THE ZONE OF INTEREST shows an evil that is far from banal
by Billy Russell, Staff Writer
The Zone of Interest is one of those movies that would be an incredible, if depressing, metaphor for the state of things today no matter when it was released.
Flop and Fizzle #22: UNDER THE SKIN explores defamiliarization, perspective, and self
by Daniel Santelli, Staff Writer
The power of Under The Skin is mined from the power of the image and its tireless efforts to reify and mirror Isserley’s perspective through technique.
Under the Skin
Directed by Jonathan Glazer (2013)
by Melissa Strong
“The best adaptations riff a little,” asserts TV writer Alessandra Stanley, reimagining not just minor details but also sensibility. Stanley points to the show Homeland as an example: it reinvents Prisoners of War by moving to the U.S. from Israel with a female C.I.A. operative at its center rather than three male soldiers. She may be right about that, but books often suffer when they are adapted to film.
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