Essential Sci-Fi Collection
Since those early days, Sciene Fiction has remained a perennially popular genre with film fans. And while it might seem like in order to make a Sci-Fi film, you need the backing of a major Hollywood studio, there are a number of groundbreaking independent films that have proven just the opposite. All of the films in this collection were made by independent funding (with the notable exception of Solaris. which was funded by the Soviet government). Many of them were made on shoestring budgets that force them to be extra creative. George Lucas made THX-1138 for exactly $777,777.77, Mad Max was done on a budget of $400,000, Darren Aaronofsy (Pi) made due with $60,000 and Primer was made for an astounding $7,000. It just goes to show that you don't need a big budget to make a big film.
No independent film collection is complete without a healthy dose of Sci-Fi and if you haven't seen any of these indie classics, now's your chance!
We Live In Public
$24.95 | 90 minutes
Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of "the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of", artist, futurist, and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (Dig! - which also won the Sundance Grand…
Pi
$10.95 | 85 minutes
Low-budget film that won Darren Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is exploring the possible existence of discernible patterns in the stock market. With the aid of Euclid, his home grown supercomputer, Max stumbles&hellip…
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The Quiet Earth
$7.95 | 91 minutes
Zac Hobson rises one morning, and finds that he is apparently the last man on Earth; a government project Zac was working on went haywire, killing nearly everyone in the process. The landscape, however, remains unsullied. Zac at first enjoys the fruits of being Earth's sole tenant -- after all, everything's free -- but soon discovers…
Primer
$24.95 | 77 minutes
Former engineer Shane Carruth announces himself as a force to watch with PRIMER, his first film. Carruth wrote, directed, edited, produced, photographed, scored, and stars in the film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. He plays Aaron, who, with his business partner and best friend, Abe (David Sullivan)&hellip…
The Terminator
$16.95 | 215 minutes
James Cameron's THE TERMINATOR is one of the tightest, tensest sci-fi films ever made and a landmark in the genre. In the year 2029, battles rage between the superintelligent machines that rule the world and the last vestiges of humanity. In late-20th-century Los Angeles, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) suddenly finds herself stalked by…
Metropolis
$23.95 | 122 minutes
Fritz Lang's last silent film is a highly stylized, architecturally striking classic of the German Expressionist movement. In the 21st-Century, a de-humanized proletariat labors non-stop in a miserable subterranean city beneath a luxurious municipality. The entire metropolis is controlled by a sinister authoritarian whose son, Freder…
Cube
$10.95 | 90 minutes
Six ordinary people (student, ex-con, engineer, social worker, cop, mentally handicapped) are trapped in a maze of interlocking cubes with no apparent way out. They have no recollection of how they got there or why they were chosen. They have no food or water and upon further investigation discover some of the rooms are booby trapped…
Mad Max
$11.95 | 94 minutes
Futuristic tale set in Australia, which has become a wasteland where vicious, fast-driving criminals cause death, destruction, and mayhem on the highways. The police do their best to maintain control, but their attempts prove futile. As a result, one cop named Max quits his job and goes on a vacation with his family. However they are…
Blade Runner - The Complete Collector's Edition
$29.95 | 0 minutes
Director Ridley Scott's hauntingly prescient vision of the not-too-distant future stars Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, a retired police assassin, or "blade runner." The Los Angeles of 2019 is a dark, polluted, overcrowded dystopia dominated by cloud-piercing buildings and looming neon billboards, the air dense with acid rain and flying…
Solaris
$34.95 | 169 minutes
In Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS, a scientist travels to the mysterious planet Solaris in order to investigate the failure of an earlier mission. When his long-dead wife appears on the space station, he realizes that the planet has the power to perceive human desires and make them a reality&hellip…
THX 1138
$24.95 | 88 minutes
In George Lucas's fascinating debut feature (based on his short student film), the filmmaking wunderkind creates a futuristic, underground world in which bald, drone-like workers are forced to take drugs to regulate their moods and stifle their libidos. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his mate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) are factory workers…
