Reviews by fernando

Thw worse Clair. An idiotic fantasy without the social dreaming of his french films. At least has a good pair (Powell and Darnell)and good secondaries.

MacCarey takes advantage of the great story (classy Europe vs. democratic, rough America at its climactic clash), of great cast (Laughton is a genious, and Mary Boland is always enjoyable in her only role), and good lines.

The great, long, unique in literature and screen scene of tha civil man trying to understand war in the middle of the battle, is as wise as epic. ¡Viva Vidor¡ The sense of tragedy and intensity of romantic feelings, of social disdain and regret, everything feels intense. Audrey and Mel are better than the others.

Good idea, truculent and extremely schematic scrrenplay. Characters are just alibis for previsible twists. Al leats, Miike has a good and tense hand for action.

Sensitive,intense (Stewart has one of his best scenes of his career when Paget dies), understanding in every approach to indians, and even agile. Great film.

A masterpiece, summa bergmaniana, IB regressionates to his childhood and you have sametime the trembling and surprised point of view of a terrosized and sensitive child, and the intelligence, the wit, of a man enjoying big quiestions about moral and religion and society. I love the openminded Ekdahls and I hate, not, I pity, the bishop and his family.

Futuristic nightmare, cousin from US meets rural english cousins, all fed with corny feeling and some action. Overrated MacDonald.

So rapid, amusing, full of wit and great performances: Jimmy Durante is a storm with a nose, Grant Mitchell is as big as Monty when collides with him, Bette is humbly allowing the others to bright, Ann is something new. To see again.

I put a 3 star (could be a 4) becuase I hate that disdains of narrative explanations that wouldn´t cost any deviation of the plot. On the contrary, Costa makes some turns to not clarify who is the mother, why the baby is ill, why the nurses become entrangled in the plot. Yes, I know thát´s a way of telling 'this reality is obscure for you' and in a way 'enlightening' (I love some sequence shots), but I'm tired of it

Good direction of the masses, you feel the dessert and the camels and the weapons. Would be great to have Olivier as Gordon instead of Heston, bur star system is star system. Anyway, the siege of Khartoum and the extravagant character of Gordon is portrayed with some flair. Gladstone (always great Richardson) has great political dialogues.