The movie was a commercial disaster, but it’s a rewarding, beautifully designed work set in a fantasy city that mashes up landmarks from every modern metropolis. In the director’s chair for part two, though, he turned the sweet fable of a pig who wanted to herd sheep into a grim fairy tale about life in the big city. Miller wrote and produced the first Babe, a charming, Oscar-winning success. But he’s never made a follow-up as strange and beguiling as Babe: Pig in the City. Each of his installments in the Mad Max series is innovative his Happy Feet Two is quietly underrated. No filmmaker has a better handle on the ridiculous foibles of the English upper-middle class.īabe: Pig in the City (1998, directed by George Miller)
Many long-simmering tensions boil to the surface Hiddleston (who is in most of Hogg’s movies) gives one of his best screen performances, and Hogg depicts subtle, polite infighting with humor and insight. A quiet drama, it sees Edward (played by Tom Hiddleston, a year before Thor catapulted him to fame) gathering with his family on the remote British island of Tresco after quitting his job to travel the world. Joanna Hogg broke out in American art houses last year with her wonderful autobiographical work The Souvenir, but she’s been making terrific indie films for years. Kino Lorber Archipelago (2010, directed by Joanna Hogg)
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