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Saturday, Apr 8, 1995
Things to Come
This classic adaptation of an H. G. Wells story features stunning futuristic sets by Alexander Korda and designs by the surrealist artist John Armstrong. (Moholy-Nagy worked on it as well.) In 1935, Things to Come was an uncannily accurate forecast of World War II, beginning in 1940 with a surprise air attack on London. Wells's pessimism regarding life on Earth permeates the tale, which carries the war into the sixties, leaving cities battered and citizens, plagued with "wandering disease," effectively regressed to a state of near-savagery. It's Road Warriors of 1935 until a handful of scientist-aeronauts alight to make the world and its architecture safe for technocratic dictatorship. Forward, into the past.
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