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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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"Ieri Oggi Domani", Dir: Vittorio De Sica, 1963
Outside of Italy, Sophia Loren tends to be more well-known for a number of blousy, big-budget Hollywood films..
Ravi Swami
Mar 23, 20216 min read
"Bombay Rose", Dir: Gitanjali Rao, 2019
Indian animation director Gitanjali Rao's feature animated film debut "Bombay Rose", a film that has had a long gestation period..
Ravi Swami
Mar 22, 20214 min read
"The Atomic Submarine", Dir: Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1959
I knew about the film long before (I'm talking several decades) I actually had an opportunity to watch it...
Ravi Swami
Mar 19, 20214 min read
"The Green Ray", Dir: Éric Rohmer, 1986
As usual I'm not taking much notice of the intended sequence of Éric Rohmer's films in his "Comedies & Proverbs" series...
Ravi Swami
Mar 16, 20213 min read
"Alfredo Alfredo", Dir: Pietro Germi, 1972
I was expecting a comic romp along the lines of "Seduced and Abandoned"..
Ravi Swami
Mar 13, 20215 min read
"The Testament of Orpheus", Dir: Jean Cocteau, 1960
The last of Cocteau's "Orphic Trilogy" and following on from "Orpheus" which was preceded by two decades with "The Blood of a Poet"..
Ravi Swami
Mar 7, 20214 min read
"The Masque of The Red Death", Dir: Roger Corman, 1964
And if that sounds too close to home during the pandemic, any similarities to real events are purely serendipitous..
Ravi Swami
Mar 2, 20212 min read
"Orpheus" - Dir: Jean Cocteau, 1950
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..
Ravi Swami
Feb 23, 20213 min read
"Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne", Dir: Robert Bresson, 1945
The films of Robert Bresson came highly recommend by a friend..
Ravi Swami
Feb 18, 20213 min read
"Horror Express", Dir: Eugenio "Gene" Martin, 1972
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.
Ravi Swami
Feb 15, 20213 min read
"Judex", Dir: Georges Franju, 1963
The film is a remake of an earlier film directed by Louis Feuillade, an early 20th Century filmmaker..
Ravi Swami
Feb 13, 20215 min read
"Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain", Dir:Tsui Hark, 1983
"Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain", directed by Tsui Hark has been on my watchlist for some time..
Ravi Swami
Feb 10, 20213 min read
"Model Shop", Dir: Jacques Demy, 1969.
As a flashback to earlier in lockdown, I'm re-visiting films that featured as a passing mention in previous blog posts
Ravi Swami
Feb 7, 20214 min read
Films about Filming - 3 documentaries, 1974, 1975 and 2014
Mubi Channel, hosted by AppleTV in the UK contains an interesting line-up of documentaries...
Ravi Swami
Feb 5, 20214 min read
"Seduced and Abandoned", Dir: Pietro Germi, 1964
I'd been meaning to avoid watching "Seduced and Abandoned", directed by Piero Germi...
Ravi Swami
Jan 31, 20212 min read
"Un Maledetto Imbroglio", Dir: Pietro Germi, 1959
...and details the investigation of a murder of a wealthy woman, by her friend the police inspector Ciccio Ingravalo..
Ravi Swami
Jan 26, 20213 min read
"Divorce Italian Style"/"Divorzio Al La Italiana", Dir: Pietro Germi, 1961
Super-smooth Italian heartthrob Marcello Mastroianni plays "Ferdinando Cefalù", the son of an impoverished Sicilian nobleman..
Ravi Swami
Jan 23, 20214 min read
"I Knew Her Well", Dir: Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965
It's been rare so far in my lockdown viewing to say that I've stumbled on a real find..
Ravi Swami
Jan 17, 20215 min read
Two more Rohmers...Dir: Eric Rohmer, 1981 & 1983
Two films directed by Eric Rohmer during an especially prolific period of the 1980's fall within his series "Comedies & Proverbs"
Ravi Swami
Jan 14, 20213 min read
"Tumbbad", Dir: Anand Gandhi & Rahi Anil Barve, 2018
The plot revolves around a hidden treasure in a deserted and decaying mansion..
Ravi Swami
Jan 13, 20214 min read
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