This intriguing sci-fi drama goes slightly out of orbit.
Sci-Fi Phil Bacharach
You’ve got to admire the DIY ethic of “Another Earth.” Raw and grainy,
it is steadfastly committed to its own smarts and vision — even if it
ultimately falls short of its ambitions.
While Mike Cahill’s film “Another Earth” may have proved a bit overly ambitious, today’s VOTD is nothing of the sort.
The movie was scored by DFA Records band Fall On Your Sword, which features LCD Soundsystem’s (!) Philip Mossman, and the instrumental theme song, “The First Time I Saw Jupiter,” gets an original video that’s unsettled by some cool, twitchy videography.
You can read Phil Bacharach’s review of “Another Earth” here, but first watch a bunch of stuff floating in a classroom: