The wide-angle-photography effect bends the image at its edges and makes the title, "Alien," a natural.
As the flip-side to self-admiring hype, alien assaults and natural calamities have repeatedly annihilated Los Angeles across decades of cinematic schlock and awe.
And even a writer as alien to my natural sensibility as Anaïs Nin wormed her way into my sympathies last summer, during a concerted effort to read writers who've made sex their primary concern.
Near the southern town of Awassa, in a shadow of a soaring Rift Valley escarpment, sits a field of waving corn and a complex of domed greenhouses, looking pristine and alien against the natural backdrop.
Effective actions to control this invasive alien species in natural areas must consider dog dependence upon humans, pathways of entry, and the surrounding landscape and context.
It looks natural, and alien, and much scarier than the Blob.
It regarded homosexuality, in other words, as reprehensible, and homophobia as fine; it viewed ethnic minorities as alien, and racism as natural.
The rhythm of suspense, on the other hand, strikes me as wholly unfakeable, and embarrassingly alien to Hartley's natural taste.
Anything cataclysmic, from an alien invasion to a natural catastrophe, also makes life seem more than just mundane, and so also somehow more meaningful.
In "Belleville" Ms. Herzog provides a portrait of a marriage beginning to fray under the pressure of an alien environment and the natural stresses experienced by any young couple.
