Reviews by fernando

(OK) Good debut, Hodges! Caine is as cold and cool as it is needed for the straight premise: agangster comes back to town (interesting Newcastle) to revenge his innocent brother's death. "I'm the villain in the family" he says to the local hoodlums who, besides killing his bro, makes his niece an asolescent whore. The mammy is drowned in a car, while Michael stands mute...

(OK) I'm not sure how much Cukor is here, is too 'stagey' for him, and nor Myrna neither Ann Harding are bright; everything goes in monotonous circles...

(OK) I prefer "The reds and the whites", but here Jancso condenses in secuence shots all his imagery of rural confusing marxism , soldiers dilemmas, women catalysers, ritualized violence, agricultural parafernalia and so on...

(OK) Noir in its own way, the policial/existential search is an alibi to understand Fonda's whory character that believes she acts always, ans she does...secondary characters are fabolous, Sutherland is enigmatic...

(MU) Underrated, versartile Mundruczo, here in 3 independent although connected intergenerational stories, with fantastic ending, ultradramtic holocaust beginning and a technical virtuous final story...

(OK) Constance Bennett is as great as garbo or Tallulah or Shearer with Cukor. Here is amusisng, vital, sad, changing radically of tones inside a secuence. An apparent fantasy with ballons, and clowning with drunken Jobyna, are bonus...

(OK) First Roeg solo goes to Australia where civilization edges with primitivism. A natural traditional indigenous walkabout ends tragically, an accidental, violent, urban in the wilderness walkabout ends happily...

(MU) Aronovsky not so excessive in spite of the theme (a yong woman is dying and she writes on ancient meanings of life and so on)m of travel to futrure and past; but somehow he is monochord in its style...

(OK) Surprise, an adult musical on childs background, noir touches, so imaginative that yo forgive its predictability. Wilder is elegant and excellent,the boys and girls are functional...

(MU) Great Leigh, there are good people in earth and in 1950 London as Vera and her family and even the police who caputres her, trying to undestand why she 'helps girls out' (abort) for nothing...