Erstellt am: 13. 5. 2016 - 11:41 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Soviet Science Fiction
I have been missing out. My life on the plains of the midwest meant that my exposure to most non-American culture was pretty limited. Oh we learned about the world classics, but when it came to less "respectable" forms of culture I was pretty much a shut-in.
Asterix and Obelisk? Didn't discover them until Austria. (they were great for improving my german) Tin Tin? Totally missed out until I lived with a boy from Britain. Abba? Ok, I knew about them in the States, but it wasn't until a punk band I was in forced me to listen to them non-stop that I finally gave in to their charm.
Movies? Well other than some Italian horror movies and the occasional British film it was Hollywood and U.S. independent most of the time.
Professor Dowell's Testament
And when it came to Science Fiction, if it wasn't Stanislav Lem I didn't know it existed. That meant I had heard about Solaris, and might have seen a really terrible VHS copy at some time, but that was about it for anything from behind the Iron Curtain.
I would like to think I have made up for my musical, literary and comic book deficits in the last couple of decades, but I still have a few movies to work through. 15 to be precise. It might not be all of the interesting things to see (and I don't know how interesting they will actually be) but the collection of Soviet science fictions films I found is a very convenient place to start. And despite my love of Fugazi, I really am not a patient boy...