Cinemascope

  Seemabaddha strikingly contrasted Pratidwandi and Jana Aranya , the two films which bracketed it in Satyajit Ray’s stunning ‘ Calcutta T...

 Satyajit Ray had touched upon political themes on multiple occasions – from capital, corruption, crooked godmen and religious dogmatism to ...

 Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s slow-burn thriller A Man of Integrity – which he secretly made in defiance of the suspende...

 The complex, sordid and unsettling dynamics of a family bordering on catastrophic, self-destructive dysfunction in A Leap in the Dark , and...

 Marco Bellocchio’s sensational debut feature Fists in the Pocket – which immediately catapulted him into the highest echelons of Italian c...

 Good road movies are often less about reaching a specific destination; rather, they’re more around where the characters are ostensibly head...

 In the annals of excellent depictions of dysfunctional families, and how veneers of civility and respectability come undone during a fatefu...

 Payal Kapadia’s training in filmmaking, her love for cinema (and slow cinema in particular), her feminist perspectives, and her bent toward...

 The aspect that one realizes immediately about The Prowler is that three key people associated with it were irreparably affected by McCart...

 Joseph Losey’s penultimate film, The Trout , was a more ambiguous, formalist and “arthouse” – but no less amoral or outré – revisiting of h...

In Eva , Joseph Losey had one foot into the underpinnings of American genre movies from his past and the other in the vocabulary of European...

 The three films that Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter made together – The Servant , Accident and The Go-Between – were all piercing examina...

 Four years after exiled American filmmaker Joseph Losey had joined hands with British playwright Harold Pinter for the explosive The Servan...

  The Servant bruises its viewers like red-hot iron with its trenchant and subversive dissection of class and power, its electrifying blend...

 Marco Bellocchio has used cinema as a weapon for political and psychological investigations throughout his formidable career. In his intens...

 The most fascinating thing about Z is how Costa-Gavras effortlessly counterpoised heft with panache. Being based on the 1963 assassination...

 Coming on the back of a string of highly reckoned films, The Marathon Man unsurprisingly gets somewhat lost in John Schlesinger’s filmogra...

 1970s weren’t just a fertile period for arresting and topical political paranoia/conspiracy thrillers, but also those that centred on polit...

 The journey from being decidedly sceptical about watching The Crown to being left mesmerized by it was an exhilarating one. Though not an ...

 In All or Nothing , Mike Leigh constructed a multilayered, kaleidoscopic and Dickensian slice-of-life on working-class Brits residing in a ...