Leon
Posted in Culture Movies Year in Film

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,…

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Pulp Fiction
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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…

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Posted in Video Year in Film

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…

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The Hudsucker Proxy
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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…

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Muriel
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1994 in Film: Muriel and the arrival of Toni Collette

Australia is famous for many reasons. Our sun-kissed beaches are the envy of the world. We love Vegemite on toast, which continues to baffle most…

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Priscilla
Posted in LGBT Review Year in Film

1994 in Film: Priscilla and the Original Drag Race

For the last decade, drag culture has almost become entirely mainstream, largely thanks to the glitz, glamour, and tea-spilling of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Which has…

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Shallow Grave
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1994 in Film: Shallow Grave

Shallow Grave is director Danny Boyle’s first feature film, and Ewan McGregor’s first major role. An intense psychological thriller with a side of black comedy,…

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Ed Wood
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1994 in Film: Ed Wood

Ed Wood is a celebration of movies and outcasts. It’s a love letter to the golden age of schlocky movies, and the hopeless dreamers who…

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Little Women
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1994 in Film: Little Women

Throughout the history of cinema, the story of the March Sisters has graced the big screen many times. With each edition having its own distinct…

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three colours
Posted in World Cinema Year in Film

1994 in Film: The Double Couleurs of Krzysztof Kieślowski with ‘White’ and ‘Red’

Blue may be the most popular of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Trois Couleurs trilogy, made during the renowned Polish filmmaker’s final years in France. But the following…

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1994 in Film: Breaking the Exhilaration Limits with ‘Speed’

It’s exciting! It’s far fetched! It bends the rules of physics! It’s the 1994 classic bus-themed thriller, Speed. Directed by Jan de Bont and starring…

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The Mask
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1994 in Film: The Mask

Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) is the embodiment of the “nice guy”. He goes out of his way for others, only to get the short end…

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Thumbelina
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1994 in Film: Thumbelina

Thumbelina is one of the creations to come from the mind of well known animator Don Bluth… The film that is, the original story was…

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The Lion King
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1994 in Film: The Lion King, Memory and Self Actualisation

There’s a reason why the general census on Jon Favreau’s pointless 2019 revamp of the 1994 Disney animated classic was so derided. You cannot improve…

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