Top 10 Films selon William Carlier

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Revoir Citizen Kane ou se rappeler que le cinéma, c'est l'étude du personnage par le spectateur : comprendre Charles F.Kane ou le jeune homme ayant perdu sa jeunesse, n'ayant jamais eu de repères. Je me fais encore avoir, je pleure de tristesse et d'admiration.

"Welles’s feat of imagination in Citizen Kane remains dazzling and inspiring. Cinema aspiring to great art, political import – and delivered with unabashed showmanship. The fervour of the work is as excited and electric as ever. The thriller plot never disappoints."

— Kenneth Branagh

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Quand le récit initiatique d'un jeune enfant devient l'histoire d'un pays en souffrance perpétuelle, l'Inde pour royaume de l'injustice et des inégalités.

"Of all the films that I’ve ever seen, none can describe as deeply about the sacredness of human’s life as this beautiful and simple film does"

— Phan Dang-di

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Merveille esthétique, le film le plus personnel de son auteur.

"I must have been around 13 when I first watched Mirror. This time I realised that there are films that are not even meant to be ‘understood’. It’s the poetry of cinema in its purest form, on a very delicate verge of being pretentious – which makes its genius even more striking."

— Alexei Popogrebsky

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Tout Fellini en un film, des fantasmes jusqu'au voyage dans la psyché de son réalisateur, Otto e Mezzo est le plus personnel des rêves éveillés.

"8½ is a film I saw three times in a row in the cinema. This is chaos at its most elegant and intoxicating. You can’t take your eyes off the screen, even if you don’t know where it’s heading. A testament to the power of cinema: you don’t quite understand it but you give yourself up to let it take you wherever."

— Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

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Désillusion d'une ancienne star hollywoodienne confronté au regard nouveau de l'américain, Sunset Boulevard est le plus beau film noir.

"[Le] film nous saisit et nous entraîne au-delà du film, au-delà des films."

— Cahiers du cinéma

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Le chanbara ultime.

"Groundbreaking cinema that set the standard for action films, weaving great characterisation, a strongly crafted story and stunning cinematography to ultimately offer a compelling philosophy about the nature of violence."

— Ann Turner

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La suite de blockbuster parfaite, le modèle inégalable.

I"n the glory days of science fiction, critics wrote about the ``sense of wonder.'' That's what ``The Empire Strikes Back'' creates in us. We are on a quest, on a journey, on a mythological expedition. The story elements in the ``Star Wars'' trilogy are as deep and universal as storytelling itself. Watching these movies, we're in a receptive state like that of a child--our eyes and ears are open, we're paying attention, and we are amazed."

— Roger Ebert

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Le traumatisme cinématographique, sensoriel.