Crime Drama, Women and Claude Chabrol!

Writes Vandana Kumar, “No one takes you away from one-dimensional morality while trying to fathom his women charact...

Claude Chabrol and The Poetics of Murder

My first exposure to the ‘French New Wave’, La Nouvelle Vague, was through Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978). M...

Exploring the Darker Side

After watching a couple of her films, Vandana Kumar believes, that it couldn’t be merely a coincidence that Isabelle Hup...

The outlier of French new wave: Claude Chabrol

In a career that spanned over five decades, Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 - 12 Sep 2010) was one of the most prolific and widely respected of Fr...

How to go Crackers

Khalid Mohamed goes streaming with Laxmii, Aashram 2 and more.

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Films at the Berlinale 2019, World’s Largest Film Festival

The 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, popularly known as Berlinale is the world’s largest film f...

Isabelle Huppert Named Face of Kering’s Women in Motion Program

WOMAN IN MOTION: Kering has chosen award-winning actress Isabelle Huppert as the face of the third edition of its Women in Motion program at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. ...

Mumbai Film Festival: Day 3 And 4 Highlights

It’s a mixed bag as the Dardennes disappoint, Verhoeven provokes and Larrain delights Turns out the director of Basic Instinct, Starship Troopersand Showgir...

Women Directors Are Everywhere, But Film Festivals Are Still Catching Up — NYFF

The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspi...