Tag: filmmaking
Femme Filmmakers Festival Interview: An In-depth Conversation with ‘Makeover Movie’ Director, Sue Ding
Writer, Editor and Director of Makeover Movie, Sue Ding discusses her film background, movie influences and the typical makeover movie montages seen in so many Hollywood Rom-Coms. The playful editing of this essay-style film covers pop-culture references from Old Hollywood to modern cinema. Get to know Sue and the influences behind the making of Makeover Movie.
FemmeFilmFest21 Interview: ‘Diagonal’ director Anne Thorens
Robin Write speaks to the talented director behind the short film Diagonal, Anne Thorens, part of the Competition Selection at the 6th Femme Filmmakers Festival….
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #39: Watch Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid Now on Shudder
Many of the film lovers of the universe didn’t perhaps even know you were anticipating this wonder. After a terrific theatrical run, an ever increasing…
Tarantino Culture: Say ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Again. I Dare You.
The critics missed their Pan Am flights when it came to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. For example, none of them compared…
Once Upon A Time … in Hollywood & The Art of Driving with the Windows Down
[Contains minor spoilers for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood] Up until recently, I was a firm believer in cranking the A/C when it got…
Filmotomy Podcast 73: The Trouble With Quentin Tarantino
So Quentin Tarantino yet again has eager tongues wagging all over the film stratosphere. And the new podcast catches the iron while it is hot….
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…
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…
Review: Alfonso Cuarón‘s Roma
A filmmaker at the top of his craft. An autobiographical narrative featuring the people, language, and locales of his homeland, all captured in mesmerising black-and-white…
Interview – Half The Picture director Amy Adrion talks to Filmotomy
Exclusive interview with director of Half the Picture, Amy Adrion. With the release of her insightful, essential documentary, Adrion was kind enough to speak to…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 45: Female Filmmaker Favorites
Podcast 45 brings together Robin and host Bianca once again, along with yet another new, fresh face to proceedings. Audrey Fox of 1001moviesandbeyond.com jumps in…
Kubrick the 'Fan Boy': Stanley's Letter to Ingmar Bergman
I have written letters to writers I admire. Often I find myself squirming with embarrassment when I recall the words I wrote, (and I am…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File Ten
“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File Nine
“It’s a funny thing with documentary films – you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional…
