Cinemascope

Antichrist might not be Lars von Trier’s best movie, but it might just be the one he would like to be remembered by. This movie has world c...

The refreshingly offbeat movie Barking Dogs Never Bite , by Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, has all those thematic and stylistic aspects, qui...

Pedro Almodovar, who is oftentimes referred to as a women’s director, has for once made a movie for their male counterparts with Talk to Her...

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s ode to oddball characters and a surreal poetry in motion. Quirky, irreverent, whimsical and mordantl...

Despite returning from a long hiatus – 12 years to be precise since he made Titanic , James Cameron has yet again shown his unsurpassed abil...

The epithets that might closely define Fatih Akin’s Head-On are, in my opinion, grimy, brooding and bare-assed. Akin completely stripped of...

The Squid and the Whale is one of the most incisive looks into the breaking-down of a marriage and its various repercussions. Yet, despite ...

Fulltime Killer is Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To’s unabashed expression of his love affair with the action genre. In fact the movie aboun...

Dardenne brothers’ The Son is a difficult movie to classify, and hence assess in a few words as I do here. A complex and quietly unsettling...

--> 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...