Word: fi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they seem to be. He creates what appear to be simple folk songs with minimal instrumentation, yet his melodies are never mellow or folky. More urgent and driving than amny guitar heavy bands, his music is more punk than crunchy. In fact, the Mountain Goats emerged from the lo-fi movement swelling in southern California in the early '90s that set itself on forging simultaneously sloppiness and precision...
...bosomacious melodramas are taught in colleges. Oscar Micheaux's primeval black parables play in museums. And Ed Wood, who couldn't get arrested when he was alive--all right, as an alcoholic transvestite, he could get arrested, but nobody in Hollywood paid attention to his goofily inept sci-fi and sex films--was in 1994 the honored subject of Tim Burton's major motion picture...
...Enigma Museum, which began in 1988 in the back of his video store and today sprawls through four big rooms and features a homemade diorama of a crashed saucer with blinking lights, surrounded by four dead-alien dolls and a stuffed, seemingly unconcerned jackrabbit. Says Price: "The old sci-fi films were just kind of made up from someone's imagination. But The X-Files calls us every once in a while for information; a lot of the shows do. So a lot of your sci-fi is based on facts, so to speak. And that makes it something that...
Cambridge and Sci Fi...
...miniaturized and slipped into a Happy Meal. "Heroes have to be drawn according to more conventional terms," says Hollywood Reporter columnist Martin Grove. "When you have these huge-event pictures with megabudgets, villains become the jewels in the crown." Sure, heroes like Jodie Foster in the sci-fi film Contact or Samuel L. Jackson in the drama 187 catch our eye. But when the villains start scheming, that's when summer starts...