From: Eli Horwatt (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 19:06:11 PST
Peggy and Fred in Hell by Leslie Thornton would be good too...
Eli
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Sam Wells <email suppressed> wrote:
> As for games there are dozens but two relevant ones here perhaps are
> "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl" and its prequel the visually very
> interesting "S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky" - - although premised on a second
> Chernobyl disaster they draw iconic references to Tarkovsky's "Stalker"
> (previously mentioned for apocalyptic elements - plus you could add "The
> Sacrifice" as well) as well as to the Strugatsky's SF novel "Roadside
> Picninc" which was the literary source for Tarkovsky's film (altho he went
> in his own direction with it....)
>
> In films I'd suggest Michael Haneke's "Time Of The Wolf"
>
> and as it came up recently in another context, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Pulse"
> fits the category - and also his "Charisuma" (which itself seems to
> parody/quote Tarkovsky) has implications, intimations of apocalypse.
>
> -Sam
>
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