– Adam ChitwoodĪ heady sci-fi two-hander with an iconic dance break from Oscar Isaac, 2014’s “Ex Machina” contains multitudes. This one’s a trip and has one of the most startling and unforgettable final shots in recent memory.
As he starts trying to track down his “double” (with Gyllenhaal playing dual roles), his life as he knows it starts to crumble around him. If you’re a fan of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” or “Arrival” and psychological thrillers, you owe it to yourself to check out his truly mind-bending 2013 film “Enemy.” Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a college history professor living in Toronto who rents a movie and spots an actor who looks exactly like him. Combine all of that with some of De Palma’s greatest suspense set pieces and one of his very best endings, and you’ve got a slyly satirical thriller that felt like it came out a couple of years too late – it’s a 1970s movie that happened to open in 1981. Full of post-Watergate paranoia and unease, with peerless performances (John Lithgow also stars as the assassin who becomes an impromptu serial killer in an effort to cover up his crime) and stunning cinematography (by Vilmos Zsigmond). This leads him along the path of a brutal mystery, as he falls in love with the survivor of the attack (an adorable, ditzy Nancy Allen) and becomes a target himself. While attempting to record sounds for a B horror movie, he accidentally records an assassination. John Travolta stars as a sound recorder working for a low-rent production company in Philadelphia. Arguably Brian De Palma’s very best film, which is a feat considering how many modern classics he is singlehandedly responsible for, “Blow Out” was dismissed upon its initial release in 1981 and only in the years since has been properly reevaluated.
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