Tag: Silent Running
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George Lucas Committed To An Impossible Task For Star Wars’ Earliest Special Effects
George Lucas had a bold vision when he set out to make “Star Wars” in the mid-1970s. He did not, however, have the technology to pull it off. No one did, at least not at an affordable price.Douglas Trumbull had recently vaulted visual effects forward with his optical innovations for Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space…
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Brave new worlds: what can we learn from film’s utopian visions?
From eco fantasies to dystopian nightmares, cinema has long explored how life might be different. Our post-lockdown existence could look to them for pointersAs we emerge blinking into the sunlight after lockdown, many of us will be daring to dream of a more harmonious, ecological future. It’s what the subjects of Spaceship Earth were hoping…
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How we made Moon – by Sam Rockwell and Duncan Jones
We were concerned the audience wouldn’t know which clone was which. We talked about using a wig, but I stole Ratso Rizzo’s cough for the sick cloneI wanted Sam Rockwell to play the villain in Mute, a film I later made for Netflix. But he wanted to play a blue-collar kind of guy. We both…
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First Man review – an inner space odyssey
Damien Chazelle’s drama about Neil Armstrong and the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing is a moving tale of loss and perilIn William Peter Blatty’s underrated 1980 mystery-thriller The Ninth Configuration, a grounded lunar astronaut played by Scott Wilson (who sadly died last week) delivers a heartbreaking soliloquy that perfectly encapsulates the existential crisis at the…