Reviews by fernando

Elegant, good characters, Vanessa better than Glenda, because of his 'naif courage', nice landscapes, some academicism.

I like how Penn arrives to a great meaningfil subject -with massacre and all- through this patetic comic pitiful man. Story goes round and round and that's the key.

Anything about Wilder´s films told by him is worth listening. Schñondorff is just a fan asking about Marilyn and Audrey and Bogart and so on

So full of details as one of those Turner paintings. Timothy Spall is as great as Laughton composing the painter freak; citing himself as a 'gargoyle'. He has a sense of spectacle, lightinf his canvas for private exposition, using language, provoquing the establishment (and Constable) with red paint.

More character than action. Oppositions (country and city, sophisticated fascist irresponsible snobbish Brialy vs democratic, naif, good natures, responsible Blain) are ambiguos as many things in this film. Great isolated moments,as Brialy with the candelabra, but the film is made for them all.

It's so tasteful and tongue in cheek, that characters even play with dialogues in their mouths. Old Hickey best of all, but Nicholson is great and wife Anjelica is great too, phrasing the title to provoque grandfather Prizzi. Turner can't compete with them, bus os coherent with her foreing background. Evil and love are endogamic with the Prizzis.

In a way it has aged; in the other hand, its a pioneer of police melodrama, in a situation of laboratory, with hostages and psicocriminals. Characters seem intelligent ans sophisticated in involuntary idiot subplots, then act in a too intelligent way. Bogey and March are impecable.

I forgot how good was this. Windust must've been somebody to sign instead of Walsh. How tense, tight, ahead of its time, concentrated. The crime of crime, hits and contracts pioneer film of them all. Sloanne leaving a scene of cirme with a nervous De Corsia is great. He doesn't have to explain again the absence of motif theory.

Bogey not too harsh and June not too silly, they're convincibly in love. Skeptical war dialogues ok; but they're too heroic in their behaviour. At least, Bogey drinks and June has a nice gag, when she believes war is over because tents are being removed, as in a circus.

Too americanized visit to 1925 Damasco,with cosmopolitan restaurants where women go at night.Bah. It lacks feeling of exotism. At least Marta Toren is a exotic swedish, Bogey is himself and Sloanne is always OK.