*** 1991. Written and directed by John Lurie. Music composer John Lurie asks five of his friends to come fishing with him. This is satire of course, satire of these late night shows about how to fish. It's very funny at times and even smart but already forgotten. Criterion collection spine #42.

***** 1948. Written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Two Academy awards (Best Art Direction and Best Musical Score) and three other nominations. A ballerina is chosen by Boris Lermontov to become the lead ballet dancer of his company. She'll have to choose between love and her career. Masterpiece. Criterion collection spine #44.

**** 1932. Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel (dialogues). This is a little jewel of the fantastic genre of the early 30's in Hollywood. Count Zaroff hunts through his private jungle the boat passengers who survive the shipwrecks the Count is regularly causing. Leslie Banks is completely mad. Highly recommended. Criterion collection spine #46.

***1/2 1959. Co-written and directed by Marcel Camus. Golden Palm of the Cannes Film Festival, Academy award and Golden Globe in the Best Foreign Film category. The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice told again in the middle of Rio de Janeiro's slums. Great musical score and colourful. Recommended. Criterion collection spine #48.

****1/2 1983. Co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. Four Italian Academy awards (Film, screenplay, cinematography and production design). 1914. The friends of the lyrical singer Edmea Tutua are sailing on a luxury liner in order to disperse her ashes in the Mediterranean Sea. Unique Fellinian poetic world. Highly recommended. Criterion collection spine #50.

***1/2 1961. Co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. A prize in Venice (Toshiro Mifune) and an Academy Award nomination (Best costume !). A samurai arrives in a village where two gangs are fighting for leadership. Soon, each of them wants to hire him. Parodic and announcing the westerns of Sergio Leone. A curiosity. Recommended. Criterion collection spine #52.

***1/2 1989. Produced and directed by Al Reinert. An Academy award nomination in the Best Documentary category. Documentary about the Apollo missions. Interesting effort but not essential. At least to me. Recommended. Criterion collection spine #54.

**** 1935. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Richard Hannay is wrongly accused of the murder of Annabella Smith, a spy who revealed to him that the organisation of the 39 Steps is about to deliver state secrets to a foreign country. One of the great British Hitchcock movies. Highly recommended. Criterion collection spine #56.

***** 1960. Directed by Michael Powell. A camera assistant traumatized by his father, a scientist, starts to murder women and film their fear. A movie any cinephile should watch again and again because Mark Lewis is our cinematographic brother. Masterpiece. Criterion collection spine #58.

***1/2 1978. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Two Academy awards nominations (Ingrid Bergman and the screenplay) and a Golden Globe in the Best Foreign Film category. A famous piano player visits her daughter after a 7 years break in their relations. Mother and daughter will at least open their hearts. Recommended. Criterion collection spine #60.

***** 1928. Written and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. One of the masterpieces of the Danish director. The film tells Joan of Arc's trial according to the files kept in Paris. This is cinema at its best with a musical score specially written for the film. Masterpiece. Criterion collection spine #62.

**** 1949. Directed by Carol Reed. Academy award in the Best Cinematography category and Grand Prize of the Festival de Cannes. Vienna. Holly Martins wants to find out whether his friend Harry Lime was murdered or not. Great musical score, great cinematography, great Orson Welles. Highly recommended. Criterion collection spine #64.

*** 1930-1950-1960. THE BLOOD OF A POET, ORPHEUS and TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS. Three films about the role of the poet in the society. One can appreciate how Jean Cocteau uses slow-motion or the way he runs certain scenes backwards in order to create poesy on screen but, in my opinion, these films are unfortunately outdated. For cinephiles only. Criterion collection spines #66 to #69.

***1/2 1975. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. An Academy award nomination (Best Costume design) and a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Foreign Film category. Great spectacle for the whole family. Recommended. Criterion collection spine #71.

***** 1962. Written and directed by Agnès Varda. A young pop singer is waiting for her doctor's call. She fears the worst and decides to go out alone in the streets of Paris. She'll learn to stop feeling sorry for herself. This is a great French New Wave movie worthy to stay on the shelves of your library. Masterpiece. Criterion collection spine #73.

*** 1997. Written and directed by Kevin Smith. Joey Lauren Adams earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. A comic book artist falls in love with a lesbian young woman. His colleague and friend tries to warn him against the danger of this relation. Interesting romance but, in my opinion, unworthy of the collection. Already forgotten. Criterion collection spine #75.

**1/2 1956. Written and directed by Roger Vadim. Saint-Tropez, France. A sexy young orphan girl hesitates between three men: her former lover, his brother and a wealthy businessman. Brigitte Bardot ignites the screen. Aside from that, the film is unworthy of the collection. Criterion collection spine #77.

**** 1915-1933. W.C. Fields portrays a barber, a pharmacist, a dentist or a trapper with the same talent. He still doesn't like children and he scorns women as soon as there is an opportunity to do so. He's a character who deserves to stay in the annals of Cinema. Highly recommended. Criterion collection spine #79.