by G.L. Breedon | Sep 8, 2011 | Film, Retro-Nostalgia, Science Fiction
I came across these on Youtube a while back and though they would be fun to share. The first two are competing lists of the 100 Sci-Fi film of all time and the third is a selection of the best sci-fi films of the last 100 years, wisely not ranked. They are fun lists....
by G.L. Breedon | Sep 7, 2011 | Film, Science Fiction
There was an interesting article in The Guardian by film critic Jonathan Jones, who suggests that Steven Spielberg’s film Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the first great work of Postmodern art. He writes: What makes me call this film...
by G.L. Breedon | Sep 1, 2011 | Film, History, Retro-Nostalgia, Science Fiction
Saw this on i09, but the Vimeo post seems to have been taken down. Hopefully the Youtube version will stay up for a bit longer. From the YouTube description: One of the Blade Runner Convention Reels featuring interviews with Ridley Scott, Syd Mead and Douglas Trumbull...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 29, 2011 | Film, Reviews, Science Fiction, Time Travel
My wife and I watched Source Code last night. It’s been a while since we watched a movie. We’ve been watching HBO’s Carnivale and the BBC crime drama Waking the Dead. But, we finally ran out of episodes of both. I have to say, I enjoyed Source Code...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 18, 2011 | Books, Film, Future
After yesterday’s post on the notion of Apocalypse vs. Utopia, I thought a reading list might be fun. The following suggestions aren’t an exhaustive list, but a fun place to start. For the philosophical, there’s Plato’s Republic, which is interesting to...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 20, 2011 | Film, Science Fiction
Janus Films is rereleasing Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s World on a Wire in a tour of art house movie theaters for the next several months. If you are lucky it is playing near you sometime soon. I’ve never seen the film, but the description and the trailer...
