Expect a beautiful film ("Amid its scorching, fractured images, one certainty is brought into crisp focus. This is, very simply and straightforwardly, a masterpiece" –Robbie Collin, Telegraph). Expect the unexpected ("An intoxicating marvel, strange and sublime" – Dave Calhoun, Time Out) and even some horror ("The result is visually stunning and deeply disturbing: very freaky, very scary and very erotic" – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian). I also expect some debate afterwards! ''Under the Skin gets under the skin. It is an experience that has as much to do with hypnosis as with cinema" – Ryan Gilbey, New Statesman or "Johansson is phenomenal in every sense of the word. She joins Glazer in creating a brave experiment in cinema that richly rewards the demands it makes. The result is an amazement, a film of beauty and shocking gravity" – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)
Monday, October 20, 2014
Under The Skin - Sunday 26th October 5pm
This week we come to the first of our two 'films that nearly got away'; Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin was released earlier in the year but missed our Spring season. We didn't feel we should miss it altogether. A film that has had the critics struggling to even define its genre, this is not going to be a straightforward watch. Basically, Scarlett Johansson wanders the streets of Glasgow, picking up men, but why she is doing this, and what happens to the men is much stranger...
Expect a beautiful film ("Amid its scorching, fractured images, one certainty is brought into crisp focus. This is, very simply and straightforwardly, a masterpiece" –Robbie Collin, Telegraph). Expect the unexpected ("An intoxicating marvel, strange and sublime" – Dave Calhoun, Time Out) and even some horror ("The result is visually stunning and deeply disturbing: very freaky, very scary and very erotic" – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian). I also expect some debate afterwards! ''Under the Skin gets under the skin. It is an experience that has as much to do with hypnosis as with cinema" – Ryan Gilbey, New Statesman or "Johansson is phenomenal in every sense of the word. She joins Glazer in creating a brave experiment in cinema that richly rewards the demands it makes. The result is an amazement, a film of beauty and shocking gravity" – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)
Expect a beautiful film ("Amid its scorching, fractured images, one certainty is brought into crisp focus. This is, very simply and straightforwardly, a masterpiece" –Robbie Collin, Telegraph). Expect the unexpected ("An intoxicating marvel, strange and sublime" – Dave Calhoun, Time Out) and even some horror ("The result is visually stunning and deeply disturbing: very freaky, very scary and very erotic" – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian). I also expect some debate afterwards! ''Under the Skin gets under the skin. It is an experience that has as much to do with hypnosis as with cinema" – Ryan Gilbey, New Statesman or "Johansson is phenomenal in every sense of the word. She joins Glazer in creating a brave experiment in cinema that richly rewards the demands it makes. The result is an amazement, a film of beauty and shocking gravity" – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)
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