https://vo.rs/tags/dan-obannon/Latest from the Dan O'Bannon desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/dark-star-carpenters-student-film-space-comedy/<p>Every director has a film they made before they knew what they weren&rsquo;t allowed to do. John Carpenter&rsquo;s is <em>Dark Star</em> (1974), a picture that began as a USC student short and got padded out to a shaggy eighty-three minutes with a bit of outside money, a spray-painted beach ball, and the boundless nerve of two young men who had decided that the correct subject for a science-fiction film was tedium. It is crude, cheap and frequently brilliant, and half the DNA of modern space cinema is sitting in it waiting to be noticed.</p>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000