Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2016 Film Reviews
Dodeskaden
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A great achievement about putting our concerns into perspective and understanding what this life can be, if we want or leave.
Entranced Earth
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A cycle that is barely at the end and merges with another, even more cruel than the previous one, dressed in fashionable clothes and with words or systems of political-economic salvation, some supposedly innovative faces and much demagogy, making politics the art of putting a whole nation in dizzying trance.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
Kagemusha
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: An epic about personality, about the art of war and about someone’s legacy.
Mind Game
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Trippy and surreal—the plot and the animation style both change every few minutes—but a sense of mystical wonder and an elusive wisdom underlies the whole crazy game. Put your seat belt on, this is going to be a bumpy ride.
Night and Fog
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: The history of Nazi Germany’s death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Red Beard
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A movie that is a heart test. If you are not touched, surely you are dead inside.
Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: The third feature film by Nikita Mikhailkov, Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano (1977) was based on the first drama of Anton Thekhov and puts two opposing Russias face-to-face: the monarchist and the revolutionary.
