spacetime coordinates: post-apocalyptic Australian outback
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse follows soldier Rhys who lives in a zombie-infested Australian wasteland. Rhys is on an arc of redemption as he turns against his evil bosses and joins forces with a group of rebel survivors to help rescue a girl who holds the cure to the virus. (rottentomatoes)
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse is a sequel to Wyrmwood (2014)
timespace coordinates: small isolated village in 1953 Soviet occupied Romania
Silent Wedding (Romanian: Nunta mută) is a 2008 Romanian comedy-drama film directed by Horațiu Mălăele about a young couple who was about to celebrate their marriage but they were ordered to desist by the occupying Red Army and Communist authorities because the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had died the night before. Since they could not openly celebrate, the wedding-goers try to party in silence. (based on actual events)
We commissioned Cristian Dragan to make an extended video essay about the patchy history of Romanian science fiction cinema in the frame of the New TEMPOrealities: Xenogeneses of SF in the Scena 9 BRD Bucharest spanning from early examples to various shorts, unfinished or hard to find rarities. It is probably a first of its kind.
A Town Called Panic (French: Panique au village) is a 2009 internationally co-produced stop-motion animated adventure fantasy comedy family film directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar.
The film is based on the TV series of the same name and stars Aubier, Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Buysse, Véronique Dumont, Bruce Ellison, Frédéric Jannin, Bouli Lanners, and Patar, among others. It premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was the first stop-motion film to be screened at the festival.
Empire magazine were very positive awarding the film 4 stars, summing it up as “Toy Story on absinthe” (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.
The film is a modern satire loosely based on Homer‘s epic Greek poem The Odyssey that incorporates social features of the American South. The title of the film is a reference to the Preston Sturges 1941 film Sullivan’s Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 2000’s New York City, Washington, D.C. / 2010’s London
Night at the Museum is an American media franchise of fantasy-comedy films based on the children’s book The Night at the Museum by Milan Trenc, are directed by Shawn Levy. Starring Ben Stiller as a museum night security guard named Larry Daley, the films also star an ensemble cast featuring Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan, Patrick Gallagher, Rami Malek, Mizuo Peck, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, and Dick Van Dyke. (wiki)
Night at the Museum (2006) – imdb
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) – imdb
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) – imdb
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again (2022) – imdb
timespace coordinates: 2020’s Massachusetts
I Care a Lot is a 2020 American dark comedy thriller film written and directed by J Blakeson. The film stars Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, Chris Messina, and Dianne Wiest. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 2020’s Massachusetts
American Dreamer is a 2022 American black comedy/Slapstick film directed by Paul Dektor (in his feature debut) and written by Theodore Melfi. Based on a segment from the radio show This American Life, it stars Peter Dinklage as a professor who tries to buy the estate of a lonely widow played by Shirley MacLaine. Kim Quinn, Danny Pudi, Danny Glover, and Matt Dillon also star. (wiki)
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