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Trnka took a turn into Space Age sci-fi surrealism with this dark, dystopian satire on automatization in which a child traverses a forbidding technological wasteland to meet (surprise!) her uncanny new robotic grandmother.Read More »
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Jirí Trnka – Kybernetická babicka AKA The Cybernetic Grandmother (1962)
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Aleksandr Orlov – Strannaya istoriya doktora Dzhekila i mistera Khayda AKA The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986)
1981-1990Aleksandr OrlovHorrorSci-FiUSSRDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.Read More »
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Sanpo suru shinryakusha AKA Before We Vanish (2017)
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As vanguards of an invasion of the planet three aliens take possession of host bodies and assume human form. With superior technology, skills, strength and endurance the invading species is learning quickly and is sure to overwhelm the people of this planet. Unexpectedly, however, there is one force that could neuter the offensive.Read More » -
Robert Collector – Nightflyers (1987)
1981-1990HorrorRobert CollectorSci-FiUSAWhere they’re headed isn’t the mystery. What’s taking them there is.
In the not too distant future, an unusual scientific group set out on a journey on a most unique space freighter to head out into deep space to find a magical creature.
What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered….Read More »
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Memoria (2021) (HD)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul2021-2030ColombiaDramaSci-FiA Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogota, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.Read More »
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Jacques Tourneur – War-Gods of the Deep AKA The City Under the Sea (1965)
1961-1970AdventureJacques TourneurSci-FiUnited KingdomCity Under the Sea (released as War-Gods of the Deep in the US) is a 1965 British-American adventure horror science fiction film. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur (his final film) and starred Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart and David Tomlinson.
The plot concerns the discovery of a lost city beneath the sea off the coast of Cornwall. Price is the captain overseeing a group of sailors who have lived there for more than a century where the peculiar mix of gases has allowed them to extend their lifespan.Read More »
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Anisia Uzeyman & Saul Williams – Neptune Frost (2021)
2021-2030Anisia UzeymanArthouseQueer Cinema(s)RwandaSaul WilliamsSci-FiAn intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.
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In Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist hacker collective, attempting a takeover of the regime that is exploiting the region’s natural resources. When an intersex runaway and a miner find each other, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.Read More » -
Iradj Azimi – Utopia (1978)
1971-1980ArthouseFranceIradj AzimiSci-FiAfter a painful separation from the woman he loved, Julien (Laurent Terzieff) leaves his apartment.
He goes in search of his yesterday friends but no one answers him and the town stays silent.
So Julien is leaving the city in search of his childhood, his old school and his favorite teacher.
To the children who are here today he speaks a language that charm them
as it also charms the discreet Sylvie (Dominique Sanda)
His original teaching method is not to the taste of everyone.
It will even provoke the hostility of the parents and the administration. He’s fired.
Continuing his way, Julien goes to the sea and enters the sea.
The classroom doors suddenly open and a huge crowd of children
suddenly appears at the top of the dunes preparing to invade the beaches.
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Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu – Les derniers jours du monde AKA Happy End (2009)
2001-2010Arnaud LarrieuFranceJean-Marie LarrieuRomanceSci-FiRobinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly bizarre and eventually apocalyptic, leading us down a narrative path of labyrinthine complexity. The resulting film is an extraordinary feat of imagination and daring, set against the backdrop of a world on the verge of destruction.Read More »









