Phuong Le

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My Entire Life May Have Been Leading Up to This: Wong Kar Wai on Blossoms Shanghai Blossoms Shanghai, the latest sensation from Wong Kar Wai, enraptures with its spellbinding blend of intrigue, romance, and rivalry. As we celebrate the launch of this breathtaking series, the legenda...

Enjoyed this conversation between @phuonghhle.com and Wong Kar Wai
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Another fantastic double bill w/ SUPAKINO

Here’s my poster for the screening of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967).

Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & film critic @phuonghhle.com at the CLOSE-UP CENTRE on SAT 20 SEP 2025

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This Saturday @ Close-Up Cinema: A Bombay Mix double bill of BABUL/FATHER'S HOUSE (S.U. Sunny, 1950) and OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE (Jack Clayton, 1967). I'm very excited to join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social for post-screening conversations on these two rarely screened gems. Book here! tinyurl.com/mtv4mbw2

🏠 The Parental Home 🏡

Join me and my special guest, film critic @phuonghhle.com, for a double bill of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967) at Close-Up Film Centre on SAT 20 SEP 2025

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Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social

Bombay Mix is back! A new season of double bills at Close-Up Film Centre on 13, 20 & 27 Sep 2025 with Dr. Kulraj Phullar, @phuonghhle.com & @bressonian.bsky.social

🇮🇳 MOTHER INDIA + 🇨🇺 I AM CUBA

🏠 BABUL + 🏡 OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE

📷 JAANE BHI DO YAARO + 📸 BLOW-UP

Info: supakino.com/events

Select Japan Presents All About Lily Chou-Chou A Film by Shunji Iwai + Zoom Q&A with Shunji Iwai

In the Nguyen Kitchen + Q&A with director Stéphane Ly-Cuong and star Clotilde Chevalier, moderated by Phuong Le

A double Q&A Saturday in London

This is happening tomorrow! Check out the trailer for IN THE NGUYEN KITCHEN and my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for @theguardian.com here www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

I adore Stéphane Ly-Cuong's charming musical comedy IN THE NGUYEN KITCHEN, a rare chance to see the Vietnamese-French diaspora portrayed with so much heart and soul. Book here for a screening and a filmmaker Q&A this Saturday at Ciné Lumière, moderated by me! tinyurl.com/9972a3zj

Free Thinking - Friendship - BBC Sounds Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people.

What a treat! Just had a thoroughly enjoyable evening talking friendship with some extremely smart people including @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @stephenshapiro.bsky.social @phuonghhle.com Alexander Douglas and Susie Orbach. Listen in! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We hit 20% of our kickstarter goal!

Another milestone reached & all thanks to you! ❤️
Please keep spreading the word as we need all the support we can get to make this a reality. 🙏

You can pledge an amount or pre-order the Blu-ray:

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Burt Lancaster in THE SWIMMER, looming out of the water that shimmers behind him.

Still reeling from Frank & Eleanor Perry's THE SWIMMER (1968) at BFI last night: a ruthless, ravishing horror film about capitalism that sucks you in and and drags you under alongside Burt Lancaster's Ned, one of the boldest lead performances on film. Thank you @phuonghhle.com for a terrific intro.

Thank you for the kind words! It really is an astonishing film.

OM DAR-B-DAR (1988) - Limited Edition Blu-ray & Extras THE CLOUD DOOR, a new boutique label, presents one of Indian cinema's most influential cult films on Blu-ray.

☁️ 🚪 For nearly ten yrs, this home video dream has lived in my heart. You know my love for Indian Cinema runs deep. Now, more than ever, I ask: please pledge to the Kickstarter and give it the chance it deserves:

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In Dreams: The Atomic Reveries of The Return In this exclusive essay, Amy Taubin explores the surrealist dreamscapes of The Return’s extraordinary eighth episode, tracing a line from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca to the nuclear reveries of the Amer...

This is a dazzling piece by Amy Taubin on the eighth episode of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return.” It’s criticism at its absolute finest. @amyornot.bsky.social

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and yet, against all odds, tenderness still blooms

Loneliness feels like cold, hard glass in Shōhei Imamura's THE EEL (1997)...

THE TEMPLE OF WILD GEESE (Yuzo Kawashima, 1962)

SUPAKINO presents: BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE / The Garden Cinema “First we'll have an orgy and then we'll go see Tony Bennett.” Naked meditation, primal screaming, gestalt therapy and swinging… film curator Ranjit S. Ruprai and film critic Phuong Le introduce Paul ...

Coming up on May 11: A special screening of Paul Mazursky's BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (1969) to accompany our @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social podcast series on Robert Culp. Looking forward to introducing this swinging gem with @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social! www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/supakin...

oh my god that is some heavy-duty viewing! Hope your grandma enjoy the gourmet cooking scenes...

Saw FRENZY for the first time at the BFI and this reverse tracking shot is one of the most viscerally upsetting sequences I've ever experienced in a cinema, like some kind of sickness crawling under my skin.

SUPAKINO presents: BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE / The Garden Cinema “First we'll have an orgy and then we'll go see Tony Bennett.” Naked meditation, primal screaming, gestalt therapy and swinging… film curator Ranjit S. Ruprai and film critic Phuong Le introduce Paul ...

Coming up on May 11: A special screening of Paul Mazursky's BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (1969) to accompany our @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social podcast series on Robert Culp. Looking forward to introducing this swinging gem with @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social! www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/supakin...

"I Think Most Things Are Bad": Andrea Long Chu on Cruelty, Criticism, and Conviction The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic joined us to discuss her reputation for being a hater and her brand-new collection of essays, "Authority."

got to talk to @andrealongchu.bsky.social for Interview Magazine: www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/a...

In her incredibly entertaining autobiography, Rosalind Russell detailed how she fought for star billing in THE WOMEN over Norma Shearer's resistance. There's a happy ending, with a cameo from Ernst Lubitsch!

It's great. I thought some of the sets looked familiar and turned out they reused some sceneries from KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR as that one had cost so much money!

THE CITADEL (King Vidor, 1938)

A classic South London dilemma, from PERFECT STRANGERS (1945).

Film critic @phuonghhle.com joins @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social for ep 5 about actor, writer & filmmaker Robert Culp. We have a long chat about Culp’s career from theatre to television to cinema inc. the wonderful film BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (1969) and his many wives inc. France Nuyen.

one of the formative cinema experiences that made Martin Scorsese want to become a filmmaker...

THE MAGIC BOX (John Boulting, 1951)