Cinemascope

 Scottish director Charlotte Wells’ assured debut film Aftersun is an achingly tender portrayal of memories – which can be alternately wist...

 In March 1978, former Italian PM and Christian Democracy party leader Aldo Moro was kidnapped, held hostage for 55 days and eventually assa...

 There’s something inherently haunting and melancholic about films, books and songs – Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock , Mohiner Ghoraguli’s Se...

 Stark tales of illegal refugees – who suffer harrowing conditions, exploitation and apathy as the going rate for hopes of a marginally bett...

 Argentina was no different vis-à-vis most other South/Central American countries when it came to experiencing repressive right-wing dictato...

 Biba – the vivacious transwoman in Joyland who refuses to be stripped off her agency despite an existence marked by scorn and marginalizat...

  Alcarràs was a decidedly political film, even when it wasn’t ostensibly so. Its embodiment of this curious dichotomy – between its themes...

  Dry Ground Burning , as the title indicated, was scorched, grimy and incendiary, and – as a ferociously feminist, bleakly dystopian and bo...

  Everything Everywhere All at Once , the unlikely smash hit by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, a.k.a. ‘The Daniels’, was clearly a film o...

 Mia Hansen-Løve is that rare filmmaker who can effortlessly portray a volley of emotions, existential crises & lived experiences using ...

 Who could’ve imagined that an increase in Santiago’s metro fare by 30 pesos in October 2019 would spark such a massive social outburst that...

 Shaunak Sen, while speaking of the driving force behind his terrific documentary All That Breathes , articulated his eagerness to “touch up...

 Lucrecia Martel’s magnificent ‘ Salta Trilogy ’, over the course of the films that it comprised of, transitioned from the broad to the part...

 If Lucrecia Martel’s stunning debut feature La Ciénaga – with its intoxicating cocktail of chaos, malaise, torpor, vacuousness, fault-line...

 Philippe Garrel’s filmography weren’t just delineated with remarkable formal, tonal, textural and compositional consistencies, it was often...

  Arabian Nights – Pasolini’s concluding instalment in his audacious, expansive and uninhibited ‘ Trilogy of Life ’ – was an episodic antho...

 Based on Geoffrey Chaucher’s influential Middle English epic, The Canterbury Tales was Pasolini’s ecstatic and flamboyantly crafted second...

 Unapologetically ribald, wickedly subversive, gleefully scandalous and vivaciously realized, The Decameron – Pasolini’s extraordinary adap...

Simon of the Desert – considered part of his extraordinary “ Alatriste/Pinal trilogy ” along with Viridiana and The Exterminating Angel , ...

 The third chapter in Saura’s delicious and delirious ‘ Bourgeois Trilogy ’ – preceded by the brooding and magnificent Peppermint Frappe , a...