Honorable Mention (Well, the novel it’s based on is more or less science fiction…) Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the best know science fiction writer who emerged from behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. What is perhaps the most curious aspect of his career — at least from out perspective here in the West […]
Read more "Sledztwo [The Investigation](1974)"This is one of those films which looks just incredible. Not that it looks like any other film you’ve seen. Instead, it had a beautifully strange aesthetic, with weird set pieces that are meant to represent a future city, even if they are clearly flats and hanging scenery elements on a stage-bound set. And a […]
Read more "Vernyy robot [The Faithful Robot] (1965)"In 1967, the BBC submitted its first entry to the Festival Internazionale del Film di Fantascienza in Trieste. Their choice seems mildly odd, as it was merely an episode of their anthology show, Out of the Unknown — and an episode which was not particularly successful at the time it ran. However, they ended up […]
Read more "Out of the Unknown: “The Machine Stops” (1966)"I can’t explain it. Here we have a little know German TV movie which does not credit any other work of science fiction as its inspiration, while on the other hand we have a brilliant wordless Czech animated film, Krabi, which came out a year later. And yet they both have essentially the same plot. […]
Read more "Die Insel der Krebse (1975)"(Literal translation: The Lady from Beyond Nowhere) A one-hit wonder? That is what George Langelaan appears to be here in the States. After all, the French born Science Fiction writer is best remembered for one short story — or, at least, for the movie versions of that story. That story was “The Fly.” Within two […]
Read more "La Dame d’outre-nulle part (1965)"
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