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Filmotomy Podcast 65: Great Movie Adaptations

Hi #FilmTwitter what are your top 3 film adaptations (books adapted to film) and why? @Filmotomy @itsdougjam and @aaroncharles18 and myself will read them out…

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Posted in Year in Film

Rewind: 1967 in Film – Playtime

I sometimes wonder how a film like Playtime can exist. Imagine being Jacques Tati going to a studio asking for financing to basically create your…

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Rewind: 1967 in Film – The Jungle Book

Thirty years after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs changed the landscape of cinema as the very first feature-length animated film, Walt Disney’s death in 1966…

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Rewind: 1967 in Film – The Incident

You would struggle to head on over to 1967, or indeed that defining era in American cinema in general, to find such a social commentary…

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Posted in World Cinema Year in Film

Rewind: 1967 in Film – Le Samouraï

I think every film deserves a certain benefit of the doubt. By that I mean, you should always be prepared to watch a film through…

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Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: Das weiße Band / The White Ribbon, 2009

We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. Das weiße Band / The White Ribbon, 2009…

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Posted in Director Masterpiece

Krzysztof Kieślowski: Three Colours, 54 Moments, A Thousand Times Goodbye

As a young screenwriter, impressionable and ambitious, I was capable of soaking up inspiration like a sponge. Beyond the passion for writing and watching and…

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Psychology Of Film Diagnosis: Three Colors Blue

Blue, the first in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy, tells the story of a ghost musician, Julie, who is caught in a grieving cycle after…

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10 Days of Krzysztof Kieślowski: Films and TV 1975-1989

Krzysztof Kieślowski would return to television a decade after Personnel (1975) with a seminal, stunning Dekalog, the Polish series of 10 one-hour episodes, Binge it, I…

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10 Days of Krzysztof Kieślowski: Documentaries and Shorts 1966-1980

Wednesday 13th March 2019 will mark 23 years since the passing of one of cinema’s greatest film-makers – and one who deserved that tag without…

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Olivia Colman, Spike Lee, Alfonso Cuarón, Among the 91st Academy Awards Winners

Hello ladies and gentleman. I was your host this evening. Your first man, your hooded guide, your blacker-than-you driver. Here to clean up the dog…

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Filmotomy Podcast 61: Happy Valentine's Day at the Movies

Love is in the air at Filmotomy, as we succumb to the temptations of Valentine’s Day, with this week’s podcast. We’re going to relate all…

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Filmotomy Podcast 57: Anticipating the Cinema of 2019

As we still adjust to the new year that is 2019, the Filmotomy Podcast focuses some attention on the eagerly awaited cinema release in the…

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Shhh, Or Else the Writers Will Come -Filmotomy is Looking for Movie-Loving Contributors *** Unpaid ***

*** Not Paid Employment – But We’ll Treat You Like Gold *** You love to write about film, right? Our site Filmotomy is in full-throttle…

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