Ooops. My mistake. "Silent Running" was released both on DVD and Blu-ray. I have since found a 1080p version of it, so my wish in my first shot at this mini-review has already been fulfilled.
--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Pssssst! Hey buddy. Wanna see a movie that almost nobody saw but which > was co-written by Michael Cimino ("The Deer Hunter," "Heaven's Gate"), > Steven Bochco ("L.A. Law," "NYPD Blue"), and Deric Washburn ("The Deer > Hunter")? And that is directed by the guy who did all the special > effects for "2001," and is similarly set out in space, his forté? > > It's called "Silent Running," and if you missed it when it first came > out (1972), it was -- and still is -- a very sweet film, in a poignant, > ecosystem-in-space, robot-buddies-to-die-for kinda way. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckJBvl_uT0 > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckJBvl_uT0> > > Released in a very limited DVD run, this film may be hard to find for > those of you not of the Pirate persuasion. If you still have a VHS > player, you may be able to find a copy of it in your local video > store...if you still have a local video store. I found a VHS-to-digital > rip on the torrentnet. > > It's great to see it again, but I do wish I could see what at the time > constituted State Of The Art in terms of science fiction special effects > rendered properly to DVD resolution, or better, Blu-ray. Doug Trumbull > was an artist, having done not only most of the special effects for > "2001," but also primary visual effects for "Close Encounters of the > Third Kind," "Star Trek: the Motion Picture," "Blade Runner," and "The > Tree Of Life." He was also the producer and director of the > underregarded "Brainstorm, and of course designed the dazzling > what-happens-after-death special effects in that film. > > He also seems to have been (and probably still is, because he's still > living) a committed environmentalist, before his time. "Silent Running" > is considered by most film historians the first environmentalist film > ever made. If you can track it down, it's well worth 89 minutes of your > time. >
