"Things to Come" on TCM now!!!!!! HG Well's story about post-war collapse

[Gloria]

of civiization (WWI) and its rebuilding through 2036.....made in 1936 with Raymond Massey and Ralph Richardson... 3 stars!!!!!

[Myrina]

1. Torn between that and the end of The Twilight Zone Marathon

... on Sci Fi (my annual guilty pleasure) ... man, so many of those TZ eppy's were so prescient it's creepy.

:hide:

[liberalmuse]

6. I can't tear myself away from TZ...

and watch it every year. I love Serling. What a mind!

[Junkdrawer]

2. Watching now....

I'm a big Wells fan...

[PCIntern]

3. A great film....

remarkable that it's still shown these days.

Good for them over at TCM.

[Gloria]

4. 1970--oil hoarding!! Still fighting, want "victorious peace".....sound

familiar??

[PCIntern]

5. ...and Raymond Massey smiling

sardonically, "I've heard that before."

[seemslikeadream]

10. Destination Earth:

"Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great." Produced by the American Petroleum Institute. (1956)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H8kKju7YEXo&feature=related


http://youtube.com/watch?v=SzdN2yjABPE&feature=related

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I have the DVD

Seen it... I dunno, maybe 15 times. :)

It's a great double feature with Fritz Lang's "Metropolis."

[PCIntern]

9. Is it the longer restored version?

The making of the new version has long been discussed in film circles...much like the guy who's trying to restore the entire It's A Mad MAd Mad etc World.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Nope

I got it a few years ago. It's 97 minutes, not 120, and it's unrestored — though the case boasts something about a "pristine new film-to-video transfer from original source materials."

The video quality's pretty good, but the audio's lacking in certain scenes. It's a helluva lot better than the one I taped from the old USA Network, though. :)

[baldguy]

8. Wings Over The World based in Basra?

[spiderpig]

12. Just finished the audiobook of "Fahrenheit 451"

I hated the movie (although I love Truffaut) and always found Bradbury too preachy for my taste (not to mention his recent right-wing rants). But this book, like TTC, was surprisingly prescient in describing a dumbed-down, pleasure-addicted society that's only too willing to sit in their media centers and surrender all of their freedoms and individuality.

The book was written, by the way, in 1953.

[Old and In the Way]

13. Interesting...I'm downloading it on Miro now.

It's featured in their Archive Classic Movie Channel. It's got a lot of interesting stuff to watch there. Watched Orson Wells, "The Stranger" this PM.