Cinemascope

  Ten – Abbas Kiarostami’s first film shot entirely in digital – formed a clear companion piece to his much-lauded Taste of Cherry from a ...

 Jonas Mekas’ magnum opus – with a title that mirrored its achingly intimate self-expression, moving tone and expansive length – both underp...

 If seeing, prying and witnessing were the running motifs in Harun Farocki’s filmography, then his analytic video montage Prison Images can...

 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...

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

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

  Comedy of Power opens with a virtuoso tracking shot. Over the course of 2 ½ minutes, a deliciously fluid camera follows Michel Humeau (Fr...

 Liszt’s rapturous classical composition ‘ Funerailles ’ attained edgy and sinister undertones in Chabrol’s Merci pour le Chocolat . Music, ...

  The Wind that Shakes the Barley was equal parts poetic and political, as evidenced by its deeply elegiac title that referenced a revoluti...

Jenin, Jenin , as cinema of resistance, was at once powerful, defiant and lucid in how Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammed Bakri used a...

 Lucrecia Martel’s magnificent ‘ Salta Trilogy ’, over the course of the films that it comprised of, transitioned from the broad to the part...

 If Lucrecia Martel’s stunning debut feature La Ciénaga – with its intoxicating cocktail of chaos, malaise, torpor, vacuousness, fault-line...

 The stunning opening sequence of La Ciénaga – the spellbinding debut by Lucrecia Martel, one of the most original voices in contemporary ...

 Like his haunting homecoming essay Chile, Obstinate Memory – which powerfully foregrounded the theme of political memory and amnesia that ...

 Loss and grief, as subjects, can be both oppressive and liberating, and different directors, therefore, have tackled them in remarkably div...

 Chantal Akerman made an intensely personal exploration of her fragile mind – filled with existential dilemmas, psychological ambivalence an...

  Upper middle-class morality, entitlement and hypocrisy – and the social capital they possess which allows them to conveniently switch betw...