Cinemascope

--> Ratcatcher , Scottish director Lynne Ramsay’s exceptional debut feature film (she was earlier into making award-winning short films...

Hit List , Sandip Ray’s first foray outside “Feluda” movies (adapted from stories written by his late father Satyajit Ray) since the wonderf...

An expansion of the fifth episode of his legendary ten-part miniseries Decalogue , Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski’s A Short Film About ...

El Crimen Del Padre Amaro is on a topic that is as complex as it is controversial. The movie concerns with the subject of the fundamentalis...

Katalin Varga , my second (and possibly my final) movie viewing at the ongoing Kolkata Film Festival , is a well-made, brooding, near-Dostoe...

A few critics have accused Danish filmmaker Nils Malmros' Aching Hearts to be a mere recreation of his most famous work Trees of Knowle...

--> Spanish director Victor Erice, like his American counterpart Terrence Mallick, is a deeply enigmatic filmmaker (he has made just t...

Compiled into a behind-the-scenes kind of documentary from over 100 hours of footage filmed during rehearsal sessions for his last planned w...

An expansion of the sixth chapter of his legendary Decalogue miniseries, Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski’s A Short Film About Love , tho...

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...