Science fiction in film

Filmed science fiction serves above all to look at the present sideways: a city where the workers toil underground while the rich play in gardens above, a computer that refuses to open a door, a planet that materialises the remorse of those observing it, androids demanding more life. The genre is also a technical laboratory, from the expressionist sets of Metropolis to the special effects of 2001 devised before computers existed, and then to the rainy, advertising-lit city of Blade Runner.

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• CinemaMetropolisFritz Lang · 1927A future city split in two, the towers of the masters and the underground city of the workers, in the most expensive film in German cinema of its time.Cinema
• Cinema2001: A Space OdysseyStanley Kubrick · 1968Conceived to escape the monster films of the time, with the help of experts from the American space agency, the film has no spoken word for about twenty minutes.Cinema
• CinemaSolarisСолярисAndrei Tarkovsky · 1972A 1972 science fiction film, based on Stanisław Lem, about a psychologist sent to a station orbiting an ocean planet.Cinema
• CinemaClose Encounters of the Third KindSteven Spielberg · 1977The film follows, without invasion or attack, ordinary humans gripped by the appearance of visitors from elsewhere.Cinema
• CinemaBlade RunnerRidley Scott · 1982Adapted from a novel by Philip K. Dick, the film transposes its story to a future Los Angeles, dark and in decline.Cinema