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...
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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 22, 20223 min read
"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"..
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Ravi Swami
Jun 20, 20225 min read
Trintignant, Alpha to Omega...
Trintignant's penultimate screen appearance was in Michael Haneke's 2012 film "Amour"..
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Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20225 min read
"Mr Klein", Dir: Joseph Losey, 1976
Continuing a thread of Alain Delon films available in a retrospective collection on Criterion Channel, I watched "Monsieur Klein"..
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Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20223 min read
"Le Samouraï", Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967
The French New Wave's fascination for the American "Film Noir" genre found expression in a number of films by different directors..
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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 12, 20225 min read
Double Down Delon...1963, 1969
For a long time Alain Delon was a name I associated with the Romanian Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci...
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Ravi Swami
Oct 23, 20216 min read
"Subway" Dir: Luc Besson, 1985
The film opens with a furious breakneck car chase through Paris as Fred is being pursued by the gangster's henchmen..
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Ravi Swami
Jul 30, 20215 min read
"La Grande Bouffe", Dir: Marco Ferreri, 1973
I watched Marco Ferrari's 1973 film "La Grande Bouffe" (Eng: "The Blow-Out", though it translates more accurately as "The Big Feast")..
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Ravi Swami
Jul 14, 20212 min read
"Visions of Eight", Dir: Various, 1972
"Visions Of Eight" on Criterion Channel, is a film made up of 8 very individual films by noted directors.
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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
Apr 1, 20212 min read
"Continuez Sur Le Khyber", Dir: Gerald Thomas, 1968
J’ai eu le grand plaisir de voir le dernier chef-d’œuvre cinématographique de M.Gerald Thomas, "Carry On Up The Khyber"..
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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
Mar 25, 20214 min read
"Stranger From Venus", Dir: Burt Balaban, 1954
"Stranger From Venus" represents my occasional deep dive into "B" movies that can turn up unexpectedly on streamings services..
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Ravi Swami
Mar 23, 20216 min read
"Ieri Oggi Domani", Dir: Vittorio De Sica, 1963
Outside of Italy, Sophia Loren tends to be more well-known for a number of blousy, big-budget Hollywood films..
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Ravi Swami
Mar 16, 20213 min read
"The Green Ray", Dir: Éric Rohmer, 1986
As usual I'm not taking much notice of the intended sequence of Éric Rohmer's films in his "Comedies & Proverbs" series...
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Ravi Swami
Mar 13, 20215 min read
"Alfredo Alfredo", Dir: Pietro Germi, 1972
I was expecting a comic romp along the lines of "Seduced and Abandoned"..
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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
Mar 2, 20212 min read
"The Masque of The Red Death", Dir: Roger Corman, 1964
And if that sounds too close to home during the pandemic, any similarities to real events are purely serendipitous..
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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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