Ingmar Bergman had written an essay ‘Film Has Nothing To Do With Literature’ translated by Lars Malmstrom and David Kushner which was part of his book ‘Four Screenplays’...
Andrzej Wajda is one of the leading film directors of the world and probably the most prominent Polish one along with the likes of Krzysztof Zanussi, Roman Polanski...
5th Dharamshala International Film Festival 2016 will take place from 3 to 6 November 2016 in the beautiful mountain town of McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala.
Margaret Lockwood was one of Britain's topmost box-office stars during the 1940s. In a career spanning quite a few decades, she was remarkable in Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece...
Charlie Chaplin was only with Keystone Studios for about a year, but it proved to be a very important year for him. It was at Keystone that he created his best known character,...
Sergei Parajanov is an auteur in the realm of cinema. Poetic, painterly and yet rooted deeply within the peripheries of the other high art forms, Parajanov presents us with...
James Dean acted in only 3 films before he died in a car crash in September 30, 1955. Sixty years after his death he still remains one of the best known Hollywood actors of...
Alfred Hitchcock made his directorial debut in Great Britain with The Pleasure Garden in 1925. In 1939 Hitchcock moved to Hollywood after a series of successful hits with...
Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman both passed away on July 30, 2007 in the span of a few hours. Silhouette pays a tribute on their death anniversary.
The 20th European Union Film Festival of India was recently held in Kolkata at Nandan from 2nd to 9th June 2015. A reportage on some of the highlighting films.
Oscar Awards' winners, such as Pedro Almodóvar, have drawn the audience's attention towards movies made in Spain. But most of the Spanish production, past and present, is...
Abbas Kiarostami proved that cinema does not need heavy cameras, negative and costs for scene or super stars with million dollars contracts.
Allen however imbibes some of the traits of the masters, while trying to put the message through. His film, Stardust Memories in the opening sequences reminds one of a Fellini...
The phenomenal burgeoning of Chinese Cinema particularly in the last two decades has been a cause of intrigue amongst the cinephiles.
Theo Angelopoulos ushers in his films a different Greece, a different humanity: one that suffers from melancholia at the breakdown of democratic state policies;
Chinese films have a long history. The trajectory of Chinese films can be best understood with its intimacy with the political happenings of that region.
Miyazaki alone drew 80,000 individual drawings out of 140,000 created for Princess Mononoke, when he was 54/55-year-old. The sheer number – 80,000 – can take one’s breath...
One cannot but admire Hou Hsiao-hsien generosity to put himself on the firing line both as a fighter and a symbolic presence to lead the Taiwanese film industry out of its...
The works of the Fifth Generation filmmakers in China are perhaps the most important in post-revolutionary film culture.
It can be argued that the professional and personal displacement experienced by Peter Weir during his Australian career and after his migration to Hollywood is reflected in...
Most movies that were the biggest hits in 1958 in America were social dramas.
Davis, now Warner Brothers’ most profitable star, was given the most important of their female leading roles. All This and Heaven Too (1940) was the most financially successful...
