2014 in Film: Incomparably We Remember ‘The Book of Life’
“Behold, children, the glorious beauty of Mexico!” – The Book of Life Although it is often compared to Disney’s Coco (2017) in a way that…
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…
2014 in Film: A Somewhat Yawnful Rehash of Scott Spencer’s ‘Endless Love’
For those of us who were kids in the 1980s, Brooke Shields was a goddess. By 1981, she was a world famous model and actress….
Film Review: ‘The Bikeriders’ Rides High on Movie Star Charm
A breezy ensemble piece rides into town with Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, a period crime drama starring Tom Hardy, Austin Butler, and Jodie Comer. Chronicling…
Film Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ is a Tough Sell (in Either Direction)
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness is going to be a problem. The worst film critic you know (or wannabe critic) will laud it as an underappreciated masterpiece….
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…
Film Review: Richard Linklater Returns to Crowd-Pleaser with ‘Hit Man’
Coming-of-age stories. Decade-spanning humanist narratives. Rotoscoped paranoid thrillers. Richard Linklater is a member of a unique class of filmmakers whose next move can never be…
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…
Festival de Cannes Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
She’s mad as hell and as vengeful as they come— a woman of few words with the red hot fire of revenge in her eyes….
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…
