Forget Plan 1 through 8. “Plan 9” is where it’s at.
We’d like to thank Michael Rizzo and Marybeth Ritkouski for dropping by last night to break bread over Ed, and the “Citizen Kane” of bad movies, “Plan 9 from Outer Space.”
Earlier in the week, M&M kindly had us to their table to talk about Tim Burton’s biopic, about resourceful – though perhaps a little out of touch – “Plan 9” director, “Ed Wood.” Their show, SciFi Distilled, is livestreamed on Facebook every Wednesday at 7 pm EDT. You can eavesdrop on our conversation here:
Friday is Arbor Day. It was actually on Earth Day that Roy and I decided our next topic should be “Silent Running” (1972), a sci-fi cult classic with environmental overtones.
Join us as we chat about space botanist Bruce Dern and his robot sidekicks, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, on their reforestation mission in a floating geodesic greenhouse near Saturn. Peter Schickele wrote the music. Folk icon Joan Baez lends just the right touch of counterculture verisimilitude.
This is one of only two movies directed by special effects legend Douglas Trumbull (of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” fame).
I think you’ll agree, Dern must have been raising more than just trees in that greenhouse. Join us for a trippy discussion of “Silent Running,” on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Our pupils will be dilated, and we’ll be fanning the room with psychedelic album covers. Everyone will be spacing-out, as we livestream on Facebook, next Friday evening at a special time – one half hour later than usual – 7:30 EDT.
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