What to say about Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, a viscerally unsettling film which keys directly into feelings of dissonance and alienation. It’s formally impeccable; filled with some of the most precise and simple imagery to be found and accompanied by Mica Levi’s otherwordly score, full of discordant strings and oscillating synths which find a way to tap into the tone of every scene, even gentle tones, while never letting go of an overall mood of terror. This terror is…
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The Flicker 1965
Never have I been more acutely aware of the fact that my physical perception of the world is solely a reaction to stimuli. Conrad truly gets down to the simple nature of how film is perceived, while presenting a truly inexplicable hallucinatory stroboscopic experience. Also an actual physical exercise on the eyes, ears, and body, as I swear even my heart rate was doubled by the end.
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The Heartbreak Kid 1972
“Don’t put a Milky Way in someone’s mouth when they don’t want it”
Grodin putting on all timer expressions with impeccable timing left and right.
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Demonlover 2002
What starts as a pretty clear cut tale of corporate espionage between pornography distributors descends into a chilling and utterly captivating atmospheric exploration of the effect of technology on the mind/body/soul of post-internet society. The film consistently shows how violence and hardcore sexuality prevalent in media has warped people through desensitization and creation of perverted fantasies that are mistaken for reality, all done in a way that makes demonlover enchanting. This doubles when the film's major espionage plotline largely falls…
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Bigger Than Life 1956
No films other than my two favorites Taxi Driver and Stalker have I loved as much as Bigger Than Life after my first viewing. All are true love on first sight, but is this a sign that Bigger Than Life will grow to rank among Taxi Driver and Stalker? Honestly I doubt it, despite how amazing I found it to be, and how it became an instant favorite for me and an instant all-time classic in my mind, I don't…
