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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Zardoz 2
;_;
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Monday, 28 May 2012 19:41 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
wow
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
awesome
― the late great, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:12 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
not really
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:13 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
CQ is charming but not a must see. Soundtrack is alright.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 May 2012 02:48 (eleven 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 (eleven 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
Emerged. Haven't watched yet. Will soon if this proto-reality TV trope is in the leagues of 'Death Watch' or 'Year of the Sex Olympics' or just a slightly artier 'Das Millionenspiel' revamp.
Hu-Man, 1975, Terence Stamp, Jeanne Moreau
An actor is placed in dangerous situations and his fear will be broadcast to the television audience. The audience’s emotions will determine whether he is sent into the future or the past.
https://letterboxd.com/film/hu-man/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdvXZAPJkm0
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
well gosh. odd even for 1970's SF. one wonders what the shooting script could have looked like after the first third. definitely not for the impatient. definitely for people who like to wonder how films like this end up getting made. almost hilariously interminable, but ultimately that is by design. this youtube is a VHS transfer of the 87 minute TV edit, there's a version out there with another 20 minutes, can't even imagine
music credited to Eric Burdon, Tim Blake (of Gong / Hawkwind), David Horowitz, and, somehow, Patrick Vian -- not clear if they're collaborating or swapping off, the ballad at the beginning is clearly Eric Burdon but is that also him doing all the acapella screaming at the end? almost sounds like it could be but whatever it is, it's a riot. sounds like friends in Paris with a lot of gear deciding to record an all night jam session instead of going home after checking out the 1972 Taj Mahal Travellers concert
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 31 May 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
Capricorn One gets a rec as First Man "counterprogramming"
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/10/17/17985708/streaming-movie-recommendation-capricorn-one-first-man
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link