I'm Glad This Movie Exists #4

My Apologies to The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939).  I almost forgot to include it in my Top 100*...even though its always included in My Top 20 Movies That Should Be In My Top 10.

 

When asked what his top three films were on Late Night with Johnny Carson (?), Orson Welles said: "Rules of the Game! Rules of the Game! And Rules of the Game!"  Here's Orson Welles on Jean Renoir (following the passing of the French director). Find the (modern) trailer and Mr. Renoir's introduction to the film's re-release after the jump...

Here are its Criterion Collection and Roger Ebert's The Great Movies pages.

*With its inclusion at #12, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (#98) is the odd film out.

I realized that Michel Gondry had gotten into my mind to erase my love for Jean Renoir. 

I'm Glad This Movie Exists #3

The Ice Storm (1997)

Directed by Ang Lee

Links to The Criterion Collection page (watch the trailer there) with this nice article by Bill Krohn as well as the Roger Ebert review.  How about a link to an Ang Lee documentary on YouTube?

The image above is the cover to the sweet Criterion Collection DVD.

I'm Glad This Movie Exists #2

When the Cat's Away (1996)

Written & Directed by Cédric Klapisch

Janet Maslin's review, Again, the awesome trailer in case your browser can't view the embedded version.
It should be added to my list of Films That Need a Bluray Release since it isn't even on DVD (US).

Also see Klapisch's Un Air de Famille (1996), written by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri.

The US movie poster can be found after the jump...

I'm Glad This Movie Exists #1

Children of Paradise (1945)
Directed by Marcel Carné

Written by Jacques Prévert

[scenes between Baptiste and Garance edited to the Beatles' "I Will" by volarefuly after the break]