9/17/2023 0 Comments Prime video coherence![]() ![]() From the alien lair, an inky pool of darkness that drags male victims down to unspecified doom, to a memory-scarring beach sequence, these set pieces must be seen to be believed. ![]() In this film loosely culled from a novel by Michel Faber, she plays an alien-in-human-form dropped from the skies and into Scotland - here a marshy, anemic, pictorial hellscape - to harvest the bodies (and, perhaps, the souls) of unwitting and horny men using her zaftig, feminine wiles. Jonathan Glazer) “Under the Skin” is the sort of far-out, nebulous and visually mesmeric art film you rarely see these days - and with an A-list star, Johansson, to boot. Emma Roberts leads, in a star-making turn, as a sexually curious high school senior producer-star James Franco is a creepy soccer coach Jack Kilmer commands the screen as a sensitive, too-cool-for-school hipster whose best friend, played by Nat Wolff, is a sociopath. ![]() Gia Coppola) A third-generation Coppola makes a bid at ethereal filmmaking in the beautifully empty “Palo Alto,” loved by many but not my cup of tea. More of a critics’ cause celebre than a serious awards player, “Locke” won a British Independent Film Award for Knight’s tight script (his series “Peaky Blinders” is now on Netflix), and the LA Film Critics’ Best Actor prize for Hardy. Steven Knight) This nimbly edited one-man show stars the delicious Tom Hardy as a stressed-out construction manager who juggles a series of intense, life-altering phone calls while driving in the dead of night from Birmingham to London. The director’s cinematography background lends itself well to this sparse fable. ![]() “ Hide Your Smiling Faces” (dir. Daniel Patrick Carbone) Carbone’s Tribeca entry and first feature is a moody rural-suburban tragedy revolving around two adolescent brothers whose coming-of-age is complicated by the sudden death of a friend. Drafthouse gave it a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it release, but this will be a cult classic in the years to come. Ari Folman) Number three on my year-end best list, this haunting, melancholy and gorgeous live-action/animated chimera is as pro-cinema as it is anti-Hollywood, offering a gloomy but faintly hopeful prophecy bursting with visual brio and a knockout performance by Robin Wright as many versions of herself. “ The Dog” (dirs. Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren) Though short-shrifted by the Oscar documentary shortlist, “The Dog” is an uproarious, real-life portrait of John Wojtowicz, whose attempted robbery of a Brooklyn bank to finance his boyfriend’s sex change operation inspired “Dog Day Afternoon.” Why Are Oscar Documentary Prospects So Sparse This Year? ![]()
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