***** 1946. This Jacques Tourneur western is way ahead of its time and is an undisputable masterpiece. None of the characters is all black nor all white and the direction is outstanding. You can now find a superb zone 2 DVD of this movie, with a presentation by Bertrand Tavernier, at Amazon.fr.

***** 1952. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. Academy award in the Best Musical Score category in 1973 ! Sublime melodrama of the British genius with Buster Keaton as guest star. A young ballerina falls in love with an aging clown. Masterpiece.

***** 1962. One of John Frankenheimer's early masterpieces that features Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud who spent more than 50 years in jail. This outstanding film will surely oppose once again the followers of the Rehabilitation thesis and those of the Repression's. As usual, only true movie lovers will agree that BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ is a masterpiece.

***** 1969. Written and directed by Abraham Polonsky. A brand new zone 2 DVD of this film is available at Amazon.fr in a pristine copy. Texas, 1909. American Indian Willie Boy is hunted by sheriff Robert Redford in the desert. Both will lose there their last illusions.

***** 1976. Co-written and directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Two French César awards (Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay) in 1977. This indisputable masterpiece depicts the strange relation between a judge and a mad anarchistic serial killer in 1898.

***** 1984. Written and directed by Richard Tuggle. That's one of the Eastwood movies I prefer. At that time, Clint began to play with his image and delivered with TIGHTROPE a fascinating journey into New Orleans's red district and into a tortured mind. Masterpiece.

***** 1996. Co-written and directed by John Carpenter. Last masterpiece to date signed by Michael Myers's father. Snake Plissken is asked to recover the ultimate weapon from the hands of a South American guerilla leader hidden in Los Angeles. This raging diatribe against Establishment and intolerance is worth multiple viewings.

***** 2000. Directed by Gus Van Sant. A cloistered writer becomes the mentor of a young man from the Bronx. Sean -Salinger- Connery, during a brilliant and almost mystical scene, literally passes on his talent to his disciple by making him re-write one of his unpublished essays. Masterpiece.

***** 2003. Written and directed by Gus Van Sant. Golden Palm of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Cold analysis of a mass murder in an American high school by two teenagers. Frightening.

***** 2006. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Academy award earned by Forest Whitaker (Best Actor) and innumerable prizes throughout the world for the movie itself. Idi Amin Dada seen through the eyes of a young Scottish doctor. Indispensable.