AKIRA

This is the 1988 cyberpunk-themed anime feature that, prior to game-changers like GHOST IN THE SHELL and PERFECT BLUE, irrevocably altered the format

THE FALLS

An astonishing tapestry that’s comedic, alarming and poetic by turns, THE FALLS was the first feature by Peter Greenaway, who went for broke in a panoramic 194 minute epic

THE LAST CHILDREN

This uber-bleak depiction of a post-nuclear Germany was published, unbelievably enough, as a children’s book

NO BLADE OF GRASS

Societal breakdown, depicted by matinee idol turned sometime director Cornel Wilde

VIC, BLOOD, AND HARLAN

About the strange yet wondrous tales of Vic, a teenage punk, and his telepathic dog Blood, who subsist in a post-nuclear wasteland.