long time since I've seen Silent Running - i have it on VHS but no player. Pretty spot on comments about Dern though, all his friends being non human and all.
me and my sister bawked our eyes out when the 'robots' bought it.
― Ste, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
everybody's creaming over teh new godfather discs but this is what has me seriously considering getting bluray player
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001G7PX80/
― Edward III, Friday, 26 September 2008 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
wot, no ape head?
― abanana, Friday, 26 September 2008 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
my cousin has the japanese alien set
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/alienquadrilogyhead.jpg
― Edward III, Friday, 26 September 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
not even one vote for Beneath the Planet of the Apes. saw that again -- that's my favorite one by far. once you get to the underground city...
finally saw Fassbinder's one science fiction film 'World On A Wire' from 1973. Loved it. Are there any earlier virtual reality films?
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/Sprad/WorldOnAWire2.jpg
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
the new bluray planet of the apes set has the original cut of conquest of the planet of the apes, the version that studio heads demanded be cut lest it get an R rating and/or incite actual rioting in the streets.
goddamn, they really want me to buy a bluray player, don't they?
― Edward III, Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Martian Chronicles - 1979 TV mini-series - far less kitschy than I was expecting. screenplay by Richard Matheson! the space effects are terrible, but whenever the martian cities & outfits hit the screen I was tempted to just pause and stare at them -- I wanted to live there. (tried to find a screenshot of the Martian Mask of Conflict, but blogs are sleeping). the anti-colonial themes are front and center, not glossed over at all, and the scene where the psychic empath martian gets stuck with the Missionary and is thusly forced into the shape of a wounded Jesus, and he's in agony trying to talk the priest into looking away before he bleeds to death - that is an amazing scene, especially for broadcast 70's television. I wasn't expecting this one to fit with the other US 70's science fiction films, but it absolutely does, it's as bleak and dystopian and fatalistic as the rest of them
also saw the 1972 East German 'Eolomea'. it's just as swinging & psychedelic as 'In The Dust of the Stars', but also more serious in tone. I liked it, though it doesn't click with the Western dystopias, in fact in East Germany they couldn't call them Science Fiction films, to distinguish them they would call them 'Utopian films', and that's accurate -- the two I've seen are proscripted cheerleading. http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/eolomea.php
― Milton Parker, Monday, 23 February 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Das Millionenspiel - 1970
Reality TV Show where contestants win one million deutschmark if they can evade three assassins for one week, while the world watches coverage via 20 mobile film crews
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066079/
Seems like a made for TV reiteration of The 10th Victim which I remember being good campy fun, but maybe worth checking out, and obviously still way ahead of its time, plus music by Can
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/ask-film-question/16845-phase-iv-saul-bass-fish-lady.html
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
whoah
http://io9.com/5877874/lost-films
Hu-Man (1975)
An actor (Terence Stamp, playing himself) is placed in a series of dangerous situations, while his fear is broadcast to the television audience. Their emotional reactions will determine whether he is sent into the future, or the past. Directed by Jérôme Laperrousaz and co-starring Jeanne Moreau, Hu-Man won the Trieste Festival of Science Fiction Films in 1976, but has strangely fallen into obscurity, and apparently no prints are available.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 08:43 (twelve years ago) link
yes! i read that too! wish it were available
― sarahell, Thursday, 9 February 2012 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
posting this to watch later: Idaho Transfer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxzzpGF7O8
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
liked Idaho Transfer a lot. perhaps one of the lowest budget films on this entire list, but it doesn't matter; point a camera at those volcanic plains & the Idaho landscape, set it to an acoustic guitar & analog synth soundtrack and it is easy to believe that civilization has ended everywhere
and the ending is RIDICULOUS.
we should run this poll again sometime. it's missing a bunch of important ones, and some of them are finding wider audiences.
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 27 May 2012 06:57 (twelve years ago) link
tried to find a screenshot of the Martian Mask of Conflict, but...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5Qcl1S1MdQQ/SPZihzUViZI/AAAAAAAAMrE/hfqfUpOb3Co/s1600/bscap0019la1.jpg
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 27 May 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
Peregrine: "2000 years we waited for your return. And now I am the one who sees you, and hears you speaking."
Martian Jesus: "You see nothing but your own dream ... your own needs. Beneath all this I am another thing."
Peregrine: "What am I to do?"
Martian Jesus: "Look away from me, and in that moment I'll be gone. Halt, or you'll kill me!"
Peregrine: "Or I'll kill you?"
Martian Jesus: "If you force me into this guise much longer, I will die. This is more than I can hold."
Father Peregrine and 'Jesus' exchange inaudible whispers.
Peregrine: "And I have made you like this with my thoughts."
Martian Jesus: "You came into the church. You looked at the crucifix. Your old dream of meeting him seized you once again. Seized me. My body still bleeds from the wounds you gave me with your secret mind."
Peregrine: "…Oh, my sweet God …. Go, before I keep you here forever."
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 27 May 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
whatever you think of the crimes of george lucas it is silly that thx placed so low
― the late great, Sunday, 27 May 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
well based on your posts Martian Mask of Conflict looks amazing but unfortunately the only Google result for it is, uh, this thread
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
It's from The Martian Chronicles, Shakey
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
I mean I'm assuming you thought it was the title of some separate movie, which I did for a split second
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm, apparently The Martian Chronicles DVD is still in print over here but The Silver Locusts isn't, tho it's easy enough to get a used copy.
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, meant to say the orig Ray Bradbury book (Silver Locusts) isn't. anyway they're both well worth having iirc
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2008/10/29/douglaskirklandco460.jpg
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
watched the martian chronicles dvd again recently. loved the rocket prop but the whole thing didn't live up to my memories or the book.
― koogs, Monday, 28 May 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
Zardoz 2
;_;
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Monday, 28 May 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
ah thx read the book, never bothered with any screen adaptations
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://coilhouse.net/2012/05/teenagers-in-space-a-soviet-sci-fi-film-from-1974/
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
wow
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
awesome
― the late great, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
i think i'm going to watch barbarella again
is CQ any good?
― the late great, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
not really
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of liked it, but I know I was in the minority
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
it's not a patch on Barbarella that's for sure
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
CQ is charming but not a must see. Soundtrack is alright.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 May 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
That's a good description
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 May 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
haha, this is my 2nd google search result for "ken middleham ants"
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Perhaps of interest as a compare/contrast
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/50-best-sci-fi-movies-of-the-1970s-20150114
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
I can think of a whole lot of films that didn't make the list better than most of their bottom 20 -- first third of this list makes the decade look a lot more wretched than it has to (though I hadn't even heard of 'welcome to blood city')
putting phase iv in the top 10 though, all is forgiven
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Saul Bass' Long-Lost Original Ending for Phase IV Unearthed in Los Angeleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLpsWaUDNk
― excreting zeitgeist (Sanpaku), Sunday, 25 January 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Whoa @ lost ending. I guess there were probably a bunch of other majorly cut parts throughout... still manages to be awesome, though.
― emil.y, Sunday, 25 January 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link
Re-watched this today - love the sci fi update of 'Leiningen Versus the Ants.' Thanks for posting lost ending - it's great!
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 25 January 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.amc.com/video-extras/dark-star
^^ "dark star" available to watch free on line
― the late great, Monday, 30 November 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
was really disappointed when I finally got around to watching that
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 November 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
why?
― the late great, Monday, 30 November 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
because it's terrible? It isn't particularly funny, mostly it feels like a bad episode of Dr. Who
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 November 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
that 70s Tom Baker era jankiness and ambling pace
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 November 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
love that movie. its a perfect movie to just hang out with.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 November 2015 23:02 (eight years ago) link
Watched The Final Programme a few days ago, I'm kind of surprised this hasn't gotten a rerelease from Drafthouse or something. Hard for me to remember a film that reached an equally high level of entertainment and incomprehensibility.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
The sight gag with the freezer crammed full of McVities was amazing.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
http://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/review/primary_image/reviews/dark-star-1980/hero_EB19800311REVIEWS3110301AR.jpg
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dark-star-1980
― dow, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link