Reviews by fernando

(YT) A bit late but here's a point of departure or iranian ordinary humanist (not so spiritual) minimalism. Good compositions, and perfect setting in the village, the man becoming an animal, no ofense...

(OK) Really bad in plot and dialogues and gags. The long long Hollywood spectacle waste talents of Frank Morgan, Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern and Marsha Hunt in a lousy doctro sketch; Rooney presenst the show and is pure sympathy; Judy Garland and Lena Horne is the best of the film; Eleanor Powell is so and so. Gene Kelly is the best of the four protagonists. Boles and Astor, poor guys; Grayson is ...I can't stand his operatic sinfing is musicals....

(OK) George Sidney is still learning, and has no style or genre preferred. Here is a forced story of german spies feeling at home in Washington, a very stupid girl Jean Rogers, a pretty more interesting rumanian spy Mona Maris, and a light Lee Bowman decyphering codes...

(OK) Bizarre, douce/amere, sexy, dramatic and intense coming of age of great John Moulder Brown and in a way, of Jane Asher. Poetry in the public baths...

(OK) Robinson is always well, but voice in off is not his, and the plot centered in his irrational predictions against mistrut of policeman William Demarest (totally miscast), boring Lund. Gail Russell is even wasted. The film comes down from the great beginning with Lund finding traces of Gail who is going to commit suicide in the rails...

(OK) Wonderful in each department: horror, folk, acting, special effects imagination, photo, lighting, sets. Gogol's spirit as alive as alive is the witch each noght in her coffin (in her old hag and young beauty forms) ...

(OK) Pre code surprise coming from a director/writer with few titles. Walter Huston is great here as a Chaney without Browning but with Browning moments, and great plot of revenge, lust and everything else louy whites and tribal satanized blacks could do in Kongo's hell. Amazing...

(MU) Another manifest (he is used to) from Von Trier, posing as a collective expression of Dogma. But the idea of people mocking as idios on idiocy, selfvictimized when trying to go ahead with it in his working and family routine, is really good....Bizarre and wild moments, orgy, irreverent politically incorrect moments...

(OK) Kind debut for Aldrich. Robinson is excellent and funny (he even clowns dancing alone, and amuse himself in a scene with Jaeckel), good secuences in low key night outdoor with Jeff Richards and Vera Ellen...

(PA) I think, there´s Martita, Joan Fontaine´s peruvian adopted daughter, behinf her bride dress tail, in the scene where Joan marries Jourdan. She told in her autobiography "No bed of roses" that Martita appeared in this film.