10th
Release
Release
94m
Omni: Verse
USA
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2016
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94m
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Directed by:
Grier Dill,
Grier Dill.
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...
Showcasing 15 short films from NYC's most innovative emerging filmmakers, OMNI:VERSE explores alternate realities, sci-fi themes, and worlds that could have been, if only the rules of the universe were altered just a bit. Think Black Mirror meets ABCs of Death.
60th
Release
Release
106m,
Seconds
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USA
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1966
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106m
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Directed by:
John Frankenheimer.
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Starring:
Frank Campanella,
John Randolph,
Frances Reid,
Barbara Werle,
Edgar Stehli,
Aaron Magidow,
De De Young,
Françoise Ruggieri,
Murray Hamilton,
Thom Conroy,
Jeff Corey,
Will Geer,
Richard Anderson,
Rock Hudson,
Khigh Dhiegh,
John Lawrence,
Wesley Addy,
Salome Jens,
Nedrick Young,
Dodie Heath,
Elisabeth Fraser,
Robert Brubaker,
Dorothy Morris,
Kirk Duncan,
Karl Swenson...
53rd
Cremators, The |
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• USA • 1972 • 75m • Directed by: Harry Essex. • Starring: Maria De Aragon, Marvin Howard, Eric Allison, Mason Caulfield, R.N. Bullard, Cecil Reddick, Tim Frawley, Jax Jason Carroll, Ola Kauffman, John Barnum, Al Ward, Chuck Hillig, James Ragan, David Essex. • Music by: Albert Glasser.An alien life form that is a huge ball of living matter invades earth, and replenishes itself by absorbing people.
51st
Largo Retorno |
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Spain • 1975 • 116m • Directed by: Pedro Lazaga. • Starring: Mark Burns, Lynne Frederick, Charo López, Ricardo Merino, George Rigaud, Fernando Hilbeck, Adriano Domínguez, Concha Cuetos, Andrés Mejuto, Mayrata O'Wisiedo, Juan Diego, Paul Benson, Frank Clement, Concha Gómez Conde, José Lara. • Music by: Antón García Abril.Due to incurable illness, a woman is put into hybernation leaving her husband behind to cope with the loss even though she is not dead.
46th
Svart hav |
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Norway • 1980 • 106m • Directed by: David Wingate. • Starring: Nils Utsi, Roald Kristiansen, Anne Gullestad, Helge Jordal, Hans Vidar Lindseth, Olav Haavig, Ivar Hansen Støreng, Ole Lindseth, Anne Marie Ludvigsen, Harder Pettersen. • Music by: Claes Neeb.In a near future the sea is almost drained for it's resources, due to big trawlers from UniFish emptying the sea for anything alive, ruining the lives of the small fisher men.
42nd
The Brother from Another Planet |
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• USA • 1984 • 108m • Directed by: John Sayles. • Starring: Joe Morton, Rosanna Carter, Ray Ramirez, Yves Rene, Peter Richardson, Ginny Yang, Daryl Edwards, Steve James, Leonard Jackson, Bill Cobbs, Maggie Renzi, Olga Merediz, Tom Wright, Minnie Gentry, Renn Woods. • Music by: Martin Brody, Mason Daring.A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
33rd
Breakfast of Aliens |
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• USA • 1993 • 88m • Directed by: David Lee Miller. • Starring: Vic Dunlop, Donald Gibb, Indy Shriner, Johnny Dark, Ruth L. Bail, Ahuva Fogel, Steve Franken, Danny Holguini, Lori Lynn Lang, Murray Langston, Jeanet Moltke, Erne Montellano, Amanda J. Olson, James B. Olson, Ron Robertson. • Music by: Matthew Ender.A lovable loser, Walter Clydepepper eats an alien from outer space in his cereal and becomes a deadly stand up comic.
27th
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace |
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• USA • 1999 • 136m • Directed by: George Lucas. • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Pernilla August, Oliver Ford Davies, Hugh Quarshie, Ahmed Best, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz, Terence Stamp, Brian Blessed, Andy Secombe. • Music by: John Williams.Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their old glory.
23rd
Big Empty, The |
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• USA • 2003 • 94m • Directed by: Steve Anderson. • Starring: Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, Jon Gries, Daryl Hannah, Adam Beach, Gary Farmer, Rachael Leigh Cook, Brent Briscoe, Melora Walters, Kelsey Grammer, Sean Bean, Alejandra Aguilan, Jay Brothers, Sara Fouts. • Music by: Brian Tyler.Would be-Hollywood actor John Person always considered his bizarre neighbor Neely a conspiracy theory nut-case. Still he accepts a simple task to wipe out his over $27,000 debt: delivering a blue suitcase to some Cowboy at Baker, in the empty desert. The place proves a nest of weirdos, including extremely jealous Randy and his girl Ruthie, who seduces John. He learns Neely was murdered, and FBI agent Banks grills him as prime suspect. Yet the weirdest is still to come once Cowboy turns up.