Inspiring Movies

• Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom uses tone, language to invoke the future -- his 24 Hour Party People is just as strange and weird). Bittorrent
• Primer (I liked this a lot but it boasts that you have to watch it twice to understand it, which I think is a writing flaw not an asset) Bittorrent
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (I cried. I can't name another sf movie that made me feel that way. Great soundtrack too.) Bittorrent
• Ringu - had some very creepy moments, particularly the way the little girl ghost moves. Bittorrent
  
• La Jetée, the French movie 12 Monkeys was based on. Bittorrent
• The American Astronaut is low budget SF that Benny recommended -- it's a little too self-consciously campy for my tastes but I liked the way they use music in it Bittorrent
• I didn't like It's All About Love much (I watched it b/c I liked Dear Wendy a lot by the same director, Thomas Vinterberg) but I enjoyed a moment at the beginning where some characters notice a dead guy at the bottom of the escalator they're on. The body jerked slightly as the steps slid by under him, and they just step over him and go about their business -- apparently people are dying all the time of some heart ailment. It was nice mix of the grim and the familar.
• Wim Wender's Until the End of the World is a really interesting, different sort of sci-fi flick. Great production design, use of music and tone. The kind of film that stays with you well after you've seen it.
• Craig W. mentioned that The Soul Investigator is a Toronto art-SF film made about 10 years ago. Can't seem to find it anywhere, did a call around the usual vid stores but no go.
• He mentioned Cosmos is a movie that has several segments directed by different people.
  
• He also highly recommended Guy Madden's 7 minute Heart of the World.
• There's also Robot Stories as a lof-fi sci-fi anthology, Canada's own Nothing, and the classic anthology film Creepshow.
• Debra mentioned Personal Velocity as an anthology movie written by one person. (Not to be confused with Charlie Sheen vehicle Terminal Velocity.)