Friday A/V Club: A Soviet Filmmaker Adapts a Post-Apocalyptic Ray Bradbury Story

Forget The Day After. This is the great nuclear-war movie of the early '80s.

Forget The Day After. The great nuclear-war movie of the early '80s is this 10-minute take on Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains":

The film was made by Nazim Tulyakhodzayev—a Soviet director—in 1984, giving the picture a foothold on both sides of the Cold War.

Bonus link: That time the FBI thought Bradbury might be a Communist.

(For past editions of the Friday A/V Club, go here.)

Comments

[Ted S.]

This 10-minute Soviet video is better.

[Vulgar Madman]

I see they had the 80s too.

[Vulgar Madman]

I like the film though.

[Tim]

Very disturbing.

[Vulgar Madman]

Teds workout video?

[db]

Sure, why not: http://vimeo.com/m/1223566

[sarcasmic]

That was messed up. Thank you.

[kinnath]

I actually remember this one -- Russian MTV

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I remember that. I thought it was awesome.

[Jerryskids]

I realize this is the A/V Club, but if ever there was a writer who didn't need the A or the V it was Ray Bradbury. The man was a sorcerer with words, I can close my eyes and see and hear and smell and taste the story.

"The Window" and "The Flying Machine" are two of my favorite stories, but Dandelion Wine, October Country, Illustrated Man, Something Wicked - all some of the best reading.

[Jerryskids]

If you've never read "The Window", you must.

An old man in a nursing home calls a friend from a lifetime ago in Mexico just to have the friend lay the phone on the window sill and the old man can be young again. The nurse comes in to check on the old man and sees that he has died; she picks up the phone, puts it to her ear and hears only the sound of a window closing.

It's how I felt when I heard Ray Bradbury had died, a window had closed and I had lost a friend.

[Juice]

Great writer, but a sour curmudgeon.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So the bird nuked the world because the robot kept taking its eggs?

[Vulgar Madman]

They edited that out of revelations.

[Vulgar Madman]

A funny part is that the filmmaker thinks americans listen to "the Star-Spangled Banner" on New Year's Day.