In “Zardoz” (1974), the Eternals, an immortal race, suffer ennui and even slide into catatonia, as each day bleeds into the next. No end, no passion, no inspiration, no purpose. Does this movie have added resonance in time of COVID?
In case you missed it (and I know you did), here’s my latest appearance on “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci Fi Corner.” Roy and I chisel away at John Boorman’s trippy, hopelessly pretentious, yet somehow oddly relevant parable, which riled critics and baffled audiences at the time of its release, but today seems surprisingly worthy of reevaluation.
New episodes of “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner” stream Fridays and Sundays at 7 p.m. EDT.
Join Roy this Sunday AT A SPECIAL TIME, 4 PM, for a conversation with special effects legend Brian Johnson, the Academy Award winning artist who worked on “Alien,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Dragonslayer,” “Space: 1999,” “Thunderbirds,” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Thanks again, Roy! See you next Friday, for “The War of the Worlds!”
Ross and Roy on “Zardoz”:
Watch Brian Johnson, Sunday at 4 p.m., here:
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