Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment
of his parishioners and the rage
of another inhabitant
of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut
feature by Stuart Murdoch (
of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much
mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.
So not only do these new screenshots
feature Bartz and Terra quite heavily, but we also get introduced to another long time fan favourite in the form
of the
mirage / summon — Gilgamesh!
(The recent exhibition
of sculpture by women at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in downtown Los Angeles
featured an ethereal installation by the latter, consisting
of near - invisible gold threads woven into a corner, so that they appear like a shimmering
mirage of a prism.)