character in the music business. The film version of this musical won Mitchell the Best Director award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination. He then turned his attention to naturalistic depictions of sexuality, directing Shortbus (2006), co-written with non-professional actors. In 2010, he adapted David Lindsay-Abaire's play Rabbit Hole, about a father and mother - played by Nicole Kidman - coping with the loss of their son. Continuing his free exploration of genres, in 2018 he directed a sci-fi punk comedy, How to Talk to Girls at Party, starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning. The same year, he created two podcast fictions (Anthem: Homunculus with Glenn Close and Laurie Anderson, and Cancellation Island with Holly Hunter), and released two albums (New American Dream and Anthem: Homunculus). At the same time, he continued touring with his band and his acting career (Girls, Shrill, The Good Fight, City on Fire and Sandman).

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• Fanny and Alexander
• Nashville
• 3 Women
• The Long Goodbye
• Taxi to the Toilet
• A Moment of Innocence
• This Special Friendship
• The Son
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Opening Night

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French director and actress, born in 1978.
It was during her studies at the Arts Décoratifs that Sophie Letourneur made her first short films, mixing experimental video and documentary. These early experiments left a lasting impression on her approach to directing in stories often tinged with self-fiction. Oftenly acting in her own films, she blurs the boundaries between intimate chronicle and fiction, as in Les Coquillettes (2011) and Voyages en Italie (2023), where she reinterprets audio recordings of a trip with her partner. Her first feature, Chicks, a comedy with the crude humor characteristic of her films, won two awards at the Entrevues de Belfort festival in 2009. Ten years later, she won the Prix Jean Vigo for Enormous, starring Marina Foïs and Jonathan Cohen, which takes a unique look at pregnancy, part irreverent humor, part hospital documentary.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

• Lawrence of Arabia
• Serial Mom
• A Scene at the Sea
• Night and Day
• In the Realm of the Senses
• Where Is the Friend's House?
• Naked
• Birth/Mother
• Phantom of the Paradise
• The Young Girls of Rochefort

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Discover Kiyoshi Kurosawa's influences through his list of favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/kiyoshi-kurosawa

Filmography : Kandagawa wars (神田川淫乱戦争, Kandagawa inran sensô) (1983) – The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (ドレミファ娘の血は騒ぐ, Do Re Mi Fa musume no chi ha sawagu) (1985) – Sweet Home (スウィートホーム, Suîto hômu) (1988) – The Guard from the Underground (地獄の警備員, jigoku no keibi in) (1991) – DOOR III (1996) – Cure (キュア, Kyua) (1997) – License to live (ニンゲン合格, Ningen gôkaku) (1998) – Charisma (カリスマ, Karisuma) (1999) – Barren Illusions (大いなる幻影, Ooi naru gen.ei) (1999) – Seance (降霊, Kôrei) (1999) – Kaïro (回路, Kairo) (2000) – Jellyfish (アカルイミライ, Akarui mirai) (2002) – Doppelganger (ドッペルゲンガー, Dopperugengâ) (2002) - LOFT (ロフト, Rofuto) (2005) - Retribution (叫, Sakebi) (2006) – Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ) (2008) – Shokuzai (贖罪) (2011) – Real (リアル～完全なる首長竜の日～, Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi) (2013) – Seventh Code (セブンスコード, Sebunsu kôdo) (2013) – Journey To The Shore (岸辺の旅, Kishibe no tabi) – Creepy (Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin) (2016) – Daguerrotype (2016) – Before We Vanish (Sanpo suru shinryakusha) (2017) – Wife of a Spy (スパイの妻) (2020)

• Freeze, Die, Come to Life
• Sing a Song of Sex
• Empire of the Sun
• Street Mobster
• Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• La Bête Humaine
• A Hen in the Wind
• They Live by Night
• Jirocho's Home-Coming

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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.

• The Consequences of Feminism
• Nosferatu
• People on Sunday
• The Navigator
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
• Modern Times
• Grand Illusion
• Only Angels Have Wings
• The Maltese Falcon
• To Be or Not to Be

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British director, born in London in 1960.

Initially a photographer, Joanna Hogg went on to study at the National Film and Television School, where she directed Caprice (1986), inaugurating a long collaboration with Tilda Swinton. Hogg then worked for several years in English television before directing her first film, Unrelated (2007), which won the FIPRESCI prize at the London Film Festival. This film and the next, Archipelago (2010), marked Tom Hiddleston's screen debut. Hogg's films are characterised by a strong attention to framing, inherited from his work as a photographer. The Souvenir, inspired by her autobiography, won her the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She continued the project with The Souvenir Part II, which won Best Editing and Best Production at the British Independent Film Awards in 2021. The in-between, intimacy and the figure of the double inhabit her work, notably in Eternal Daughter (2023), which explores the mother-daughter relationship in mirror image.

• All That Jazz
• New York, New York
• One from the Heart
• Lenny
• Straight Time
• Heat
• The King of Comedy
• Italianamerican
• Wild River
• The Red Shoes

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Writer, playwright and director, born in Austria in 1942.

While studying law, Peter Handke decided to devote himself entirely to writing after the publication of his first novel, The Hornets. This marked the start of a major literary and theatrical body of work that broke with the realist codes of the time. His sensory writing tackled existential and everyday issues. His novel The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970) was adapted for the screen by Wim Wenders. This collaboration continued with Wrong Move (1975) and Wings of Desire (1987), for which Peter Handke wrote the screenplays. In 1978, he directed the adaptation of his novel The Left-Handed Woman (Georges Sadoul Prize) with Edith Clever and Bruno Ganz, followed by The Absence with Jeanne Moreau. Multilingual, his translations into German include Francis Ponge, Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, Emmanuel Bove and René Char. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, making him one of the greatest writers of his time.

• Bamako
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Young Mr. Lincoln
• The Quiet Man
• How Green Was My Valley
• Tokyo Story
• Early Spring
• Where Is the Friend's House?
• Through the Olive Trees
• Lady Windermere's Fan

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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)

• Elephant
• Titanic
• The Hours
• In the Mood for Love
• Birth
• The Piano
• The Piano Teacher
• Mysterious Skin
• The Silence of the Lambs
• American Beauty

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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)

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• How Green Was My Valley
• A Day in the Country
• The 40 Year Old Virgin
• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• A Place in the Sun
• Tokyo Story
• The Searchers
• Wild Strawberries
• The Apartment

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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.

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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)

• Mutiny on the Bounty
• The Deer Hunter
• Limelight
• Once Upon a Time in America
• Gloria
• Ran
• The Horse
• Naked Childhood
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The Rules of the Game

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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)

• The Meetings of Anna
• Diner
• Risky Business
• Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
• Peppermint Soda
• Gimme Shelter
• I Knew Her Well
• The Beat That My Heart Skipped
• My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
• Dangerous Liaisons

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His list reveals an audacious and fine cinephilia. The films chosen penetrate worlds that are usually closed or distant (island fictions, prison fictions, in camera). Life appears in its contrasts, lyrical and raw, solar and opaque. Then the cinema, political and memorial machine, enters in struggle against the collective amnesia.

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: Short films : Des jours dans la rue (2005) - Le Petit (2006) - La Main sur la gueule (2007) - Peine perdue (2013)
Feature films : Dark Inclusion (2015) - Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)

• The Runner
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Three Godless Years
• Manila in the Claws of Light
• Manila by Night
• Heart to Heart
• Two-Lane Blacktop
• The Exiles
• Of Whales, the Moon, and Men
• The Photograph

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

His list is full of powerful films: stories of tragic force, where the mythological and the prosaic are linked. In the grip of thrillers, heist or gangster films or through family sagas, the fate of the characters is exposed in virtuoso staging.

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: Life and a Day (2016) - Just 6.5 (2021) - Leila's Brothers (2022)

• Le Trou
• The Godfather
• Seven Samurai
• Pulp Fiction
• The 400 Blows
• The Social Network
• Three Monkeys
• A Prophet
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Still Life

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

His list, like his filmography, is rooted in reality (from Belgian neo-realism to British social films to adaptations of news stories and political events). The reality of the intimate is also revealed through family portraits and moving life journeys, carried by powerful performers.

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: Short films : Égoïste Nature (2000) -Tribu (2001)
Feature films : Scarface (documentary, 2001) - Folie privée (2004) - Ça rend heureux (2006) - Private Property (2006) - Private Lessons (2008) - Our Children (2012) - The White Knights (2015) - After Love (2016) - Keep Going (2018) - The Restless (2021)

• Holy Smoke
• In the Cut
• San Clemente
• From the Branches Drops the Withered Blossom
• Late August, Early September
• Gerry
• Elephant
• Last Days
• It's Easier for a Camel...
• Lady Chatterley

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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)

• The Stendhal Syndrome
• Dracula
• Inferno
• Black Narcissus
• Walkabout
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• The Serpent's Egg
• Veronika Voss
• The Clowns
• The Spirit of the Beehive

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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)

• The Passenger
• Chelsea Girls
• The Sacrifice
• Nanook of the North
• A Nos Amours
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Bay of Angels
• Renaldo and Clara
• My Night at Maud's
• The Duchess of Langeais

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This month, director Felix Van Groeningen has compiled a list of films that reflects his taste for intense life and emotion, alternating laughter and tears, from melodramas to comedies.

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 : 50CC (2000, short movie) - Steve + Sky (2004) - With Friends Like These (2007) - The Misfortunates (2009) - The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) - Belgica (2016) - Beautiful Boy (2018) - Le otto montagne (2022, co-directed with Charlotte Vandermeersch)

• Elephant
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Show Me Love
• The Godfather: Part II
• Y Tu Mamá También
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Barry Lyndon
• Kids
• Smoke
• The Beat That My Heart Skipped

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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)

• Sans Soleil
• Chronicle of a Summer
• The House Is Black
• The Sorrow and the Pity
• La Rabbia
• The Lorry
• Welfare
• Route One/USA
• In Vanda's Room
• Shoah

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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).

• Jaws
• The Remains of the Day
• The Old Guard
• The Fugitive
• Amadeus
• Big Deal on Madonna Street
• The Inquisitor
• Mediterraneo
• A Monkey in Winter
• The Trip Across Paris

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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).

• The Jungle Book
• The Crimson Pirate
• Laura
• The Wild Child
• Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs
• The Princess Bride
• Belle Époque
• Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
• Groundhog Day
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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).

• Trás-os-Montes
• Island of Loves
• A Ilha de Moraes
• Past and Present
• A Portuguese Farewell
• Fortini/Cani
• From the Clouds to the Resistance
• The Death of Empedocles
• Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication
• Numéro deux

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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).

• Little Odessa
• Rebels of the Neon God
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
• Beau Travail
• The General
• Lancelot of the Lake
• Fireworks
• Songs from the Second Floor
• Come and Go
• Barry Lyndon

...plus 40 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).

• The War Is Over
• White Heat
• I Am Twenty
• The Apartment
• Anatomy of a Murder
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• L'Eclisse
• Manhattan
• The Long Goodbye
• Casque d'Or

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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)

• A Beach Near Belfast
• Route One/USA
• Master, a Building in Copacabana
• Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
• Wall
• Aspen
• Profiles farmers : the Approach
• Profiles Farmers : the Daily Life
• Profiles Farmers : Modern Life
• Them and Me

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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)

• What's Eating Gilbert Grape
• Shoot the Piano Player
• Duck Soup
• Family Diary
• The Big Lebowski
• Panic
• My Life as a Dog
• Pierrot le Fou
• The Birds
• The Band Wagon

...plus 44 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).

Filmography : The Face You Deserve (2004) – Our Beloved Month of August (2008) – Tabu (2012) – Arabian Nights (2015) – The Tsugua Diaries (2021)

• Hatari!
• Bringing Up Baby
• The Hustler
• Detour
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Él
• Aniki-Bóbó
• The Hunt
• Acto da Primavera
• Doomed Love

...plus 40 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).

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)

• Fargo
• The Birds
• Down by Law
• My Night at Maud's
• Dear Diary
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Full Moon in Paris
• M
• Tokyo Story
• The Third Man

...plus 40 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).

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)

• Ms .45
• Starman
• Donnie Darko
• Mad Love
• The Rose King
• Four Nights of a Dreamer
• In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
• Equation to an Unknown
• Identification of a Woman
• Nowhere

...plus 45 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).

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)

• Beau Travail
• Videodrome
• Blue Velvet
• The Mass Is Ended
• Full Moon in Paris
• The Fly
• Antonio das Mortes
• Law of Desire
• The Great Silence
• Black God, White Devil

...plus 39 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).

Filmography : Blood (2005) – The Bastards (2008) – Revolución – segment El cura Nicolas colgado (2010)
– Heli (2013) – The Untamed (2016)

• The Kid
• Los Muertos
• Stroszek
• Splendor in the Grass
• Chinatown
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Gummo
• The Devil, Probably
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• El Mariachi

...plus 46 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).

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)

• Annie Hall
• Manhattan
• Z
• Dog Day Afternoon
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The Celebration
• Interiors
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Groove Tube
• The Producers

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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).

• Sambizanga
• One False Move
• Africa in Pieces: The Tragedy of the Great Lakes
• GoodFellas
• Essaida
• The Woman with the Knife
• Tumult
• Sankofa
• When the Stars Meet the Sea
• Those Whom Death Refused

...plus 36 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).

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)

• Roman Holiday
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• High Noon
• The Great Dictator
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Taxi Driver
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Bicycle Thieves
• Seven Samurai

...plus 38 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).

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)

• High Heels
• Short Cuts
• Blow-Up
• Death Watch
• In the Mood for Love
• It Happened at the Inn
• Before the Revolution
• Viridiana
• Thérèse
• The Butcher

...plus 52 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).

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)

• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Stalker
• Reconstruction
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Tokyo Story
• Modern Times
• Sophie's Choice
• The General
• Bicycle Thieves
• The 400 Blows

...plus 40 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).

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)

• The Band Wagon
• Singin' in the Rain
• Bells Are Ringing
• Morocco
• Pierrot le Fou
• Stormy Waters
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• Le Plaisir
• Little Lise
• Sansho the Bailiff

...plus 51 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).

Filmography : Toto the Hero (1991) – The Eighth Day (1996) – Mr. Nobody (2009) – The Brand New Testament (2015)

• Brazil
• Girl with a Suitcase
• Rachel, Rachel
• The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
• Short Cuts
• Mirror
• Amarcord
• Wild Strawberries
• Tokyo Story

...plus 40 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).

Filmography : Clean, Shaven (1994) – Claire Dolan (1998) – Keane (2004) – Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (2010) – The Girlfriend Experience (série TV) (2016)

• Annie Hall
• Faces
• L'Avventura
• Alice in the Cities
• Dekalog
• Persona
• Killer of Sheep
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• News from Home
• Streetwise

...plus 39 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).

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)

• Deliverance
• 10
• The Princess Bride
• Gentleman Jim
• Magnificent Obsession
• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Le Trou
• Touchez Pas au Grisbi
• A Man Escaped
• The Scopone Game

...plus 41 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).

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)

• Charulata
• The Soft Skin
• Je, Tu, Il, Elle
• Dancer in the Dark
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• The Good Girls
• News from Home
• Nashville
• Cold Water
• Au Hasard Balthazar

...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).

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)

• The War Is Over
• Halloween
• M
• The Deer Hunter
• Sans Soleil
• The General
• City Lights
• Nosferatu
• The Apartment
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

...plus 39 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).

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)

• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
• The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
• The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
• Rashomon
• Le Samouraï
• Battleship Potemkin
• Pandora's Box
• M
• Citizen Kane
• Rome, Open City

...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).

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)

• Edvard Munch
• Possession
• The Green Mile
• Crash
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Swimmer
• Un étrange voyage
• Maria's Lovers
• Timecode
• Ballroom

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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)

• The Philadelphia Story
• Taking Off
• The Oak
• Rashomon
• My Favorite Season
• Cries and Whispers
• Pickpocket
• Tristana
• Gertrud
• Every Man for Himself

...plus 39 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).

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)

• Darling
• The General
• Boomerang!
• Brief Encounter
• Psycho
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• The Sleeping Car Murder
• Amarcord
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
• The Parallax View

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark forest

- The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

This May, take a walk in the woods with LaCinetek!

The realm of fairy tales and marvellous worlds, the forest, by turns ominous and protective, is the quintessential place of ambivalence. A place of initiation or inner transformation, constantly at the frontier between two worlds, the forest is the perfect setting for all kinds of journeys, whether realistic, introspective or imaginary. Ten films to listen to its murmurs and whispers, to meet the living beings and spirits that inhabit it, to escape and find refuge.

The films in the subscription this month: 

Stand by Me directed by Rob Reiner
Old Joy directed by Kelly Reichardt
A Touch of Zen directed by King Hu
The Ballad of Narayama directed by Shōhei Imamura 
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Diamonds of the Night directed by Jan Němec
Winter's Bone directed by Debra Granik
Little Dieter Needs to Fly directed by Werner Herzog
The Most Dangerous Game directed by Ernest Schoedsack & Irving Pichel
The Erl King directed by Marie-Louise Iribe
Mr. Strauss Takes a Walk directed by George Pal

Theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey - best known for her work on the notion of the male gaze - has chosen a selection of films that have made a difference to her. This exceptional carte blanche is being organised to coincide with the Close-up dedicated to her at Bozar.

"I am very pleased and honoured to have been invited by LaCinetek to select films from their collection to be screened in the context of ‘Chantal Akerman: Travelling’ and ‘Close-up: Laura Mulvey’ at the BOZAR. Given the context of the relation between women and film, I decided to divide my selection into two parts. One part celebrates a few of the women who, struggling against discrimination and marginalisation, managed to become film directors in the hostile world of male dominated cinema. The other part celebrates some male directors whose vision and understanding produced moving and revealing ‘portraits’ of very differing women characters.

In 1972, I collaborated on a Women and Film Event at the Edinburgh Film Festival that focused on bringing both lost films by forgotten women directors and new films by women, inspired by feminism, to the screen. For instance, we learnt, for the first time, about Dorothy Arzner, who directed twenty films between 1927 and 1943 at the height of the Hollywood studio system. Not mentioned in the standard histories and her films long out of distribution, Arzner was a key ‘rediscovery’ for the Festival. I have chosen Dance Girl Dance (1940) in memory of the impact the film had on us and the Edinburgh audience, most particularly for one startling moment: Maureen O’Hara halts her performance, walks to the front of the theatre and denounces what we would now call ‘the male gaze’.

My second choice celebrates the extraordinary Japanese director Kinuyo Tanaka (a full retrospective is available on LaCinetek subscription). Well known as a leading actress in Japanese cinema (and particularly for her work with Kenji Mizoguchi), she managed, in the face of prejudice and discouragement, to make six films in the 1950s and early 60s. Quite quickly they disappeared from distribution. Recently, due particularly to feminist interest, they have been restored by the Japanese Film Archive. I have selected Eternal Breasts (1955) to screen; the film’s emotional power and narrative originality echoes the story of its woman poet protagonist.
My next film is Rakshan Bani Etemad’s Under the Skin of the City (2001). Bani Etemad is well known in her native Iran, where her films are successful critically and at the box office. However, she failed to find international and festival distribution with the Iranian New Wave of the 1990s with her less austere, more woman centered, family melodramas. So, it was due to a special initiative on the part of two women curators at London’s National Film Theatre that I was able to see Bani Etemad’s films. Under the Skin of the City revolves around the story of a working-class family in Tehran, centrally around the mother; Bani Etemad uses cinematic language and sound effects to evoke the difficulty of articulating emotion and feelings in the face of increasing economic and social pressures.
I know that Agnes Varda needs no introduction nor does her rightfully well-known Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse. Although there is, of course, nothing particularly gendered about the essayistic, Varda beautifully integrates a rambling narrative, the personal and the subjective and the topic of gleaning itself into a completely poetic but politically hard-hitting film – a masterpiece of women’s cinema.
The four male directors I have chosen are all key figures in film history. A few words in the space I have left. Max Ophüls is one of my favourite directors and Mme de… (1953) one of my favourites of his films. It is a complex portrait of class and the performance of gender within the aristocracy. Ultimately, Ophüls reveals that Louise the beautiful, charming protagonist, is tragically impotent in the face thetranscendent power of patriarchal society. Med Hondo’s Sarraounia (1986) is a portrait of a very different female figure: an African princess, leader of her tribe, who defeats the French colonial army, using, as well as strength and strategy, her command over optical illusion to confuse her enemy. Finally, I like the juxtaposition between Boris Barnet’s young woman, Natasha (The Girl with the Hat-box 1927) and Eric Rohmer’s Delphine (Le Rayon Vert 1986). Both are caught up in wandering stories, uncertain romance, inconclusive encounters. Both are independent young women, at odds with their surroundings, given a somewhat happy end by their directors, but with a touching sisterhood across such a gulf of cinematic style and historical context."

- Laura Mulvey

Discover her selection on LaCinetek:
https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/selection/laura-mulvey-presents
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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.

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https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/la-liste-de/albert-serra
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It is with great sorrow that LaCinetek pays tribute to Laurent Cantet, who passed away yesterday, Thursday 25 April, at the age of 63. Audiences have lost a great filmmaker, LaCinetek one of its founders and, above all, a very dear friend.

After studying photography, Laurent Cantet studied at IDHEC, where he met Gilles Marchand, Dominik Moll and Robin Campillo, with whom he forged an indefectible friendship that would later develop into several artistic collaborations.

Inventing unique ways of writing and directing, Laurent Cantet's films have never ceased to blend the material of reality with the novelistic construction of his characters, the better to convey the depth and subtlety of human experience. His films, which combine a certain social harshness with the sensuality of bodies and landscapes, question the relationship between an individual and his environment, between a body and a cinematic space. They are permeated by an absolute love of youth, a joy and responsibility in representing it, without any moral judgement or overhang. With LaCinetek, of which he was one of the cornerstones, he was also thinking first and foremost of young people, of the best way to pass on to them the films they loved.

Laurent was a person of rare kindness, generosity and integrity, whom nothing, not even a Palme d'Or, could sway from his path. 
His loss is huge, as he brought to the highest level the values of friendship and collective commitment. Keeping the collective adventure of LaCinetek alive is the surest way for us to be with him, to feel him at our side.

Our fondest thoughts are with his wife, Isabelle, and their children, Marie and Félix. And to his producer Marie-Ange Luciani, and his three film brothers: Robin Campillo, Gilles Marchand and Dominik Moll. 

Pascale Ferran, Cédric Klapisch, and LaCinetek team

Slow motion is the silence of speed.

Jean-Luc Godard

In April, LaCinetek explores the time of movement!
It took time to fix the film at 24 frames per second and reproduce as closely as possible the natural fluidity of movement. Playing with the speed of film means shattering this initial illusion and working on the very material of cinema, to experiment with all its formal possibilities. By revealing what would not be visible at its nominal speed, the use of slow motion or speeding up gives us a new way of seeing bodies, their movements, the energy and emotions that run through them.

The films in the subscription this month: 

The Sea Horse, The Octopus, The Vampire, How Some Jellyfish Are Born, Acera, or the Witches Dance directed by Jean Painlevé

Ce qui me meut directed by Cédric Klapisch

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner directed by Werner Herzog

Paranoid Park directed by Gus Van Sant

Fireworks directed by Takeshi Kitano

Drunken Master directed by Yuen Woo-ping

The Things of Life directed by Claude Sautet

Melancholia directed by Lars Von Trier

Funeral Parade of Roses directed by Toshio Matsumoto

Man with a Movie Camera directed by Dziga Vertov

Every Man for Himself directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Japanese director, born in 1978 in Kanagawa Prefecture

After working for a few years as an assistant director, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi entered Tokyo University of the Arts, with Kiyoshi Kurosawa as one of his teachers. His graduation film, Passion (2008), brought him immediate recognition from Japanese audiences. He then co-directed a documentary trilogy giving voice to the witnesses of the 2011 tsunami, before returning to fiction with Happy Hour (2015). Resulting from an artistic residency with non-professional actors, the film has since received international recognition. His subsequent films have won numerous awards, including Drive My Car - adapted from a short story by Murakami - (Oscar for Best International Film in 2022) and Evil Does Not Exist (Grand Jury Prize at Venice 2023). A subtle exploration of the tumult of feelings, his filmography, tinged with melancholy, establishes him as one of the most important Japanese directors of recent years.

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https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/ryusuke-hamaguchi
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I wanted to make this film and put my whole life into it.

Kinuyo Tanaka, on Forever a Woman

At the height of her acting career - she had just made films with Mizoguchi, Kinoshita and Ozu - Japanese film star Kinuyo Tanaka decided to move behind the camera, despite the almost total absence of women in this position. We were in the middle of the 20th century, and the very few women directors were not given the chance to make major productions. Tanaka was the exception that confirmed the rule, but she was much more than that: her absolutely singular vision was accompanied by a stylistic research that made her a pioneering filmmaker, free even in her exploration of genres, from romantic comedy to historical drama.

Discover her work as actress and director on LaCinetek
https://www.lacinetek.com/fr/abonnement

Kinuyo Tanaka, actress

Miss Oyu directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Sansho the Bailif directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Mother directed by Mikio Naruse
Red Beard directed by Akira Kurosawa

Kinuyo Tanaka, director

Forever a Woman

Love Letter
The Moon Has Risen
Girls of the Night

Love Under the Crucifix
The Wandering Princess

American director and actor, born 1963 in El Paso (USA).

John Cameron Mitchell first made a name for himself as a stage and television actor. In 1998, he wrote a rock musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, about a queer character in the music business. The film version of this musical won Mitchell the Best Director award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination. He then turned his attention to naturalistic depictions of sexuality, directing Shortbus (2006), co-written with non-professional actors. In 2010, he adapted David Lindsay-Abaire's play Rabbit Hole, about a father and mother - played by Nicole Kidman - coping with the loss of their son. Continuing his free exploration of genres, in 2018 he directed a sci-fi punk comedy, How to Talk to Girls at Party, starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning. The same year, he created two podcast fictions (Anthem: Homunculus with Glenn Close and Laurie Anderson, and Cancellation Island with Holly Hunter), and released two albums (New American Dream and Anthem: Homunculus). At the same time, he continued touring with his band and his acting career (Girls, Shrill, The Good Fight, City on Fire and Sandman).

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www.lacinetek.com/fr/la-liste-de/john-cameron-mitchell
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"Believing in medicine would be the supreme madness if not believing in it were not an even greater one."
Marcel Proust

In March, LaCinetek goes to the bedside to take the pulse of the many cinematic representations of the medical environment, between reality and fantasy.

The films in the selection, from a wide range of genres, will share with you the experience of patients, the lives of those around them and the practices of those who treat them. A sensitive dive into our common humanity, made up of care, hardship and the will to live, despite everything.

The films in the subscription this month:

Dear Diary directed by Nanni Moretti
Battle Cries directed by Sólveig Anspach
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly directed by Julian Schnabel
Johnny Got His Gun directed by Dalton Trumbo
The Barbarian Invasions directed by Denys Arcand
50 First Dates directed by Peter Segal
The Man Without a Past directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Red Beard directed by Akira Kurosawa
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene
Open Your Eyes directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Britannia Hospital directed by Lindsay Anderson

French director, born in 1978.
 
It was during her studies at the Arts Décoratifs that Sophie Letourneur made her first short films, mixing experimental video and documentary. These early experiments left a lasting impression on her approach to directing in stories often tinged with self-fiction. Oftenly acting in her own films, she blurs the boundaries between intimate chronicle and fiction, as in Les Coquillettes (2011) and Voyages en Italie (2023), where she reinterprets audio recordings of a trip with her partner. Her first feature, Chicks, a comedy with the crude humor characteristic of her films, won two awards at the Entrevues de Belfort festival in 2009. Ten years later, she won the Prix Jean Vigo for Enormous, starring Marina Foïs and Jonathan Cohen, which takes a unique look at pregnancy, part irreverent humor, part hospital documentary.

Discover her list: https://www.lacinetek.com/fr/la-liste-de/sophie-letourneur
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"Just because a problem hasn't been solved doesn't mean it can't be solved."
Agatha Christie, Mr Quinn

In February, investigate on LaCinetek!

Crime films have always been a popular genre, but investigations are not the exclusive preserve of detectives. Whether it's the hope of clearing a loved one's name, shedding light on a past event or simply wanting to know more about the world around us, there's no shortage of reasons to set out on a quest. Ten films that take you on a journey behind appearances, from false leads to false pretenses, will lead you to the heart of many revelations, including those about yourself.

The films in the subscription this month :

The Virgin Suicides directed by Sofia Coppola
Mother directed by Bong Joon-ho
Mr. Arkadin directed by Orson Welles
Boys' School directed by Christian-Jaque
Manhattan Murder Mystery directed by Woody Allen
Love Meetings directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Picnic at Hanging Rock directed by Peter Weir
Some interviews on Personal Matters directed by Lana Gogoberidze
Finally, Sunday ! directed by François Truffaut
The Third Man directed by Carol Reed

9 February is World Pizza Day! 

Here's a selection to whet your appetite: from New York-style takeaway pizza with Travolta to deep-fried Sophia Loren-style pizza, accompany your cinema screening with some of the craziest recipes, or opt for a traditional Margherita, perfect to (re)discover classics.

The list : www.lacinetek.com/fr/selection/pizza-cut

The films :
The Gold of Naples directed by Vittorio De Sica
The Jerk directed by Carl Reiner
Splendor in the Grass directed by Elia Kazan
Dog Day Afternoon directed by Sidney Lumet
Saturday Night Fever directed by John Badham
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial directed by Steven Spielberg
Back to the Future Part II directed by Robert Zemeckis
Do the Right Thing directed by Spike Lee
Ferris Bueller's Day Off directed by John Hughes

In January, LaCinetek is going back to school! 

From the earliest stages of learning all the way to graduation, when cinema takes hold of school it's as much to explore the intimate journey of pupils as the collective relationship with the group or the institution. It's a place where you learn to know yourself and to find your place among others, where you make unbreakable friendships and where revolt is never far away. 10 films, like so many mirrors held up to the society of each era.

The films in the subscription this month :

To Be and To Have directed by Nicolas Philibert
When We Were Children directed by Henry Brandt
Where Is the Friend's House directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Zero for Conduct directed by Jean Vigo
The 400 Blows directed by François Truffaut
Peppermint Soda directed by Diane Kurys
The Class directed by Laurent Cantet
The Beautiful Person directed by Christophe Honoré
Good Old Daze directed by Cédric Klapisch
Superbad directed by Greg Mottola

A scream: "Marcello, come here!"; an eternal fountain; then a strange silence. With La Dolce Vita, the myth of the seductive Mastroianni was born. Yet Marcello Mastroianni cultivated the art of contrast. An artist of oxymorons, a gentle provocateur with a melancholic lightness, he eludes any hasty categorisation: An awkward young father in Big Deal on Madonna Street, a vulnerable husband in Handsome Antonio, enigmatic in Antonioni's films, with multiple personalities in Ruiz's, and even pregnant in A Slightly Pregnant Man. LaCinetek follows in the footsteps of this emblematic actor for a journey through the great hours of Italian cinema, from the late 50s to the 80s, with the Fellinian oeuvre with which he is forever associated as a common thread.

Discover our selection of eleven films on LaCinetek

https://www.lacinetek.com/abonnement

A Slightly Pregnant Man directed by Jacques Demy
Le Notti Bianche directed by Luchino Visconti
Ginger and Fred directed by Federico Fellini
La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini
Handsome Antonio directed by Mauro Bolognini
La Notte directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Three Lives and Only One Death directed by Raúl Ruiz
Divorce Italian Style directed by Pietro Germi
Big Deal on Madonna Street directed by Mario Monicelli
Hail The Artist directed by Yves Robert
8½ directed by Federico Fellini 

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.

Discover his list : https://www.lacinetek.com/fr/la-liste-de/dominik-moll
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"I see skies of blue, And clouds of white… And I think to myself, What a wonderful world."

- Louis Armstrong, What a wonderful world

In December, LaCinetek invites you on the most beautiful of journeys, to discover the sky and its inhabitants, contemplate the Milky Way and explore space through 10 movies.

The films in the subscription this month :

Winged Migration by Jacques Perrin

The King and the Mockingbird  by Paul Grimault

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen  by Terry Gilliam

Only Angels Have Wings by Howard Hawks

Woman in the Moon by Fritz Lang

The Woman who dared by Jean Grémillon

Out Of the Present by Andrei Ujică

Nostalgia of the Light by Patricio Guzmán

Everything but the truth !

This month, LaCinetek tells you everything but the truth: false pretenses, deceptive appearances, shifting identities and lies galore creep into this selection of troubled waters. 
 Ten films that play with the viewer's expectations, shatter the boundaries between fact and fiction, and unearth the truth behind the many masks of lies.

The films in the subscription this month :
F for Fake by Orson Welles
Black Book by Paul Verhoeven
Dogtooth by Yórgos Lánthimos
White Lies by Pierre Salvadori
Time Out by Laurent Cantet
Tandem by Patrice Leconte
The Adversary by Nicole Garcia
A Separation by Asghar Farhadi
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Luigi Comencini
The Departed by Martin Scorsese

Writer, playwright and director, born in Austria in 1942.

While studying law, Peter Handke decided to devote himself entirely to writing after the publication of his first novel, The Hornets. This marked the start of a major literary and theatrical body of work that broke with the realist codes of the time. His sensory writing tackled existential and everyday issues. His novel The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970) was adapted for the screen by Wim Wenders. This collaboration continued with Wrong Move (1975) and Wings of Desire (1987), for which Peter Handke wrote the screenplays. In 1978, he directed the adaptation of his novel The Left-Handed Woman (Georges Sadoul Prize) with Edith Clever and Bruno Ganz, followed by The Absence with Jeanne Moreau. Multilingual, his translations into German include Francis Ponge, Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, Emmanuel Bove and René Char. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, making him one of the greatest writers of his time.

British director, born in London in 1960.

Initially a photographer, Joanna Hogg went on to study at the National Film and Television School, where she directed Caprice (1986), inaugurating a long collaboration with Tilda Swinton. Hogg then worked for several years in English television before directing her first film, Unrelated (2007), which won the FIPRESCI prize at the London Film Festival. This film and the next, Archipelago (2010), marked Tom Hiddleston's screen debut. Hogg's films are characterised by a strong attention to framing, inherited from his work as a photographer. The Souvenir, inspired by her autobiography, won her the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She continued the project with The Souvenir Part II, which won Best Editing and Best Production at the British Independent Film Awards in 2021. The in-between, intimacy and the figure of the double inhabit her work, notably in Eternal Daughter (2023), which explores the mother-daughter relationship in mirror image.

Discover her list : www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/joanna-hogg

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Director and actor born in 1989 in Montreal.

After starting his career as an actor as a child, Xavier Dolan moved behind the camera at an early age. His first feature film, I Killed My Mother, was a sensation, winning several awards at the 2009 Directors' Fortnight. Dolan explores the torments of love and emotional relationships without concessions, as in Heartbeats (2010) and Matthias & Maxime (2019). From Laurence Anyways (2012), a monumental portrait of a trans woman, to Mommy (2014), his films give pride of place to female or queer characters. His vivid, contrasting cinematography uses bright, saturated colours, playful framing and a combination of pop and literary references. He has also directed music videos (Hello, Adèle) and the mini-series The Night Logan Woke Up (2022). Acting in his own films, he has also appeared in Xavier Giannoli's Lost Illusions and Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased. He also played Adrian Mellon in Andrés Muschietti's It : Chapter 2. 

Discover his list : www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/xavier-dolan

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In September, LaCinetek is a triple word!

Whether friendship, love or family, the trio is an inexhaustible narrative motif in cinema. From the all-encompassing friendship of Husbands to the three-generation family relationship of Volver and the love trio of Jules and Jim, the 10 films in the selection explore the richness and complexity of triangular relationships.

The films in the subscription this month :
Husbands by John Cassavetes
The Boys from Fengkuei by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Jules and Jim by François Truffaut
Ménage by Bertrand Blier
The Touch by Ingmar Bergman
Diabolique by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Gilda by Charles Vidor
Volver by Pedro Almodóvar
Gas, Food, Lodging by Allison Anders
The Doom Generation by Gregg Araki

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French director, born in Paris in 1977.

After studies in production at La Fémis, Guillaume Brac directed and produced his first short film Stranded (2009), then a mid-length film A World Without Women (2011), which won awards at many festivals and was released to theatres, revealing Vincent Macaigne and Laure Calamy. In 2013, his first feature film, Tonnerre, presented at Locarno, momentarily took leave of the summer – his favourite season – for winter, and ventured along the disturbing shores of film noir. Enjoying juggling genres and formats, he alternates short and long films, fictions and documentaries. In 2018, he received the Jean Vigo Award for July Tales, a semi-improvised film, stemming from a workshop with young actors. Treasure Island, a documentary exploration from a leisure centre in the Parisian suburbs, featured among Cahiers du cinéma’s top ten films of 2018. In 2020, Brac returned to fiction with a comedy about young people, All Hands on Deck, selected for the Berlin Film Festival. In 2023, he directed Un pincement au cœur, the first part of a diptych on high-school friendship.

Discover his list : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/guillaume-brac

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This month, LaCinetek sees life as rock! 

From documentaries to biopics, from psychedelic drifts to soaring ballads, with glam, indus or pop accents, these films thrill us in tune with cult melodies and anthology performances.

Subversive, festive, independent, the spirit of rock takes hold of the selection.

The films in the subscription this month :
The Hours and Times by Christopher Münch
Velvet Goldmine by Todd Haynes
Tommy by Ken Russell
Looking for Eric by Ken Loach
Silêncio by F.J. Ossang
The Doors by Oliver Stone
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye by Marie Losier
Arizona Dream by Emir Kusturica
Loves a Blonde by Miloš Forman
Any Way the Wind Blows by Tom Barman
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud

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Former resident of the Villa Medici in Rome, Xavier Beauvois taught himself cinema under the aegis of Jean Douchet.

In 1991, he directed his first feature film, North, inspired by autobiographical elements. In 1995, he received the Jury Prize at Cannes for Don't Forget You're Going to Die, in which he performed alongside Chiara Mastroianni. Beauvois is fond of depicting various contexts under tension, notably that of the police, with The Young Lieutenant (2005), or that of women during the First World War with The Guardians (2017). Several of his films are based on news items, like Selon Matthieu (2000) or Drift Away (2021). Of Gods and Men (2010), with Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale, was awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. He also appears as an actor in many films and series, such as House of Tolerance by Bertrand Bonello (2011), The Summer House by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi (2018) or season 4 of Call My Agent!

Discover his list : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/xavier-beauvois

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This month, LaCinetek sets sail on the waters of cinema. 

The selection takes you on board ships populated by seafaring filmmakers whose films become odysseys: epic, romantic, social. 

Ten films to take to the open seas, visit real or imaginary territories, and experience the art of going against the current.

The films in the subscription this month :

The African Queen by John Huston
Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog
The Navigator by Buster Keaton
Rowing Across the Atlantic by Jean-François Laguionie
Three Crowns of the Sailor by Raoul Ruiz
The Lady from Shanghai by Orson Welles
The Boat That Rocked by Richard Curtis
Odessa by Bruno Oliviero & Leonardo di Costanzo
Le Passager du Tassili by Sarah Maldoror
The Immigrant by Charlie Chaplin
Le Havre by Aki Kaurismäki

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This month, LaCinetek takes a look at the suburbs.

These territories, long under-represented or misrepresented, nonetheless offer a rich and contrasting terrain for cinema. The suburban film takes on many faces depending on whether it frames working-class neighborhoods, middle-class areas or affluent suburbs. It's a cinema made up of (counter)cultures and (counter)histories, particularly those of immigrant origin.

This selection was inspired by La Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde, a project initiated by Alice Diop at the Ateliers Médicis and the Centre Pompidou.

The films in the subscription this month :
L'Esquive by Abdellatif Kechiche 
Wesh, Wesh, What's Happening? by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
35 Shots of Rum by Claire Denis
Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
Ugly, dirty and bad by Ettore Scola
The Mass Is Ended by Nanni Moretti
River of Grass by Kelly Reichardt
A Serious Man by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
The Swimmer by Frank Perry
A Night in Versailles by Bruno Podalydès
L'amour existe by Maurice Pialat

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Rebecca Zlotowski is a French director, born in 1980 in Paris.

A former student of the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure and having passed the enviable agrégation teaching qualification in modern literature, Rebecca Zlotowski discovered cinema through writing. A screenplay student at the Fémis, her desire was honed by lecturers such as Philippe Grandrieux or students like Teddy Lussi-Modeste, for whom she co-write Jimmy Rivière and The Price of Success. Her graduation-year film revealed her as a director: presented at the Critics’ Week, Belle Épine won the Louis-Delluc Prize in 2011 for Best First Film and earned Léa Seydoux a César Award nomination. Deconstructing and questioning stereotypes, her filmography focuses on subjects, places, and bodies that are rarely showcased on-screen: a nuclear power plant for the romance Grand Central; anti-Semitism through the lens of spiritualism in the period film Planetarium (with Natalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, and Emmanuel Salinger) ; the body of racialised and Rohmerian bimbo (Zahia Dehar) in An Easy Girl (SACD Prize at the Directors’ Fortnight – 2019); the first French president of Kabylian origins (Roschdy Zem) in the political series Savages; or a loving stepmother played by Virginie Efira in Other People’s Children.

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Arthur Harari is a French director, born in 1981 in Paris.

Cinema was an early part of Arthur Harari's life. His grandfather was the actor Clément Harari, an emblematic second knife of French cinema. As lover of the dark rooms, the young Harari made Super 8 films with his siblings: Lucas in front of the camera and Tom (who became a cinematographer) in the picture, with whom he has never stopped collaborating. Self-taught, Harari first trained in short films (Des jours dans la rue, 2005; Le Petit, 2006; La Main sur la gueule, 2007; Peine perdue, 2013). His first feature film, Diamant noir (2016, with Niels Schneider), a film noir set in the milieu of Antwerp diamond dealers, affirms the singularity of a cinema that knows how to be both nervous and delicate, uncompromising and nuanced. It was followed by 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, presented at Cannes (Un Certain Regard section) in 2021, which won the Louis Delluc prize, the Syndicat de la critique prize and the César for best screenplay. Harari also writes films as a co-writer with his partner Justine Triet (notably for Sibyl and Anatomy of a Fall).

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This month, LaCinetek celebrates the art of the enchantress Circe, capable of changing bodies into others. 

This selection explores our changing and mutating identities in ten films that always prefer movement to fixity. Whether natural, artificial or fantastic, these metamorphoses show a world that is changing and reveal the power of cinema to play with forms.

The films in the subscription this month :
Water Lilies by Céline Sciamma
The French Kissers by Riad Sattouf
Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
Steak by Quentin Dupieux
The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodóvar
Eyes Without a Face by Georges Franju
Orlando by Sally Potter
Faust - A German Folktale by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
An Andalusian Dog by Luis Buñuel
The Taste of Tea by Katsuhito Ishii
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Saeed Roustaee is an Iranian director, born in Tehran in 1989.

In a handful of intense films, he has become a leading figure in Iranian cinema. Coming from a modest background, he was encouraged by his family in his desire to make films and studied filmmaking at the Soore University in Tehran. After a few short films and an acclaimed documentary, he signed his first feature-length drama at the age of 26: Life and a Day (2016). This family drama already marks his interest in the destinies of characters caught up in the socio-economic crisis. Just 6.5, his second feature film, established him in his country (it was seen by more than 3 million Iranians) and internationally. Presented at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, this energic social thriller takes an uncompromising look at the ravages of drug dealing. This is followed by the tragic Leila’s Brothers, in competition at Cannes in 2022, which won the FIPRESCI prize but was banned from being shown in Iran. It features his favorite actors Navid Mohammadzadeh and Peyman Maadi as well as the actress and activist Taraneh Alidoosti, a figure of a new generation of feminism.

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And in the end, what is left?

In March, LaCinetek goes to the end of the road: to the edge of existence, to the end of the world, to the time of the last film and the very last image. 
From family portraits to initiation quests, the selection takes a tender and lucid look at the passage of time and the cycle of life.

10 films in the form of a grand final bouquet and recapitulatory loops.

The films in the subscription this month :
Sarabande by Ingmar Bergman
Epiphany Sunday by Marie-Claude Treilhou
La Chasse aux papillons by Otar Iosseliani
The Mourning Forest by Naomi Kawase
The Straight Story by David Lynch
The Remains of the Day by James Ivory (FRANCE only)
Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami (BELGIUM/LUXEMBOURG only)
The Sacrifice by Andreï Tarkovski
Madadayo by Akira Kurosawa
Anna & Bella by Borge Ring
The Old Guard by Gilles Grangier
Tokyo Story by Yasujirō Ozu (FRANCE only)
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Joachim Lafosse was born in 1975 in Brussels.

After graduating from the IAD, he directed his first feature film in 2003, "Folie privée", which was selected for the official competition at the Locarno Festival. In 2006, he directed two feature films, "Ça rend heureux" (in competition at Locarno and winner of the Grand Prix du Jury at the Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers) and "Nue Propriété" with Isabelle Huppert (in competition at the Venice Film Festival). In 2007, he shot "Élève libre", presented at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes.

Joachim Lafosse's reputation grows from film to film, as evidenced by the national and international fame of "À perdre la raison" (selected for Un Certain Regard, where Emilie Dequenne won the award for best actress). In 2015, he directed "Les Chevaliers blancs" with a prestigious cast (Vincent Lindon, Valérie Donzelli, Louise Bourgoin, Reda Kateb). The film was presented in Toronto and San Sebastian (Best Director Award). "L'Économie du couple", starring Bérénice Bejo and Cédric Kahn, was screened at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes in 2016 and received an excellent critical and public reception. In 2018, he returns with "Continuer", starring Virginie Efira and Kacey Mottet-Klein, presented at the Venice Film Festival. In 2021, "Les Intranquilles", which he shoots with Leïla Bekhti and Damien Bonnard, is in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2022, he completes the shooting of the film "Un Silence", with Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil.

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In February, LaCinetek celebrates love!

Crazy love films, romantic or plural; from the most ideal romances to the most sensual cinema experiments; from the classical age to the contemporary era.

10 films to get caught up in the game of desire and open up to the amplitude of feelings.

The films in the subscription this month : 
A Swedish Love Story by Roy Andersson
The Long Absence by Henri Colpi
The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry
Love Affair by Leo McCarey
Fellini's Casanova by Federico Fellini
Deep Crimson by Arturo Ripstein
Marius and Jeannette by Robert Guédiguian
Heartbeats by Xavier Dolan (FRANCE only)
Shortbus by John Cameron Mitchell (FRANCE only)
Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran (FRANCE / LUXEMBOURG only)
Stormy Waters by Jean Grémillon (BELGIUM / LUXEMBOURG only)
Une Chambre en ville by Jacques Demy (BELGIUM / LUXEMBOURG only)
Port of Shadows by Marcel Carné (BELGIUM only)

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Lucile Hadzihalilovic, daughter of a Bosnian father and a French mother, grew up near the ocean in Morocco, as well as in the forest of the Vosges region in France.

At 18, she moved to Paris, studied Art History then entered the IDHEC (now La Fémis) in 1983. Her attraction to genre films stood out in a school that favoured naturalist auteur cinema at that time. It was during these years of study that she met Gaspar Noé, her partner. Together, they founded Les Cinémas de la Zone and collaborated on their respective films during the 1990s (Carne, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre, I Stand Alone). The titles of her (long and short) films – Innocence, Evolution, Nectar, Natura, Earwig – sound like so many entries in a filmic book of spells, in which tales merge with the natural sciences. Her work forms a kind of chrysalid of genre cinema, contained within subtle and suggestive in-camera action, in which emotional and sensorial intelligence perturbs reason.

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And you, do you like Paris? 

This beloved or hated city, subject of dreams or nightmares, fascinates artists and filmmakers by its exacerbated features and its multiple facets. 

In January, LaCinetek surveys this protean city of cinema: from the romances along the Seine to the burlesque modernity, from the underworld neighborhoods to the streets of militant cinema.

10 films that reveal a singular Paris, far from postcard clichés.

The films in the subscription this month : 
- Full Moon in Paris by Eric Rohmer
- Love at Sea by Guy Gilles
- 2 Days in Paris by Julie Delpy
- Playtime by Jacques Tati
- Zazie dans le métro by Louis Malle
- Golden Helmet by Jacques Becker 
- The American Friend by Wim Wenders 
- Paris Belongs to Us by Jacques Rivette
- October in Paris by Jacques Panijel
- Daguerreotypes by Agnes Varda

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In December, LaCinetek prepares the end of year festivities! 

The Selection of the month gathers 10 films that we like to see again and again during this winter period. Great comedies (musical or romantic), feel good movies, intriguing family stories or children's epics: all pleasures - guilty or not - to watch curled up under the comforter or snuggled up on the couch, alone, with friends or family. 

This month, 10 films to spend the holidays with images that galvanize and comfort.

The films in the subscription this month : 
- 8 Women by François Ozon
- Same Old Song by Alain Resnais
- Funny Girl by William Wyler
- Pot Luck by Cédric Klapisch
- Eat Drink Man Woman by Ang Lee
- Sleepless in Seattle by Nora Ephron
- Punch-Drunk Love by Paul Thomas Anderson
- That Uncertain Feeling by Ernst Lubitsch
- Hook by Steven Spielberg
- Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore  

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A precocious child of the cinema, Philippe Garrel, son of the actor Maurice Garrel, made his first films in the mid-1960s. His dazzling and incandescent cine-poems are called Les Enfants désaccordés (1964), Marie pour mémoire (1967), Le Révélateur (1968, with Bernadette Lafont) or La Concentration (1968, with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Zouzou). Alongside the singer Nico, his seventies companion, his quest for an existence transcended by art became psychedelic (from La Cicatrice intérieure in 1971 to L'Enfant secret in 1979). His cinema is attentive to the insurrectionary breath of youth (such as that of 1968 in Les Amants réguliers) as well as to the intensity of love (La Naissance de l'amour, 1993; L'Amant d'un jour, 2016). His singular working method favors the materiality of 35 mm and an intimate craft, involving his family in front of the camera. 
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In November, LaCinetek hears voices! 

Those with immediately recognizable tones of actors and actresses (from Jeanne Moreau to Anna Magnani, from Gérard Depardieu to Bruce Willis...), voices in or out, secret or public, listened to or not listened to. Voices sometimes naked, sometimes driven by devices that amplify or transform sounds, such as telephones, microphones or recorders. Passing from mouth to ear, from breath to word, these voices that whisper or scream tell their loves and fears.

This month, a selection of ten films to listen as well as to see.

The films in the subscription this month : 
- The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
- When a Stranger Calls by Fred Walton
- The Lorry by Marguerite Duras
- L'amore by Roberto Rossellini
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar
- Language Does Not Lie by Stan Neumann
- Read My Lips by Jacques Audiard
- See Here My Love by Hugo Santiago
- Elevator to the Gallows by Louis Malle
- Sin City by Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller (France only)
- Lettre d'Alain Cavalier by Alain Cavalier

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In October, LaCinetek explores the figure of the father, through a palette of intense and subtle emotions, both serious and joyful.

The films in the selection question the making of fatherhood, test filial love or revive the pain of the lack (of the father or of the child). 

A quest for intimacy carried by the sensitive incarnation of actors such as Dustin Hoffman, Marcello Mastroianni, Chishū Ryū or Nanni Moretti...

The films in the subscription this month :

- Kramer vs. Kramer by Robert Benton
- Three Men and a Cradle by Coline Serreau
- Voilà by Bruno Podalydès
- Yi Yi by Edward Yang (available in France only)
- There Was a Father by Yasujirō Ozu
- The Beekeeper by Theo Angelopoulos
- A Sunday in the Country by Bertrand Tavernier
- Little Lise by Jean Grémillon
- The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti
- Father and Daughter by Michael Dudok de Wit
- L’enfant endormi by Yasmine Kassari

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Her first fiction film, Saint Omer, has just won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival (Silver Lion and Lion of the Future, rewarding a first film): it is Alice Diop, our director of the month.

This French filmmaker, born in Seine-Saint-Denis with Senegalese parents, draws a map of experiences rarely shown on the screen, stemming from exile and the suburbs. Her films attempt to repair faults, to recreate links, to make visible people and missing landscapes. Her cinema goes, as one of her beautiful documentaries, Towards Tenderness (César 2017 for best short film). 

As a programmer - at the Centre Pompidou, where she is creating an "ideal film library of the world's suburbs" and at LaCinetek - she favours urban explorations, stories of wandering or autobiography. These are all forms that allow her to encounter reality, in its intimate and political aspects, armed with lucidity and poetry. 

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"The fact is that, in front of Godard, one is like in front of Picasso. He has lived through his era, embracing it completely, he is steeped in its contradictions and flashes of brilliance, he has tried everything, he has absorbed everything, he has been several filmmakers, he has had several lives, some simultaneously." - Olivier Assayas, 2006

Jean-Luc Godard had no descendants and no real heirs, and yet he is the filmmaker who has undoubtedly had the greatest influence on directors around the world over the last 70 years.

That's why he is also the one who has the most different films cited on LaCinetek. 

Regardless of their age or cinephilia, most of the filmmakers associated with LaCinetek have been influenced by one or another of his films, one or another of his shots or their confrontation. 

His films have contributed to their desire to make films in their turn, they have made them grow, they have given them to see the world in new ways, they have helped them to search their own manufacturing practices, to think about money and means of production, to feel freer, to not give up. They gave them courage.

No descendants but the greatest of legacies.

As we grieve, it is JLG's voice, his inimitable and unmistakable voice that we hear telling us: 

"When I look at the sky and the stars, I can only see what is gone."

What remains is an immense work, which we are happy to be able to share with you in this special focus, like a treasure :

- All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)
- Breathless (1960)
- Vivre sa vie (1962)
- Contempt (1963)
- Les Carabiniers (1963)
- Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
- Band of Outsiders (1964)
- Alphaville (1965)
- Pierrot le Fou (1965)
- Masculin Féminin (1966)
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
- Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
- Tout va bien (1972)
- Numéro deux (1975)
- Every Man for Himself (1980)
- Godard’s Passion (1982)
- Detective (1985)
- Hail Mary (1985)
- The Book of Mary by Anne-Marie Miéville, collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard (1985)
- The Power of Speech (1988)
- JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1994)

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"The sky is only blue by convention, but red in reality." -Alberto Giacometti

In September LaCinetek lauds the colour red. 

This month's Selection of films features this primordial colour, its pictorial intensity and symbolic richness, in a palette of pop, baroque and flamboyant films. 

The incandescence is also based on the actors' incarnation, associating the filmmakers' formal research with the sacred fire of acting (Irène Jacob and Jean-Louis Trintignant in Kieślowski's films; Karina and Belmondo in Godard's; quartets of sumptuous actors in Resnais' and Coppola's films...). 

A selection to pigment the autumn, in bloody and tawny tones, carmine and vermeil.

- Three Colors: Red by Krzysztof Kieślowski (1994)
- Pierrot le Fou by Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
- All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
- Love Unto Death by Alain Resnais (1984)
- The Great Silence by Sergio Corbucci (1968)
- Blood and Black Lace by Mario Bava (1964)
- Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola (1992)
- The Color of Pomegranates by Sergueï Parajanov (1969)
- Flowers of Shanghai by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1997)
- La Cosa by Nanni Moretti (1990)

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In September, LaCinetek pays tribute to Catherine Deneuve, who received the Golden Lion of Honour at the Venice Film Festival in August 2002.

LaCinetek joins this tribute through 20 key films of her career, from the 1960s to 2000. 20 pieces of an enigmatic and jubilant puzzle to celebrate one of the most beautiful filmographies in the world, which crosses all genres (musical, horror, thriller, comedy, drama) and where the indomitable star is in turn ingenuous and perverse, restrained and unrestrained, bourgeois and popular...

From Demy to Téchiné, from Buñuel to Lars von Trier, Deneuve, queen of metamorphosis, never stops changing: "I have not fixed myself, I did not remain frozen in what I have done, nor in what I have been.

- Portuguese Vacation by Pierre Kast (1963)
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy (1964)
- Repulsion by Roman Polanski (1965)
- The Young Girls of Rochefort by Jacques Demy (1967)
- Belle de jour by Luis Buñuel (1967)
- Tristana by Luis Buñuel (1970)
- Donkey Skin by Jacques Demy (1970)
- Un Flic by Jean-Pierre Melville (1972)
- Zig Zig by László Szabó (1975)
- Lovers Like Us by Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1975)
- See Here My Love by Hugo Santiago (1979)
- The Last Metro by François Truffau (1980)
- Hotel America by André Téchiné (1981)
- The Hunger by Tony Scott (1983)
- Scene of the Crime by André Téchiné (1986)
- My Favorite Season by André Téchiné (1993)
- Night Wind by Philippe Garrel (1999)
- Time Regained by Raúl Ruiz (1999)
- Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier (2000)
- Kings and Queen by Arnaud Desplechin (2004)

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In August, LaCinetek enters the game with 10 films dedicated to sports.

From the closed-door ring to the soccer or tennis courts, from athletic prowess to landscape immersion with board sports, the selection is multi-sport, to play it solo or collectively and to follow the gestures and rhythms of each discipline.

These sports films filter everyday human experiences (alliances, rivalries, emulations, strategies, performances...) to bring them to their highest levels of intensity.

- The Ring by Alfred Hitchcock
- The Boxer and Death by Peter Solan
- Fat City by John Huston
- Raging Bull by Martin Scorsese
- Hothead by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- The Traveler by Abbas Kiarostomi
- JLG / JLG by Jean-Luc Godard
- Wassup Rockers by Larry Clark
- Envol by Daisy Lamothe
- The Dark Glow of the Mountains by Werner Herzog
- College by Buster Keaton, James W.Horne

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Howard Hawks - unique in every way - was able to embody with perfection the categories of Hollywood cinema, while bending these codes to his original style. 

Here he is, in turn, the emblem of the gangster film with Scarface, of the war film with Today We Live; of the comedy with Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday or Man's Favorite Sport?; of the western and the peplum, from The Big Sky to Land of the Pharaohs; of the film noir with The Big Sleep and even of the science-fiction with The Thing from Another World. Not to mention sports adventures: from the aviation film Only Angels Have Wings to the car races of Red Line 7000. 

These cinematic desires bring to the screen powerful human figures, embodied by the most charismatic stars of the period such as Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn and Lauren Bacall, opposite Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne or Kirk Douglas.

What to remain, still today "Hitchcocko-Hawksians", to resume the famous formula of André Bazin.

- Scarface
- Today We Live
- Bringing Up Baby
- Only Angels Have Wings
- His Girl Friday
- To Have and Have Not
- The Big Sleep
- The Thing from Another World
- The Big Sky
- Land of the Pharaohs
- Rio Bravo
- Hatari!
- Man's Favorite Sport?

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Let's celebrate Fassbinder's legacy !

Rainer Werner Fassbinder died 40 years ago, at the age of 37, leaving us with a rich body of work, both cinematic, theatrical and televisual. His films transform melodrama into subversive art: they draw a sharp portrait of a certain state of German society and question the country's relationship to its history. Working tirelessly and at a frantic pace, the filmmaker has cultivated throughout his career a singular artistic approach, punk before his time, which has made him one of the most emblematic and atypical figures of the New German Cinema.

- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
- The Merchant of Four Seasons
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok ?
- Fox and His Friends
- In a Year with 13 Moons
- Lola
- The Marriage of Maria Braun
- Veronika Voss
- Querelle

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1 month - 1 theme - 10 films: In July, LaCinetek enters the geek world !

Whether it's household appliances, industrial equipment or science fiction androids, enter worlds where the apparatus of cinema meets the tools, real or dreamed, of modernity.

10 resolutely inventive films - with packed rhythms, noisy soundtracks, and gadgets and creatures of all kinds - that question the links between humans and technology.

- My Uncle by Jacques Tati
- Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers by Nick Park
- Blow Up My Town by Chantal Akerman
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-Luc Godard
- Shampoo by Hal Ashby
- The Toy by Francis Veber
- The Terminator by James Cameron
- Metropolis by Fritz Lang
- That Old Dream That Moves by Alain Guiraudie
- Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin

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Our guest of the month is Spanish director Jonás 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.

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LaCinetek is decked out in the colors of the rainbow and celebrating Pride Month with a selection of 30 landmark works of queer cinema.

These films have brought rarely seen fantasies, practices and characters to the big screen, while sparking new cinematic imaginations, often with independent production methods. Let yourself be tempted by the margins of the Hollywood system, to the pop-trash universes of John Waters or Gregg Araki; by the sultry Japanese New Wave; or by the sensual ballads of Wong Kar-Waï or André Téchiné... So many stages in a proud history of the 7th Art, where all genders are allowed.

DRAMA

- Funeral Parade of Roses by Toshio Matsumoto
- The Boys in the band by William Friedkin
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- In a Year with 13 Moons by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- The Wounded Man by Patrice Chéreau
- Wild Reeds by André Téchiné
- All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar
- Beau Travail by Claire Denis
- Bad Education by Pedro Almodóvar
- Mysterious Skin by Gregg Araki

COMEDY

- Sylvia Scarlett by George Cukor
- Desperate Living by John Waters
- Victor / Victoria by Blake Edwards
- Ménage by Bertrand Blier
- Chasing Amy by Kevin Smith

EROTISM

- Pink Narcissus by James Bidgood
- Equation to an Unknown by Dietrich de Velsa
- Querelle by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- O Fantasma by João Pedro Rodrigues

ONIRISM

- The Blood of a Poet by Jean Cocteau
- The Hunger by Ton Scott
- Happy Together by Wong Kar-Wai
- Nowhere by Gregg Araki
- Mulholland Drive by David Lynch
- Tropical Malady by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

AUTOFICTIONS

- The Terence Davies Trilogy by Terence Davies
- Modesty and Shamelessness by Hervé Guibert

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Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa is our guest of the month.

LaCinetek highlights the cinephilia of this radical and moving artist, as his previously unreleased film Ventura, Cavalo Dinheiro (2014) hits theaters.

Its 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.

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