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Scarecrow Academy presents The Art in Sci-Fi: Science Fiction and the Director
Scarecrow Academy: The Art in Sci-Fi begins March 5. New installments every Saturday at 2:00pm.
Scarecrow Academy presents an in-depth look at how some of the greatest directors in cinema tackled science fiction. The Art in Sci-Fi: Science Fiction and the Director is a ten-week online discussion series in which we’ll analyze directing methods in detail, and define what makes great style in this rich, complex genre.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s "Historian-Programmer in Residence." The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 5, 2022.
The Art in Sci-Fi schedule:
March 5
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927). The cinema’s first huge science fiction extravaganza is a wild futuristic parable about a society of haves and have-nots—plus a mad scientist and a robot. Lang brings his mighty directing powers to bear on this defining work.
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March 12
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956). Humans in small-town America are being replaced by emotionless pods from space, a brilliant 1950s metaphor explored with Siegel’s noirish intensity.
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March 19
Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut, 1966). The classic Ray Bradbury novel about a society that burns books is re-imagined by one of the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave (it was Truffaut’s only film in English).
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March 26
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968). Kubrick re-invents the way we watch movies with his majestic and mystifying "journey to the infinite," traveling from prehistoric monkeys to the cinema’s most placidly murderous computer.
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April 2
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972). One of film’s great visionaries, Tarkovsky takes a Stanislaw Lem novel and turns its voyage to a troubled planet into a trippy examination of the human soul.
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April 9
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977). Everyman Richard Dreyfuss finds himself "called" by otherworldly forces in Spielberg’s exuberant lightshow.
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April 16
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986). A messed-up experiment results in scientist Jeff Goldblum recombining with a housefly in Cronenberg’s brainy, gory love story.
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April 23
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988). Carpenter brings his B-movie energy to this satirical gem about a drifter (pro wrestler Roddy Piper) who discovers what’s really going on beneath the veneer of existence.
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April 30
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006). Mankind can no longer reproduce in a dystopian future, so the lone pregnant woman on Earth must be protected at all costs—a suspense scenario given thrilling life by Cuarón’s stylish long-take approach.
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May 7
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013). Scarlett Johansson plays an alien visitor who lures men to their doom, a terrifying enigma played out against ordinary locations in present-day Scotland.
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