Under The Skin + Arrival (Best of the Decade)

This episode we’re dissecting two of the best movies of the decade: Under The Skin & Arrival

Lots of spoilers for both movies. There’s an audio issue for the first half of the podcast, but the Arrival discussion is at our normal quality.

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Servant (Apple TV+)

 

0:14:35

MILD SPOILERS

Space Force (Netflix)

 

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Mysteries Of Lisbon https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/mysteries-of-lisbon/

 

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The Read: http://thisistheread.com/

 

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0:27:10
Under The Skin (2013)

 

Directed and co-written by Jonathan Glazer

based on the novel by Michel Faber

score by Micachu / Mica Levi

starring Scarlett Johansson 

 

0:37:00

summary and analysis with SPOILERS

 

1:17:00

overall thoughts and questions

Alliance of Women Film Journalists https://awfj.org/

Born Sexy Yesterday trope (Enchanted, Alita, Gamora?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thpEyEwi80

1:27:00

Arrival (2016)

 

Basics

Directed by Denis Villeneuve 

Written by Eric Hisserer (Bloodshot, Bird Box, writing the Shadow & Bone Netflix series based on the Grisha Triology by Leigh Bardugo)

Based on the novella Story of You Life by Ted Chiang 

Music by Johann Johannsson

uses Max Richter’s "On the Nature of Daylight”

FIRST & LAST MEN https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/p51-i0028948374106/j-hann-j-hannsson-yair-elazar-glotman/last-and-first-men-cd-bluray-/index.html

Nocturnal Animals is currently available on HBO

 

SPOILERS BEGIN

1:51:00

 

songs:

tracks from Scarlett Johansson’s Anywhere I Lay My Head (Tom Waits cover album) 

UNKLE - Rabbit in your Headlights https://store.unkle.info/

Johann Johannsson, et al - First And Last Men

Max Richter - The Nature Of Daylight https://www.maxrichtermusic.com/albums/the-blue-notebooks-15th-anniversary-reissue/?utm_campaign=products&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=maxrichtermusic.com

Run The Jewels - Walking in the Snow https://runthejewels.com/