How dare they remake
a classic science fiction film?
On This Week's Show: Like the return of
the classic science fiction film Tron to theaters, Neil makes a triumphant return to the Magical Studio in the Sky.
Subsequent to Village of the Damned (1995), an uninspired remake of the 1960
classic science fiction film, Carpenter directed three films that virtually deconstruct, reinvent and cross-fertilize the western genre.
The latest installment in the series based on
the classic science fiction film «Planet of the Apes,» War for the Planet of the Apes, is available on DVD and Blu - ray.
Not exact matches
At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a
science -
fiction and horror
film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult
classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.
The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still closely parallels Robert Wise's 1951
science fiction film classic that was a Cold War warning shrouded in a Christ allegory.
It may not contain any elements of «hard
science -
fiction» but it is no less a
science -
fiction films than the
classic films I mentioned in my review.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a landmark,
science fiction classic - and probably the best
science -
fiction film of all time about exploration of the unknown.
From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016),
science fiction cinema has produced a body of
classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other
film genre.
Your evening kicks off with The Day the Earth Stood Still, an enduring
classic and easily one of the most influential
science fiction films of all time.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford
film is a «
science fiction tale told in the style of
classic B - movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are guaranteed to make it the next big midnight movie hit.»
In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest
film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924)
films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical
science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great
films of the silent era.
Forging a strong link in the evolution of modern
science fiction films, this
classic was nominated for an Oscar, and won an honorary award for outstanding makeup.
After all, here is a truly visionary
film - maker who has been behind some of
science fiction cinema's most bona fide
classics.
From the
classic to the obscure, the Arrow Video collection encompasses all styles and genres: horror
films and Westerns,
science fiction and sex comedies, yakuza epics and neo-noirs, the subversive, the transgressive and the unclassifiable.
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According to Deadline, «Blade Runner» screenwriter Hampton Fancher is currently in talks to join director Ridley Scott for a sequel to the 1982
science fiction classic film.
In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984
film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of
classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».
Although generally listed in the
science -
fiction section, Philip Kaufman's adaptation of the
classic Jack Finney story easily qualifies as one of the most effective horror
films of the late 20th century.
That's no knock against Scott's 1979
classic, which remains an excellent
science fiction film and an excellent horror
film — it's just that I prefer James Cameron's follow - up, an excellent
science fiction, horror, action and war
film.
As such, though set in modern times, the
film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at
science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such
classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
With its stunning visual style, sly subversion
science -
fiction and horror genre conventions and one of the most terrifying and memorable monsters in screen history, «Alien» became an instant
film classic from the moment it burst forth — literally — in the summer of 1979.
; other
classic mid-century
science -
fiction flicks like When Worlds Collide (1951), It Came from Outer Space (1953), and The Time Machine (1960) were marketed similarly, as Lumière-esque marvels of
film technology.
Blade Runner (1997, PC) is a point and click adventure game based on the
classic 1982
science fiction film of the same name.
It draws its thematic influence from the
science -
fiction films and anime of the 80's and its gameplay from
classic Amiga and Commodore 64 action - adventures.
«Huma Bhabha's We Come in Peace borrows its title from the
classic American
science -
fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), a tale of first contact between humans and aliens.