As I stated several time lately: I really watch too much TV and here is the proof.
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This list of the movies and TV series that I’ve watched in 2014 is far from exhaustive as I am sure I forgot many of them (particularly movies or series that I don’t recall because I’ve watch them on TV without taking any notes and therefore they left no trace). The movies were watched mostly on Dvds. This time I’ll also try to rate them according to this system: [0] Bad, document.write(“”); [1] Meh, [2] Average / Really I don’t remember, [3] Good, [4] Great and [5] Excellent. I’ve also indicated when the TV series are British [UK], because it is usually a sign of better production quality (certainly in the writing). I’ll start with a Top 10 for which I’ll try to give a few comments [to be added a little later, sorry] and complete with a simple list of the rest (but I will add a link to at least provide a few production details). The top 10 of the movies was hard because I could’t find enough titles that I really liked. The top 10 of the TV series was even harder because there was so many good ones. Here we go… after the jump:
Movies Top 10
Battleship [4],
Book thief (The) [4]
Oblivion [4]
Philomena [4]
12 years a slave [4]
And the rest: A courtesan with flowered skin [3], A drop of the grapevine [3], A la recherche du temps perdu [2], A sparkle of life [3], After Earth [2], Becket [3], Blossom bloom [3], Blue Jasmine [3], Cape Nostalgia [3], Divergent [3], Elysium [4], Ender’s game [3], Fly, Dakota, Fly! [3], Gravity [4], Hana [3], Hobbit : The desolation of Smaug (The) [3], Hunger game : Catching fire (The) [3], Hyde Park on Hudson [3], Iron Man 3 [2], Jobs [2], Light shines only there (The) [3], Lone Ranger (The) [2], Monuments men (The) [3], One third [3], Our family [3], Pacific Rim [1], Quai d’Orsay [2], Quartet [3], Salaud, on t’aime [4], Saving Mr. Banks [2], Star Trek: Into Darkness [1], Sur la piste du Marsupilami [2], Taira clan saga [3], Thor : The dark world [2], Tokyo: The city of glass [3], Twenty-four eyes [3], Zero Theorem (The) [2].
TV Series Top 10
Äkta människor (Real Humans / 100% Humain) S. 1 [5]
Bletchley circle [5]
Endeavour [5]
Firefly [5]
Manhattan [5]
Murdoch Mysteries S. 7-8 [3]
Newsroom (The) S. 3 [5]
Outlander [4]
Returned (The) / Les Revenants [4]
True Detective S.1 [4]
And the rest: 24: Live Another Day S. 9 [1], Almost Human [2], Atlantis [2], Birdsong [1, UK], Breathless [2, UK], Call the midwife [3, UK], Click [2, UK], Constantine [1], Continuum S. 3 [3], Cosmos: A spacetime odyssey [3], Crimson Field (The) [3, UK], Death comes to Pemberley [4, UK], Defiance S. 2 [2], Doctor Zhivago [3, UK], Doctor Who S. 8 [2, UK], Downton Abbey S. 5 [3, UK],
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV falls in love with music student Jennifer Cavilleri. The fact that they are from two different social backgrounds (him from a rich and powerful family and her from the working class) doesn’t keep them from getting married. Oliver has always had issues with his father and he defies him once more with this marriage, document.write(“”); even if his father threatens to disown him. They build their life successfully and happily on their own until tragedy strikes. 
I saw this movie on TV maybe twenty years ago and didn’t remember anything about it save the hype that surrounded it. My wife—who saw it when she was in high-school in Japan (where it was extremely popular)—wanted to see it again, so we got it on DVD. I must admit that I was quite disappointed. It’s a rather average movie and doesn’t mesure up to all the hype: the acting is certainly okay and the haunting music by Francis Lai is excellent, but the sound quality (particularly in dialogues) is bad, the story has nothing exceptional and the editing is often annoying (I’m not sure exactly why, but the cuts feel amateurish and I spotted a few continuity problems). There’s definitely something missing in that movie. You feel that only half the story is told as they could have developped a little more the characters and put more details in their everyday life (at least another fifteen or twenty minutes). I feel like I watched a movie in fastforward. I didn’t feel any emotions in the characters (I didn’t shed a single tear, which is rare). Most of the hype came from the success of the book—which was written after the script but published before the release of the movie—and of the original score which became an instant classic. I was curious to see it again—and I’m glad I did—but the movie (and its cinematic techniques) didn’t aged well, so it’s worth seeing mostly for its part in the popular movie history.
“Un ingénieur européen de passage à Montréal doit attendre deux jours un rendez-vous d’affaires. Pour tuer le temps, document.write(“”); il se promène dans les rues, et se met à la recherche de ses parents, dont la guerre l’a séparé dès l’âge de quatre ans. L’aventure s’amène sous les traits d’une fillette de onze ans et d’une jeune beauté. Rencontres de hasard qui, pourtant, le marquent et l’obligent à se définir.” 
Classé drame psychologique, YUL 871 est un film plutôt contemplatif où il ne se passe pas grand chose—un peu comme les films Japonais ou les films Européens de l’époque. Le héros, de passage à Montréal, doit tuer le temps et fait quelques rencontres sans véritable conséquences (il déambule dans la ville avec une fillette qui finit à l’hopital, il a une aventure avec une belle blonde qui finit par en épouser un autre et il n’établit aucun liens avec les parents qu’il recherchait depuis son enfance). Si ce film n’est pas sans mérite (après tout il a remporté le prix de la meilleure réalisation au Festival International du Film de Chicago), il est toutefois parfois maladroit dans son montage (les transitions sont souvent terrible) et la post-synchro laisse vraiment à désirer. Chose amusante, l’actrice principale (Andrée Lachapelle) n’est même pas mentioné sur la couverture du Dvd alors que Jacques Desrosiers (qui ne fait qu’une brève apparition sans dialogue) lui l’est. Somme toute, c’est un beau film mais qui est un peu ennuyant. Toutefois la chance de voir Montréal telle qu’elle était dans les année soixante rends le visionnement de YUL 871 beaucoup plus intéressant.
A few weeks ago my wife bought a cd containing the instrumental version of The Bee Gees’ song “Melody Fair” and it reminded her of this movie—which she first saw in Japan a long time ago. She felt like seeing it again, document.write(“”); so I tried to locate the movie. It is never easy to find a movie that is more than thirty year-old, but fortunately such research are now made easier with the internet. The movie got only a lukewarm reception when it was released in English-speaking countries, which explains why it was never released on Dvd in North America—but it is still possible to find it on vhs (used copies available on 
Set in the early seventies working class London, this slice-of-life and romantic fantasy tells the story of Daniel, a shy young junior high school boy. After befriending Ornshaw, he becomes part of the school’s group of little troublemakers. Soon he also meets Melody and both fall in “love” (as any eleven years-old kid could). They tell their parents that they want to get married—now! For them, it only means “to be together”. In face of the adults incomprehension, they elope and organize a mock wedding with the help of their friends. When the adults come to interrupt the “ceremony” they meet an unexpected resistance and all ends in chaos.
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“Triumph des Willens” (aka “Dokument vom Reichsparteitag”) is Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous propaganda / legendary documentary film about the 1934 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party, document.write(“”); or NSDAP, also known as the Nazi Party) rally in Nuremberg, Germany. It shows mostly parades and speaches by Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Hess, Goering and other top party officials.
This a “fish out of his bowl story.” A young woman comes from Ohio to NYC in the hope to become a journalist. Despite that she has no knowledge or sense of fashion she is hired as personal assistant for the editor of a famous fashion magazine. Even if her boss (Meryl Streep) is a real monster, document.write(“”); she manages to survive and learns the ropes, but when she’s about to finally get on the top of it, she realises that she is betraying everything she is and all her friends…
After the disappearance of his wife, document.write(“”); a Montreal vice detective makes his own investigation and the clues bring him to the rich mansion of a beautiful and reclusive woman. His own bad behavior will put him in trouble as someone frame him from the murder of his friend’s wife. He follows the mysterious woman to Venice and discovers her terrifying secret: she’s a “vampire” that keep her eternal beauty by seducing young women before drinking and bathing in their blood!
A guide working with a scientific expedition in Antarctica has to leave his beloved sled dogs behind when their base is evacuated due to an unusually strong storm. The eight dogs have to survive the harsh conditions by themselves, document.write(“”); against impossible odds. For six months their master is agonising over the unknown fate of his dogs, trying to gather the funds in order to come back and rescue them.
An English tailor in Panama is weaving lies to make himself interesting. A disgraced English spy on the downside of his career is looking for opportunities to improve his situation, document.write(“”); for conspiracies to report to his superiors and redeem himself. They were made for each other and almost bring doom to Panama.
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