Entries in the 1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies. More info: http://www.ballardian.com/1st-ballardian-festival-of-home-movies http://www.ballardian.com/ballardian-festival-the-final-cut

Vista 8

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Home

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Day of Creation

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Flesh Frame

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As reported in the Independent newspaper, 2005 (see http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2005/05/jg_ballards_top.html). According to Ballard: "1 Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965): Godard's vision of a theoretically happy but infinitely tragic computerised future brilliantly creates the future rather than just commenting on the present. 2 Mad Max 2 (George Miller, 1981): By far the best of the MadMax series. With its insane vehicles and fearful body-armour, it is a vision of Armageddon as auto-geddon. Mad Max 2 is punk's Sistine Chapel. 3 The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg,1976): The visionary British director Nic Roeg always gets the best out of musicians-turned-actors. David Bowie is perfect as the alien destroyed by an uncomprehending Earth. 4 Dark Star (John Carpenter, 1974): Dark Star is the Catch 22 of outer space. It's a dazzling farce, and another icon of the US counter-culture. It was made for a mere $60,000 by a group of Californian students. 5 Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968): Sex, almost for the first time, made an appearance in science-fiction cinema when Vadim directed his wife, Jane Fonda, in her classic striptease sequence in a fur-lined spaceship. 6 Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1963): Stanley Kubrick's black satire about an insane US Air Force general who launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The death of mankind is treated as the last sick joke. 7 Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979): This is a tour de force of pure horror in which Sigourney Weaver plays science fiction's first feminist heroine. The alien came from the imaginings of the Swiss designer HR Giger. 8 The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957): This is a classic, and a deeply poetic story of an individual's quest. Jack Arnold also directed It Came from Outer Space and Creature From the Black Lagoon. 9 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977): From the same year as the first of George Lucas's Star Wars films, this is a fable in which America learns to love the universe. It is the most deeply felt of all Spielberg's films 10 Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972): The original, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, not the Steven Soderberg re-make. Loss, memory, desire and the mystery of identity: the greatest Russian science-fiction film."

Barbarella - 1968

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