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“(OK) Idiosincratic, damon runyanesque, careless in form. but heart in the characters, Farrell Mac Donald makes a toast with the public; half the chracters are drunk...” read more
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“(OK) 'Fun in a chinese laundry? named Sternberg his autobiography. There it is the baroque details, the marvellous scene of the train stopped in the middle of a peopled street; and then Shangai Lily is a study of photo, shadows, textures, feelings...” read more
“(OK) Pioneering the peplum cycle with great production values: the parade of troops and wooden towers to scale trojan walls is better than any war. Some compostions in scope are excellent. Podesta and Sernas dialouez, and drop naming of famous mythology is lousy, but works!” read more
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“(MU) Forgive Nick, after so many masterpieces can do what he wants and make his students dance to his rythm, mocking himself til a false suicide. The idea of split screen inside another images is chaotic...” read more
“(YT) Complex, experimental, delicate; and follows a good tale. The point of view stylization, sweet fatality of vampirism, redeemed at the end, following the book, acted by an enthusiast, is the clue. Expressionism and impressionism copulate.” read more
“(YT) Complex, experimental, delicate; and follows a good tale. The point of view stylization, sweet fatality of vampirism, redeemed at the end, following the book, acted by an enthusiast, is the clue. Expressionism and impressionism copulate.” read more
“(MU) I like Dalla before and after his association with lyricist Roversi; great narrations of popular topics, from car races to labour. Marcello and Stefano, diverse in its approaches, make us understand the short hairy Lucio...” read more
“(YT) Pudovkin had gits and imagination, to fill 80 minutes of dazzling moving images, well edited, of city industrial and leisure soviet modernity; but the subjetc is film and its poitn fo views behind tha camera or animated stuff...” read more
“(MU) Overrated, soft core porn, Boro repaets the brave segment of "La bete" with the sucking of the beast penis; Paloma Picasso's sketch is really bad; the dirst one 'La marée' has a good idea but poor executed; the Lucrecia Borgia one is so simple...” read more
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“(OK) Pure sophistication, in the middle of "Funny face" melancholy and "Once more with feeling" frivolity, kinf of "Indiscreet" quartet. Grant is better than miscast but imposing Mitchum and Kerr is amusing with sidekick delicious bitchy Simmons...” read more
“(OK) I prefer the excellent, simple, straight with somber tones Henry King's version (the shot in the back is better); but this has its semitones too, as Frank criticizing Jesse's compulson to violence, signs of fatality, historic details...” read more
“(OK) I takes time to build and impose a great story: the false (the error is well planted in the beginning) son of Gengis Khan used by the rich and escaped to serve his people, with sequences of alternated edition 'a la ' Eisenstein...with low angles as many soviet films with a 'glorifying class' po” read more
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“(OK) Wonderful Lloyd vehicle. Excellent in rythm and poetic and epic gags. The one in which he climbs a giant tree to see his woman in the landscape; the fight woth the bad guy in the abandoned ship, alternating macabre and light tones (the monkey with shoes, the violent fight in the water and cell” read more
“(OK) Not just the first film with sound, but a special film with social topic (the persistance of jewish tradition against free will of a young talented man). It's meaningfull that the only dialogued sound scene of the film is between Jolson and his mother: melodrama and clashes between generations,” read more
“(NX) Great argument with tooches of science fiction and romantic drama, too formalist and arty; but there's some images the stands precious for the film: the frozen river Charles, the house in Long Beach...” read more
“(MU) Clouzot's story had aged too much when picked by Chabrol and the film has aged a lot. Serious problems of verisimilitude, because Beart is to free and self centered in the beginning and then too submissive; people are too deaf about whats happening...” read more
“(OK) More frivolous than elegant, far from "Funny face" and otrher delicate and sophisticated Donens; but has a special touch in Brynner's ego and magalomania (so many portraits of him) , and Kay is too much obliged to clown ....Ratoff is a goo ol' sidekick” read more
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“(OK) Great copy for a greta film. The long wait for the war in France, is just a way to charge energies and throw the men to the battlefield where they advance in a mortal cadence to the fortn line, long and wonderfull part...” read more
“(MU) Thanks to part I, this flies to the sky, the world is musiclaized in a number of tourist bieng gudie with a song of the history in each place of Checkford; May Ray attacks again, Euripides's Hecuba enlightnens everything with is texts, theatr as social therapy...” read more
“(MU) Holistic in a prosaic, small urban way; but choral protagonism focused on two lesbian directors of a cultural center melted with the commnity against the trendy, confusing, imposing, publicized, corrupt, new art...a world in one small city...” read more
