Reviews by fernando

(OK) I prefer the excellent, simple, straight with somber tones Henry King's version (the shot in the back is better); but this has its semitones too, as Frank criticizing Jesse's compulson to violence, signs of fatality, historic details...

(OK) I takes time to build and impose a great story: the false (the error is well planted in the beginning) son of Gengis Khan used by the rich and escaped to serve his people, with sequences of alternated edition 'a la ' Eisenstein...with low angles as many soviet films with a 'glorifying class' point of view...

(OK) Wonderful Lloyd vehicle. Excellent in rythm and poetic and epic gags. The one in which he climbs a giant tree to see his woman in the landscape; the fight woth the bad guy in the abandoned ship, alternating macabre and light tones (the monkey with shoes, the violent fight in the water and cellar...

(OK) Not just the first film with sound, but a special film with social topic (the persistance of jewish tradition against free will of a young talented man). It's meaningfull that the only dialogued sound scene of the film is between Jolson and his mother: melodrama and clashes between generations, are more important than romance and intigue...

(NX) Great argument with tooches of science fiction and romantic drama, too formalist and arty; but there's some images the stands precious for the film: the frozen river Charles, the house in Long Beach...

(MU) Clouzot's story had aged too much when picked by Chabrol and the film has aged a lot. Serious problems of verisimilitude, because Beart is to free and self centered in the beginning and then too submissive; people are too deaf about whats happening...

(OK) More frivolous than elegant, far from "Funny face" and otrher delicate and sophisticated Donens; but has a special touch in Brynner's ego and magalomania (so many portraits of him) , and Kay is too much obliged to clown ....Ratoff is a goo ol' sidekick

(OK) Great copy for a greta film. The long wait for the war in France, is just a way to charge energies and throw the men to the battlefield where they advance in a mortal cadence to the fortn line, long and wonderfull part...

(OK) The 'emerald' spirit of Wyman, converted in farmer, betrayed by his son, in a kind of 'Ayn Randian' Chicago spirit with Edna Ferber saga style, is simplified by Wise...

(MU) Thanks to part I, this flies to the sky, the world is musiclaized in a number of tourist bieng gudie with a song of the history in each place of Checkford; May Ray attacks again, Euripides's Hecuba enlightnens everything with is texts, theatr as social therapy...