“(Dvd) De Mille adds technicolor and finds that he needs special landscapes: Canada rocky background and the red jackets, and heroism almost lost for pleasure. Tjhe idea os responsability, treason (or desertion) and redemption is almost Hawksian...” read more
“(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
“(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
“(Mu) Rohmer's in summer vibrates. Just walking by the boardwalk, meeting someboy, there's always the possibilitu of a 'rayon vert'...” read more
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(Mu) Raw documentary, in primitive video, no structure, no clisés on Paris, noisy working walking public huge city...” read more
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(Dvd) Too simple, too many idiots plots, its heroicity come form an ingenue that embraces her love years ago...” read more
“(Mu) Short stop motion origami like version of future” read more
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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