Cinema releases by week

, 2h
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Dance films, Films about suicide
Actors Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Gig Young, Susannah York, Red Buttons, Bonnie Bedelia
Rating77%
Robert Syverton (Michael Sarrazin), who once dreamed of being a great film director, recalls the events leading to an unstated crime. In his youth, he saw a horse break its leg, after which it was shot and put out of its misery. Years later, in 1932 during the Great Depression, he wanders into a dance marathon about to begin in the shabby La Monica Ballroom, perched over the Pacific Ocean on the Santa Monica Pier, near Los Angeles. He is recruited by MC (Master of Ceremonies) Rocky (Gig Young) as a substitute partner for a cynical malcontent named Gloria (Jane Fonda), when her original partner is disqualified because of an ominous cough.

, 2h14
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Films about music and musicians, Dans l'espace, Films about the Apollo program, Films based on science fiction novels, Musical films, Space opera, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant
Rating59%
Three American astronauts – commander Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna), "Buzz" Lloyd (Gene Hackman), and Clayton "Stoney" Stone (James Franciscus) – are the first crew of an experimental space station on an extended duration mission. While returning to Earth, the main engine on the Apollo spacecraft Ironman One fails. Mission Control determines that Ironman does not have enough backup thruster capability to initiate atmospheric reentry, or to re-dock with the station and wait for rescue. The crew is marooned in orbit.

, 1h32
Directed by Agnès Varda
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy
Actors Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Eva Dahlbeck, Bernard Lajarrige, Birgitta Pettersson, Jeanne Allard
Rating63%
Dans l'île de Noirmoutier, un écrivain et son épouse s'installent dans un fort, où ils vivent en réduisant au minimum les contacts avec la population. La femme a perdu l'usage de la parole après un accident. Le mari est écrivain. À proximité vit un ingénieur retraité, misanthrope. Des faits troublants se produisent. Plusieurs habitants de l'île semblent perdre le contrôle d'eux-mêmes. Les réalités s'entremêlent : l'écrivain trouve un sujet pour un roman fantastique, tandis que l'ingénieur manipule les îliens à distance grâce à une machine de son invention. Les deux hommes se rencontrent pour une partie d'échecs capitale : le démiurge réel du monde imaginaire joue contre le démiurge probablement imaginaire du monde réel. L'enjeu et la fin de toute chose, c'est à la fois l'amour et la mort.

, 2h7
Directed by Costa-Gavras
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Crime, Politic
Themes Assassinat, Politique, Political films
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Irène Papas, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, François Périer
Rating81%
The story begins with the closing moments of a rather dull government lecture and slide show on agricultural policy, after which the leader of the security police of a right-wing military-dominated government (Dux) takes over the podium for an impassioned speech describing the government's program to combat leftism, using the metaphors of "a mildew of the mind", an infiltration of "isms", or "sunspots".

Directed by Walter Grauman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Don Murray, Ray Milland, Gene Tierney, Edward Asnere, Pamelyn Ferdin, Ivor Barry
Rating62%
At the request of a colleague (Ivor Barry), psychologist and ESP researcher Alex Lauder (Don Murray) investigates a leading cybernetic expert's (Dr. Samuel Constable, played by Ray Milland) report that he has seen and spoken with his young daughter, Mary (Pamelyn Ferdin) — who died 13 weeks before. Keeping an open mind, Lauder decides to take the case and see wherever it may lead.

, 1h23
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Jon Voight, Monique van Vooren, Ben Carruthers, Severn Darden, Ken Nordine, Anthony Holland
Rating38%

, 21minutes
Directed by Ward Kimball
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Children's films
Actors Ruth Buzzi, Richard Bakalyan, Paul Frees, Ward Kimball
Rating66%
Le personnage principal, un petit oiseau rouge, explique l'évolution de l'oiseau (avec une énumération de termes scientifiques). Il évoque également l'influence qu'ont les oiseaux à l'égard des hommes, incapables de voler; il montre ainsi que les oiseaux ont largement contribué à la culture humaine (par exemple, dans les hiéroglyphes, on remarque une présence, hyperbolique sans doute, des oiseaux.), bien que les hommes, justement, souhaitent souvent les tuer. Les parcs naturels montrés à la fin du moyen-métrage montrent la passion des hommes pour les oiseaux.

, 1h32
Directed by Peter Yates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan, Olympia Dukakis, Tyne Daly, Marian Mercer
Rating65%
John and Mary begins the morning after John and Mary meet in a bar, during a conversation about Jean-Luc Godard's Week End, and go home with each other. The story unfolds during the day as they belatedly get to know each other over breakfast, lunch and dinner. Flashbacks of their previous bad relationships are interspersed throughout when something in their conversation brings the thought up.

, 2h22
Directed by Gene Kelly, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Edra Jean Peaker, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, J. Pat O'Malley
Rating69%
In 1890, all of New York City is excited because widowed, brassy Dolly Levi is in town ("Call On Dolly"). Dolly makes a living through matchmaking and numerous sidelines ("Just Leave Everything to Me"). She is currently seeking a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder, the well-known "half-a-millionaire", but it becomes clear that Dolly intends to marry Horace herself. Dolly travels to Yonkers, New York to visit Horace. Ambrose Kemper, a young artist, wants to marry Horace's weepy niece, Ermengarde, but Horace opposes this because Ambrose's vocation does not guarantee a steady living. Horace, who is the owner of Vandergelder's Hay and Feed, explains to his two clerks, Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, that he is going to get married because "It Takes a Woman" to cheerfully do all the household chores. He plans to travel to New York City to propose to Irene Molloy, who owns a hat shop there. Dolly arrives in Yonkers and sends Horace ahead to the city. Before leaving he tells Cornelius and Barnaby to mind the store.