The Wire soon developed a reputation that transcended the cop genre. Indeed, even calling The Wire a police drama feels insulting and reductive, like calling Citizen Kane a movie about a newspaperman, or Hamlet a story about a guy with some issues. With the first season of The Wire, creator David Simon uses the investigation into a notorious drug dealer to tell the story of an entire city. Painting on a huge canvas, Simon takes us from the corridors of power to back alleys where junkies die unmourned deaths. It’s a television show about just about everything: race, class, sexuality, money, power, urban development, politics in its myriad forms, the legal system, friendship, obsession, dedication, identity, and the cycle of poverty. Also, there’s drug-dealing and dudes getting arrested.
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“The Wire: Season One - Better Late Than Never?” par Nathan Rabin sur The A.V. Club (January 25th, 2010) (merci à Patrick!) Comme l’auteur, je m’y suis mis récemment, intrigué moi aussi par tout le bien qu’on en disait ici et là. Et il ne m’a pas fallu 3 épisodes pour, à mon tour, être emballé. Un format, plus long qu’à l’accoutumée, avec 55 min, qui laisse la place à un rythme plus lent que dans les séries policières traditionnelles ; une narration réaliste, intimiste et intelligente à la fois avec des répliques mythiques (“Happy now, bitch ?” -Bunk), des personnages magistraux (Omar Little, Stringer Bell) et d’autres plus effacés qu’on voit néanmoins grandir, mûrir et parfois tomber et enfin une ville, Baltimore, dont on explore les facettes les plus troubles saison après saison. Croyez-moi, la fantastique réputation de The Wire n’est pas usurpée et c’est sans l’ombre d’une hésitation que je classe cette série au même plan que The West Wing et Battlestar Galactica dans mon panthéon personnel. |
The first Indian prime minister to serve two consecutive terms since Nehru, it’s been Singh, a 77-year-old economist, who has kept India’s tiger economy growling. Responsible for leading one of every six people on earth, Singh has done so as a Sikh, a minority in India. His ability to avoid the stain of corruption has also earned him praise. An professor with a knack for politics—think India’s Josiah Bartlet—Singh has thrived on the world stage. “Anyone who can obtain a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford and successfully manage the world’s largest democracy has to be the smartest person in the world,” says one of our MacArthur voters, Loren H. Riesenberg of Indiana University.
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Pour la référence à Josiah Bartlet évidemment! |
American Film Institue Top 100 U.S. FILMS
1. “Citizen Kane,” 1941.
2. “The Godfather,” 1972.
3. “Casablanca,” 1942.
4. “Raging Bull,” 1980.
5. “Singin’ in the Rain,” 1952.
6. “Gone With the Wind,” 1939.
7. “Lawrence of Arabia,” 1962.
8. “Schindler’s List,” 1993.
9. “Vertigo,” 1958.
10. “The Wizard of Oz,” 1939.
11. “City Lights,” 1931.
12. “The Searchers,” 1956.
13. “Star Wars,” 1977.
14. “Psycho,” 1960.
15. “2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968.
16. “Sunset Blvd.”, 1950.
17. “The Graduate,” 1967.
18. “The General,” 1927.
19. “On the Waterfront,” 1954.
20. “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 1946.
21. “Chinatown,” 1974.
22. “Some Like It Hot,” 1959.
23. “The Grapes of Wrath,” 1940.
24. “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” 1982.
25. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” 1962.
26. “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” 1939.
27. “High Noon,” 1952.
28. “All About Eve,” 1950.
29. “Double Indemnity,” 1944.
30. “Apocalypse Now,” 1979.
31. “The Maltese Falcon,” 1941.
32. “The Godfather Part II,” 1974.
33. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” 1975.
34. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” 1937.
35. “Annie Hall,” 1977.
36. “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” 1957.
37. “The Best Years of Our Lives,” 1946.
38. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” 1948.
39. “Dr. Strangelove,” 1964.
40. “The Sound of Music,” 1965.
41. “King Kong,” 1933.
42. “Bonnie and Clyde,” 1967.
43. “Midnight Cowboy,” 1969.
44. “The Philadelphia Story,” 1940.
45. “Shane,” 1953.
46. “It Happened One Night,” 1934.
47. “A Streetcar Named Desire,” 1951.
48. “Rear Window,” 1954.
49. “Intolerance,” 1916.
50. “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” 2001.
51. “West Side Story,” 1961.
52. “Taxi Driver,” 1976.
53. “The Deer Hunter,” 1978.
54. “M-A-S-H,” 1970.
55. “North by Northwest,” 1959.
56. “Jaws,” 1975.
57. “Rocky,” 1976.
58. “The Gold Rush,” 1925.
59. “Nashville,” 1975.
60. “Duck Soup,” 1933.
61. “Sullivan’s Travels,” 1941.
62. “American Graffiti,” 1973.
63. “Cabaret,” 1972.
64. “Network,” 1976.
65. “The African Queen,” 1951.
66. “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” 1981.
67. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, 1966.
68. “Unforgiven,” 1992.
69. “Tootsie,” 1982.
70. “A Clockwork Orange,” 1971.
71. “Saving Private Ryan,” 1998.
72. “The Shawshank Redemption,” 1994.
73. “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” 1969.
74. “The Silence of the Lambs,” 1991.
75. “In the Heat of the Night,” 1967.
76. “Forrest Gump,” 1994.
77. “All the President’s Men,” 1976.
78. “Modern Times,” 1936.
79. “The Wild Bunch,” 1969.
80. “The Apartment, 1960.
81. “Spartacus,” 1960.
82. “Sunrise,” 1927.
83. “Titanic,” 1997.
84. “Easy Rider,” 1969.
85. “A Night at the Opera,” 1935.
86. “Platoon,” 1986.
87. “12 Angry Men,” 1957.
88. “Bringing Up Baby,” 1938.
89. “The Sixth Sense,” 1999.
90. “Swing Time,” 1936.
91. “Sophie’s Choice,” 1982.
92. “Goodfellas,” 1990.
93. “The French Connection,” 1971.
94. “Pulp Fiction,” 1994.
95. “The Last Picture Show,” 1971.
96. “Do the Right Thing,” 1989.
97. “Blade Runner,” 1982.
98. “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” 1942.
99. “Toy Story,” 1995.
100. “Ben-Hur,” 1959.