Posted in Backstage Year in Film

1988 in Film: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Watching a Terry Gilliam film is always an adventure. The plot may be nonsensical, the characters may lack actual depth, there may be a misogynistic…

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1988 in Film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit and 5 of His Lesser Known Friends

By far one of the most unique and inimitable films ever made was Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). Not quite a children’s film and certainly…

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1988 in Film Review: The Last Temptation of Christ

“For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every…

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cinema paradiso 1988
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1988 in Film: Nuovo cinema Paradiso / Cinema Paradiso

In one of many scenes of sheer marvel from Cinema Paradiso, our young adult hero has his romantic fantasy interrupted by heavy rainfall. Seconds later,…

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Video – Revisit the Marvellous Year in Film that was 2020

The turbulent year of 2020 is now seemingly a distant memory – albeit the delayed awards season keeping much of those films in the conversation….

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Posted in Culture Movies Year in Film

How Far Can We Embrace the Character and World of Mathilda in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional?

The cinematic year of 1994 might carry varying degrees of weight a quarter of a century later. The visceral landscape, our resonating view of film,…

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Pulp Fiction
Posted in Movies Year in Film

1994 in Film: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction

Full disclosure: I am very much a child of the 90’s, which means a few things. Disney animated moves were a staple of our youth…

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1994 in Film: Video of the Best 50 Movies as Voted for by You

Filmotomy’s many followers braved their way to the forefront of the 1994 Film polls, and submitted their favourites (or what they consider the best of…

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The Hudsucker Proxy
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1994 in Film: The Hudsucker Proxy

“Long live The Hud” is what the grey suited, morose, chairmen of Hudsucker industries chant after they witness their President, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning) fall…

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Muriel
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1994 in Film: Muriel and the arrival of Toni Collette

Australia is famous for many reasons. Our sun-kissed beaches are the envy of the world. We love Vegemite on toast, which continues to baffle most…

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Priscilla
Posted in LGBT Review Year in Film

1994 in Film: Priscilla and the Original Drag Race

For the last decade, drag culture has almost become entirely mainstream, largely thanks to the glitz, glamour, and tea-spilling of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Which has…

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Shallow Grave
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1994 in Film: Shallow Grave

Shallow Grave is director Danny Boyle’s first feature film, and Ewan McGregor’s first major role. An intense psychological thriller with a side of black comedy,…

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Ed Wood
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1994 in Film: Ed Wood

Ed Wood is a celebration of movies and outcasts. It’s a love letter to the golden age of schlocky movies, and the hopeless dreamers who…

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Little Women
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1994 in Film: Little Women

Throughout the history of cinema, the story of the March Sisters has graced the big screen many times. With each edition having its own distinct…

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