Cinemascope

The Firemen’s Ball was quite an event in the career of Milos Forman, who would later become a darling of Hollywood what with his One Flew ...

German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s Jerichow is a modern-day variation of James M. Cain’s classic pulp fiction The Postman Always Rings T...

Producers of A Hard Day’s Night , in all probability, had one thing alone in mind when they conceptualized the movie – to cash in on the in...

Repulsion wasn’t just Roman Polanski’s first English language feature, it was also the Polish master’s first great masterpiece. Universally...

Second World War was a bad time for children to grow up in Finland , as nearly 70,000 Finnish children were displaced and sent to neutral Sw...

Quentin Tarantino’s seventh feature direction (sixth if you consider the two Kill Bill volumes as a single movie) is a riotous and rambunc...

The two volumes of Kill Bill have told a vengeance story of epic proportions and together form yet another feather in the shining crown of ...

Though most feel Carol Reed’s The Third Man was the greatest Brit noir, I feel Jules Dassin’s Night and the City was more “noirish” and de...

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s Houseful is a difficult movie to appraise, for the simple reason that it IS a difficult movie. I haven’t seen any...

There is no denying Tony Scott his claim to fame – his ability to provide wholesome, fast-paced entertainment to the popcorn-churning public...

On the surface (i.e. if one were to go by its plot skeleton) Let the Right One In might seem like a genre fare what with its tale of a vam...

Grosse Point Blank is a nice little black comedy that manages to be engaging with its slick, compact storyline, as well as highly entertain...

Rituparno Ghosh has made some remarkable movies on the frailties, nuances and undercurrents of human relations, be it Utsab , Dahan or Shub...

Pather Panchali in particular, and Apu Trilogy in general, might be his most internationally famous work, but if you ask any Bengali-speak...

Micheal Mann might be a part of the Hollywood bandwagon, but he manages to retain his signature in the otherwise faceless crowd. In his exp...

--> The Killing was the then 28-year old Stanley Kubrick’s third feature film direction; however, where his immense capabilities comi...

Atanu Ghosh might have made quite a few telefilms, but his inexperience in feature direction was palpable in Angshumaner Chhobi . The movie ...

Gilda , the noir classic by Charles Vidor, starts off exceedingly well. We are immediately introduced to a drifter making easy money by gamb...

Lots of great movies get made, but few manage to attain iconic status such that they linger in public conscience long after their sell by da...

Mean Streets was the movie that established Martin Scorsese as one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation, and set him on the path to...