Stray Anthology 1970-1976 - Time Machine

Advantages: Wonderful read
Disadvantages: Nothing

...The Time Machine. A wonderful book that is simply far better than any film could come close to matching. We follow the adventures of the time traveler, who in the book has no name. Not sure if that was somehow significant to H.G.Wells? He is trying to convince his friends of the plausibility of time travel and how it exists and so can be moved through. they are unconvinced but unknown to them he has already built a prototype in his conservatory. Later that evening he decides to test it out and off the reader goes on what must be, even today, a wonderful and fresh adventure. He travels to the year 802,701 A.D. where humans have become timid and only 4ft tall. They are called the Eloi and are prayed upon by cannibalistic Morlocks. He can not stand by and do nothing but he is fighting the evil Morlocks... Read review

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Advantages: CLASSIC PAGE TURNER
Disadvantages: NOTHING

...The Time Machine. = Author - H.G.Wells. (1866 - 1946) Dismiss the original 1960s film from your mind because there are notable differences in the book. In fact ignore completely the 2002 film which was so removed from the spirit of the book that Wells must have been turning in his grave. It begins with the nameless 'Time Traveller' conversing with his fellow academics about the theory of a 4th dimension, Time. He demonstrates with a tiny model which they are sceptical about, all accept Filby, his closest friend. He proposes to time travel before they next see him. A week later he is late for his own dinner party, eventually making a startling entrance, dishevelled and agitated. He takes a seat and a glass of champagne (yes champagne) and begins to recite his story......., He travels forward to... Read review

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Advantages: Kurosawa, Mifune, gripping story, impressive Noir direction & acting
Disadvantages: None, only maybe for those who dislike subtitled films

...Starring: Toshiro Mifune as Detective Murakami Takashi Shimura as Detective Sato Keiko Awaji as Harumi Namaki Isao Kimura as Yusa This is an impressive early film from 1949 by brilliant renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, one of the first to star actor Toshiro Mifune with whom he would go on to make many more throughout the span of both their careers. As well as directing this film, he also co-wrote it, and has created a thoroughly gripping, suspenseful and immersive experience as a result. Stray Dog (original name Nora Inu) grabs you from the moment the opening credits begin, with their distinctive background of a screen-filling close-up of a panting dog's face. A voiceover comes on to explain that it was a very hot day, and then we see a very young (and handsome!) Toshiro Mifune standing before a man at a desk, looking... Read review

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