The little white attic

If you’re familiar with Kieslowski’s career, you know there are 2 Kieslowskis: the Polish Kieslowski—realistic, social/political, grey, ung...

I’m reading Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies , which I think is a very good and enjoyable book, especially for aspiring film directors.  Look a...

This is my list of favourite underrated films.  To explain, I don’t mention films such as Cries and Whispers —generally speaking, most peop...

In Masters of Cinema: Federico Fellini , Angel Quintana writes about I vitelloni :  “… A voice-over strengthens the film’s links with auto...

After Ingmar Bergman and Orson Welles, I’m now reading about Federico Fellini by Angel Quintana, in the Masters of Cinema series of Cahiers...

Which is different from my list of favourite films.  Persona (1966), Wild Strawberries (1957), Hour of the Wolf (1968), and Cries and Whi...

The 50s:  http://thelittlewhiteattic.blogspot.com/2017/08/my-favourite-films-from-1950s.html The 60s:  http://thelittlewhiteattic.blogspot....

Persona by Ingmar Bergman  Citizen Kane by Orson Welles  Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini  Yojimbo  & Sanjuro by Akira Kuros...

For the 1950s:  http://thelittlewhiteattic.blogspot.com/2017/08/my-favourite-films-from-1950s.html The Bad Sleep Well (1960) by Akira Kuro...

Following the previous post, here’s a list of my 3 favourite films of some directors. I also note how many of the directors’ films I’ve watc...

Some of these are not great, some of these I can’t stand, but these are the most inventive/ unusual/ unconventional films I’ve ever seen—fil...

(Note that this is a list of favourites, so some great films may be absent, such as Rashomon or Tokyo Story ).  (A photo of Fellini and B...

My favourite film critic, whom I always turn to after watching a film, is Roger Ebert. Even though I don’t always agree with him, I share wi...

Having just watched again La Dolce Vita and Amarcord , I’m thinking about Fellini’s detractors. He’s overrated, they say, as though it meant...

Love and Death ? Watch Bergman’s The Seventh Seal instead.  Stardust Memories ? Watch Fellini’s 8 ½ instead.  A Midsummer’s Night Sex Co...

1/ After the 2nd viewing of Persona , I’m more inclined to go with the literal interpretation—a story between 2 women, as what we see on t...