Reviews by fernando

(OK) (A pity I saw a lousy copy). Clarke makes an inmersion in black Harlem world, alternating brilliantly off and on, boys finding thier horizons in crime (there's one ouncin in a rock over Central Park, between good and evil), jazz and ratatazz....

(MU) Herzog's last masterpiece. Ferrera's original shrinks while we see how Nicholas Cage (never better) involves his life, and in the second half lives a paralel reality with his prostitute yonki friend (Eva Mendes). She tries to rehab while not always bad Nick goes to hell, before that resumes his life finds the reasure of his childhood....Herzoz observes all as the lurking alligator....

(OK) Keitel puts his chest and mind and cries in the decadence of afrugged shitty policeman. Ferrara involves it in a religious crime, but the dialogues of the fforgivving raped nun and the yunki Keitel's friend are kinda philosofic while Keitel and plot are more anguish...

(OK) Shot and easy and modest and elegant George Sidney debut, with a precode kind of 'lubitsch' argument of foturne hunters, not in Paris though. Cummings is very sympathetic courting Judith Anderson for money and Ruth Hussey for love...

(YT) Just for the segments in black in which there´s just the narration of Jack Smith, the provocative, lunatic, arty, sexula undefined, whatever rotagonist who could be somebody or nothing...

(OK) Bresson essays his scherzo, harsh edited, elliptical, meaningfull style, with Sanda mystery. The fatality that begins with the suicide and spoils the end, is so sad that attempts to the mystery. We don 't see Sanda double life, but participate in husbands jealousy...

(OK) A sort of 'Big carnival' in Salvador, open air, with the victim/hero in the middle of chaos. The theatrical origin doesn't bother the style and composition, but is a bit heavy on dialogues. The force of direction imposes over the many thesis of the story...

(MU) Cronenberg summa teologica. Flesh, sex, art, distopia, all the combinatios between those essential elements, with a bit of thriller (thats the less inetresting, but dinamizes the narration), ambiguity, excellent Mortensen. That's a 'no pain' society that because of that indulges in self cuts and so....

(OK) Powerfull trio. Lombard is as lovable as Grant sees her; and Francis is a bitch with conviction. Dialogues are a bit indicative; but actors and Cromwell make them dramatic The exteriors hace some charm...

(YT) In this Harry Smith figurative images are a kind of abstraction, fresh and not so random surrealism (there are recurrent figures), no edition, figures apear and dissapear in the frame and transform inside...