Sci-Fi-London · 2008
12 films · 12 reviews
Scott wrings out every last drop of suspense from the film.
(Country: UK; Year: 1979; Director: Ridley Scott; Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett; Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright)
Sometimes cinema tickles the senses, sometimes it tugs at the heartstrings, sometimes it exercises the intellect – but La Antena transmits to all three at once.
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2007; Director: Esteban Sapir; Writer: Esteban Sapir; Stars: Valeria Bertuccelli, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Julieta Cardinali, Rafael Ferro, Raúl Hochman, Ricardo Merkin, Sol Moreno, Gustavo Pastorini, Carlos Piñeiro, Florencia Raggi) , Official site
A quest for the human beyond (or at least within) the machine.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Shinji Aramaki; Writer: Kiyoto Takeuchi, based on characters from the manga by Masamune Shirow; Stars: Luci Christian, David Matranga, Illich Guadriola, Alison Sumrall, Shelly Calene-Black, Hilary Haag, Chris Hutchison, Mike MacRae, John Gremillion, Melissa Davis, Quintin Haag, Alice Fulks, Chris Patton (English-language voices))
Travolta doesn't seem to care what this might do to his fan base.
(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Roger Christian; Writer: Corey Mandell, J D Shapiro, L Ron Hubbard; Stars: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Richard Tyson)
One of the key plot developments in the film is a process by which you can reverse time and live a day all over again, sadly an option not available to filmgoers yet.
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Julian Doyle; Writer: Julian Doyle, Bruce Dickinson; Stars: Simon Callow, John Shrapnel, Kal Weber, Lucy Cudden) , Official site , Trailer
If the film fails to connect the dots, it is never less than intriguing.
(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Julien Leclercq; Writer: Julien Leclercq, Nicolas Peufaillit, Franck Philippon, Aude Py; Stars: Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard, Marthe Keller, Mélanie Thierry, Claude Perron, Alain Figlarz, Smadi Wolfman, Patrick Bauchau, Guy Lecluyse, Cyril Lecomte, Francis Renaud) , Trailer
The film sets up an interesting situation, like the pilot of a TV series, and then leaves you, as it were, at the beginning.
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Marc Caro; Writer: Marc Caro, Pierre Bordage; Stars: Lambert Wilson, Linh Dan Pham, Dominique Pinon, Gérald Laroche, Simona Maicanescu, Yann Collette, Bruno Lochet, François Levantal, François Hadji-Lazaro, Lotfi Yahya Jedidi)
David Twohy [uses] imagination as an alternative energy source.
(Country: US/Australia; Year: 2000; Director: David Twohy; Writer: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat, David Twohy; Stars: Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Keith David, Claudia Black, Rhiana Griffith, John Moore)
Soderbergh's use of real time, old time, dream and memory is orchestrated with such delicacy that the meaning of truth dissolves into pure sensation.
(Country: USA; Year: 2002; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Writer: Steven Soderbergh, based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem; Stars: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis, Ulrich Tukur, John Cho, Morgan Rusler, Shane Skelton, Donna Kimball)
Tekkonkinkreet is beautiful, and ably uses its visual appeal in service of an exciting fable.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2006; Director: Michael Arias; Writer: Anthony Weintraub, based on the comic by Taiyo Matsumoto.; Stars: Yû Aoi, Alex Fernandez, Yusuke Iseya, Kankurô Kudô, Sanchu Mori, Masahiro Motoki)
A classic white-knuckle ride.
(Country: US; Year: 1982; Director: John Carpenter; Writer: Bill Lancaster; Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas G. Waites, Norbert Weisser, Larry J. Franco, Nate Irwin)
This might be familiar fare, but Fumihiko Sori and his team pull it off with sufficient visual aplomb to keep things highly entertaining.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Fumihiko Sori; Writer: Haruka Handa, Fumihiko Sori; Stars: Voices of Meisa Kuroki, Shosuke Tanihara, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Tetsuya Kakihara, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Akio Ôtsuka, Romi Pak, Takahiro Sakurai) , Official site
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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