Catching up with Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound after nearly 10 years and watching his Marnie next day for the first time reaffirmed my faith in the master as a storyteller; but somehow I could not escape the feeling this time that his films looked a little cold. It set me thinking for a [...]

When you are in doubt and not sure what to watch from amongst the DVD collection that you have acquired over the years, and you are not willing to take chances because you are feeling miserable for whatever reason, there is no better bet than old wine. So I decided to [...]

My acquaintance with Ingrid Bergman was limited to films like Casablanca, Notorious, Spellbound and Bergman’s Autumn Sonata all these years till I decided to look up her brilliant auto-biography My Story that was vying for attention on my shelf along with the biographies and auto-biographies of stars like Greta Garbo, Katherine [...]

I was in class five in Calcutta when I went to see Bruce Lee’s Enter The Dragon at the New Empire theater with a relative of mine. I was turned away from the gate because the film had an adult certificate. I was devastated. To compensate for it we went to see [...]