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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
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
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 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 26, 20216 min read
"Rififi", "Bob Le Flambeur", "Big Deal On Madonna St", Dir: Dassin, Melville, Monicelli, '55,'56,'58
As per usual, I watched these three films - all first-time viewings - out of chronological order...
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Ravi Swami
Jul 13, 20214 min read
"Il Sorpasso", Dir: Dino Risi, 1962
I stumbled on this film by chance and was instantly hooked by the preview featuring two men in an open-topped sports car..
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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 25, 20217 min read
"Marriage Italian Style" / "Matrimonia All'italiana", Dir: Vittorio De Sica, 1964
I've reviewed Pietro Germi's "Divorce Italian Style" in an earlier post and it makes sense to check out "Marriage Italian Style"..
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Ravi Swami
Jun 12, 20217 min read
"March's Child" / "Nata Di Marzo", Dir: Antonio Pietrangeli, 1956
Anyone stumbling on my lockdown cinema blog will be immediately aware of the film posters that feature prominently...
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Ravi Swami
Jun 4, 20217 min read
"Cinema Paradiso", Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988
Giuseppe Tornatore's much lauded and garlanded film about a love affair with cinema, "Cinema Paradiso"..
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Ravi Swami
May 29, 20216 min read
"La Visita" / "The Visit", Dir: Antonio Pietrangeli, 1963
"La Visita" stars Sandra Milo as "Pina" - by this point a regular in Pietrangelo's films - with the French actor François Périer as "Adolfo"
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Ravi Swami
May 29, 20213 min read
"The Bachelor"/ "Lo Scapolo", Dir: Antonio Pietrangeli, 1955
I came across his 1955 "Commedia All'Italiana" film starring Alberto Sordi, an actor most associated with the genre...
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Ravi Swami
May 19, 20213 min read
"The Magnificent Cuckold", Dir: Antonio Pietrangeli, 1964
It's probably fair to say that I've become a little addicted to "Commedia Al'Italiana" as I discover the vast output of the genre..
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