Cinemascope

My movie viewing journal since May 2008

Friday, 23 August 2013

Ossessione [1943]

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Luchino Visconti’s seminal debut feature Ossessione wasn’t the first adaptation of James M. Cain’s brilliant hardboiled novel The Postma...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas) [1973]

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The memories and scars of Partition and the ensuing exodus, recurred in Ritwik Ghatak’s works. Titash Ekti Nadir Naam , his penultimate f...
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Tuesday, 20 August 2013

The Cremator [1969]

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Juraj Herz resided at the edge of the Czech New Wave, and if The Cremator , the tonally and thematically darkest film belonging to that m...
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Sunday, 18 August 2013

Cruel Gun Story [1964]

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Heist films, or even their armored car subsets, have been dime a dozen right from the days of film noirs; the template of a gang of crimi...
Friday, 16 August 2013

Father (Apa) [1966]

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In Apa , only his second feature, Szabo painted a haunting, heartbreaking and deeply personal portrayal of loss and coming-of-age, and an...
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