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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
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
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
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
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 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
Jun 1, 20232 min read
"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..
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Ravi Swami
Feb 25, 20238 min read
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...
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Ravi Swami
Jan 20, 20233 min read
"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...
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Ravi Swami
Nov 22, 20226 min read
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...
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Ravi Swami
Oct 29, 20224 min read
"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..
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Ravi Swami
Sep 22, 20223 min read
"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"..
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Ravi Swami
Jul 29, 20223 min read
Emmanuelle Riva x 3...
Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour" rounds off a trio of films that I've watched starring Emmanuelle Riva
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Ravi Swami
Jun 20, 20225 min read
Trintignant, Alpha to Omega...
Trintignant's penultimate screen appearance was in Michael Haneke's 2012 film "Amour"..
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Ravi Swami
May 23, 20227 min read
"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..
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Ravi Swami
May 17, 202210 min read
"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..
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Ravi Swami
May 8, 20224 min read
"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..
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Ravi Swami
May 8, 20224 min read
"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..
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Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20225 min read
"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"..
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Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20223 min read
"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..
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Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20224 min read
"France", Dir: Bruno Dumont, 2021
In "France" she portrays a glamorous news anchor and investigative reporter "France De Meur" with her own show..
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