Science Fiction Cinema
If you teach science fiction cinema or are passionate about the genre: here are two supercuts and a selected filmography
FILMOGRAPHY
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
The Blob (Irvin Yeaworth, 1958)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut, 1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Westworld (John Michael Crichton, 1973)
World On a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
The Men Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1989)
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995)
Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996)
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997)
Armageddon (Michel Bay, 1998)
Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
The Matrix (Andy & Larry Wachowski, 1999)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
The Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
Signs (Night Shyamalan, 2002)
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves; 2008)
I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence, 2008)
Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008)
WALL-E (Jim Morris, 2008)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
The Road (John Hillcoat, 2009)
Idiocracy (Mike Judge, 2006)
Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010)
Chronicle (Josh Trank, 2012)
Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)
Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013)
Snowpiecer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013)
Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine, 2013)
OTHER TITLES OF INTEREST (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER):
• Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) • Paris qui dort (1925) • Woman in the Moon (1929) • Just Imagine (1930) • Frankenstein(1931) • Island of Lost Souls (1932) • The Invisible Man (1933) • When Worlds Collide (1933) • Things to Come (1936) •Destination Moon (1950) • The Thing From Another World (1951) • The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) • Invaders From Mars (1953) • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) • Godzilla (1954) • Them! (1954) • Forbidden Planet (1956) •The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) • Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) • The Time Machine (1960) • Village of the Damned (1960) • X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) • The War Game (1965) • Fantastic Voyage (1966) • Seconds(1966) • Quatermass and the Pit (1967) • Planet of the Apes (1968) • Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) • Silent Running (1972) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) • Sleeper (1973) • Soylent Green (1973) • Zardoz (1974) • A Boy and His Dog (L.Q. Jones, 1976) • Superman (1978) • Mad Max (1979) • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) • The Quiet Earth(1981) • Liquid Sky (1982) • The Thing (1982) • Born in Flames (1983) • Videodrome (1983) • Dune (1984) • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) • The Brother From Another Planet (1984) • Enemy Mine (1985) • Robocop (1987) • Akira (1988) •They Live (1988) • Total Recall (1990) • Tribulation 99: Alien Anomolies Under America (1991) • Ghost in the Shell(1995) • Mars Attacks! (1996) • Starship Troopers (1997) • Galaxy Quest (1999)
MOST ADAPTED SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS:
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Jules Verne (1828-1905)
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
Robert Henlein (1907-1988)
Arthur Clarke (1917-2008)
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
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