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Guru Dutt remains one of Indian cinema’s most enigmatic and tragic figures, a director, producer and actor whose body of work continues to captivate generations with its haunting beauty, emotional depth and artistic finesse. Dutt created films that blend poetic storytelling with visual innovation, tackling themes of love, identity, societal...

Trained as a painter and hailing from the elite art scene of 1970s New York, Kathryn Bigelow instead became a Hollywood maverick who embraced populist genre cinema. If her 1980s and early 1990s titles focused on the intoxicating allure of screen violence, or the threat of it, complete with seductive...

Despite being the most prolific director at England’s beloved Ealing Studios, Basil Dearden is largely absent from history books – that is, when he’s not being damned with faint praise or outright savaged. Take this, for example, from David Thomson’s The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: “[Dearden’s] proficiency was at...