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Lynch, David
(1946-2025) US actor, artist and musician and primarily filmmaker whose work extended Surrealism into mainstream Cinema and Television. Lynch's films tend to examine the uneasy truce between rationality and the unconscious mind by revealing how intimations of Sex, Identity and death make themselves felt in modern American communities. The term Lynchian was defined by David Foster ...
Nebo Zovyot
Film (1959; vt The Sky Calls; vt The Heavens Call). A P Dovzenko Filmstudio. Directed by Mikhail Karzhukov and Aleksandr Kozyr. Written by Mikhail Karzhukov, Yevgeni Pomeshchikov, and Aleksei Sazanov. Cast includes Konstantin Bartashevich, V Chernyak, S Filimonov, Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin and Gurgen Tonuuts. 120 minutes. Drastically cut with added footage as Battle Beyond the Sun (1962). / This unheralded masterpiece of the ...
Gelman, Peter
(? - ) US author whose Flying Saucers over Hennepin: A Novel about an Avenue (1997), is a spoof of Alien Invasion tales like The Body Snatcher (1955) by Jack Finney, famously filmed (twice) as The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Here, parts of Minneapolis are taken over secretly by ...
Mask of Fu Manchu, The
Film (1932). Cosmopolitan/MGM. Directed by Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor. Written by Irene Kuhn, Edgar Allen Woolf, John Willard, based on The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) by Sax Rohmer. Cast includes Jean Hersholt, Boris Karloff, Myrna Loy, Karen Morley and Lewis Stone. 72 minutes, cut to 67 minutes. Black and white. / Rohmer's Oriental Supervillain has since been brought ...
Aelita
Film (1924). Mezhrabpom. Directed by Yakov A Protazanov. Written be Fyodor Otzep, Alexei Faiko, based on Aelita (1922) by Alexei Tolstoy. Cast includes Igor Ilinski, Yulia Solntseva and Nikolai M Tseretelli. 78 minutes cut from 120 minutes. Black and white. / This striking example of early sf Cinema is a satiric comedy in which a group of Soviet astronauts travel to Mars, where they ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...