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Tom Ooms
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Tom Ooms

Tom Ooms is Head of Cinema at LAB111, Amsterdam’s cult cinema, where he leads the programming. He also runs Odyssey Classics, LAB111’s sister distribution company, which brings classic cinema back to the big screen.

Episodes with Tom Ooms (29)

  • Why Does Hollywood Love Remaking Foreign Films?
  • Is Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Just 6 Great Scenes?
  • Cinema Obsession: Why Films Grip Us (Vertigo, Peeping Tom)
  • Amadeus: Is It Really About Mediocrity?
  • David Bowie’s Life in Cinema: The Man Who Fell to Screen
  • Frankenstein’s Monster: Why Is It Always Ugly? (Shelley to The Bride)
  • Jack Nicholson: How He Became a Cinema Icon
  • The American New Wave: How It Took Over Hollywood
  • Luca Guadagnino: The Master of Desire
  • Chick Flicks: Can the Genre Come Back?
  • Jaws: The Birth of the Summer Blockbuster & the History of Creature Features
  • Zombie Movies: Why the Genre Refuses to Die (28 Years Later)
  • Wes Anderson: Every Movie Ranked
  • Hollywood Comebacks: The Substance, The Last Showgirl & Why We Love Them
  • The Room: The Best Worst Movie Ever Made?
  • Vampire Movies: From Dracula to Twilight (Nosferatu’s Return)
  • Wim Wenders: Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire & the Road Movie
  • Orson Welles: Truth, Trickery & The Third Man
  • Future Frames: A Conversation with Kim Kokosky Deforchaux
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Alchemy of His Cinema
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