On The Silver Globe – 1988

• 2024/04/14

Ukrainian-born whirlwind director Andrzej Zulawski’s On The Silver Globe is that rarest of things: a doomed cinematic train-wreck that, even in its incomplete form, is completely spellbinding. It is a cross-over between experimental science-fiction and horror cinema, all shot with a frenzied camera sporting often extremely wide-angled lenses, resulting in the kind of wild kinetic madness only otherwise hinted at in the most extreme parts of Terry Gilliam’s oeuvre. Oh, what might have been…