The Scottish actor James McAvoy
Favourite movies : Becoming Jane, Atonement, Penelope, Filth, X-Men : Days of futur past, X : First class, Wanted, The last King of Scotland, Atomic blonde and State of play
Favourite Film noir movies (2)
The term of “Film Noir” (literally “black film”) was invented by French film critics after the World War II, in 1946. The first critic who used this term was the French film critic Nino Frank. This kind of movie can be define as “a type of a crime film featuring cynical maleovolent characters in a…
“MY NAME IS ORSON WELLES” exhibition at Cinémathèque Française in Paris
On the 40th anniversary of his death, the Cinémathèque Française organizes a retrospective exhibition on Orson Welles, entitled “My name is Orson Welles”. It takes place in Paris from October 8, 2025, to January 11, 2026. “In 1938, television didn’t exist: series were broadcast on the radio. On October 30th, Welles and his actors produced…
The Old Hollywood actress Joan Blondell
Favourite movies of Joan Blondell : Blonde crazy, Gold diggers of 1933, Footlight parade, The perfect specimen, Gold diggers of 1937, Goodbye again, There’s always a woman, The Amazing Mr Williams, The blue veil, Good girls go to Paris, Desk set, East Side of heaven and Broadway gondolier. Source : Pinterest
The production designer Tony Walton for the movie “The boyfriend” 1971
“The boyfriend” (1971) is a wonderful musical movie with exquisite set designs. Sources : Pinterest, https://www.markborghi.com/artworks/10065-tony-walton-ken-russells-the-boyfriend-set-design-rainbow-sun-1971/, https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2011/05/the-boy-friend-1971.html?m=1 and http://pre-code.com/pre-code-retro-boy-friend-1971-review-twiggy/
My second favourite movie “Les tontons flingueurs” directed by Georges Lautner (1963)
“Les tontons flingueurs” is a French cult movie i love starring Bernard Blier and Lino Ventura. “Ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receives a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed “The Mexican”. The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and looking after his soon-to-be-married daughter. When a longtime mobster…
My third favourite movie : West Side story (1961)
West Side story is my third favourite movie. This musical movie takes place in the 1950s, in New York, USA. It is a reinterpretation of the Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”. The Jets (Polish) and the Sharks (Puerto Rican) are two rival gangs who fight each other. A member of the Jets (Tony) and the…
Gary Cooper photoshoots
Gary Cooper was an Old Hollywood actor. I loved him in the movies “Mr Deeds goes to town“, “Meet John Doe“, “Ball of fire“, “Casanova Brown“, “Love in the afternoon“, “The fountainhead” and “Bluebeard’s eighth wife“.
