Author Rahul Hamid

Ermanno Olmi’s first feature, Il Posto (1961), is often misrepresented as being a continuation of the tradition of neorealism. This highly influential postwar film movement, which produced such masterpieces as ...

When Kathryn Bigelow won an Oscar for directing The Hurt Locker (2008), she was the first (and to this day, only) woman to receive the award. Not only did she break one of Hollywood’s most notorious glass ceili...

A panting woman hurtles down a highway, wearing only a trenchcoat. A man in a speeding sports car careens toward her: a near collision. Unexpectedly, he picks her up – then cut to credits, in reverse scroll. Th...

Floundering for some way to describe obtuse or complex art, critics often rely on the adjective “poetic”. It can come to mean nearly anything in this context and the word loses any descriptive power. In The Col...

Cristi Puiu’s first feature, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, put the Romanian New Wave on the international map, winning Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize in 2005. The film’s success created a road map for other Roma...

No Country for Old Men is the Coen Brothers’ most celebrated film. It won the brothers three Academy Awards: best picture, director, and adapted screenplay. Javier Bardem picked up the Oscar for supporting acto...

Of the three great American clowns of the silent era, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Keaton has emerged, by and large, as the cinephiles’ favourite over Chaplin, who was the greater star of hi...

Lee Chang-dong is the cinema’s great poet of disappointment. His films are preoccupied by the ways in which the mores of contemporary South Korean society conflict with morality and the quest for personal happi...

Floundering for some way to describe obtuse or complex art, critics often rely on the adjective “poetic”. It can come to mean nearly anything in this context and the word loses any descriptive power. In The Col...

Ashes and Diamonds/Popiól I diament (1959 Poland 103 mins) Prod Co: Zespól Felmowy “Kadr” Dir: Andrzej Wajda Scr: Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda, from the novel by Andrzejewski Phot: Jerzy Wójcik Ed: ...

Camera Buff/Amator (1979 Poland 117 mins) Prod Co: Film Polski/Zespol Filmowy “Tor” Prod: Wielislawa Piotrowska Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski Scr: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr Phot: Jacek Petrycki Ed: H...

My Night at Maud's/Ma nuit chez Maud (1969 France 110 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Les Films du Losange, et. al. Prod: Pierre Cottrell, Barbet Schroeder Dir, Scr: Eric Rohmer Phot: Néstor Alme...

Der Letzte Mann/The Last Laugh (1924 Germany 74 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: UFA Prod: Erich Pommer Dir: F.W. Murnau Scr: Carl Mayer Phot: Karl Freund Art Dir: Robert Herlth, Walter Röhri...

Black Girl/La noire de… (1966 Senegal 59 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Filmi Domirev, Les Actualitès Françaises Prod: André Zwoboda Dir, Scr: Ousmane Sembene Phot: Christian Lacoste Ed: André Lacoste ...