The wiki summary of The American Astronaut is absolutely bonkers. Then realizing that it was released on DVD post-2000 and not pre-1975 is even more crazy!
The backstory is that distribution rights were sold for thebfilmnat Sundance 2001 but shortly after the company who bought the rights went bankrupt. When I heard about it, the only way you could buy it was by emailing the director, Cory McAbee, and ask to send me one.
Someone described the movie to me as “a scifi, musical, western about a trucker in space.” This was before YouTube so I couldn’t see a trailer for it… I knew I needed to see it though. I emailed the director, paid for a dvd by PayPal, and got it a little while later.
There is just so much charm surrounding the movie… When you watch it you can just tell everyone was having so much fun with it.
I really enjoy classic scifi.
The American Astronaut (my favorite movie of all time)
Until The End Of The World (1991 - director’s cut - my second favorite movie of all time)
The Time Machine (1960)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
This Island Earth (1955)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Lifeforce (1985)
Pretty much all of the ones referenced in the opening theme for Rocky Horror… Day of the Triffids, Tarantula, The Invisible Man, etc…
Code 46, Dagon, Interstate 60 (kinda),
Recent gems have been Shin Godzilla, Aniara, Vesper, Doors… I am positive I am forgetting some others…
The wiki summary of The American Astronaut is absolutely bonkers. Then realizing that it was released on DVD post-2000 and not pre-1975 is even more crazy!
The backstory is that distribution rights were sold for thebfilmnat Sundance 2001 but shortly after the company who bought the rights went bankrupt. When I heard about it, the only way you could buy it was by emailing the director, Cory McAbee, and ask to send me one.
Someone described the movie to me as “a scifi, musical, western about a trucker in space.” This was before YouTube so I couldn’t see a trailer for it… I knew I needed to see it though. I emailed the director, paid for a dvd by PayPal, and got it a little while later.
There is just so much charm surrounding the movie… When you watch it you can just tell everyone was having so much fun with it.