Author: Robin Write
Read the Official Program Guide for the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Program time! The countdown is over! It’s today! Oh my. The 9th edition of the Femme Filmmakers Festival has hurtled through its prepping stages with…
Full Line-Up of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 9th Edition
Another superb array of short film submissions (thank you Film Freeway) have made the line-up process a completely joyful breeze for the 9th Femme Filmmakers…
Looking for Volunteers: The 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Needs You
Filmotomy’s 9th annual Femme Filmmakers Festival is really not far away now. The online event runs again between 20th – 29th September 2024, when everyone…
2014 in Film: Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ and Moments That Seize You (and Me)
I remember when I first saw Boyhood and experienced my adult self reliving echoes of my childhood. Many films remind us, trigger times in our…
Vote for the Finest Films of 2014
A huge part of celebrating our 10 year anniversary of Filmotomy is the specific focus on 2014 in Film. It has been a while since…
Festival International du Film de Cannes 77 Prizes – Anora by Sean Baker Takes the Palme d’Or
Another year of me not being at the Cannes Film Festival remains somewhat depressing, but even from afar (well, across the North Sea) my passion…
Rétrospective du Festival de Cannes: Deadly Shu Qi in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Masterful ‘The Assassin’ (2015)
This writer’s first encounter with the Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress, Shu Qi, was in the late 1990s. One of the few occasions a certain sibling, a…
Rétrospective du Festival de Cannes: Film d’amore e d’anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza… / Love and Anarchy, 1973
Lina Wertmüller might have a German name, but she is an unsung heroine of Italian cinema. The writer and director was the very first woman…
Rétrospective du Festival de Cannes: Le Passé / The Past (2013)
Iranian maestro filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi, dipped his toe in French language cinema in 2013 with The Past. It has to be said, a far more…
Here are the Members of the Competition Jury for the 77th Festival de Cannes
We’ve known for a while now that actress and writer and director supreme, Greta Gerwig, would head the Jury for the Official Selection for the…
77th Festival de Cannes Unveils the Official Poster for 2024 Event
The official poster for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is a serene, poetic visual, orchestrated heavily by the cinematic presence of Japanese movie-making maestro, Akira…
Studio Ghibli to Receive an Honorary Palme d’or at the 77th Festival de Cannes
Whenever such a humongous portion of cinematic history is given such a prestigious spotlight, this editor has to say “Well it is about bloody time.”…
‘Past Lives’ Takes Top Prize at the Pandora International Film Critics Awards – ‘Anatomy of a Fall’, ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ also Big Winners
In a year for Oppenheimer and Barbie in humongous, explosive fashion right across 2023, the Pandora International Film Critics still hailed the greatness of world…
‘Past Lives’, ‘Society of the Snow’, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ and ‘The Zone of Interest’ Among High Performers As Pandora International Film Critics Unveil Their 5th Awards Nominations
The votes were counted and we have our nominations for the 5th annual Pandora International Film Critics. And in spite of the expected high tallies for…
