Baradwaj Rangan

Queen of Hearts, Denmark’s Oscar submission that played at IFFI, is a cold take on incest and shattered lives

Queen of Hearts dives into things we don’t even want to think about, and leaves us with questions we cannot even begin to answer.

The Piano Teacher may be the definitive film of Isabelle Huppert, recipient of IFFI’s Lifetime Achievement Award

In a 2018 interview in Independent, Huppert said she doesn’t play roles or characters. “I play states of mind… character is a perception for whoever sees the film but not for myself."

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida and its non-dramatic drama: What it means for a film style to be 'transcendental'

What is “transcendental” style of cinema? It’s one of the precursors of what we call “slow cinema” today.

Why Gully Boy is the right choice for Oscars: Visibility, international buzz gives the film a real shot

Just a casual glance at the submissions for the Foreign Film Oscar in the last decade reveals how important international cachet is, whether the director himself/herself has that cachet yet.

Kangana Ranaut's public spat with PTI reporter prompts age-old question: Can actors and journalists be friends?

Kangana Ranaut made headlines for a (very public) spat with a journalist at a press conference for her upcoming film Judgemental Hai Kya.

Korean film Ode to My Father is an important reminder that manipulative mainstream cinema just isn't our thing​

The Korean culture critic Chin Jung-kwon called Ode to My Father “a low-class tearjerker”. It’s currently the fourth highest-grossing film in South Korean cinema history.

With the end of Cannes 2019, here’s looking back at Palme d’Or winners over the years

Now that Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite has won the Palme d’Or, let’s look back down the years and see if we can settle on the one Palme d’Or winner to beat all others.

Cannes 2019: Remembering a classic film with Alain Delon, recipient of the honorary Palme d’Or

Alain Delon is being awarded the Palme d'Or this year at Cannes — despite the controversy around him as he “is a legendary actor and part of Cannes history”.

Cannes Film Festival: Classics line-up includes a tribute to Lina Wertmüller’s Oscar-nominated Seven Beauties

The Classics line-up also has films by Vittorio De Sica, Milos Forman, Jean Renoir, John Huston, Andrzej Wajda and Tao Jin, along with Mario Sesti’s documentary, Cinecittà – I mestieri del cinema Bernardo Bertolucci

Capharnaüm, directed by Un Certain Regard jury president Nadine Labaki, questions the ethics of having children

This year’s jury president of Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival is Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, whose film Capharnaüm was part of last year’s Competition and won the Jury Prize.