Tag: Cinema
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #40: Happy Pride Month
The Reading, Writing, Arithmetic mantra was established at Filmotomy to issue regular, insightful links from the film world that were certainly worth repeating. It’s been…
Watch: 4 Minute Video Counting Down the Best LGBT Films Ever
As voted for by many of you, here are the results of the humongous poll to find out what you all collectively believe to be…
Rewriting Cannes Film Festival History – Here Are The Results For All 72 Events
As you may have seen on Twitter yesterday, I started posting the results of the Rewriting Cannes Film Festival History poll we ran. A huge…
For Newbies: ‘Must-See’ Modern Korean Horror Movies
Whispering Corridors (1998) Yeogo Goedam Directed by Ki-hyung Park Whispering Corridors should be placed in the genre of films encompassing the horrors of school, along…
Dark Cinema: Horror from Japan and Korea
An Overview By Ren Zelen ‘No body’ does it better When a new era of Asian horror films entered mainstream Western cinema with Hideo Nakata’s…
VIDEO – the Best 50 Films from South Korea
Almost 200 examples of South Korean cinema collected votes as many of you and others beyond selected your own preferences in this flourishing segment of…
Filmotomy’s ‘Cinema Sevens’ Series Looks to Remedy Some of those Film Writers’ Blues
An Unknown Future There’s not much at all I can personally do about this alarming and unyielding pandemic we’re facing. Nor can I offer paid…
1957 in Film: Peyton Place
If someone asked you to name the first thing that pops in your head when you hear the term ‘50s melodrama, you’d probably say Douglas…
1957 in Film: Until They Sail
Until They Sail (directed by Robert Wise) is a World War Two romance set in New Zealand. Featuring the four Leslie sisters and their romantic…
1957 at the Oscars: The Japanese, the Italians, and the Blacklisted, among the Many Faces of Oscar
Who says the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are not international? If we go way, way back to the 30th annual Academy Awards,…
‘Parasite’, ‘1917’, ‘Knives Out’ Win Big at the Pandora International Film Critics Awards 2019
And so the time as come. Before we get completely engulfed in Sunday night’s BAFTAs and what it means to the illustrious awards season of…
Film Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
French director Céline Sciamma has been well-known amongst those who are into European cinema for some time now, with her films Water Lillies, Tomboy and…
Filmotomy launches ‘Pandora International Film Critics’ Awards
As I still compile the rules and whatnot of such a huge process with the freshly squeezed film critics group assembled through Filmotomy, I wanted…
Filmotomy Podcast 96: Predicting the 92nd Oscars Nominations
With just hours away from the announcement of the 92nd Academy Awards nominations, the Filmotomy Podcast gathers some film hopefuls in an attempt to predict…
