María Luz Morales (Felipe Centeno)

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Publications:
La Vanguardia (Spain)
Movie Reviews Only
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90% | Phantom of the Opera (1925) |
The audience was always interested in Lon Cheney's mysterious character. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Oct 2, 2020
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100% | The Gaucho (1927) |
The film's multiple values... among which is not the least, certainly, [is] the revelation of new Mexican star Lupe Velez. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 20, 2020
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53% | Bird of Paradise (1932) |
King Vidor and Dolores del Río's lengthy journey is certainly worth it. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Apr 24, 2020
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No Score Yet | Primavera en otoño (1933) |
A new excellent Spanish language film... A resounding triumph. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 4, 2020
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No Score Yet | This Is the Night (1932) |
It's fitting to highlight the wit and charm of Lily Damita, an artist whose talent had not been very well used in previous productions. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 4, 2020
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No Score Yet | Nagana (1933) |
[Nagana] will leave a deep impression upon its viewers. Without a doubt for the mastery with which it is realized. But also for the actors' fine performances, and, above all, the narration's dynamism. [Full reviiew in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 4, 2020
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No Score Yet | F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (I.F.1 ne répond plus) (1933) |
A very commendable effort on top of the subject's originality and concept. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 3, 2020
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No Score Yet | La Belle Aventure (1932) |
Exquisite and fun. Kate de Nagy is delicious. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 3, 2020
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No Score Yet | Der schwarze Husar (1932) |
A bit trivial of a subject perhaps... it also stars Conrad Veidt, the best actor in Germany and one of the best in the world... a very beautiful movie. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 3, 2020
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No Score Yet | Quick (1932) |
[A] frivolous and pleasant affair... The delicious Lillian Harvey's talent and beauty stand out. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 3, 2020
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94% | Shanghai Express (1932) |
A few people with whom you live a relative intimacy... to forget them the next day. Here is an aspect of "Shanghai Express" that is done with great success. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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100% | Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform) (Maidens in Uniform) (1931) |
It is the most robust, most serious work that cinema has given us in many years. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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No Score Yet | Currito de la Cruz (1925) |
The film adaptation of 'Currito de la Cruz', from the novel of the same name, is a beautiful movie. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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No Score Yet | El caballero de la noche (1932) |
As a whole, it's a nice movie. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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No Score Yet | Tumultes (1931) |
A work of somber tone, of pungent taste; a masterpiece, however, like the etching of a great master. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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No Score Yet | The Road to Singapore (1931) |
This production has an excellent cast, which far exceeds the plot. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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No Score Yet | Ich und die Kaiserin (1933) |
Like the realization and performances, the music is delicious and cleverly linked with the film's subject. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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No Score Yet | Fashion Row (1923) |
The eccentric star shines. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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No Score Yet | La revoltosa (1924) |
Josefina Tapias... is, for us, a veritable and very important revelation as an interpreter of silent art. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 2, 2020
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No Score Yet | Rasputin (1932) |
Trotz's "Rasputin" is realized with all dignity ... but it does not cease to be a, novel, lacking human and aesthetic nuances. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Hell Divers (1932) |
In "Hell Divers" there is a supreme "titan" that the public does not see: the cameraman. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Ladies of the Big House (1931) |
The film presents scenes that reveal the expert and skillful hand of the new director Marion Gering. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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63% | Mata Hari (1932) |
Superbly feminine in its last scenes - which are, in our opinion, the best - "Mata-Hari" has found in Greta Garbo, a wonderful personification. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detectives) (1931) |
In its narrative aspect, as in its technique, "Emil and the Detectives" is also perfect, vigorous, of a firm line and of an essential pictorial value in many moments. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Der Kongreß tanzt (1931) |
"Der Kongreß tanzt" has, within its inconsequential theme, its own transcendence. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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100% | Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) |
Beautifully linked to a fable, within its genre, full of originality, emotion and interest. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Little Old New York (1923) |
A truly delicate affair and exquisite presentation. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Broken Lullaby, (The Man I Killed) (1932) |
Lubitsch manages to give us the unmistakable resources that sonority offers him. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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89% | Arrowsmith (1931) |
"Arrowsmith" profoundly moves the audience, by the mere virtue of the spirit that pulses in the narrative. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Drusilla with a Million (1925) |
A sentimental, beautiful film. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | The Mad Genius (1931) |
With a complex character, John Barrymore demonstrates, once again, his size as a full-body artist, and puts in his accent and gesture all his dramatic power. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Blood Money (1933) |
George Bancroft is, in his genre, an indisputable prestige. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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86% | White Zombie (1932) |
Unpleasant, macabre, absurd, and without the flight of a liberating imagination. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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95% | The Champ (1931) |
No false attitudes, excessive expressions, nor a movement or a nuance that is not nature itself. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | I By Day, You By Night (Ich Bei Tag Und Du Bei Nacht) (1932) |
[The film] could have had a vaudevillesque tone if the filmmakers hadn't overcome this risk with extreme skill, leaving it with... a pleasant, mild and fine mischievousness. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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96% | The Old Dark House (1932) |
The light and the shadows are wonderfully played, to achieve that desired effect of mystery, of terror. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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100% | Love Me Tonight (1932) |
The director skillfully fuses the appeal of the artist to the expressiveness of the camera; the agility of the narrative technique to the casual irony of conception. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Der Rebell (1933) |
A movie which unites the undeniable values of the new sound technique with all the old -- and permanent -- excellence of silent films. That is, the action..., the dynamism, the emotional rhythm. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (The Trunks of Mr. O.F.) (2010) |
Humor and ingenuity of the best kind have presided over the creation and approach of the movie's subject. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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86% | Grand Hotel (1932) |
It has presented a cast, difficult, if not impossible, to beat. Of a discreet and correct modesty, in form and substance. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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67% | Quatorze Juillet (Bastille Day) (July 14) (1933) |
The simplicity of composition in contrast with its rich humor, optimism, popular expression, it's delicious in every moment. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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96% | I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) |
The truly extraordinary thing is that the filmmaker has been able to give the same painful feeling of nightmare, anguish, that the book delivers. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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88% | The Mummy (1932) |
"The Mummy" implies a magnificent effort of documentation, preparation, realization. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | The Miracle Of The Wolves (1924) |
This effort can be described as truly admirable thanks to... the French cinematography has given us that, is, without a doubt... the masterpiece of its production. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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61% | Blonde Venus (1932) |
The story is well told: the expressive camera in the pathetic drama of the film. A complete success. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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55% | The Sign of the Cross (1932) |
Splendid representation of an unbelievably sumptuous era. Human mass (actors and extras) management performed with absolute skill. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | The Uninvited Guest (1924) |
Although excessively melodromatic, is... a good film. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | The Recoil (1924) |
The interest in the plot never wanes, which is perhaps due to its extreme melodrama. Of course, [the film] provides Betty Blythe the opportunity to show us a beautiful and refined setting. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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63% | America (1924) |
America is, thanks to the push of its director, a great film. Lionel Barrymore's performance is worthy of all praise. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Die schönste frau der welt (1924) |
This production has successful direction, pleasant development and a cinematography that approaches perfection. [Full review in Spanish] - La Vanguardia (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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