Cinema releases by week

, 1h40
Directed by Peter Lilienthal
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Evan Handler, Ed O'Ross, Richard S. Castellano, Joseph Rigano
Rating45%
Ruby Dennis (Joe Pesci) is a small time lounge singer who owns a bowling alley. The film follows his attempts to make it big while struggling against the mob and finding romance with Sharon (Ivy Ray Browning). Dennis lives with his sister, Paula (Karen Ludwig), and her son, Raymond (Evan Handler). Paula quits her job and runs off to help the poor, leaving Dennis to keep Raymond away from a life of crime.

, 1h41
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about suicide, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom, Joel Fabiani, Cynthia Harris, Lois Smith
Rating67%
Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is a creatively blocked Scottish poet who ekes out a day-to-day existence by exploiting the generosity of strangers in an affluent Connecticut suburb, where he recites his verse to various arts groups and women's clubs. Gowan is something of a leech, cadging expensive dinners from well-off patrons (usually stealing the tips afterward) while seducing their bored wives and affecting a superior attitude toward the smug bourgeois types he exploits.

, 1h25
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Debuisne
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Actors Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Jean-Luc Godard, Bertrand Liebert
Rating62%
Carmen, in voice over paired with shots of the city and the sea, introduces herself as "the girl who should not be called Carmen." Somewhere a string quartet is rehearsing the late string quartets of Beethoven. The eccentric Jeannot (Godard himself) is living in a sanitarium where the doctor threatens to throw him out if he doesn't start to show signs of real illness. Carmen comes to visit him, and it is revealed he is a washed up filmmaker and her lecherous uncle. After getting her Uncle Jeannot to loan her his seaside apartment, Carmen and some others attempt to rob a bank. During the mayhem of the robbery, Carmen comes face to face with Joseph, a comically inept bank guard, and the two immediately fall in love. The string quartet continues to rehearse, inflecting the scenes of the robbery, and vice versa. The narrative link is that one of the members of the quartet is Claire, who is established earlier in the film as a potential love interest for Joseph.

Directed by Delbert Mann
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Polly Holliday, Michael Pearlman, Michael Higgins
Rating66%
With her world in turmoil, Janet (Lee Remick) feels she is losing so much that’s important… her beloved mother (Angela Lansbury), the family business, maybe even her husband. Janet dreams of simpler times, of Christmas in the idyllic Vermont of her younger days, and of taking her children back to the family home where her parents and spinster aunt (Polly Holliday) would be waiting for them. And they are, in all the warmth of the holiday. But only when even more seems lost, as one her children is in jeopardy, does Janet search for that ‘secret place’ where we all may find what really matters, at Christmas and always.

, 1h42
Directed by Maurice Pialat, Cyril Collard, Florence Quentin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, La sexualité des mineurs
Actors Sandrine Bonnaire, Dominique Besnehard, Maurice Pialat, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Christophe Odent, Jacques Fieschi
Rating70%
The film is a character study focusing on Suzanne, a promiscuous sixteen-year-old Parisian, played by Sandrine Bonnaire. Despite her age, Suzanne engages in a number of affairs in reaction to her miserable situation at home.

, 1h30
Origin Bresil
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Children's films
Rating71%
At a small planet in the shape of heart, there is a pulsating star that ends up dropping through space and lands on another planet, called Cenourano, reaching a robot that is passionate about the princess of the kingdom where you live : Princess Mimi .

Genres Action
Actors Victor Banerjee, Naseeruddin Shah, Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mallick, Lily Chakravarty
Rating18%

, 1h42
Directed by Claude Sautet, Jacques Santi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Yves Montand, Rosy Varte, Nicole Garcia, André Chaumeau, Jacques Villeret, Dominique Laffin
Rating62%
Alex is an aging waiter who dreams of becoming a singer. He also wants to show that he is as virile as he was when he was young and starting out as a waiter. When former lover Claire reenters his life after 17 years, he gets his chance to show off his musical skills.

, 1h30
Directed by D. A. Pennebaker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors David Bowie, Ringo Starr, Angie Bowie
Rating74%
Le 3 juillet 1973, au Hammersmith Odeon de Londres. Dans les loges, David Bowie se métamorphose une dernière fois en Ziggy Stardust, ange sexy, androgyne futuriste, diva kitsch dont les jambes nues font grimper les jeunes filles (et les autres) au rideau. Sur scène, la star la plus glam enchaîne ses standards : "Space Oddity", "Suffragette City", "Rock'n'roll Suicide"… Il changera trois fois de parure au cours de la soirée, son guitariste Mick Ronson (avec qui il mimera quelques scènes de luttes sado-maso) maintenant la salle à température ambiante pendant que l'artiste disparaît en coulisses.

, 1h30
Directed by Nils Malmros
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Actors Line Arlien-Søborg, Jesper Klein, Eva Gram Schjoldager
Rating69%

, 1h46
Directed by Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Martial arts
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Pirate films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, E. E. Bell, Mars, Dick Wei
Rating72%
Sergeant Dragon Ma (Jackie Chan) is part of the Hong Kong Marine Police's effort to suppress the pirates, who have been raiding ships for months. Members of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force and the MP, who have a strong interservice rivalries, get into a fight in a bar. Shortly after this, Captain Chi (Kwan Hoi-san) releases all of the sailors to their commanding officer, and two of the MP's ships get blown up.