Reviews by fernando

(OK) The simplest Stone. Thanks to Caine is horror with some level, some study in morality because he is a professor killing in a college background and his principal victim is a nihilist, depressed, amoral girl, Stella....

(OK) So well written and with such many visual elements, that Crichton just have to be classic and sober. Brynner understands it perfectly, as Benjamin...

(OK) Great story in a national cinema not friendly to fanstastic plots: the machine that knows when people will die, and a lot of charcters acting according to that information, while the inventor Dauphin turns evil...

(OK) Simple and effective: mom was right stating that Roddy needed a horse to become a man, and pop Foster hast to agrre with her in the end. And there's a little epic in the proceedings in a modern rural environment...

(OK) Little gem, kind of 'borrowed' fron another directors. This is not Mizoguchi's realm, but he is so sober and delicate in the scenes of fight, and so moving composing (he's the best composer of frames in japanese films) dramatic scenes as the death of litle brother and the sorrow of fighting sis...

(OK) The masterpiece of Costa Gavras. Its so easy to be inside Lemmon or Spacek either way. Direction doesn't have to point the social backgrpund, its so vivd there....

(OK) The star is the zeppelin, wonderful moving set desing, in the public space, and in the strange body. Some characters are poorly conceived (ass Meredith and Auberjonois, or the comic), but direction is always powerfull in Wise's hands...

(OK) 2 1/2 stars just to say that Arau adds nothing to corny in essence material. The mother is the best character but the rebellion of the others takes too much and too long...the sex/food topic doesn't convince...

(OK) Yeah, the first half is so better to the second, that takes many inhappy deviations. Cervi has the size and the equilibrium between roughness and tenderness...

(OK) So long and you can feel the effort to be 'fidele' to the original. Fescourt gets the right distance ando mood to tell everything, becoming closer to Cosette (the depiction of the Thenard family is excellent and Eponine has her best expression) and Fantine struggling with a drunkard before the famous snow in the back scene...