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The Woman I Love (1937)
A great WWI Film
I remember seeing this when I was a kid. A lot of the aviation shots were really great. "Wings" was before my time, and Howard Hughes spent a ton of money on it, but this one has great impact. It's real hard to find now. What is the best way to locate 1937 films now? Are a lot of them, being on nitrate film, now completely lost? Where can one find a listing of films of this nature, not GREAT films but good ones? Would there be a source which would have a lot of these on DVD now? Many WWI aviation films, such as "Dawn Patrol" etc. were made with aircraft of that era, since it was only 20 years or so since the end of that war. Try to find Nieuports, Spads, etc. now! It's important for historical as well as artistic reasons to locate these films.
Passionada (2002)
It held my attention...some beautiful women
This is a strangely riveting movie. I took two years of Portuguese in college (not many students did), and while practically none of the actors in this flick are "Lusitanian," and there are many technical imperfections, I still loved it.
The casting was well done; Milos and Rossum are two pretty gals, as well as good actors, and while Milos may be Greek and Italian, she passes well for Portuguese. Isaacs is a good actor, and the casino scenes, together with the occasional coverage of card counting in blackjack games fit in well with the plot. The "fado" singing was quite good, and while the plot was certainly predictable, I'm going to watch it again.