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“(OK) A little gem. Gilbert is fantastic, he amuses being dirty in every way, ans its always believable. Very mature film, Virgina Bruce is so right demanding Lukas not to be so stiff. Love Baclanova, a pity she has a little filmography” read more
“(OK) Preneorrealist Castellani, apparently dried of passion, but on the contrary, there´s heat inside Marina Berti in alpine winter, becoming a servant to his husband...” read more
“(OK) In soft romantic jealous comedy clue. Murray is motor and soul of the film reaching its peak in a trip to a resort in Manzanillo...” read more
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“(OK) Kurosawa not just invented a world similar to the real poor one, but invented a style not known before in his cinema, the colour (also first time for him) helped to making it more fantastic, as in the secuences of the boy and the imaginary train or the faher and his dying son...” read more
“(OK) Edifying biography og the doctor who invented the stetoscope and modern auscultation. Cloche, soberly, christianly, convinces Pierre Blanchar is ausculting broken souls, woth difficulty to breathe...” read more
“(OK) Oh, spectacular, indicative, moral, agile, wonderful De Mille. The fastuous reconstruccion of Egypt, almost pales before the secuences in the building of the church...” read more
“(OK) Fleming and MGM look is there, and stars too and is really heavy to take Bergman as the prostitute in the beginning. As a frightenes and abused woman, there she is convincing. Tracy is always convincing. The dialogues are better than the washed gestures...” read more
“(OK) Early talkie and Mamoulian masterpiece, peek of precode morality and exploration on evil and instincts. March is appaing, monster (its a terror film outside the genre), the rounds with Hopkins are pure anthology” read more
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“(OK) Surprise from jewish polish pre war cinema, etereal tragic romantic fantasy, touches of terror, depicting the greedy counting money , the vague elusive rabines...” read more
“(OK) Late silent (1934), with the sobriety of a talkie, great tragic actress Ruan Ling-Yu (commited suicide a year after), never overacts, she acts straight till the pure melodrama of the end” read more
“(OK) Elegant, sober and adult for being a child fantastic adventure in a school. Von Stroheim es a big boy in a way, bullied by an always amazing Michel Simon...” read more
“(OK) Good plot, the isolated community, an island of the end of France, sans pretre, and a good man convinced to take his place, honestly, beliavable...” read more
“(OK) It trascends academicism and conventional love story; Philippe and his impulsive naivete, his noblesse whan thinks in the husband and makes Micheline write to him, the undestatements between them...” read more
“(OK) Siodmak had rythm and energy here, a rare fantastic musical, naif, dinamique. The theatre as lodging place to the troupé is nice idea...” read more
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“(OK) Such clean effective classicism, protagonist are not aware of the great momentso they're living, no one is too good or bad (the best is the 2nd fat officer, the relcxiams his honour in a duel)...” read more
“(OK) Christian-Jaque and Barrault have some passionate strong momentos as the stopping of the batle waving the red cross flag to cross the river; the Castiglione hospital; and the delicate scenes with the silent lovers...” read more
“(OK) Apart from the two equal competents roles by Butterfly Wu (excellent close ups in one, frivolous acting in the other); some primitive melodramatization with characters explaining in medium shots...” read more
“(OK) Love each shade of red, green, blue, noir at its best, because Dwan makes his own way in the genre. Arlene Dahl is posinonous and delightful whne meets Ted de Corsia...” read more
“(OK) Curtiz triumphs over the social topics, and Tracy and David (convincing love scenes) with him. Tracy could be a Cagney or Robinson or Bigart if he would've of remained in WB...” read more
“(OK) Kafkian italian way, with Sordi to confirm the gesticulation and the sadness and pathetism too. He can do it better than Gassman or even Tognazzi. It works by effective accumulation and crescendo...” read more
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“(OK) In this 'virtuoso' short, Mélies prefigures the comics routines of Lider, Chaplin and lot of comic when try to go to bed being drunken.....Here is the author himself sans alibi...” read more
“(OK) Guitry amuses and plays with hisotry and the story itself: in the middle he presentes his collanborators and changes le leading actors, ja. Desiree is intuitive ansd revengeful but her intelligence is always surpassed by facts, thats interesting...” read more