Zhao Xiaolong
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Sep 9, 2024 · September 9, 2024. A monumental triumph of independent filmmaking is coming to a cinema near you. Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour-long, seven-years-in-the-making historical epic The Brutalist finally...
Sep 10, 2024 · Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival might seem like a basic sci-fi movie on the surface, but it has a very complicated timeline that’s easy to misunderstand. The film tells the story of a professional linguist named Louise Banks who’s called in by the government when aliens land on the planet.
Sep 1, 2024 · Part One is catchily titled “The Enigma of Arrival, 1947-52,” and sees László set off to join Attila in Pennsylvania, where he runs a furniture store and has taken the name Miller (“Folks here, they like a family business”). The range they’re selling is already antiquated, and the Millers know it.
Sep 22, 2024 · Part One of László’s journey from 1947 to 1952, called The Enigma Of Arrival (also the title of VS Naipaul’s autobiographical novel) leads him to Pennsylvania (introduced effectively by a tourist newsreel of the time). Brody’s performance is raw and tender and fragile and heartbreaking.
Sep 11, 2024 · But we’ve already seen Villeneuve adapt golden-age sci-fi with Dune while tackling the mysteries of aliens and life in Arrival. A movie that combines those two subjects feels like the natural ...
2 days ago · Arrival tells a story about alien life forces known as Heptapods taking residence in different parts of the world in dome-like objects. Floating in the sky, they make no moves to attack.
3 days ago · Ex Machina (2014) Arrival (2016) Annihilation (2018) I Am Mother (2019) I am a huge science fiction film buff. In my adolescence, I was a prolific reader of so many classics—Asimov, Clarke, Bradbury, Huxley, Heinlein, and Dick, to name just the Names. In my freelance journalism, I have cited 2001: A Space Odyssey an embarrassing number…
