“(OK) Forbes and Attenborough has the audacity and naivete, as in the story, to tell in a false straightforward way (the boys are not doubtfull, are easy believers) this confusin of Bates with Jesus...” read more

“(OK) Pagnol takes too much time, but is a harsh naturalistic look in old patriarchy, beated by mixed loyalties (Fernandel's one), love (Albin's) and call of life the takes Orane to Marseille. Was moved by Fernandel arriving to Marseille train station and long staircase that looks the same as today.” read more

“(OK) Simple, plain, little gen by Dwan. Film noir in the high sierra where a Torilla Flat ind of town is colindant to a mine where John Carroll plans a sophisticated racket. Nice to see Thomas Gomnez in a noble support...” read more

“(OK) Anothr deliberately, estetically, thematically sublime love by Borzage, in the sake of "/th heaven"; with some ethnic circus street background, and the comparison (discriminative) of whores as opposed to pure love. But that permits the great finale of Farrell in the fog of the night illuminatin” read more

“(OK) Unsettled, nasty character who doesn't know the diference between right or wrong (Rachel Roberts tell him so in one of thier all good scenes) and he replies your'e not going to teach me..."; and runs and even shoots a lay in her ass...” read more

“(OK) Undeserved popularity for a biopic, much less interesting than many other by Warners. But in purposedly made click with patriotic wave of that time; and Cagney was a self convinced Cohan tapping his way trhough family and enterprise...” read more

“(OK) An expressionist false mood, for a Sternberg theme, the man losing himself in woman's actress/singer laces and backstage...Jannings is too pathetic, but great actor” read more

“(YT) After "Look back in anger" Richardson was more classic, conventional, ambitious. He took Osborne and a lot of colourful characters in extreme, ha managed sequences with masses en the seaside...” read more

“(YT) Olivier mending, mixing, embracing, tehatre and film. he delivers the main monologues stagey, and then pictures the big facts, the battle and the crimes. The 'kingdom for a horse', of course, is pure action direction...” read more

“(OK) Little melancholic tender gem Melki is a Keaton with words and contemporary feelings. His infatuation with whore Arlette, is so romantic, even epic (he scares clients but pays for them to the pimp), and then,appears Dalio in a frenzy party in the appartment woth the world moves....” read more

“(OK) The first half is tongue in cheek, Laraine bullying ridicule Barry nelson; buth when everything turns patriotic, mmmhhhh...” read more

“(OK) So naif and simple: an average Joe takes all, even torture, if he recalls the happiness of being a good worker, husband and father... Young is Joe Smith, tha nazi spies could be everybody....” read more

“(OK/YT)) A so special Premminger, historic melodrama, love and ambitios as two contrasted forces, Linda thinks they nurture each other, but they clash in many aspects, at the end in the child going to America with father, in the king resenting (so elegance in Sanders) being part of a plot...” read more

“(YT) The episode of the bell, has no waste, not even a minute. Is the sum of it all, the artist triumph over uncertainty and social background. The chonicle, episodic, hollistic camera movements with person ans horses (they act what actors can't, with the exception of the fools, the woman and the ma” read more

“(OK) Nice little play well dramatized, perfect distribution and contrast of characters. The scene of Leighton and vicar pop Richardson in the stair is pure cinema. Celia is miscast by age, but Gregson markes believable thier affair...” read more

“(YT) Unique Hitchcock, more romantic than suspensefull, more character than action but delicate details as Bergman having an improvised mirror in the windoy shadowed by Wilding, good british support (Leighton, Cecil Parker)...” read more

“(OK) In the way to "Good news", the peak of college (well, here's a military academiy to cope woth war effort) with a film star by herself as bonus: Lucillle Ball. Buzzell keeps everything warm and manages (he directed Marx Brosthers¡) tie comic stuff...” read more

“(OK) The best Taviani. Marcello in more and lessthan a traitor, is an 'unconformist' a man unease with status quo and neif revolution. He is midway in all, in his class and in ther party, and even in the suicide/crime for love, for money, for being bored?, of his friend Lionello. There are not his t” read more

“(OK) Anything by LeRoy has some energy and clearness, even if with some confused characters as Norma Shearer. Nazimova and Veidt and even Philip Dorn (Bressart character is too humble) puts the complexity Taylor does not have...” read more

“(OK) Just because Tarantine chose it to illustrate the fabulous 'dayfilmdreaming' sequence of Sharon Tate's inspired character in "Once upon a time in Hollywood". In effect, her fight with Nancy Kwan is one of the most stupif and funny moments. Director Phil Karlson doesn't amuse with this material ” read more

“(OK) Great, everything big pacifist oriented in films as "1917" is already here. The travellings from the trenches, that running view as that from rats or mice (there are sequences with rats also) are so elocuent, not just a technical achievement. And feelings, passion, between friends and generarti” read more

“(YT) Fine Asquith, nos hiding or being affected by the stagey original. Just amusing with great actors. Redgrave connects them all, but Evans is the best of all, claiming every phrase, even dominating Rutherford.” read more

“(OK) Minor and long Hitch. Two greta episodes: the killing in the sea of umbrellas followed by the mill (Cameron Menzies in the set design) ant the final great airplane crash...” read more

“(OK) Disney posed with the madness and episodic fantasy of Carroll's is better than telling a tale. The flower concert, the walrus and the oysters, the cards and the queen in the end, the troubling size of Alice breaking a house and a keyhole....” read more