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On the Silver Globe 1988
a brutal, visceral, and unapologetically sprawling greek sci-fi epic with touches of tarkovsky and kurosawa, “on the silver globe” is an expansive archive of the birth of another civilization and the ways humans attempt to unearth/create/impose meaning in a landscape bereft of familiar history, accomplished through frenzied myth-making and grappling with the storms of desire and suffering.
when a human is thrown into lawlessness and blankness, who do they become? what languages do they utter, discover, reach for? which instincts…
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Under the Skin 2013
been wanting to watch this for a couple years now, esp. recently bec i thought it’d be good inspiration for one of the (many) plays i’m working on, and i’m glad i finally saw it.
it’s not the gory, bloody, ultra-violent film i expected it to be, but what it gave is a visually abstract, tender, tragic, and coldly horrifying look at the crumbling of/scrambling towards identity. while it’s obviously a film about an alien slowly absorbing human tendencies and…
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