Cinemascope

 Marco Bellocchio’s second film China Is Near retained the wild farce and blasphemy of his astounding debut feature Fists in the Pocket . I...

 A sleepy, closely-knit provincial town in Brittany – a place that Chabrol has returned to multiple times across his career – is a bubbling ...

 Claude Chabrol’s stunning ‘ Hélène cycle ’ – La Femme Infidèle , Que la Bête Meure , Le Boucher , La Rupture and Juste Avant la Nuit – de...

 Claude Chabrol decided to take inspiration from Patricia Highsmith’s legendary and fabulous novel The Talented Mr. Ripley for Les Biches ....

 Claude Chabrol had impishly quipped that La Cérémonie – one of his greatest accomplishments, and which I’d been craving to revisit ever si...

  Nada , the ferocious, fatalist and brilliant political thriller by Jean-Patrick Manchette, was a book tailor-made for adaptation by Costa-...

The New Year That Never Came | Bogdan Muresanu | Romania Caught by the Tides | Jia Zhangke | China Dying | Matthias Glasner | Germany No Oth...

 It’s only appropriate that Laura Carreira’s exceptionally assured debut film On Falling was produced by ‘Sixteen Films’ – which was co-fou...

  The Other Way Around is a break-up dramedy with an idiosyncratic twist. The striking and assured Ale (Itsaso Arana), an indie filmmaker, ...

 Canadian filmmaker Kazik Radwanski’s indie film Matt and Mara was distinctively Rohmersque thanks to its playful, conversational, charming...

 Matthias Glasner, in his first theatrical release in 12 years, made his two key influences amply clear through a poster of Jarmusch’s Stran...

  Juror #2 , 94-year-old Clint Eastwood’s 40 th directorial feature, is a legal thriller that intrigues with its ethical conundrums and pu...

 British-Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri’s gripping, smouldering and impressive debut feature Santosh operated in the grim intersectionality ...

 State-sponsored brutalities and oppression can manifest in diverse forms, as can defiance and resistance against them. Acts of micro-activi...

 The complex, tangled and murky ways in which body, mind and technology feed into each another has been a recurring thematic preoccupation f...

  A Traveler’s Needs – Hong Sang-soo’s third collaboration with Isabelle Huppert – is a film of spontaneous comings and goings, loopy repet...

 What happens when you mix a cocktail that’s equal parts grotesque body horror, caustic showbiz satire, deliriously lurid and grisly B-movie...

 Memorable films and books hinged around enforced disappearances of political dissidents, which was frequent under military dictatorships in...

 Diverse elements that constitute cinema – from its technical facets and grammar to its sociocultural roles and historicity – were evoked wi...

Mike Leigh reunited with Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths nearly 3 decades after they last worked together in the shattering masterpie...