Cinema releases by week

, 1h50
Directed by Henry Jaglom
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Nelly Alard, Frances Bergen, Mary Crosby, Gwen Welles, Elizabeth Kemp, Taryn Power
Rating61%
Set entirely inside and around a spacious house in Los Angeles with an all-female cast, Helene is a woman turning 40 years old and her friends, whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate, a friend turning 30, and Sadie, a Hollywood film agent turning 50. So, all of Helene's, Kate's, and Sadie's friends arrive for the triple-birthday party where Martine films the events with her movie camera and the shocking secrets revealed by Helene's mother Whitney, and her younger sister Nancy whom confide in their interviews about their obsession with food, and their roles in life.

, 1h30
Directed by Alan Metter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors George Carlin, Ben Stiller, Buddy Ebsen, Leslie Hope, Dan Castellaneta, Michael J. Pollard
Rating49%

, 3h20
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Peppard, Michael York, Deborah Raffin, John Mills, Juliet Mills, David Birney
Rating60%
Professor Alan Stacy visits Jersey to complete his biography of his friend and pre-World War II fellow academic Harry Martineau, but arrives on the day of Harry’s funeral. Only one mourner is present, Dr Sarah Drayton. Invited back to her house, he is told by Sarah that the two of them worked for Special Operations Executive during the war. She shows Stacy a photo of them posing with Field-Marshal Rommel, and then tells the story behind the photo.

, 1h41
Directed by William Klein
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Actors André Dussollier, Anémone, Zouc, Eddie Constantine, Jacques Boudet, Georges Descrières
Rating62%
Dans la France des années 1970, au milieu d'une ville nouvelle en chantier, Claudine et Jean-Michel, un jeune couple de Français moyens est amené à vivre une expérience organisée par le Ministère de l'Avenir. Expérience filmée dans l'appartement de demain, censée déterminer les mœurs et les attentes du couple pour l'an 2000.

, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Rating34%
Much like its three predecessors, Faces of Death IV provides scenes of dying, murder, accidents, police brutality, execution, cult rituals, and other macabre events. Some of these include a bungee jumping trip gone awry, a magician's fatal mishap with a Houdini trick, a mechanic who has his left leg severed by a falling Ford Taurus, a Satanic ritual that ends in the death of several, a cocaine dealer's fatal wedding, and more. John Alan Schwartz cameos yet again as an ambulance driver.

, 1h30
Directed by Stephen Bayly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Dursley McLinden, Saeed Jaffrey, Susannah York, Jimmy Nail, Michael Robbins, Alison Ruffelle
Rating60%
A pair of brothers are paid to take care of a confectionery box, but soon come under pressure from various people seeking its contents.

, 1h30
Directed by David A. Prior
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors William Smith, Ted Prior, Robert Z'Dar
Rating43%
The United States and Russia have had a nuclear exchange, wiping out most of humanity in the process. In order to decide a winner without any further bombing, the nations both decide to choose their best soldier and let them fight in a restricted area in Virginia. The result of the duel will decide the winner of the war.

, 1h40
Directed by Tom Holland
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Rick Schroder, Kate Jackson, Chris Sarandon
Rating59%
In October 1974 rural Grove's Mill, Minnesota, widow Mare Blackburn's (Kate Jackson) 3-year-old son Luke (Ross Swanson) is kidnapped by an unknown woman when Mare briefly relaxes her supervision of Luke in the small town's supermarket. Mare blames herself for the kidnapping and has difficulty processing the loss. Sixteen years later, Mare is now in a happy long-distance relationship with Dan (Chris Sarandon) - a California man who moved to Minneapolis after the suicide of his son - when a young man named Mark (Rick Schroder) shows up, claiming to be her son. Mare is reluctant to take him in, fearing that he is playing a cruel joke, until he shares memories from the past and shows a scar from a stove burn that matches with Luke's. He explains that he was raised in Idaho, and is now on a rest stop in Minnesota before returning to New York to take a job. Mare is excited to catch up on sixteen years with her son, but Dan continues to doubt Mark's credibility.

, 50minutes
Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Musical
Actors Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Julee Cruise, Michael J. Anderson, Tom Judson, Nicole Burdette
Rating69%
Il s'agit de la captation vidéo d'un spectacle musical présenté par Lynch (et co-signé avec Angelo Badalamenti) à la Brooklyn Academy of music le 10 novembre 1989, dans le cadre du festival New Music America. À la base, Industrial Symphony n 1 est un récital de chansons écrites par David Lynch, parolier, et Angelo Badalamenti, compositeur. La plupart des chansons ont un rythme lent, prennent pour thème l'amour, et empruntent aux sonorités des slows des années 1950 tout en les sublimant. Les chansons sont interprétées par Julee Cruise : son style vocal ne laisse pas de place à l'improvisation ; il reste fluet, appliqué, sans aucun effet séducteur ou sensuel, l'objectif étant de laisser l'émotion surgir d'une atmosphère globale créée par le spectacle et non par l’interprète uniquement. Dans le spectacle, la chanteuse apparaît le plus souvent suspendue ou blottie dans le coffre d'une voiture : "Défigurée par une perruque platine faisant casque, transformée en abat-jour par une robe à balconnet dont l'ampleur partant au-dessus de la taille l'engonce, dévoile ses jambes qui se balancent dans le vide.

, 1h40
Directed by Robert Markowitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Garner, Judith Ivey, Ruby Dee, Bill Cobbs, Laurence Fishburne, Jo Anderson
Rating71%
James Garner plays a retired judge and recluse who comes out of "hiding" to investigate when his childhood friend (Bill Cobbs) refuses to accept a Medal of Honor awarded decades ago in World War II. His reason is kept in confidence and Garner's character files a motion to deny the ceremony. Meanwhile, the personal lives of the other characters have issues of their own to work out. In the end of things Cobbs' character is told of something he didn't know about and the two romantic side stories resolve in a positive fashion.

, 2h15
Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Pérez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Rating74%
Cyrano de Bergerac (Gérard Depardieu) is a Parisian poet and swashbuckler with a large nose of which he is self-conscious, but pretends to be proud of. He is madly in love with his "friendly cousin" (they were not actually related as cousins), the beautiful Roxane (Anne Brochet); however, he does not believe she will requite his love because he considers himself physically unattractive, because of his over large nose. Soon, he finds that Roxane has become infatuated with Christian de Neuvillette (Vincent Pérez), a dashing new recruit to the Cadets de Gascogne, the military unit in which Cyrano is serving. Christian however, despite his good looks, is tongue-tied when speaking with women. Seeing an opportunity to vicariously declare his love for Roxane, he decides to aid Christian, who does not know how to court a woman and gain her love.

, 2h15
Directed by Robert Altman
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Peinture, Vincent van Gogh
Actors Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kitty Courbois, Johanna ter Steege, Vladimir Yordanoff
Rating68%
Une évocation de la vie du peintre maudit Vincent van Gogh et de ses rapports avec son frère Théodore, qui fit tout pour le soutenir.

, 1h47
Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about pigs, Films about psychiatry, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Graham Jarvis
Rating77%
Famed novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is the author of a successful series of Regency romance novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain. Wanting to focus on more serious stories, he writes a manuscript for the final Misery novel. While traveling from Silver Creek, Colorado to his home in New York City, he is caught in a blizzard and his car goes off the road, rendering him unconscious. Paul is rescued by a nurse named Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who brings him to her remote home. When Paul regains consciousness he finds himself bedridden, with both his legs broken as well as a dislocated shoulder. Annie claims she is his "number one fan" and talks a lot about him and his novels. As a reward for saving him, Paul gives Annie his new manuscript which she saved from the wreckage. While feeding him, she is angered and spills soup on him but regains control and apologizes. She buys a copy of Paul's most recently published book, Misery's Child, giving glowing praise to Paul as she progresses through the book. However, when Annie discovers that Misery dies at the end of the book she flies into a rage, almost smashing a table on Paul's head. She reveals that she lied about calling his agent and the authorities; nobody knows where he is. Annie leaves and Paul tries to escape from his room, but she has locked the door.