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...

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

Although I work in animation I have to admit to being late to the table with "Loving Vincent", which was released in 2017

René Clément's 1960 adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel "The Talented Mr Ripley" was recommended by a friend..

I approached Jean-Luc Godard's 1966 film "Two or Three Things I Know About Her" with a degree of trepidation..

I'm breaking my self-imposed rule of films viewed over lockdown that I personally haven't seen before..

It's possibly a bit unfair to combine 3 films of Federico Fellini, spanning a period of 14 years, into a single post..

The plot combines elements of all these films with the added ingredient of fears about the nuclear age...

Once again, my reason for choosing Joseph Losey's adaptation of a James Hadley Chase novel entitled "Eve" was Jeanne Moreau.

Recommendations always help in making choices and in the case of "The Hit", directed by Stephen Frears in 1984 it came from a friend..

On the face of it, "Bande à part" is a typical Godard "exercise in style"...

"2 Days, One Night", directed by the Dardennes brothers is available to view on MUBI channel..

"I Vitelloni" mines similar territory to, and anticipates, Luchino Visconti's 1960 "Rocco and His Brothers"

OK, hands up to the fact that some of my choices are a bit "left field" and random but this caught my eye for a number of reasons.

"Repulsion" is one such film where it's reputation almost overshadows what the film is actually about..

Deneuve plays a French woman who makes a bolt for freedom on the verge of marrying a rich Italian playboy

"Lucky Grandma" is a black comedy about a recently widowed Chinese woman living in New York..

30-odd years on from the original 'Gamera" film that introduced Japanese and later, world, audiences, to the giant jet-propelled amphibian..

"Montparnasse 19" is rather romanticized depiction of the life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani

Based on a novel, Toyoda's film is, on the face of it, a domestic drama that could almost be dismissed as a soap opera