Naughty, Naughty, Naughty! You Filthy Old Soomka!
March 24th, 2009 • Film & Video
Now showing at SFMOMA, a total dystopian love fest. With the current crop of awful science fiction movies over the past few years. It’s time to revisit the good old days of tomorrow. And not that I’m suggesting taking mind altering substances for viewing of these films, but one has to wander what was in the water back then and where can I get some now, and does it come bottled? There are some fantastic worlds of despair that have a viscerally visual pleasure that seduces you into watching a grim forecast of the future today.
this film series explores the rich cinematic history of imagining the future. Released from 1965 through the iconic Orwellian year 1984, these films present not-too-distant worlds that reflect extremes in the social, moral, and political trends of their time. These imagined tomorrows are more often dystopian than hopeful, with the world as we know it exhausted and collapsed.
$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission
Films
Soylent Green
Richard Fleischer, 1973, 97 min., 16mm
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick, 1972, 136 min., film format TBD
Fantastic Planet
René Laloux, 1973, 72 min., 35mm
French, with English subtitles
Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, 163 min., 35mm
Russian, with English subtitles
Alphaville
Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, 99 min., 35mm
French, with English subtitles
Sleeper
Woody Allen, 1973, 89 min., 35mm
Fahrenheit 451
François Truffaut, 1966, 112 min., 16mm
1984
Michael Radford, 1984, 113 min., 35mm
Westworld
Michael Crichton, 1973, 88 min., 16mm
Logan’s Run
Michael Anderson, 1976, 120 min., 16mm
