The American Astronaut

UK Premiere.
Official Festival opening movie

Time: 9.00pm
Date: 01-02-02
Venue: Curzon Soho
Director: Cory McAbee
Country: USA
Runtime: 91
Colour: Black and white
Sound: Dolby Digital

Language: English



Plot Outline: Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader, sets forth through a rustic and remote solar system, unaware that his old friend Professor Hess is trying to kill him.

The festival opens with this remarkable film by Cory McAbee.

Is this a lost Flash Gordon episode shot by Jim Jarmusch? An avant-rock musical staged
on the set of a Poverty Row noir? Whatever it is, Cory McAbee's debut film (with music by his band the Billy Nayer Show) is an utterly unique experience and possibly the most delightfully idiosyncratic science fiction movie since John Carpenter's Dark Star.