Under the Skin (2014) dir. Jonathan Glazer

Tough crowd.

this isn't available on Blu-Ray at the video store, and it seems like a Blu-Ray (as opposed to DVD) kind of movie. how should I see this?

with clenched teeth

whoa

this was great

um, i uh

being a visible self is hard eh. also she felt like less predator, more...end-point

legit horror movie. the bit with the men trapped underwater was possibly the most startling thing i've seen in years if not ever

glazer doesn't so much have a style as have every style almost effortlessly at his disposal

the score was quite astonishing

scar-jo spoon-jar confusion got a laugh, just like that

uh

this felt complex, progressive, daring and genuinely menacing. also felt like the film glazer's been wanting to make the whole time

those reviews c&pd upthread are deeply and almost frighteningly stupid

"legit horror movie. the bit with the men trapped underwater was possibly the most startling thing i've seen in years if not ever"

If I would have watched this as a kid, I would have been terrified.

Anyone else keep half expecting Limmy to turn up in this?

or russ abbott

sorry - russ abbot

or Rab C Nesbitt

etc etc

alex salmond

mel gibson

would have been a totally different film if glen michael had taken the lead role as glazer originally intended

Sean Connery

Andy Murray

would have been a totally different film if glen michael had taken the lead role as glazer originally intended

― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, September 1, 2015 9:50 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so it became a film about the abject feminine by accident? /reductive

no it was a joke

They've painted blue feet on the right side of the escalator. Everything is wrong today

totty the robot haring around the countryside on a motorbike

One thing confused me in this film : she picks up a guy with a hibs scarf who has a glaswegian accent

And as the dudes are mainly on secret camera he must actually be a weegie hibee

Yes, in the confusion stakes, that whole space alien thing was, in comparison, a doddle

uh oh

Er, I am not being sarcastic. I am quite taken with the idea that the REAL weirdness of the film is to do with football

Apologies. I was constructing some dread internal lambast but <150 posts in 12 years is quite unbelievable restraint and I bow to your mastery

Neil would you just... touch me

once a month is ample

Perhaps we shall draw Pope Neil into an argument which triples his net ILX contribution and draws him tragically and inexorably down to our level

Hooooooly shit

otm

Great film

good movie imo

Missed it 5 years ago but it’s in my top 10 of the decade now, damn

Such a striking and iirc ultimately sad movie.

It remains my favourite film of the decade.

It’s very good but I really found it too hard to watch and couldn’t finish it. Beach scene fucked me up.

(also what club would be playing "sandstorm" in this decade...)

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:59 AM (four years ago)

lol lex.

Great film and whoever it was upthread who said it was Patrick Keiller-esque was otm.

Dang, everyone's so weepy about the baby scene! Maybe someone came by and saved the baby!

I thought this, but the SJ character hears on the radio that a man's body was found and the mother and child are missing and they've called off the search 'cos of fog, which seemed like an unnecessarily cruel bit of info.

One of the few films I've been majorly excited about that actually exceeded my hopes - that opening sequence blew my mind and there's not a wasted frame after that.

beach scene was very tough to take. kinda stunned that someone called it "hilarious" upthread, unless that was supposed to be a joke.

Extremely tough, and also the most shockingly alien in perspective. Kicks the film into high gear.

has anyone else read the book? it's very very different but also good.

Same cinematographer for his 2020 Auschwitz film, some 6+ years in development. I fear that because nothing has been reported on summer 2019 production, that it'll be pushed to 2021...

The comparisons to Kubrick are more apt looking at the Glazer's whole ouvre, in the concerns (Kubrick also planned an Auschwitz film), stunt casting, framing, pacing, and intervals between films.

Yep I've read the book too - I'm glad I didn't see a lot of that stuff on screen actually. I'm impressed with Glazer planting the same seed in a different medium and letting it mutate. Strongest Kubrick influence perhaps.

Birth seems like his most Kubrickian, and best probably, don't know that I'm looking forward to him making an Auschwitz film tho

my first viewing of this, at the tail end of a multiplex run, was hysterical. to be clear it had run in multiplexes in scotland because it was filmed in glasgow and i guess there was "local interest". mass walkouts, people around me all asking what the fuck they'd come to, people accusing others in their party for having asked them to come to see it. the best was a boxer guy that i recognised from my own gym shouting how shite it was as he noisily left the auditorium.

i fucking love it.

you could barely concentrate on the film for all the noisy hilarity going on.

beach scene was very tough to take. kinda stunned that someone called it "hilarious" upthread, unless that was supposed to be a joke.

I’m not a film guy but even my dumb ass recognized this shit was transcendent.

What’s weird is that the beach scene didn’t disturb me as much as it did many others (although I also didn’t find it “hilarious”, wtf) but the scene of the guy watching the other guy get sucked out of his skin and then watching the empty skin float around in the void is one of the most disturbing nightmare images I’ve ever seen in a movie. I have a super vivid memory of watching it in the cinema and feeling paralyzed with dread.

yes. I also thought the scene with attempted sex was memorable, and the cake scene where the SJ character is looking at it and wondering, what the hell is this?