Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2017 Film Reviews
Beware of a Holy Whore
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1971) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director.
A Good Marriage
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (2014) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband’s sinister secret?
Isn’t Life a Bitch? (The Bitch/La Chienne)
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1931) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A woman and her pimp exploit a painter for money.
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1972) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.
The Niklashausen Journey
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1970) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the “Black Monk” in a leather jacket.
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1971) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
The Pleasure Garden
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1925) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall.
Rio das Mortes
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1971) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes.
Spasms
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture (1983)
Weeping for a Bandit
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1964) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: José María “El Tempranillo” fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.
Whity
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1971) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878.
