Reviews by fernando

(YT Canal Filmoteca UNAM) Gran historia, thriller y melodrama con fonde de revolución, diálogos perversos, y un final forzado para esquivar el otro final que debió ser en el paredón.

(YT Canal Filmoteca UNAM) Buena copia restaurada de un Gavaldón que se luce componiendo sobre grandes decorados, incluyendo la típica buhardilla ´rincón de cielo´. La Dolores glamorosa le gana de lejos a la otra, pero una vez que muere, se funden las dos. Hasta hay una procesión de navidad previa al crimen

(OK) The best is not the Minnelli segmento with peotry fan Caron; but Reinhardts segment with Sheares. She dance for the camera, never forgets to act, her big number is well edited with Mason's reaction. In Minnellis is the artificial charm of Rome, and in the last Reinhardt´s episode set decors and languid Pier, oposed to passionate Douglas, goes above the plot.

(OK) The causl love affair mount up ok, the city is present (a bit forced the idea of Central Park sounds are music without Judy singing), the confusion in the metro, the night delivering the milk of James Gleason; but there's a non originaln, non inspired, predicatble story...

(OK) Fleming is a bronco director, so vital, bright in the firs part in (supposedly) Chile; but then when he has to serve the shenanigans between Gable and Grason, approaches ridicule. The fights between them and Blondell, are so grandilocuent that the gestures and brawls couldn't improve. Mitchell is to good, what a waste to have one of his best roles here¡

(OK) So delicate, unglamorous, the war just as social background for lovers called each other Snapshot and Useless; Lana is more against type than Gable; the idea of concentrating in just one death, Cameron Mitchell, by malaria and not in actions, sums it all

(YT,OK) Tight, hard and even tender. Love the idea sequence of the barefoot froting, Gene Evans thinks Basehart foot and not his is frozen. The cave, the snow, the fire are the elemnets that puts some poetry in the harsh fullerian style

(OK) The final Wood is a vivid western in a fort, with two love stories, women torn between brave fatal men; a well mounted final ambush after a false one, an agile taylor catching indians; but lacks the humour and love of civilization Ford or Mann could put in this

(OK) Rossen has to explain in a way whar are bulls and bullfightin, why a matador has fear and hate the world, and survives the tragedy of Quinn and Miroslava. Tha absurd of life, blood and sand...

(OK) Rossen loves his characters, Dick/Powell is hideous but elegant with strange sidekick John Kellog. Women are all seductive and suffering. Drew is the best, hating and kneeling before huge Thomas Gomez better than ever...