Reviews by fernando

(OK) Anothr deliberately, estetically, thematically sublime love by Borzage, in the sake of "/th heaven"; with some ethnic circus street background, and the comparison (discriminative) of whores as opposed to pure love. But that permits the great finale of Farrell in the fog of the night illuminating faces to find an angel of hell...

(OK) Unsettled, nasty character who doesn't know the diference between right or wrong (Rachel Roberts tell him so in one of thier all good scenes) and he replies your'e not going to teach me..."; and runs and even shoots a lay in her ass...

(OK) Undeserved popularity for a biopic, much less interesting than many other by Warners. But in purposedly made click with patriotic wave of that time; and Cagney was a self convinced Cohan tapping his way trhough family and enterprise...

(OK) An expressionist false mood, for a Sternberg theme, the man losing himself in woman's actress/singer laces and backstage...Jannings is too pathetic, but great actor

(YT) After "Look back in anger" Richardson was more classic, conventional, ambitious. He took Osborne and a lot of colourful characters in extreme, ha managed sequences with masses en the seaside...

(YT) Olivier mending, mixing, embracing, tehatre and film. he delivers the main monologues stagey, and then pictures the big facts, the battle and the crimes. The 'kingdom for a horse', of course, is pure action direction...

(OK) Little melancholic tender gem Melki is a Keaton with words and contemporary feelings. His infatuation with whore Arlette, is so romantic, even epic (he scares clients but pays for them to the pimp), and then,appears Dalio in a frenzy party in the appartment woth the world moves....

(OK) The first half is tongue in cheek, Laraine bullying ridicule Barry nelson; buth when everything turns patriotic, mmmhhhh...

(OK) So naif and simple: an average Joe takes all, even torture, if he recalls the happiness of being a good worker, husband and father... Young is Joe Smith, tha nazi spies could be everybody....

(OK/YT)) A so special Premminger, historic melodrama, love and ambitios as two contrasted forces, Linda thinks they nurture each other, but they clash in many aspects, at the end in the child going to America with father, in the king resenting (so elegance in Sanders) being part of a plot...