Cinemascope

 On 29 th January 2024, Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, was killed in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces. Six of her family memb...

 Óliver Laxe’s existential road movie Sirāt was both an unconventional film and a film made unconventionally. Combining the hellish journey...

 Park Chan-wook’s filmography is replete with wickedly feral killers who complement method with madness. No Other Choice ’s anti-hero, conv...

  The Secret Agent is intimately linked to Kleber Mendonça Filho’s filmography – fondness for B-movies and old theatres, novelistic approac...

  Miroirs No. 3 , with its beguiling set-up, eerily tranquil tone with an underlying disquietude that gently builds, disarming and economica...

 Right from its bravura opening sequence – shot in grainy analogue and single-take using a telephoto lens which slowly zooms in from high-up...

 JFK’s assassination has formed a recurring thread within political conspiracy thrillers, while among French left-wing political cinema in p...

  Umberto D. – Italian Neorealist movement’s final definitive film and Vittorio De Sica’s personal favourite – alternated between extreme d...

 Visconti pioneered neorealist cinema and Rossellini took it to exalted heights; but it was Vittorio De Sica who gave this profoundly influe...

 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...