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...?

Ravi Swami

Feb 7, 20225 min read

Surfing the New Wave...Chabrol, Malle and Varda, '58, '63, '65

Surfing The New Wave : "Le Beau Serge", Claude Chabrol, "The Fire Within", Louis Malle, "Le Bonheur", Agnes Varda.

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..

Ravi Swami

Nov 28, 20205 min read

"Eve" / "Eva", Dir: Joseph Losey, 1962

Once again, my reason for choosing Joseph Losey's adaptation of a James Hadley Chase novel entitled "Eve" was Jeanne Moreau.

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

Ravi Swami

Oct 2, 20203 min read

"Bay of Angels" - Dir:Jacques Demy, 1963

I'll make no bones about the fact that I'm a huge fan of Jacques Demy's films..

Ravi Swami

Aug 7, 20202 min read

"Elevator to the Gallows", Dir: Louis Malle, 1958

Visually, it could be argued that if Hollywood benefitted from European sensibilities like Expressionism, then in this film it had come home

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