Category: Year in Film
1988 in Film: Medea
Lars Von Trier’s Medea takes an especially distressing turn on an Ancient Greek classic. Retaining the well-known plot of the Euripides play, Medea is a…
1988 in Film: In Praise of Charles Grodin in Midnight Run
There’s something uniquely American about the genre of the “buddy movie.” Ever since Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy got into all kinds of trouble together…
1988 in Film: The Blob – the Goriest Feel-Good Movie
For some reason, in this time of self-quarantining, I’ve found myself drawn more than ever to the horror genre. In particular, those of the 1980s. Hellraiser,…
1988 in Film: Jane B by Agnes V
Actress Jane Birkin exists in multitudes. From Rivettian chess piece in Love on the Ground and La Belle Noiseuse to unsteady androgynous lover in La…
Cinema Sevens: Watch These Sinfully Underseen Film Gems From 1988
Remember back in 1988 when you could just run on down to the local video store and rent a movie or three? New releases like…
1988 in Film: Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Tim Burton’s 1988 Beetlejuice fuses comedy and horror to create a classic film. With Michael Keaton in the titular role, we delve…
1988 in Film: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Watching a Terry Gilliam film is always an adventure. The plot may be nonsensical, the characters may lack actual depth, there may be a misogynistic…
1988 in Film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit and 5 of His Lesser Known Friends
By far one of the most unique and inimitable films ever made was Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). Not quite a children’s film and certainly…
1988 in Film Review: The Last Temptation of Christ
“For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every…
Video – Revisit the Marvellous Year in Film that was 2020
The turbulent year of 2020 is now seemingly a distant memory – albeit the delayed awards season keeping much of those films in the conversation….
How Far Can We Embrace the Character and World of Mathilda in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional?
The cinematic year of 1994 might carry varying degrees of weight a quarter of a century later. The visceral landscape, our resonating view of film,…
1994 in Film: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction
Full disclosure: I am very much a child of the 90’s, which means a few things. Disney animated moves were a staple of our youth…
1994 in Film: Video of the Best 50 Movies as Voted for by You
Filmotomy’s many followers braved their way to the forefront of the 1994 Film polls, and submitted their favourites (or what they consider the best of…
1994 in Film: The Hudsucker Proxy
“Long live The Hud” is what the grey suited, morose, chairmen of Hudsucker industries chant after they witness their President, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning) fall…
