The Andromeda StrainRobert Wise
USA · 1971 This clear-eyed adaptation of Michael Crichton's bestseller puts the science into science-fiction as a group of experts contends with the outbreak of a deadly microscopic organism from space. “Intriguing, suspenseful” – TV Guide Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
Silent Running Douglas Trumbull
USA · 1972 Bruce Dern stars as the last gardener in the universe, tending a man-made Eden in a giant space station with his robot helpers. Directed by Douglas Trumbull, who created special effects for 2001. “By turns touching, funny, ridiculous and strangely poetic” – Pacific Film Archive Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
SolarisAndrei Tarkovsky
USSR · 1972 Legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's brilliantly original science-fiction epic challenges our conceptions about love, truth and humanity itself. “A visionary epic… stands with the greatest science-fiction movies ever made” – CSM Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |