Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival 2018 Brochure
Full programme brochure for Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival 2018
Full programme brochure for Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival 2018
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30 th anniversary:<br />
akira<br />
Katsuhiro Otomo<br />
124 min / 1988 / Japan<br />
Sat 28/04 @ 22:45<br />
Light House<br />
Cert: 15a<br />
<strong>Dublin</strong> <strong>Sci</strong>-<strong>Fi</strong><br />
film <strong>Festival</strong><br />
There are certain science-fiction films, such as Blade Runner and Kubrick’s 2001,<br />
that are so well realised that they can influence the genre for decades to come.<br />
Now Akira has been around for some 30 years (and is due for a Hollywood<br />
remake), we have seen how long a shadow it has cast not only over science<br />
fiction but also animation, it sits comfortably alongside those other lauded titles.<br />
Another thing it shares with them is how it always offers up something new or<br />
missed with every viewing. The plot, straightforward to some, impenetrable to<br />
others, concerns a futuristic neo-Tokyo biker gang whose lives are impacted on<br />
after an accidental collision with a secret government-run project dealing with<br />
telekinetic powers in children. Style and substance run neck and neck in this<br />
thrilling, bold landmark film that just refuses to become dated. – Phelim O’Neill,<br />
The Guardian<br />
“Simply put, no Akira, no Matrix. It’s that important.” – Kim Newman, Empire<br />
65th Anniversary:<br />
The Beast<br />
from 20,000<br />
Fathoms<br />
Eugene Lourie<br />
81 min / 1953 / US<br />
Sun 29/04 @ 12:00<br />
Generator<br />
Cert: pg<br />
One of the key titles in the 1950s science fiction boom, this was conceived as an<br />
atom age equivalent of King Kong and became the breakout film for rising effects<br />
man Ray Harryhausen. Beast sets the pattern for many subsequent creature<br />
features, opening with an A-bomb test that releases a dinosaur from its millionyear-sleep<br />
in the arctic ice, then has the monster destroy a few ships at sea and<br />
an isolated lighthouse while the nuclear scientist hero who glimpses the thing in<br />
the blizzard tries to convince the authorities that he isn’t crazy.<br />
The rousing climax brings the monster ashore in New York to chomp down on<br />
big city cops, trample through familiar streets and send crowds fleeing in panic<br />
before it takes a last stand amid burning rollercoasters on Coney Island. – Kim<br />
Newman, Empire Magazine<br />
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