Tag: Movies
Questioning Reality: Revisiting The Thirteenth Floor
Ignorance is bliss. For the first time in my life, I agree. Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) 1999 saw the science fiction genre be redefined by…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 22: The Film Year 1999 – A Kubrick Odyssey
In this podcast we delve into our new series ‘Rewind‘, and the year is 1999. Al returns to host, and is joined by Rob, Jonathan,…
“Tell Him I’m Coming.” Revisiting the Explosive Revenge Neo-Noir The Limey
“Bide your time. That’s what prison teaches you, if nothing else. Bide your time, and everything becomes clear, and you can act accordingly.” When Steven…
Magnolia: A Children's Story by Paul Thomas Anderson
“But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs.” – Exodus 8:2 In the third movie of…
Documentary Review – David Lynch: The Art Life
David Lynch is a larger than life film director and artist who has over the years brought us such surreal delights as Eraserhead (1977), Twin Peaks…
Documentary Review – The Karma Killings
India and the rest of the world were left shaken in 2006, when a pair of serial killers were caught after killing 19 children, what made…
Documentary Review – Mommy Dead and Dearest
A mother is supposed to take care of their child through any sickness, and on the surface this seemed to be the case with mother Dee…
Documentary Review – Dawson City: Frozen Time
There’s a high chance that you haven’t heard of Dawson City, a small town in Yukon, Canada, with a population of 1,375, but for a brief…
Review: The Night I Swam
Children have a habit of getting into mischief, and certainly the child protagonist of Takara, la nuit où j’ai nagé (The Night I Swam) is a…
So Netflix Cannes-n’t Dance? – Some Thoughts
Distributors may have a stranglehold on some festivals, but art is like water – it finds the path of least resistance and eventually makes its way through, under and around the barriers to reach the thirsty. If filmmakers can reach audiences without bowing to the pressure of having to be “the best” or winning an award, so much the better.
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 21: Films We Love/Hate and Other Guilty Pleasures
Regular host and birthday boy Al sits this podcast out. Instead, Robin, Bianca, and Rob are joined by Jonathan Holmes making a return after a…
Casino: Same Old Song & Dance?
In the hands of almost any other filmmaker, Casino would be a considered a watermark in that person’s career. Critics and film nuts (such as the…
Saving Our Cinema Legacy – Martin Scorsese, Steward of Film Preservation
Every film-lover owes Martin Scorsese much gratitude for his magnificent personal filmography, but for his dedicated efforts to preserving the work of others, worldwide, for future audiences to experience? We owe him everything.
A Perception of Color in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator
The 2004’s The Aviator, Martin Scorsese wanted to imitate the color techniques from his memories watching the films of the era as a child. You…
