Explore
 Lists  Reviews  Images  Update feed
Categories
MoviesTV ShowsMusicBooksGamesDVDs/Blu-RayPeopleArt & DesignPlacesWeb TV & PodcastsToys & CollectiblesComic Book SeriesBeautyAnimals   View more categories »
Listal logo
fernando posted a review of Vortex

“(MU) Noe sometimes wise guy, here hits the nail woth the split screen, nos so split, there's justo two cameras following two characters and they cotinue with them and us even if they are close; great finale with two deadhs...Argento and Lberun impecable, they seem natural actors...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Dry Summer

“(MU) Turkish rural melodrama more aged than indian or egyptian equivalents. Here, goo men and women are terribly stupid in front of evil brother; but direction and confrontation of characters ae effective, sexual undertones too” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Wild Guitar (1962)

“(MU) MMhhh, Stekler is as naif as lousy director, but beginning and ending are better than the stuff of new star against gangsters, bah. Musicla numbers are also louys but the last one, a beach scene preceding the boom of beach movies” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Daisies

“(OK) If it weren't so repetitive, too thin plot for hour and a half, would be great. But there's a slight progression til the famous footing on the salad scene...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago

“(OK) Between the Dietrich cycle, Von Sternbern had this drama of modest, torned by ist social/climbing up compulsions; same style and elegance, greta sound atmospheres, in the factory, the lake, oh, great film...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando added 7 items to their collection
Sarah

have watched

7/10

Come Drink with Me

have watched

7/10

Vortex

have watched

7/10

Dry Summer

have watched

6/10

Wild Guitar (1962)

have watched

5/10


2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Shark

“(OK) The poorest Fuller, in spite of good cast (Reynolds anticipate posmodern heroes, Pinal is ok, Kennedy is the best), lousy fights, long diving secuences with inverosimile shark attacks...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Shark

“(OK) The poorest Fuller, in spite of good cast (Reynolds anticipate posmodern heroes, Pinal is ok, Kennedy is the best), lousy fights, long diving secuences with inverosimile shark attacks...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Shark

“(OK) The poorest Fuller, in spite of good cast (Reynolds anticipate posmodern heroes, Pinal is ok, Kennedy is the best), lousy fights, long diving secuences with inverosimile shark attacks...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Jakub

“(MU) Czech doccumentary of a death man, controversial for his people, which enriches the survy on him, with social commentaries on war, identity, boundaries...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Shakti

“(MU) Rejtman at its purest , straight laconic humorous style in few minutes; argentinian Kaurismaki. Here there's a terapist, in his longfeatires each character is terapist of the other...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Mare

“(MU) Character film, a woman fatigued by an unsexy husband and three kids, one a rebel adolescent; has a romance, goes desperate by the forest near Dubrovnik airport, wanders, wait, deceives...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Apple

“(MU) Knocked by this 17 year old Samira Mackmalbaf debut. Great story solved in few days by a salomonic wise socual worker and poor people as monstruos as tender. The socirty works even in his case, the girls are not bullied but victimized by their parents... the blind woman who wants her universe f” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Trances

“(MU) The film is simple, rough; its value is the testimony of Nass El Chiwane, oustanding pop trovadours firm Morocco and their trip inside the country...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando added 6 items to their collection
Shark

owned

5/10

Jakub

have watched

6/10

Shakti

have watched

7/10

Mare

have watched

6/10

The Apple

have watched

9/10


2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Golden Thread

“(MU) Good indian film with big background of classes, castes and imposble romance. The mature hero is a good man turned the pivotal agent of tragedy for his lode ones, weaker than the frce of tragedy, but capable of wonderful acts of resistance and submission, and suicide...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago

“(OK) Can´t resist this little epic of 50/50 misoginy and enjoyable sexism, in the figure of 3 amazons (cars instead of horses) rampaging a family in an isolated ranch. Anarquist gues...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Paris Belongs to Us

“(MU) Existential almost cosmic thriller of refugees in Paris, being killed by complos or suicided. All this through the eyes of a young nouvella vague heroine...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Family Romance, LLC

“(OK) Herzog, good conceptual intelectual filmmaker, goes for drama and truth and impostation as a business with comprehensible demand. The hero, who is the director of the business, is a natural and an excellnet accomplice of Werner...he even look alike...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Mother and Child

“(MU) Choral film without Altman or Paul Thomas Anderson talent; but good actors (Bening, Jackson and Watts), some elegant constraint and elipsis...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando added 5 items to their collection
The Golden Thread

have watched

7/10

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

have watched

9/10

Paris Belongs to Us

have watched

7/10

Family Romance, LLC

have watched

7/10


2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Black Venus

“(MU) Great story, real and well staged by long description of the shows and martyrdom of Sara the hotentote. She is delicate and expresses much with less, but there´s a problem of indolence...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago

“(YT) Reckless and romantic characters, tres Fitzgerald, tres parisiens; self destruction at its best. Van Johnson is convincing and Liz is learning...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Night

“(MU) Pure long shots by Ming-Liang, so alike to his long features, no characters just downtown at night...with tempo in car and people moving...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of McQueen

“(MU) The right testimony of a troubled short creative life. McQueen goes from selfasuring savage rupturist designer to unsufferable diva; his friends and victims talk, and the shows talk great for themselves. Lovably the model in white being painted by two machines...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Fruits of Passion

“(MU) Terayama in shangai whoresploitation, with Kinski amusing himself (well, half the film is grumpy) as voyeur and fucker. The heroine is a lousy actress, Dombalse is better and the wasted pretty chinese boy...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago

“(MU) Nice texts, even in its apparent lack of order, but poor quality of images in black and white. The alobi of being illustrations of an epistolar text is not enough...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago

“(MU) Joao Pedro with text and personal story of Joao Rui Guerra, thriller and essay, tragic and noir but without seeing the main characters. Just seeing Macao with the colonial nostalgia of cool portuguese...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Doll's Revenge

“(YT) Black humour, against a heavy boy, less baroque than Melies, with seems more realist in its fantastic subject...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago
fernando posted a review of Morrer Como Um Homem

“(MU) Joao Pedro is the best portuguese director alike, even better than affected Miguel Gomes. This is a wide melodrama, mythical in the last trip of Tonia and Rosario (the scale in the home of the trans is so) , moving, excellent in each close up...” read more

2 years, 6 months ago