Tag: Film
The Brilliance That Is Saoirse Ronan As Hanna Simply Has To Be Experienced Again
Saoirse Ronan is the name at the top of the poster for the 2011 film Hanna. And rightly so. Getting your name ahead of someone…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File Three
“You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You’re in it together. To a degree that people don’t realize, documentary films…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 23:
Welcome to episode 23. In this episode, Bee hosts Rob, Jonathan, and Al as we discuss the results of her Twitter poll questions about films…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File Two
“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes…
Tim Roth Directs The War Zone With Brutal Truth
*** SOME SPOILERS *** In the opening scenes of the 1999 bare-bones British drama The War Zone, some effort is made to establish what might…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File One
“My hat’s off to documentary filmmakers. I don’t know if I’m ever going back to it. You’re treated like a second-class citizen at most film…
Pokemon: The Cash Grab (Or How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too!)
Ah, the late Nineties: A hell of a time to be around and young. Bill Clinton was in the midst of impeachment hearing about lying…
East is East, A Room for Romeo Brass Make For Perfect 1999 Movie Double Bill
“But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth.” – Rudyard Kipling Perusing through the vast rang of movies from 1999 is…
Trapped in the Rat Race: Revisiting Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher
With the recent release of You Were Never Really Here, and the Rewind year at Filmotomy, it seems only fitting to revisit Lynne Ramsay’s debut…
Life Interrupted: The Journey to get The Virgin Suicides from Page to Screen
“I never thought I would be a film-maker. It wasn’t something I ever planned. I had so many interests but I just couldn’t find one medium…
Finding Neo: How Your Children Can Understand The Matrix
Writing a piece on The Matrix for our Rewind: 1999 in Film series was trickier than I first imagined. And not because I had nothing…
The Insider – Blowin’ Smoke at Big Tobacco
Millions more people have died of ailments caused by cigarette smoke than by all terrorist attacks in every country since time began, so when Michael Mann opens his film about tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffery Wigand (Russell Crowe) with CBS producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) preparing a 60 Minutes interview with Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, cleric and cheerleader for suicide bombers, Mann had me at “hello.”
An Essenial Soundtrack for the Cinema of 1999
As part of the “Rewind: 1999 in Film” series at Filmotomy I pulled together a 10 minute video of some of the finest film scores…
Bummer of "Sam": Spike Lee Does Too Much and Not Enough
In Summer of Sam, Two sets of young Italian-American couples, Vinny (John Leguizamo) and Dionna (Mira Sorvino), and Richie (Adrien Brody) and Ruby (Jennifer Esposito)…
