Cinemascope

The debut feature of African-American filmmaker Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep is considered a cornerstone in American independent filmma...

Often recognized, along with The Seventh Seal , as Swedish maestro Ingmar Bergman’s most iconic work, and perhaps among his most accessible ...

Prakash Jha’s Raajneeti , as the name suggests, is a no-holes-barred indictment against dynasty-based, votebank, dirty politics that is quit...

Citizen Kane , quite astonishingly Orson Welles’ debut feature, is often cited as the greatest movie ever made; therefore I watched the film...

Apocalypse Now , often called Francis Ford Coppola’s last great movie, almost never got made, because of shooting delays and overshoot of bu...

Galpa Holeo Satyi , directed by Tapan Sinha (who I like to call the “Fourth Musketeer” of Bengali cinema), ranks as one of the most popular...

Though released in the same year as another memorable French caper film, Bob Le Flambeur , American expat Jules Dassin’s Rififi was diametr...

--> 24 has been ranked as one of the greatest television series ever made, and why not? The adrenaline-fuelled thrill-a-minute, err, ...

Suman Mukhopadhyay, whose brilliant debut feature Herbert was based on Nabarun Bhattacharya’s novella of the same, chose to adapt three sho...

Turner Classic Movies (TCM), a subsidiary of Time-Warner (still known as Warner Bros. among old-timers) has been kind enough to s...

If there’s one movie that director-writer-actor Woody Allen will always be remembered by, it would have to be Annie Hall – a seminal and in...

We see a human for the first time nearly 20 minutes into the movie, and hear human voice another 5 minutes later; further, the last 25-odd ...

A searing deconstruction of the American suburbia, Ang Lee’s much acclaimed The Ice Storm has as its company such disconsolate expositions ...

Wes Anderson, one of the most highly regarded American filmmakers working today, garnered a lot of acclaim with his debut Indie feature Bott...

Ganashatru , --> literally ‘ An Enemy of the People’ , was master auteur Satyajit Ray’s adaptation of the legendary play of the same n...

Dead Reckoning has the kind of dialogues, plot and feel to it that it could very well have been straight out of a Raymond Chandler story. A...

Richard Brooks’ In Cold Blood is a stylish dramatisation of the renowned non-fiction novel of the same name by Truman Capote. Though essent...

The stretch from his debut feature Hirer Angti and roughly culminating with Utsab and Shubho Mahurat – his finest works till date, saw Be...

If you ever want to see the cinematic expression of “style over substance”, Femme Fatale is the movie to watch. In fact, but for Brian De P...