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“(OK) A straight with excellent lanscape locations, agonic without underlining it, woth a good twist of characters (the captain dies, the soft character takes hi splace and triumphs)...” read more
“(OK) No reference to a known mythology but in b/W here are the textures, the detritus, the noises and smog of tarkovsky and other incursions on modern decadence. The featus is unforgettable...” read more
“(NX) Film for film history lovers; most is play fot those who know, even the best secuence, with Dolce Vita's touches (Mank and Marion Davies near a fountain) and a nocturnal zoo in the background , demmands to know location and chatracters. in the same location. Hearst tell Mank the fable of the mo” read more
“(NX) Oh, Sophia, you better rest. She wasn't in condition to play this for love to her child Ponti. Bari as locaton is the best of the film...” read more
“(OK) Good script, ice construction of action and trial, ups and downs of lot of colourful characters, including Sacha Baron...” read more
“(OK) Ron Howard never fails in feeling, don't ask more; but there´s a nice enphasis on clasism, on reivindication of hillbllyism agisnt Yale lay sudents anf firms...” read more
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“(OK) Thanks Lourcelles to point this surprising, gentle, kind, melodrama of an unresolved love by Rossi and Francey, with deep echos, and moving rendered songs...” read more
“(NX) Good plot the deserved, changes of tone, but Howard goes straight and efficciently in a drama that denounces classism... Glenn Close is trying to show she can be humble. Adams is better...” read more
“(OK) Goof plot of the chief of police posing as a dead ganster because is his look alike and falling in a subtle elegant way to Madeleine Robinson, and Jouvet is impecable...” read more
“(OK) A series of melo and romantic student comedy clisés, with theatrical background. Forget the students and there´s Jouvet, the great Juvet telling a sutden parents what he woud've told his parents, that's great...” read more
“(OK) Lovable Michele Morgan; nice melodrama, very mature, love Frehel in just two short interpretations ending with her hand in her face...” read more
“(OK) So simple, so deep in its auterity, so great. The device of the ritual meeting of two people to remember an era, a lost Indian mahajarajahs system, is pure Ivoy & Merchant.” read more
“(OK) Rare chatacters, L'atalante of the rural Rhone river. Simon and lovable Morlay are more human than excentric; and the young lovers bring another kind od drama to it...” read more
“(OK) Black war thieves comedy when Yugoslavia still existed. Inmorals maked symathetic because they're caught in nazi invasion...” read more
“(OK) Tourneur amuses himself with Milland in foreign welsh and scottish land looking for the secret of a dead brother, who is forgotten in the end, as if he were an alibi for fun...” read more
“(OK) Puzzle of a dead girl (non alluring Donna Reed), wth noir tones by the men who loved her. Ladd in one of his bes roles, even Arthur Kennedy can't seteel camera frm him. June Havoc is good...” read more
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“(OK) Lorre makes a good composition and China and Shangai and San Francisco chinatown are good ficitional locations; but there isn't enough rythm, humour and stylised action” read more
“(OK) Kind of late neorrealism and early Hiroshima drama, in japanese cinema. More subtle tahn shocking, the tragedy and the location impregnates everything...” read more
“(OK) Conventional infdian melodrama in a way, but reaches epic and denonciation, int the exodus to Calcutta. Musical excerpts are in the margin...” read more
“(ok) First of Pialat, naked and cold and impossible to judge childhood. All of that makes it moving, and the realtionship with the old woan, the other extreme, is an important detail...” read more
“(ok) Alexei reaches adulthood with more doubts and depression, ans consciousness, that´s why the bread factory of Semionov is such meaningful. The intent of suicide is as surprising as subtle with the kitty detail...” read more
“(oK) Same quality of the first part, but some contemplative moments added, as navigating the Volga demmands. Grandmother is still there....” read more
“(ok) The intense russians , here's is the primal learning of Alexei, in the home of his first parents, with the wonderful grandmother. Best part: nice Ivan dying woth the cross...” read more
“(OK) The first part is great, iconic for inmigration to the land of liberty, while rocking dreams and miseries in the boat. Then is pure good cafe routine with Charlie and Edna.” read more
“(OK) The best of the trilogy. Ante the best of thte 3 stories is the cruise with Kay Walsh, teneder and sad and comic and full of understatement. The firs sketch wth Nigel Patrick as the crooked brother is ok, and the last one with almost tragic Glynis is good but washed up in the happy end” read more
