Cinemascope

 Giorgio Bassini’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece The Garden of Finzi-Continis was as much a haunting Holocaust novel as a stirring ode ...

 Ermanno Olmi’s tender, low-key, delicately strung and achingly beautiful masterpiece Il Posto – shaped from his personal experiences – rem...

 Gillo Pontecovro – former chemistry student, anti-fascist partisan during WW2 and Marxist journalist after the war who was catalysed into f...

  Ryan Coogler delivered sensorial overload with  Sinners , a genre-defying exercise that was seductive, tempestuous, rip-roaring, political...

 With Certified Copy , the great Abbas Kiarostami joined an exclusive group of non-francophone filmmakers like Buñuel, Kieślowski and Losey ...

 Christian Petzold’s spare and chilling psychological thriller Wolfsberg carried the weight of Germany’s political history, even if that wa...

 Christian Petzold delivered haunting inquiries into the questions of individual and collective identity in reunified Germany, and underlyin...

 Christian Petzold, having earlier made three TV features, made a striking theatrical debut with The State I Am In . With this first chapter...

 Elio Petri’s agitational and subversive cinema – and in turn Italian political cinema from its “years of lead” period, of which he was a le...

 The title for Elio Petri’s blistering comedy Property Is No Longer A Theft can be taken both at face value and with a heavy dose of irony;...

 Elio Petri’s filmography can be roughly divided into two categories – relatively restrained films (albeit, not completely bereft of stylist...

  L'Assassino , Elio Petri’s solid if underrated debut, combined three aspects of his filmmaking that’d manifest more markedly in his la...

  The War Is Over – the (translated) phrase with which Franco had declared the end of the Spanish Civil War – was as much its ‘Left Bank’ a...

 Expressions of grief and guilt evoked a feverish pitch and guttural howl in Marco Bellocchio’s emotionally turbulent and nakedly personal f...

 Marco Bellocchio’s tour de force media satire Slap the Monster on Page One was a confluence of thrilling genre cinema and radical politi...

 The kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro has been such an epochal moment for Italy and emblematic of its...

 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 ....