Reviews by fernando

Blasetti under the skin of Fellini.He even quotes "Otto e mezzo" and has Mastroianni as the simpathetic suicidal looser.

4 good tales by Pirandello. The best is Zampa's "La patente" with Toto as a 'gafe' (a bad luck guy) that causes accidents to eweryboy and decides to make sich condition profitable. Dressed in full black, Toto is greta. The Fabrizi episode has great acting by himself,the Soldati one is light and the Pastina is neorrealist.

Cheap psicological argument, so truculent and ioncredible that Mitchum, as cool and inteligent as anybody, commits suicide because silly Laraine Day is more trustable than him. Brahm is enough good filmmaker to make tolerable such things.

Whimsical, witty and personal narration of history reinvented as a Guitry story, with cast taking more than one role.

A Guitry woth 'lubitsch touch'. It is so hollywoodien that he even have an amarican actor as one of the four entangled lovers.

As personal, healthilhy egomaniac,and well narated, as it gets. Agile, witty, charming, and moral ambiguous Guitry. His digressions are ludic (for instance, the presentation of wife Delubac)

Rare man, Corbucci. When more light and frivolous, bitter in his commnentary on corrupt revolutionaries, deadly bandits, greedy women, vengative militars. Nero's one deadpan characterization contrasts with vital and clownesque Musante (he is a real clown in his showdown with Jack 'Curly' Palance in the bullfight plaza).

A light Pratolini, 'senza' the sadness and the bad temper against the world you find in "Cronaca familiare"or "Cronaca di poveri amanti", but I like sexy Cifariello disputes by beautiful girls.

'Politicploitation' film by the commercial Ferrara. Terrorists are too birght and politics are too dumb and machiavelic. Volonte and Moro's wife, Margarita Lozano, dignifies the film.

The idea, or, less than it, the form (one man struggle in silence with nature) is more than the substance. I would like to know why tha character founds in travelling alone in the sea at his age. !He could talk to himself and to us, for christ sake¡.