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Reel Slave
http://darcimfilms.blogspot.com
Film reviews for all ages, ranging from classics to contemporary.
- Added on: Jul 18th, 2009
- Country: Philippines
- Language: English
- Author: Fritz
- Listed in: Film
- Tags: reviews Film movies contemporary classics film reviews
Recent Posts
Modern Times (1936)
Industrialisation. Innovation. Changes. In 'Modern Times,' these were highlighted. It became a socially significant film with a perfect reference to the hardships people experienced during the Great Depression: unemployment and financial problems. Te...
City Lights (1931)
'You?''You can see now?''Yes, I can see now...'The scene accompanied by these intertitles is the most moving ending in film history: a great perfect ending for a romantic comedy.The story centres around The Tramp, as always most of the time, poor, bu...
The Circus (1928)
'Funny without even trying.' This describes acts of Sir Charles Chaplin's The Tramp. Indeed, he's acting, but what I meant about this is that he never needed to overexert himself to be funny. The little fellow was born out of him; a natural 'the othe...
The Gold Rush (1925)
I first read about the Klondike Gold Rush through Jack London's 'The Call of the Wild' and 'To Build A Fire.' Truly, prospectors, as portrayed by London, could have suffered unimaginable cold and hunger. It was during the panic of the late 19th centu...
The Kid (1921)
'The Kid' would be one of Sir Charles Chaplin's most artistic film with comedy and drama perfectly combined. The story begins with a woman 'whose only sin was motherhood' walking out of a charity hospital with a baby in her arms. She left him inside ...
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
A war story which centres not on gun fights but on a total waste of pride, which one critic noted from one of the characters as madness. It revolves around Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), a British officer in charge of a battalion prisoners (who m...
