Francois Truffaut

Bhuvan Shome: How Mrinal Sen's National Award-winning film ushered in a seismic shift in the Indian film industry

Bhuvan Shome gave rise to what we now popularly call the Parallel Cinema movement, a movement that would leave an indelible footprint onto the landscape of Indian cinema, thereby changing the latter forever.

Roma: Alfonso Cuarón has developed into an able craftsman but does not have anything of significance to say

What critics respond to most is the look of a film and it is only in its ‘look’ that Roma comes up trumps; still, the look of a film is not something it is long remembered by.

Truffaut/Hitchcock and 50 years of The Bride Wore Black, aka the Kill Bill of its generation

One of Truffaut's most Hitchock movies ever, The Bride Wore Black, boasts of an unknowability that Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies lack.

Retro-watch: Fahrenheit 451, on burning books and remembering stories

As we come to the end of Banned Books Week, it’s a fitting moment to remember that ideas can’t be banned. The only way to wipe out an idea is by exploring it, analysing it and dismantling it with an argument that is more persuasive.