H. George Wells travels to the future, only to discover mankind divided into two factions and a civilization on the brink of collapse! Fortunately, we all know that could never happen…
This week on “Picture Perfect,” put aside your cares for an hour and begin the new year with an escapist program of time travel adventures.
Look forward – and back – to selections from “The Time Machine” (1960) by Russell Garcia, “Time After Time” (1979) by Miklós Rózsa, “Somewhere in Time” (1980) by John Barry, and “Back to the Future” (1985) by Alan Silvestri.
It’s about time, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, now in syndication on KWAX Classical Oregon!
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Tag: The Time Machine
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Time Machine & Time After Time Movie Discussion
Roy and I were on-the-clock last night, with our discussion of George Pal’s “The Time Machine” (1960). Enjoy our striking commentary by clicking on the video below.
Then, we figured we’d go ahead and make it a timely weekend, by following-up tomorrow night, with a loosely-wound chat about “Time After Time” (1979), Nicholas Meyer’s sci-fi thriller about H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) and his pursuit of Jack the Ripper (David Warner) to late 20th century San Francisco.
The film also features Mary Steenburgen, ample affectionate touches that recall George Pal’s classic, and a late-career score by Miklós Rózsa!
You’re welcome to chime in with your commentary. Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner live-streams on Facebook every Friday and Sunday at 7 pm EDT.
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The Time Machine (1960) Revisited
It’s about time.
Caught between the apathetic Eloi and the slovenly Morlocks, H. George Wells seeks a ray of sanity in a civilization on the brink of collapse. No, it’s not the U.S. in time of COVID, but rather George Pal’s big screen adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” (1960).
Roy Bjellquist and I will discuss this sixty-year-old classic, about an idealistic Victorian scientist, who hopes to find validation, once free of the Boer War, of man’s higher good, only to discover an England ravaged repeatedly, by two world wars and a nuclear holocaust.
Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux of “Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell” are joined by Sebastian Cabot of “Family Affair” and Alan Young of “Mr. Ed.”
We are now as far away from this movie as this movie was from the year in which it was set (1900)!
Leave your comments and join the conversation, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, to be live-streamed on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EDT.
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