From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!teklabs!tekmdp!azure!michaelk@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.movies Title: serious SF Article-I.D.: azure.1074 Posted: Mon Jul 26 14:00:33 1982 Received: Thu Jul 29 00:49:37 1982 There has been a number of excellent "serious" SF movies over the years, although they have not been big box-office smashes. F. 451, indeed, was one of them. Another, that was just re-shown on PBS (at least locally), is Ursula Le Guin's "The Lathe of Heaven" (1979 film). I thought it was superb even though it was NOT a big-budget special effects film. It was a SF STORY film, not a special effects technology film.