Film Series - The Future of the Past: Utopia/Dystopia, 1965–1984 March 7, 2009

Film Series
The Future of the Past: Utopia/Dystopia, 1965–1984
Beginning March 7
Phyllis Wattis Theater

Released from 1965 through the iconic Orwellian year 1984, these films present not-too-distant worlds that reflect extremes in the social, moral, and political trends of their time. These imagined tomorrows are more often dystopian than hopeful, with the world as we know it exhausted and collapsed. The resulting new architecture—glass domes, surveillance corridors, solitary structures—is the means of future survival and evokes a world of bleakness and sinister intent.

In conjunction with Patterns of Speculation: J. MAYER H.

Westworld
Michael Crichton, 1973, 88 min.
Saturday, March 7 / 1 p.m.

Logan’s Run
Michael Anderson, 1976, 120 min.
Saturday, March 7 / 3 p.m.
Thursday, March 12 / 7 p.m.

Soylent Green
Richard Fleischer, 1973, 97 min.
Saturday, March 21 / 1 p.m.
Saturday, April 4 / 1 p.m.

A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick, 1972, 136 min.
Saturday, March 21 / 3 p.m.
Thursday, March 26 / 7 p.m.

Fantastic Planet
René Laloux, 1973, 72 min.
Thursday, April 2 / 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 4 / 3 p.m.

Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, 163 min.
Thursday, April 9 / 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 11 / 1 p.m.

Alphaville
Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, 99 min.
Thursday, April 16 / 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 25 / 1 p.m.

Sleeper
Woody Allen, 1973, 89 min.
Saturday, April 18 / 1 p.m.

Fahrenheit 451
François Truffaut, 1966, 112 min.
Saturday, April 18 / 3 p.m.
Thursday, April 23 / 7 p.m.

1984
Michael Radford, 1984, 113 min.
Saturday, April 25 / 3 p.m.

Official Website: http://www.sfmoma.org/events/series/1303