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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
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
May 13, 20214 min read
"Touchez Pas Au Grisbi", Dir: Jacques Becker, 1954
All becomes a little clearer with the English title of "Hands Off The Loot", which is a loose translation...
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Ravi Swami
Apr 30, 20217 min read
"Cairo Station", Dir: Youssef Chahine, 1958
Youssef Chahine's "Cairo Station" could be described as a film noir since it involves a murder..
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Ravi Swami
Apr 12, 20213 min read
A Duo of Rohmer Shorts, 1962, 1964
Currently curated on Criterion Channel is a series of early formative Éric Rohmer shorts and I find myself irresistibly drawn to his films..
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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
Mar 7, 20214 min read
"The Testament of Orpheus", Dir: Jean Cocteau, 1960
The last of Cocteau's "Orphic Trilogy" and following on from "Orpheus" which was preceded by two decades with "The Blood of a Poet"..
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Ravi Swami
Feb 23, 20213 min read
"Orpheus" - Dir: Jean Cocteau, 1950
Based on the Greek myth of Orpheus, the film is a contemporary (to the early 1950's) re-telling of the story of the poet/musician Orpheus..
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Ravi Swami
Feb 18, 20213 min read
"Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne", Dir: Robert Bresson, 1945
The films of Robert Bresson came highly recommend by a friend..
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Ravi Swami
Feb 13, 20215 min read
"Judex", Dir: Georges Franju, 1963
The film is a remake of an earlier film directed by Louis Feuillade, an early 20th Century filmmaker..
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Ravi Swami
Feb 7, 20214 min read
"Model Shop", Dir: Jacques Demy, 1969.
As a flashback to earlier in lockdown, I'm re-visiting films that featured as a passing mention in previous blog posts
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Ravi Swami
Feb 5, 20214 min read
Films about Filming - 3 documentaries, 1974, 1975 and 2014
Mubi Channel, hosted by AppleTV in the UK contains an interesting line-up of documentaries...
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Ravi Swami
Jan 17, 20215 min read
"I Knew Her Well", Dir: Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965
It's been rare so far in my lockdown viewing to say that I've stumbled on a real find..
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Ravi Swami
Jan 14, 20213 min read
Two more Rohmers...Dir: Eric Rohmer, 1981 & 1983
Two films directed by Eric Rohmer during an especially prolific period of the 1980's fall within his series "Comedies & Proverbs"
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Ravi Swami
Jan 8, 20213 min read
Two Sellers and a Rohmer...1951, 1961, 2018
I thought I'd check out some documentaries, which are of equal interest to me compared to fictional narrative films.
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Ravi Swami
Jan 3, 20217 min read
A Duo of Eric Rohmer - 1969 and 1987
Eric Rohmer made films at the tail-end of the French New Wave movement although he had been a frequent contributor to "Cahier Du Cinema"
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Ravi Swami
Dec 14, 20204 min read
"Plein Soleil", Dir: René Clément, 1960
René Clément's 1960 adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel "The Talented Mr Ripley" was recommended by a friend..
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Ravi Swami
Dec 7, 20204 min read
"Two or Three Things I Know About Her", Dir: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
I approached Jean-Luc Godard's 1966 film "Two or Three Things I Know About Her" with a degree of trepidation..
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Ravi Swami
Dec 5, 20203 min read
"CE3K" - Dir: Steven Spielberg, 1977
I'm breaking my self-imposed rule of films viewed over lockdown that I personally haven't seen before..
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Ravi Swami
Nov 26, 20203 min read
"Bande à part", dir: Jean-Luc Godard, 1964
On the face of it, "Bande à part" is a typical Godard "exercise in style"...
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Ravi Swami
Nov 18, 20202 min read
"Lovers & Lollipops", Dir: Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin, 1956
OK, hands up to the fact that some of my choices are a bit "left field" and random but this caught my eye for a number of reasons.
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