Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Gold Rush, Sherlock Jr., Safety Last, Caddyshack are The Best Slapstick Movies of All Time on Flickchart. A long time ago, in a land far away. Luckily, we have lots and the Guardian and Observers critics have picked the 10 best. Amores perros is a great film with some really great camera work if I remember rightly. I think There Will Be Blood would be a great choice too. Film noir is not a clearly defined genre see here for details on the characteristics. Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. Top 1. 0 sci fi movies Film. Peter Bradshaw on sci fi. Science fiction has produced some of cinemas boldest and most glorious flights in every sense. Sometimes patronised as kids stuff, the genre seeks to look beyond the parochialism of most realist drama to see other worlds and other existences, and therefore to look with a new, radically alienated eye at our own. Maybe something in the limitless possibilities of cinema itself spawned sci fi. George Meliss A Trip to the Moon 1. Winston is named for the narrator of Aram Sarkisians short, a desperate man dashing off a fevered letter that reads like a crazed diary entry. Im not losing. L. A. Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage, celebrity gossip and deals. View photo galleries, read TV and movie reviews and more. Cast, crew, plot summary and reviews from the Internet Movie Database. Characteristics of the genre. According to Vivian Sobchack, an American cinema and media theorist and cultural critic Science fiction film is a film genre which. Film Noir Movies Moon Man YoutubeIn the middle of the 2. B picture world of monsters and rockets and intuited a red scare anxiety about aliens. At the end of the 6. Stanley Kubricks 2. A Space Odyssey broke through into a new level of poetry and wonder. Films like Dark Star and Alien worked a satirical, pessimistic darkness into sci fi, but George Lucas and Steven Spielberg together expressed its lighter, more hopeful strain. In the 2. 1st century, the Wachowskis The Matrix sequels and Christopher Nolans Inception have explored new, interior landscapes the inner world of the mind may be the genres new frontier. The Matrix is a teenage boys dream. Theres action, fighting, cutting edge special effects, murderous robots, evil authority figures, an overriding pseudo conspiracy theory and, most wonderful of all, an ineloquent social outcast who eventually becomes a flying kung fu Jesus. Divx Avi Ipod The Sword In The Stone. Whats missing Girls in skin tight PVC catsuits Nope The Matrix has those, too. By cherrypicking as many key ingredients from action films as they could the us against the machines mentality from The Terminator, the wire work from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the star from Johnny Mnemonic, and shooting it through with a timely dose of pre millennial unease, the directors single handedly managed to reinvigorate an entire genre. The sight of Arnold Schwarzenegger lunkheadedly charging through armies of ineffectual goons started to look embarrassingly tired. The Matrix marks the point where fans demanded more they wanted to see themselves on screen. And thats why the casting of Keanu Reeves was a masterstroke. He might be pretty, but hes no one man army. Plus Neo is totally an anagram of One. Woah. Stuart Heritage Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2. Photo Kobal. A 7m outlay brought spectacular returns of over 7. James Camerons first great sci fi action thriller, which spawned a three sequel franchise, a powerhouse directorial career, and made robotic, former iron pumping Teuton Arnold Schwarzenegger an unlikely 8. A time travel thriller, whose closed circuit in time mechanism is a straight lift from Chris Markers La Jete, its more cerebral notions man versus machine, grey matter versus computer, past versus present versus future are cleverly pondered alongside some of the most visceral and exciting action sequences ever filmed. And the monster, unstoppable and remorselessly murderous, can take on the voices of others, and later in the sequel, even adopt their outward fleshly appearance, allowing it to take on the form of LAPD cops, step moms, pet dogs, and who knows what else. The follow up, made for zillions more dollars, was a smash on a far larger scale, offering a metal based morphing psycho robot Robert Patrick and a more sympathetic Schwarzenegger cyborg, this time assigned to protect, not destroy future rebel leader John Connor Edward Furlong. One of the most likable aspects of this and several other Cameron features is his eagerness to put a tough, resourceful and sexy woman at the head of the cast look at the muscle tone on that Sarah Connor in Judgment Day State of the art in their day, they still pack a knockout punch. John Patterson Close encounters of the third kind, directed by Steven Spielberg 1. Photograph Kobal. Steven Spielberg revived and revitalised the alien invasion genre after the 5. In his luminous 1. Its suburban hero Roy Neary Richard Dreyfuss is both an everyman and a prophet, a family guy who is haunted by sounds the films signature five note whale call and images of a rock formation in Wyoming, to the horror of his wife and their children. Spielberg flirts with thriller conventions, though this is ultimately a cosy ride, lightened by a spirit of evangelical zeal concerning Nearys obsession, while the encounter itself plays out like an intellectual version of the rapture, in which only true believers are taken by the sylph like visitors. The film is also as close as Spielberg gets to social comment, and the ending expanded for the 1. Neary, after an unpleasant grilling by the government and the military, turning his back on a US where Watergate and Vietnam were still recent and painful memories. Damon Wise Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the first Star Wars film. Photograph LucasfilmAllstar. The original Star Wars lets not bother with this Episode IV A New Hope subheading nonsense lays its cards on the table with its opening shot a gigantic, evil looking spaceship chasing down a far smaller craft. Like the rest of the movie, you could watch it with the sound off and completely follow what was going on. Its the purity of the story that has made this film endure, the classic themes handed down through the ages. It may be dressed up with robots, spaceships and trash compactors, but its the old as time hero journey George Lucas has said he consciously modelled his screenplay on Joseph Campbells study of comparative mythology The Hero With a Thousand Faces. In the cynical 7. Kurosawa and Flash Gordon must have sounded as ludicrous as it does today. The film industry wasnt ready for such an ambitious technical feat at such a modest budget as Star Wars, so Lucas changed it by bringing in untested youngsters from experimental and indie movies, or from fields like industrial design. Lucas had a talent for mixing disparate influences and making them fit perfectly. He shepherded together acting stalwarts like Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing, experimental film makers like Adam Beckett who supervised the effects, and military uniform historian John Mollo it would otherwise be inconceivable that these people would have all worked on the same project. Much has been made of Lucass repeated direction to his cast Faster and more intense or that the dialogue was easier to type than say. Guinness, Cushing and James Earl Jones give it all the gravitas it needs, with the younger members fitting their roles perfectly Mark Hamills wide eyed earnestness, Carrie Fishers dignity and, perhaps best of all, Harrison Ford looking so mortified and embarrassed to be there. For audiences it resulted in a film unlike any before or since. Phelim ONeill ET the Extra Terrestrial. Photo Kobal. After 1. Close Encounters see no 8, director Steven Spielberg reversed the alien encounter formula to wonder not what we would make of them but what they would make of us. The result was this 1. Star Wars and received nine Oscar nominations winning four a feat unheard of for a film with such overt sci fi content. Despite its genre trappings, ET balanced its fantasy content with an Academy pleasing dose of sentiment, played out in the home life of Elliott Henry Thomas, a lonely 1. Little time is spent revealing where the films ET has come from, or how he came to be left behind. Instead, Spielberg focuses on the films unlikely buddy story the middle child of three Drew Barrymore is the sweet but clingy younger sister, Robert Mac. Naughton the cynical teenage big brother, Elliott takes in the ET as the friend and confidant he doesnt have. Largely filmed from an adult waist height perspective, the film prioritises this world of children and indulges them in their harmless naivety. So when the mean minded authorities find out about the presence of ET, the effects are doubly shocking. The faceless hordes of uniformed, flashlight toting militia make an intimidating and brutal sight. Kiss Me Deadly 1. IMDb. Edit. A frightened woman is running barefoot on a highway, trying desperately to flag a car. After several cars pass her by, the woman sees another car approaching, and to make sure either the car stops or, shes killed, she stands in the path of an on coming car. Private Investigator Mike Hammer is the one at the wheel, and after almost hitting the woman, he tells her to get in. The womans name is Christina Bailey. She is obviously on the run, being barefoot and wearing nothing but a trench coat, and the scent of fear. Whoever was after her eventually catches up with them. Christina has information they want, but dies while being questioned. The killers fake an accident by pushing Hammers car off the road, but, he survives, waking up in hospital two weeks later. As Mike starts to investigate Christinas death, hes told by the police to stay out of it, but, the hard nosed PI proceeds anyways. Little did he know that Christinas secret would lead to death and destruction. Written by. garykmcd. Plot SummaryPlot Synopsis.