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Though made in French, Back to the Wall qualifies as a classic noir on account of earnestly adhering to its quintessential iconographies...

(Cinemascope thanks Ms. Camiele White for this delectable peek into the dark and cold world of vengeance in cinema, using three films belon...

The 5-hour epic based in the badlands of Wasseypur (part of the Indian mining town of Dhanbad), of which Gangs of Wasseypur is the first...

Harold and Maude , only the second directorial effort of Hal Ashby after a successful stint as an editor, remains one of the most eccentr...

Hiroshima Mon Amour , considered a seminal arthouse classics of world cinema, established Alain Resnais, a documentary filmmaker until th...

Italian filmmaker Valerio Zurlini’s spellbinding wartime romantic tragedy Estate Violenta and its immediate follow-up Girl with a Suitc...

The Polish film Interrogation , like so many movies made in the Eastern Bloc under draconian regimes, was banned immediately upon its rel...

Ridley Scott made Prometheus as a prequel of sorts to his groundbreaking outer-space horror film Alien ; however, its scope wasn’t limit...

43 years after Vassilis Vassilikos’ novel was made into a scorching movie of the same name by Costa-Gavras , viz. Z , , it has once aga...

After a long period of critical and popular hiatus, Robert Altman hit the jackpot with ThePlayer , and that, along with the following mov...

It might be a matter of debate as to which film has been the best cinematic adaptation of Agatha Christie’s whodunits, but the courtroom ...

Italian auteur Valerio Zurlini remains a rather obscure filmmaker outside Italy – a shame if his remarkable second feature Violent Summer...

Coming right off his terrific examination of existential crisis and alienation Five Easy Pieces , Bob Rafelson’s The King of Marvin Garde...

Adapted from a novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, which had left a deep mark in Louis Malle’s mind, Le Feu Follet is generally regarded ...

Alpine Fire was the first feature film by documentary filmmaker Fredi M. Murer, and my first tryst with Swiss cinema. The director deser...

Robert Altman, an iconoclastic and one of the most fascinating filmmakers to have come out of America during the 70s, made a string of br...

Grihajuddha , directed by the eminent Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta, is a gritty political thriller set at the backdrop of the vio...

One of Ron Howard’s favourite subjects possibly is “triumph over adversity”, and he has made a number of popular movies based on that the...

Au Revoir Les Enfants wasn’t just one of Louis Malle’s best works, it also remains as one of the finest war time dramas ever made. Inter...

Kishore Kumar Ganguly, better known as Kishore Kumar to his legions of ardent fans, received fitting commemoration through this documenta...