Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2017 Film Reviews
Bad Education
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (2004) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: I am not afraid, and without fear, I am capable of anything.
Belle Always
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (2006) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Manoel de Oliveira visits two characters of Luís Buñuel.
Black Sunday / The Mask of Satan
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1960) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: When someone really takes a vow of revenge seriously.
The Blob
Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis (1988) [Spanish]
The Blood on Satan’s Claw
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture (1971)
Carnival of Souls
Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis (1962) [Spanish]
Don’t Look Now
Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis (1973) [Spanish]
Early Spring
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1956) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A modern Ozu talking about the hardships of married life.
Floating Weeds
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1959) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Ozu reworked one of his works from the 1930s.
Good Morning
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1959) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portrait of a transforming Japan.
Halloween
Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis (1978) [Spanish]
Happy Hour
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews (2016)
- Excerpt: Hamaguchi offers great perspectives into the dynamics of friendship, marriage and the unknowability of others, shedding surprising light on the men in these women’s lives in his final acts.
Hold Back the Dawn
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee (1941)
- Excerpt: The film both plays up to, and against Hollywood conventions and the on-screen personas of Boyer and De Havilland.
Magic Mirror
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (2005) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: You do not have to be rich to eat, you have to be rich to taste.
The Mission
Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis (1986) [Spanish]
Moonlight
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight (2016)
Nightbreed
Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis (1990) [Spanish]
Nocturnal Animals
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight (2016)
Nordeste Sangrento
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (1962) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: History around the misery of the northeastern sertão, the clash between government and cangaceiros and the devotion to the Father Cicero.
Pachamama
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (2009) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A cut for the indigenous issue in the Andes region.
Paris Is Burning
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews (1990)
- Excerpt: All these years later, ‘Pose’ fans will enjoy tracing its characters (not to mention plots) back to their inspirations…
La Pointe-Courte
Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod (1954) [Croatian]
- Excerpt: Whilst it would serve as an obvious style guide for aspects of the Nouvelle Vague, La Pointe-Courte sees Varda treading ground reminiscent less of her soon-to-be fellowship than what Michelangelo Antonioni was exploring over in Italy.
The Right Stuff
Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis (1983) [Spanish]
The Storytellers
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico (2003) [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Brazilian masterpiece about the construction of History.
