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Post by MaKS on Nov 24, 2006 21:36:39 GMT -5
The GITS director's live action movies, it must be worth looking for it. Thanks! Any other eastern cinema recommendations? I'd appreciate that. I found Kurosawa (A. T.'s favorite!) totally adorable, but he doesn't fit the sci-fi topic, alas... Does the spirit of husband from Rashomon counts? mm, hardly, i guess.  |
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Post by panpredseda on Nov 26, 2006 5:37:27 GMT -5
Old but good  Czechoslovak sci-fi movie IKARIE XB 1 a.k.a. Voyage to the End of the Universe from 1963, directed by Jindrich Polak and based on Lem's Magellan Cloud IMDB info www.imdb.com/title/tt0122111/ |
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Post by MaKS on Nov 30, 2006 7:41:59 GMT -5
Old but good Czechoslovak sci-fi movie IKARIE XB 1 a.k.a. Voyage to the End of the Universe from 1963, directed by Jindrich Polak and based on Lem's Magellan Cloud IMDB info www.imdb.com/title/tt0122111/Definitely attractive for my Lem-loving heart. Thanks. ^^ Now, I suppose Sokurov's Russian Ark (2002) fits the topic - at least, technically it's a ghost story with timetravels involved. On the contrary, it doesn't look like that at all, but rather as a long guide tour in the Saint-Petersburg's Hermitage in the Winter palace. Read more about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Arkus.imdb.com/title/tt0318034/I found the film peaceful and rather amusing, for a fine arts lover it definetly is a must see. Unfortunately, available subtitles are seem to be very incomplete, which is a real shame. Apart from the Winter Palace visuals, the film consists mostly of protagonist's dialogs with "his european" and overheard talks and whispers... |
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Post by MaKS on Dec 2, 2006 14:39:57 GMT -5
I seem to forgot about another film that definetly worth mentioning.
Sobachye serdtse (1988) - Heart of a Dog
Directed by V. Bortko
The film is based upon M. Bulgakov's novel of the same name from the 1925. The story reflects mostly "Frankenstein" and "dr. Morau", but in rather comical way and with a huge load of anti-bolshevik criticism. In the post-civil war bolshevik Russia a medicine professor Preobrazhensky (lit. "Transfigurator") makes an unique operation, he transplants a hypophysis from a victim of drunk fight to a stray dog. Pretty soon - much to everyone's surprise - the dog starts to evolve rapidly, getting taller, losing fur and tail and finally becomes a mere human being, although remarkably vulgar and immoral. However, those qualities seem to help camrade Sharikov (surname's derived from the most usual dog name) to fit the new society rather well.
The story consists mostly of opposition of the old-fashioned, aristocratic professor, his assintant and household on the one side and the new bolshevik system together with professor's creation on the other.
Bortko kept the original story intact and put his best efforts into recreating it on screen. In this he remarkably succeded, and the film itself instantly became classic.
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Post by cementimental on Jan 19, 2007 22:53:54 GMT -5
Any other eastern cinema recommendations? I'd appreciate that.
Moving kind of away from sci-fi, Shinya Tsukamoto's movies are all really great... Tetsuo being his most well known,... some are sci-fi/horror, some later ones drama but they're all super-intense and really amazingly good. 'Beat' Takeshi's movies are great too... Back on sci-fi anime, there are almost too many to mention, but one true classic is "Wings of Honneamise" (aka 'Royal Space Force'), one of the studio Gainax's earliest works. It's basically the greatest world-building in cinema history... up there with Blade Runner in terms of attention to detail, and a really good and poignent story too... Most other Gainax projects are really good too, tho they do churn out some more 'otaku' shows that might put people off. Their "Gunbuster" (aka "aim for the top") and it's recent sequel are really superb, true spirit of 50's hard sci-fi.... And their series "Neon Genesis Evangelion" is pretty legendary and important. |
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Post by MaKS on Feb 2, 2007 16:08:46 GMT -5
Any other eastern cinema recommendations? I'd appreciate that.
Moving kind of away from sci-fi, Shinya Tsukamoto's movies are all really great... Tetsuo being his most well known,... some are sci-fi/horror, some later ones drama but they're all super-intense and really amazingly good. 'Beat' Takeshi's movies are great too... Thank you, got to check those. Back on sci-fi anime, there are almost too many to mention, but one true classic is "Wings of Honneamise" (aka 'Royal Space Force'), one of the studio Gainax's earliest works. It's basically the greatest world-building in cinema history... up there with Blade Runner in terms of attention to detail, and a really good and poignent story too... Most other Gainax projects are really good too, tho they do churn out some more 'otaku' shows that might put people off. Their "Gunbuster" (aka "aim for the top") and it's recent sequel are really superb, true spirit of 50's hard sci-fi.... And their series "Neon Genesis Evangelion" is pretty legendary and important. Japanimation's pretty familiar to me. GITS, NGE, EoE, FMA, FMP, SEL, et cetera et cetera... handful of sci-fi. There's a number of anime films - sci-fi or not - that manage to demonstrate visuals rather appealing to my Zerkalo-adoring taste. |
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