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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 ...
Tausend Augen des Dr Mabuse, Die
Film (1960; vt The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse; vt The Diabolical Dr Mabuse). CCC Filmkunst/CEI Incom/Criterion. Directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Lang, Heinz Oskar Wuttig, based on characters created by Norbert Jacques, author of Dr Mabuse, Master of Mystery (trans Lilian A Clare 1923). Cast includes Dawn Addams, Gert Fröbe, Werner Peters, Wolfgang Preiss and Peter Van Eyck. Variously 99 ...
Geona's Vampires
Russian animated short film (1991; original title Vampiry Geony). Soyuztelefilm. Directed and written by Gennady Tischenko. Voice cast includes Vsevolod Abdulov, Aleksandr Lushchik and Rogvold Sukhoverko. 9 minutes. Colour. This was the first instalment of a two-part serial concerning the planet Geona, the second episode being Masters of Geona (1992; original title Khozyaeva Geony). 10 minutes. Colour. / On a ...
Willis, Connie
Working name of US teacher and author Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (1945- ). She began publishing sf with "Santa Titicaca" for Worlds of Fantasy (Winter 1970/1971 #3), but appeared only intermittently in the field until the early 1980s, when she became a full-time author, winning several awards almost immediately. Most of her best work of the 1980s was in short-story form; her first book, Fire Watch (coll 1985; cut ...
Newman, John [2]
(? - ) US academic and librarian who was credited as Special Collections Librarian at Colorado State University Libraries when he began to publish work of genre interest with a two-part Bibliography of Future War fiction, "America at War: Horror Stories for a Society" in Extrapolation for December 1974 and May 1975. This work led to the ...
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 ...