Cinemascope

 When Billy Wilder adapted James M. Cain’s spare, sordid and sizzling hardboiled novel – and seminal roman noir – of lust, greed, obsession...

 Nicholas Ray’s brooding and viscerally arresting film In A Lonely Place eschewed classic noir conventions by subsuming crime under existen...

 The aspect that one realizes immediately about The Prowler is that three key people associated with it were irreparably affected by McCart...

In Eva , Joseph Losey had one foot into the underpinnings of American genre movies from his past and the other in the vocabulary of European...

 Chabrol’s renowned ‘ Hélène Cycle ’ of films – murky, morally complex and spellbinding investigations into bourgeois social structures and ...

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

 While Truffaut loved making crime films as an expression of his love for classic noirs – albeit permeated with poetic sensibility that was ...

 Nearly a decade after Alain Delon’s character – triggered by fragile insecurity, repressed envy and spurned ego – took Maurice Ronet’s char...

 Three decades before Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert, two giants of French cinema, played father and daughter in Haneke’s devas...

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

  Decision to Leave is one of Park Chan-wook’s most muted works – notwithstanding its arresting set-pieces, panache and controlled stylisti...

 There’re two kinds of memorable cinematic adaptations of literary texts – those where the filmmaker imbues their vision and signature while...

 Godard made a euphoric return to the world of B-movies – the palette for his seminal debut feature Breathless – with Band of Outsiders , h...

 Like someone once eloquently surmised Godard’s scintillating debut – which became the Nouvelle Vague’s manifesto and, alongside The 400 Blo...

  Nearly every powerful and prescient dystopian work – both literary and cinematic – evoke past and present sociopolitical manifestations, e...

  New Age Chinese filmmaker and poet Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey into Night is a work as much drenched in bold expressionistic flavours and...