Sci-Fi Nights

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May 16, 2017 - 20:30 - ALIEN (1979) by Ridley Scott
Jun 6, 2017 - 20:30 - 12 MONKEYS (1995) by Terry Gilliam
Jul 4, 2017 - 20:30 - SOLARIS (1972) by Andrei Tarkovsky
Aug 8, 2017 - 20:30 - PLANET OF THE APES (1968) by Franklin J. Schaffner
Sep 5, 2017 - 20:30 - MATRIX (1999) by Lana & Lilly Wachowski
Oct 3, 2017 - 20:30, 2017 - AKIRA (1988) by Katsuhiro Otomo
Nov 1, 2017 - 00:00, 2017 - BLADE RUNNER (1982) by Ridley Scott
Dec 12, 2017 - 20:30, 2017 - THX 1138 (1971) by George Lucas
Sep 9, 2018 - 20:30, 2018 - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) by Stanley Kubrick
Oct 9, 2018 - 20:30 - A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2001) by S. Spielberg
Nov 13, 2018 - 20:30 - I, ROBOT (2004) by Alex Proyas
Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original English version
Director
Alex Proyas
Cast
Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Shia LaBeouf, Chi McBride, Jerry Wasserman, Peter Shinkoda
Plot Outline

In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Steven Spielberg
Cast
Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Jude Law, William Hurt, Robin Williams, Ben Kingsley, Meryl Streep
Plot Outline

A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Cast
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, Douglas Rain, William Sylvester, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Kevin Scott
Plot Outline

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
George Lucas
Cast
Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, Irene Cagen
Plot Outline

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original English version (Final Cut 2007, no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Ridley Scott
Cast
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel
Plot Outline

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Katsuhiro Ōtomo
Cast
Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshou Genda, Hiroshi Ohtake, Kōichi Kitamura, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Ōkura, Takeshi Kusao
Plot Outline

Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a covert government project called Akira. But a bloody battle ensues when Kaneda sets out to save his friend.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano, Marcus Chong, Paul Goddard, Robert Taylor
Plot Outline

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast
Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, Linda Harrison, Robert Gunner, Lou Wagner
Plot Outline

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast
Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Jüri Järvet, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Georgiy Teykh, Sos Sargsyan, Olga Barnet
Plot Outline

Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. Based on the novel by the same name from Polish author Stanislaw Lem.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Terry Gilliam
Cast
Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, David Morse, Jon Seda, Frank Gorshin, Joseph Melito, Aaron Michael Lacey
Plot Outline

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient Jeffrey Goines, the son of a famous virus expert, who may hold the key to the mysterious rogue group, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

Special
Sci-Fi Nights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Ridley Scott
Cast
Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton
Plot Outline

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.