Category: Obituary
Filmotomy Podcast 103: We Say Goodbye to Jonathan Holmes AKA Mister Brown
There are not many words to introduce the latest podcast from Filmotomy. On 22nd November 2020 we all sadly lost Jonathan Holmes. There were so…
Cinema Sevens: Legendary Film Composer Ennio Morricone Returns to the Heavens
In this world, there’s no way of accounting for the daily rate of births, and what life has in store for them. With loss, we…
Film Review: The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Recalling, and unable to shake off, the tragic events in Alton, Texas in 1989, when 21 children died in a bus accident, Russell Banks wrote…
Farewell to the Mighty Swedish Actor Max von Sydow
The legendary Swedish actor, Max von Sydow, sadly passed away at the age of 90. An actor so ingrained and respected across decades of cinema…
Remembering Doris Day
Many people say that Doris Day brought a special ray of sunshine into the world, and they are not wrong. Hearing of her passing felt…
Agnès de '28 à '19: Remembering Agnès Varda
“I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.” Agnès Varda Today the world woke to sad news. Celebrated Belgian-born…
In a League of Her Own: Remembering Penny Marshall
If you’re not having a good time, find something else that gives you joy in life Penny Marshall Penny Marshall is perhaps best known for…
Cinema’s Mozart: Remembering Milos Forman
“Humour was not important just for me, humour was important for this nation for centuries, to survive.” Today the world woke to some tragic news,…
Mike Nichols, I Admired You Before I Even Knew You
About three years ago I wanted to write about the various, lasting directorial débuts in movie history, not just in my lifetime, but before I was even born….
Au Revoir, Jeanne Moreau
Having recently delved into the cinematic year of wonder that is 1961, it was an easy selection to include the emotive turn from Jeanne Moreau…
Carpe diem: Robin Williams One Year Gone
With a year gone by already since the incredibly sad loss of Robin Williams, how can I not be inspired by his legacy to write…
A Birthday Card For Robin Williams
I generally struggle to write messages in birthday cards, in fact it is not often at all I even go out to buy a birthday…
