DVD Review: Frau Im Mond (aka Woman in the Moon) (1929)

Following on from its release of the newly-restored Nosferatu, Eureka has released another silent classic from Weimar-era Germany for its Masters of Cinema series - Fritz Lang's Frau Im Mond. Also known under the English title of Woman in the Moon, Frau Im Mond was Lang's final silent movie, a mix of spy flick, romantic tale and science fiction, as well as being a very stylish and very prophetic movie.

Lang's research for the movie was incredibly detailed, using cutting-edge scientific theory on rocket science to give the space travel plot credibility. In fact, the theory on display in the movie was so realistic that the movie was banned in Nazi Germany, with the authorities fearing it would compromise national security. Which probably makes this the first credible science fiction movie.

Barbarella T-Shirt

Motto Apparel has a nice new t-shirt design in their online shop featuring Jane Fonda as Barbarella with a web-footed furry friend.

The avocado color cotton tee has a dark green screen print and it's available in two different styles for men and women. All shirts sell for $20 plus shipping.

Moto Apparel offers international Air Mail shipping to anywhere in the world and international orders over $100 get free shipping.

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Cult Clip: Logan's Run (1976)

When I was a kid, a policy of bumping everyone off at the age of 30 seemed like a fairly sensible policy. But as the years advance, it seems less of a good idea to the point of being positively scary.

That was the basis of Logan's Run - a great and somewhat forgotten movie that even made it into a TV series in the 70s. And if you're in the UK, you can catch the movie on TV on Sunday 4th March on Channel 5.

As a taster, check out this trailer...

La Decima Vittima aka The Tenth Victim (1965)

We really have got the 1960s to thank when it comes to the marked increase in celluloid imaginings of near and far futures…from Farenheit 451 and Alphaville to Zardoz, Planet Of The Apes and Logan’s Run - utopias and dystopias inhabited by Nehru collared hipsters, mini skirted birds..and monkeys….!

Italian cinema has had a long love affair with fantasy and science fiction and in 1965, film maker Elio Petri combined these with that other passion of Italy - crime films - and concocted a heady, clever and extremely cool movie: La Decima Vittima.

Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress are contestants/assassins in a futuristic television game where after ten rounds of dodging, hunting and killing other assassins you win a million dollars. Followed by film crews and feted as superstars by the public, they pursue and are pursued through modernistic cityscapes and jazz clubs dispatching each other with relish.