Cinemascope
My movie viewing journal since May 2008
Saturday, 8 June 2019
Made in USA [1966]
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French iconoclast, avowed leftist and the French Nouvelle Vague’s most defiantly non-conformist auteur Jean-Luc Godard, in a burst of extr...
Tuesday, 4 June 2019
Promise Me This [2007]
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Promise Me This , Kusturica’s follow-up to the magnificent and farcical political satire Life is a Miracle , can almost be considered as a...
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Subarnarekha (The Golden Thread) [1965]
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Ritwik Ghatak was forever haunted by the memories of the 1947 Partition; that, combined with his defiant Marxist lens, meant that the upro...
Saturday, 25 May 2019
Barbara [2012]
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Barbara , the opening act in Petzold’s ‘ Love in the Times of Oppressed Systems ’ trilogy – which also comprised of Phoenix and Transit ...
Sunday, 19 May 2019
Not Reconciled [1965]
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Cinéastes agree that there’s no easy entry point into the formally rigorous world of the filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle H...
Friday, 17 May 2019
Ida [2013]
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With the stark, austere, minimalist Ida , and the dazzling, audacious, smoldering Cold War , Pawel Pawlikowski crafted impeccably beautifu...
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