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“(OK) Chaplin reached maturity in the early 20's. Here you have simple gags but bitter ironic depiction of a community devoted to a false priest, himself...” read more

“(OK) Good heart daddy Tourneur, is more fascinated with people than with devil (as his son Jacques), and here you have great grosse Baur in 4 stories more integrated tham simple sketches...” read more

“(OK) Great and poignant argument, less melodramatic and more 'social' commentary as similar indian films. Faten Hamama lends a star touch...” read more

“(OK) Jack Webb holds everything, even the trumpet and the noirish aged voice in off. Very well directed, resumed in the stylized ending, good cast, what else?” read more

“(OK) Gremillon is great wiht a perfect story as "Le ciel est a vous" and with a harsh one as this, with characters fighting for protagonism, and becoming hosts of strange passions..., some baroquism on limpid waters as in "Lumiere d'ete"...” read more

“(OK) Simpld, unglamorous, poor cast, but that man attached to a bed, eyes wide open, telekinesia of all sorts, sensual, dangeroous, irresistible, makes the film...” read more

“(OK) Hollywood making Pasteur's elocuent story of revolutioning medical practice withe si ence and discorvering the principle of vaccines, fighting woth prejudice; in pills and pieces of action and een romance of his assintant ans daughter...” read more

“(OK) Not a 'pasteurized' Guitiry bus a Pasteus with a Guitry humour and passion...but an ocassion for the master, just beginning his lonf feature career, visit some topics as war and scientific academic prejudice, not frecuent in his cinema” read more

“(OK) Japanese awakening to such topics and forms and styles and audacious approaches, are earlier than otther so well known cinemas... The senaual noirich melodrmatic tragic stuff here culd semm aged but has its charm...” read more

“(OK) More experimental than any other thing, close ups trying to replace the dialogues wich are so great because of its documented preservation; great in the brink of the silent art agony...” read more

“(OK) So delirious, subsersive, absurd, more than Hellzapoppin; the continuity is just W.C and his ominous nose...” read more

“(OK) Some of the best of De Oliveira. Story is buñuelian and metalinguistic and 'meta telenovela', circular and vicious,and with deaf humour. Cast is irrelevan in this early 100% portuguese Oliveira's because of his declarative style...” read more

“(OK) History ans story, charater and action, saga in construction, violence and subtlety, the film where seuences equally great as the horse´s bloddy head and the death of Godfather playing with grandson....” read more

“(OK) Theatre went to the movies at it best. Cocteau has the real of writing, directitn actors and everything; the plot points conceibed by Gabrielle Dorziat to involve wonderful Ivonne de Bray are so ingenious...” read more

“(OK) Jessua here is a kind of french Michael Crichton, but more into character tahn action, building slowly his thessi and mystery, more psycologic scienci fiction, than anything else. DEwaere tragic and great...Stephane Audran amuses herself...” read more

“(OK) Pretty fist 'legere' romantic part, then the war makes it a lost paradise wirh gravity and all. But a very good balance after 'Fin du monte' and 'J'acusse' heavy stuff. Gravey and Popesco and Presle, excelletn cast...” read more

“(OK) When Kusturica was already absolutely baroque, but with a spinal theme and image, rhe Malik boy wandering sonambule thrpugh the night between dramas of totalitaris over people and infidelity (we don't imprison men for fucking bur for sayin anything against Stalin)....” read more

“(OK) More moving than funny. Langdon sad face sad man, loving an impossible woman and child that are going to be reunited with his father, infornt of his absolute stoicism...” read more

“(OK) So elegant, glamorous in locatiosn and actors, full of little 'Clouseaus maladresse gags´that Edwards indulges in long verbal sequences and in the end, a very long masked party and car crash...” read more

“(OK) Fregonese estaba apuntando a Hollywood y haciendo su primer gran western, Demare estaba algo extraviado en su épica gaucha; peor vaya qué colonialismo románticamente genocida que muestra pudorosamente la cabeza del indígena Huincul en manos de Petrone. No he visto nada así en westerns grin” read more

“(OK) Ivoru introduces you to places and epochs and characters; they're so vivid, intimate, funny and human as Maggie Smith nad her probably tempestuos self proyected in young Helena Bonham Carter through Judy Dench storytelling. Forster has wonderful material for films...” read more

“(OK) Rosselini had the best screenwriters to end his sketches, all Italy and war and post war drama is summed up from the 'boat like tip Sicily to Po's delta. Cruel and tender, precise...” read more

“(OK) Small and straight film, Lupino is a Richard Fleischer or John Sturgess attacking, in her case, a polemic topic: rape. Glimpses, sound, every detail iswell used...” read more

“(OK) Mizoguchi´s last silent film is an outburst of style, maybe too much, but there it is the suffering mystical loving forceful woman, the key character of his entire work...” read more

“(OK) Classic early incursion in remembering war films, very russian stuff; but well proyected to the present of the character...” read more

“(OK) Straight, fluent, well told false docudramatization of the stata repressing and imprisoning no matter what...” read more

“(OK) Chaplin with no Chaplin, but all the resources of language and movies but gags are here. Serene, sober, Menjou is so consistent in his cynicism, and funny when laughing because of Edna throwing her collar...” read more