Science Fiction : search and destroy

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NYC MoMA retro "Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction" has some rarely screened stuff, like the Borges-written Invasión:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3855?locale=en

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link

looks great, bunch of stuff I've never seen. (also some crap, of course, but what can ye do)

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link

Must say I'm curious about this double feature:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3347?locale=en

or at night (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link

me too

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link

Haven't clicked. Is On the Silver Globe in there?

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link

mercifully no

xp

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link

yeah after googling rat saviour and the damned thing i am pretty sold on that double feature

is colossus: the forbin project rare on a big screen?

or at night (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link

p sure it screens in NY now and then, but too cultish to be a perennial

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link

some of the shorts are revelatory; i had no idea there was a Soviet animated film of Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains." Which will be packed, cuz

The Quiet Earth. 1985. Directed by Geoff Murphy
Budet laskovyi dozhd (There Will Come Soft Rains). 1984. Directed by Nozim To’laho’jayev
Monday, August 14, 7:15 p.m.

Presented by astrophysicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link

That soviet bradbury is on youtube.

Not a substitute for the big screen, but for those not in ny.

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 July 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link

Invasión is indeed uncanny (the synthetic bird noises!) but it's hardly sci-fi, more like an ultra-abstract political thriller.

Wes Brodicus, Thursday, 6 July 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link

Things can be both

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 July 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link

It's been a while since I saw that movie but there were no sci-fi elements whatsoever iirc.

Plenty of tango, though, on the soundtrack.

Wes Brodicus, Thursday, 6 July 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link

four years pass...

I have just finally read Christopher Priest's Inverted World, discussed at some length earlier in this thread, and I really liked it but I have questions. SPOILERS TO FOLLOW: Can anyone who's read it weigh in on to what degree the physical effects of the "inverted world" described by Hellward (what a name) are "real" and to what degree they're the product of a consciousness warped by the effects of the weird energy field? Because there is some reference to the natives talking about "giants," which would suggest that the energy field has physical effects that are perceptible to people outside it as well as those inside it. But that doesn't quite seem to gibe with the ending, which more or less suggests that the effects are mostly on the perceptions of the people within the city, rather than on the physical world itself. Maybe it doesn't matter because Priest's main points are allegorical, but it did leave me wondering.


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