Sci-Fi

  • Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan – For the Plasma (2014)

    2011-2020ArthouseBingham BryantKyle MolzanSci-FiUSA

    In a remote house in Maine, two friends predict shifts in global financial markets by viewing footage of the forest.
    Quote:
    A digital-pastoral drama of friendship, landscape and technology, “For the Plasma” begins as the story of two young women (Anabelle LeMieux and Rosalie Lowe) employed as forest-fire lookouts in Northern Maine, and ends in a hundred places at once. Along the way, the girls make financial predictions based on surveillance footage of the surrounding forest, the local lighthouse keeper and a pair of unusual investors interrupt their solitude, and a dreamlike portrait of small town America and contemporary life is revealed. “For the Plasma” is a film of minimal means but ambition, shot in Super 16mm and 4:3 with a small cast and crew, and scored by the great Japanese experimental composer, Keiichi Suzuki. great Japanese experimental composer, Keiichi Suzuki.Read More »

  • Roy Ward Baker – Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

    1961-1970Hammer FilmsHorrorRoy Ward BakerSci-FiUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Workers excavating at an underground station in London uncover the skeletal remains of ancient apes with large skulls. Further digging reveals what is at first believed to be an unexploded German bomb from World War II. Missile expert Colonel Breen is brought in to investigate, accompanied by Professor Bernard Quartermass. When the interior of the “missile” is exposed, a dead locust-like creature that resembles the devil is found. It is determined by Quartermass that these “locusts” are evil Martians who altered the brains of our simian ancestors to eventually lay claim to the Earth. When Quartermass’s suspicion that the missile can reactivate the dormant evil in humans is confirmed, all hell breaks loose.Read More »

  • Jean-Claude Biette – Le champignon des Carpathes (1990) (DVD)

    Arthouse1981-1990FranceJean-Claude BietteSci-Fi

    No information on this in english….

    Une jeune fille doit interpréter le role d’Ophelie du “Hamlet” de Shakespeare dans le théâtre d’un metteur en scène américain quelque peu oublie. Quelque temps auparavant elle est sauvée in extremis lors de l’accident d’une centrale nucléaire. Mais Ophelie est malade. Robert son frère veut la soigner avec un drôle de champignon découvert par Marie au moment de l’accident. Pour Jean-Paul Civeyrac, étudiants de la Femis, “le vrai sujet du film est la possibilité compromise d’inventer une histoire, de faire un projet d’existence alors que le monde peut se détruire”.Read More »

  • Peter Wollen – Friendship’s Death (1987)

    1981-1990Peter WollenPhilosophySci-FiUnited Kingdom

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    A robot messenger (Tilda Swinton) is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970. Sullivan, a British journalist, (Bill Paterson) comes to her aid when she is found wandering without papers following a bombing and grants her refuge in his hotel room. But there she tells him she is a robot, sent as a peace envoy from another planet. He is not sure whether to believe her story or not, but finds her unusual view of the world appealing. They examine the human condition in a series of incredibly insightful and entertaining conversations.Read More »

  • Byron Haskin – Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)

    1961-1970AdventureByron HaskinSci-FiUSA

    Synopsis:
    Spun from Daniel DeFoe’s tale of the titular character, this sci-fi story involves a spaceship commander, Chris Draper (Paul Mantee) in a similar situation to the original Robinson Crusoe — but rather than being stranded on an island, our hero is on a hostile planet. Draper, Colonel Dan McReady (Adam West), and a test monkey look as if they are going to collide with a meteor. Draper and the chimp are able to eject themselves from the vessel, but McReady is not so lucky. The two survivors safely land on Mars and figure out how to breathe, drink, and eat on the inhospitable planet.Read More »

  • Terence Fisher – The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)

    1961-1970Hammer FilmsHorrorSci-FiTerence FisherUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    THEY CAME FROM THE HEAVENS… AND SENT THE WORLD INTO HELL!

    A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.Read More »

  • Ishirô Honda – Mosura AKA Mothra (1961)

    1961-1970FantasyIshirô HondaJapanKaiju-eigaSci-Fi

    A ship wrecked in a bad typhoon leads to the discovery of an unknown island with mysterious wildlife and inhabitants… and something else, which shouldn’t be provoked!Read More »

  • Ishirô Honda – San daikaijû: Chikyû saidai no kessen AKA Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

    1961-1970ActionIshirô HondaJapanKaiju-eigaSci-Fi

    Synopsis:
    A princess who gets controlled by aliens form Venus who assassins are after who a police officer must protect. Mean while Godzilla and rodan returns to wreak some havoc on japan . While that is happening a meteor crashes lands on earth which holds a three headed space dragon king ghidorah . Will Godzilla let the earth be destroyed by king ghidorah or will he help rodan and mothra to save the earth form this menace.Read More »

  • Ishirô Honda – Mosura tai Gojira AKA Godzilla vs Mothra (1964)

    1961-1970ActionIshirô HondaJapanKaiju-eigaSci-Fi

    Synopsis:
    A greedy developer has placed huge machines to suck dry a part of the ocean near Tokyo so he can put luxury condos there. After a storm, a giant egg washes up on the beach nearby and is immediately put on public display. The developer’s plans go awry when he disrupts Godzilla’s rest and the monster goes stomping through Tokyo again. It’s up to the elderly Mothra, and then to its two offspring, to save Tokyo from destruction.Read More »

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