Apart from the crew, the crowd, the fray. With Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” now on video after wildly disparate reviews, is it time to reevaluate 2018’s also-underestimated “ First Man“? Neil Armstrong steps away. Opens Friday, February 16 at Alamo Drafthouse. The film can be more easily seen as a fable on the contagion of barbarity and the command of the reptilian brain over the rational mind.” (Yes.) An interview with Noé on the reediting of his film is here. While ‘Irreversible’ has sometimes been wrongly perceived as a ‘rape and revenge’ B movie, here the deadly outcome is all the more depressing. The same story is no longer a tragedy, this time it is a drama that brings out the psychology of the characters and the mechanisms that lead some of them to a murderous barbarity. (This is the first American theatrical release.) Of this version, Noé says, “Putting the scenes in clockwise order makes it easier to identify with the characters and understand the tale unfolding. “ Irreversible: Straight Cut” is Gaspar Noé’s 2020 revisiting of his 2002 provocation about a day in the life of a content French couple, played by the then-married Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. Classically inclined director Peyton Reed (“Bring It On”) excels at the non-sequitur-driven comedy the slurry of action is just more Marvel mayhem. The actors give a lot: Paul Rudd, whose ever-youthful mien reminds of the comment by a character in the Monkees’ “Head” that they would like to “run barefoot through Victor Mature’s hair” Michelle Pfeiffer, taking very seriously a role as a universe-wrecker while lit by Bill Pope (“The Matrix”) as eyes, cheekbones and mischief the just-rolled-out-of-bed still-embargoed big-name cameo artist Jonathan Majors bringing sly dignity to the time-jumping multiverse-wrecker Kang the Conqueror and the wonderfully charismatic Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang, part of one more generation of superheroes, if not the first spawn. A Marvel movie about another drab apocalypse, but with charming fellow passengers to pass the time in charming fashion as noxious clouds swirl, and dim tapestry keeps unfurling in lieu of landscape. Little “ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” opens on large screens all over the place on Friday. Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, February 17-23, 2023
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