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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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"L'Amour Fou", Dir: Jacques Rivette, 1969
It's been described as a classic of French cinema and Rivette, being a writer for "Cahier's Du Cinema...
Ravi Swami
Dec 17, 20244 min read
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A Bunch of Belmondo's..
With free streamers, very often filled with unauthorised content, it's possible to view those films you've heard about but that aren't...
Ravi Swami
Nov 26, 20244 min read
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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..
Ravi Swami
Mar 12, 20247 min read
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"L'Innocent", Dir: Louis Garrel, 2022
"L'Innocent" (Eng: "The Innocent") by a director I'd never heard of, Louis Garrel, and featuring French Moroccan actor, Roschdy Zem..
Ravi Swami
Jun 1, 20232 min read
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"Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles", Dir: Chantal Akerman, 1975
"Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" foreshadows the tone of the film in describing in great detail quotidian banality...
Ravi Swami
Jan 20, 20233 min read
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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...
Ravi Swami
Nov 22, 20226 min read
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"The Wages of Fear", Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953
The plot of the film concerns 4 displaced Europeans stranded in a (fictional) South American "one-horse" town of Las Piedras..
Ravi Swami
Oct 29, 20224 min read
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"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"..
Ravi Swami
Sep 22, 20223 min read
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Emmanuelle Riva x 3...
Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour" rounds off a trio of films that I've watched starring Emmanuelle Riva
Ravi Swami
Jul 29, 20223 min read
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Trintignant, Alpha to Omega...
Trintignant's penultimate screen appearance was in Michael Haneke's 2012 film "Amour"..
Ravi Swami
Jun 20, 20225 min read
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"Le Plaisir", Dir: Max Ophüls, 1952
The German director Max Ophüls' 1952 film "Le Plaisir" is a trilogy of short stories adapted from the writing of Guy de Maupassant..
Ravi Swami
May 8, 20224 min read
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"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"..
Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20225 min read
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"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..
Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20223 min read
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"France", Dir: Bruno Dumont, 2021
In "France" she portrays a glamorous news anchor and investigative reporter "France De Meur" with her own show..
Ravi Swami
Apr 16, 20224 min read
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"A Tale of Springtime", Dir: Éric Rohmer, 1990
Continuing with his series of films arranged into 4 part anthologies according to a theme,
Éric Rohmer's 1990 film "A Tale of Springtime".
Ravi Swami
Mar 27, 20223 min read
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"Spirits of The Dead", Dir: Vadim, Malle and Fellini, 1968
Produced in 1968, "Spirits of The Dead", (alternately entitled "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"...
Ravi Swami
Mar 18, 20224 min read
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Double Down Delon...1963, 1969
For a long time Alain Delon was a name I associated with the Romanian Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci...
Ravi Swami
Mar 12, 20225 min read
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A Trio of Truffaut, 1957, 1972, 1973
As with many film directors, alongside their most well-known, career-defining films, there are films that I certainly wasn't aware of...
Ravi Swami
Feb 25, 20224 min read
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Surfing the New Wave...Chabrol, Malle and Varda, '58, '63, '65
Surfing The New Wave :
"Le Beau Serge", Claude Chabrol, "The Fire Within", Louis Malle, "Le Bonheur", Agnes Varda.
Ravi Swami
Feb 7, 20225 min read
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A Clutch of Rohmer's...1963-1972
I'm always up for a dose of Eric Rohmer's carefully observed films about the dynamics of relationships that spanned 3 decades..
Ravi Swami
Jan 31, 20224 min read
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