Moon

Director: Duncan Jones

2009 / 97min / DCP

Nearing the end of a three-year stint spent mining on the far side of the moon, alone save for a robot companion, Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) begins to suffer from disorienting hallucinations—hallucinations that lead to a rover crash, and to disturbing, reality-altering revelations concerning his employers at Lunar Industries. “[Infuses] a sparse narrative and a small, enclosed space with a surprising density of moods and ideas… a meditation on the conflict between the streamlining tendencies of technological progress and the stubborn persistence of feelings and desires that can’t be tamed by utilitarian imperatives.”—The New York Times