Made at the height of both the cold war and the space race, The Silent Star -- an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's first novel Astronauci -- was the first science fiction film produced by East Germany's state run DEFA studio. While some B movie fans might have an over-familiarity with it in its drastically altered, MSTK-mocked incarnation as First Spaceship on Venus, seeing it in its original form offers another experience entirely. Read my full review at Teleport City.
BBC Radio 4: “A Suspension of Mercy”
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It’s a 1984 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, A
Suspension of Mercy / The Story-Teller (1965). “When crime novelist Sydney
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