Cinemascope

Arguably one of Akira Kurosawa’s grandest ventures, Seven Samurai is a landmark movie of such epic proportions that most viewers would be l...

Adapted from pulp fiction novelist James M. Cain’s most popular work, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classical film noir movie. The id...

Brought to Calcutta for the discerning film goers thanks to the philanthropic endeavour of NDTV Lumierre, Crossed Tracks is the kind of thr...

Though not as universally renowned as Rashomon or Seven Samurai , Yojimbo is often considered to be Akira Kurosawa’s most influential work....

--> The 400 Blows is the movie that the former Cashier Du Cinema critic and legendary French director Francois Truffaut is universal...

The ghosts and demons of the real world are far more horrific than their counterparts who are trapped in a metaphysical environment – this i...

Righteous Kill is the kind of movie that lovers of popcorn detective thrillers wouldn’t mind watching, but suffice it to say that it would b...

One of the most immensely enjoyable film franchises to have come out of Hollywood, the trilogy from Robert Zemeckis didn’t just entertain us...

Bengali auteur Rituparno Ghosh’s latest outing has generated a lot of hype not only because this is his first English feature, but also beca...

Perhaps the most restrained effort of Hong Kong maestro Wong Kar-Wai till date, In the Mood for Love is a beautiful movie that explores, w...

Raymond Chandler’s first novel The Big Sleep isn’t just one of my favourite books, it also happens to be one of the most groundbreaking in ...

If you have some time to kill and you’ve exhausted all viable options, you might as well watch Wanted ; but if you are a regular at forums f...

When I decided to watch Double Indemnity , a movie directed by Billy Wilder, adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandl...

I’m really puzzled as to what Ben Affleck loves more – his hometown Boston or the crave to surprise us. We all agree he is a sub-average ac...

Though not as universally renowned or recognized as Paris, Texas or Kings of the Road , Alice in the Cities is, nonetheless, one of the ...

Directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage is an assured venture in the oft-made genre of haunted house ta...

Maverick Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook’s latest film and his first since he completed his vaunted Vengeance Trilogy with the aesthetic Sympa...

Gus Van Sant’s first foray into a lesser offbeat movie is as engrossing and stimulating as his previous or subsequent (more critically accla...

Often considered among Ray’s finest films, Aranyer Din Ratri is a tour de force whose character driven analysis of urbanization, human beh...

Once in a while one gets to watch a movie that is so unique in its content and so bold in its outlook that it stuns the senses out of the co...