All three films share the fact that they were either written by or directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, as frequent collaborations..

"L'Innocent" (Eng: "The Innocent") by a director I'd never heard of, Louis Garrel, and featuring French Moroccan actor, Roschdy Zem..

"Amarcord" roughly translates as "I remember" and the film is a semi-autobiographical recounting of life in an Italian village...

I only really stumbled upon Bruno Dumont's 2018 film "CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans" while flicking through the films on offer on Mubi...

"Conte D'automne" (Eng: "An Autumn Tale") marks the final part of Rohmer's themed film cycle "Tales of Four Seasons"..

As a Western "cross-over" film, in this case co-produced by former tennis champion Ashok Amritraj and written by Nico Mastorakis..

As with many film directors, alongside their most well-known, career-defining films, there are films that I certainly wasn't aware of...

It also depends on watching a film whose effect might linger until the next morning, as is the case "Harold & Maud"...

Arrow's title is "100 Spook Stories" (Japanese: Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari) and it is variously titled depending upon the region..

Launched with the hugely successful "Pollyanna", Mills soon found herself cast with top billing in a slew of Disney films..

Zazie (Catherine Demongeot) herself is a bit of a disfunctional tearaway who wastes no time in trying to explore Paris herself...

However, this is really Sophia Loren's film and she is placed center-stage as a street smart young woman...

I watched Marco Ferrari's 1973 film "La Grande Bouffe" (Eng: "The Blow-Out", though it translates more accurately as "The Big Feast")..

The film opens with shots of modernist buildings in New York as a woman (Ursula Andress in a brown wig) is being pursued...

I stumbled on this film by chance and was instantly hooked by the preview featuring two men in an open-topped sports car..

As promised in Part #1 of a review of "Boccaccio 70", and since I felt each film in the portmanteau deserved a separate review..

Giuseppe Tornatore's much lauded and garlanded film about a love affair with cinema, "Cinema Paradiso"..

"La Visita" stars Sandra Milo as "Pina" - by this point a regular in Pietrangelo's films - with the French actor François Périer as "Adolfo"

I came across his 1955 "Commedia All'Italiana" film starring Alberto Sordi, an actor most associated with the genre...

This time Sandrelli is cast as "Roberta", a young go-getter from a wealthy family with interests in agriculture and real estate...