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

"Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" foreshadows the tone of the film in describing in great detail quotidian banality...

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

The plot of the film concerns 4 displaced Europeans stranded in a (fictional) South American "one-horse" town of Las Piedras..

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

Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour" rounds off a trio of films that I've watched starring Emmanuelle Riva

Trintignant's penultimate screen appearance was in Michael Haneke's 2012 film "Amour"..

Bernardo Bertolluci's 1970 film "The Conformist, based on a novel of the same title by Alberto Moravia and available to rent on YouTube..

Having discovered the Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli over my lockdown viewing I was curious to seek out other films she has starred in..

Mario Bava's 1965 Italian-Spanish film "Planet of The Vampires" seems to have generated a considerable cult following..

The German director Max Ophüls' 1952 film "Le Plaisir" is a trilogy of short stories adapted from the writing of Guy de Maupassant..

Continuing a thread of Alain Delon films available in a retrospective collection on Criterion Channel, I watched "Monsieur Klein"..

The French New Wave's fascination for the American "Film Noir" genre found expression in a number of films by different directors..

In "France" she portrays a glamorous news anchor and investigative reporter "France De Meur" with her own show..

Continuing with his series of films arranged into 4 part anthologies according to a theme, Éric Rohmer's 1990 film "A Tale of Springtime".

Produced in 1968, "Spirits of The Dead", (alternately entitled "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"...

For a long time Alain Delon was a name I associated with the Romanian Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci...

"Il Bell'Antonio" (Eng: "Handsome Antonio") is included in a line-up of films either written /adapted by or directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini.

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

Vitti was able to demonstrate her range as an actress in the preceding trilogy and her role in "The Red Desert" is no exception..