Films to Go Along with Engl 356
Spring 1997 Arranged by Syllabus

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Week One: Early Origins

Trip to the Moon (1914 Melies) -- Verne

*Metropolis (1926 Fritz Lang)

Weeks Two & Three: Wells/Dystopias

*Things to Come (1936) EK -- Wells

Island of Lost Souls (1936) -- Wells

*War of the Worlds (1953) EK -- Wells

*The Time Machine (1960) EK --Wells

*Time After Time (1979)

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

*1984 (1956) (1984) EK -- Orwell

*Farenheit 451 (1966) EK -- Bradbury

*THX 1138 (1971) EK

*A Clockwork Orange (1971) EK --Burgess

*Sleeper (1973)

*Zardoz (1974) EK

*Logan's Run (1976

*The Wall (Pink Floyd) EK

*Brazil (1986) EK

*Fantastic Planet EK

Week Four: Space Opera

*Cat Women of the Moon (1954)EK

*Fantastic Voyage (1966) Asimov

*Barbarella (1968)

*Star Wars (1977)

*Buck Rogers in the 25thC (1979)

*Empire Strikes Back (1980) EK

*Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

*Flash Gordon (1980)

*Return of the Jedi (1983) EK

*The Last Starfighter (1984)

*Buckaroo Bonzai (1985) ek

*Lensman (animated, 1990) EK -- Smith

*Demolition Man (1995)

*Judge Dredd(1995)

Weeks Five & Six: Hard (classic) SF

Destination Moon (1950) -- Heinlein

*When Worlds Collide (1951)Wylie

*This Island Earth (1955)

*2001 (1968) Clarke

*The Illustrated Man (1968) -- Bradbury

*Dark Star (1975)

*Star Trek; The Motion Pic (1979)

*Battlestar Galactica (1979)

*Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

*The Martian Chronicles (1979) -- Bradbury

*Saturn 3 (1980)*

*Outland (1981)

*ST II: Wrath of Kahn (1982)

*The Black Hole (1982)

*Nightfall (1983) Asimov

*ST III: Search for Spock (1984)

*2010 (1984) EK

*Dune (1984) EK Herbert

*ST IV: The Voyage Home (1987) EK

*ST V: The Final Frontier (1989)

*ST VI: The Undiscovered Coountry (1991)

*ST VII: Generations (1994)

Week Seven: Aliens

*The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

The Thing (1951)(1982) -- Campbell

*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)(1978)(1995)

I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)

Village of the Damned (1960) -- Wyndham

*The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)EK

*Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

*Brother From Another Planet EK

*Alien (1979)

*E.T. (1983)

*Starman (1985)

*Cocoon (1985)

*Enemy Mine (1985) EK Longyear & Gerrold

*They Live! (1986)

*Predator (1986)

*Aliens (1987) EK

*Communion (1989) -- Streiber

*Alien Nation (1989)

*The Abyss (1990)

*I Come in Peace (1990)

*Species (1994)

*The Hidden EK

*The Arrival (1995)

*The Puppet Masters(1995) -- Heinlein

*Independence Day <1996)

Week Eight: Holocausts and Cosy Catastrophes

*When Worlds Collide (1951)

*THEM (1954) EK

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) EK

*On the Beach (1959) Shute (atomic)

*Dr. Strangelove (1964) EK (atomic)

*Fail-Safe (1964) EK (atomic)

* Planet of the Apes (1967)

*No Blade of Grass (1970)

*Andromeda Strain (1971)

*Omega Man (1971)

Night of the Lepus (19720

*Escape from New York (1981)

*Atomic Cafe (1982) (atomic)

*Testament (1983) (atomic)

The Day After (1983) EK(atomic) *The Quiet Earth EK (1985)

Solar Babies (1986)

*Threads

*Night of the Comet EK

*Miracle Mile

*When the Wind Blows (atomic)

Week Nine: Time Travel/ Psionics

*Slaughterhouse Five (1973) -- Vonnegut

*Somewhere in Time (1979)

*Altered States (1980) EK Chaevsky

*Time Rider (1983)

*Philadelphia Experiemnt (1984)

*Back to the Future (1985)

*Terminator (1986) EK

*Highlander (1986)

*Millennium (1989) --Varley

*Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

*Time Cop (1994)

*Stargate (1994)

*Star Trek: Generations (1994)

*Twelve Monkeys (1996)

*Forbidden Planet (1956) EK

The People (1971)

*Brainstorm (1983)

*Dreamscape (1984)

*Trancers (1985)

*Scanners (ychh)

Week Ten: Philip K. Dick

**Blade Runner (1982) EK

*Total Recall (1989)

*Screamers (1995)

Week Eleven: New Wave SF/Post-Holocaust

*A Boy and His Dog EK (1975) -- Ellison

*Damnation Alley (1977)-- Zelazny

*Mad Max (1979)

*Road Warrior (1982) EK

*Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)EK

Freejack (1992)

Week Twelve: Women in SF

*Cat Women on the Moon (1954)

*Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958/ 1995)

*Our Man Flint (1966)

*Barbarella (1968)

*Stepford Wives (1975)

*Incredible Shrinking Woman EK

*The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

*Eve of Destruction (1991)

*Species (1995)

*Tank Girl (1995)

Barb Wire (1996)

Week Thirteen: Ecology

*No Blade of Grass (1954) -- Christopher

*Silent Running (1971) EK

*Solyent Green (1973) -- Blish

*Logan's Run (1976)

*WaterWolrd (1995)

Week Fourteen: Cyber-Punk

*Blade Runner (1982) -- Dick

*Tron

*Videodrome (1983) (ychh)

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank -- Varley

*Max Headroom (1985)

*Brazil (1986) EK

*Robo Cop (1987)

*Robo Cop II (1990)

The Lawnmower Man (1991)

Hardware (1994)

TekWar (1994) -- AShatner

Johnnie Mneumonic (1995) -- Gibson

Virtuosity (1995)

Strange Days (1995)

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