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Jorge Luis Borges

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King Kong (1933) 97% EDIT “A monkey fourteen meters high (some of his fans say fifteen) is obviously charming, but perhaps that is not enough. This monkey is not full of juice; he is a dried out and dusty contraption with angular, clumsy movements.” – Selección Nov 8, 2022 Full Review The Road Back (1937) EDIT “The Road Back is undeniably inferior to All Quiet on the Western Front. Its climactic moment is also a battle... The other scenes, it seems to me, are entirely forgettable.” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review She Done Him Wrong (1933) 93% EDIT “[Mae West] sings some sorrowful blues that I want to hear again the third time I see the film.” – Selección Dec 15, 2021 Full Review Kongo (1932) 71% EDIT “It is a human tragedy, abject and hellishly human. Especially memorable in it is the acting of Walter Huston.” – Selección Dec 15, 2021 Full Review Zoo in Budapest (1933) 100% EDIT “A pleasingly slow film with good emotional atmosphere that many times rises to the magical. A film that without great difficulty observes the classical unities of time, place, and action.” – Selección Dec 15, 2021 Full Review The Woman Alone (1936) 91% EDIT “[The film] "is inspired by Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent." The director himself declares so... Skillful photography, clumsy cinematography -- those are the unimpassioned judgments that Hitchcock's latest film "inspires" in me.” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review Now, Voyager (1942) 91% EDIT “It was directed by a certain Irving Rapper, who, quite possibly, may not be a fool. Unfortunately, this is how they degrade the tragic heroine of The Little Foxes, The Letter, Of Human Bondage.” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) 58% EDIT “For the third time, Hollywood has defamed Robert Louis Stevenson.” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review Things to Come (1936) 91% EDIT “"Grandiose" in the worst sense of that bad word. ” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review The 39 Steps (1935) 96% EDIT “From an absolutely dull adventure story -- The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan -- Hitchcock has drawn a good film. He has invented episodes. He has inserted wittiness and mischievousness where the original contained only heroism.” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review The Petrified Forest (1936) 94% EDIT “Once the allegorical motive is dismissed or relegated to a secondary level... the plot of The Petrified Forest seems admirable to me. In this film, death works like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day.” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review Crime and Punishment (1935) 80% EDIT “I was expecting the usual von Sternberg nightmare. I was waiting for the suffocation and the madness. In vain!” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review The Informer (1935) 89% EDIT “I consider it too memorable not to provoke a discussion and not to deserve a reproach. Several reproaches, really, since it has run the beautiful risk of being entirely satisfactory and, for two or three reasons, has not been.” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review Street Scene (1931) 89% EDIT “Street Scene, adapted from the comedy of the same name by the expressionist Elmer Rice, is inspired by the simple, negative desire not to look "standard."” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review City Lights (1931) 95% EDIT “In reality -- in what I believe is reality -- this much-seen film from the splendid creator and hero of The Gold Rush is nothing more than a weak collection of minor mishaps imposed on a sentimental story.” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review Morocco (1930) 83% EDIT “One may watch Morocco with pleasure, but not with the intellectual satisfaction one gets from the first viewing (and even the second) of earlier works by von Sternberg.” – Sur Dec 15, 2021 Full Review
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