I watched Marco Ferrari's 1973 film "La Grande Bouffe" (Eng: "The Blow-Out", though it translates more accurately as "The Big Feast")..

"Visions Of Eight" on Criterion Channel, is a film made up of 8 very individual films by noted directors.

I stumbled on this film by chance and was instantly hooked by the preview featuring two men in an open-topped sports car..

J’ai eu le grand plaisir de voir le dernier chef-d’œuvre cinématographique de M.Gerald Thomas, "Carry On Up The Khyber"..

That said, I watched "Il Bidone" - a film that could best be described as the least "Fellini-esque" of his work...

"Stranger From Venus" represents my occasional deep dive into "B" movies that can turn up unexpectedly on streamings services..

Outside of Italy, Sophia Loren tends to be more well-known for a number of blousy, big-budget Hollywood films..

As usual I'm not taking much notice of the intended sequence of Éric Rohmer's films in his "Comedies & Proverbs" series...

I was expecting a comic romp along the lines of "Seduced and Abandoned"..

The last of Cocteau's "Orphic Trilogy" and following on from "Orpheus" which was preceded by two decades with "The Blood of a Poet"..

And if that sounds too close to home during the pandemic, any similarities to real events are purely serendipitous..

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..

The films of Robert Bresson came highly recommend by a friend..

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.

The film is a remake of an earlier film directed by Louis Feuillade, an early 20th Century filmmaker..

As a flashback to earlier in lockdown, I'm re-visiting films that featured as a passing mention in previous blog posts

Mubi Channel, hosted by AppleTV in the UK contains an interesting line-up of documentaries...

I'd been meaning to avoid watching "Seduced and Abandoned", directed by Piero Germi...

...and details the investigation of a murder of a wealthy woman, by her friend the police inspector Ciccio Ingravalo..

Super-smooth Italian heartthrob Marcello Mastroianni plays "Ferdinando Cefalù", the son of an impoverished Sicilian nobleman..