All three films share the fact that they were either written by or directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, as frequent collaborations..

MUBI Channel currently have a selection of films by the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki..

"Amarcord" roughly translates as "I remember" and the film is a semi-autobiographical recounting of life in an Italian village...

Bernardo Bertolluci's 1970 film "The Conformist, based on a novel of the same title by Alberto Moravia and available to rent on YouTube..

Having discovered the Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli over my lockdown viewing I was curious to seek out other films she has starred in..

The German director Max Ophüls' 1952 film "Le Plaisir" is a trilogy of short stories adapted from the writing of Guy de Maupassant..

Continuing with his series of films arranged into 4 part anthologies according to a theme, Éric Rohmer's 1990 film "A Tale of Springtime".

As with many film directors, alongside their most well-known, career-defining films, there are films that I certainly wasn't aware of...

Vitti was able to demonstrate her range as an actress in the preceding trilogy and her role in "The Red Desert" is no exception..

Surfing The New Wave : "Le Beau Serge", Claude Chabrol, "The Fire Within", Louis Malle, "Le Bonheur", Agnes Varda.

Jacques Demy's 1982 film "Une Chambre En Ville" (Eng: "A Room In The Town") qualifies it to be "Late Demy"...

I discovered that "Donkey Skin" was as much of a commercial success as Demy's earlier films...

Love them or hate them, biopics can vary enormously when they invariably focus on cultural "icons"...

"La Haine" came up as highly recommended on Apple+ as a breakthrough film for its' director, Mathieu Kassovitz, and for the subject matter..

Watching "Tove", a biopic on a formative part of the life of the children's author and creator of the "Moomins", Tove Jansson..