Tag: Donald Sutherland

  • The Pod People Film Festival: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

    The Pod People Film Festival: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

    Philip Kaufman’s re-imagining of Don Siegel’s 1956 classic paranoid nightmare Invasion of the Body Snatchers immediately signals its uniqueness with a strange and beautifully abstract opening sequence. Psychedelic spores float off the surface of an alien planet, traverse through outer space, and fall to Earth as gelatinous rain. A glimpse of a newspaper headline describes…