Phuong Le
@phuonghhle.com
Editorial @ mubi || Words @ Guardian, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, BBC, Indicator, Arrow Films, and others.
📍London, UK 📩 phuonghhle@gmail.com
📍London, UK 📩 phuonghhle@gmail.com
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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
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
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
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
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
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
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
September 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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
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🏠 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
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
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
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🏠 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
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
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
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
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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
🇮🇳 MOTHER INDIA + 🇨🇺 I AM CUBA
🏠 BABUL + 🏡 OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE
📷 JAANE BHI DO YAARO + 📸 BLOW-UP
Info: supakino.com/events
September 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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
🇮🇳 MOTHER INDIA + 🇨🇺 I AM CUBA
🏠 BABUL + 🏡 OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE
📷 JAANE BHI DO YAARO + 📸 BLOW-UP
Info: supakino.com/events
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A double Q&A Saturday in London
August 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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...
August 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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
August 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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
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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/...
Free Thinking - Friendship - BBC Sounds
Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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/...
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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:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
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:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
July 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
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:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
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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.
July 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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.
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☁️ 🚪 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:
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
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.
kickstarter.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
☁️ 🚪 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:
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
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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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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...
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June 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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
mubi.com/en/program-n...
mubi.com/en/program-n...
Loneliness feels like cold, hard glass in Shōhei Imamura's THE EEL (1997)...
June 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Loneliness feels like cold, hard glass in Shōhei Imamura's THE EEL (1997)...
THE TEMPLE OF WILD GEESE (Yuzo Kawashima, 1962)
April 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
THE TEMPLE OF WILD GEESE (Yuzo Kawashima, 1962)
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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...
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 ...
www.thegardencinema.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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...
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.
April 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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.
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...
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 ...
www.thegardencinema.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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...
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got to talk to @andrealongchu.bsky.social for Interview Magazine: www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/a...
"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."
www.interviewmagazine.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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!
April 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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!
THE CITADEL (King Vidor, 1938)
April 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
THE CITADEL (King Vidor, 1938)
A classic South London dilemma, from PERFECT STRANGERS (1945).
April 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A classic South London dilemma, from PERFECT STRANGERS (1945).
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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.
April 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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.
THE MAGIC BOX (John Boulting, 1951)
April 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
THE MAGIC BOX (John Boulting, 1951)
I have recently become quite obsessed with Michael Caine in THE IPCRESS FILE (1965) and Robert Donat in THE 39 STEPS (1935), two fantastic performances greatly enhanced by the medium of eye makeup.
March 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I have recently become quite obsessed with Michael Caine in THE IPCRESS FILE (1965) and Robert Donat in THE 39 STEPS (1935), two fantastic performances greatly enhanced by the medium of eye makeup.
I started THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO on Friday, am now 500 pages in and it's literally physically impossible to put it down. Every single chapter is gasp-inducing!!
March 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I started THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO on Friday, am now 500 pages in and it's literally physically impossible to put it down. Every single chapter is gasp-inducing!!