Cinemascope

  Hands over the City , Rosi’s electrifying follow-up to his dazzling Salvatore Guiliano , firmly established him as one of the greatest pra...

 In the annals of landmark political filmmaking, Salvatore Guiliano – the scintillating film that established Marxist and post-neorealist f...

 Jacques Rivette eschewed time and narrative, and deconstructed the experience of making and watching movies, in Out 1 , his grandest and b...

 Mike Leigh’s final television film and the middle chapter in his terrific trilogy on Thatcher’s harsh regime – sandwiched on either side by...

 The title of Leigh’s High Hopes – the third film in his so-called “Anti-Thatcher Trilogy ”, which was preceded by Meantime and Four Days ...

 Often considered the pinnacle of Mike Leigh’s acclaimed work in television, and the first chapter in his searing trilogy foregrounded on Th...

  Teorema – a work of stunning bravado, intellect and force – remains amongst the most politically and formally radical films in Pasolini’s...

  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 ...