Marc A. Cormier

Francophiles often ask, what are some great French movies one would suggest? Here is a small selection I put together whilst answering such a question somewhere else on the vast web.

Here are some favourites among classics.

• 1930 - 1940
  • La Grande Illusion (1937) - Greatest movie, epic about WW 1, European change, the end of aristocracy and French POW. Movie was pillaged by Hollywood and hated by Adolf Hitler. By Renoir with Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay
  • Pépé le moko (1937) - An allegory of France-Algeria relations as seen through the personal relations of Gabin and an Algerian woman

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Politics on the dial. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart remains on the list of absolute favourites and obligatory watching along with Keith Olbermann’s Countdown. Both provide a daily and entertaining analysis of the day’s politics. When time allows, Chris Matthews and The Ed Show are two more MSNBC shows worth watching for the political junkie. No more Rachel Maddow however, for an air of insincerity seems to have wafted over the show; as a good friend often says, she’s not wysiwyg.

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