Reviews by fernando

(YT) The stone age secuences are Keaton at his peak, all his stoneface acting is there with animation bonus. The roman and modern ages are more than ok but no so great...

(YT) Oh, Matarazzo began with the force of this triant to wonderfull Oriietto and torurism, rest, sublimated sex, adventure, study of characters...

(OK) So effective, as almost all Walter Lang films. Webb is excellent and supports wverything, even the strange tonsils scene, the bathing illustration scene. A tragic climax ends with a monstruos patiarch and redeems him...

(MU) Perfect little exercise on debris and dust returned to form ob objects. Nice construction when you see so much formal arty destruction...

(YT) Fordian "The lost patrol" en eurasia desert, with a communist party agaisnt mongolian bandits; peorple pushed to extremes, goes mad and excillarating heroic, posing as they have water to wash themselves when theay are ready to die with the enemy...great action direction in the sand with the silhouttes and traces of the horses...

(OK) One of the best films on the occupation, sans heros, sans sang, sans la guerre meme. Gabin is excellent, bogger than life, amusing, shouting and intimidating Louis de Funes and Bourvil is so humble and natural. Great secuences as Bourvil playing music to hide the killing of the pig...

(MU) Apichatpong can make anything appealing, even with this lousy stop motion camera. At least the girl painting her toe nails with blue is cute...

(MU) Subtle Wang study on a family that represses the loss of an unborn child; and understands that has to produce a farewell...

(OK) A good study in a goo traitor, becuase he has ideals not neccesarily antinazi but wants to end up with militar abuse in his front, well opposed to Blech. The forced protagonism of Basehart is good to have some interesting distance, but is not fair to excellent Oscar Werner's young tender traitor...

(OK) Kawalerowicz in an excellent crafted exercise before "Mather Joanna...": characters and action is so well packed, condensed, wth special angles, a dramatic aisle, and a great scene expanded in the plain to cathc the thief; the anticlimax end near the beach is becoming...