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Modern audiences typically suffer from an affliction known as black-and-white movie phobia. While there still exists plenty of cinephiles who enjoy black-and-white cinema, the vast majority of mainstream audiences have minimal interest in older black-and-white films. Teaching film at the collegiate level has provided ample evidence related to people's perceived indifference toward black-and-white cinema. However, once exposed to black-and-white movies, many realize these older films constitute some of the greatest works in the history of cinema.

Many of the best science fiction films ever made are older movies that were shot in black-and-white. During the silent era, films such as Metropolis set the standard for the future of the science fiction genre. The 1930s saw the rise of science fiction horror films such as Frankenstein and Island of Lost Souls. In the 1950s, science fiction films like The Day the Earth Stood Still, Godzilla, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and...

Ari Aster’s nearly-three hour journey Beau Is Afraid, described by the filmmaker himself as a “Jewish Lord of the Rings,” will arrive a bit earlier than expected. Now set to debut on April 14 in New York and LA before expanding wide the following week, including IMAX screens, we’ve received more context for what to expect thanks to a new series the director curated for Film at Lincoln Center.

Set to run April 14-20 at the NYC venue, selections include works by Alfred Hitchcock, Jiří Menzel, Guy Maddin, Albert Brooks, Nicholas Ray, Powell and Pressburger, Tsai Ming-liang, Jacques Tati, and more. “This eclectic and unexpected collection of masterworks drawn from seven decades of film history across a range of genres and production contexts sheds light on the inspirations and influences behind one of the most compelling directorial voices in Hollywood today,” notes the press release.

Aster also recently let...

“Not so much a suspension of disbelief, as a suspension of dreary naturalism.” Criterion acknowledges a great filmmaker with this wonderful trio of Karel Zeman spectaculars, truly original fantasies that showcase a blend of animation and theatrical effects concocted, confected, perfected half a century before CGI. The Czech filmmakers take us on a prehistoric safari, a cruise to an island of Jules Verne sci-fi marvels, and into a brightly imagined, magical storybook fantasy. Even the presentation is whimsical — the three features are packaged in a functioning pop-up book.

Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman

Journey to the Beginning of Time

Invention for Destruction

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

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The Criterion Collection 1015, 1016, 1017

1955, 1958, 1962 / Color + B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 84, 81, 83 min. (248 in toto) / Cesta do praveku, Vynález zkázy, Baron Prášil / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 25, 2020 / 99.95

Designed and Directed by Karel Zeman

At first it seemed too good to be true,...

Hong Sang-soo's Right Now, Wrong Then.The lineup for the 2015 festival has been revealed, including new films by Hong Sang-soo, Andrzej Zulawski, Chantal Akerman, Athina Rachel Tsangari, and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes dedicated to Sam Peckinpah, Michael Cimino, Bulle Ogier, and much more.Piazza GRANDERicki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, USA)La belle saison (Catherine Corsini, France)Le dernier passage (Pascal Magontier, France)Der staat gegen Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume, Germany)Southpaw (Antoine Fuqua, USA)Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, USA)Jack (Elisabeth Scharang, Austria)Floride (Philippe Le Guay, France)The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, UK/USA)Erlkönig (Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland)Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)Bombay Velvet (Anurag Kashyap, India)Pastorale cilentana (Mario Martone, Italy)La vanite (Lionel Baier, Switzerland/France)The Laundryman (Lee Chung, Taiwan)Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, USA) I pugni ni tasca (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)Heliopolis (Sérgio Machado, Brazil)Amnesia (Barbet Schroeder,...

Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi, the week-long series opening today at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center, "is an artfully eclectic journey across psychic terrain as well as geopolitical boundaries," finds the Kristin M. Jones in the Wall Street Journal. In the New York Times, Eric Hynes notes that the series "runs the gamut from space-age sex farce to dystopian nightmare and travels to such lost worlds as Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union." We've gathered previews of Gottfried Kolditz’s In the Dust of Stars (1976), Herrmann Zscoche’s Eolomea (1972), Aleksandr Sokurov's Days of Eclipse (1988), Karel Zeman's The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958) and more. » - David Hudson...

Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi, the week-long series opening today at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center, "is an artfully eclectic journey across psychic terrain as well as geopolitical boundaries," finds the Kristin M. Jones in the Wall Street Journal. In the New York Times, Eric Hynes notes that the series "runs the gamut from space-age sex farce to dystopian nightmare and travels to such lost worlds as Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union." We've gathered previews of Gottfried Kolditz’s In the Dust of Stars (1976), Herrmann Zscoche’s Eolomea (1972), Aleksandr Sokurov's Days of Eclipse (1988), Karel Zeman's The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958) and more. » - David Hudson...

Seven awards granted to film venues in London.

Seven traditional and non-traditional film venues are to receive £3,000 ($5,000) each in order for them to broaden their programming as part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.

Allocated by Film London, the Film Hub London’s Boost Awards will bring film-makers from countries including Canada, Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands and France to speak about their work at screening events in London.

Funding includes an expansion of A Nos Amours’ Chantal Akerman season, re-scoring of silent films in South London, Cutting East presenting Egyptian music documentary and a director Q&A, Open City Docs Fest’s retrospective of Israeli documentarian Avi Mograbi, the screening of a Canadian sci-fi film in a World War II bunker in Dalston and the screening of Dutch comedy Matterhorn with director Q&As around London, presented by Loco.

Boost Award 2014 Awardees

A Nos Amours – Chantal Akerman: Expanded

Partnering with the Ica and JW3

Screening...

Above: Japanese poster for Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, USA, 2012); Designer: unknown.

Since I’ve now been running the Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr for a year and a half I thought it was high time I did another six month round-up of the most popular posters on the blog.

For some reason this Japanese poster for Zero Dark Thirty—an even more striking version of the American teaser—which I posted three months ago recently went semi-viral, racking up over 1,400 “notes” to date, making it by far the most popular (in as far as likes and reblogs really gauge popularity) in the history of the blog which now has, according to Tumblr, over 198,000 followers.

I’m especially pleased with the popularity of the second and third ranked posters: a couple of quite eccentric pieces of Eastern European illustration for lesser known films. It’s probably no surprise that...

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, September 29, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. There's a good bounty to be had, so start making your own chopping list now!

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42Nd Street Forever Volume 5: The Alamo Drafthouse Edition (special edition): Synapse

Welcome To The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the most awesome post-modern hot spot for exploitation movie revival, deep in the heart of Texas! Home to world-famous events such as The Quentin Tarantino Film Fest, Fantastic Fest and Butt-Numb-A-Thon, the Alamo is one of the last places on earth where you can still see grindhouse classics such as The Devil Within Her and Mad Monkey Kung Fu.

Do you like lists? Well, how about these options? Wired's Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks of All Time - Pre-Star Wars A Trip to the Moon (1902) The Thing From Another World (1951) The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) Them! (1954) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958) The Creation of the Humanoids (1962) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Fantastic Voyage (1966) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Planet of the Apes (1968) Solaris (1972) Silent Running (1972) Soylent Green (1973) Day of the Dolphin (1973) Zardoz (1974) A Boy and His Dog (1975) Logan's Run (1976) Lassie Come Home (1943) Richard Roeper's Top Five of Summer 2009 (500) Days of Summer Inglourious Basterds Up The Hurt Locker District 9 ...and his worst... Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra Land of the Lost Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian The Ugly Truth He has more, click here for the rest.