“(USB) Honest characters, and the nephew lonely uncle stuff is not so abused in movies, but real boring, with its gratuitous black and white, nothing solved...” read more
“(USB) Sauf the sitcom dialogue (too neurotic and selfonscious), a well structured tale, based in real life, of love between stars, Lucy an Desi being too conservative, prejudice against Desi and inside him, communist paranoia...” read more
“(OK) One of the best persons to spend this kind of project, attent to plastic arts, installations and performances (Barcelló, Budansky, etc), a great encounter with Manoel de Oliveira...” read more
“(Mu) Varda has an good conceptual theme (recycling, ad a marginal force in economy, and society), in rural and urban contexts...” read more
“(Mu) Varda, in a few minutes, resuming feminist thmes and thesis, said by women of all apperances...” read more
“(Mu) The experiment of real time is not a straightjacket here, Varda goes to the street with Corinne, puts a dateline (receibing a test for cancer), and everuthing flows happily...” read more
“(Mu) Varda plays with images, with words and with multiple cltural references to the places in the Cote d'Azur. Cometimes images and ideas are played by association, sometimes by contrast...” read more
“(Nx) Life flows, impossible tense, in a little village where narcos come to pick young girls once in a while. Father is absent, mother understands all, the girl doesn't understand.” read more
“(MU) You feel as awkward as the students of acting, when a simple excercise of playing the animal inside, confrotns them with ther prejudices: the afor boy plays a monkey” read more
“(OK) Kieslowski works hard on textures, impressions, littel detail (a light playing on Irene Jacob's face) but remains cold and confusing nos only about the character but feelings...” read more
“(OK) Hard on Tokyo, machism at its height of stupidty (suicide, lies, child mistreating) but told in a seren cadence, just to match the final sonata interpreted by the boy...” read more
“(OK) Demy as if woulnd't happened nothing since his first musicals. He ha a loaned story from Montand as himself, plus a melodrama happily solved after an incestuous night...” read more
“(YT) Naif, assertive, forcefull, not ashamed of excess; religios is just a fght between villagers of whose divinity and ritual are best, an agnoticism hommage to all cults...” read more
“Slowness or appropiate tempo? Both. Terror finds density, evocative power, non gorish; home based, with country nearby, nighto dominant stuff. Good film...” read more
“(USB) Haynes uses testimonies old an new of the 'velvet underground' scene, including Warhol's and Lour Reed's fight, the imposing of Nico, the highs and lows, and interesting approach to durgs and women citicisng all that frm new feminism...” read more
“(USB) Erratic style in the first part, but once the journey begins gets better and better. Then, at the end, the absurd and fatal and human (the man doesn't want to lose his head becuase he is a knight, that's all)... filosophical ending, its the anti knight epic...” read more
“(MU) Nice doccumentary for selling TVs, grandur of images and editon, telling loosely story og evoluton for a little daughter or granddughter...” read more
“(Nx) Soorentinos 'amarcord' in Napoli. Well, Fellini is greater, but Napoli is also greater than Rimini and the protagonist/author leaves town well formed and lived through dramas, landscpaes and people....Great stylist, Sorrentino...” read more
“(USB) The Woodstock of afromaericans and poors, in the same summer¡ Excellent array of groups ans singers. Nina Simone is thirlling, Fith Dimension are happy with 'Hair' songs; BB King is wise; Sly, Mahalia...” read more
“(USB) 3 stars just for the tricky story of a 'truffle pig' being robbed in the market of high gourmet standards. Its a pitty thaht the pig dissapears so eary because she was more sympatetic than Cage. Only Portlan, oregon, could be locaion f such a story. Loose ending” read more
“(USB) Extreme story of rescue that deserved to be covered. The boys, sorry, are dependable; the rescuers and its collective international effort are the protagonists, discovering the possibility that their hobby saves lifes...” read more
“(Usb) Love, revenge, family and masochistic bets; world an USA are a gran casino between seasons in jail for Oscar Isaac, wonderful actor in Schrader's hands...” read more
“(USB) Complete in the sense that his closest friends and ex wife arte there (Asia Argento testimony is missing), but too much edition of parts ans scenes from his documentaries....” read more
“(Pacífico) There it'is, remaining its splendour thanks to excellent mise en scene of urban choreography. I want to live in America, explodes as the ball and the inner numbers. The sidekicks (Riff and Anita) are better than Tony and Maria...” read more
“(MU) The abstract in its reiteration, concrete in each time, sight of the hill, the zigzag trail and the boy running from village to village, is the evidence of how far Kiarostmi could go with this tiny, precious, two day story....” read more
“(OK) Seberg's rendition is good, and I love the dialogues and scenes with Richard Todd, insinuating a plaonic love story. But then, you hav Widmarck clowning. Gielgud is better as gray eminence in the trial...” read more