“(OK) Big Lumet, complex and choral; feminism thought in the sixties buy placed in the thirties. Good dialogues and storytelling, good cases in sepcial tragic Kay (Joanna Pettet) and Larry Hagman. This tragedy holsd the film and comes to a great ending...” read more
“(OK) Vivid melodrama, buddy film (Albers is a german hollywood hawksian character betweena womand and sea nostalgia), and sort of comedy with secondary characters...” read more
“(YT) Trepidant, impressive action concentrates in gorgeous Colorado gorge: train horses and humans and river are so well 'staged'. Great Mix vehicle” read more
“(OK) Feyder is a complete filmmaker here. The sense of location, the languid and sweaty tone, he great Francoise Rosay managing le 'grand jeu' of fate...” read more
“(OK) Becker excells in many fields: direction ( the groupal scenes with different actions) the acting (Le Vigan as Tonkin is great when becoming mad), the realis and depicitng the micrcosmos with the Goupi code...” read more
“(OK) Even in he long solo career to the wedding (less comic and flamboyant than Keaton's "Seven chances") a comedy of character, with lod evolvinf frm naif an shy and fanstasious to a guy in love, with bright moments, as the affaire near the lake with the reflection of the girls face and the turtle” read more
“(OK) A hawksian early Hawks. The essence of his code of masculinity friendshipand responsability above women is there, rambling, fighting an with tender and funny moments too.” read more
“(OK) Trepidant nervous, sordid, Melina enlightens all, in spite of not her anxiety to become a lady is not so exploited. The good ones arte to silly; but over those flaws, a powerfull film” read more
“(OK) Verbal, character comedy, 'Father of the bride' italian style pluz class difference, with a rich man (great acting) more popular than the modest one...” read more
“(OK) A bit more than a generation/friends saga around a tender funny girl (Jodt Thelen never better, never star again) and fierce Kirk Douglas' like Craig Wasson. The Isadora Duncan stuff is lovable as the fat friend irrestricted love for all his fiends.In the middle the decadence of the aristocrati” read more
“(OK) I like the cosmic figth broogut from the sciende statios to the hiperdigitalized dosctor house, his creation against Julie christie and a devoured friend, plis the I want a baby stuff. The special effects are poor...” read more
“(OK) What happened woth Egypt and its cinema? Kind of rgression of this society who could produce modenity, neorrealism, constumbrism, tragedy and crime film of moors, in one short tight film...” read more
“(OK) Modernism with a patriarchal machist way; the huge consrructions in the field and the ancesrral non love (the engineer is attached to the memory of the woman he killed in his wedding night...)...but Mauro has good atmosphere with live music” read more
“(OK) Powerfull argument (Syria, refugees, art market, migration, dehumaization, globalization) and good sense of compositios for the moment where tha human piece of art must be showed...” read more
“(OK) Crevenna era alemán y helo aquí con un gran original. Si el precio por ver esta audacia de argumento es convertir en monja a Marga López (que capitulación tan absurda), valió pagarlo. La atmósfera de colegio de monjas (en el original solo es rigidez prusiana), le da matices de fanatismo i” read more
“(OK) So audacious being sober, the tender sexy more than sensual and loving moments (the best is the teacher kissing each girl and keaving Manuela at the end)...” read more
“(OK) Good character, nor too moved by what je reads in prisnoners letters, no so bad to ignore them; just mediating in a closed, heavy world wher inmates are not too far from guards...” read more
“(OK) Nice tender touch on a deaf/blind, honour to helen Keller foundation and that's all (for this theme see Herzog's documentary)...” read more
“(NX) A funny, tingue in cheek look in modern/atavic India, from a town of servants to modern political corruption in Delhi, through the eyes of complex sympathetic guy turned pardoned criminal...” read more
“(OK) Comencini´s Pinnocho spirit is here, in the firs part, with lonesome Gepetto in the cold town. The wooden boy is tender and same time determinated, naif and cool. The snail woman, the tuna fish inside the whale are lobing highlights...” read more
“(OK) Maurice Tourneur really gay and funny depincting little anecdotes in this militar world with prisoners as free and prisoners as soldiers ans captains. The vaudeville scene is great, Raimu enchanting and every secondary....” read more
“(OK) Aldrich is really violent depicting apache killings but doesn't judge then,tries to understand them in dialogues between Bruce davison ans Jorge Luke,meidates by lancaster. A good incursion to hell...” read more
“(OK) Almodovar like this. Nice script, devil/religious criminal fanatism, in reincarnated and persistent in 3 generations. Not necesarrily bloody, could just cinical as Pattinson's...” read more