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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
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
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 12, 20214 min read
"Harold & Maud", Dir: Hal Ashby, 1971
It also depends on watching a film whose effect might linger until the next morning, as is the case "Harold & Maud"...
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Ravi Swami
Sep 19, 20214 min read
"That Darn Cat", Dir: Robert Stevenson, 1965
Launched with the hugely successful "Pollyanna", Mills soon found herself cast with top billing in a slew of Disney films..
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Ravi Swami
Aug 31, 20215 min read
"Lions Love...& Lies", Dir: Agnes Varda, 1969
Varda used actors who would not normally be cast in Hollywood films and there really is a strong "Withnail & I" comedic vibe...
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Ravi Swami
Aug 20, 20214 min read
"Good Neighbor Sam", Dir: David Swift, 1964
There are several of her films available on the streaming service including this Jack Lemmon vehicle...
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Ravi Swami
Aug 1, 20213 min read
"The Naked City", Dir: Jules Dassin, 1948
I would put it alongside "Lovers and Lollipops" and "The Thief" as examples of films that use the locations of late 1940's and 1950's N.Y..
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Ravi Swami
Jul 26, 20216 min read
"Rififi", "Bob Le Flambeur", "Big Deal On Madonna St", Dir: Dassin, Melville, Monicelli, '55,'56,'58
As per usual, I watched these three films - all first-time viewings - out of chronological order...
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Ravi Swami
Jul 5, 20213 min read
"Big Trouble In Little China", Dir: John Carpenter, 1986
John Carpenter's 1986 film "Big Trouble In Little China" falls into that latter category of "seen before, I'll watch it again"...
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Ravi Swami
May 4, 20216 min read
"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension", Dir: W.D Richter, 1984
"Buckaroo Banzai" is definitely very odd - the titular character played by Peter Weller is of mixed American Japanese heritage..
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Ravi Swami
Apr 11, 20213 min read
A Pair Of Shorts - Martin Scorcese & Chantal Akerman, 1974 , 1968
Tucked away in amongst a series of shorts on the theme of films made in a single location...
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Ravi Swami
Apr 2, 20215 min read
"Godzilla V Kong", Dir: Adam Wingard, 2021
Giant monster films...you either love 'em or hate 'em, there doesn't appear to be a middle ground for them in terms of taste in cinema.
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Ravi Swami
Mar 31, 20215 min read
"Il Bidone"- with commentary, Dir:Federico Fellini, 1955
That said, I watched "Il Bidone" - a film that could best be described as the least "Fellini-esque" of his work...
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Ravi Swami
Mar 26, 20214 min read
"Tom & Jerry", Dir: Tim Story, 2021
Where "Tom & Jerry", directed by Tim Story - a director I know little about - is concerned, I watched it primarily because I know personally
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Ravi Swami
Mar 19, 20214 min read
"The Atomic Submarine", Dir: Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1959
I knew about the film long before (I'm talking several decades) I actually had an opportunity to watch it...
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