The Girl with the Hat Box review

(OK) Funny, american silent comedy spirit, with socialist lottery ('state obligation' is called here) int the plot...

Je t'attendrai review

(OK) Lourcelles recommendation. Anticipation to Hollywood real time dramas, Aumont, in a brief escape from his patrol, rebuild hos romance and family life...suspense, and good acting by mother Berthe Bovy...

Jesse James review

(OK) Has everything a good Hollywood film (more than a western) could have, acting by stars in formation (Power as gorgeous as Fonda), alternated action and delicate intimate parts (Nancy Kelly in childbirth decidind to quit Jesse), the compulsive editor Henry Hull in a Thomas Mitchell/fordian part...

Jericho review

(OK) Strange almost episodic (the prison of diverse characters, the sabotage act, the nazis asking for takinf hostages, the liberation planned from England)ressistance film, not so focused on organized heroism, but in facts and characters, as the coward andt the 'demissionaries'...

Jenny review

(OK) The first Carné is everything Carné, sauf a narrative disorder. Rosay is wonderful even in the end when isntead os a typical sucide, there´s an ironic remark about 'Jenny', the happy place...Barrault as Dromedaire amuses a lot

I Wish to Speak review

(OK) Grat, each situation, perfectly mounted in a character film with social echo, is so rich: the hommage to the old communist, the wedding that has to be moved form the building, the heroine censoring something that is already approved...a tender ridicule for this disciplined obsessive woman who loses a child and, we don´ti know if the sense of it all

The Way We Were review

(OK) Romantic saga, most for the theme scope (college, politica, war, media, Hollywood, maccarthism) than time and secondary characters. Delicate, sincere, unsolved...

Jason and the Argonauts review

(OK) In a way is a common peplum, but Harryhausen makes a feast with the stone colossus and most of all with the eagle men; and seen from the clouds and the olympus, there´s another dimension..

Joan of Arc review

(OK) The extended version is historical enough, not to lose the glorious battle, the defetat and the agonic new triunphant attack. Bergman is always convincing most of all when she prays. Ferrer in a prick by noir standards

The Garden of Allah review

(OK) Glorious technicolor un the sand carpet. Silent films ans "Morocco" and french legionnaires films, established already the romantic desert
