Tag Archives: Science Fiction
Liquid Sky (1982)
The flying saucer which appears early into Slava Tsukerman’s Liquid Sky (1982) is struck from the same mold as the UFO in Todd Haynes’ glam rock homage Velvet Goldmine (1998) or the one Steve Coogan encounters in Michael Winterbottom’s chronicle … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, Anne Carlisle, New Wave, Science Fiction, Slava Tsukerman, UFO
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Metropolis (1927)
Even in its near-complete 2010 restoration and running 150 minutes, Fritz Lang’s Silent epic Metropolis (1927) is possessed of churning, frenetic energy, like an industrial works geared to explode. It is a machine; a machine movie about other machines. And it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 20's, 7 Deadly Sins, androids, Brigitte Helm, Fritz Lang, German Expressionism, Giorgio Moroder, Robot, Science Fiction, Silent, Tower of Babel
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Stalker (1979)
The Zone, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), is a region affected by a fallen meteorite in ways that are left deliberately undefined. It is an otherworld, a displaced and eerily altered stretch of swamp and forest and derelict buildings and … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian, Science Fiction, Surreal
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