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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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"The Swimmer", Dir: Frank Perry, 1968
Reviews of the film at the time of its release were divided between those who were completely bewildered by the plot...
Ravi Swami
Jan 11, 20247 min read
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"Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan", Dir: Chor Yuen, 1972
Once you get past the salacious details, at the core of the plot is a story about young women , usually from poor rural communities...
Ravi Swami
Dec 11, 20234 min read
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"Goke - The Body Snatcher From Hell", Dir: Hajime Sato, 1968
Hajime Sato's 1968 chiller "Goke - The Body Snatcher From Hell" or "Vampire Gokemidoro" must surely be one of the oddest additions to...
Ravi Swami
Oct 7, 20233 min read
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"La Belle Noiseuse" - Dir: Jacques Rivette, 1991
Could Jacques Rivette's 1991 film be the best film ever, possibly the *only* film ever on the process of drawing from life?....possibly....
Ravi Swami
Aug 13, 20235 min read
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"Ramayana - The Legend of Prince Rama", Dir: Yugo Sako, Ram Mohan, Koichi Sasaki, 1992
The long-awaited 4K remaster and restoration of the "Ramayana - The Legend of Prince Rama", animated feature film (123 min)...
Ravi Swami
Jun 7, 20234 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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"Caltiki - The Immortal Monster", dir: Riccardo Freda, 1959
The plot involves a group of explorers of a Mayan temple complex where they awaken the "Caltiki" of the title
Ravi Swami
May 30, 20232 min read
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"Tokyo Drifter" dir: Seijun Suzuki, 1966
The Criterion Collection, are currently hosting a collection of the films directed by Japanese director Seijun Suzuki
Ravi Swami
May 30, 20233 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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The War In Space, Dir: Jun Fukuda, 1977
If I were to sum up this film in a single line it would go something like "Space Romans from Venus attack the Earth...
Ravi Swami
Jul 27, 20223 min read
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"Princess From The Moon", Dir: Kon Ichikawa, 1987
The plot of the film is based on "The Tale of The Bamboo Cutter", a widely-known and popular tale purportedly based on real events...
Ravi Swami
Jul 1, 20225 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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"Cruel Gun Story", Dir: Takumi Furukawa, 1964
"Cruel Gun Story" added another title to Japanese Studio Nikkatsu's list of "Japanese Noir" set in the seedy and violent underworld..
Ravi Swami
May 16, 20223 min read
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