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Phuong Le

@phuonghhle.com
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Editorial @ mubi || Words @ Guardian, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, BBC, Indicator, Arrow Films, and others. 📍London, UK 📩 phuonghhle@gmail.com

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 26/02/2026
Thank you!
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Enjoyed this conversation between @phuonghhle.com and Wong Kar Wai mubi.com/en/program-n...
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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...
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Ben Turner @bturnerinfo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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...
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 17/09/2025
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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Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🏠 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
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Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
A double Q&A Saturday in London
Select Japan Presents All About Lily Chou-Chou

A Film by Shunji Iwai

+ Zoom Q&A with Shunji IwaiIn the Nguyen Kitchen + Q&A with director Stéphane Ly-Cuong and star Clotilde Chevalier, moderated by Phuong Le
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 29/08/2025
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...
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In the Nguyen Kitchen review – cooking up a heartwarming Vietnamese-French diaspora musical
Aspiring performer Yvonne dreams aloud in candy-coloured reveries that carry the hopes of a marginalised singer in a rarely-seen Parisian community
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 28/08/2025
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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Tiffany Watt Smith @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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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Free Thinking - Friendship - BBC Sounds
Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people.
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The Cloud Door @the-cloud-door.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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...
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Jonathan Wakeham @jonathanwakeham.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
Burt Lancaster in THE SWIMMER, looming out of the water that shimmers behind him.
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 03/07/2025
Thank you for the kind words! It really is an astonishing film.
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Omar Ahmed 🍉 @bressonian.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
☁️ 🚪 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...
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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.
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Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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...
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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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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 09/06/2025
and yet, against all odds, tenderness still blooms
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 09/06/2025
Loneliness feels like cold, hard glass in Shōhei Imamura's THE EEL (1997)...
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 29/04/2025
THE TEMPLE OF WILD GEESE (Yuzo Kawashima, 1962)
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 25/04/2025
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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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 ...
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 27/04/2025
oh my god that is some heavy-duty viewing! Hope your grandma enjoy the gourmet cooking scenes...
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 27/04/2025
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.
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 25/04/2025
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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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 ...
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kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
got to talk to @andrealongchu.bsky.social for Interview Magazine: www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/a...
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"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."
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 06/04/2025
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!
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 06/04/2025
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!
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 06/04/2025
THE CITADEL (King Vidor, 1938)
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 06/04/2025
A classic South London dilemma, from PERFECT STRANGERS (1945).
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RANJIT REWINDS @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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.
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 01/04/2025
one of the formative cinema experiences that made Martin Scorsese want to become a filmmaker...
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 01/04/2025
THE MAGIC BOX (John Boulting, 1951)
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 30/03/2025
his and hers eyeliner
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 30/03/2025
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.
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 30/03/2025
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!!
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 27/03/2025
ICYMI, our Robert Culp deep dive @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social goes sci-fi in our last two episodes, which focus on his work in the classic TV series THE OUTER LIMITS and other fascinating intergalactic adventures. Catch up here! shows.acast.com/ranjitrewinds
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RANJIT REWINDS @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Film critic @phuonghhle.com joins host @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social for ep 3 of 5 about actor, writer & filmmaker Robert Culp. We move on to the classic sci-fi TV show The Outer Limits, delving into Culp’s performances. Oh, and did you know Peter Capaldi sang “Outér Limits” in his band The Dreamboys?
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RANJIT REWINDS @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Host @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social is prepared to overlook Robert Culp’s villainous character in his favourite Columbo episode DOUBLE EXPOSURE so he can focus on the great fashion. Guest @phuonghhle.bsky.social reminds him of the double murder! First 2 episodes out now: shows.acast.com/ranjitrewinds
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RANJIT REWINDS @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Film critic @phuonghhle.bsky.social joins host @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social for episode 2 of 5 about actor, writer & filmmaker Robert Culp. We continue our Columbo-obsessed chat + go in-depth on a later 90s episode as well as a “non-canonical” Mrs. Columbo episode, both guest starring Robert Culp.
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 04/03/2025
Closing at midnight!
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Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
ICYMI - my podcast @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social is now live! Ep. 1 with @phuonghhle.bsky.social is on Spotify, Apple + the usual places. This is 1 of 5 in-depth discussions about actor, writer & filmmaker Robert Culp over the coming weeks… starting off with classic 70s Columbo. Please follow & share!
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 26/02/2025
I loveee this screenshot because he did one of his "Culpism' gestures, which we discussed in the podcast. This whole gritted teeth before exploding in a fit of rage situation.
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 25/02/2025
The first episode of @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social is here! Come for Columbo, stay for our in-depth discussion on the visuals, Robert Culp's impeccable villainy, and of course THE SUITS. open.spotify.com/episode/6bvE...
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 22/02/2025
1950s medicine was something else
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 19/02/2025
Come work with us at MUBI! We're looking for a staff writer to join our Platform Editorial team in London. Please see the listing for more details ✍️ jobs.ashbyhq.com/MUBI/3fdfcbe...
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 17/02/2025
1000% would watch
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 17/02/2025
Dracula 🤝 Columbo
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 17/02/2025
So excited to join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social on his new podcast, launching very soon! Please follow @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social for more detail 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 15/02/2025
Can't get enough of the incredible set design in Sundaram Balachander's ANDHA NAAL (1954), the first film noir of Tamil cinema!
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Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’ve done a lot of work that I feel I can be proud of in a decade of writing on film. I love it dearly. But for various personal & bleak state-of-the-biz reasons, things remain precarious. If you like my work & are interested in signing up below, I’d be much obliged! ko-fi.com/christinanew...
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Support Christina Newland on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/christinanewland
Support Christina Newland On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 30/01/2025
My favorite Marianne moment!!
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