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.
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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