Produced locally in Santa Cruz, low budget, sometimes shown in art theatres (even far away, in major cities). Film done by Christopher Shaw, brother of well known Santa Cruz mathematician Rob Shaw, and the illustrator of Ralph Abraham's 4 volume illustrated chaos theory math book. Very cyberpunk, gratuitous computer graphics, lots of Goedel-Escher-Bach style cleverness.
A film by David Blair. It's all the rage among the postmodern hipsters. A 90 minute monologue with imagery about aircraft simulators, the transmigration of souls, smart bombs, the 1910 expedition of the Paranormal Film Society to capture the dead on film, and of course, Mesopotamian Honey Bees. "Each tape contained data for 1 square mile of terrain. I realized that these tapes were real places. To run a simulated flight over one was to plan murder." Trancelike and hypnotic, literature in visual form.
Basically a spoof of 2001. John Carpenter's and Dan O'Bannon's first film. (Carpenter made lots of cheesy horror/sci fi flicks, O'Bannon wrote Alien.) Four guys in a spaceship eat unfrozen otter pops and pretend its space food.
Dino DeLaurentis I think? Great movie about the music industry and rock and roll palaces. Fun musical numbers. Paul Williams plays the evil executive of Death Records. Very 70's.
The US Government builds "Colossus" to control our nation's defense systems, with impartiality, swiftness, and finality. "We now live in the shade, but not the shadow, of Colossus." Dark haired scientists in suits celebrate with a dark haired, youthful President at the White House. Colossus uses the phone system to talk to Guardian, the Russian's version of the same thing (built from stolen US plans) with terrifying (or maybe hilarious) consequences. Remember the Cold War?
Totally cheesy, totally great science fiction story. Hard to come by; I found it accidentally for $5 at Target. Men & women in rocket ships near Mars gasp "Inverting... course... 180... degrees..." in high-gee maneuvers. Meanwhile, the offbeat scientist (Claude Rains) shouts at the labcoats who have invaded his greenhouse (where he spends his time tending flowers and scribbling math in chalk on the pots): "Back you madmen! I have one advantage over all of you! Calculus!" Sine waves and music are eventually used to talk to "the outsider."
Also known as, "The Last Days Of Man On Earth." Adapted from a Michael Moorcock novel. Hip movie about the end of the world, the next stage of evolution of the human race, and lots of sex & drugs. Very 60's, in a groovier way than those motorcycle and LSD movies.
The greatest movie ever made. Star Wars is also kinda cool.