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2020 will mark the 40th anniversary of the movie's original premiere in Cannes. https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/dennis-hopper-s-out-of-the-blue-trailer.mp4 John Alan Simon is also the writer and director of Radio Free Albemuth, the movie adaptation of Philip K Dick's dystopian antifascist novel Simon credits Hopper with encouraging him to become a filmmaker Restoring Out of the Blue is Simon's way of repaying[...]

If anything, the found footage style is an indicator of a society where everyone is always watching each other and themselves, needing to be caught on camera in order to feel like they exist.   Radio Free Albemuth is the indie Science Fiction movie with big political ideas adapted faithfully from a Philip K Dick novel, self-distributed[...]

Dick's Radio Free Albemuth opens theatrically in ten US cities this week after a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for distribution Everyone should see it. Shot on an indie budget, the story takes place in an alternate 1984 where a Nixon-esque right-wing president has imposed martial law in America and a music executive finds himself[...]

Dick's Radio Free Albemuth last year when I came across its Kickstarter campaign to raise money to self-distribute in cinemas and saw it at a screening at Lincoln Center in New York. I love the movie, and since then, my estimation of it has risen in its resonance and relevance to the times[...]