The Ten Best Sci Fi Movies!

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 moshkito wrote:

 BaldJean wrote:

...In the 60s and 70s there
were a lot of brilliant horror movies, like the Roman Polanski trilogy
"Repulsion" (1965), "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "The Tenant" (1974) ...

That
RP gets thought as a horror director, is strange for me. He is, for
lack of a better set of words, an "observer", though many times, his
camera takes on the very personna he is trying to show ... TESS is an
excellent example of that and watch some of the scenes ... the camera
becomes first person, and in at least one case, it is very scary and
uncomfortable.

The other 3 films, for me, had a
lot more of RP's cleverness with the camera in his hands ... witness,
the great ballroom shot in "THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS", and then the
most famous camera shot of his, being in "ROSEMARY'S BABY" where the
camera is situated in the dark outside and the shot is looking through
the door into a bed on the left, and we can only see the last foot or
two of the bed ... and EVERYONE in the theater, turned their heads to
try and see what was on the other side of the door!

Such is the power of film, that even our reactions are ... yeah ... you got it! Totally silly.

BTW,
not a sci-fi film but a must see film ... "VISIONS OF LIGHT" is about
cinematographers, and in hearing many of them talk, you find out some of
the crazy beauty that so many films became ... it's almost total sci-fi
for me, because even as a director, so much of that stuff is never
really thought of ... most directors think about a linear story and
dialogue kind of thing, so seeing a visual something else ... that a
director took up, changes the whole thing around. And this always came
away best in film with great music, for which Bernard Herrman, Ryuichi
Sakamoto, Vangelis, Maurice Jarre, Nino Rota ... are fondly remembered,
even though for many of us, we can't even name many of these films. 