Reviews by fernando

(OK) Master of observation, Von Stroheim develops his most personal style with sober but passionate acting, close ups, such fine details as tears spreading (then, you discover is water), and the sordid ending...

(OK) Great B from quick effective, imaginative and lucky (this is a great script) Siodmak. The forced wedding and the sealed car are highlights. This in an unpretentious 'a lady vanishes'.

(OK) Big surprise, it has all: action, represnetation with theatrical and musical potential (or roots, I don't know), fantasy from 'a thousand and one nights' stuff, and a nation is told in the life of Zama...

(OK) Feminism at his anticipated cinema peak. Mizoguchi is deep in the heart of Eiko and Chiyo, radical and non verbal when Chiyo puts the place in fire; always more rational with Eiko. She looks ans observe everything and in the end you look at her, intensely

(OK) Ultra psychologist and int that aspect is dated; but teh seize of the country house has its effectiveness; Nina Foch in the middle is tender; Cobb is assuring...

(OK) The manipulation and unbelievable twists, without humour, become unbearable. A bad girl smiling cinically, is not enough for nothing...

(OK) Gance himself hated his film; but after the first ridicule part with Gance acting as a christlike poet; it has a sicenfe fiction futurist charm...

(OK) Great Duvivier with nostalgic actors in an asylum. Everyone as Michel Simon expalins it so good, in a spoiled child, The more spoiled, just to monstruosity is Jouvet pushing a girl to die for him as once died Victor Francen´s woman...

(OK) I like the melancholy of the film, the non explicit undestanding and the lies and hard truths between mother and son; but Ozu is a bit heavy and clumsy in his first nosn silent film.

(OK) Deliberately obscure to justify the characters doubts (making a silent and confusing victim), so you arrive to the liberation unsatisfied. Good ol Jodie...