The Chorus (French: Les choristes)

The Chorus (French: Les choristes) is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier, starred by Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad and Jean-Baptiste Maunier, and music by Bruno Coulais.
It wins the Academy Awards, 2005 Nominated Oscar Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song Bruno Coulais (composer) Christophe Barratier (lyricist) For the song "Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)".

The story begins with widely successful orchestra conductor Pierre Morhange (Jacques Perrin) returns to France when his mother dies. He reminiscences about his childhood inspirations through the pages of a diary kept by his old music teacher Clément Mathieu (Gérard Jugnot). In 1949, a young Pierre (Jean-Baptiste Maunier) is the badly behaved son of single mother Violette (Marie Bunel). He attends a boarding school, Fond de L'Etang, for "difficult" boys presided over by strict headmaster Mr Rachin (François Berléand). New teacher Mathieu brightens up the place and assembles a choir, leading to the discovery of Pierre's musical talents.

As i see it, the film is not only a touching story about an unfamous musician ,as well as a teacher, and his students, but also a fantasic music piece. I loved the music in this film so much that im gonna learn French and then try to sing the songs myself !!! On the other hand, the leading character Morange is a really cute boy and an excellent singer.

Here is the thyme song lyrics of the film.

French:

Vois sur ton chemin
Gamins oubliés égarés
Donne leur la main
Pour les mener
Vers d'autres lendemains

Sens au coeur de la nuit
L'onde d'espoir
Ardeur de la vie
Sentier de gloire

Bonheurs enfantins
Trop vite oubliés effacés
Une lumière dorée brille sans fin
Tout au bout du chemin

Sens au coeur de la nuit
L'onde d'espoir
Ardeur de la vie
Sentier de la gloire

English:

See on your way
Children forgotten and lost.
Give them a hand,
To lead them
To other tomorrows.
Feel in the the middle of the night
The wave of hope,
The ardor of life,
The path to glory.
Childish joys,
Erased and forgotten too soon.
A golden light shines endlessly
At the end of the road.
Feel in the the middle of the night
The wave of hope,
The ardor of life,
The path to glory.

 

 

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Cracks

Cracks is an independent drama film starring Eva Green, Juno Temple, María Valverde, and Imogen Poots, which was released theatrically on December 4, 2009.
The film was produced in 2008, written for the screen by Caroline Ip and Ben Court and Jordan Scott, based on a novel written by Sheila Kohler, directed by Jordan Scott and produced by Kwesi Dickson, Andrew Lowe, Julie Payne, Rosalie Swedlin and Christine Vachon. Ridley and Tony Scott serve as executive producers.

This is a story about girls, their lies, love and desire. As the mian character Miss G(starred by Eva Green) said, the most important thing in life is desire. You can achieve anything you want. The world is yours for the taking. Nothing is impossible for you, my girls. All you need is to desire it.

However, Miss G never has guts to explore the world outside the prisonlike boarding school. She makes up all her adventures and lies to the girls in school who adore her so much. When a beautiful Spanish girl named Fiamma (Maria Valverde) arrives at the school, Miss G's focus is shifted away from the other girls. Di has a crush on Miss G, and is the firm favourite and ringleader of her group. It becomes a triangle: Miss G gets increasingly obsessed with Fiamma, Fiamma is disturbed by Miss G and also openly disgusted by the teacher's hypocrisies and deceptions, and Di is terribly jealous and makes Fiamma's life hell. The girls finally got fight. But Fiamma starts to have an asthma attack, and the girls stop, terrified. They run to get help, and Di runs into Miss G, who declares she'll go to Fiamma.

In the forest, Miss G refuses to give Fiamma her inhaler, and calmly watches her die. Di returns just in time to see Miss G placing the inhaler in Fiamma's lifeless hands, and that's when she realises the truth.

In my opinion, Miss G never loves any of the girls, even Fiamma. She is so sick and jealous of Fiamma, who really has experienced what she always deams of but never ever gets. She is the one who really kills Fiamma. She thought Fiamma's death can cover all her lies and her dirty desire. She wants to be Fiamma. That is why she kept all Fiamma's letters and hold her so tight ly when she was dying.

The final scene has Di leaving the school to explore the world, as Fiamma had always spoken of doing, while Miss G, fired from the school, goes to the local village and finds a small room she can live in, presumably closing herself away for the rest of her life.

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The Simpsons Movie Quote

Chief Wiggum: [after the Simpsons' house collapses into the sink hole] They're China's problem now.

Ned Flanders: Ok, boys, when you meet Jesus, be sure to call Him Mr. Christ.
Todd Flanders: Will Buddha be there?
Ned Flanders: No.


Billie Joe Armstrong: We've been playing for three and a half hours. Now we'd like just a minute of your time to say something about the environment.
[all goes quiet, followed by angry shouts and hurled debris]


Comic Book Guy: I've spent my entire life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say... LIFE WELL SPENT!


Tom Hanks: Hello, I'm Tom Hanks. The US Government has lost its credibility so it's borrowing some of mine.

Independent Films

An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced mostly outside of a major film studio. In addition to being produced by independent production companies, independent films are often produced and/or distributed by subsidiaries of major studios. Independent films are sometimes distinguishable by their content and style and the way in which the filmmakers' personal artistic vision is realized.

In my opinion, some festivals promote independent filmmaking, like Berlin International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Montréal World Film Festival and etc. For example, the Montréal festival's programmers search the international film world for works, paying particular attention to Latin American and Eastern European cinema. Although established Western European directors such as Wim Wenders, Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, and Jean-Luc Godard have frequently had their films in competition, the Grand Prix has often been awarded to films by lesser-known and independent filmmakers, such as Tiempo de revancha (Time for Revenge, 1982), by Argentinean director Adolfo Aristarain; El Norte (1983), by American director Gregory Nava; and Trahir (Betrayal, 1993), by Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu.


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The Graduate

The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols.It is based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman), a recent university graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), and then proceeds to fall in love with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross). In additioon, the film is #19 on the list of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada.

I'd like to give a 2 out of 5 beacause the later half of the movie results in a common love story without any special technologies and very touching plot. Although someone says that it expresses the comfliction between 2 different generations successfully, and some blue scenes in it arouse a lot of pungent criticism, whatever, its later part is still an average romance film. And Ben's sudden falling in love with Elaine makes me confused. How can he want to marry his mistress's daughter in such short time ,and they just have hanged out once?! It will be more convincing if Ben says he loves Mrs. Robinson! On the other hand, the songs in the movie are good ,including“Mrs. Robinson,” “Scarborough Fair/Canticle,” “The Sound of Silence,” and “April Come She Will.” But it seems the music repeats too much which leads the audience get tired of it gradually as they watching.

However, i appreciate the front part of the movie because of the outstanding performance of Anne Bancroft(Mrs.Robinson).


Trivia

Actor Robert Redford was an early hopeful for the part of Ben but turned it down because he felt he couldn’t act naïve enough for the role. In addition, actor Charles Grodin turned down the part following a disagreement over his salary.
The Graduate screenwriter Buck Henry also plays the role of the room clerk in the film.
Quotes

Mr. McGuire (at graduation party): “I just want to say one word to you … just one word.”
Braddock: “Yes, sir.”
McGuire: “Are you listening?”
Braddock: “Yes, sir I am.”
McGuire: “Plastics.”
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About Psycho

Psycho is a 1960 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starred by Anthony Perkins,Vera Miles, John Gavin and Janet Leigh, and music by Bernard Herrmann. In addition, Janet Leigh earned a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Marion Crane. 

As I see it, Psycho is really worthy its reputation, so I'd like to give a 4 out of 5. The scary film begins with Marion stealing $40,000 from her boss and trying to hide the money in her boyfriend Sam's house. Unluckily, she aroused the policeman's suspiction along her way. Hitchcook used a kind of mysterious and jittery music to show the character was thrown into an extreme panic, which leads the audience guess incorrectly that Marion was the pxycho. However, the owner of the Bates Hotel is the real mad one. Norman,a shy young man, asked Marion to have dinner with her, but the dinner finally became a dispute on Norman's mother. When Marion came back her room to take shower, Norman was peeping through a hole and going to commit a murder. He rushed into the bathroom, made a sudden attack towards the undressded girl, and finally killed her. Nevertheless, Marion would never know who was the criminal because the insane man was in her mother's clothes. Then comes a series of inquiries from both the detective, the victim's sister and boyfriend. They collected the evidence and captured the psycho eventually.After Norman's arrest, a psychiatrist tells everyone that Norman's dead mother is living in Norman's psyche as an alternate personality. I don't like these analysis scenes because they break the mystery of the horror film. Horror films should be well-knit and frightening until the end. In my opinion, Hitchcook should set another scene which replays the early painful experience of the crazy boy to make the movie even darker. In spite of this, I like the plot especially the last scene: Norman sits in a cell, thinking in "Mother's" voice.

"It's sad when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son, but I couldn't allow them to believe that I would commit murder. They'll put him away now, as I should have years ago. He was always bad, and in the end, he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man, as if I could do anything except just sit and stare, like one of his stuffed birds. Well, they know I can't even move a finger, and I won't. I'll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do suspect me. [pause] They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even gonna swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They'll see. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say,'Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly.'"

Although someone says that the story is predictable, Psycho, the most classic horror film, is outstanding undoubtedly.

Trivia

The filmmaker used chocolate sauce for blood in the shower scene.
Quote

Norman Bates (referring to his mother): “She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?”
 
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My Top 10 Favourite Films

1. Wizard of Oz
2. Interview with Vampire
3. Gone with the Wind
4. Scaramouche
5. Vampires Suck
6. Anastasia
7. Cracks
8. A Streetcar Named Desire
9. A Single Man
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay). The movie is critically acclaimed, and it is often considered the greatest of all time and particularly praised for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure.

The leading stars are Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore ,Everett Sloane, Ray Collins ,George Coulouris ,Agnes Moorehead ,Paul Stewart ,Ruth Warrick,Erskine Sanford and William Alland. Welles, then 25 years old, coscripted, starred in, and directed this psychological study of an American newspaper tycoon. His innovative expressionistic use of sound and camera techniques greatly influenced later filmmakers.
 

The film opens with the death of Kane as he utters his dying word, Rosebud. Extreme close-ups, quick cuts between images, and unusual camera angles heighten the mystery of this highly significant moment. Throughout the film a reporter explores Kane's life, hoping to uncover the meaning of Kane's dying word. Only at the very last moment is the mystery revealed.
 
 As I see it, I 'd like to give 3 out 5 to the movie because it was not fascinating enough and colorless. The movie has a profound meaning but I cannot make a thorough understanding. However, I appreciate the ironic expressions used by the director. For example, when Susan, Kane's second wife, was singsing a very high note and almost shouted herself hoarse, the scene cut to a light bulb, which went out gradually. In addition, Kane was a tricky profiteer, and he had seen too much of the world, but he still yearn for the purity of childhood,which he had abandoned unwillingly, somewhere inside his heart. I think it is really pitiable. On the other hand, I see the similarity between Kane and the reporter who insisted on finding the truth of Rose Bud. Though he was another journalist prompted by profit, he must learn something good just like sincerity from his tough interview.
 
I don't like the film, but I'd like to recommend it to those who like profound movies.
 
Quotes

Kane (dying words): “Rosebud.”
Kane (to reporters): “I am, have been and only will be one thing—an American.”
Kane: “Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.”
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Film Review on Gone With The Wind

I love Gone With The Wind so much that I'd like to give a 5 out of 5 to the movie, and I have already watched the movie for 5 times.
Gone with the wind is a story not only about the romantic adventure but also about the suffering war which many people may have sympathy on. This American epic romance-drama film received ten Academy Awards (8 competitive, 2 honorary), a record that stood for twenty years.In the American Film Institute's inaugural Top 100 Best American Films of All Time list of 1998, it was ranked number four. It has sold more tickets in the U.S. than any other film in history, and is considered a prototype of a Hollywood blockbuster. Today, it is considered one of the greatest and most popular films of all time and one of the most enduring symbols of the golden age of Hollywood. The film was the longest American sound film made up to that time - three hours and forty four minutes in length, plus a four minute intermission.Another reason why I give it a high score is that the leading stars are so gorgeous.It was performed by Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel, and it was directed by Vector Fleming. The leading actresses and actor, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland and Clark Gable even won Best Actress(Actor) Academy Awards for their amazing acting. They had rare beauties and suprising acting talents.

 

As I see it, the whloe story is all about people's envyheart and a girl's growth.

The director set an open ending which confused the audience. We wonder if Rhett Butler would came back to Scarlet. In my opinion, Rhett would returned because he loved Scarlet so much though he spoiled her so much at the same time.(Scarlett! Look at me! I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited for you longer than I've ever waited for any woman. ) He thought Scarlet was his child and he hoped her would have a real woman's heart someday. Nevertheless he did care about Scarlet's sensibilities about Ashley. ( I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.&I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true. ) In fact he was jealous of Ashley

On the other hand, Scarlet learnt that Ashley had never loved her and her strong emotions to Ashley was just a kind of jealousy. She was born from a rich family, thus she could always get all the things and all the men she wanted. She could not possesshe Ashley and she once hoped she could take place of Melenie. Gradually she found Melly was a real good woman. She tried to accept her rival in love and she always gave a helping hand to Melly when the poor but angel-like woman was in trouble. Scarlet was inferior to Melly in morality but she was a powerhouse in the suffering life.( As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
) She had to be responsible for Tara, which place she got all her confidence from, though she had cheated to marry a rich man to save Tara. Rhett totally understood all her choices because they were so alike, and his Scarlet had already become a real woman. Hence, if Scarlet confessed sincerely all her feelings about Ashley, her jealousy and her true love to Rhett again, the Captain would forgive her, and he would also regret of his own misunderstandings.

Here is my another discovering. When Scarlet nursed a jealousy against others, she always wore a green dress. However, if she wore a red or pink dress, she may have to be responsible for something. For example, when she was on the picnic and talked to Ashley, she was in green. When she went to see Rhett, came out of the jail and see Mrs.Bell, she wore a green dress and her face tunerd green with envy. When she workd in Tara, the plantation and she took care of Melly, she was in a pink dress. When she had to went to the embarassed party held by Ashley, she wore a excellent red dress. She had to attend the party because she was the hostess of Butler's and she was Bonnie's mother, who must be reponsible for the family.

In a word, this is a fascinating movie and I do love it.

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