If you loved Aliens of the Deep, try Hotel Monterey

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Aliens of the Deep

2005 · dir. James Cameron, Steven Quale

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Theyboth carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Documentary territory. If that's the register that drew you to Aliens of the Deep, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Hotel Monterey is

Rear Window without Jimmy Stewart. The stationary camera observes a lower Manhattan flophouse, inside and out, top to bottom. Akerman's radical gaze captures the loneliness of transient lives.

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