Cinemascope

My movie viewing journal since May 2008

Wednesday, 29 April 2026

The Voice of Hind Rajab [2025]

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 On 29 th January 2024, Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, was killed in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces. Six of her family memb...
Thursday, 23 April 2026

Sirāt [2025]

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 Óliver Laxe’s existential road movie Sirāt was both an unconventional film and a film made unconventionally. Combining the hellish journey...
Thursday, 16 April 2026

No Other Choice [2025]

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 Park Chan-wook’s filmography is replete with wickedly feral killers who complement method with madness. No Other Choice ’s anti-hero, conv...
Sunday, 12 April 2026

The Secret Agent [2025]

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  The Secret Agent is intimately linked to Kleber Mendonça Filho’s filmography – fondness for B-movies and old theatres, novelistic approac...
Monday, 6 April 2026

Miroirs No. 3 [2025]

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  Miroirs No. 3 , with its beguiling set-up, eerily tranquil tone with an underlying disquietude that gently builds, disarming and economica...
Friday, 3 April 2026

The Conversation [1974]

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 Right from its bravura opening sequence – shot in grainy analogue and single-take using a telephoto lens which slowly zooms in from high-up...
Sunday, 29 March 2026

I… for Icarus [1979]

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 JFK’s assassination has formed a recurring thread within political conspiracy thrillers, while among French left-wing political cinema in p...
Sunday, 22 March 2026

Umberto D. [1952]

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  Umberto D. – Italian Neorealist movement’s final definitive film and Vittorio De Sica’s personal favourite – alternated between extreme d...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette) [1948]

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 Visconti pioneered neorealist cinema and Rossellini took it to exalted heights; but it was Vittorio De Sica who gave this profoundly influe...
Monday, 16 March 2026

Distant Voices, Still Lives [1988]

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 British filmmaker Terence Davies’ feature-length debut, Distant Voices, Still Lives , continuously switched between bitter, mournful memori...
Friday, 13 March 2026

The Long Farewell [1971]

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 Iconoclastic feminist filmmaker Kira Muratova’s second solo directorial endeavour, The Long Farewell , was a daring, dazzling, hypnotic and...
Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Brief Encounters [1967]

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 Kira Muratova, best known for Asthenic Syndrome , made her solo directorial debut with Brief Encounters , after a couple of films co-direct...
Saturday, 7 March 2026

The Getaway [1972]

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 Sam Peckinpah delivered a gripping genre exercise with The Getaway – arguably the most straight-up actioner in his incendiary career – and...
Wednesday, 4 March 2026

World on a Wire [1973]

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 Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 2-part 206-minutes-long television miniseries World On A Wire – the German wunderkind’s sole foray into scienc...
Monday, 2 March 2026

Aranyer Din Ratri [1970]

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  Aranyer Din Ratri marked a pivotal shift for Satyajit Ray. While he’d already made a terrific transition to contemporary Calcutta setting...
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...
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