Barbarella was the first erotic-comic book in Europe in the early 1960s, when that sort of thing wasn’t done, other than in the infamous Tijuana Bibles. It then opened the floodgates to not just more of the same, but to a huge amount of surreal and science fiction comics as well.
When the movie came out in 1968, by the bizarre director Roger Vadim, known for seducing, marrying, and turning actresses, like Jane Fonda, into even more bizarre radicals.
In turn, it really started an entire genre of surreal and science fiction “1970s” movies, where the directors ran wild without studio control. Which the studios copied as well.
Seen in that genre context, they were very influential to future movies. I left off the big names.
The Omega Man
THX 1138
Silent Running
Slaughterhouse Five
Solaris
Z.P.G.
Fantastic (not Forbidden) Planet (animated)
The Final Programme (aka The Last Days of Man on Earth)
Idaho Transfer
Soylent Green
Westworld
Dark Star
Phase IV
Zardoz
A Boy and His Dog
Black Moon
Death Race 2000
Rollerball
Logan’s Run
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Wizards (animated)
Starcrash
Mad Max
Phantasm
Stalker
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Thanks...
Food for thought.
Good list of early SciFi.
I’m not sure
“Clockwork Orange” would fit.