Cinemascope

Adapted from Marguerite Duras’ book of the same name by Peter Brook, Moderato Cantabile is an interesting psychological drama about a bo...

Love and Death , Woody Allen’s brilliant satire on classic Russian literature as well as Russian mores, traditions and history (especiall...

Akira Kurosawa’s life and career had taken a tragic turn after his disastrous foray into Hollywood and the commercial failure of Dodesuka...

Allen Baron showed both promise and maturity with his low-budget debut film Blast of Silence . This intense psychological study on the ex...

Intentions of Murder formed the final chapter of a thematically linked trilogy also comprising of Pigs & Battleships and The Insect...

The Western, or as Altman had put it, the anti-Western, McCabe & Mrs. Miller , ranks amongst the finest achievements for the maverick...

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s La Verite was quite a few things rolled into one – courtroom drama, searing social critique, dark depiction of l...

Andrzej Wajda, one of the most renowned and revered filmmakers to have emerged out of Eastern Europe, made a striking debut with the lyri...

The opulent and sprawling gangland saga that Anurag Kashyap begun with the first part of Gangs of Wasseypur , reached its conclusion – an...

Rear Window , Vertigo and Psycho make for a superb trilogy – not just because the three were the best works of Alfred Hitchcock, they w...

Serial killer movies come dime a dozen, but rarely does a director delve into the psychological angles of the crime and deftly paints a p...

Andrzej Munk, who was one of the founding fathers of the Polish Film School, had his career tragically cut short by a car accident while ...

Though French auteur Claude Chabrol made a string of highly acclaimed movies in his prolific career, Le Boucher undeniably remains his m...

One of the greatest pleasures for a cinephile is to serendipitously ending up viewing a movie by a hitherto untried filmmaker without any...

Kenji Mizoguchi, the most internationally celebrated filmmaker from Japan along with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, attained the pinnac...

There’s so much pleasure in stumbling across a relatively lesser known noir that turns out to be darker, grimmer, and more hardboiled tha...

William Friedkin, fresh out of his back-to-back successes, viz. The French Connection and The Exorcist , nearly had his career destroyed...

A Man Escaped is widely recognized as one of the finest escape dramas ever made, despite it being anything but an archetypal escape film...

The exceptionally talented Polish filmmaker Andrzej Munk, who would go on to make the seminal classic Bad Luck , made his feature film de...