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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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"Le Sauvage" / "Call Me Savage", Dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1975
Deneuve plays a French woman who makes a bolt for freedom on the verge of marrying a rich Italian playboy
Ravi Swami
Nov 14, 20204 min read
"Lucky Grandma", Dir: Sasie Sealy, 2019
"Lucky Grandma" is a black comedy about a recently widowed Chinese woman living in New York..
Ravi Swami
Nov 14, 20202 min read
"Gamera 2- Attack of Legion", Dir: Shusuke Kaneko, 1996
30-odd years on from the original 'Gamera" film that introduced Japanese and later, world, audiences, to the giant jet-propelled amphibian..
Ravi Swami
Nov 12, 20203 min read
"Montparnasse 19" - Dir:Jacques Becker, 1958
"Montparnasse 19" is rather romanticized depiction of the life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani
Ravi Swami
Nov 5, 20203 min read
"Shozo, A Cat & Two Women", Dir: Shiro Toyoda, 1956
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
Ravi Swami
Oct 28, 20203 min read
"Le Trou", Dir:Jacques Becker, 1960
...one of the best jail-breakout films ever...
Ravi Swami
Oct 26, 20203 min read
"Les Creatures" - Dir: Agnes Varda, 1966
It's described as being a science-fiction film though there are no clues going forward at the outset..
Ravi Swami
Oct 23, 20205 min read
"81/2", Dir: Federico Fellini, 1963
Federico Fellini's "81/2", (1963) is generally considered to be a high point in the directors' work
Ravi Swami
Oct 20, 20204 min read
"Jacquot De Nantes", Dir: Agnes Varda, 1991
I think I was a fan of Jacques Demy's work before I even knew who he was
Ravi Swami
Oct 14, 20204 min read
Cahiers Carry On..."Carry On Up The Khyber", Dir:Gerald Thomas, 1968
essentially sending it up as a fictitious article in the French film criticism magazine "Cahiers Du Cinema"
Ravi Swami
Oct 12, 20203 min read
"Rocco & His Brothers", Dir:Luchino Visconti, 1960
I'd heard of Luchino Visconti before but had never actually watched any of his films and "Rocco & His Brothers"...
Ravi Swami
Oct 12, 20203 min read
"War of The Gargantuas", Dir:Ishiro Honda, 1966
The success of Japanese "Kaiju", or giant monsters-on-the-loose films of the 1960's led to the emergence of two giants of the genre, Toho...
Ravi Swami
Oct 11, 20204 min read
"Playtime" - Dir:Jacques Tati, 1967
"Playtime" - directed by Jacques Tati and his last film because it went massively over-budget to the tune of 14.5 million francs..
Ravi Swami
Oct 7, 20202 min read
"Bay of Angels" - Dir:Jacques Demy, 1963
I'll make no bones about the fact that I'm a huge fan of Jacques Demy's films..
Ravi Swami
Oct 2, 20203 min read
Go To Hell Bastards!!...Dir: Seijun Suzuki, 1963
"Go to Hell Bastards!" or to give it its full title "Detective Bureau 2-3, Go To Hell Bastards!"..
Ravi Swami
Oct 2, 20203 min read
"Gamera Super Monster" - Dir: Noriaki Yuasa, 1980
A big, actually giant, monster film about a giant turtle, and a jet-propelled turtle at that, requires a suitably big poster image, right ..
Ravi Swami
Sep 20, 20204 min read
"Alphaville", Dir :Jean Luc Godard, 1965
O.K - I couldn't stay away from Godard and no appraisal of his early work is complete without seeing "Alphaville"..
Ravi Swami
Sep 19, 20203 min read
Oh Godard..."Pierrot Le Fou", Dir: Jean Luc Godard, 1965
I'd been warned off dipping into Godard by various friends and colleagues...
Ravi Swami
Sep 17, 20204 min read
"Les Yeux Sans Visage" Dir: Georges Franju, 1960
What leads you to watch certain films can vary from person to person, it might be a genre choice, or following a particular film movement.
Ravi Swami
Aug 28, 20204 min read
"Inflatable Sex Doll of The Wastelands", Dir: Atsushi Yamatoya, 1967
And if the plot suddenly sounds vaguely familiar, you would be forgiven if the Mike Hodge film "Get Carter", made half a decade later..
Ravi Swami
Aug 21, 20202 min read
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