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Day off, my poor back is still rather delicate, but moving around seems to be helping it. Unlike my last day off I was actually able to walk to the cinema and enjoy Mickey 17. Brimming with gallows black humour, I knew Bong Joon Ho would deliver (frankly I'd go see anything he directs, regardless what it is about).

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This evening's viewing distraction: Guardans of the Galaxy Vol 3, one of the very few decent Marvel movies of the last couple of years, managing to be fun but also carry a fair emotional punch to it.

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Our lead is Major Jeff Cummings who is investigating the deaths but has to deal with the distrustful and superstitious natives…. and their “Canadian” accents. Anyway eventually they manage to do an autopsy and find the brain and spinal cords of the victims are missing...
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#TheCityOfLostChildren!

The audio leaves a little to be desired, being only a 2.0 Master, but the visual presentation is absolutely gorgeous! I’ve only ever seen/owned a DVD copy in the past and this #4KUHD is a major step up from that!

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Well, I know what I’m watching tonight!

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#Interstellar Für mich einer der tollsten jemals produzierten Filme Kein billiges Popcorn Kino, teils anstrengend zu verfolgen und jede einzelne Sekunde der knapp 3 Stunden wert.
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ISeems the consensus on The Day the Sky Exploded (1958) is that the birth of Italian SF film was inauspicious (though fitting that it was another production ghost-directed by Mario Bava). I get why many find it dull, but I found it interesting, and there was a fair bit that I enjoyed, especially at the climax, where it achieves a real sense of doom on the ground, and of dark, poetic abstraction in space. My Letterboxd review:

https://boxd.it/3UKxhp

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The family of our protagonist huddles next to a wall as the winds rage, the temperature soars, and doom closes in.

Missiles streak toward the black mass of the asteroids, silhouetted by the white light of the moon.

I really love how Italian SF films go full-on space opera, low budget be damned. Assignment: Outer Space (1960, aka Space Men) is Antonio Margheriti’s debut, and his strong visual sense is already very much on display. It may not be as deliriously inventive as Battle of the Worlds, but there’s plenty to love all the same, with a cavalcade of visual splendour.

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A very 60s rocket ship comes down for a landing between jagged mountains. The ground below is covered in fog.

The Earth-threatening out-of-control spaceship of the story, a thing of cylinders and spheres contacted by thin metal rods.

There’s something about Unknown World (1961) that ticks the right boxes for me. It has since I first stumbled upon it while channel surfing years ago. I get why it has the reputation for being dull: it’s an hollow earth story with no monsters or lost civilzations (or really antagonists of any kind), a lot of it takes place in the rather banal interior of the “cyclotram,” and Terry Morse’s direction lies at the intersection of workmanlike and pedestrian.

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The cyclotram on a mountain peak, its drill head outlined against a moonlit sky.

The cylcotram from the side. A smooth cross between a tank and submarine with a projecting drill bit.

I’d seen 10 minutes of footage from GOLD (1934) before, because it was used in THE MAGNETIC MONSTER (1953). What a treat, though, to see it in its original context.

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The enormous gold-making machine, built on multiple levels, all electrical coils and huge glass tubes.

Did you just watch Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once?
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FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE (1953) is Hammer’s first real foray into SF, and also sketches out concerns to come as it also returned to horror (for the first time since 1935). The film is more like a promise of what was to come than a fully successful atttempt, but it is worth seeing. More here: http://davidannandale.com/2022/11/21/four-sided-triangle-1953/
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