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Shoumojit Banerjee
Dec 26, 20243 min read
Why 1974’s Murder on the Orient Express is the finest Agatha film
1974 was a banner year for cinema, a time when screens were graced with films of exceptional variety and brilliance, from ‘The Godfather...


Shoumojit Banerjee
Dec 18, 20243 min read
A Ticking Time Bomb in a Broken Britain: Juggernaut at 50
Yes, this is the film where the climactic choice boils down to cutting the red wire or the blue one. Fifty years ago, director Richard...


Shoumojit Banerjee
Nov 27, 20243 min read
Privacy in Pieces: The Enduring Relevance of The Conversation
50 years since its release, Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’ (1974) remains a masterclass in paranoia, a film whose prescient...


Shoumojit Banerjee
Nov 11, 20243 min read
A Spectacle in Ruins: Rediscovering The Fall of the Roman Empire
In the sweep of 20th-century Hollywood epics, few have slipped so quietly into obscurity as Anthony Mann’s ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire’...


Shoumojit Banerjee
Oct 25, 20243 min read
Shadows and Deception: The Third Man at 75
A perfect film? Well, as near as one, and certainly the one film to rival any of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest, director Carol Reed’s ‘The...
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