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, 1h21
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Rating76%
Frederick Wiseman filme le travail quotidien de la police de Kansas City dans le Missouri. La plupart des scènes sont filmées dans le quartier noir de la ville. Le respect de la loi est au cœur des activités des forces de l'ordre mais le cinéaste filme aussi les aspects sociaux du travail des policiers. Les scènes montrant les brutalités succèdent aux séquences plus légères voire humoristiques. Frederick Wiseman cherche à montrer les différentes facettes de l'institution. Mais derrière les pratiques des forces de l'ordre, ce documentaire montre une société en crise, rongée par le racisme, la pauvreté et la violence.

, 1h35
Directed by Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Éric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Barbet Schroeder, Serge Davri, Gilles Quéant, Claude Melki, Jean-Michel Rouzière, Micheline Dax
Rating66%
Six réalisateurs emblématiques de la Nouvelle Vague revisitent Paris à leur manière, échafaudant des fictions au coeur des quartiers de la capitale. Tandis que Jean-Daniel Pollet vagabonde Rue Saint-Denis, Jean Rouch s'intéresse à la Gare du Nord, Jean Douchet à Saint-Germain des Prés et Eric Rohmer à Place de l'Etoile. Jean-Luc Godard hésite entre Montparnasse-Levallois, alors que Claude Chabrol préfère La Muette.

, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan
Rating69%
Dans ce documentaire classique de 1969, l'homme en noir est capturé à son apogée, le premier d'une longue carrière dans les montagnes russes. Tout juste après son album Folsom Prison, Cash révèle la sombre intensité et le talent brut qui ont fait de lui une star de la musique country et une icône de la culture. Le réalisateur Robert Elfstrom s’est rapproché plus que tout autre cinéaste de Cash, qui joue notamment avec sa nouvelle épouse, June Carter Cash, dans un duo rare avec Bob Dylan, et dans les coulisses avec des amis, la famille et de jeunes musiciens en herbe.

, 1h30
Directed by Marco Ferreri
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Annie Girardot, Carole André, Gerard Malanga
Rating68%
Glauco, a middle-aged industrial designer of gas masks, is growing tired of his occupation. Having discussed alienation with a colleague at the factory, he returns home. His wife is in bed with a headache but has left him dinner, which has become cold. He is dissatisfied with the food and begins preparing himself a gourmet meal. While collecting ingredients he discovers an old revolver wrapped in a 1934 newspaper with the headline "Dillinger is dead" and an account of the famous American gangster's death. Glauco cleans and restores the gun while continuing to cook his dinner, then paints it red with white polka dots. He also eats his meal, watches some television and projected home movies, listens to music and seduces their maid. With the gun he enacts suicide a number of times. At dawn he shoots his wife thrice in the head as she sleeps. Then he drives to the seaside where he gets a job as a chef on a yacht bound for Tahiti.

, 1h58
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Hayley Mills, Russell Napier, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Phyllis Calvert
Rating69%
The film opens with Martin playing catch with his younger brother Pete, who has learning difficulties and lives in a segregated school in London. Martin is the only remaining figure Pete's family life; their father died years ago and their mother has a new life with a new husband. Martin expresses concern for his brother's well-being to the school's physician, who is comfortable with Pete's progress.

, 1h41
Directed by Emile de Antonio
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films
Rating73%
De nombreux films ont pris cette guerre pour sujet. Moins connus, il existe d'admirables documentaires qui, mieux que les longs-métrages de fiction, témoignent de l'exceptionnelle cruauté d'un affrontement qui causa la mort de 58 000 Américains, de plus de 3 millions de Vietnamiens. Emile de Antonio a réalisé au début de la guerre du Vietnam, le réalisateur s'est infiltré méthodiquement dans le tumulte des événements. Il a été le premier à tenter d'expliquer les raisons profondes de la guerre. Avec des méthodes d'archéologue.

, 1h56
Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Children's films
Actors Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Celia Johnson, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson, Jane Carr
Rating75%
Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a teacher in the junior-aged section of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1930s. Brodie is known for her tendency to stray from the hard knowledge of the school's curriculum, to romanticize fascist leaders like Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco, and to believe herself to be in the prime of life. Brodie devotes her time and energy to her four special 12-year-old junior school girls, called the Brodie Set: Sandy (Pamela Franklin), Monica (Shirley Steedman), Jenny (Diane Grayson) and Mary (Jane Carr).