Nearly a Century Later, SciFi Western Film Serial The Phantom Empire Still Feels Like the Future
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- IndieWire After Dark honors fringe cinema in the streaming age with midnight movies from any moment in film history.
- The first episode of the 12-part film serial, “ The Phantom Empire,” from 1935.
- “The Phantom Empire” represents a whole bunch of storytelling ideas we take for granted now, but were, at one point, really scrappy, unashamedly childish and unabashedly bonkers alternatives to The Feature Film™.
- If you have a headache, you should turn it off.
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark honors fringe cinema in the streaming age with midnight movies from any moment in film history.
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