Cinemascope

  Breaking Bad , which earned immense fandom, plaudits and awards, was undeniably gripping; however, its spin-off prequel Better Call Saul ...

 Disaffection, displacement, loneliness, rootlessness, and emotional ambivalence were the defining attributes of Chantal Akerman’s autoficti...

 Chantal Akerman made an intensely personal exploration of her fragile mind – filled with existential dilemmas, psychological ambivalence an...

 Made as part of Arte’s influential “ Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge… ” series where French filmmakers were asked to contribute ...

 The Holocaust had formed an integral part of Chantal Akerman’s lived experience, artistic voice, and being, and it was with Dis-Moi – also...

Mr. Bachmann and His Class | Maria Speth | Germany The Lost Daughter | Maggie Gyllenhaal | US Getting Away with Murder(s) | David Wilkinson ...

 In his dry and disturbing documentary Safari , Ulrich Seidl had portrayed “trophy hunting”, wherein wealthy tourists kill exotic animals in...

 There’s a constant interplay between scalding anger and understated melancholy running through Shaka King’s furious, electrifying, fiercely...

 Released on the 75 th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg trials that were conducted by the Allies at the end of WW2, it’s a biting ir...

 It’s really something to marvel at that a film, on subjects as heavy, brooding and serious as old age, mortality and assisted suicide, coul...

 Deliriously provocative, gloriously lurid, gleefully profane, riotously scandalous and unabashedly hyper-violent, Benedetta possessed all ...

  Khabar Lahariya (literally, “News Waves”) is a rare beacon of hope for journalism in the country – in a landscape otherwise cluttered wit...

 Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher’s sophomore film The Girl and the Spider – and their first in 8 long years since their debut film The Str...

 Jacques Audiard’s adaptation of three acclaimed graphic novellas by American cartoonist Adrian Tomine – albeit, transplanted to Paris with ...

 Lav Diaz’s sublime 4-hour gem History of Ha bore the hallmarks of “slow cinema” and the free-spirited Filipino maestro’s oeuvre – formally...

 Karim Aïnouz’s origin is a complex melting pot, in that he was born to a Brazilian mother and resides there, while his name is of Algerian ...

 Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s 3 films are a study in contrasts and commonalities. Where Asha Jaoar Majhe was a marvellously muted tone-poem and...

 Gaspar Noé suffered a near-fatal brain haemorrhage in early-2020, and that experience inspired the implosive, gut-wrenching and magnificent...

  The Power of the Dog , Jane Campion’s first feature in a decade, is a film that’s bound to keep one unbalanced – for its genre subversions...

 Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee was angst-ridden, provocative, coruscating, and combative to the point of being a vitriolic tirade at times, fur...