2 posts tagged ‘alasdair gray’

• The week in film: Emma Stone shines in Poor Things, plus the greatest gangster movies

  AV Club, Dec 9, 2023

  Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) is not what one might call a conventional filmmaker, crafting his films with deadpan line delivery that enhances the surreal quality of their premises to lay bare fundamental truths of the human experience. His previous collaboration with… Read more...

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• Poor Things Puts a Shocking and Fantastic Spin on a Classic Tale

  Gizmodo, Nov 16, 2023

  At its core, Poor Things is the relatively simple story of a woman growing up and finding herself. However, in the hands of director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite), it tells that tale in the most fantastical, imaginative, disturbing, and hilarious way possible. Words that, in fact, also describe the… Read more...

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