Ran review

(OK) Even the stagey sequences are so rich and full of nternal action and gestures. The main King Learesque character goes wrong in every decision and even that he is so human and caring. The chorus around him is great, the clown, the blind boy in the edge of the abyss....

Spellbound review

(OK) Some hitchcockian excesses, too freudian and explicative, but some of the best moments of love affair, and psycho intenity...

Targets review

(OK) Powerfull realtion between film horros and contemporaray horror, tight, no o ambitioos in cast and scope, but so personal (Bogdanovich in inside as a screenwrtiter) and Karloff resuming everything wit, and respectable and funny about old Hollywood...

Les cinq sous de Lavarède review

(OK) La faintaisie quasi totale, avec Fernandel de maharajah, winner of the tour de monde, gangaster almost fried in the electric chair, evasion jus before dhe war qnd with some happy spped, even music...

That Certain Woman (1937) review

(OK) A lesser Goulding/Davis melodrama. The abnegation of Bette is confusisn, contradictory. Fonda is a mellow heroe...

Sabotage review

(OK) The cruelty of the kid's death impacts the film too much. All the suspense is put before it, and the movie theatre provides interesting scenes, as the one wiht a Disney cartoon...

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond review

(OK) Kind of objetive and cold account of a biography full of imaginative not so violent details; in the last part is more tense and dramatic and other figure, karen steele introduces a moral dilemma. Warren Oates seemed to be the only feeling of Legs...

The Thing from Another World (1951) review

(OK) So straight, no nonsense but the one of the Nobel Prize (well, Howie prefers the army men), always he group in the center, not stupid plot individuality, no moral in the invader...

The Things of Life review

(OK) One of the best Sautet, as simple as risking death in an automiivle accodente and evoquing loves in the way to the hospital. Romy is divine, Lea Massari just reacts.Great the dreamy secuence of the lunch with all the loves and the docotr and chauffers...

Slim review

(OK) Unique topic, the life and risks of 'linemen' in the heights of electric tower, fighting against any other kind of ground level life, even if Margaret Lindsay is waiting of brotherly Stuart Erwin. Friendship in the heigth is above all.
