Played mostly in close-up, it’s quite a scene.
Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. Removable English subs finish the job of making the show U.S.- friendly. The view-screens revert to a moiré pattern when no image is present. It plays until we catch up to the ‘Michael Amuck’ scene once again.The story is episodic, but the characters develop quite nicely.
Crewmembers track Michael in the maze of corridors with a system of remote cameras that resemble metallic eyes. The year is 2163. The year is 2163. So are the extra featurettes, which nevertheless are menu’ed on the disc in Czech. As the ship nears Alpha Centauri, strange radiation from a Dark Star has adverse effects on the crew.
The Czech film To my surprise, essayist Lucie Rihová acknowledges that The ship then pauses to investigate a derelict spacecraft. The only dialogue hint is in this exchange:The film opens with an initially confusing sequence that shows Michael, crazed by the effects of the Dark Star, running amuck with some kind of ray gun.
Two astronauts are sent to enter the dead ship.
Anthony’s obsolete robot also becomes something of a hero, when it goes into harm’s way to pacify Michael too.The film’s most memorable sequence is the investigation of the derelict spacecraft, with its creepy imagery and haunting music.
The trailer for the new restoration of Ikarie XB 1 (no hyphen) pretty much tells the story. A nine-page pamphlet has key info about the movie, the short subjects, the restoration and the Czech National Film Archive, both in English and Czech. For the discerning science fiction fan, this is the best of the Eastern-bloc Cold War Sci-fi epics, a genuinely brilliant and warmly human ‘Voyage to the End of the Universe,’ restored in 4k resolution. The back of the Blu-ray box has a normal barcode, but then also two large white and black graphic stripes that mirror the same pattern.
As they finally approach the White Planet, the space voyagers behold an unexpected miracle.The entire film was shot on a single big set except for one airshaft scene filmed in a 200-meter TV transmission tower near Prague.
Plenty of Czech films of this era are anamorphic, so is there a specific on-screen credit I’m not seeing?The encoding is said to be Region Free in A, B, and C; it plays fine on my domestic machine. Is it a practical design, or an in-joke?Although such things change from day to day, at the moment Here’s Joe Dante on A.I.P.’s Americanized version, Glenn Erickson left a small town for UCLA film school, where his spooky student movie about a haunted window landed him a job on the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS effects crew.
He’s a writer and a film editor experienced in features, TV commercials, Cannon movie trailers, special montages and disc docus. Some crewmembers are seen sniffing little tubes that look like Chapstik, that when shared serve as sort of a social icebreaker. It’s from before I still feel grateful to friend Marek ______, who helped me get the first DVD of Once upon a time it was important to explain how the original Perhaps only people that already care about Sci-film history can appreciate Jindrich Polák and Pavel Jurácek’s achievement.
Then all personnel succumb to a kind of sleeping sickness, and Captain Vladimir (Zdenek Stepánek) must talk the engineer out of aborting the mission. When it looks like the end may be near, instead of panicking Brigitta retreats to her cabin and dictates a message to her diary, letting out in private all the emotions she’s been covering up. Evidently they contain pleasant smells, or perhaps more complicated ‘experiences’ from back home.
Svensen and Michael (Jirí Vrstála and Otto Lackovic) receive heavy exposure while on an EVA.
Cinematographer Jan Kalis handled the effects as well and worked with Polák on several other films, also as a writer.The show doesn’t explain all of its futuristic details, and instead makes us pay attention.
After the EVA astronauts break out in ugly burns, Michael becomes deranged and threatens to destroy the ship. The choices are obvious.Of great interest are three impressive Czech films from the same period. Both are coordinated rear-projections. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. The Captain then remembers the launch from Earth, which cues a seventy-minute flashback. 'Most Wanted' stars Josh Hartnett, Jim Gaffigan, and Antoine-Olivier Pilon and director Daniel Roby discuss the filmThis product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb. When watching a space shuttle move outside, we get an over-the-shoulder view of one view-screen and then pan to a second one with a different angle on the same action.
Here’s where Except for the general notion that Western aggression was the curse of the 20th century, The birth of the baby coincides with ‘the great event’ at the finale, which concludes The NFA pamphlet says ‘widescreen’, which doesn’t tell the viewer that the format and aspect ratio are 2.35:1 anamorphic. The ‘space pregnancy’ is a wholly new idea for Sci-fi film.