HOMECINEMA IN CONTAINMENT MODE

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It's up to you to (re) discover cult films and series in the age of the coronavirus where many film shoots and series have been suspended like Riverdale, or a biopic on Elvis Presley while one of the actors, Tom Hanks, was tested positive for coronavirus and placed in containment.

The release of Dying Can Wait (James Bond 25), Cary Joji Fukunaga, Mulan, Niki Caro, Pinocchio, Matteo, Fast & Furious 9, Justin Lin, Miss, Ruben Alves - and the list goes on - also pushed back)

Put yourself in camera:

Shining (1980) , this classic by Stanley Kubrick, adapted from the eponymous novel by Stephen King,

approaches the camera by making the most of its intrigue. A hotel, lost in the middle of nowhere, whose guardian (legendary Jack Nicholson) is gradually losing his mind. A ghost haunts the bar, binoculars appear around the corridors, and pushing the door of a room is not without risk and peril. Welcome to Overlook.

Or the famous Eight women (2002) A corpse is discovered in a bourgeois house where eight women live…. With this fifth feature film, François Ozon mixes musical comedy with thriller like Agatha Christie. The result ? Part of Cluedo, in a delightfully old-fashioned atmosphere, led by a dream cast: Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, etc.

Or a whole different genre

"Blue Velvet" , this fourth feature by David Lynch - released in 1986 and back in theaters since March 11 in a restored version - fascinating and disturbing film noir that represents the perfect gateway to the filmmaker's world where violence, voyeurism and sadomasochism intertwine.

It's a little childhood of the director in the small American suburbs which is replayed on the screen. Kyle Maclachlan plays Jeffrey Beaumont, a perfect young man who discovers an ear cut in the grass. Therefore, as the codes of the genre impose, he cannot resist the thrills of adventure ... "It's crazy and dangerous", repeats his future girlfriend Sandy

And then again some great classics

Forrest Gump (1994) by Robert Zemeckis

With Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright

A few decades of American history, from the 1940s to the end of the 20th century, through the gaze and the strange odyssey of a simple and pure man, Forrest Gump.

12 angry men (1957) by Sidney Lumet

With Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

During a trial, a juror hypothesizes that the man he must judge may not be guilty. He will try to convince the eleven other jurors.

Green Book: On the Roads to the South (2019) by Peter Farrelly

With Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini

In 1962, when segregation reigned, Tony Lip, an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, was hired to lead and protect Dr. Don Shirley, a world-renowned black pianist, during a concert tour.

Pulp Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino

With John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

The bloody and burlesque odyssey of little thugs in the Hollywood jungle through three intertwined stories.

Bryan Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

With Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Lucy Boynton

From the dazzling success of Freddie Mercury to his excesses, risking the quasi-implosion of the group, until his triumphant return on stage during the Live Aid concert, when he was struck by illness, discover the exceptional life of a man which continues to inspire outsiders, dreamers and all those who love music.

If you have exhausted your Netflix list, head to OCS. In its on-demand catalog, the platform regularly offers themes around cutting-edge filmmakers with international renown. To deal with this epidemic, we focus on the theme Yórgos Lánthimos. There is his Lobster, Cannes jury prize in 2015, as surreal as it is intriguing; the Canine huis-clos (2009), where the Greek director imagines the cogs of a family where children have never crossed the garden gate; or the Killing of the Sacred Deer (2017), available from March 22.

Among other themes, OCS invites you to rediscover all of Lars von Trier's works, from Dancer in the Dark (2000) to Melancholia (2011), including The House That Jack Built (2019), available on March 29.




Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld