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Twitch Presents ATTACK THE BLOC: COLD WAR SCIENCE FICTION FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

Attention science fiction fans! If you happen to be in the Toronto area Twitch will soon be taking you on a guided tour through the Cold War era scifi offerings of the Eastern Bloc with a lengthy retrospective of rarely seen titles at the TIFF Bell Lightbox beginning January 19th.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s classics Solaris and Stalker get three screenings each - both on 35mm - along with single screenings of diverse host of rarely - if ever - seen titles from Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Russia, and Estonia. It’s an incredibly diverse lineup of films ranging from philosophical scifi to open propaganda to swinging adventure, bearded ladies, comic books come to life and a vampire car.

Twitch Presents ATTACK THE BLOC: COLD WAR SCIENCE FICTION FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

Attention science fiction fans! If you happen to be in the Toronto area Twitch will soon be taking you on a guided tour through the Cold War era scifi offerings of the Eastern Bloc with a lengthy retrospective of rarely seen titles at the TIFF Bell Lightbox beginning January 19th.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s classics Solaris and Stalker get three screenings each - both on 35mm - along with single screenings of diverse host of rarely - if ever - seen titles from Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Russia, and Estonia. It’s an incredibly diverse lineup of films ranging from philosophical scifi to open propaganda to swinging adventure, bearded ladies, comic books come to life and a vampire car.

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