Just in time for Summer Quarantine: Other Worlds presents the Pioneer SciFi Film Club! It’s like a book club, but we’ll be celebrating essential SciFi films that launched the genre. Film Club members will congregate every two weeks on Zoom to discuss the most important and interesting SciFi films from the ‘20s-‘60s. There may be a special guest, but otherwise it will just be us – SciFi fans talking about the art and history of some special films.
When? 7:30 pm, every other week (we'll alternate between Tues and Thurs)
Where? Zoom
Cost? Free
Synopsis
Our first film will be the classic FORBIDDEN PLANET. It’s considered one of the great SciFi films of the 1950s and a precursor of contemporary Science Fiction cinema. It pioneered (see what we did there?) several aspects of SciFi cinema. It was the first to depict humans traveling in a faster-than-light starship of their own creation; the first to be set entirely on another planet in interstellar space; one of the first with a robot character (Robby the Robot) that was more than just a mechanical tin can on legs; and the first of any genre to use an entirely electronic musical score.
Forbidden Planet is available to rent from amazon, iTunes, google, you tube and many others for $2.99.
CHECK OUT THE TRAILER: