Category: Year in Film
Local Hero: A Romantic Postcard from Scotland to the Rest of the World
I am proud of my Scottish roots, although I am sorry to say that I have only been there as a child. I will make…
Star 80 (1983) – Bob Fosse's Last Roar
Bob Fosse directed only five films and this, the one with the odd licence plate title, was his last. The dancer/choreographer/screenwriter/director had a penchant for…
Chemistry With Julie Walters and Michael Caine: Educating Rita (1983) Review
Julie Walters and Michael Caine. I mean, we talk about the on-screen chemistry between acting folk, likely when it is either not meant to be,…
So Long and Thanks for all the Laughs: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you’ve…
Robert Altman’s Streamers (1983) – Deployment into Oblivion
Streamers was a far cry from ’83 box office hits like Jennifer Beals, lady welder/dancer, seeking respect by getting buckets of water dumped on her in Flashdance or the Star Wars version of Teddy Bears’ Picnic, Return of the Jedi, but I’m certain that was precisely the way Robert Altman wanted it.
Rewind: 1983 in Film – WarGames
David Lightman (Matthew Broderick), computer gamer enthusiast, who doesn’t take much interest in anything else. He sits at home on his computer after dialing up, and waiting…
Pauline à la plage: Yet Another Alluring Éric Rohmer Love Lesson
Éric Rohmer’s third Comédies et proverbes from the 1980s is yet another masterful grasp of the human language of, and lessons in, love. Pauline à la…
Sink Your Teeth Into This: Revisiting The Hunger (1983)
Nothing Human Loves Forever Tagline for The Hunger Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) and John (David Bowie), are your typically average elegant, fashion conscious and yuppie vampires-next-door…
Rewind 1983: The Right Stuff
It’s all there, from the big moments on the launch pad that played-out on the international stage to the small moments like chasing your love on horseback through the desert. Intimacy and grandeur, the key elements in the classic epic filmmaking, share the screen equally as if to remind us that all heroes do not necessarily make it to the TV screen.
Tim Roth Directs The War Zone With Brutal Truth
*** SOME SPOILERS *** In the opening scenes of the 1999 bare-bones British drama The War Zone, some effort is made to establish what might…
Pokemon: The Cash Grab (Or How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too!)
Ah, the late Nineties: A hell of a time to be around and young. Bill Clinton was in the midst of impeachment hearing about lying…
East is East, A Room for Romeo Brass Make For Perfect 1999 Movie Double Bill
“But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth.” – Rudyard Kipling Perusing through the vast rang of movies from 1999 is…
Trapped in the Rat Race: Revisiting Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher
With the recent release of You Were Never Really Here, and the Rewind year at Filmotomy, it seems only fitting to revisit Lynne Ramsay’s debut…
Life Interrupted: The Journey to get The Virgin Suicides from Page to Screen
“I never thought I would be a film-maker. It wasn’t something I ever planned. I had so many interests but I just couldn’t find one medium…
