Cinemascope

My movie viewing journal since May 2008

Saturday, 24 January 2026

Seconds [1966]

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  Seconds – the nightmarish final chapter in John Frankenheimer’s ‘ Paranoia Trilogy ’ – wasn’t an overly political film, unlike the two th...
Sunday, 18 January 2026

Seven Days in May [1964]

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 The Cold War, a period marked by paranoia and political conspiracy, saw the US playing a particularly fiendish role in “spreading democracy...
Friday, 16 January 2026

The Train [1964]

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 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...
Sunday, 11 January 2026

El Sur (The South) [1983]

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  El Sur , Victor Erice’s first film in a decade since his unforgettable debut with The Spirit of the Beehive – his next narrative feature,...
Friday, 9 January 2026

One or Two Questions [2018]

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 The wave of military dictatorships that spread through Latin America during the 20 th century, competed with one another on state-sponsore...
Sunday, 4 January 2026

Man of Iron [1981]

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 Andrzej Wajda stumbled upon the idea for Man of Iron – the remarkable sequel to Man of Marble , thus concluding his ‘ Solidarity Films ’ d...
Saturday, 3 January 2026

Man of Marble [1977]

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  Man of Marble – the first chapter in Andrzej Wajda’s electrifying diptych of ‘ Solidarity Films ’ along with Man of Iron – was a dazzlin...
Tuesday, 30 December 2025

The Sorrow and the Pity [1969]

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 Few films have so powerfully combatted collective historical amnesia like Marcel Ophüls’ monumental 4-½-hour-long documentary did by disman...
Friday, 26 December 2025

Ludwig [1973]

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 Luchino Visconti’s ambitious opus Ludwig – butchered by distributers during its release and restored to its mammoth original runtime of 4 ...
Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Death in Venice [1971]

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 Luchino Visconti adapted Death in Venice from Thomas Mann’s novella – the vaunted central chapter in his ‘ German Trilogy ’, sandwiched be...
Sunday, 21 December 2025

The Damned [1969]

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  The Damned was a scintillating outlier in Luchino Visconti’s oeuvre. Daringly provocative and subversive, packed with outré plot developm...
Thursday, 18 December 2025

La Terra Trema [1948]

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 Luchino Visconti, whose superb debut film Ossessione launched Italian Neorealism, made perhaps that movement’s purest expression with his ...
Monday, 15 December 2025

Secret Défense [1998]

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 Jacques Rivette, in a rare foray into genre cinema with Secret Défense , made the narrative both freer and more expansive while also retain...
Thursday, 11 December 2025

The Spirit of the Beehive [1973]

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 Victor Erice’s celebrated debut feature The Spirit of the Beehive remains both a seminal Spanish film and an exceptional chronicling from ...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

The Hawks and the Sparrows [1966]

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  The Hawks and the Sparrows ingeniously harboured parallel tracks, as it was both informed by the austere aesthetics and social commitment...
Sunday, 7 December 2025

Close-Up [1990]

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 Abbas Kiarostami, right from his 1973 debut feature The Experience till the end of 1980s – Homework was his last film of that decade – ha...
Thursday, 4 December 2025

Fellow Citizen [1983]

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  Fellow Citizen was Abbas Kiarostami’s first full-length work foregrounded on cars, aside from being his first longform documentary. Cars ...
Monday, 1 December 2025

The Report [1977]

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  The Report may well be the frostiest and harshest work of Abbas Kiarostami’s oeuvre, devoid of either the infectious playfulness or philo...
Friday, 28 November 2025

The Traveller [1974]

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  The Traveller , Abbas Kiarostami’s second full-length feature – or first, depending on whether you consider his evocative and poetic prece...
Monday, 24 November 2025

The Experience [1973]

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 Abbas Kiarostami’s gently observational feature-length debut The Experience – produced by the filmmaking department of ‘Centre for the Int...
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