Cinemascope

  The Gospel According to St. Matthew was a great conundrum as much for the inherently contradictory context surrounding it, as it was for ...

  The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant established a radical and decisive shift in Fassbinder’s cinematic form and grammar – from austere, lo...

 Nanni Moretti’s delightful, drifting and self-deprecating rendition of his ironic and neurotic protagonist – part actual self, part alter-e...

 Can social observations be piquant and compassionate in equal measures? Can there be immersive storytelling with the frailest of plots? Can...

  Monsieur Klein , Joseph Losey’s frighteningly brilliant pièce de résistance , provided – as claustrophobic political thriller, darkly sur...

 While Truffaut loved making crime films as an expression of his love for classic noirs – albeit permeated with poetic sensibility that was ...

Shakespeare Wallah – the sophomore Merchant-Ivory collaboration that earned them international fame – was a rare example of exceptional fil...

  Story of Women , the 2 nd of 7 collaborations between Claude Chabrol and Isabelle Huppert, comprised of a radically non-conformist anti-h...

 Henri-Georges Clouzot – best remembered for his two electrifying thrillers The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques – had written the screen...

 Nearly a decade after Alain Delon’s character – triggered by fragile insecurity, repressed envy and spurned ego – took Maurice Ronet’s char...

 Three decades before Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert, two giants of French cinema, played father and daughter in Haneke’s devas...

 Luchino Visconti’s celebrated fourth feature Senso served as a pivotal milestone for the “Red Count”, as it marked his decisive turn from ...

 Martin Scorsese’s bravura adaptation of the acclaimed nonfiction book of the same name by David Grann – for the 44 th feature-length film ...

 Dutch documentary filmmaker and photographer Johan van der Keuken, as an essay in Jump Cut appropriately observed about him, “works on the ...

Jenin, Jenin , as cinema of resistance, was at once powerful, defiant and lucid in how Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammed Bakri used a...

 Pioneering documentarian William Greaves’ formally daring exercise – albeit one that remained undistributed for 23 years, until its stunnin...

Tar | Todd Field | US My Imaginary Country | Patricio Guzman | Chile One Fine Morning | Mia Hansen-Love | France All That Breathes | Shaunak...

  Monica, O My Darling is a heady, devilish and deliriously entertaining joyride, and riotously lurid and pulpy at that. This crackling cel...

 Spanish director Jonás Trueba’s deceptively conceived, structured and titled film You Have to Come and See It – a playful post-pandemic wo...

 In Irish playwright turned filmmaker Martin McDonagh’s captivating debut film In Bruges , Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson had portrayed a...