Reviews by fernando

(OK) So elegant, glamorous in locatiosn and actors, full of little 'Clouseaus maladresse gags´that Edwards indulges in long verbal sequences and in the end, a very long masked party and car crash...

(OK) Fregonese estaba apuntando a Hollywood y haciendo su primer gran western, Demare estaba algo extraviado en su épica gaucha; peor vaya qué colonialismo románticamente genocida que muestra pudorosamente la cabeza del indígena Huincul en manos de Petrone. No he visto nada así en westerns gringos mainstream. Qué bien dirigidas escenas como las de Petrone estaqueado y salvado...

(OK) Ivoru introduces you to places and epochs and characters; they're so vivid, intimate, funny and human as Maggie Smith nad her probably tempestuos self proyected in young Helena Bonham Carter through Judy Dench storytelling. Forster has wonderful material for films...

(OK) Rosselini had the best screenwriters to end his sketches, all Italy and war and post war drama is summed up from the 'boat like tip Sicily to Po's delta. Cruel and tender, precise...

(OK) Small and straight film, Lupino is a Richard Fleischer or John Sturgess attacking, in her case, a polemic topic: rape. Glimpses, sound, every detail iswell used...

(OK) Mizoguchi´s last silent film is an outburst of style, maybe too much, but there it is the suffering mystical loving forceful woman, the key character of his entire work...

(OK) Classic early incursion in remembering war films, very russian stuff; but well proyected to the present of the character...

(OK) Straight, fluent, well told false docudramatization of the stata repressing and imprisoning no matter what...

(OK) Chaplin with no Chaplin, but all the resources of language and movies but gags are here. Serene, sober, Menjou is so consistent in his cynicism, and funny when laughing because of Edna throwing her collar...

(OK) Pabst makes some wonders with the camera and the sets and the dialogues and music. Ironically the best song, Mack the knife, is sung in the background. The brude singing is a great moment...