Cinemascope

 The scarring memories of Partition – displacement of millions; the macabre violence, irreparable loss and profound rootlessness that accomp...

  Mandi , or physical marketplace, manifests market economy, interplay of demand and supply, and flow of capital; it’s a place, therefore, m...

 Serious and meaningful films on journalism in India are as rare and elusive as serious and meaningful journalism in India – which, of cours...

 There’re two kinds of memorable cinematic adaptations of literary texts – those where the filmmaker imbues their vision and signature while...

 Loss and grief, as subjects, can be both oppressive and liberating, and different directors, therefore, have tackled them in remarkably div...

 Rivette’s exhilarating debut feature Paris Belongs to Us – the film’s emblematic title could serve as a slogan for the Nouvelle Vague in h...

 Reality, dreams, memories, and fantasy coalesced quite freely in Lal Darja , with its mystifying title referring to the potential path to f...

 The understated palette, languorous pacing, and moody poetic realism in Dasgupta’s haunting and eloquent film Tahader Katha , were striking...

 Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Charachar – adapted from a Prafulla Roy novel, and made in a phase when he was crafting one acclaimed arthouse film a...

 The sub-genre of paranoia/conspiracy thrillers – covering political corruption, institutional malfeasance, sordid machinations of large cor...

 The anarchist, non-conformist, prankster, satirist, cynic, romantic and mad genius residing within Godard were all on dazzling display in P...

  Vivre Sa Vie – with its desolate realism, melancholy and pathos – possibly ranks among Godard’s most solemn, understated and restrained w...

 Godard’s breathtaking, sensuous and fierce masterpiece Le Mépris was packed with cinematic references and straddled multiple dichotomous f...

 Godard made a euphoric return to the world of B-movies – the palette for his seminal debut feature Breathless – with Band of Outsiders , h...

 Like someone once eloquently surmised Godard’s scintillating debut – which became the Nouvelle Vague’s manifesto and, alongside The 400 Blo...

 While watching Julia Ducournau’s gloriously seductive body-horror film Titane , one hoped for one last hurray from Cronenberg who’d once ma...

  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 ...