Prospect: The Lo-Fi Space Western That Works

Thu, 29 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000

The first thing you notice about Prospect is the dirt. Not the alien landscape, which is a real forest in Washington State shot through drifting yellow haze, but the equipment: the scuffed helmets with their fogged plastic visors, the cassette-deck computers, the spacesuits that look sewn rather than fabricated, the sense that every object in this future has been repaired a dozen times by someone who could not afford a new one. Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl’s 2018 debut is a science-fiction film that spends its money where you can touch it, and the result is one of the most convincingly lived-in futures of its decade.

The Vast of Night: A Whole Alien Mystery in Two Voices

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000

There is a moment early in The Vast of Night when the film stops trusting your eyes entirely. A woman on a switchboard is listening to a strange sound on the line, and Andrew Patterson holds on her face while the frame goes black around her, the picture draining away until there is nothing left but the audio and the flicker of her concentration. It is a debut director telling you, in his first quarter of an hour, that he knows exactly what his film is made of. Sound. Talk. Two young people describing something they cannot see.

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Prospect: The Lo-Fi Space Western That Works

The Vast of Night: A Whole Alien Mystery in Two Voices