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Réédition de Hitchcock et l’aventure de Vertigo. (1ère édition : CNRS Éditions, 2001)

Film culte, mal compris à sa sortie puis célébré par les cinéphiles et les cinéastes du monde entier, Vertigo (Sueurs froides), a été réalisé en 1958 par Alfred Hitchcock. Qui ne se souvient de la scène dans la tour Coit, et des deux acteurs, Kim Novak et James Stewart ?

Vertigo est réalisé alors que la grande époque hollywoodienne s’achève. C’est l’oeuvre d’un cinéaste au sommet de sa carrière qui réussit à imposer ses choix. Situation paradoxale qui, pour être comprise, implique d’examiner l’industrie du cinéma, ses lois et ses conventions mais aussi le parcours du réalisateur. Comment joue-t-il avec l’univers hollywoodien ? Comment intègre-t-il les schémas narratifs classiques ?

Death is always the issue—in life, and in the Western. Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a movie of six Western stories. In each, our common destination is approached by a different road. Through each, diverse characters hurry for their final appointment: Oregon Trail-travelers, a gold prospector, a motley crew of stagecoach passengers, a high-plains drifting bank robber, even a singing cowboy. These six stories escort them with a care that either respects, or mocks, the dignity of all.
The film stars Tom Waits, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tim Bake Nelson and Zoe Kazan and is shot with the harsh grandeur of the classic John Ford westerns.

Following on from the success of his thriller, Ex Machina, Alex Garland returns to cerebral sci-fi with his adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s cult novel – a tale of a biologist attempting to uncover the mystery of her husband’s disappearance into a restricted zone.
What she and her fellow scientists discover is a world populated by mysterious life forms that might offer answers, but which exposes them to madness and death.
Beside the screenplay, the book also includes 20 pages of behind-the-scenes photos.

The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the acclaimed film by Grant Gee from 2015 (by the same name), a transcript of the author and filmmaker in conversation, and captivating colour stills, it is an essential volume for understanding Pamuk’s work.

Drawing on the themes from Pamuk’s best-selling books, The Museum of Innocence, Istanbul and The Black Book, this book is both an accompaniment to the author’s previous publications and a wonderfully revelatory exploration of Orhan Pamuk’s key ideas about art, love, and memory.

First there is an opportunity, then there is a betrayal.
Twenty years have gone by.

Much has changed but just as much remains the same.
Mark Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home.
They are waiting for him, of course: Spud, Sick Boy, and Frank Begbie.

But they are not alone.

Wes Anderson startled audiences with his stop-motion animated film of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox.
He now displays his unique wit and playful visual sense in an action-filled saga of Samurai dogs.

Hail, Caesar! is the story of Eddie Mannix, tireless pursuer of the interests of fictional Capitol Pictures, circa 1951. He is the ultimate studio fixer and—since the studio is his world—the ultimate earthly one. There is no star scandal he cannot cover up, no studio misstep he cannot repair, no sin he cannot make right. His powers are tested, though, when production on the studio’s most expensive picture ever—biblical epic Hail, Caesar!—is halted by the kidnapping of its star. The kidnappers are a mysterious gaggle seeking not just ransom but the destruction of everything Eddie Mannix lives for, and everything he lives by. . .

JOY is the story of a family across four generations centered on the girl
who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and, in the process,
recovers her childhood magic and finds her place in the world.

Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this
intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise.

Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s short story, The Double tells the story of Simon, a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon’s exact physical double and his opposite – confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon’s horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.

The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Acting as a kind of father-figure, M. Gustave leads the resourceful Zero on a journey that involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting; the battle for an enormous family fortune; a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sledges and skis; and the sweetest confection of a love affair – all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.