Programmed January 2020

Seventies Sci-Fi

Streaming for one month only! The maverick spirit that defined the New Hollywood of the 1970s resulted in a wave of fascinating, wild, and often way-out-there science-fiction head trips that carried on the radical experimentation of the sixties while paving the way for the blockbuster boom of the eighties. Directors like Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and George Miller pushed the boundaries of the genre with visionary space operas, chilling dystopian freak-outs, and mind-bending speculative thrillers that examined the era’s anxieties about technology, consumerism, overpopulation, and environmental collapse. This expansive survey offers a deep dive into a uniquely fertile moment when filmmakers gazed towards the future with awe and terror. Added on SUNDAY, 5 JANUARY 2020