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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 3, 2023 13:19:33 GMT
With friends I take part in monthly film marathons that run from August onward to December. Each month has a theme. This month is Sci-Fi. I'm looking for films from 1960s or earlier that are NOT American or British made to add to my watch list. I'm watching the Soviet Nebo Zovyot, from 1959, which was recut and redubbed as Battle Beyond the Sun in America by a young film student called Francis Ford Coppola, for Roger Corman. The recut is very different, and included a stupid monster fight with roars and noises, despite being on an airless asteroid orbiting Mars. I suppose Hard (for the time) SF would be too dull for a drive in audience. Does anyone know any European or wider SF films that fit the description? Quality isn't that important. My interest in contemporary SF is practically zero I'm afraid, but 1950s B-movies hold an appeal.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 3, 2023 15:05:32 GMT
Tarkovsky's Solaris is supposed to be quite gripping. It's from 1972. I've seen stills but never found time to track down a copy of the movie. It's Russian. www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/On the opposite end of the cultural spectrum, Mission Stardust is an entertainingly camp German film adapted from the Perry Rhodan book series which was wildly popular in Europe, but didn't take off in the US. From 1967. www.imdb.com/title/tt0063859/I don't know if it fits the kind of thing your group is into, but Godard's Alphaville was an iconic cult film of the 1960s. And then there's The Tenth Victim (1965) starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress, a dystopian future film that has a satirical edge to it (the "Drink Ming Tea!" commercial sequence particularly comes to mind). Shot at Cinecitta in Rome I believe. There are some Japanese films from this period as well--the well known Godzilla, Mothra, Ghidorah etc epics, but I believe there are other ones that are space opera-themed. Saluting, Hel. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 3, 2023 15:11:46 GMT
Perfect thank you!
I've seen Solaris and enjoyed it. I avoided the remake, but it is supposed to be ok.
Alphaville is one I will try to track down.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 3, 2023 16:03:42 GMT
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Post by bluetomb on Sept 5, 2023 9:36:38 GMT
Along related lines to Nebo Zovyot I remember Planeta Bur (1962) being quite a good watch, and last I checked was available in its original version in reasonably good nick on Youtube. Also recall enjoying The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965). Sort of a Verne/Wells/Bond/noir dealio, interesting times. Otherwise most non English SF that I've really dug that comes to mind is 70s and 80s.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 8, 2023 15:05:23 GMT
Along related lines to Nebo Zovyot I remember Planeta Bur (1962) being quite a good watch, and last I checked was available in its original version in reasonably good nick on Youtube. Also recall enjoying The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965). Sort of a Verne/Wells/Bond/noir dealio, interesting times. Otherwise most non English SF that I've really dug that comes to mind is 70s and 80s. Please supply any 70s and 80s titles too. I'm probably being a bit fussy. |
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Post by bluetomb on Sept 9, 2023 1:58:02 GMT
Along related lines to Nebo Zovyot I remember Planeta Bur (1962) being quite a good watch, and last I checked was available in its original version in reasonably good nick on Youtube. Also recall enjoying The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965). Sort of a Verne/Wells/Bond/noir dealio, interesting times. Otherwise most non English SF that I've really dug that comes to mind is 70s and 80s. Please supply any 70s and 80s titles too. I'm probably being a bit fussy. Some of which I am particularly fond are World on a Wire (1973), Decoder (1984), The Twelve Months of the Summer (1988), Golem (1980), War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981), O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilisation (1985), Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986), and Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989). |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 9, 2023 12:33:10 GMT
Thank you.
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Post by samdawson on Sept 9, 2023 21:37:06 GMT
This may have been mentioned. Fantastic Planet, a 1973 French-Czechoslovakian animated feature which was shown in the UK as the support film for Pink Floyd Live in Pompei. I may not have been the only one to find the main film rather dull and this an unexpected pleasure
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 9, 2023 23:45:46 GMT
I think Tarkovsky's Stalker is more evocative than Solaris. The fantastic elements in Solaris are drastically toned down from Stanislaw Lem's great novel. But I need to rewatch the movie, it is primarily made up of dialogue inbetween long shots of quiet lingering and I don't remember any of it.
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Post by bluetomb on Sept 10, 2023 3:32:54 GMT
How could I have forgotten the wonderfully titled and also pretty great Czech time travel comedy Tomorrow I'll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea (1977)?
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 10, 2023 13:24:47 GMT
How could I have forgotten the wonderfully titled and also pretty great Czech time travel comedy Tomorrow I'll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea (1977)? Or the classic Polish romp, Sex Mission (1984) |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Sept 10, 2023 13:53:16 GMT
This may have been mentioned. Fantastic Planet, a 1973 French-Czechoslovakian animated feature which was shown in the UK as the support film for Pink Floyd Live in Pompei. I may not have been the only one to find the main film rather dull and this an unexpected pleasure I remember seeing "Fantastic Planet" at the cinema in about 1974. It had (dubbed) English dialogue. Versions in both English and French (with English subtitles) can be seen in full on YouTube, free, gratis and for nowt. I thought it was pretty good at the time. When I saw it it was the support film for "Crystal Voyager" (also on YouTube), a rather dull film about surfing with lots of slo-mo sequences of the insides of waves and a soundtrack by Pink Floyd - "Echoes", the long track that comprises the whole of side two of the album "Meddle". Even as a Floyd fan I had to admit the animation was better. |
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Post by bluetomb on Sept 10, 2023 14:34:53 GMT
How could I have forgotten the wonderfully titled and also pretty great Czech time travel comedy Tomorrow I'll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea (1977)? Or the classic Polish romp, Sex Mission (1984) I've yet to see this actually, though I have heard of it. I think the sex comedy angle has put me off, though it may also have been inaccessibility. I see it has the great Jerzy Stuhr though and is genuinely well thought of so I ought to try to rootle it out. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 12, 2023 14:35:38 GMT
Thank you everyone.
I watched Tomorrow I'll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea and enjoyed it. I'm sure I will try other recommendations.
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