Silent Running
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Director: Douglas Trumbull
1972 / 89min / 35mm
2001: A Space Odyssey’s special effects maestro Trumbull made his directorial debut with this beguiling, visually stunning work of environmentalist-themed science fiction, set in a not-so-distant future where mankind has successfully sterilized Earth and eliminated the natural world, which now exists only in a few interplanetary greenhouses circling the rings of Saturn. When orders are received to jettison the last living plant life from these crafts, resident botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) makes other plans, and a white-knuckle race to save the last remaining flora begins.
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