SciFi &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:SciFi @settima@mograph.social Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:43:59 +0200 X​ [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rygc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" X​ [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" X (1963)/div div class="caption" Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) performing his mind-reading trick. DP: Floyd Crosby./div div class="txt" "The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead." ### – Dr. James Xavier\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #RogerCorman #RayMilland #DonRickles #DickMiller #LesBaxter #FloydCrosby #horror #SciFi #drama #USA #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

X​ [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963)

Aug

14

X (1963)

Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) performing his mind-reading trick. DP: Floyd Crosby.

“The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead.”

– Dr. James Xavier

#FilmDuJour #August #RogerCorman #RayMilland #DonRickles #DickMiller #LesBaxter #FloydCrosby #horror #SciFi #drama #USA #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rygc Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Seksmisja [Sexmission] (Juliusz Machulski, 1984) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-jcz2 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Seksmisja [Sexmission] (Juliusz Machulski, 1984)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Seksmisja (1984)/div div class="caption" Two poor captured extinct men enjoying breakfast and cigarettes. DP: Jerzy Łukaszewicz./div div class="txt" – Men are extinct. – They were not mammoths! /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #JuliuszMachulski #HenrykKuźniak #JerzyŁukaszewicz #SciFi #satire #Poland #1980s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Seksmisja [Sexmission] (Juliusz Machulski, 1984)

Aug

9

Seksmisja (1984)

Two poor captured extinct men enjoying breakfast and cigarettes. DP: Jerzy Łukaszewicz.

– Men are extinct.

– They were not mammoths!

#FilmDuJour #August #JuliuszMachulski #HenrykKuźniak #JerzyŁukaszewicz #SciFi #satire #Poland #1980s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-jcz2 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Sinong lumikha ng yoyo? https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4lh3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sinong lumikha ng yoyo? Sinong lumikha ng moon buggy? [Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy?] (Kidlat Tahimik, 1979)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" 1969/div div class="img" Sinong lumikha ng yoyo? Sinong lumikha ng moon buggy? (1979)/div div class="caption" A Bavarian onion dome with the date July 20, 1969 superimposed over it. DP: Kidlat Tahimik./div div class="txt" "Fantastic! You are a first class dilettante!" ### – Kidlat's proud parents /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #KidlatTahimik #KidlatGottliebKalayaan #documentary #docufiction #animation #fantasy #SciFi #comedy #Philippines #WestGermany #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Sinong lumikha ng yoyo? Sinong lumikha ng moon buggy? [Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy?] (Kidlat Tahimik, 1979)

Jul

20

1969

Sinong lumikha ng yoyo? Sinong lumikha ng moon buggy? (1979)

A Bavarian onion dome with the date July 20, 1969 superimposed over it. DP: Kidlat Tahimik.

“Fantastic! You are a first class dilettante!”

– Kidlat's proud parents

#FilmDuJour #July #KidlatTahimik #KidlatGottliebKalayaan #documentary #docufiction #animation #fantasy #SciFi #comedy #Philippines #WestGermany #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4lh3 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ymqg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Ikarie XB 1 (1963)/div div class="caption" An astronaut passing a perfectly symmetrical walkway, similar to the ones seen in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). DP: Jan Kališ./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #JindřichPolák #StanisławLem #ZdeněkLiška #JanKališ #BookAdaptation #drama #SciFi #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963)

Jun

26

Ikarie XB 1 (1963)

An astronaut passing a perfectly symmetrical walkway, similar to the ones seen in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). DP: Jan Kališ.

#FilmDuJour #June #JindřichPolák #StanisławLem #ZdeněkLiška #JanKališ #BookAdaptation #drama #SciFi #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ymqg Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k1mm <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Black Friday (1940)/div div class="caption" DP: Elwood Bredell./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #ArthurLubin #BorisKarloff #BelaLugosi #HansJSalter #FrankSkinner #ElwoodBredell #FilmNoir #SciFi #drama #thriller #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)

Jun

13

Black Friday (1940)

DP: Elwood Bredell.

#FilmDuJour #June #ArthurLubin #BorisKarloff #BelaLugosi #HansJSalter #FrankSkinner #ElwoodBredell #FilmNoir #SciFi #drama #thriller #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k1mm Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 1999 A.D. (Lee Madden, 1967) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-llbr <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 1999 A.D. (Lee Madden, 1967)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" 1999/div div class="img" 1999 A.D. (1967)/div div class="caption" Mother Karen (Marj Dusay) busy with online meal planning, her husband supervising her from the other screen. While she scheduling for Tuesday, June 2, 1999 in reality fell on a Wednesday. DP: Vilmos Zsigmond./div div class="txt" "What year is it now? I forgot." ### – Jamie /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #LeeMadden #MarjDusay #KerryMacLane #WinkMartindale #AlexanderScourby #MichelLegrand #VilmosZsigmond #capitalism #ShortFilm #documentary #SciFi #futurology #USA #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

1999 A.D. (Lee Madden, 1967)

Jun

2

1999

1999 A.D. (1967)

Mother Karen (Marj Dusay) busy with online meal planning, her husband supervising her from the other screen. While she scheduling for Tuesday, June 2, 1999 in reality fell on a Wednesday. DP: Vilmos Zsigmond.

“What year is it now? I forgot.”

– Jamie

#FilmDuJour #June #LeeMadden #MarjDusay #KerryMacLane #WinkMartindale #AlexanderScourby #MichelLegrand #VilmosZsigmond #capitalism #ShortFilm #documentary #SciFi #futurology #USA #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-llbr Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem [Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5b0f <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem [Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea] (Jindřich Polák, 1977)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem (1977)/div div class="caption" Time-traveling tourist Shirley White (Marie Rosůlková) dragging a bewildered Hitler (František Vicena) in front of her husband's photo camera. DP: Jan Kališ./div div class="txt" "Patrick, it's Hitler! Yes it is Hitler! Patrick, you must take a picture of me with him!" ### – Shirley White, American time traveler /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #JindřichPolák #MarieRosůlková #FrantišekVicena #KarelSvoboda #JanKališ #SciFi #WW2 #TimeTravel #comedy #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem [Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea] (Jindřich Polák, 1977)

Jun

1

Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem (1977)

Time-traveling tourist Shirley White (Marie Rosůlková) dragging a bewildered Hitler (František Vicena) in front of her husband's photo camera. DP: Jan Kališ.

“Patrick, it's Hitler! Yes it is Hitler! Patrick, you must take a picture of me with him!”

– Shirley White, American time traveler

#FilmDuJour #June #JindřichPolák #MarieRosůlková #FrantišekVicena #KarelSvoboda #JanKališ #SciFi #WW2 #TimeTravel #comedy #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5b0f Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest, 1961) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d08l <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest, 1961)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)/div div class="caption" Jeannie Craig (Janet Munro) trying to cool down in a bathtub. DP: Harry Waxman./div div class="txt" "Truly the light is sweet; and what a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the Sun." ### – Peter Stenning /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #ValGuest #JanetMunro #LeoMcKern #StanleyBlack #HarryWaxman #SciFi #ColdWar #GlobalWarming #UK #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest, 1961)

May

23

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Jeannie Craig (Janet Munro) trying to cool down in a bathtub. DP: Harry Waxman.

“Truly the light is sweet; and what a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the Sun.”

– Peter Stenning

#FilmDuJour #May #ValGuest #JanetMunro #LeoMcKern #StanleyBlack #HarryWaxman #SciFi #ColdWar #GlobalWarming #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d08l Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Le 15 mai (Claire Denis, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-p6hn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le 15 mai (Claire Denis, 1971)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" Thu/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" Le 15 mai (1971)/div div class="caption" Claudia Morin in her silver dress showing up in Philippe Rouleau's office. The perpetual calendar behind her – Enzo Mari's Formosa from 1963 – tells us it is May 15. DP: Dominique Le Rigoleur./div div class="txt" "Of course, it's the 15th of May." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #ClaireDenis #ClaudiaMorin #PhilippeRouleau #DominiqueLeRigoleur #ShortFilm #StudentFilm #SciFi #mystery #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Le 15 mai (Claire Denis, 1971)

May

15

Thu

Le 15 mai (1971)

Claudia Morin in her silver dress showing up in Philippe Rouleau's office. The perpetual calendar behind her – Enzo Mari's Formosa from 1963 – tells us it is May 15. DP: Dominique Le Rigoleur.

“Of course, it's the 15th of May.”

#FilmDuJour #May #ClaireDenis #ClaudiaMorin #PhilippeRouleau #DominiqueLeRigoleur #ShortFilm #StudentFilm #SciFi #mystery #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-p6hn Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Unearthly Stranger (John Krish, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-11rj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Unearthly Stranger (John Krish, 1963)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" 10.30 a.m/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary Unearthly Stranger (1963).png)/div div class="caption" An invitation: The Funeral of Geoffrey Munroe will take place on Friday 10th May at St. Marys Church 10.30 a.m. DP: Reginald H. Wyer./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JohnKrish #JohnNeville #PhilipStone #GabriellaLicudi #PatrickNewell #JeanMarsh #WarrenMitchell #EdwardWilliams #ReginaldHWyer #Hooptober #scifi #horror #romance #UK #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Unearthly Stranger (John Krish, 1963)

May

10

10.30 a.m

spoiler warning: click to toggle image Unearthly Stranger (1963)

An invitation: The Funeral of Geoffrey Munroe will take place on Friday 10th May at St. Marys Church 10.30 a.m. DP: Reginald H. Wyer.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #JohnKrish #JohnNeville #PhilipStone #GabriellaLicudi #PatrickNewell #JeanMarsh #WarrenMitchell #EdwardWilliams #ReginaldHWyer #Hooptober #scifi #horror #romance #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-11rj Sun, 10 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200