The Brats, Francois Truffaut's Les Mistons (1957) The best way to appreciate an auteur and that distinctive stamp on his œuvre, is often,...

The Zone of Interest( 2023, Photo courtesy A24) I hadn’t heard of Jonathan Glazer until a fortnight ago, when a colleague asked me if I...

Still photography could well be the kick-off point towards videography, and who knows? ..even cinematography. Take Wim Wenders, Spike...

Chishū Riyũ in Late Spring(1949) “If I go to lonely island with only one film it would still be Tokyo Story”, Aki Kaurismaki “Ozu is my...

American actor Jean Seberg and Jean-Luc Godard in 1960 in Paris. In the world of cinema, there are few names as iconic and revolutionary...

Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs(1971). Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs’ (1971) is the aesthetics of violence and a lot more. Based on a novel by...

Taste of Cherry(1997) is one of the two finest films from Abbas Kiarostami. Under the Olive Tree being the other. Simple see the film...

The story centers on an unnamed university student, referred to as "you" by the narrator, as he suddenly quits attending school, cuts off...

The Circle(2000) If there is an Iranian filmmaker suppressed, banned, and arrested by the despotic regime of Iran it is Jaffar Panahi....

It is way beyond me to describe Bresson or his films and the experience of watching them with adjectives. Watch Au Hasard Balthazar and...

FILM: UGETSU MONOGATARI (THE TALES OF MOONLIGHT AND RAIN) YEAR: 1953 LANGUAGE: JAPANESE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPfl1dcTkI&t=438...

“The final sequence of Antonioni’s La Notte is perhaps the only episode in the whole history of cinema in which a love scene became a...

A lot of films leave us moist eyed. Some go further and simply make us cry and reach out for a box of tissues. Very few make our hearts...

“I keep trying to forget what happened and wonder what my life might have been like if that car of Haskel’s hadn’t stopped. But one thing...

MOU YEAR: 1968 LANGUAGE: SPANISH Those were revolutionary times in Latin America. While Ernesto ‘Che’ Gauvera was formulating his...

Introduction To understand any art form, it’s necessary to know its journey and the evolution it undergoes. To apply this to cinema, some...

“Twice in my life, I understood what genius meant,” Jerry Lewis once said: “The first time when I looked up the definition in a...

Since the last 15 years or so, cinema from Israel, has been getting a lot more recognition globally – in terms of prestigious awards and...

The year was 1981, when at the age of 15 I had my first tryst with Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel, “The Godfather” in my hometown of...

I am writing my third article that revolves around Claude Chabrol-the undisputed master of the poetry of murder and one of the founding...