Cinemascope

Ridley Scott’s latest outing after American Gangster , Body of Lies is a Hollywood blockbuster in the truest sense insofar as its connotati...

--> It would be very easy to say something like I’ve never seen anything like Hero , and leave it at that. But let me elaborate. First ...

A Bittersweet Life , life Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy , is a lyrical ode, a bittersweet poetry and a mesmerizing study on brutal, nerve-wrack...

The Coen Broth ers revel in the genre of crime movies. But Miller’s Cr ossing was their most formal gangster movie; prohibition, Mafiosi,bo...

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Three…Extremes is a unique omnibus of short films in the genre of psychological terror – unique because three reputed directors, one each ...

Made in Hong Kong , directed by Fruit Chan, is perhaps the archetypal art-house indie movie. In many ways it is similar to Tsai Ming-Liang’s...

Spike Jonze’s remarkable directorial debut, Being John Malkovich , would rank among the most irreverent, whimsical and weird movies of recen...

Kidnap – the tale of a mysterious young man kidnapping a wealthy guy’s daughter to exact a very personal revenge – has the kind of plot tha...

12:08 East of Bucharest is a satirical and bitterly funny look at one of Romania ’s most historic moments – the violent overthrow of Nicol...

Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski’s greatest achievement, undoubtedly his magnum opus (along with Decalogue ), the Three Colors Trilogy is...

American director Sam Mendes’ third feature, Jarhead is in parts biting, in parts harrowing and in parts heartfelt look at the dumbness of ...

Steve Buscemi is without doubt one of the most brilliant and versatile character actors of his generation, and has enacted some truly memora...

Shotgun Stories is the kind of independent movie that makes one sit up and take notice. Set against the harsh and rustic cotton fields of A...

--> Had Sigmund Freud ever decided to make a film, it might have been something akin to 8 ½ . This deeply autobiographical movie wasn’...

Insofar as cold, drop-dead beautiful, blond seductress is concerned, who casually manipulates the love-lorn other man to murder her rich hus...

Bande a Part is one of French auteur Jean-Luc Godard’s most accessible films – a film that even non-Godard aficionados would easily enjoy ...

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...