 8 1/2 1963  N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Madeleine LeBeau, Claudia Cardinale, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, Mario Pisu, Neil Robinson, Mino Doro, Caterina Boratto, Guido Alberti
In this excellent film, Director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) struggles with a psychological block in his creative abilities that occurs as he is trying to make a movie. This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
|  | |
Festival in Cannes 2001  PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Jaglom
Cast: Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell, Ron Silver, Zack Norman, Peter Bogdanovich, Jenny Gabrielle, Camilla Campanale, Alex Craig Mann, Kim Kolarich
Three stories about women in the entertainment world intertwine to show the viewer what it would be like to attend the Cannes Film Festival. Popular star Millie (Anouk Aimee) has now hit the age at which she is offered only "mother" roles; a hopeful writer, Alice (Greta Scacchi) arrives looking for financing to turn her story into a movie; and young actress, Blue (Jenny Gabrielle), finds her new film a huge success and herself in great demand.
| | |
Happily Ever After 2004  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Yvan Attal
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat, Emmanuelle Seigner, Alain Cohen, Angie David, Anouk Aimee, Claude Berri, Aurore Clement, Kitu Gidwani, Keith Allen, Johnny Depp
Parisian 40-year-olds (Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat, and Alain Cohen) are unhappy in their current romances, and each searches in his own unique way for solutions in the war between the sexes.
| | |
A Hundred and One Nights 1995 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema
Director: Agnes Varda
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet, Mathieu Demy, Emmanuel Salenger, Anouk Aimee, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Romane Bohringer, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Claude Brialy, Patrick Bruel, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve
A 100-year-old movie buff, Simon Cinema (Michel Piccoli), enjoys the stories of Camille Miralis (Julie Gayet) who spends 101 nights reminiscing with him about the history of filmmaking.
| | |
The Journey 1959  N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Robert Morley, E.G. Marshall, Jason Robards, Kurt Kasznar, Anne Jackson, Anouk Aimee, Ron Howard, David Kossoff
Ron Howard and Jason Robards made their film debuts in this story about a busload of neutrals who are stopped at the border during Hungary's 1956 uprising.
| | |
Lola 1961 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel, Elina Labourdette, Alan Scott, Annie Duperoux, Jacques Harden, Margo Lion, Catherine Lutz, Corinne Marchand, Yvette Anziani
In post-war France, Lola (Anouk Aimee), a carefree single mother and cabaret dancer, continues to hope that her child's father will return from the U.S.–even after a seven-year absence. Meanwhile, she is being courted by an old childhood friend, Roland (Marc Michel), as well as by an American sailor, Frankie (Alan Scott), but she cannot seem to get over her past love.
| | |
A Man and a Woman 1966 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valerie Lagrange, Simone Paris, Antoine Sire, Souad Amidou, Yane Barry, Paul Le Person, Henri Chemin
Racecar driver Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Anouk Aimee) fall in love. Both have lost spouses, and each is the parent of one child. Anne decides to live with her fear of his profession, and the couple unites. This picture was honored with an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actress and Director.
| | |
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later 1986  PG, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Berry, Evelyne Bouix, Robert Hossein, Marie-Sophie Pochat, Philippe Leroy, Charles Gerard, Thierry Sabine, Antoine Sire
A widow (Anouk Aimee) and a racecar driver (Jean-Louis Trintignant) find love during the Paris to Dakar Rally. Very poor sequel to the fine film with the same stars 20 years before.
| | |
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By 1952 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
aka: Paris Express
Director: Harold French
Cast: Claude Rains, Marius Goring, Marta Toren, Ferdy Mayne, Herbert Lom, Lucie Mannheim, Anouk Aimee, Eric Pohlmann, Felix Aylmer, Gibb McLaughlin, Michael Nightingale, Robin Alalouf, Joan St. Clair
A very honest man, Kees Popinga (Claude Rains), finds that his boss Julius de Koster, Jr. (Herbert Lom) has been stealing from their Dutch trading company to support his French mistress Michele (Marta Toren). Kees' solution: steal the money himself to prevent his boss from getting his hands on it. Kees does get the money and boards a trans-European train to Paris. After arriving in Paris, he manages to become entangled with Michele. And, of course, problems lie ahead through a series of twists and turns.
| | |
Sodom and Gomorrah 1962 N/R, 154 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Rossana Podesta, Anouk Aimee, Claudia Mori, Rik Battaglia, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Aldo Silvani, Gabriele Tinti
Good acting saves this very long version of the Bible story about God venting his wrath on the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
| | |
Success is the Best Revenge 1984 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Michael York, Joanna Szczerbic, Michael Lyndon, Jerry Skol, Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimee, John Hurt, Ric Young, Claude Le Sache, Malcolm Sinclair, Hilary Drake, Jane Asher, Michael Sarne
Living in exile in London, playwright Alex Rodak (Michael York) is producing a political play and is absorbed in his own world of making the play a success. In the process, he ignores the needs of his family. His oldest son Adam (Michael Lyndon), while attending high school in London, is desperately searching for his own identity and secretly plans to return to Poland. The conflicts between personal and political interests accelerate to the point of separation between father and son.
| | |
| 1. 8 1/2 (1963)
2. The Appointment (1969)
3. Festival in Cannes (2001)
4. Happily Ever After (2004)
5. A Hundred and One Nights (1995)
aka: A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema
6. The Journey (1959)
7. La Dolce Vita (1960)
8. Lola (1961)
9. A Man and a Woman (1966)
10. A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986)
11. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1952)
aka: Paris Express
12. Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
13. Success is the Best Revenge (1984)
In The News
|
