Cinemascope

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

 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. ...

 On 5 th March 1953, upon the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the massive erstwhile nation descended into 4 days of state-enforced gri...

 Pere Portabella, a giant of Spanish political cinema and documentary filmmaking, fused formal experimentation with dissident activism throu...

 May 68 remains a defining political, social and cultural touchstone in France; many French films and books, consequently, have sprung from ...

 Pedro Almodóvar – who’d pivoted from campy, lowbrow farce with his fabulous preceding film The Flower of My Secret – did a free adaptation...

 With his hypnotic film Magellan – through co-existence of sublime beauty and harrowing monstrosity – Lav Diaz delivered a searing peek int...

 Memory, mortality, familial fissures, and complex filial relationships, were blended with art as therapy, cinema as a tool for personal and...

 Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling – her sophomore feature, made a decade after her debut ( Dark Blue Girl ) – was a haunting and unsett...

 In 1989, during the 1 st Intifada, Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari – a teenager then – had befriended a fearless fellow inmate called...

Mobile phones have made the world appear smaller than it actually is while also underlining the massive distances separating us; this remark...

 There’s something magical about documentaries that capture, with rousing political urgency and here-and-now, the collective resistance by c...

 The rotten history of settler-colonialism in Argentina – and the accompanying erasure of indigenous communities – has undergone progressive...

 Sergei Loznitsa’s stark, gripping and viscerally crushing film Two Prosecutors – a rare narrative feature by the exiled filmmaker and poli...

 Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia , on paper, shouldn’t work, as at its most elemental it’s about a white, ageing, well-off, conservative, heter...

 In 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz – who loved harnessing casual conversations and gossips – invited celebrated photographer and her friend ...

 Teenagers struggling to break free from the vicious cycle of marginalized existence, abandonment and abuse – a recurrent theme in the Darde...

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

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