Cinemascope

Straw Dogs polarized its audience upon its release; four decades hence, it still hasn’t lost that ability – that shows how relevant and top...

Polish master’s Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Dekalog , one of the most staggering masterpieces ever brought to screen, would rank, along with th...

Jean Pierre-Melville’s Bob le Flambeur was both a nostalgic tribute to American film noirs that were nearing the end of their classic era,...

Jason Reitman attained instant popularity with Thank You for Smoking and widespread acclaim with Juno , but if you really think of it, Up i...

Otto Preminger’s Where the Sidewalk Ends saw the coming together of Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, co-stars in the director’s brilliant Lau...

David Fincher showed promise in the often neglected Alien 3 . But he truly and squarely came on his own as a tremendous talent with the dark...

La Nuit Américaine (or Day for Night ) , a technique used to shoot nighttime sequences in daylight in order to save cost, is the ironic tit...

Capote was the movie that motivated me to read In Cold Blood , the iconic novel by Truman Capote, and now that I’ve read the celebrated ‘no...

--> In Before Sunrise , Richard Linklater’s brilliant sleeper hit, we got introduced to the American dude Jesse and the French belle ...

Celebrated Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique is a movie that works at a philosophical, and even, metaphy...

Israel ’s brazen display of might is the only practical modus operandi for survival in the intensely hostile environment around them. Howeve...

In Gosford Park , Robert Altman has fused the popular whodunits of Agatha Christie with the social mannerisms and satires of P.G. Wodehouse...

Aparna Sen’s Japanese Wife , based on the novel of the same name by Kunal Basu, is the most offbeat love triangle one can hope to come acros...

Though Alien 3 starts off from where Aliens ended, it is quite obvious right from the first frame that David Fincher, who helmed this film...

Where Ridley Scott’s Alien was a dark, disturbing and relentlessly bleak exploration into fear and paranoia, James Cameron’s Aliens is a...

With Alie n , the then largely unknown Ridley Scott took the slasher genre of science-fiction horror to the level of high art and mainstream...

The Host , directed by the acclaimed South Korean director of Memories of a Murder fame, is summer blockbuster like few of its kind. On one...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a psychological thriller of the first order, and has at its core a mystery tale that will grip you from ...

If one wants to list brilliant first features, one needs look no further than acclaimed Bengali auteur Rituparno Ghosh’s Hirer Angti . Thoug...

Climates , directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, darling of the festival circuit and maker of the brilliant Uzak , is another stark and austere dra...