So happy to finally have three movies I can recommend this month!
Eyes Without A Face (1960)
Almost as lonely as the classic 1983 song by Billy Idol, this early French New Wave film was far from the stodgy, inacessible cinephile exercise I thought it would be. A tight script with some
exquisitely poetic images and genuine early body horror, this fully deserves its iconic status.
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
I mean, I was kind of sold with "Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston are timeless bohemian vampires in a modern day love story", but the film also oozes slinky underground cool and is a love letter to art and passion.
Impossibly romantic in a post-hipster way.
Aya and the Witch (2020)
I think adult fans of Studio Ghibli films have come to expect that they be well-served by the films and sometimes forget that it's okay to aim these squarely at kids, too. Such is the case with Goro Miyazaki's adaptation of the kids' book "Earwig and the Witch" by Diana Wynne Jones. Made as a TV movie for Japanese kids on a Japanese network, Western adults have been shocked -
shocked I tell you! - to find that they don't connect with the CG style, exagerrated dialogue, and rock soundtrack.
I'd certainly recommend this over Boss Baby, Rumble, Vivo, The Loud House Movie, or any of the litany of "product" aimed at kids last year.
Oops - bit more than a two sentence review on that last one, but it seems to have really gotten a raw deal from cinephiles who expected it to live up to, let's face it, some of the greatest animated movies ever made!