Cinemascope

 While Mahanagar wasn’t Satyajit Ray’s first film set in Calcutta, it was the first where the metropolis formed an essential character, rig...

  The Swindle , despite being a seemingly lighter work in Chabrol’s filmography – relatively speaking, that is –, grabs one’s attention with...

 Liszt’s rapturous classical composition ‘ Funerailles ’ attained edgy and sinister undertones in Chabrol’s Merci pour le Chocolat . Music, ...

 The ingeniously named The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (the direct translation of its Italian title, interestingly, was simply “Ladies...

  Seduced and Abandoned , the uproarious middle chapter in Pietro Germi’s subversive ‘ Honour Trilogy ’ – sandwiched between his rollicking ...

 Cost-Gavras’ Section Spéciale bore the attributes that powerfully resonated in his stunning trilogy that preceded it and had made him amon...

 Rosi’s melancholic film Three Brothers is a tale of grief, familial convergence and attempted reconciliations, as well as one of anger, di...

  Christ Stopped at Eboli , Francesco Rosi’s sublime adaptation of Carlo Levi’s celebrated memoir, was composed as much as elegiac memories ...

 Loach’s deeply underrated gem Land and Freedom remains a singular work in his oeuvre, for his rare foray into historical epic – thus presa...

  The Wind that Shakes the Barley was equal parts poetic and political, as evidenced by its deeply elegiac title that referenced a revoluti...

 Kiarostami’s meditation on what it means to be a child in an adult’s world, and in how behavioural dynamics of kids – demonstrable even by ...

 Made under the auspices of ‘Kanun’ (local parlance for the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults) – as were m...

 Banned upon its release and largely buried for next three decades, Kiarostami’s discursive, loosely structured and deceptively piercing ess...

The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | UK/Poland The Mother of All Lies | Asmae El Moudir | Morocco Occupied City | Steve McQueen | The Ne...

 It’s rare for a filmmaker to remain steadfastly committed to their politics or form or both over the entire stretch of their career, and to...

 Adam (Andrew Scott), the protagonist in Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers , is a man shaped, bound and defined by internalized trauma – on...

 As Todd Haynes’ May December opens, we see a warm social gathering, on a sunny day, at the charming house of Gracie (Julianne Moore), geni...

 In Living Bad – João Canijo’s riveting reverse shot to the magnificent Bad Living – the Portuguese filmmaker shifted his gaze from the wo...

 João Canijo’s Bad Living – which formed an ingeniously imagined and magnificently shaped diptych with Living Bad , where the two counterpo...

 Shot over 6 years (between 2014 and 2019), and condensed from a staggering 2600 hours of footage into an immersive and observational 3 ½ ho...