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..

The films of Robert Bresson came highly recommend by a friend..

Despite not being huge fan of horror films, I do have a soft-spot for the type of often-low budget horror films produced in the late 1970's.

The film is a remake of an earlier film directed by Louis Feuillade, an early 20th Century filmmaker..

"Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain", directed by Tsui Hark has been on my watchlist for some time..

As a flashback to earlier in lockdown, I'm re-visiting films that featured as a passing mention in previous blog posts

Mubi Channel, hosted by AppleTV in the UK contains an interesting line-up of documentaries...

I'd been meaning to avoid watching "Seduced and Abandoned", directed by Piero Germi...

...and details the investigation of a murder of a wealthy woman, by her friend the police inspector Ciccio Ingravalo..

Super-smooth Italian heartthrob Marcello Mastroianni plays "Ferdinando Cefalù", the son of an impoverished Sicilian nobleman..

It's been rare so far in my lockdown viewing to say that I've stumbled on a real find..

Two films directed by Eric Rohmer during an especially prolific period of the 1980's fall within his series "Comedies & Proverbs"

The plot revolves around a hidden treasure in a deserted and decaying mansion..

First films are developing into a bit of a trend here, though not intentionally - "The Basilisks" directed by Lina Wertmüller

Call anything "The Lost Movie" and I'm instantly reeled in...

I thought I'd check out some documentaries, which are of equal interest to me compared to fictional narrative films.

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"

I was in two minds about writing a review of Xavier Dolan's rather dark 2016 film, "It's Only The End Of The World".

The one thing in common with all the films that I've been watching and reviewing over the course of the 2020 lockdown is that, for the mo...

Japanese cinema of the 60's offers a vast selection of titles and subjects beyond the more familiar works known in the West