Film Dictionary

A music video from France Gall, directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

A pastiche of Georges Melies' films.

A Foo Fighters music video directed by Jesse Peretz.

An Alanis Morissette music video directed by Stéphane Sednaoui.

A Spice Girls music video, filmed in a single take.

Codirected by Ruth de Launiere, Lorraine Dufour and Jean-Pierre Saint-Louis. A superb example of narrative deconstruction, consisting of thr...

Allen Ginsberg reads one of his best political poems. Music by Paul McCartney and Philip Glass. Directed by Gus Van Sant.

A young man stucks his head between two balcony rails and has to endure hours of torture listening to various people complaining. A short fi...

A revealing peek behind the curtains of a theatre. This Canadian film, directed by S.Morgenstern, was nominated for a Genie Award.

An elegant woman (Stefania Sandrelli) buys a package of biscuits and sits down to read a newspaper. Suddenly, a young man sits at her table,...

Computer-animated dose of pure anarchy from Richard Condie.

A little creature has to cope with various environments: sand, paper, rock, steel and water. An Oscar-winner for best animated short.

Imaginative cartoon about words and their meanings. Didactic, but fun.

Kaleidoscopic images of quilt designs and motifs. Computer animation.

Two small animals fight over their lunch. Winner of the First Prize (short subject) at the Montreal Film Festival.

A father disapproves of his daughter's suitor. A nice cartoon co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Hallucinations of a mental patient. A rather incoherent cartoon full of vivid images.

It's been a while since a bouncing-ball cartoon appeared on screen, but here it is. It's a silly little ditty ranting against the ty...

Children are talking about death. Animators illustrate their tales.

A toddler grows up to be a father.

Lumbermen make a pact with the Devil, who allows them to travel in a flying canoe to visit their families.

Amusing vignettes illustrating Leonard Cohen's title song.

Weird cartoon about a creepy scientist performing suspicious experiments with skeletons. A strange and disturbing film.

A mean little girl would like to be an only child, so she disposes of her siblings one by one. That's the family values for you.

Four ballerinas are dancing on a tightrope.

Two men meet at the border of their respective realities.

Seduced by a mysterious femme fatale, our hero travels through different realms. A parody of "The Wizard Of Oz", full of perverse ...

Plants and animals living in a peaceful garden find themselves under assault from evil predators. A puppet-animation film that uses figures ...

Witty, but quite disgusting cartoon about a self-centered jerk.

This cartoons is quite violent, but it manages to temper its gory excesses with some humor and intelligence.

A claymation cartoon set in the Middle Ages. The twin brother of a prince is raised as a peasant. An Aardman production from United Kingdom,...

Yves Laferriere composes music for films. Daniel Langlois is a computer graphics designer. Together, they created this impressionistic fil...

A supposedly humorous, but actually quite boring parody of "Frankenstein".

A rather uninspired cartoon that ridicules bureaucracy. *

A dance of sensuous animated forms.

A cartoon that links prostitution with death.

A security guard finds himself in a strange industrial wasteland.

The pixilation technique is used to present hectic urban life.

Lonely people agree to a blind date.

An ironic look at the Last Judgement.

Directed by Whit Stillman.

Piosenki: "Post-moderna" ** "Malkontent" ( "I po balu" ) ** "Cyniczna uczta etnografow TZG" * "...

Piosenki: "Koligacje" ** "Wiosna" ( "Ryba brzana kielbik" ) ***  "Nie ubrana" ** "Piaskownica...

Edward Norton gives an excellent, Oscar-nominated performance as a young man accused of savagely murdering an archbishop.

Charming little romantic comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney. Dialogues are weak, but the cast is very strong.

Portrait of an amazing artist.

An American spy pretends to be a Nazi sympatizer. Or is that the other way around ?

Debbie Reynolds is surprisingly sexy and sympathetic playing Albert Brooks' mother.

Superb jazz music greatly enchances this otherwise cliched Robert Altman's film about a kidnapping in Kansas City during mid-term electi...

Overlong (and wildly overrated) film about love and war.

An IMAX 3-D film about the history of New York City. A visually marvelous film.

Testimonies of real-life pedophiles, who had intimate sexual relations with their daughters. Unusual documentary film, very shocking.

A valiant knight (Dennis Quaid) forms an alliance with a brave dragon (voiced by Sean Connery) to defeat an evil king (David Thewlis). It...

Four high-school girls learn about witchcraft and get even with their mean schoolmates.

A film about honor, duty and courage.

There is an intriguing premise (inspired by Luc Besson's "Nikita"), but action scenes are unremarkable. Boring villains.

Sheriff of a small Texas border town investigates a murder that occured almost forty years earlier.

An extremely clever little film about forgery and revenge.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking for an elusive Turbo Man in this amusing, fast-paced film about Christmas, toy merchandizing and hero worsh...

A sport agent (Tom Cruise) is fired from his job and falls in love with his secretary (Renee Zellweger).

Herb Gardner's ode to an old Communist (Walter Matthau), still faithful to the cause, still causing trouble, still fighting against oppr...

Yet another film about a white lawyer bravely fighting against racism. But since it's based on a true story, it's arguably less obje...

Didactic, often unnecessarily melodramatic film about a group of black men travelling by bus from Los Angeles to Washington for the Million ...

Funny film about two young girls who kidnap an older woman. One of Scarlett Johansson's first films.

Half an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Richard III", half a documentary about Al Pacino adapting that play. Self-reflexive, but...

An intelligent young man tries to poison people around him.

Nice film about a widow (Gena Rowlands), her two grown-up children and her friends.

A clear rip-off of "Pulp Fiction". Similar violence, similar plot twists, similar sense of humor. All it's lacking is a talent...

An adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies.

Young scientists are chasing tornados in Oklahoma.

Michael Lehmann's most conventional film. It's a romantic comedy about two friends, one smart, but plain, the other gorgeous and dum...

Steve Buscemi stars in and directs this bittersweet comedy about a sympathetic looser.

Kevin Costner, Rene Russo and golf.

A film about bachelors in L.A. looking for women.

A very good film about poetry and truth.

The first "Star Trek" feature without the original cast. The magic is gone.

Until the last half an hour, it's a deeply moving, beautiful film about a young girl trying to find her place in the world. Unfortunatel...

"The Boys Of St Vincent On Mean Streets". Sexually abused in a reform school, four friends plot revenge.

Aspiring to be another "Personal Best", the film combines sports with sex. A sado-masochistic angle is mentioned, but never follo...

Mel Gibson plays a millionaire whose son is kidnapped, but who refuses to pay the ransom. Instead, he puts a bounty on the kidnappers' h...

Natalie Portman steals the movie with her touching portrayal of a precocious 13-year old girl who flirts with 29-year old Timothy Hutton. T...

A series of interviews with filmmakers at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Tom DiCillo's broadsides against Quentin ...

Virtually a remake of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" with a large dose of "Oedipus Rex" thrown in for good measure.

Documentary about the inventor of the geodesic dome.

A pointless sequel to "Terms Of Endearment" (1983). Miranda Richardson steals the movie from Shirley MacLaine.

John Travolta plays an angel.

Disappointing film starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny.

Gangster film about three brothers (Christopher Walken, Chris Penn and Vincent Gallo).