Reviews by fernando

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.

Cine di contadino. Rural fatalism, but with a special feeling of the herd, you can feel tne importance the sheep has to everybody,till the end when the 'wrong man' turns bandit.

Anticipation of 'Avatar', spirit of the forest against human exploration of minerals, but with a huge little force, Ashitaka,trying to reconciliate everybody. best image; Mononoke sucking the blood of the big white wolf and the forest full of 'kodamas'

Good intertwinned stories of love, savings for nothing, fascism, in a Firenze´s neighborhood. I like the sort of not affected but relaxed mood, as in the dialogues of the whore of the street (Cosetta Greco) and teh sincerity of Mario (handsome Gabriele Tinti).

I love the characters, so tenderly approached by Comencini in its contradictions. The almost stoic Nullo (¡he has that name because os son of anarcchists¡)and the passionate stubborn surprising Stefania, knocks you down. The political stuff, even you have Stefania victim of capitalism, is not the main thing.

I like the angry young man (excelletn Placido) converted into a macho soldier stuff. But the triangle between Nero, wife Miou Miou and Placido, in a bit concocted. Yes, I prefer the militar stuff.