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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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"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...
Ravi Swami
Dec 17, 20244 min read
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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...
Ravi Swami
Nov 26, 20244 min read
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"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
Ravi Swami
Sep 11, 20243 min read
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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..
Ravi Swami
Mar 12, 20247 min read
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"Drifting Clouds" /"Kauas Pilvet Karkaavat", Dir: Aki Kaurismäki, 1996
MUBI Channel currently have a selection of films by the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki..
Ravi Swami
Jan 17, 20245 min read
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"L'Innocent", Dir: Louis Garrel, 2022
"L'Innocent" (Eng: "The Innocent") by a director I'd never heard of, Louis Garrel, and featuring French Moroccan actor, Roschdy Zem..
Ravi Swami
Jun 1, 20232 min read
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Amarcord, Dir: Federico Fellini, 1973
"Amarcord" roughly translates as "I remember" and the film is a semi-autobiographical recounting of life in an Italian village...
Ravi Swami
Feb 25, 20238 min read
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"Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles", Dir: Chantal Akerman, 1975
"Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" foreshadows the tone of the film in describing in great detail quotidian banality...
Ravi Swami
Jan 20, 20233 min read
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A trio of black comedies by Bruno Dumont
I only really stumbled upon Bruno Dumont's 2018 film "CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans" while flicking through the films on offer on Mubi...
Ravi Swami
Nov 22, 20226 min read
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"The Wages of Fear", Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953
The plot of the film concerns 4 displaced Europeans stranded in a (fictional) South American "one-horse" town of Las Piedras..
Ravi Swami
Oct 29, 20224 min read
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"An Autumn Tale" / "Conte D'automne", Dir: Éric Rohmer, 1998
"Conte D'automne" (Eng: "An Autumn Tale") marks the final part of Rohmer's themed film cycle "Tales of Four Seasons"..
Ravi Swami
Sep 22, 20223 min read
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Emmanuelle Riva x 3...
Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour" rounds off a trio of films that I've watched starring Emmanuelle Riva
Ravi Swami
Jul 29, 20223 min read
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Trintignant, Alpha to Omega...
Trintignant's penultimate screen appearance was in Michael Haneke's 2012 film "Amour"..
Ravi Swami
Jun 20, 20225 min read
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"The Conformist", Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970
Bernardo Bertolluci's 1970 film "The Conformist, based on a novel of the same title by Alberto Moravia and available to rent on YouTube..
Ravi Swami
May 23, 20227 min read
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"C'eravamo Tanto Amati", Dir: Ettore Scola, 1974
Having discovered the Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli over my lockdown viewing I was curious to seek out other films she has starred in..
Ravi Swami
May 17, 202210 min read
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"Planet Of The Vampires", Dir: Mario Bava, 1965
Mario Bava's 1965 Italian-Spanish film "Planet of The Vampires" seems to have generated a considerable cult following..
Ravi Swami
May 8, 20224 min read
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"Le Plaisir", Dir: Max Ophüls, 1952
The German director Max Ophüls' 1952 film "Le Plaisir" is a trilogy of short stories adapted from the writing of Guy de Maupassant..
Ravi Swami
May 8, 20224 min read
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"Mr Klein", Dir: Joseph Losey, 1976
Continuing a thread of Alain Delon films available in a retrospective collection on Criterion Channel, I watched "Monsieur Klein"..
Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20225 min read
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"Le Samouraï", Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967
The French New Wave's fascination for the American "Film Noir" genre found expression in a number of films by different directors..
Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20223 min read
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"France", Dir: Bruno Dumont, 2021
In "France" she portrays a glamorous news anchor and investigative reporter "France De Meur" with her own show..
Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20224 min read
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