https://staging2.theplaylist.net/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-20120622/ Fri, 13 May 2016 12:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-20120622/#comment-75461 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:10:30 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-109117/#comment-75461 Anybody here seen the Russian 'Letters from a dead man' (or 'Dead man's letters)? Visually, it's the best + truest post-apocalypse film i've seen. It makes 'The Road' look like a Coke commercial

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-20120622/#comment-75462 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:10:30 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-109117/#comment-75462 Quiet Earth? (think it's the title) Kiwi movie from the 80's is an end of the world favourite of mine.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-20120622/#comment-75463 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:10:30 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-109117/#comment-75463 Miracle Mile is another good one. It's very 80s and has characters behaving oddly for the sake of plot mechanics, but otherwise it's a pretty underrated, cool little flick with some great Tangerine Dream music. Strangely, a lot of the beats wound up lifted and used in Cloverfield.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-20120622/#comment-75464 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:10:30 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-109117/#comment-75464 Contra your article, Don McKellar's script for "Blindness" was amazingly humane and beautiful — it was the execution of said script that dragged it down. I wish you had been a bit more thoughtful before pouncing on the screenplay. I suspect you a) haven't read it, or b) haven't watched the movie closely enough to parse the difference between the script and the execution.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-20120622/#comment-75465 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:10:30 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-109117/#comment-75465 Wow… how could you not list the underseen, and still amazingly fun and terrific (for an apocalypse movie), "Miracle Mile" (dir. Steve De Jarnatt). It's one of the best 80s films to deal with nuclear annihilation, and adds a zany romantic angle as well (boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl but then all hell breaks loose, boy and girl stay together, merged together like diamonds). A must see for any fan of apocalyptic films. Highly recommended.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-20120622/#comment-75466 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:10:30 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-109117/#comment-75466 Glad to see "Last Night" and "When the Wind Blows" on this list. I just saw von Trier's "Melancholia" a couple of weeks ago and think that, if nothing else, it should be an honourable mention here. It was fascinating, haunting, and well-focused on character transitions in the face of the apocalypse. And I never would have thought it, but Kirsten Dunst's performance was truly remarkable and brave!

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-20120622/#comment-75467 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:10:30 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/5-underseen-apocalypse-movies-to-accompany-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world-109117/#comment-75467 Wow ; when I read the title I thought "Of course Kairo won't be in it" … yet it is ! It's Kiyoshi Kurosawa's week on The Playlist. Again: nice move (that said Slate's list is mostly a joke !).

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