1930's-1950's The Moon's Our Home (Seiter, 1936) Sh! The Octopus (McGann, 1937) The Mating Season (Leisen, 1951) Bad for Each Other (Rapper, 1953) The Phenix City Story (Karlson, 1955) Run of the Arrow (Fuller, 1956) House of Secrets (Green, 1956) Saint Joan (Preminger, 1957) Macabre (Castle, 1958) The Fiend Who Walked the West (G. Douglas, 1958 Five Gates to Hell (Clavell, 1959) 1960's Key Witness (Karlson, 1960) Summer and Smoke (Glenville, 1961) The Chapman Report (Cukor,1962) Bachelor Flat (Tashlin, 1962) [on Hulu] The L Shaped Room (Forbes, 1963) The Chalk Garden (Neame, 1964) A Thousand Clowns (Coe, 1965) You're a Big Boy Now (Coppola, 1966) The Whisperers (Forbes, 1967) Dark of the Sun (Cardiff, 1968) Skidoo (Preminger, 1968) Last Summer (Perry, 1969) The Comic (C. Reiner, 1969) 1970-1974 The Revolutionary (Williams, 1970) The Landlord (Ashby, 1970) Diary of a Mad Housewife (Perry, 1970) Tropic of Cancer (Strick, 1970) I Never Sang for My Father (Cates, 1970) Sometimes a Great Notion (Newman, 1971) Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (Turman, 1971) The Music Lovers (Russell, 1971) Drive, He Said (Nicholson, 1971) The Steagle (Sylbert, 1971) The Last Movie (Hopper, 1971) Made For Each Other (Bean, 1971) The Day the Clown Cried (Lewis, 1972) Hickey & Boggs (OOP) (Culp, 1972) The Carey Treatment (Edwards, 1972) Pete 'n' Tillie (Ritt, 1972) Slither (Zieff, 1973) Man on a Swing (Perry, 1974) Open Season (Collinson, 1974) The Tamarind Seed (Edwards, 1974) Law and Disorder (Passer, 1974) Homebodies (Yust, 1974) Stardust (Apted, 1974) Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974) 1975-1979 Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (Richards, 1975 At Long Last Love (Bogdanovich, 1975) Hearts of the West (Zieff, 1975) Welcome to L.A. (Rudolph, 1976) W.C. Fields and Me (Hiller, 1976) Citizens Band (Demme, 1977) Twilight's Last Gleaming (Aldrich, 1977) Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Brooks, 1977) Girlfriends (Weill, 1978) Movie Movie (Donen, 1978) The Medusa Touch (Gold, 1978) American Hot Wax (Mutrux, 1978) Hot Stuff (DeLuise, 1979) Scavenger Hunt (Schultz , 1979) Players (Harvey, 1979) Rich Kids (Young, 1979) Nightwing (Hiller, 1979) Screams of a Winter's Night (Wilson, 1979 When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? (Katselas, 1979 1980's Resurrection (Petrie, 1980) The Awakening (Newell, 1980) Simon (Brickman, 1980) God's Angry Man (Herzog, 1980) Fast-Walking (Harris, 1982) Twice Upon a Time (Korty & Swenson, 1983) Trouble in Mind (Rudolph, 1985) When the Wind Blows (Murikami, 1986) Housekeeping (Forsyth, 1987) The Glass Menagerie (Newman, 1987) Patty Hearst (Schrader, 1988) Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway, 1988) Haunted Summer (Passer, 1988) The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Spheeris, 1988) 1990's Old Times (Curtis, 1991) Prospero's Books (Greenaway, 1991) City of Hope (Sayles, 1991) The Baby of Macon (Greenaway, 1993) King of the Hill (Soderbergh, 1993) Dadetown (Hexter, 1995) SubUrbia (Linklater, 1997)
I have high hopes for this one, although the smiley face and the sex are making me a little nervous. Not that big of a Sam Rockwell fan, either. It hurts me to watch him act. I feel like the gears are always grinding. But it does have a nice Silent Running/Outland/2001/Saturn 3 feel to it.
Yeah, looks like "Silent Running" meets "Solaris."
I wonder if there'll be a scene in which Rockwell uses three robots to perform a minor but agonizing medical procedure on himself. That was my favorite part.
Posted by MickTravisMcGee at April 10, 2009 11:40 AM
Moon's director Duncan Jones brought the film to houston as NASA requested a screening ... they were interested in the film's depiction of Helium 3 mining ...
The moon is ace. I hope Barry O, sometime in like his second term or something, sends some dudes up to the moon again. He can put some people to work building a spaceship.
This looks good. I personally like the smiley face and its changing expressions. Kind of creepy.
Posted by BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey at April 10, 2009 11:48 AM
Burma, read Dark Side of the Moon, by Gerard de Groot. One of the best books I have read about the space race. According to the book, it was literally a miracle that we ever even got to the moon. Some might say it was just blind luck.
I don't think we are getting off of this planet. It's not going to happen. Maybe, at best, humans can get into some kind of permanent orbit around the earth, but other than that, this planet is a fucking prison.
Nothing is funnier than when someone asks an astronaut whether or not the moon landing was a fake? Have you ever seen Buzz Aldrin's reaction to that question? Comedy at its best.
Milk I'll be sure to check that out. And I fear you may be right. And yeah, that was golden. Buzz Aldrin should have a lifetime pass to deal with people like that as such.
Yeah, I think this movie is going to strike a resonant chord with those who spend most of their time sitting in front of a computer, communicating with veritable cyphers. Being on HE all day makes me feel pretty lonely. The rest of you might as well be on a another planet, right?
Thanks for the tip, Not Impressed. I just put a call into the publisher. Hopefully they'll be able to pulp the remaining copies of the book before another person can read it. Good work.
I didn't mean to make you angry and sarcastic Milkman, and was genuinely excited to check out that book before I found out about its problems.
And this movie looks like lots of fun. I do wish Sam Rockwell's face would calm down a little but he's still ok. The idea of this movie has lots of potential and the trailer is great.
Who's being sarcastic. That was a very heads-up move on your part. We need people to be that passionate. It doesn't take much time these days to file a formal complaint via email. So I did. I hope I ruin Gerard De Groot's day.
It's a decent film, but it's ultimately not as high-minded as it would like to be. Clint Mansell's score (played there in the trailer) is really good at times, bad at others, Rockwell fares well, exterior shots are great.
I couldn't help afterwards but feel the film will have a wider appeal than I original thought, which isn't exactly a compliment.
Congrats and much success to Mr. Jones. This movie looks so good, I will not want to see it. Why not? It looks like my idea of hell. Trapped in space with no way home. Even so, I can't resist. Like when I used to watch Lost in Space as a kid.
comment #1
Rich S.
says ...
I hope they give Bruce Dern a cameo.
Posted by Rich S.
at April 10, 2009 11:27 AM
comment #2
MilkMan
says ...
I have high hopes for this one, although the smiley face and the sex are making me a little nervous. Not that big of a Sam Rockwell fan, either. It hurts me to watch him act. I feel like the gears are always grinding. But it does have a nice Silent Running/Outland/2001/Saturn 3 feel to it.
Posted by MilkMan
at April 10, 2009 11:32 AM
comment #3
MickTravisMcGee
says ...
Yeah, looks like "Silent Running" meets "Solaris."
I wonder if there'll be a scene in which Rockwell uses three robots to perform a minor but agonizing medical procedure on himself. That was my favorite part.
Posted by MickTravisMcGee
at April 10, 2009 11:40 AM
comment #4
berg
says ...
Moon's director Duncan Jones brought the film to houston as NASA requested a screening ... they were interested in the film's depiction of Helium 3 mining ...
Posted by berg
at April 10, 2009 11:43 AM
comment #5
BurmaShave
says ...
Why the fuck don't we actually have bases on the moon? God damn Vietnam war.
Posted by BurmaShave
at April 10, 2009 11:46 AM
comment #6
BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey
says ...
The moon is ace. I hope Barry O, sometime in like his second term or something, sends some dudes up to the moon again. He can put some people to work building a spaceship.
This looks good. I personally like the smiley face and its changing expressions. Kind of creepy.
Posted by BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey
at April 10, 2009 11:48 AM
comment #7
MilkMan
says ...
Burma, read Dark Side of the Moon, by Gerard de Groot. One of the best books I have read about the space race. According to the book, it was literally a miracle that we ever even got to the moon. Some might say it was just blind luck.
I don't think we are getting off of this planet. It's not going to happen. Maybe, at best, humans can get into some kind of permanent orbit around the earth, but other than that, this planet is a fucking prison.
Nothing is funnier than when someone asks an astronaut whether or not the moon landing was a fake? Have you ever seen Buzz Aldrin's reaction to that question? Comedy at its best.
Posted by MilkMan
at April 10, 2009 11:53 AM
comment #8
DeafBrownTrashPunk
says ...
AMAZING.
Posted by DeafBrownTrashPunk
at April 10, 2009 12:12 PM
comment #9
BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey
says ...
This was directed by Zowie Bowie! Aces.
Posted by BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey
at April 10, 2009 12:16 PM
comment #10
MikeSchaeferSF
says ...
I'm totally there. But putting a blurb that says "Brainy and Thoughtful!" in your trailer ain't gonna sell it to the low-thread-count set.
Posted by MikeSchaeferSF
at April 10, 2009 12:19 PM
comment #11
BurmaShave
says ...
Milk I'll be sure to check that out. And I fear you may be right. And yeah, that was golden. Buzz Aldrin should have a lifetime pass to deal with people like that as such.
Posted by BurmaShave
at April 10, 2009 12:25 PM
comment #12
Mark
says ...
Elon Musk will be drinking a margarita with a three-titted dwarf on Mars within 20 years. Book it.
Posted by Mark
at April 10, 2009 12:44 PM
comment #13
BurmaShave
says ...
See you at the party, Mark.
Posted by BurmaShave
at April 10, 2009 1:06 PM
comment #14
MikeSchaeferSF
says ...
@BoshBarnet: holy crap! I had no idea. That's the Amazing Fact of the Week for me. Thanks!
Posted by MikeSchaeferSF
at April 10, 2009 1:52 PM
comment #15
crazyeight
says ...
Only if there are bankruptcy courts on Mars, Mark.
Posted by crazyeight
at April 10, 2009 2:30 PM
comment #16
MAGGA
says ...
I love it when Ali G asks Buzz Aldrin what he says to all those people who claim the moon does not exist.
This film looks like a wonderful study of loneliness. Had never heard of this, for some reason, and now it's a priority.
Posted by MAGGA
at April 10, 2009 3:49 PM
comment #17
MilkMan
says ...
Yeah, I think this movie is going to strike a resonant chord with those who spend most of their time sitting in front of a computer, communicating with veritable cyphers. Being on HE all day makes me feel pretty lonely. The rest of you might as well be on a another planet, right?
Posted by MilkMan
at April 10, 2009 3:57 PM
comment #18
MAGGA
says ...
That's right. Now I'm off to see if anyone's presed "like" on my Facebook status upgrade.
Posted by MAGGA
at April 10, 2009 4:17 PM
comment #19
MAGGA
says ...
No one has.
Posted by MAGGA
at April 10, 2009 4:18 PM
comment #20
NotImpressed1Yet
says ...
Milkman, I was intrigued by your book recommendation and went to Amazon to learn more about it.
Apparently there are some MAJOR factual errors in it:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3DZFHPNNPZPT4/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R3DZFHPNNPZPT4
Posted by NotImpressed1Yet
at April 10, 2009 5:23 PM
comment #21
Renfield
says ...
Looks cool but the computer is a bit Hal-ish, no?
Should've gone with a female voice to cease comparisons.
Posted by Renfield
at April 10, 2009 5:31 PM
comment #22
MilkMan
says ...
Thanks for the tip, Not Impressed. I just put a call into the publisher. Hopefully they'll be able to pulp the remaining copies of the book before another person can read it. Good work.
Posted by MilkMan
at April 10, 2009 6:03 PM
comment #23
NotImpressed1Yet
says ...
I didn't mean to make you angry and sarcastic Milkman, and was genuinely excited to check out that book before I found out about its problems.
And this movie looks like lots of fun. I do wish Sam Rockwell's face would calm down a little but he's still ok. The idea of this movie has lots of potential and the trailer is great.
Posted by NotImpressed1Yet
at April 10, 2009 7:09 PM
comment #24
MilkMan
says ...
Who's being sarcastic. That was a very heads-up move on your part. We need people to be that passionate. It doesn't take much time these days to file a formal complaint via email. So I did. I hope I ruin Gerard De Groot's day.
Posted by MilkMan
at April 10, 2009 8:05 PM
comment #25
Chase Kahn
says ...
It's a decent film, but it's ultimately not as high-minded as it would like to be. Clint Mansell's score (played there in the trailer) is really good at times, bad at others, Rockwell fares well, exterior shots are great.
I couldn't help afterwards but feel the film will have a wider appeal than I original thought, which isn't exactly a compliment.
Posted by Chase Kahn
at April 10, 2009 8:29 PM
comment #26
MilkMan
says ...
Hedging my bets.
Posted by MilkMan
at April 10, 2009 8:43 PM
comment #27
actionlover
says ...
I can't wait! This movie's gonna be AWESOME!!!
Posted by actionlover
at April 10, 2009 9:45 PM
comment #28
MilkMan
says ...
Actionlover for President of Hollywood.
Posted by MilkMan
at April 10, 2009 10:20 PM
comment #29
nitpicker
says ...
Congrats and much success to Mr. Jones. This movie looks so good, I will not want to see it. Why not? It looks like my idea of hell. Trapped in space with no way home. Even so, I can't resist. Like when I used to watch Lost in Space as a kid.
Posted by nitpicker
at April 11, 2009 6:29 AM
comment #30
dangovich
says ...
I like the trailer except I think it gives away too much of the story. They couls have been a little more cryptic about what he discovers.
Posted by dangovich
at April 11, 2009 2:41 PM
comment #31
dangovich
says ...
couls=could
Posted by dangovich
at April 11, 2009 2:41 PM
comment #32
Ghost072
says ...
Wow, love the trailer and concept. Hope this one lives up to the trailer.
Posted by Ghost072
at April 11, 2009 4:05 PM
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