The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy ***
Director: Alan J. W. Bell
Screenplay: Douglas Adams
Producers: Alan J. W. Bell and John Lloyd
Music: Bernie Leadon and Tim Souster
Music Effects: Paddy Kingsland
Editor: Glenn Hyde
Special Effects: Pearce Studios
Visual Effects: Jim Francis
Electronic Effects: Dave Jervis
Cast: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), David Dixon (Ford Prefect), Sandra Dickinson (Trillian),
Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), Peter Jones (voice of The Book), David Learner (Marvin),
Stephen Moore (voice of Marvin/The Whale/Frankie Mouse), Richard Vernon (Slartibartfast),
Martin Benson (Vogon Captain), Charles McKeown (Vroomfondel), Aubrey Morris (Captain),
Douglas Adams (Man in the Pub), David Tate (voice of Eddie the Shipboard Computer/Benjy Mouse)
Released by: BBC, CBS/FOX
Date: 1981, 194 minutes. Color. ISBN: 0-7939-5767-2
Based on: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (Pocket, New York, 1979). ISBN: 0-671-74606-5
Hollow Man
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Screenplay: Andrew W. Marlowe
Story: Gary Scott Thompson, Andrew W. Marlowe
Producer: Douglas Wick
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Photography: Jost Vacano
Visual Effects: Casey Cannon, Banned from the Ranch Entertainment
Cast: Kevin Bacon (Sebastian Caine), Elizabeth Shue (Linda Foster), Steve Altes (Dad),
Greg Grunberg (Carter Abby), Josh Brolin (Matt Kensington), Kim Dickens (Sarah),
Mary Jo Randle (Janice)
Released by: Columbia
Date: 2000, 120 Minutes. Color.
Based on: The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells (1897).
Iceman
Director: Fred Schepisi
Screenplay: Chip Proser, John Drimmer
Producers: Patrick Palmer, Norman Jewison
Music: Bruce Smeaton
Photography: Ian Baker
Editor: Billy Weber
Visual Effects:
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer, Danny Glover
Released by: Universal
Date: 1984, 99 minutes. Color.
Based on:
The Illustrated Man
Director: Jack Smight
Screenplay: Howard B. Kreitsek
Producer: Ted Mann and Howard B. Kreitsek
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Visual Effects: Ralph Webb
Tatto Designs: James Reynolds
Cast: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas
Released by: Warner/Seven Arts
Date: 1969, 103 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury (1951).
Independence Day
Director: Roland Emmerich
Screenplay: Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin
Producer: Dean Devlin
Music:
Visual Effects: Trendmasters
Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin,
Robert Loggia, Harvey Fierstein, Brent Spiner, Vivica Fox, Harry Connick, Jr.,
Jeff Goldblum (David Levinson)
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1996, minutes. Color.
Based on:
Reviewed by: Science Fiction Age, July, 1996.
The Insider
Director: Michael Mann
Screenplay: Eric Roth, Michael Mann
Producer: Michael Mann, Pieter Jan Brugge
Music: Pieter Bourke, Lisa Gerrard, Graeme Revell
Photography: Dante Spinotti
Editing: William Goldenberg, David Rosenbloom, Paul Rubell
Special Effects: Matte World Digital
Cast: Al Pacino (Lowell Bergman), Russell Crowe (Jeffrey Wigand), Christopher Plummer (Mike Wallace),
Diane Venora (Liane Wigand), Linday Crouse (Sharon Tiller/Mrs. Bergman), Debi Mazar (Debbie De Luca),
Rip Torn (John Scanlon), Colm Feore (Richard Scruggs), Stephen Tobolowsky (Eric Kluster),
Philip Baker Hall (Don Hewitt), Lynne Thigpen (Mrs. Williams), Hallie Kate Eisenberg (Barbara Wigand)
Released by: Touchstone Pictures/Buena Vista/Mann/Roth Productions/Kaitz/Blue Light/Forward Pass
Date: 1999, 158 minutes. Color.
Based on: an article The Man Who Knew Too Much, by Marie Brenner.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers *
Director: Don Siegel
Screenplay: Daniel Mainwaring
Producer: Walte Wagner
Music: Carmen Dragon
Photography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan,
Carolyn Jones, Virginia Christine, Sam Peckinpah
Released by: Allied Artists
Date: 1956, 80 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney (1954).
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Director: Philip Kaufman
Screenplay: W. D. Richter
Producer: Robert H. Solo
Music: Denny Zeitlin
Photography: Michael Chapman
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright,
Jeff Goldblum, Art Hindle, Lelia Goldoni, Kevin McCarthy, Don Siegel
Released by: United Artists
Date: 1978, 115 minutes. Color.
Based on: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney (1954).
Invasion of the Saucermen
Director: Edward L. Cain
Screenplay: Robert J. Gurney, Jr., Al Martin
Producers: James H. Nicholson and Robert J. Gurney, Jr.
Music: Ronald Stein
Photography: Fred West
Editor: Ronald Sinclair
Cast: Steve Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin
Released by: AIP/Malibu
Date: 1957, 90 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Cosmic Frame, by Paul W. Fairman (1953).
Johnny Mnemonic
Director: Robert Longo
Screenplay: William Gibson
Producer: Don Carmody
Music: Brad Fiedel *
Photography: Francois Protat
Visual Effects: Fantasy II Film Effects
Special Effects: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Editor: Ronald Sanders
Cast: Keanu Reeves (Johnny Smith), Dolph Lundgren (Street Preacher),
Ice-T (J-Bone), Dina Meyer (Jane), Tracy Tweed (Pretty),
Udo Kier (Ralfi), Falconer Abraham (Yomamma),
Takeshi Kitano (Takahashi), Henry Rollins (Spider),
Barbara Sukowa (Anna K), Don Franks (Hooky), Denis Akiyama (Shinji),
Gene Mack (Laslo), Jamie Elman (Toad)
Released by: Alliance/TriStar/Sony/Peter Hoffman
Date: 1995, 98 minutes. Color.
Based on: Johnny Mnemonic, by William Gibson (in Omni, May, 1981).
Reviewed by: Science Fiction Age, January, 1995.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Director: Henry Levin
Screenplay: Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett
Producer: Charles Brackett
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Photography: Leo Trover
Cast: James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Pat Boone, Peter Ronson, Diane Baker, Thayer David
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1959, 132 minutes. Color.
Based on: Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne ().
Judge Dredd
Director: Danny Cannon
Screenplay: Danny Cannon
Producer: Charlie Lippincott
Music:
Visual Effects: Joss Williams
Cast: Sylvester Stallone (Judge Dredd), Armand Assante (Rico), Alex Daniel (Brisco),
Diane Lane (Judge Hershey), Rob Schneider (Fergie), Joan Chen (Ilsa),
Jurgen Prochnow (Judge Griffin), Max Von Sydow (Judge Fargo).
Released by: Shepperton Film Studios
Date: 1995, minutes. Color.
Based on: 2000 AD, British comic by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra.
Reviewed by: Science Fiction Age, July, 1995.
Jurassic Park
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Michael Crichton and David Koepp
Producers: Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen
Music: John Williams
Photography: Dean Cundey
editor: Michael Kahn
Visual Effects: Industrial Light and Magic, Stan Winston Studio
Cast: Sam Neill (Dr. Alan Grant), Laura Dern (Dr. Ellie Sattler),
Jeff Goldblum (Dr. Ian Malcolm), Richard Attenborough (John Alfred Hammond),
Bob Peck (Park Warden Robert Muldoon)
Released by: Universal/Amblin Entertainment/Universal Pictures
Date: 1993, 127 minutes. Color.
Based on: Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton.
Jurassic Park II
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: David Koepp, Michael Crichton
Producers: Gerald R. Molen, Colin Wilson
Music: John Williams
Photography: Janusz Kaminski
editor: Michael Kahn
Visual Effects: Industrial Light and Magic, Stan Winton Studio
Cast: Jeff Goldblum (Dr. Ian Malcolm), Julianne Moore (Dr. Sarah Harding),
Pete Postlethwaite (Roland Tembo), Arliss Howard (Peter Ludlow), Richard Attenborough (John Alfred Hammond)
Released by: Amblin Entertainment/Universal Pictures
Date: 1997, 129 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Lost World: Jurassic Park II, by Michael Crichton.
Jurassic Park III
Director: Joe Johnston
Screenplay: Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Michael Crichton
Producers: Larry J. Franco, Kathleen Kennedy
Music: Don Davis, John Williams
Photography: Shelly Johnson
Editor: Robert Dalva
Visual Effects: Industrial Light and Magic, Skywalker Sound, Stan Winston Studio
Cast: Sam Neill (Dr. Alan Grant), William H. Macy (Paul Kirby), Téa Leoni (Amanda Kirby),
Alessandro Nivola (Billy Brennan), Trevor Morgan (Eric Kirby), Michael Jeter (Udesky)
Released by: Amblin Entertainment/United International Pictures/Universal Pictures
Date: 2001, 90 minutes. Color.
Based on: Characters created by Michael Crichton.
Kate and Leopold
Director: James Mangold
Screenplay: Steven Rogers and James Mangold
Producer: Cathy Konrad
Music: Rolfe Kent
Photography: Stuart Dryburgh
Editor: David Brenner
Cast: Meg Ryan (Kate McKay), Hugh Jackman (Leopold), Liev Schrieber (Stuart),
Breckin Meyer (Charlie McKay), Philip Bosco (Otis), Natasha Lyonne (Darci),
Bradley Whitford (J. J.)
Released by: Miramax Pictures/Konrad Pictures
Date: 2001, 120 minutes. Color.
K-PAX
Director: Iain Softley
Screenplay: Charles Leavitt
Producers: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin
Music: Ed Shearmur
Photography: John Mathieson
Editor: Craig McKay
Cast: Kevin Spacey (Prot), Jeff Bridges (Dr. Mark Powell), Mary McCormack (Rachel Powell),
Alfre Woodward (Dr. Claudia Villers), Ajay Naidu (Dr. Ajay Naidu), Vincent Lareca (Navarro),
David Patrick Kelly (Howie), Melanee Murray (Bess)
Released by: Universal Pictures/MCA/Lawrence Gordon Productions
Date: 2001, 140 minutes. Color.
Based on: K-PAX, by Gene Brewer.
Little Shop of Horrors
Director: Roger Corman
Screenplay: Charles B. Griffith
Producer: Roger Corman
Music: Fred Katz
Photography: Archie Dalzell
Editor: Marshall Nellan, Jr.
Visual Effects: Daniel Haller
Cast: (Seymour), Jack Nicholson
Released by: Vestron
Date: 1960, 72 minutes. B&W. ISBN: 0-8051-0250-7
Based on: Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway Show)
Logan's Run
Director: Michael Anderson
Screenplay: David Zelag Goodman
Producer: Saul David
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Cast: Michael York (Logan), Jenny Agutter (Jessica), Peter Ustinov, Richard Jordan, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Roscoe Lee Browne
Released by: MGM/United Artists
Date: 1976, 118 minutes. Color.
Based on: Logan's Run, by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson (1967).
Lost in Space
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Screenplay: Akiva Goldsman
Producer: Akiva Goldsman
Music:
Photography:
Special Effects: Jim Henson's Creature Shop
Cast: William Hurt (John Robinson), Matt LeBlanc (Don West),
Gary Oldman (Dr. Smith), Mimi Rogers (Robinson), Heather Graham (Robinson),
Lacey Chabert (Robinson), Jack Johnson (Will Robinson)
Released by: New Line
Date: 1998, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on: Lost in Space, TV Series.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park II
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: David Koepp, Michael Crichton
Producers: Gerald R. Molen, Colin Wilson
Music: John Williams
Photography: Janusz Kaminski
editor: Michael Kahn
Visual Effects: Dennis Muren, Industrial Light and Magic, Stan Winton Studio
Cast: Jeff Goldblum (Dr. Ian Malcolm), Julianne Moore (Dr. Sarah Harding),
Pete Postlethwaite (Roland Tembo), Arliss Howard (Peter Ludlow), Richard Attenborough (John Alfred Hammond)
Released by: Amblin Entertainment/Universal Pictures
Date: 1997, 129 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Lost World: Jurassic Park II, by Michael Crichton (1995).
Marooned
Director: John Sturges
Screenplay: Mayo Simon
Producer: Frank Capra, Jr.
Music:
Photography: Daniel Fapp
Visual Effects: Robbie Robertson Oscar
Cast: Greogory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus,
Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovack, Mariette Hartley, Scott Brady
Released by: Columbia/Frankovich-Sturges
Date: 1969, 134 minutes. Color.
Based on: Marooned, by Martin Caidin ().
The Matrix
Directors: Larry and Andy Wachowski
Screenplay: Larry and Andy Wachowski
Producer: Joel Silver
Music: Don Davis; Rob Zombie; Rammstein
Photography: Bill Pope
Visual Effects: Joe Gaeta
Editor: Zack Staenberg
Fight-scene Choreography: Woo-Ping Yuen
Cast: Keanu Reeves (Thomas "Neo" Anderson), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity),
Joe Pantoliano (Cypher), Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith), Julian Arahanga (Tank)
Released by: Warner Brothers
Date: 1999, 139 minutes. Color.
Web site: The Matrix
Memoires of an Invisible Man
Director: John Carpenter
Screenplay: Robert Collector, Dana Olsen, William Goldman
Producers: Bruce Bodner and Dan Kolsrud
Music: Shirley Walker
Photography: William A. Fraker
Editor: Marion Rothman
Visual Effects: Industrial Light and Magic
Cast: Chevy Chase (Nick Halloway), Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean,
Stephen Tobolowsky, Jim Norton
Released by: Warner/Le Studio Canal Plus/Regency Enterprises/Alcor
Date: 1992, 99 minutes. Color.
Based on: Memoires of an Invisible Man, by H. F. Saint ().
Men in Black **
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenplay: Ed Solomon and Lowell Cunningham
Producers: Laurie MacDonald and Walter F. Parks
Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
Music: Danny Elfman
Photography: Donald Peterman
Editor: Jim Miller
Visual Effects: Industrial Light and Magic, Rick Baker
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones (Agent Kay), Will Smith (Agent Jay), Linda Fiorentino (Laurel),
Vincent D'Onofrio (Edgar/Alien), Rip Torn (Agent Zed)
Released by: Columbia/Amblin Entertainment/MacDonald-Parkes/Sony/Universal
Date: 1997, 98 minutes. Color.
Based on: Men in Black, Marvel Comic by Lowell Cunningham.
Reviewed by: Newsweek, July 7, 1997.
Men in Black II
Director: Barry Sonenfeld
Screenplay: Robert Gordon, Barry Fanaro, and Lowell Cunningham
Producers: Laurie MacDonald and Walter F. Parks
Music: Danny Elfman, Will Smith
Photography: Greg Gardiner
Editors: Richard Pearson and Steven Weisberg
Special Effects: Cinovation Studios and Industrial Light & Magic
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones (Kevin Brown/Agent Kay), Will Smith (Agent Jay),
Lara Flynn Boyle (Serleena), Linda Kim (Lauranna),
Paige Brooks (Laranna, Queen of the Universe),
Frank the Pug (Tim Blaney), Rip Torn (Chief Zed),
Rosario Dawson (Rita), Patrick Warburton (Agent T),
Michael Jackson (undercover agent)
Released by: Columbia/Amblin Entertainment/Sony Pictures
Date: 2002, 88 minutes. Color.
Based on: Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonenfeld (1997).
Reviewed by: The New Yorker, July 8, 2002.
Millennium *
Director: Michael Anderson
Screenplay: John Varley
Producers: Douglas Leiterman, Robert Vince, John M. Eckert
Music: Eric N. Robertson
Photography: Rene Ohashi
Editor: Ron Wisman
Visual Effects: Light and Motion
Cast: Kris Kristofferson (William Smith), Cheryl Ladd (Louise Baltimore),
Daniel J. Travanti (Dr. Arnold Mayer), Robert Joy (Sherman the Robot),
Al Waxman (Dr. Brindle), Lloyd Bochner (Walters), Peter Dvorsky (Janz),
Brent Carver (Coventry), David McIlwraith (Tom Stanley),
Maury Chaykin (Roger Keene), Lawrence Dane (Vern Rockwell), Jamie Shannon (Billy Smith)
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox/First Millennium Partnership/Gladden Entertainment
Date: 1989, 108 minutes. Color.
Based on: Air Raid, by Herb Boehm (aka John Varley) (in Asimov's, Spring, 1977).
Mimic
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Screenplay: Matthew Robbins and Guillermo Del Toro
Producers: Bob Weinstein, B. J. Rack, Ole Bornedal
Music: Marco Beltrami
Photography: Dan Laustsen
Editor: Patrick Lussier
Visual Effects: Brian M. Jennings
Digital Visual Effects: Digiscope
Special Effects: Ted Ross
Creature Design: Rob Bottin, Tyruben Ellingson
Cast: Mira Sorvino (Dr. Susan Tyler), Jeremy Northam (Dr. Peter Mann),
Giancarlo Gianni (Manny), Alexander Goodwin (Chuy), Josh Brolin (Josh),
Charles S. Dutton (Officer Leonard), F. Murray Abraham (Dr. Gates),
James Costa (Ricky), Alix Koromzay (Remy)
Released by: Miramax
Date: 1997, 105 minutes. Color.
Based on: Mimic, by Donald A. Wollheim (as by Martin Pearson in Astonishing Stories, December, 1942).
Minority Report
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Frank Scott and Jon Cohen
Producer: Steven Spielberg
Music: John Williams
Photography: Janusz Kaminski
Editor: Michael Kahn
Visual Effects: Blondel Aidoo, Industrial Lights and Magic
Cast: Tom Cruise (Detective John Anderton), Max von Sydow (Director Lamar Burgess),
Colin Farrell (Detective Ed Witwer), Samantha Morton (Agatha), Jessica Capshaw (Evanna),
Patrick Kilpatrick (Knott), Anna Maria Horsford (Casey), Steve Harris (Jad),
Neal McDonough (Officer Fletcher), Erica Ford (Jill), Spencer Treat Clark (Sean at Nine),
Tyler Patrick Jones (Sean at Six), Mike Binder (Leo Crow)
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox/Amblin Entertainment/Blue Tulip/Dream Works
Date: 2002, 145 minutes. Color.
Based on: Minority Report, by Philip K. Dick (Fantastic Universe, January, 1956).
Mission to Mars **
Director: Brian de Palma
Screenplay: Jim Thomas, John Thomas, and Graham Yost
Story: Lowell Cannon
Producers: Tom Jacobson and Sam Mercer
Music: Ennio Morricone
Photography: Stephen H. Burum
Visual Effects:
Cast: Gary Sinise (Jim McConnell), Tim Robbins (Woody Blake), Don Cheadle (Luc Goddard),
Connie Neilsen (Terri Blake), Jerry O'Connell (Phil Ohlmyer), Kim Delaney (Maggie McConnell)
Released by: Touchstone Pictures
Date: 2000, 113 minutes. Color.
Web Site: Mission to Mars
Mother Night
Director: Keith Gordon
Screenplay: Robert B. Weide
Producers: Keith Gordon and Robert B. Weide
Music: Michael Convertino
Photography: Tom Richmond
Editor: Jay Rabinowitz
Cast: Nick Nolte (Howard W. Campbell, Jr.), Sheryl Lee (Helga & Resi Noth),
Alan Arkin (George Kraft), John Goodman (Major Frank Wirtanen),
Bernard Behrens (Dr. Lionel Jones), Kirsten Dunst (Young Resi),
Sad Man on the Street (Kurt Vonnegut), Norman Rodway (Werner Noth),
Arye Gross (Dr. Epstein), Anna Berger (Epstein's Mother),
Frankie Faison (The Black Fuehrer), Gerard Parkes (Father Keeley),
Vlasta Vrana (August Krapptauer), Zach Grenier
Released by: FileLine Features/Whyaduck
Date: 1996, 113 minutes. Color.
Based on: Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1966).
