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fernando posted a review of 55 Days at Peking

“Ray trying to cope with Bronston's ambitions, chinese talking and acting 'in english', Ava is the soul of the film and his death scene, far form idiot Heston, with Pual Lukas courting her, is pretty” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Sahara

“Zoltan is the Korda of action (Alexander is a bit pompous), good vibrations, rythm, drama is exasperating, quick and vivid portraits of each one in the group...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Wild Reeds

“So good, so daring, so delicate, each young is a world of questions about everything, including gay sex. Techiné must be reivindicated” read more

4 years, 1 month ago

“Gothic Hammer, with sexy disturbing Bates/Beswick, indiferent gore scenes, ans cinicism all over the proceedings...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Narayama bushikô

“Good equilibrium between extrem stylization and the harsh dramatic elements, there´s even some pathos all through the film, just to the big ending up, up in Narayama” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of The Two Mrs. Carrolls

“Lousy end, full of idiot plots by Stanwyck and unconvincing mad Bogart. Godfrey tries lightly to conceive a noirish style...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 8 items to their collection
The Virgin Queen

have watched

7/10

La belle noiseuse

have watched

6/10

55 Days at Peking

have watched

7/10

Sahara

have watched

7/10

Wild Reeds

have watched

8/10


4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Rear Window (1954)

“Yeah, masterpiece, prima summa teologica di Hitch, before Vertigo wich is another one. Here death is something decorative in the set, but the playing woth stories and the powerful ppepint tom voyeruism sex and illness, impossible love, etcetera....” read more

4 years, 1 month ago

“Baumbach knows that the recichess is in some details as Jean running, or Dustin's jacket or Eliza videos..... and even has its corny moments...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Galveston

“The coughing not dying cop sacrificed for a tragic woman and a pretty girl (predictable they were mother and daughter), puts some melodrama in a policial "True crime" story...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Il traditore

“Could be a good 80s film, but its a new good one, with that big 3 ring circus set in wich Buscetta sings to the jailed gangsters, and, oh this is better, a comment on maffia moral code when put to stress and shows its cinicism and hipocresy” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Beanpole

“Somber, hard, in a way typical good russian film placed in a post war Leningrad which is as dark as war itself...eros and tanatos in the giant Dylda...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Peterloo

“Love the dialogues, even in the apparent manicheism. The rich bad ones are a bit dumb, but with interesting shades of grey; good ones have many shades, too, and Hunt as que wrong pacifist is excellent...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 6 items to their collection
Rear Window (1954)

have watched

10/10

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

have watched

6/10

Galveston

have watched

5/10

Il traditore

have watched

8/10

Beanpole

have watched

6/10


4 years, 1 month ago

“Bien exprimido el personaje, Kusturica, lo mira cachondo, lo sigue, lo provoca y lo pesca peleando con otro uruguayo, romántico con su mujer, soltándole dos o tres respuestas vitales, historiando todo...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
4 years, 1 month ago

“Subtle school precocious evil boys drama, pushing a teacher to his suicide and trying the same thing on his succesor. Lacks action, fire, thrill...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Waves

“Not sure if its subtlety or set design pretty Florida, that softens too much this melodrama, of a boy turned monster after being pushed by his competitive father.” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Ray & Liz

“Nasty realis, filthy details and in a strange way, in an unexpected moment, a tear behind all the dirt. The 'mise a scene' of the bad boy, the drunken simpleton and the baby with a knife, is great.” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Dark Waters

“Good intentions, too long defense and a very vague cause that looosens protagonism of the affected. Haynes just follows the plot, uninspired...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of The Edge of Democracy

“Bien contado aunque la directora la perdona la vida al PT y victimiza a Lula, con el único fugaz argumento de que redujo la pobreza. Pero sí es poderosa en mostrar a Temer como encarnación de la continuidad de un sistema que trasciende derecha e izquierda (las placas con los nombres de los constr” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Snowpiercer

“Ther least from Bong: too much superficial survival of the fittest stuff, too much gore violence, clisés. Just the train idea works ok” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 2 items to their collection
The Edge of Democracy

have watched

6/10

Snowpiercer

5/10


4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of So Long, My Son

“Melodrama with the dilemma and abuses of a state behind. But the guilt is not explored in autorithies but in a woman and a child that accodentally (or because of thier work) causes the death and abortion of the only children of a family...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of While at War

“La historia en buen equlibrio con la introspección a Unamuno, sus miedos, silencios y valentía última. Unamuno bien reivindicado contra Franco y contra los rojos. Buenos caracteres de no tan segunda como Millán Astray. Y Salamanca en su esplendor.” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Mother

“The same shameful for police and society world of "Memories of muerder", once again disabled are guilty, buy here is a true guilty, and a guiltier troubled fantastic mother.” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Memories of Murder

“The grace is in details, each character has some. The guilty/innocent poor men, the violent police who tackles everybody, the karaoke sequence...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of The Host

“Don't like the distribtion of characters, so schematic; but everything else is ok, even manin father character, later understood by his bro and sis when fights and adopts a boy...” read more

4 years, 1 month ago
fernando added 5 items to their collection
So Long, My Son

have watched

7/10

While at War

have watched

7/10

Mother

have watched

7/10

Memories of Murder

have watched

8/10


4 years, 1 month ago
fernando posted a review of Quentin Durward

“More tongue in cheek than other adventures, Quentin could be a Douglas Fairbanks character; with spies and long fighting sequences, even one, fantastic, on fire.” read more

4 years, 2 months ago