Star Trek: The Naked Time (1966)

New Acquisition: Sight and Sound

 

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

 

New Acquisition: Crimes of the Future (2022)

 

New Acquisition: eXistenZ (1999)

 

New Acquisition: The Dead Zone (1983)

 

New Acquisition: The Fly (1986)

 

New Acquisition: Scanners (1981)

 

Logan's Run (1976)

 

New Acquisition: Videodrome (1983)

 

I nuovi barbari (1983)

 

Land of the Lost (1974 - 1977)

 

New Acquisition: THX 1138 (1971)

 

New Acquisition: Crash (1996)

 

The Ambushers (1967)

 

The Ambushers production still (1967)

New Aquisition: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) + Them! (1954)

 

Soldier (1998)

 

New Acquisition: Forbidden Planet (1956)

 

Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

 

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.

Fascinating documentary about a gigantic and obviously impossible film project, the sheer amount of talents involved is baffling; furthermore, Alejandro Jodorowsky is obviously a very entertaining and humorous personality.

Maltin***: "Amusing, jaw-dropping documentary...Great fun for film buffs." 

 

 

Dune (1984)

 

In the distant future, a man appears who may be the prophet that a long-suffering galaxy has been waiting for.

Visually compelling and with imaginative styling as you'd expect from the director, the plot has been overloaded so that the sci-fi epic seems more summarized than actually adapted.

On re-watching: Still good to look at, but the narrative is simply not convincing nor much coherent either.

Halliwell (no star): "A basically simple space fiction plot is immensely complicated by a welter of characters who are not properly introduced and who indeed are mostly irrelevant. The result, which cost nearly 50 million dollars, is inaudible, invisible (because of dim lighting) and unentertaining: a disaster of the very first order."

Maltin*1/2: "Elephantine adaptation...You know you're in trouble when film's opening narration...is completely incomprehensible! Visually imaginative, well cast, but joyless and oppressive - not to mention long. For devotees of Herbert's novel only."