Dark Star (1974)
Country: US
Technical: col 83m
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Brian Narelle, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon, Cal Kuniholm
Synopsis:
The Dark Star travels the universe destroying unstable star systems, manned by a bickering crew, a cryogenically frozen captain, a sexily voiced ship's computer and a petulant talking bomb.
Review:
The director's first film remains his best, a deliciously funny pastiche of 2001 with undergraduate humour which miraculously has not aged. Highlights include a duel with a beachball shaped alien in a lift shaft, but the beauty of the film is that it also contains sequences of touching mysticism, with Man seen as horribly alone in space as opposed to a transcendent 'star child'.
Country: US
Technical: col 83m
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Brian Narelle, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon, Cal Kuniholm
Synopsis:
The Dark Star travels the universe destroying unstable star systems, manned by a bickering crew, a cryogenically frozen captain, a sexily voiced ship's computer and a petulant talking bomb.
Review:
The director's first film remains his best, a deliciously funny pastiche of 2001 with undergraduate humour which miraculously has not aged. Highlights include a duel with a beachball shaped alien in a lift shaft, but the beauty of the film is that it also contains sequences of touching mysticism, with Man seen as horribly alone in space as opposed to a transcendent 'star child'.
Country: US
Technical: col 83m
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Brian Narelle, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon, Cal Kuniholm
Synopsis:
The Dark Star travels the universe destroying unstable star systems, manned by a bickering crew, a cryogenically frozen captain, a sexily voiced ship's computer and a petulant talking bomb.
Review:
The director's first film remains his best, a deliciously funny pastiche of 2001 with undergraduate humour which miraculously has not aged. Highlights include a duel with a beachball shaped alien in a lift shaft, but the beauty of the film is that it also contains sequences of touching mysticism, with Man seen as horribly alone in space as opposed to a transcendent 'star child'.