BFI's 100 Science Fiction Films
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"Since its explosion in the 1950s, science fiction has become one of the most popular film genres, with numerous dedicated fan conventions, academic conferences, websites, magazines, journals, book clubs, memorabilia and collectibles. Once relegated to B budget status, today's science fiction films are often blockbuster productions, featuring major stars.
Despite its high profile, science fiction is notoriously difficult to define. In his introduction to 100 Science Fiction Films, Barry Keith Grant explains the genre's complexities, while also providing an overview of its history, suggesting that the cinema is an ideal medium for conveying the 'sense of wonder' that critics have argued is central to the genre. From Georges Melies's Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), to the blockbusters of the 1970s that dramatically changed Hollywood, to the major releases of the past few years, the films featured in this book represent a range of periods, countries and types (including alien invasion, space travel, time travel, apocalypse, monsters and anime), and cover the key directors and writers.
100 Science Fiction Films provides a lively and illuminating guide to the genre from the beginning of film history to the present, taking the reader on a comprehensive tour through the rich and varied alternate universe of sci-fi cinema."
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Them!
1954, in 3 top lists Check -
44 new
La jetée
1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check -
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956, in 19 top lists Check -
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Solyaris
1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 28 top lists Check -
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Invaders from Mars
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
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Frankenstein
1931, in 18 top lists Check -
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Tetsuo
1989 — a.k.a. Tetsuo, the Iron Man, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Thing from Another World
1951, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Quiet Earth
1985, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Brother from Another Planet
1984, in 1 top list Check -
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Enemy Mine
1985, in 1 top list Check -
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979, in 2 top lists Check -
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Strange Days
1995, in 4 top lists Check -
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Gwoemul
2006 — a.k.a. The Host, in 11 top lists Check -
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Le voyage dans la lune
1902 — a.k.a. A Trip to the Moon, in 14 top lists Check -
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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954, in 1 top list Check -
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When Worlds Collide
1951, in 1 top list Check -
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Zardoz
1974, in 5 top lists Check -
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984 — a.k.a. 1984, in 3 top lists Check -
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Mars Attacks!
1996, in 1 top list Check -
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The Road
2009, in 1 top list Check -
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Dark City
1998, in 6 top lists Check -
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Signs
2002, in 5 top lists Check -
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I Am Legend
2007, in 5 top lists Check -
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Galaxy Quest
1999, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Cabin in the Woods
2011, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Fifth Element
1997, in 7 top lists Check -
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Things to Come
1936, in 8 top lists Check -
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Sleeper
1973, in 7 top lists Check -
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Videodrome
1983, in 18 top lists Check -
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Kôkaku Kidôtai
1995 — a.k.a. Ghost in the Shell, in 12 top lists Check -
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Avatar
2009, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Time Machine
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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The War of the Worlds
1953, in 6 top lists Check -
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Soylent Green
1973, in 3 top lists Check -
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RoboCop
1987, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Fly
1986, in 11 top lists Check -
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Fantastic Voyage
1966 — a.k.a. Microscopia, in 2 top lists Check -
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977, in 23 top lists Check -
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982, in 31 top lists Check -
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Total Recall
1990, in 8 top lists Check -
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Westworld
1973, in 5 top lists Check -
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Tron
1982, in 5 top lists Check -
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THX 1138
1971, in 5 top lists Check -
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They Live
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
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Silent Running
1972, in 8 top lists Check -
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Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957, in 6 top lists Check
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