Reviews by fernando

(OK) The silent Ozu was all he wasn't with dialogues: light hearted, camera moving, funny, a bit romantic, even gesticulting...

(OK) Ichikawa anticipates "Look who's talking", but no so light, there's comments on modern society,60s fashion...

(OK) Not as bad as "La fin du monde" but, after a tense good trench drama with the last night of a patrol, Gance losts in pacifist grandilocuence with Francen shouting and accusin mankind. The horror fantastic finale is quite something.

(OK) Cheap and simple, but there´s certain schematic abstraction with a crocodile just for dispose the human rests, and extreme cruelty (Dr, commands the monster to kill his fiancee) that seduces.

(OK) The greatness of the firs part with many bonus: coloruful secuence, musical numbers/scenes. There´s no the great agonizing scene of the first one, but there´s the feast in wich Ivan decieves his treacherous cousin...

(OK) Oh, greatness of subject and character, yeah the tzar is hamletian and more: he has doubts and compulsions and believes in traitors. Close ups are wondeful, and costume pinting expressionistic characters...

(OK) Thorpe had his best cycle in this classis adventures. Here's gallantry and its code besides everything else, the ellegance doesn't sacifice ation: tha main battle ans castle assault in the middle and the multiple duel, are excellent...

(OK) Lang in a certain minimalism of form and resources, but many facts and twists, the genie langian schematism. Andrews cool and Fontaine cold, Nichols charming and vulgar...

(OK) So dificcult to judge such effort so creative and intuitive in film language, and so conservative in everything else. The grandilocuence and the grandeur of sets are marched in a rare way...

(OK) Romantic comedy a la hollywoodienne. Banale, but there's a protrait of a powerful woman in the parfum industry in quid pro quo with a savage and in a way gentle artista, wth certain charm