can't figure out a movie (post-apocalyptic a la PANIC IN YEAR ZERO)
I have tried for a long time to figure out a movie that I watched twenty years ago. The movie was done in the seventies and it is about a group of people (a family? friends?) who flee a big town because of some terrible accident (nuclear? biologic?). On their way to a refuge in the countryside, they are constantly attacked by outlaws who take advantage of the disarray in which the society has fallen following the accident. No, I am not talking about Ray Milland's PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO. It is a very similar story, but was done at least ten years after. Does it ring a bell? Does anyboby know the name of that movie? Thanks, Patrice.
Are you thinking of Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend"? It's along those lines, husband and wife are headed out to their bourgeois country home & society falls apart while they're stuck in traffic; much nonsense follows. At 05:14 PM 5/16/02 -0700, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
I have tried for a long time to figure out a movie that I watched twenty years ago. The movie was done in the seventies and it is about a group of people (a family? friends?) who flee a big town because of some terrible accident (nuclear? biologic?). On their way to a refuge in the countryside, they are constantly attacked by outlaws who take advantage of the disarray in which the society has fallen following the accident.
No, I am not talking about Ray Milland's PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO. It is a very similar story, but was done at least ten years after.
Does it ring a bell? Does anyboby know the name of that movie?
Thanks,
Patrice.
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Chris Selvig
On Thu, 16 May 2002 17:22:40 -0700 Chris Selvig wrote:
Are you thinking of Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend"? It's along those lines, husband and wife are headed out to their bourgeois country home & society falls apart while they're stuck in traffic; much nonsense follows.
No, that's not that one. It is more of an action movie (like, for example, MAD MAX). Patrice.
At 5:14 PM -0700 5/16/02, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
I have tried for a long time to figure out a movie that I watched twenty years ago. The movie was done in the seventies and it is about a group of people (a family? friends?) who flee a big town because of some terrible accident (nuclear? biologic?). On their way to a refuge in the countryside, they are constantly attacked by outlaws who take advantage of the disarray in which the society has fallen following the accident.
I don't know the name of it, but I have a memory of a similar film from the 70s, and I dunno, maybe some of these details fit. As I remember, it was obviously filmed in Southern California. The premise seemed to have something to with a natural disaster--something happening to the sun. I recall a lot of lens flare shots of the sun, with this string section glissando on the soundtrack; any character caught outside during one of those scenes died in some fashion--dehydration? Fatal sunburn? One of the conceits seemed to be that the fleeing protagonists a) had to flee the people chasing them, but b) there movements were impeded by that sun constraint. And I seem to recall that the climax happened around an abandoned ranch. Does any of this seem to match your memories of this film? I went through a similar experience with a half-remembered Saturday TV movie which must have been done in the 60s; fortunately I remembered enough to (over several Web searches) figure out that it was the low-budget film _The Time Travellers_. Haven't seen it again yet, though. HTH, M -- Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com/
This sounds to me like it could be THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE(1961 d. Val Guest) except for the SoCal part. -Sanchez NP: Ennio Morricone - "Jona che visse nella balena" OMPS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice Rickard" <maurice@mac.com> To: <zorn-list@lists.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:04 PM Subject: Re: can't figure out a movie (post-apocalyptic a la PANIC IN YEAR ZERO)
I don't know the name of it, but I have a memory of a similar film from the 70s, and I dunno, maybe some of these details fit. As I remember, it was obviously filmed in Southern California. The premise seemed to have something to with a natural disaster--something happening to the sun. I recall a lot of lens flare shots of the sun, with this string section glissando on the soundtrack; any character caught outside during one of those scenes died in some fashion--dehydration? Fatal sunburn? One of the conceits seemed to be that the fleeing protagonists a) had to flee the people chasing them, but b) there movements were impeded by that sun constraint. And I seem to recall that the climax happened around an abandoned ranch.
Does any of this seem to match your memories of this film? I went through a similar experience with a half-remembered Saturday TV movie which must have been done in the 60s; fortunately I remembered enough to (over several Web searches) figure out that it was the low-budget film _The Time Travellers_. Haven't seen it again yet, though.
HTH, M -- Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com/
Thursday, May 16, 2002, 9:22:56 PM, "Sanchez" wrote: S> This sounds to me like it could be THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE S> (1961 d. Val Guest) except for the SoCal part. I have vivid but fragmentary (seen in motel room under heavy medication ;-)) memories of what Maurice is talking about, no, definitely color and mid 70s, not b&w early 60s ... lots of bloated red sunset-distorted suns, stock footage of LA freeway traffic jams w/ people fleeing to the mountains ... title? Not a clue. _Heat Wave_ maybe? IMDB suggests _Where Have All the People Gone_ with Peter Graves ... (both 1974) ... god knows if either of us is on about what Patrice is looking for tho ... -- Jim Flannery newgrange@sfo.com
At 12:54 AM -0700 5/17/02, Jim Flannery wrote:
lots of bloated red sunset-distorted suns, stock footage of LA freeway traffic jams w/ people fleeing to the mountains ... title? Not a clue. _Heat Wave_ maybe? IMDB suggests _Where Have All the People Gone_ with Peter Graves ... (both 1974) ...
Thanks, Jim! Ya know, I love the 'net. I post a vague recollection of some B- or C- TV movie, and less than 12 hours later somebody nails the title. I'm pretty sure _Where Have All the People Gone_ is it. (The photos at http://www.kathleendenisequinlan.com/home/movies/where_have_all_the_people_g... aren't scenes I remember, but the look seems about right. Scary haircuts!)
god knows if either of us is on about what Patrice is looking for tho ...
Good point. Patrice? This all ring any bells? -- Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com/
On Fri, 17 May 2002 10:24:17 -0400 Maurice Rickard wrote:
Thanks, Jim! Ya know, I love the 'net. I post a vague recollection of some B- or C- TV movie, and less than 12 hours later somebody nails the title. I'm pretty sure _Where Have All the People Gone_ is it. (The photos at http://www.kathleendenisequinlan.com/home/movies/where_have_all_the_people_g... aren't scenes I remember, but the look seems about right. Scary haircuts!)
god knows if either of us is on about what Patrice is looking for tho ...
Good point. Patrice? This all ring any bells?
Looks like you got it! I will pick it up and check it. Thanks for the help, Patrice.
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