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fernando posted a review of The Struggle (1931)

“(OK) Modest talkie, last Griffith focused on the evil alcoholism that destroys life but not hope on men and women and family, a straight non star chant on resilience...” read more

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

“(OK) Chaplinesque in a sad way, some long pathetic and interesting gags on Langdon flu; then a blind girl staying blind till the end and a bizarre war prologue” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 9 items to their collection
The Holy Man

have watched

8/10

Suivez cet homme

have watched

7/10

Michael Strogoff                                  (1956)

have watched

6/10

On Golden Pond

have watched

7/10

The Bélier Family

have watched

6/10


2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of A Summer's Tale

“(Mu) Rohmer's in summer vibrates. Just walking by the boardwalk, meeting someboy, there's always the possibilitu of a 'rayon vert'...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Strange Impersonation

“(Ok) One og the first small Mann's; this one well written and acted by Marshall ans specially fatlae Hillary Brooke. Some good shots with fire and its effect on Brenda's face...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago

“(OK) Great story, small film, too small. Ludwig Donath is convincinf hating his double of Hitler condition and sharing his rage with his captors; melodramtic ending is kind of bizarre...” read more

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

“(OK) Full of charm, great cast, fluent naiveté; Beatty a complete author, running all the film through the big mansion, through ecological, social, rcich and poor topics...” read more

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

“(OK) As good as 'L'orribile segreto...' , gothic red tale of menage a trois, femme fatale (Steele, always convincing), decirving husband who doesn't die, terror and polar” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Letter from Paris

“(Mu) Raw documentary, in primitive video, no structure, no clisés on Paris, noisy working walking public huge city...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 6 items to their collection
A Summer

have watched

8/10

Strange Impersonation

have watched

7/10

The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

have watched

6/10

Heaven Can Wait

have watched

7/10

The Ghost

have watched

7/10


2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Summer of 85

“(Mu) Ozon,as always, a good storyteller, good topics, but never goes deeper under the skin and the logic of characters. Here a story of 85 not enirely seen with the eyes of its era...” read more

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

“(Dvd) An exercise on dramatic efficacity , boyxploitation, verosimile in details, straight dramatic progresson, proverb as a thesis )the Aesopus fable og the boy who cried wolf), pure suspense...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Sweet Body of Bianca

“(Dvd) So strange, bizarre, compulsive, lovable and hateful man. He tries to interfees in other couples relaions being so uneasy to form his. Laura Morante is in love with him and says becuase 'he is a kinnd man'. He refuses that and is so right...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Happy-Go-Lucky

“(Mu) A so happy woman, that she can't explain why she ends so much embraced by the chaotic entourage...The driving instrutor, the best part!” read more

2 years, 1 month ago

“(Dvd) Too simple, too many idiots plots, its heroicity come form an ingenue that embraces her love years ago...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Les astronautes

“(Mu) Short stop motion origami like version of future” read more

2 years, 1 month ago

“(Dvd) La Magnani is so brilliant,so illuminated in her nouveau riche ingenue that, with innocence, is vitim of thieves. De Sica is nothing at her side, specially when she sings and dances.” read more

2 years, 1 month ago

“(Dvd) La Magnani is so brilliant,so illuminated in her nouveau riche ingenue that, with innocence, is vitim of thieves. De Sica is nothing at her side, specially when she sings and dances...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago

“(Dvd) La Magnani is so brilliant,so illuminated in her nouveau riche ingenue that, with innocence, is vitim of thieves. De Sica is nothing at her side, specially when she sings and dances...” read more

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

“(DVd) The rituals of invition people to be crucified (Gino Cervi amuses himself) and some others, are the only interesting part. Besides that, a so doomed, grandiloquent film that gets so closed to ridicule. Poor Raf Vallone...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago

“(Dvd) A very schematic, dues ex machina simplistic solutions screeplay, but cast, some situations, itlaina location and production values, makes this so enjoyable. Slapstick in an italian village...” read more

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

“(Mu) Ferrara hits the mark, Pasolini is surrounded by friends and relatives (la mamma, Laura Betti in thin Maria de Medeiros version, Ninetto Davoli himself and an actor playing Ninetto), discusses a new project, is interviewed and goes arounf with a gay boy and you know what happens. ..” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 10 items to their collection
Summer of 85

have watched

6/10

The Window

have watched

7/10

Sweet Body of Bianca

have watched

7/10

Happy-Go-Lucky

have watched

6/10

Beautiful But Dangerous

have watched

6/10


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

“(dvd) A lonely fight of one policmen against corruption, moreintimate than politicla, and political in fact. The demoralization of Pacino is great, een if it is long and takes too many episodes and races and arrests...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Sparrows (1926)

“(Yt) Pickfor in her essence: she is asked about the 10 orphans around her and replies that they´re hers, ignorisn the sexual facts of motherhood. Action with crocodiles and lethal sands in he bayou, chase of criminal, mystical melodrama (they send a kite with a message to god)...” read more

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

have watched

7/10

Sparrows (1926)

7/10


2 years, 1 month ago

“(Mu) Tender metafiction, great characters in an on camera, specially Hussein and his impossible love...Kiarostami's alter ego is always surpassed and laughed at, by reality...” read more

2 years, 1 month ago

“(Mu) First Rohmer. Yeah, not becuase of Godard as an actor,but has, in his nonchalance and pace and naturalitic , a pre nouvelle vague condirtion...” read more

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

“(Mu) Rohmer plays with a Peo teeth obsession, and has an experimemntal look, in editing and acting, that makes you forgive the poor techniques...” read more

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

“(Mu) The narraon in off doesn´t match the scenes in most of he film. Brialy is just playing in an amateristic way. The scene in the Cahiers du Cinema office (its Tuffaut there! ) is a cameo in itself” read more

2 years, 1 month ago