Arthur J Pais wonders why the evergreen legend did not make brilliant films even in his old age, like some of his peers in the West. As I watched Max von Sydow play a mysterious immigrant and......
The world has football on the brain right now, what with the ongoing World Cup throwing up one great match after another. But for those of us who find the 0-0 draws less than magnificent, here's a......
IMAGE: Soumitra Chatterjee and Tushar Bandyopadhya in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar, He was the actor who epitomised the best of world cinema, transcending the boundaries of country, state and......
The much maligned Exorcist: The Beginning opened at the top with a not-so-disastrous $18.1 million.The film was shot twice. The first version byPaul Schrader was discarded because the producers......
'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.......