Reviews by fernando

(NX) A musical in progress, a professional autobiography, that is as ineresting as frustrating. The HIV early nineties stuff, the essays, the one and only who can win, those topics are more american than universal...I wann see "Rent"

(OK) Fuck Griffith social and moral observation, he'll always be late in that; the romantic and melodramatic mood with the glorious articulo mortis wedding, that the film..

(MU) More 'simply bad' than 'film maudit', but who can resist such a cast? Varda must've felt guilty to have such great people doing nonsente (¡Denueve and De Niro improvising an idiot scene, Moreau and Schygulla looking each other trying to do something, Belmondo and Lollobrigida in lousy cameos, Bonnaire ridiculing her role in "Sans toit ni loi"!)...

(MU) Gorgeous restauration. Chaplin as a royal witness of America's materialism ans lack of nobility, not in the monarchial way but in the humna. Just see his sober silent expression when he realizes the boy has benn blalckmailed to accuse his parents comrades...

(Yt) Ophuls is already an excellent 'caligraphist' with camera and sets, and same time as romantic and fatalist -with small town Goethe's angst- as in "Liebelei". There´s some pathos in each romantic impossible encounter...

(Mu) A working man in a small rural place (the poor working man is so close to the tramp that his sunday clothes... are those of the tramp), with a naif Edna, fightinf for her with some weak gags. The best part, for its lyric naiveté, is Chaplin dreaming a ballet with nymphs...

(Mu) Some of Chaplin greatest gags and they belong to the idle not to the tramp. When he forget his pants and try to hide or when one thinks he is crying after readng a letter from his wife and is shaking a drink with soda; all that is better than the tramp non negligeable part...

(Mu) My favorite Chaplin short. All a round day, ending when he is trying to sleep the night out. There's almost an unreal atmosphere with the durnken worker trying to catch the last full tramways and mistaking a kiosk with a suassage for a bus....the glory of gags, and so inserted in story...

(Mu) Some excellent gags in the unstable boat with couples dancing and people throwing, as effective as in 'the inmigrant', and Chaplin walking over a fat woman used as a bridge. This is not a tramp film, this is middle calss family man amusing us....everything is lighter

(Mu) Just 3 entire shorts (Pilgrim, A dog's life and Shoulder arms) with a simple introduction of what the hell is Hollywood...