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“(Yt) Ophuls is already an excellent 'caligraphist' with camera and sets, and same time as romantic and fatalist -with small town Goethe's angst- as in "Liebelei". There´s some pathos in each romantic impossible encounter...” read more
“(Mu) A working man in a small rural place (the poor working man is so close to the tramp that his sunday clothes... are those of the tramp), with a naif Edna, fightinf for her with some weak gags. The best part, for its lyric naiveté, is Chaplin dreaming a ballet with nymphs...” read more
“(Mu) Some of Chaplin greatest gags and they belong to the idle not to the tramp. When he forget his pants and try to hide or when one thinks he is crying after readng a letter from his wife and is shaking a drink with soda; all that is better than the tramp non negligeable part...” read more
“(Mu) My favorite Chaplin short. All a round day, ending when he is trying to sleep the night out. There's almost an unreal atmosphere with the durnken worker trying to catch the last full tramways and mistaking a kiosk with a suassage for a bus....the glory of gags, and so inserted in story...” read more
“(Mu) Some excellent gags in the unstable boat with couples dancing and people throwing, as effective as in 'the inmigrant', and Chaplin walking over a fat woman used as a bridge. This is not a tramp film, this is middle calss family man amusing us....everything is lighter” read more
“(Mu) Just 3 entire shorts (Pilgrim, A dog's life and Shoulder arms) with a simple introduction of what the hell is Hollywood...” read more
“(Mu) The tram in his bottom, as a dog, in a bar of thieves and women forced to prostitution, with holes in his pants, sleeping in the street; robbing and being robbed. More social background than gags” read more
“(Mu) I like the idea and the low speed, a bug walking, ascendin any landscape and falling upside down, the agony of less than a character...” read more
“(MU) just a loop, a loop, a loop with too abstracted mecanic nice movements, for ten minutes, a bit of concrete music...” read more
“(Mu) Just for experimenting digital video, actresses react and talk as if doing a test. The blonde is reminiscent of a Lynch girl, as Cheryl Dunn in Twin Peaks...” read more
“(Mu) There's something in this tiny, simple, rudimentary film. Horror and humour as keys to Lynch authoral perverted stylish world...” read more
“(OK) Funny and rare, some good ideas as the man with the stick in his mouth being 'saved' but in fact victimized by the neighbour, the essential fat hard Lynch urban monster” read more
“(Mu) First Lynch, so personal he makes a loop. Stylish, simple, six figures throwing figures, ok, no more to ask this author in progress” read more
“(Mu) Pure Lynch, but obscure if you don't know the series or forget it. More symbolich than surrelaist, but has pace and atmosphere (the sequence of the sordid bordello is great), great acting of secondary characters, great directing...” read more
“(OK) Greta chratacer for adventure and romance, Francois Villon, curiously not exploited by french cinema but Hollywood at its best. Colman has the charm and the density, Frances Dee the naiveté, Lloyys the hand and the resources... Rathbone is too cartoonish but it works...” read more
“(Mu) Rohmer de vacances, multiraced, happy ending, not the sea but a contaminated river, people working, not usual travellers, love it...” read more
“(SemanaUlima) Classic and effective, the right cultural landscape (Dover and Calais) to set a story of a man wth two families and the clash between them after the surprise of knowing each other after his sudden death), but is better planted and told...” read more
“(YT) Ford and Farrell Macdonald amuses themselves with all the clisés of Europe, including Germany and France and even flying in plane, feelings and emotion are over the clisés, and character...” read more
“(SemanaUlima) Square format, strong acting/directing of a family crossing mid sepaeraton and some violence to reach harmony...” read more
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“(SemanaULima) The 3rd story is the best, constructs its characters and tone and world from a confusion. Te second lacks clarity, as the first one is too open in the end...” read more
“(OK) Ladd and the Paramount heavies (Bendix, Donlevy, Dekker, Da Silva at his best as the captain) with Barry Fitzgerald as relief; powerfull but lacks some brightness.” read more
“(SemanaULima) Little film, but takes its time to contruct its tone, idea and little impact. Nice girls complicity, sense of opportnity and time...” read more
“(MU) Ages amuses herself in the USA. Too long for doing almost othing, but has a nos shame aspect regarding bodies and sensuality and leisure, and the opportunity of talking pilitics a propos of the second Kennedy's assasination” read more
“(OK) So delicate, elegant. Wayne is a sofisicated brute, romantic as an exception. Gail Russell is at her best, as Adele Mara and Gig Young as kind of paralell characters. Luhes Adler is top...” read more
“(MU)Fisher ai its best, Sanster is already there pushing the genre and the particular monster to sexy limits. Here, the monster is a handsome man, but lacks some poetry and great secuences....” read more