Word: fi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in 1971, Philip José Farmer abandoned the sci-fi world of space opera with a book that introduced this "Riverworld," titled To Your Scattered Bodies Go. In a tantalizing curtain raiser, Sir Richard Francis Burton, searcher for the source of the Nile, translator of The Arabian Nights, soldier, swordsman and linguist, dies in Trieste in 1890 (as did the historical Burton). Moments later-or is it millenniums?-he awakens, naked and bewildered, on the bank of the river. Burton's reaction is entirely in character. While other resurrectees stagger about in shock, the world's most...
...hands of the Soviet film industry's "editors" (censors) can be heavy indeed. The two men who by international critical consensus are the heirs of Soviet film greatness-Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Paradjanov -have been harassed, cajoled and officially criticized. Tarkovsky, best known for the chilling sci-fi parable Solaris (1972), recently was named "People's Artist of the U.S.S.R.," but the film bureaucracy has refused to fund some of his projects, delayed the release of others or exhibited them for only a few weeks in out-of-the-way theaters. Paradjanov astonished Western film buffs with...
...fight off any infection. His life in his sterile sanctuary, portrayed by John Travolta in a 1976 TV film, was poignant: he sometimes threatened to walk out to virtually certain death, but mostly he tried to live normally: he liked Shakespeare, played the electric guitar and became a sci-fi buff; at a Star Trek convention, which he attended clad in an astronaut-type pressure suit, he was delighted to be mistaken for just another imaginatively attired Trekkie...
...this film to commercial success with the bedrock audience for horror - a young crowd that likes its metaphysics murky and its menaces crude - is problematical. But it is impossible not to admire Kubrick for flouting conventional expectations of his horror film just as he did those of the sci-fi tale...
...soon turned to full-length features; his first science-fiction film, Destination Moon (1950), anticipated procedures and equipment used in the 1969 lunar landing and brought him an Oscar, followed by others for The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. He was pleased by the sci-fi revival sparked by Star Wars, which, he said, "proved again that a special effect is as big a star as any in the world...