An Attempt to Communicate

First Spaceship on Venus (a.k.a. The Silent Star / Der schweigende Stern / Milcząca Gwiazda) (Kurt Maetzig, 1960): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Our episode on 12 to the Moon, which is not the same movie as First Spaceship on Venus.

Our episode on Johnny at the Fair.

Charles Pachter: Invocation. (He goes by Charles, not sure why Chris thought it was “Charlie”!)

Abe Vigoda, remembered.

Matt Baume on Barney Miller.

Kids in the Hall: Sarcastic Guy.

James Lileks: The Gallery of Regrettable Food.

The Silent Star, uncut.

Stanisław Lem wrote The Astronauts, Solaris (look for Bill Johnston’s translation), Tales of Pirx the Pilot, The Cyberiad, Summa Technologiae (so maybe it has been translated in full?), A Perfect Vacuum, Imaginary Magnitude, and much more...

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) vs. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002).

Ehe im Schatten (Marriage in the Shadow) (Kurt Maetzig, 1947).

Bambi.

The Wind Cannot Read (Ralph Thomas, 1958).

The Bitter and the Sweet (also called The Sweet and the Bitter) (James Clavell, 1967).

The (Super) Mars Snooper.

Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs: The Ballad of Jed Clampett. (Paul Henning is the composer.)

Alexander Calder.

Crossroads (Tamra Davis, 2002)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994).

My Demon Lover (Charlie Loventhal, 1987).

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