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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
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
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
Mar 18, 20224 min read
"Spirits of The Dead", Dir: Vadim, Malle and Fellini, 1968
Produced in 1968, "Spirits of The Dead", (alternately entitled "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"...
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Ravi Swami
Mar 5, 20225 min read
"Il Bell'Antonio", Dir: Mauro Bolognini, 1960
"Il Bell'Antonio" (Eng: "Handsome Antonio") is included in a line-up of films either written /adapted by or directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini.
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Ravi Swami
Jan 31, 20224 min read
"Love In The City", Dir's: Various (Fellini, Antonioni), 1953
"Love In The City" (Italian: "Amore in Citta") uses a similar faux-documentary style broken down into chapters...
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Ravi Swami
Sep 5, 20213 min read
"Lucky To Be A Woman", Dir: Alessandro Blasetti, 1956
However, this is really Sophia Loren's film and she is placed center-stage as a street smart young woman...
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Ravi Swami
Jul 3, 20216 min read
"Boccaccio 70", Dir: Fellini, De Sica, Visconti, Monicelli, 1962- Part#2
As promised in Part #1 of a review of "Boccaccio 70", and since I felt each film in the portmanteau deserved a separate review..
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Ravi Swami
Jun 29, 20214 min read
"Boccaccio 70", Dir: Fellini, De Sica, Visconti, Monicelli, 1962- Part#1
With a running time of over 3 hours, I would normally have given "Boccaccio 70" a wide berth..
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Ravi Swami
May 23, 20219 min read
"Les Amants", Dir: Louis Malle, 1958 & "Adua and Her Friends", Dir: Antonio Pietrangeli, 1960
There's nothing particularly thematic to connect these two films that I watched recently, one on BFI Player and the other via Amazon Prime..
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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
Jan 10, 20213 min read
"The Basilisks", Dir: Lina Wertmüller, 1963
First films are developing into a bit of a trend here, though not intentionally - "The Basilisks" directed by Lina Wertmüller
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Ravi Swami
Dec 2, 20204 min read
Three Fellini's, Dir Federico Fellini, 1954-1967
It's possibly a bit unfair to combine 3 films of Federico Fellini, spanning a period of 14 years, into a single post..
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Ravi Swami
Nov 19, 20202 min read
"I Vitteloni" - Dir: Federico Fellini, 1953
"I Vitelloni" mines similar territory to, and anticipates, Luchino Visconti's 1960 "Rocco and His Brothers"
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Ravi Swami
Nov 5, 20203 min read
"Montparnasse 19" - Dir:Jacques Becker, 1958
"Montparnasse 19" is rather romanticized depiction of the life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani
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Ravi Swami
Oct 20, 20204 min read
"81/2", Dir: Federico Fellini, 1963
Federico Fellini's "81/2", (1963) is generally considered to be a high point in the directors' work
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Ravi Swami
Jul 8, 20202 min read
"La Dolce Vita"- Dir: Fedrico Fellini - 1960
What I can say is that watching these films has been a journey of discovery with surprises along the way.
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