Cinemascope

  The Old Oak is supposedly Loach’s swansong, though – as a profound admirer of the British giant – one ardently hopes not. However, if tha...

 Contrary to what its ominously ironic title supposedly suggests, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi asserted otherwise – viz. evil’s malleable forms and arb...

 Aki Kaurismäki had considered quitting filmmaking after The Other Side of Hope , but had left the door ajar about completing what, along wi...

 1968 was a watershed year for rousing anti-government and anti-establishment protest movements across the world, dominated in most cases by...

 Narratives featuring two difficult individuals who overcome not just their borderline hostilities, but also gain rare insights into the oth...

 Packed with paranoia, anxiety, angst and outrage, amidst a rapidly escalating scenario and multipolar confrontations, İlker Çatak’s The Tea...

  Monster – Kore-eda’s first film in Japan since his feral found-family masterpiece Shoplifters , having made The Truth in France and Brok...

 Riveting, piercingly intelligent and tantalizingly orchestrated, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall had multiple thematic elements woven in...

 Nanni Moretti’s delightfully eccentric, endlessly amusing and disarmingly accomplished Aprile was made in a similar vein as his magnificen...

  Raining Stones , like the best of Ken Loach’s working-class films, was interlaced with political angst, social realism, profound empathy, ...

 Rosi’s brooding, ominous and gripping slow-burn political conspiracy thriller Illustrious Corpses – adapted from renowned Italian writer L...

 Rosi’s terrific film Lucky Luciano – with its rigorous aesthetic palette, overarching thematic preoccupations and an overriding sense of m...

 Rosi made dazzling use of a polyphonic, multi-perspective and non-linear form in The Mattei Affair – recalling his landmark film Salvatore...

  Léon Morin, Priest remains a fascinating anomaly in Melville’s filmography, considering that a secular Jew and left-wing atheist made thi...

 It was only appropriate that Jean-Pierre Melville, who belonged to a left-wing family and adopted this nom de guerre during his involvemen...

 Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher stitched together The Wonders with such deceptive simplicity, delicacy and lightness that it’s easy to ...

  Divorce Italian Style – Pietro Germi’s magnificent first foray into comedy and a pioneering work in the “ commedia all’italiana ” or “Ita...

 After a difficult time in the 1980s when he struggled to have his works broadcast and distributed, Ken Loach begun blending ferocious polit...

 Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas’ remarkable trilogy evokes irony as much for its cinematic legacy – criminally under-watched despite being ...

 Helke Sander, who was a pioneering feminist activist, influential voice on the left and experimental filmmaker, existed in the overlapping ...