I've been slowly working my way through the A24 catalog. I still think the top 3 are:
Ex Machina
Green Room
Room
But there are lots to recommend: Obvious Child, A Most Violent Year, The Witch, The Lobster, Moonlight, 20th Century Women, Hereditary, The Florida Project, Midsommar, etc.
I watched three this week--Under the Silver Lake (2019), Saint Maud (2021) and High Life (2019).
Of them, I think High Life was the best, followed by Silver Lake, and then a distant third Saint Maud, which I really didn't like at all.
High Life is a Claire Denis film with Robert Pattinson. The scenes where he is raising a young daughter are particularly strong, but she manages to communicate so much with so little visually. Under the Silver Lake was a lot more maximalist, but I very much enjoyed it, whereas I think Saint Maud was just utterly bereft of ideas.
I've been slowly working my way through the A24 catalog. I still think the top 3 are:
Ex Machina
Green Room
Room
But there are lots to recommend: Obvious Child, A Most Violent Year, The Witch, The Lobster, Moonlight, 20th Century Women, Hereditary, The Florida Project, Midsommar, etc.
I watched three this week--Under the Silver Lake (2019), Saint Maud (2021) and High Life (2019).
Of them, I think High Life was the best, followed by Silver Lake, and then a distant third Saint Maud, which I really didn't like at all.
High Life is a Claire Denis film with Robert Pattinson. The scenes where he is raising a young daughter are particularly strong, but she manages to communicate so much with so little visually. Under the Silver Lake was a lot more maximalist, but I very much enjoyed it, whereas I think Saint Maud was just utterly bereft of ideas.
some of my faves that you didn't list:
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Lady Bird
First Reformed
Eighth Grade
Florida Project is my favorite of all the ones I've seen, I think
Just watched Under the Skin (2013). ScarJo puts in a pretty amazing performance. I think reading about the film's production was almost more interesting than the film itself, though I did enjoy it. There were some very interesting ideas, and it did make me want to read the book, though I think it's super loosely portrayed in the film. It has to be one of the most visually engrossing movies I've seen in some time, especially the outdoor scenes towards the end in the Scottish Highlands. It was a very spare plot, but I was never really bored.
I've been meaning to watch this one for awhile, but my partner isn't so into gore. How gory is it? I heard it's got vintage "body horror" vibes.
High Life is a great movie kinda spoiled, imo, by utterly gratuitous sexual assault/rape scenes. What was your reading on that stuff? I loved the end of that one, though, and Pattinson is awesome.
What's your read on the plot? I watched it at the start of the pandemic and interpreted it as a horror film about being a woman. No matter how badass and hungry ScarJo is, men are the real fucking monsters.
Agree with sc and strick. I laughed harder at bad trip than any movie I've seen recently. You might say i was having a good trip.
Definitely funny, sometimes funny to the point of crying because I'm a sucker for lewd comedy. Between the gorilla and the Chinese fingercuffs, I'm set for a while.
If you like low budget talkie sci-fi a la Primer... Coherence is a good movie to catch.
Ill second coherence, that movie made my head hurt in an awesome kind of way. I bet that entire movie was filmed for a 100 grand and it was a great scifi movie