Cinemascope

La Femme Nikita might be the movie Luc Besson is most widely remembered by, and also one of the key features of the Cinema du look movemen...

Thelma and Louise , in the great tradition of revisionist genre movies, did exactly what Ridley Scott perhaps intended – by having two worki...

Anjan Dutt’s latest directorial venture Chowrasta revolves around a place that is very close to his heart – a place that featured regularly...

Gulaal is an angry film filled with angry characters; however, even though there’s no denying the movie’s latent (though not completely tap...

This is my first foray into Pedro Almod óvar ’ s work, and I feel I couldn’t have chosen for a better introduction to the celebrated Spa...

70’s were a decade marked by protests and political unrest throughout the world. But very few cities witnessed the kind of spontaneous and v...

If you were led to think that Bob Rafelson, who made the remarkable anti-establishmentarian movie Five Easy Pieces with Jack Nicholson, cre...

Terrence Malick made his debut feature Badlands on a shoestring budget; yet, as many before him (e.g. Satyajit Ray) and since (e.g. Jim Jar...

I went to watch Smritimedur with a friend, despite not knowing anything about the movie, for the simple reason that it was being played at ...

On first glance Bound might appear to be a typically cheap, sleazy, low-budget film with lots of sex and violence, and with a plot that cou...

Rarely does one get to watch a movie with such a fascinating blend of irreverence and nostalgia like Emir Kusturica’s imperious masterpiece ...

The basic skeleton of the movie is a very simple one, and something tried and tested innumerable times – a veteran cop getting involved in a...

Fat Girl is an ultra-feministic movie by, you guessed it, a female director. Catherine Breillat is one of the most controversial filmmaker...

Coming from the same guy who made the ultra-hyperkinetic action flick District B13 , it’s no surprise that Taken is a slick, fast and a dow...

Legendary Italian director Sergio Leone achieved world renown thanks to his irresistible “Spaghetti Western” trilogy, in particular The Good...

Sean Penn, like a number of his contemporaries, is a sterling example of a revered actor who has effortlessly managed to make the transition...

As a number of critics have so aptly pointed out, The Reader has the distinct feel of a European arthouse cinema to it – lazy narrative, lo...

Bishh , like D ev D , i s a fasc inating i ndicatio n of the fact that a few Indian directors are willing to take risks that were inconceiva...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is proof enough that David Fincher and Brad Pitt make an excellent hunting pair. But, like me, if you w...