Cinemascope

 Mrinal Sen’s radical and electrifying Calcutta Trilogy – Interview , Calcutta 71 and Padatik – received an absurdist epilogue with Choru...

 Eleven years after his enduring anti-war masterpiece Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne , Satyajit Ray returned to his two everyman comrades possessing ...

  G reat children’s cinema or literature is never just that, and Satyajit Ray’s timeless gem – adapted from his illustrious grandfather Upen...

 The English title for Anand Patwardhan’s searing and sprawling political documentary Vivek – made over 4 years, clocking a colossal 4 hour...

 Anand Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade remains political filmmaking at its most elemental – fearless, angry, uncompromising, rebellious, carr...

 Anand Patwardhan, with his remarkable fourth film Hamara Shahar , firmly established himself as India’s foremost documentary filmmaker. Mad...

 Shōhei Imamura’s fascinating hybrid documentary A Man Vanishes was like a virtuosic jazz composition – freely improvisational, filled wit...

 Few filmmakers have chronicled their country’s story with such devastating brilliance, uncompromising commitment and unflagging defiance as...

 3 rd November 1970 was a momentous date as Salvador Allende became the first democratically elected Marxist head of state for Chile and ov...

  With Hôtel Terminus , Marcel Ophüls completed a trilogy of Holocaust-themed films – monumental exposés on guilt, complicity, inconvenient ...

  The Memory of Justice , Marcel Ophüls’s 2 nd meditation and inquiry into the Holocaust, following his masterful The Sorrow and the Pity ...

  The Hour of the Furnaces – the title being a double reference to American imperialism by Che Guevara and Spanish colonialism by Cuban poe...

 Through his extensive, sprawling and immersive documentation of the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago, Frederick Wiseman t...

 Both formally and topically Juvenile Court continued Frederick Wiseman’s exceptional fly-on-the-wall portraits of American institutions th...

 1960s were marked by fierce civil rights movements and anti-Vietnam War protests that deeply reshaped the US. Hence, when Frederick Wiseman...

 Shaunak Sen’s gritty and hypnotic debut Cities of Sleep – filled with dystopian poetry and cutting irony – was a miniature act of marvel. ...

 Nausheen Khan’s debut feature-length documentary essay Land of My Dreams was simultaneously expansive and intimate, joyous and elegiac, po...

 The colour of revolution – against gender, caste and domestic violence – is hot pink in Nishtha Jain’s fierce documentary Gulabi Gang . The...