Tag Archives: Sci-Fi
Alphaville at 50
This year we mark the 50th anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard’s sci-fi thriller, Alphaville. The futuristic-seeming settings and the presence of actor Eddie Constantine assure us that this is indeed a sci-fi thriller, but this is a Godard film so its also a movie about movies. Here’s the word from the British Film Institute… While the [...]
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Tagged Alphaville, dystopian, Eddie Constantine, film noir, Jean-Luc Godard, Lemmy Caution, Paris, pulp, Ray Bradbury, Sci-Fi, thriller, Truffaut
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Oswald: Patsy
The television show In Search Of is a strange little chestnut from my childhood. I knew the show’s host, Leonard Nimoy from his turn as “Spock” in Star Trek repeats, and In Search Of’s focus on unexplained phenomena, missing persons and extraterrestrial encounters was right on target for a kid who already loved Sci-Fi. I [...]
