Bitter Cinema

Bitter Cinema on Tumblr

A sister site, if you will… a bit easier to update and post for the time being. This particular site is not dead by a long shot, but longer form thrills and chills may not be on hand for the foreseeable future, and even then, the subject matter and main thrust of the site may be something completely different than what’s been here for more than eight years. We shall see, won’t we?

But, if you’ve liked the grab-bag aesthetic of pics, movie posters, odd juxtapositions, check out http://bittercinema.tumblr.com. Maybe you’ll even like some of it…

First Time on TV!

Promo for NBC’s world premiere of Kubrick’s 2001 in 1977, a film only nine years old at the time. I remember seeing this broadcast (it was an NBC “Big Event“). I also remember the Nielsen ratings for it not being so hot.

Voyage to the End of the Universe

A promo still of the AIP butchered version of the Czech Ikarie XB1.

I remember the dubbed version from Saturday afternoon TV.  I also remember Phillip Strick’s glowing review in Science Fiction Movies (one of my seminal texts, as it were), and likening the faces of the film to Kelly Freas artwork. Then I saw the original Czech version on the big screen and really liked it. Serious SF films of this vintage are certainly rare, although not as much as in the old Warsaw Pact.

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Teleport City

Image via The Humanoid

Fantastic Science Fiction Thriller!

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Aelita

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You Will Go to the Moon

Some instant nostalgia for children of the space age, courtesy of the Dreams of Space site which chronicles and exhibits some of the cool space art found in children’s books from 1883-1974. A majority of the stuff dates from the 60s, when the fantasy of space flight was becoming reality, and the possibilities appeared limitless. The illustrations from the early 60s are interesting in that the artists weren’t yet constrained by NASA’s own project blueprints and were able to let imagination take over. In the late 60s and early 70s, the art was based on actual NASA plans, although still heavily optimistic.

via Boing Boing