Cinemascope

 Kelly Reichardt’s minimalist “anti-genre” exercises – subversion of genre trappings, prioritizing inaction over actions, and leaving cine-g...

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

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

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

  The Hawks and the Sparrows ingeniously harboured parallel tracks, as it was both informed by the austere aesthetics and social commitment...

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

 While Abbas Kiarostami’s films evolved over two broad phases –exuberant early films centred on gently rebellious kids and teenagers living ...

 Christian Petzold, having earlier made three TV features, made a striking theatrical debut with The State I Am In . With this first chapter...

 Diverse elements that constitute cinema – from its technical facets and grammar to its sociocultural roles and historicity – were evoked wi...

 Swedish-Georgian filmmaker Levan Akin’s fourth feature Crossing began with the seemingly curious information that both Georgian and Turkis...

 Few filmmakers have so masterfully blended profound socio-cultural upheavals with achingly intimate individual stories, and the inexorable ...

 Good road movies are often less about reaching a specific destination; rather, they’re more around where the characters are ostensibly head...

 Narratives featuring two difficult individuals who overcome not just their borderline hostilities, but also gain rare insights into the oth...

Shakespeare Wallah – the sophomore Merchant-Ivory collaboration that earned them international fame – was a rare example of exceptional fil...

  Stress Is Three , the middle chapter in Carlos Saura’s wickedly brilliant and pungently satirical ‘ Bourgeois Trilogy ’ – which painted sc...

 Bittersweet chronicles of dysfunctional families have been the connecting thread in Kore-eda’s filmography, and Broker fell squarely in th...

 The anarchist, non-conformist, prankster, satirist, cynic, romantic and mad genius residing within Godard were all on dazzling display in P...

 Lav Diaz’s sublime 4-hour gem History of Ha bore the hallmarks of “slow cinema” and the free-spirited Filipino maestro’s oeuvre – formally...

 Panah Panahi proved that he’s his father’s son in his debut film Hit the Road . Even if it’ll take him some time to fill the great Jafar Pa...

  The premise of Compartment No. 6 , viz. formation of an unlikely bond between two strangers while traveling on train, had reminded me of K...