Cinemascope

Anjan Dutt, one of my favourite troubadours, has finally become his own man as a filmmaker, and in glorious fashion. Bow Barracks Forever w...

If you ever want to witness an archetypal example of an actor/actress playing against type, watch this erotic thriller by Jane Campion. Meg ...

My Blueberry Nights , the latest from acclaimed Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai (i.e. if you don’t take into account the redux version of his ...

We saw the latest from Tom “ Run Lola Run ” Tykwer, The International, at a theatre with poor sound quality. This proved to be doubly unfo...

Often considered the last great film noir (going by the classical definition of the genre), Touch of Evil is a nightmarish ride through the...

American Indie auteur Gus Van Sant and actor par excellence Sean Penn have joined hands to bring to screen the last few years of Harvey Milk...

First feature of Na Hong-Jin, The Chaser is a compelling thriller that nearly any debutant director would happily have in his resume, more ...

Given the grand production design, intoxicating visual beauty and the amount of trouble that besieged its making, Ashes of Time might very ...

Cross Connection is a movie that would easily appeal to Generation Y (the term ‘Gen X’ is both an overused and an anachronistic term where ...

American Indie director Tamara Jenkin’s first movie in 7 years, The Savages is based on a deceptively simple and a seemingly drab premise –...

For his first feature film in colour, Bengali auteur Satyajit Ray chose the quaint and idyllic town of Darjeeling as the backdrop for the s...

Frost/Nixon could easily be the most distinctive movie that Ron Howard has made in his career thus far. It is far removed from his earlier ...

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...