Cinemascope

  Daaaaaalí! , one of two films that Quentin Dupieux made in 2023 – the stunning cultural satire  Yannick  being the other one – is neither ...

  Poor Things is possibly Lanthimos’ most unreservedly ambitious film to date – ribald, outré and gleefully grotesque – while also being si...

 Catherine Breillat proves with Last Summer that, even in her mid-70s, she hasn’t lost either her propensity or her appetite to defy norms ...

 In Pablo Larraín’s grisly, hyperbolic, farcical and pungently satirical horror-comedy El Conde , the despotic former Chilean dictator is bo...

 Vetrimaaran’s blistering Tamil film Viduthalai Part 1 – it was planned as a single work, but later decided for release in two parts – delv...

 The line between nonfiction and narrative filmmaking – and in turn between the supposed candour of the former and the inherent artifice in ...

 Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s extraordinary documentary The Mother of All Lies , through defiant remembrances, delivered a powerful ...

 French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker Lina Soualem’s delicately strung, lyrically shaped and deeply intimate diary film Bye Bye Tiberias , ...

 It’s perhaps neither coincidental nor surprising that in the two films from Pakistan that gained international acclaim in consecutive years...

 Revolutions, once shorn of the allure of romanticism, can be bloody, messy and grimy affairs, and that’s the first thing that one notices i...

 A meeting between renowned American documentarian Errol Morris – his examination of the slippery nature of truth, by sifting through decept...

 The chaotic messiness of life, the anxiety-laden process of reconciling with that, and the complexities that people must often navigate thr...

 Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts – a confluence of diary, essay, sociocultural document and city symphony – is an idiosyncratic ...

  And, Towards Happy Alleys – to paraphrase its director Sreemoyee Singh’s cogent summation – is a political film, albeit made poetically. ...

 Watching Sarvnik Kaur’s poignant and poetic documentary Against the Tide , one’s immediately transfixed by the exacting chronicling of her ...

 If collective national trauma emanating from Japan’s dark martial past, especially pertaining to WW2 and its aftermaths, informed Miyazaki’...

 What immediately arrests one about The Boy and the Heron – the first film in a decade by legendary octogenarian Japanese animator Hayao Mi...

 Hong Sang-soo’s chatty yet deadpan In Our Day – made in his characteristically unadorned visual language, unassuming aesthetic grammar and...

 Time and history are fluid, elusive and mysterious in Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera , an oddball mix of whimsy, irony and melancholy, with ...

 What could be more meta and self-reflexive than a filmmaker directing a feature-length work after three decades, centred on a filmmaker who...