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“(OK) Romantic saga, most for the theme scope (college, politica, war, media, Hollywood, maccarthism) than time and secondary characters. Delicate, sincere, unsolved...” read more
“(OK) In a way is a common peplum, but Harryhausen makes a feast with the stone colossus and most of all with the eagle men; and seen from the clouds and the olympus, there´s another dimension..” read more
“(OK) The extended version is historical enough, not to lose the glorious battle, the defetat and the agonic new triunphant attack. Bergman is always convincing most of all when she prays. Ferrer in a prick by noir standards” read more
“(OK) Glorious technicolor un the sand carpet. Silent films ans "Morocco" and french legionnaires films, established already the romantic desert” read more
“(OK) The silent Ozu was all he wasn't with dialogues: light hearted, camera moving, funny, a bit romantic, even gesticulting...” read more
“(OK) Ichikawa anticipates "Look who's talking", but no so light, there's comments on modern society,60s fashion...” read more
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“(OK) Cheap and simple, but there´s certain schematic abstraction with a crocodile just for dispose the human rests, and extreme cruelty (Dr, commands the monster to kill his fiancee) that seduces.” read more
“(OK) The greatness of the firs part with many bonus: coloruful secuence, musical numbers/scenes. There´s no the great agonizing scene of the first one, but there´s the feast in wich Ivan decieves his treacherous cousin...” read more
“(OK) Oh, greatness of subject and character, yeah the tzar is hamletian and more: he has doubts and compulsions and believes in traitors. Close ups are wondeful, and costume pinting expressionistic characters...” read more
“(OK) Thorpe had his best cycle in this classis adventures. Here's gallantry and its code besides everything else, the ellegance doesn't sacifice ation: tha main battle ans castle assault in the middle and the multiple duel, are excellent...” read more
“(OK) Lang in a certain minimalism of form and resources, but many facts and twists, the genie langian schematism. Andrews cool and Fontaine cold, Nichols charming and vulgar...” read more
“(OK) So dificcult to judge such effort so creative and intuitive in film language, and so conservative in everything else. The grandilocuence and the grandeur of sets are marched in a rare way...” read more
“(OK) Romantic comedy a la hollywoodienne. Banale, but there's a protrait of a powerful woman in the parfum industry in quid pro quo with a savage and in a way gentle artista, wth certain charm” read more
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“(OK) A minor Ford, but with flavour in other land. Humour in every inch, but the anecdtoes are a bit trucuclento for the idea of having just a normal rich journey...” read more
“(OK) Dwan has here an excellent hand for comic cotidianeity, choral protagonism with an anchor in Winninger and Lockart. It's even pedagogic in teaching he value of circulating money...” read more
“(OK) Ray anticipates the spirit of Peckinpah's "Junior Bonner". Afeter the great secuence/idea of Mitchum crawling under his house to find some souvenirs from childhood; begins another film with a trio and rodeo agonic independence background.” read more
“The speedy tongue in chic serial, cool sometimes, but too unrealistic and dehumanized in other parts. Ford dominatrs cast and tone.” read more
“(OK) Simenon es prodigious vein for french cinema. Decoin and screenwriter Clouzt are inspired by him. Raimu is excellent saying little and then exploding in court...” read more
“(OK) Great Ulmer with decent budget, adult story on enterprise and especulation, and an alternative brilliant cast. Greenstreet and Lucille Bremer have a n agonic match when she makes him loo at the mirror cliaiming for a younger partner...” read more
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“(OK) True noir in the beginning, then a moral little town stand in the middle (reminds me of Allan Dwan´s "Angel in exile") , and noir ending. Toren is tender and hot; Mason is not so touching, but has his moments and his ways with Toren...” read more
“(OK) Oh, Guitry, such good dialogues, and versartile structure. His women are as liberated as his men, but its wonderful when one of the clochards abandons Marguerite Moreno bacause doesn´t want to lose his street freedom.” read more
“(OK) Mature melodrama with social assistance, boys abandoned to a irresponsible couple who exploits them. They steal camera to the adults and their frivolity or violence...” read more
“(OK) It takes some time to get in Ozu, because there´s an entire life pictured in the ellipsis and silence between the encounters father and son... passion is so cooled off in Ozu, but happyness is triunphant in the fishing scenes, as sadness is pictured in the boy crying in off...” read more
“(OK) Individualism in socialism, there´s an impossible equilibrium in the sympathetic character, always coming just in time, but with the perception of being late... Kind of 'Memorias del subdesarrollo' in Tbilisi...” read more
“(OK) Th observation of repetititon, the water from mainland to island, the perfecto circle of the freedom to enslave oneself, no words, no explanation, and just a social touch: the boys from the school come to the burial of one of the family two children.” read more
“(OK) There were so much 30s classics, that this seems one more. Too quick to contemplate the existential theme of mutants. Laughton puts just a bit of refinement...” read more