Cinemascope

 British filmmaker Terence Davies’ feature-length debut, Distant Voices, Still Lives , continuously switched between bitter, mournful memori...

 Iconoclastic feminist filmmaker Kira Muratova’s second solo directorial endeavour, The Long Farewell , was a daring, dazzling, hypnotic and...

 Kira Muratova, best known for Asthenic Syndrome , made her solo directorial debut with Brief Encounters , after a couple of films co-direct...

 Sam Peckinpah delivered a gripping genre exercise with The Getaway – arguably the most straight-up actioner in his incendiary career – and...

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 2-part 206-minutes-long television miniseries World On A Wire – the German wunderkind’s sole foray into scienc...

  Aranyer Din Ratri marked a pivotal shift for Satyajit Ray. While he’d already made a terrific transition to contemporary Calcutta setting...

  Seconds – the nightmarish final chapter in John Frankenheimer’s ‘ Paranoia Trilogy ’ – wasn’t an overly political film, unlike the two th...

 The Cold War, a period marked by paranoia and political conspiracy, saw the US playing a particularly fiendish role in “spreading democracy...

 Watching The Sorrow and the Pity and The Train within a few days of each other was rather ironic, given how the former demythologized the...

  El Sur , Victor Erice’s first film in a decade since his unforgettable debut with The Spirit of the Beehive – his next narrative feature,...

 The wave of military dictatorships that spread through Latin America during the 20 th century, competed with one another on state-sponsore...

 Andrzej Wajda stumbled upon the idea for Man of Iron – the remarkable sequel to Man of Marble , thus concluding his ‘ Solidarity Films ’ d...

  Man of Marble – the first chapter in Andrzej Wajda’s electrifying diptych of ‘ Solidarity Films ’ along with Man of Iron – was a dazzlin...

 Few films have so powerfully combatted collective historical amnesia like Marcel Ophüls’ monumental 4-½-hour-long documentary did by disman...

 Luchino Visconti’s ambitious opus Ludwig – butchered by distributers during its release and restored to its mammoth original runtime of 4 ...

 Luchino Visconti adapted Death in Venice from Thomas Mann’s novella – the vaunted central chapter in his ‘ German Trilogy ’, sandwiched be...

  The Damned was a scintillating outlier in Luchino Visconti’s oeuvre. Daringly provocative and subversive, packed with outré plot developm...

 Luchino Visconti, whose superb debut film Ossessione launched Italian Neorealism, made perhaps that movement’s purest expression with his ...

 Jacques Rivette, in a rare foray into genre cinema with Secret Défense , made the narrative both freer and more expansive while also retain...

 Victor Erice’s celebrated debut feature The Spirit of the Beehive remains both a seminal Spanish film and an exceptional chronicling from ...