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fernando posted a review of The Virtuous Sin

“(OK) I rather forget "Grumpy" and consider this, Cukor's debut. A soft melodrama pathos enhanced with Kay Francis moving and same time frivolous scheme and finding love in the opposite Walter Huston...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Grumpy

“The most we can say of poor Cukor debut is Grumpy (Cyril Maude) solving a case is an antecessor of Agatha Christie´s Miss Marple...

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2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Grumpy

“(OK) Poor Cukor debut, a small vehicle for veteran Cyril Maude.Poor stoy too with an idiot romance mixed with a robbed diamond, bah” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of The Great Buster

“(MU) Just to organize and celebrate Buster filomography, biography, ideas and some rare clips from shorts and pubiicity and appearances in his last years...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Gimme Shelter

“(OK) The Rolling's had thick skin to go through thier personal insane gratuitous Woodstock (the Altamont concert) and them, through this documentary...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Tale of Tales

“(MU) Underrated non Hollywood non Del Toro fantasy, 3 great stories, melodrama with fantastic touches (the giant bug, the twins, the ugly husband), Garrone hisees any arty asporation behind the action...nice cast...moving non gore bloody woman....” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Performance

“(OK) Great first part, with the elegant retroted Fox; then in Jagger's pit is more counterculture stuff with psicodelia and sex; but Fox is still a greta character and actor all over...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 7 items to their collection
Zabriskie Point

have watched

7/10

The Virtuous Sin

have watched

6/10

Grumpy

have watched

5/10

The Great Buster

have watched

6/10

Gimme Shelter

have watched

6/10


2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Victoria

“(MU) Maybe Cannes was too generous ith her, but this romanic comedy is not too little, with court backgorund (a sensitive dog in trial reminds Asta in Leo McCrey's classic), and finding true love in the end...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago

“(MU) Bodies explores, exposed, deteriorating, sick, in hispitals and asylums, flesh and mind, that´s all, no comments more than he anatomy seminak book of Vesalio...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Hard Candy

“(MU) Too effective but the hiper conscious vindictive symbolic Elliott Page character is too much. No place to errors, to hazard, to twists....” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 3 items to their collection
Victoria

have watched

6/10

De humani corporis fabrica

have watched

6/10

Hard Candy

6/10


2 years, 1 month ago

“(MU) Jame Campion short debut is just a small part of "Sweetie", with an indisciplined boy, reckless parents and indifferent milieu.....” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of America

“(MU) The close up of an ambiguous girl/boy identity after a one take forest landscape, has enough force and mistery...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Potemkinistii

“(MU) Excellent framing, thorugh a monument and a dialogue bwteen a burocrat and a curator, og legacy and history and contradictions in rumanian identity...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Joaquim

“(MU) Antiepic, but acumulative, fluid account of Tiradentes coming of braislian consciousness, after suffering discrimination, seeing a quilombo, wasting his life looking for gold and reading independentist books....there it ends, with no independentist action, but an intorductory voice in off expla” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Marx Can Wait

“(MU) Intimate account, through sis and bros and family firends of the suicide of Camilo in 1968, Marco Bellochio's twin brothers. A serene, sincere, exorcism of an old trauma and guilt...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 5 items to their collection
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel

have watched

6/10

America

have watched

6/10

Potemkinistii

have watched

7/10

Joaquim

have watched

6/10


2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of La Paz en Buenos Aires

“( MU) La lucha libre es interesante porque sí, no porque el director e adentre o comprometa con ella. El pase de una generación a otra es frío como la dirección documental y todo lo demás....” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Antonio das Mortes

“(MU) Stylized in various layers, musucially, linguisticallu, historically, symbolically. The killer os the converted hero, the cangaceiro is the faded hero, the saint woman is the symbol of anything, the city and institutions are just there in the background. the intuitive choreographies, the archet” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 2 items to their collection
La Paz en Buenos Aires

have watched

5/10

Antonio das Mortes

7/10


2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of The Ear

“(OK) Czech wonderful wave. Here Kachyna mocks on power, on naiveté of the survivals, wth a tuch of whta seem reduction to absurd, but there are the real ears. Toxic realtion man and wife is more than a bonus...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
The Ear
 The Ear 8/10
2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of ...All the Marbles

“(OK) Aldrich's swansong wih excellent secuences of action in the ring choking with gender and genre. These girls are real tough. Even this a stor of winners there¿s a specal sadness in it...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of The Five Devils

“(MU) Mysius adds her little 'odor touch' multiverse to this little city mountain drama interracial queer intergenerational...nice suspenseful direction...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 2 items to their collection
...All the Marbles

have watched

7/10

The Five Devils

7/10


2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Her Job

“(MU) Not too dirty greek realism, opposite to its new wave, with a too shy woman, that makes uneasy to believe her behavious in some scenes...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Volevo nascondermi

“(MU) Great composition and set design, and great work of Elio Germano in front of the empty canvases, normalizing his psychopaties and victimization; all that overcomes its narrative flaws” read more

2 years, 1 month ago

“(OK) When Bertolucci maybe was affected by other authors tendencies, but made them own. Brogi is fascinated by his father's character and Alida Valli is so mysterious and sexy and unpredictable....(lousy copy, can't appreciate Storaro's wonderful natural light as in the fist time I saw it)...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of The Frisco Kid

“(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

2 years, 1 month ago