This weekend, dinosaurs battle indie titles in cinemas.
with feathers. The Pyroraptor, with its fierce talons and red feathers, reflects a scientific perspective that was not prevalent when Steven Spielberg made the first"Jurassic Park." So there are opportunities in this new film to marvel at these new creature designs, but those chances are squandered as the film instead chooses to follow dull and cliched human melodrama and greed.
Cronenberg's"Crimes of the Future" is stunning, and is firmly on my list as one of the best films of the year. It feels like a return to form for him, but with a fresh twist. Interestingly, Cronenberg made a short feature also titled"Crimes of the Future" at the beginning of his career in 1970. That film and his new one share the same title but offer very different stories.
He also takes a jab at those who may try to imitate his art. Saul notes of another performance artist, who has grafted human ears all over his body, that the ears “don’t even do anything, they’re just for show.” That artist is merely addressing the surface while Saul are going for something deeper and more internal.I have seen some people post reactions to the film as being disturbing or horrific or grotesque.
Like Cronenberg, Terence Davies is a filmmaker who just keeps getting better with age. And both directors deliver films that can make going to the cinema a transcendent experience. In"The film moves back and forth in Sassoon's life, with Jack Lowden playing the young man and Peter Capaldi as the aging one. The film shows how Sassoon's experiences in World War I led to not just the themes of his poetry but to a political activism against war.