Pablo S. Gomez Movies
- 1999
French filmmaker Jean Vigo made only four films prior to his death in 1934 at the age of 29 (only one a full length feature), but all of them are today recognized as landmarks of the European cinema, and Zero For Conduct and L'Atalante are often cited among the greatest films of their time. Vigo: Passion For Life is a dramatic biography that explores his brief life and tumultuous career. Born the son of a famous figure in the French anarchist movement, Jean Vigo (played here by James Frain) suffered from poor health throughout his life; he contracted tuberculosis as a young man, and met his wife Lydu Lozinska (Romane Bohringer) when both were receiving treatment in a sanitarium. Vigo made A propos de Nice in 1929 as an attack on bourgeois French society; the premier led to a riot, the first of many controversies surrounding Vigo's work (Zero For Conduct was completed in 1932, but its anti-authoritarian stance caused it to be banned until 1945). Vigo's fragile health was already beginning to fail him while he was filming L'Atalante; a fall into an icy river while trying to retrieve a camera only added to his ills, and he edited most of the film at home, too sick to leave. However, he was passionate about his art to the end, constantly battling producers and authorities to make films as he chose to make them. He died in 1934, the same year L'Atalante was released. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Romane Bohringer, James Frain, (more)
- 1976
In this film, a young man from the countryside rescues his lady friend from a difficult situation and exacts vengeance upon those who have caused it. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paquito Diaz, Perla Bautista, (more)
- 1976
After enduring an unhappy marriage to an out-and-out sadist, the middle-aged widow in this story cannot find much solace in her new boyfriend, who has a twin he never told her about. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charito Solis, Eddie Garcia, (more)
- 1975
Three separate stories, united by their shared use of vulgar sex humor, are contained in this Philippine film. In the first episode, a professional shoplifter gets into all sorts of predicaments because of her preferred place of concealment: between her legs. The second and third are of a like nature, though the third episode does tell a tale in which poor lovers must each marry rich suitors, and suffer the jealousy of their spouses. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ricky Belmonte, Elizabeth Oropesa, (more)
- 1975
Whether he is a one-man Coast Guard, or a sort of anti-pirate, it is clear that the fisherman in this movie does much more than catch fish. In his latest exploits he is taken captive when he goes after a female pirate who has already captured the other men of his village. The lady buccaneer falls in love with him, and the men are eventually released. Unfortunately, such behavior is not part of the other pirates' code, and the couple become the focus of a death-dealing manhunt. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fernando Poe, Jr., Elizabeth Oropesa, (more)
