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Hello Silly Thinkers and welcome to another edition of “Home Theatre” your best place for home viewing tips.
Here’s your host Jim Farris with today’s entry.
JF: Thanks Jim and welcome to “Home Theatre”. Today’s edition:
“They Came From Ray Bradbury!”
1. “It Came From Outer Space!” (1953) Universal.
This is one of exemplary films from “The Golden Age of Movie Science Fiction”. Made in black and white and revolutionary 3-D and starring Hugh Marlow, this neat picture tells the story of aliens crash landing on earth and enlisting earthlings to help repair their ship by turning them into zombie worker bee’s. In the meantime the aliens take on their human forms and gather suspicions and tools to get the hell off of earth.
It’s based on an early Bradbury short story and his style is all over “It Came…” Check out the scene with Hugh Marlow sizing up the aliens and contrasting them to the desert. Pure Bradbury.
The DVD has a swell documentary on the making of the film and a great profile of sci-fi director Jack Arnold who also helmed “Tarantula” and “The Incredible Shrinking Man” among many others.
2. “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” (1954) Warner Brothers.
Based on a Bradbury “Saturday Evening Post” story this quickie sci-fi classic reunited Bradbury with his childhood friend Ray Harryhausen, the master of special effects who made dinosaurs and creatures for films like the 1960 “Lost World”, “Jason And The Argonauts”, and “Clash Of The Titans”, in this film, the story of a dinosaur defrosted from the deep freeze prison of the north pole that ends up wrecking havoc on New York is a perfect blend of material and special effects and these two Ray’s compliment each other perfectly.
A couple of documentary’s and some nice trailers make this a nice DVD package.
3. “Fahrenheit 451” (1966) Universal. This classic Bradbury novel is brought unevenly to the screen by the brilliant French filmmaker Francois Truffuat (in his only American movie). It stars a wooden Oskar Werner and luminous Julie Christie in a dual role.
In a thorough documentary that accompanies the film on DVD, Ray Bradbury says it best when he muses that he didn’t like the film when it was made but it gets better every time he sees it. Every year it improves because movies have gotten so much worse over the years. Thus the movie is better because what surrounds it is so mediocre.
Julie Christie does a full film commentary track as well.
Well that’s it for now. See you next week.
JF: Thanks Jim. That was great. Join us tomorrow here at “S.T.” when Connie Chung and the whole Silly Thinking news team brings you exclusive coverage of Super Tuesday with our “Super Super Tuesday Prime Time Super Event”.
Thanks for joining us and see you soon on “Home Theatre”.
Jim Farris presents Silly Thinking with Douglas Lain.
Now on a 5 second delay for your protection!
Here’s your host Jim Farris with today’s entry.
JF: Thanks Jim and welcome to “Home Theatre”. Today’s edition:
“They Came From Ray Bradbury!”
1. “It Came From Outer Space!” (1953) Universal.
This is one of exemplary films from “The Golden Age of Movie Science Fiction”. Made in black and white and revolutionary 3-D and starring Hugh Marlow, this neat picture tells the story of aliens crash landing on earth and enlisting earthlings to help repair their ship by turning them into zombie worker bee’s. In the meantime the aliens take on their human forms and gather suspicions and tools to get the hell off of earth.
It’s based on an early Bradbury short story and his style is all over “It Came…” Check out the scene with Hugh Marlow sizing up the aliens and contrasting them to the desert. Pure Bradbury.
The DVD has a swell documentary on the making of the film and a great profile of sci-fi director Jack Arnold who also helmed “Tarantula” and “The Incredible Shrinking Man” among many others.
2. “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” (1954) Warner Brothers.
Based on a Bradbury “Saturday Evening Post” story this quickie sci-fi classic reunited Bradbury with his childhood friend Ray Harryhausen, the master of special effects who made dinosaurs and creatures for films like the 1960 “Lost World”, “Jason And The Argonauts”, and “Clash Of The Titans”, in this film, the story of a dinosaur defrosted from the deep freeze prison of the north pole that ends up wrecking havoc on New York is a perfect blend of material and special effects and these two Ray’s compliment each other perfectly.
A couple of documentary’s and some nice trailers make this a nice DVD package.
3. “Fahrenheit 451” (1966) Universal. This classic Bradbury novel is brought unevenly to the screen by the brilliant French filmmaker Francois Truffuat (in his only American movie). It stars a wooden Oskar Werner and luminous Julie Christie in a dual role.
In a thorough documentary that accompanies the film on DVD, Ray Bradbury says it best when he muses that he didn’t like the film when it was made but it gets better every time he sees it. Every year it improves because movies have gotten so much worse over the years. Thus the movie is better because what surrounds it is so mediocre.
Julie Christie does a full film commentary track as well.
Well that’s it for now. See you next week.
JF: Thanks Jim. That was great. Join us tomorrow here at “S.T.” when Connie Chung and the whole Silly Thinking news team brings you exclusive coverage of Super Tuesday with our “Super Super Tuesday Prime Time Super Event”.
Thanks for joining us and see you soon on “Home Theatre”.
Jim Farris presents Silly Thinking with Douglas Lain.
Now on a 5 second delay for your protection!
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