Cinemascope

 Jafar Panahi’s blistering work It was Just an Accident was defined as much by the edgy specificity of its milieu as by the stirring univer...

Resurrection – Bi Gan’s return 7 years after his hypnotic last film Long Day’s Journey into Night – was as much a work of epic thematic pr...

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

 Jacques Rivette, in a rare foray into genre cinema with Secret Défense , made the narrative both freer and more expansive while also retain...

 David Lynch’s arresting prequel to Twin Peaks – greenlighted after the show was cancelled, and which massively polarized everyone upon its...

  Twin Peaks – the surrealist, grisly, horror, mystery, campy and goofy soap opera that David Lynch co-created with Mark Frost – was a surp...

  L'Assassino , Elio Petri’s solid if underrated debut, combined three aspects of his filmmaking that’d manifest more markedly in his la...

 A sleepy, closely-knit provincial town in Brittany – a place that Chabrol has returned to multiple times across his career – is a bubbling ...

 What could be more meta and self-reflexive than a filmmaker directing a feature-length work after three decades, centred on a filmmaker who...

  Aattam is based on the topic of sexual harassment at workplace. But, what made Anand Ekarshi’s assured debut feature an especially riveti...

 Contrary to what its ominously ironic title supposedly suggests, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi asserted otherwise – viz. evil’s malleable forms and arb...

 Jacques Rivette eschewed time and narrative, and deconstructed the experience of making and watching movies, in Out 1 , his grandest and b...

  Teorema – a work of stunning bravado, intellect and force – remains amongst the most politically and formally radical films in Pasolini’s...

  Monsieur Klein , Joseph Losey’s frighteningly brilliant pièce de résistance , provided – as claustrophobic political thriller, darkly sur...

  Monica, O My Darling is a heady, devilish and deliriously entertaining joyride, and riotously lurid and pulpy at that. This crackling cel...

  Petite Fleur couldn’t have demonstrated a more dramatic departure vis-à-vis Argentina,1985 – the two wildly contrasting films that Santi...

 Jordan Peele constructed Nope like a multi-layered cake – wryly revisionist Western, acerbic satire on insatiable consumerism, and delight...

 There’s something inherently haunting and melancholic about films, books and songs – Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock , Mohiner Ghoraguli’s Se...

 Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter formed a trilogy of sorts with her remarkable preceding films The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II , ...

  Klute and Tout Va Bien , despite being such remarkably disparate films formally, aesthetically and thematically, possibly served as the t...