Author: Bianca Garner
The Woman of your Nightmares: Is Audition about Misogyny or is about Misandry?
“A truly shocking horror film about obsession gone evil, “Audition” is made even more disturbing by its haunting beauty.” Ken Eisner, Variety Miike Takashi is a…
Boy in the Dark: A Conversation with Filmmaker Jason Ragosta
Jason Ragosta not only knows what he wants to do in the future, he’s become proficient in pulling it off at every level. Filmotomy will stalk his career with big expectations – watch Boy in the Dark here and see if you don’t agree. The Vimeo password for the short is: Diana
Documentary Review – SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
With a name like Mick Rock, you would have been more surprised if he hadn’t pursued a life of Rock N’ Roll. SHOT! Is an odyssey…
Questioning Reality: Revisiting The Thirteenth Floor
Ignorance is bliss. For the first time in my life, I agree. Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) 1999 saw the science fiction genre be redefined by…
“Tell Him I’m Coming.” Revisiting the Explosive Revenge Neo-Noir The Limey
“Bide your time. That’s what prison teaches you, if nothing else. Bide your time, and everything becomes clear, and you can act accordingly.” When Steven…
Documentary Review – David Lynch: The Art Life
David Lynch is a larger than life film director and artist who has over the years brought us such surreal delights as Eraserhead (1977), Twin Peaks…
Documentary Review – The Karma Killings
India and the rest of the world were left shaken in 2006, when a pair of serial killers were caught after killing 19 children, what made…
Documentary Review – Mommy Dead and Dearest
A mother is supposed to take care of their child through any sickness, and on the surface this seemed to be the case with mother Dee…
Documentary Review – Dawson City: Frozen Time
There’s a high chance that you haven’t heard of Dawson City, a small town in Yukon, Canada, with a population of 1,375, but for a brief…
Review: The Night I Swam
Children have a habit of getting into mischief, and certainly the child protagonist of Takara, la nuit où j’ai nagé (The Night I Swam) is a…
The Angel of Death: Revisiting Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out The Dead
There’s always been something about the loner that Martin Scorsese keeps returning to throughout his work; the individual who is on the fringes of the…
Marty’s Overambitious Disaster: Why Did New York, New York Flop?
It was a struggle trying to track down a copy of Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York, I couldn’t find it on Amazon Prime, or ITunes…
Alice in Wanderland: Why Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is More Than Just a “Woman’s Picture.”
Despite having an impressive filmography Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) remains Martin Scorsese’s first and only film starring a female protagonist, but regardless of the gender…
Short Film Review: E.M.U: Emotional Motor Unit
What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to feel alive? And how do our own emotions affect our creative process? These are…
