Sentences with phrase «classic science fiction films»
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.
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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.
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.
How dare they remake a classic science fiction film?
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.