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Locked-Down Cinema
Film reviews of all the films I should have seen but didn't...
What do you do if you receive a Christmas present that is a membership to the British Film Institute when there's a pandemic on...?
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Ravi Swami
Mar 35 min read
"Heavy Metal", Dir: Gerald Potterton, 1981
"Heavy Metal" - the 1981 animated feature film based on the comic / prototype graphic novel "Heavy Metal"..
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Ravi Swami
Feb 253 min read
"Annie Hall", Dir: Woody Allen, 1977
..it's very likely that I missed seeing at the time of its release Woody Allen's "Annie Hall"..
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Ravi Swami
Feb 254 min read
"The Gorgon", Dir: Terence Fisher, 1964
"The Gorgon" (Dir: Terence Fisher, 1964) was a product of Hammer films, a British film company..
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Ravi Swami
Feb 186 min read
"The Gorge", Dir: Scott Derrickson, 2025
The gorge hides a dark secret hinted at by the outgoing operative of Teller's side, who describes it as the gateway to hell...
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Ravi Swami
Jan 193 min read
"Billion Dollar Brain", Dir: Ken Russell, 1967
"Billion Dollar Brain" did however mark the end of a 3 film cycle, the middle film being "Funeral in Berlin"..
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Ravi Swami
Jan 125 min read
"Don't Bother To Knock", Dir : Roy Ward Baker, 1952
As you might expect Monroe sizzles in the role of Nell, switching between being both alluring and vulnerable...
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Ravi Swami
Jan 123 min read
"Krull", Dir : Peter Yates, 1983
The plot enjoys a superficially novel premise that references the fairy tale aspect of the hugely successful "Star Wars" that preceded it..
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Ravi Swami
Dec 17, 20244 min read
"L'Amour Fou", Dir: Jacques Rivette, 1969
It's been described as a classic of French cinema and Rivette, being a writer for "Cahier's Du Cinema...
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Ravi Swami
Dec 4, 20242 min read
"Mississippi Mermaid", Dir: Francois Truffaut, 1969
Skimming through the plot, which concerns Belmondo as a wealthy but still single heir to a tobacco factory on the island of Le Réunion..
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Ravi Swami
Nov 26, 20244 min read
A Bunch of Belmondo's..
With free streamers, very often filled with unauthorised content, it's possible to view those films you've heard about but that aren't...
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Ravi Swami
Oct 14, 20244 min read
"The Party", Dir: Blake Edwards, 1968
I have to admit that I have avoided watching the 1968 Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers vehicle "The Party"..
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Ravi Swami
Sep 23, 20244 min read
Watch out!...It's "The Green Slime" !!, Dir: Kinji Fukasaku, 1968
Oh, "The Green Slime" is a film I've been searching for high and low on various streamers without much success..
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Ravi Swami
Sep 19, 20244 min read
"The Vast Of Night", Dir: Andrew Patterson, 2019
The aim here seemed to be to suggest that this is a tall story but with a likelihood of being about events that actually happened..
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Ravi Swami
Sep 11, 20243 min read
"The Organizer", Dir: Mario Monicelli, 1963
it features the actor in a very uncharacteristic role as a scruffy bespectacled academic in a film about 19th century Italian mill workers
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Ravi Swami
Jun 21, 20243 min read
"Pépé le Moko", Dir : Julien Duvivier, 1937
Julien Duvivier had directed Jean Gabin in a number of films prior to 1937's Pépé le Moko..
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Ravi Swami
Mar 12, 20247 min read
Belmondo, Belmondo, Belmondo !...3 films.
All three films share the fact that they were either written by or directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, as frequent collaborations..
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Ravi Swami
Jan 31, 20244 min read
"The Taisho Trilogy", Dir Seijun Suzuki, 1980-1991
The first film in the trilogy, "Zigeunerweisen" (1980), takes it's title from a piece of classical music heard playing on a gramophone..
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Ravi Swami
Jan 17, 20245 min read
"Drifting Clouds" /"Kauas Pilvet Karkaavat", Dir: Aki Kaurismäki, 1996
MUBI Channel currently have a selection of films by the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki..
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Ravi Swami
Jan 11, 20247 min read
"The Swimmer", Dir: Frank Perry, 1968
Reviews of the film at the time of its release were divided between those who were completely bewildered by the plot...
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Ravi Swami
Dec 11, 20234 min read
"Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan", Dir: Chor Yuen, 1972
Once you get past the salacious details, at the core of the plot is a story about young women , usually from poor rural communities...
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