Posted in Director

Untitled Barber Movie: The Coen Brothers in Black and White

Visionary master Roger Deakins finally won his very first Oscar recently for Best Cinematography. No, you are not reading an article first published twenty years…

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Posted in Director Masterpiece

Masterpiece Memo: The Age of Innocence

Whenever asked about my favorite Martin Scorsese film, I typically went with the usual, more generally acceptable suspects across Scorsese film geeks. Movies like Goodfellas…

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Posted in Director Listmania

Listmania – Paul Thomas Anderson Edition

This week at Filmotomy we are celebrating Paul Thomas Anderson and the brilliant films he’s made over the last 20 years. I myself have been…

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Posted in Awards Season

Rachel Morrison Makes History With The American Society Of Cinematographers Awards Nominations

After the amazing work he’s done over the years, it looks like Hoyte Von Hoytema is finally on track to get his first Oscar nomination…

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Posted in Oscars Review

Review: Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water uses the unlikely, surreal story of a romance between a mute woman (the excellent, poised Sally Hawkins) and a captive, sentient sea-creature played…

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Posted in Oscars Women

For Your Consideration: Rachel Morrison, Best Cinematography, MUDBOUND

This is the closest a woman has gotten to being nominated for an Oscar in that impenetrable fortress of a category. As Morrison said when she was accepting her Kodak Vision Award in 2013, “It baffles me how women remain such a minority in an industry whose primary currency is visualizing human emotion….”

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Roger Deakins & That Elusive Oscar – Is This His Year?

  Consider this: A filmography of 57 films The go-to camera dude for the A-List directors like the Coens and Denis Villeneuve 3 ASC (American…

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Steven Spielberg's 'Private' Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan has been a game-changer since the day it came out. It changed the way battles were filmed; the D-Day sequence was studied…

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For Your Consideration: Beach Rats, Best Cinematography, Helene Louvart

What makes great cinematography? Is it colorful lighting? Is it long tracking shots? Well, while those things do help create a visually intriguing experience, what…

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Posted in Horror Movies

50 Films For Halloween '17 – Head Fuck

Yes, these are the horror hybrids that have you scratching your head if only you could locate it. From the sublime, the bonkers, to the…

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Oscars: If I Picked The Winners

Today is the last day for the Oscar voters to fill out their ballots, and I think it’s time to decide what I would vote…

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Posted in Director Movies

10 Reasons Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel Is, In Fact, Grand

The Grand Budapest Hotel is, no matter your taste in movies, a real treat. The art direction and expansive framing of the hotel sequences in…

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