#fred barzyk

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The Lathe of Heaven (1980)

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The Lathe of Heaven | 1980

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“Released in 1973, the film Art in Public Places is at once a time capsule of its own and a rich window into centuries of New York’s history. Produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the film provides a meditative tour of Manhattan’s eclectic displays of public art, expertly guided by the US painter and writer Russell Connor. Spanning the works of artists famous and forgotten, and pieces both improvised and years-in-the-making, the US director Fred Barzyk captures New York’s public displays in all their eclecticism, charms and contradictions.” (Source)

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The Lathe of Heaven - Sci Fi mind blower for an 18 year old

Once again, I rarely mention 'made for TV' movies in here, unless they had a particular impact on me. This was one that I caught on PBS sometime during my senior year in high school, and it totally blew me away from a conceptual point of view. One of those rare science fiction films that manages to be effective without a lot of special effects.

Bruce Davidson plays a young man who discovers that his dreams have an unusual side effect of altering reality the next morning to coincide with whatever it was he dreamed. He goes to a psychiatrist to try and deal with the problem, and the doctor gets a little megalomaniacal with regards to his newfound powers of suggestion, first attempting to find riches for himself, and then trying to end war and improve the world in many ways, all ending up not quite working in one way or another.

Mind bending stuff, and well handled on a limited budget.

3 stars out of 5

Released 1980, First viewing January 1980

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The Lathe of Heaven (1980)

The recent career-overview documentary The Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin is a decent enough introduction to the sci-fi author’s big-picture concepts & beliefs.  The posthumous doc unfortunately highlights Le Guin’s Earthsea series as a source of inspiration for Harry Potter, of all indignities, but it’s a faux pas I’m willing to forgive since it also indulges in some transcendent Loving…

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Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)

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The Lathe of Heaven (1980)

7/10

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Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)

5/10