I knew of Claude Chabrol as a director of the French New Wave but had not watched any of his films upon to this point...

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

All becomes a little clearer with the English title of "Hands Off The Loot", which is a loose translation...

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

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

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..

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...

Two films directed by Eric Rohmer during an especially prolific period of the 1980's fall within his series "Comedies & Proverbs"

I thought I'd check out some documentaries, which are of equal interest to me compared to fictional narrative films.

Eric Rohmer made films at the tail-end of the French New Wave movement although he had been a frequent contributor to "Cahier Du Cinema"

I was in two minds about writing a review of Xavier Dolan's rather dark 2016 film, "It's Only The End Of The World".

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..

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

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..