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“(OK) New vison and my same old refusal of racism: it not only simplifies character and facts, distorts scenes (the girl cound't be raped, she had to kill herself; mulattos has to le lascivious more than clever, bah)...” read more
“(OK) Full and early sychoanalisis, too much explanation of character and his dream, and a not too explored surrealism spirit that could be Buñuel and Dali's...” read more
“(OK) Wise man Wise, his direction accompanies Crichton intuitions on machine, war and security systems, there´s no manicheism here, there´s something else in the long description fo tehnical proceedings, there´s a sort of observation of future...” read more
“(OK) Hey! This is Lewis at his best before "Gun crazy". The plot is wonderful, direct, extraordinarily exposed, subjective point of vue is mocked by facts, there´s as much surprise as suspense...” read more
“(OK) What else, Tis is myth, Sisifus and absurd, and poetry with repetitions and geometry and cadence, and paroxims and even those heavenly choreographies in wich you understand why subversive Laurel needs dominant Hardy...” read more
“(OK) The world is a stage is a murder is the wrong girl, all Hithcock is here in a sort of heavy talkie with some style (expressionist settings) deviations. Certain problems of rythm but you forget with wonderful scenes as the false murderer being mocked with an applause in prison or the killer hang” read more
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“(OK) Like a good 4 chapters of the serie, with creative use of color, and funny gags on old bloody England. The invited cast, Teery Thomas, Hermione Gingold and John Carradine is very amusing and amused.” read more
“(OK) A good Lloys thanks to 2 big chained gags scenes: the magician tuxedo he uses by error and the fight in the stage. The double woman who manipulates him for love is a good plot.” read more
“(OK) The drama of being way in victorian England was peculiar, everything goes through other institutions as class and breeding and education... Maurcie is without knowing, a great disturbing character. There´s passion sometimes in the frozen Ivory waters...” read more
“(OK) Funny film, great duo Simon and Berry, but the argument loosens when Berry is kidnapped in a kind of russian country... the plot was to good to be so manipulated...” read more
“(OK) Henry Hull, great actor wasted to the horror universe, al leats was in this anticipation of werewolf theme, with the moon inspiration, the lock himself drama, and just a flower instead of a silver bullet as diference,” read more
“(OK) Little mixture of crime and horror film, with Ellen Drew talking to the camera walking through the fog, and a gorilla guided by his human brain...” read more
“(OK) Not 'sulpician' but contemplative of poor's life, and masochistitc santity of Vincent de Paul. Great Anouilh's dialogues between Fresnay, cardinal and queen.” read more
“(OK) Has all, even great comedy with Chaplin and Martha Raye and small actors delivering great lines or moments. Serene or acting impromptus, Chaplin/Verdoux tastes life without moral complications, but estetic and sort of traditional values...” read more
“(OK) Surprise¡ Howard is so underrates as an actor director and this one is al good as an Olivier, event quoting Shakespeare as a german well translated to english, a greato dialogue between himself and magnificent Francis L. Sullivan.” read more
“(OK) Clement seems modern, pre new wave, feeling the London scene, and havng Philippeacting as a french James Dean (is excellent¡), but somehow the argument is not as good” read more
“(OK) A little gem ahead of its time, a bus movie, kind of early japanese Buñuel's "Subida al cielo" with a great handsome bonhomme driving. There are natural and lyric moments...” read more
“(OK) Character and actor are excellent. Simenon wrote plots as if he knew they would've be filmed. Raimu is a kind of Maigret clochard (or Agata Christie´s Hercule Poirot), amused in every secen, specially with Aimós, another clochard” read more
“(OK) Blier is the heart of this extreme sobre comedy, a bit satyrical, so realistic in its extreme anecdote (aristocracy believes, deceived by historian Ledoux, that Blier is descendant of his king) becuase of natural Blier´s perplexity with whats happening to him” read more
“(OK) Guitry knows life and how to live it. Sincere in his misogyny but sharing happiness with proactive women...indulging and amending, insulting and caring, great dialogues, limpid direction” read more
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“(OK) Great story in a national cinema not friendly to fanstastic plots: the machine that knows when people will die, and a lot of charcters acting according to that information, while the inventor Dauphin turns evil...” read more
“(OK) Simple and effective: mom was right stating that Roddy needed a horse to become a man, and pop Foster hast to agrre with her in the end. And there's a little epic in the proceedings in a modern rural environment...” read more
“(OK) Little gem, kind of 'borrowed' fron another directors. This is not Mizoguchi's realm, but he is so sober and delicate in the scenes of fight, and so moving composing (he's the best composer of frames in japanese films) dramatic scenes as the death of litle brother and the sorrow of fighting sis” read more
“(OK) The star is the zeppelin, wonderful moving set desing, in the public space, and in the strange body. Some characters are poorly conceived (ass Meredith and Auberjonois, or the comic), but direction is always powerfull in Wise's hands...” read more
“(OK) 2 1/2 stars just to say that Arau adds nothing to corny in essence material. The mother is the best character but the rebellion of the others takes too much and too long...the sex/food topic doesn't convince...” read more