“(OK) Western comedy from Aldrich, but also Gene Wilder coming of wisdom to America, from coast to coast, robbers, indians and whatever. Ford's character has a forced relation wiht Wilder, is the corny stuff...” read more
“(MU) Jarmusch in light simple taxi sketches, the Los Angeles one woth Gena and Winona is light, ok; the NY with esposito, Mueller and Rosie Perez is better mixing cultures and characters, go deeper; the Paris one is a bit pahetic; the Rome one has Benigni in a round tragicomic sketch reminiscent of” read more
“(MU) Nice not so ambitious opera prima, nostalgic of a disfunctional family, with new bonds, or precarious bonds looking better than they are to the boys, a denial of the usual fatalist coming of age films...” read more
“(OK) The huge director's cut has no waste. Even the interview of the man cleaning the sewers is great or the boys calling therir families in booth, the liberation of an accidental moving city in a disaster area; and, the excellence of many numbers knowing they are history:Cocker, Baez, the first one” read more
“(OK) De Antonio has the right interview for his camera, or the right archive image, tu establish a point of a not solved problem; its an almost acadmeic approahc but in an unamerican anti belicist left wing side....” read more
“(MU) Good rescur of a not so simple film, tha in soft key exposes the identity traume a a misplaced man, coming from France and not coping with womne liberation, cultural melange and other things...” read more
“(OK) Lesser Sidney, lesser argument, could be a modest Disnye films for boys reunitirn a widow mom with Gig Young and ballooning over the skies....” read more
“(OK) Aldrich has no traumas in exposing the cops in all their misery and humanity. The racist one causes all tragedies and is condecorated, the homofobia and fobia to sexy body masochism is so big that makes Perry King takes his life, Durning is as moving as Geroge C Scott in The new centurions (its” read more
“(OK) Glimpses of best era of Sidney in musicals. Janet Legh is impressive in 'cleopatra look' number; Birdie is a sweet parody of Presley, Ann Margret is a pitty her stradom in the agonizing era of musicals...” read more
“(MU) Dominik learning from the genre and the masters and even has a Liotta as good as in 'Goodfellas'. Pitt is learning too, and pronounces the right words in cynical response to Obamaยดs speeches. Gandolfino as an alcoholic killer and the australian junkie, nice touches” read more
“(OK) Aldrich said this was one of his best, if not the bestm and thats arguably. Action is so tight and balanced, so well staged with characters strong on motifs (specially Lancaster) ; the political fiction plot of throwing a president to death in tha name of nation secrets, is credible, why not?” read more
“(MU) Even Von trier knows -his voice in off says it and I take it for granted- this is a lousy comedy. poor in gags, hard on forced feelings...” read more
“(MU) Affected, arty argument, in NY and Rome, but never matter, its an alibi to show Valentino's gowns. Julianne Moore always impecable...” read more
“(MU) Coming of age a la francaise, so ot has a suicidal moment, a lousy but sensitive kid, a bad reactive family, Binoche is convincing as nos sexy mother...” read more
“(Blu) Good all american, worth of O'Neill theatrical writing by Philip Yordan. Nice afroamerican cast, fatalist but open happy end; its ok” read more
“(MU) Takes some time to construct the knot of characters in domintios deception plot. Adjani thinks she is strong but fells for Bates as he succumbs to her, eberybofy is victim and victimizes the other in the quartet. The idle rich in paris and the apperances shouting they are just that...” read more
“(Blu) Frankenheimer surprises again and again, 3rd time I vibrate with this political thriller that appears as nuclear fiction and its so human that the love letters of martini lover Ava Gardner has the same importance of a secret militar base. Great cast, excellent results with less ambiton than Pr” read more
“(MU) So serene, mature, epic of a prerevolutionary momento in Angola, with the suffering and making of a hero. The reactions are slow, he inteligence is rare, but there it is a natural film about all those difficult things...” read more
“(Blu) Presley and Taurog and the Sinatra girl in their decadence. The race topic is as lousy as argument, the little girls subplot is horrible, musical numbers are lousy wih the exception of Elvis and the tax payers, thats a happy iroginal theme and choreography” read more
“(Blu) Deserves to be a cult film, maybe it already is. Gould is at his best as an accidental hero deceiving monster Plummer in Santa and woman disguise....” read more
“(Blu) Elegant Edwards, forcing wife Julie in an already disforced story of a spy in love defecting Russia (Sharif/Zhivago meets Mary Poppins)....” read more
“(Blu) First and lousy sounf Ford film. He hated the dialogue romantic scenes (directed by Lunsdem Hare) with Loy and McLaglen (laughable indeed).” read more
“(MU) The same characters you could see in a urban minimalist Jarmush film; here they are in prison and outdoors scape action, with tender coda, wise elipsis...” read more
“(OK) Somehow Ford indulges in his themes and style and topics so much that makes one of his longest films. Power is not so consistent with the hommages he receives, was a forced presence in Ford's world, probably because his irish roots...” read more
“(MU) Big suprprise from the World Cinema Project. A plot that could stanf for an actions stylized oriental film; and there it is, an not so quiet and contemplative, not so agile, ut fluent, drama of an horrendous killing not seen, and a revenge made aggainst fantastic and poetic interruptions, even ” read more