November : 2010 : socks-studio

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We’ll keep adding movies, old and contemporary, classic or avantgarde; the only line being their inner necessity.

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April, 2011
L'armée des ombres (1969) 8/10
2011-04-07 17:56

France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, where he makes the traitor be executed... This non-spectacular movie (do not expect any Rambo or Robin Hood) shows us rigorously and austerely the everyday of the French Resistants : their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders and their carrying out... Both writer Joseph Kessel and co-writer and director Jean-Pierre Melville belonged to this "Army in the Shadows". Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Writers: Joseph Kessel (novel), Jean-Pierre Melville (adaptation) Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse and Jean-Pierre Cassel
0.3
February, 2011
Black Swan (2010) 6/10
2011-02-21 00:34

Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her. Director: Darren Aronofsky Writers: Mark Heyman (screenplay), Andres Heinz (screenplay), Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel
0.3
Le quattro volte (2010) 7/10
2011-02-21 00:33

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day. Director: Michelangelo Frammartino Writer: Michelangelo Frammartino Stars: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano and Nazareno Timpano
0.3
Cria Cuervos (1976) 8/10
2011-02-16 00:33

In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed. Director: Carlos Saura Writer: Carlos Saura (story) Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall and Florinda Chico
0.3
Repulsion (1965) 8/10
2011-02-06 03:16

Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a sexually repressed young beauty goes insane with surreal fantasies of seduction and rape. Director: Roman Polanski Writers: Roman Polanski (original screenplay), Gérard Brach (original screenplay), Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry and John Fraser
0.3
Another Year (2010) 8/10
2011-02-04 01:17

A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness. Director: Mike Leigh Writer: Mike Leigh Stars: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville
0.3
Breaking Away (1979) 8/10
2011-02-01 02:24

A small-town teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl. Director: Peter Yates Writer: Steve Tesich Stars: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern
0.3
January, 2011
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) 8/10
2011-01-26 02:25

The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work. Director: Banksy Stars: Banksy, Thierry Guetta and Space Invader
0.3
Valerie and her week of wonders (1970) 7/10
2011-01-24 01:01

Inspired by fairy-tales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red-Riding Hood, "Valerie and her Week of Wonders" is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world. Director: Jaromil Jires Writers: Vítezslav Nezval (novel), Jaromil Jires (screenplay) Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová and Petr Kopriva
0.3
Dillinger is dead (1969) 9/10
2011-01-23 01:34

Back home, Glauco, an industrial designer, finds his wife in bed with a serious headache. She has left him dinner but it is cold and Glauco decides to prepare himself a gourmet meal. While looking for some kitchenware, he discovers a revolver wrapped in a newspaper dating from 1934 announcing the death of famed mobster John Dillinger. Director: Marco Ferreri Writers: Marco Ferreri (story), Marco Ferreri (screenplay) Stars: Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg and Annie Girardot
0.3
Five Easy Pieces (1970) 8/10
2011-01-20 01:38

A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest. Director: Bob Rafelson Writers: Carole Eastman (screenplay), Carole Eastman (story), Stars: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black and Billy Green Bush
0.3
The Last Picture Show (1971) 8/10
2011-01-19 01:09

A group of 50's high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally. Director: Peter Bogdanovich Writers: Larry McMurtry (novel), Larry McMurtry (screenplay), Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd
0.3
Paper Moon (1973) 8/10
2011-01-19 01:08

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership. Director: Peter Bogdanovich Writers: Joe David Brown (novel), Alvin Sargent (screenplay) Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal and Madeline Kahn
0.3
Ipcress (1965) 7/10
2011-01-07 01:51

In London, a counter espionage agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. Director: Sidney J. Furie Writers: W.H. Canaway (screenplay), James Doran (screenplay) Stars: Michael Caine, Nigel Green and Guy Doleman
0.3
La guerre du feu (1981) 7/10
2011-01-02 12:17

This story takes place in prehistoric time when three prehistoric tribesmen search for a new fire source. Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Writers: Gérard Brach (screenplay), J.H. Rosny Sr. (novel) Stars: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman and Nicholas Kadi
0.3