Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2017 Film Reviews
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James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
Christopher Columbus: The Enigma
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A historical search that is confused with a long life.
The Covered Wagon
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: The “first epic” of the American west.
Death Takes a Holiday
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: There may be a little bit of irony that when I finally get to see Death Takes a Holiday, it’s a time when I’ve been dealing with my own mortality. No fear of dying, but if Death comes to meet me in human form, I’m hoping she resembles Tiffany Haddish.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: The reason for our overwhelming passions and the possible consequences of insisting on feeding them.
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: The importance of simple things in our life.
Hatari!
Roderick Heath @ Film Freedonia
- Excerpt: At his best, Hawks was something like the platonic ideal of commercial filmmakers.
In Old Arizona
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: The first sound film recorded on location.
Je Rentre à la Maison
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Why was I born, if it was not forever?
Luminous Motion
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Moral Tales I: The Bakery Girl of Monceau
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: The first moral tale of director Eric Rohmer.
Only Angels Have Wings
Roderick Heath @ Film Freedonia
- Excerpt: At his best, Hawks was something like the platonic ideal of commercial filmmakers.
Paris is Burning
Ron WIlkinson @ its just movies
- Excerpt: Even better for last year’s book release, if you did not get a chance to see this movie thirty years ago, do not miss it now.
Sleepwalkers
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Complex of Oedipus, felines, incest and interesting cameos.
Tokyo Story
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: The weight of the years in the relationship between parents and children.
Word and Utopia
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: We are what we do, in the days when we do, we do exist, in others we only last.
