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Saturday Matinee: Annihilation
Movie review: Annihilation By Frank Kaminski Source: Resilience.org Annihilation Directed by Alex Garland; screenplay by Alex Garland; based on the novel Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer; cinematographed by Rob Hardy; edited by Barney Pilling; music by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury; production design … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: Anomalisa
Review by Sofie Monks Kaufman Source: Little White Lies Beauty and tragedy abound in Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s melancholic stop-motion treasure. Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel ‘Cat’s Cradle’ is about the fictional religion of Bokonism. In it, he invented a … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Cult Film, David Thewlis, Duke Johnson, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Annihilation: Alex Garland’s Bad Trip Through Dis-ease and Over-Reproduction
By Kim Nicolini Source: CounterPunch If you go see Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018) – and I highly recommend you see this film in an actual movie theater with a big screen and big sound –, you are in for a trip. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Environment, Feminism, Film, GMOs, media, Science, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Alex Garland, Andrei Tarkovsky, Annihilation, Biotech, culture, environment, Ex Machina, Feminism, Horror, Jeff VanderMeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, Science fiction, technology
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Saturday Matinee: eXistenZ
“eXistenZ” (1999) is the last feature film of writer/director David Cronenberg’s to feature his trademark “body horror” imagery (as of this writing). It’s also his film that most overtly displays the influence of the writings of Philip K. Dick and … Continue reading
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Tagged David Cronenberg, eXistenZ, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Virtual Reality
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