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Our last film “Amour” directed by Michael Haneke (2012) provoked such a ripple of good commentaries about the wonderful performances of Jean-Louis Trintignant ( previously seen @ the Cinematiki on March 2009 in “The Conformist” by Bernardo Bertolucci) and Emanuelle Riva (“Hiroshima mon amour” by Alain Resnais= Cinematiki April 2010) that Tom and I decided to do an petit homage to Jean-Louis Tringtignant and show some of his other films starting with ” …and God created women” (Roger Vadim-1956) , followed by “Z” (Costa-Gavras-1969), “A man and a woman” (Claude Lelouch-1966) and if we can get a copy of the classical cult film “Il sorpasso” aka “Easy life” directed by Dino Rissi (1962)…

Starting our fifth consecutive year showing the best films of all time…

to seeing your smiling faces SOOOOOOON= on Monday November 11th, 2013 when we return to our weekly schedule of films, fun and full-filling commentaries…

Guess what’s coming next ??!!!!

:)>>

STARTING MONDAY OCTOBER 14, WE WILL BE DARK FOR THE NEXT THREE WEEKS…

AS WE HAVE BEING DOING FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS,  WE ARE PROGRAMMING  ON CONTINUOUSLY  BRINGING THE BEST FILMS OF ALL TIME(S) FOR OUR COLLECTIVE ENJOYMENT AND LEARNING EXPERIENCE…

THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOYAL ENTHUSIASM AND YOUR UNABASHED COMMENTARIES…

LETS SEE WHAT CLEOPATRA (ELIZABETH TAYLOR) DOES WHEN SHE RETURN TO EGYPT AND MARK ANTHONY (RICHARD BURTON) ENTERS HER LIFE…

which it might help us understand and enjoy the films we review together…

http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/the-longest-average-shot-lengths-in-modern-hollywood

Our intention has been from the very beginning  to show and review the best international classical films ever made.

We always pay homage to the director (s), because even though film is a collaborative medium, the director’s vision is what truly makes each film so unique and special.

Sometimes we also feature superlative actors in roles that put them in the exclusive Pantheon of great performances.

We have recently started a cycle of historical dramas that showed us Peter O’Toole at his prime playing King Henry at different moments of his life in two  great films; “The lion in winter” with Katherine Hepburn and Anthony Hopkins and  “Becket” with Richard Burton.

We also wanted to show Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, perhaps one of the most famous film couples of all times, doing their best film work together.

The intention was to continue with historical drama and show Burton and Taylor in “Cleopatra“, followed by William Shakespeare “The taming of the shrew” and then bring them into modernity with Edward Albee’s ” Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”.

Sometimes, like this coming Monday September 9th , our intentions of continuity get disrupted by not getting the postal delivery of the intended film and we’ll show “Who’s afraid…” instead of  “Cleopatra”,  hoping that the order of the films won’t alter the total enjoyment of our collective experience.

Thank you for your loyal support through these past five years and two hundred and five films viewed and discussed together.

Queridos cinematikeros…

we are once again, brightly open and  looking forward to seeing you tonight, Monday August 12, 2013 , celebrating  our  200 th. shown and discussed  films…

and many more to come…

J J  & Tom