Rolling Stone Top 150: 3 Denis Villeneuve films among science fiction classics

Arrival in 14^e place, the first part of Dune in 53^e And Blade Runner 2049 in 87^e: Denis Villeneuve makes more than a fine figure in a list of the 150 best science fiction films in the history of cinema published by the magazine Rolling Stone.

What eloquent additional proof, if any were needed, of the importance of the Quebec filmmaker in Hollywood. In this ranking published on 1^er January, his films rub shoulders with, and in some cases even precede, those of legendary directors like Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Stanley Kubrick.

Thanks to its enviable positioning in the top 15, Arrival (The arrival, in French, published in 2016) ranks notably ahead Terminator 2, Planet of the Apes, AND the Extra-Terrestrial And The Empire Strikes Back, all great classics of American cinema.

Winner of an Oscar for best sound, finalist in the prestigious categories of best film and best direction, Arrival “gracefully balances the intellectual and the emotional,” praises the Rolling Stone.

Alongside Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker, Amy Adams plays a renowned linguist who is entrusted with the delicate mission of making contact with extraterrestrials whose ships are stationed a few meters above the Earth.

“From the elegant design of the aliens to the eloquent and confusing layout of the storyline, Arrival abandons the more popular trends of the genre to offer a realistic portrait of humanity confronted with its destiny, leading to an ending that is both disconcerting and moving,” also mentions the American magazine.

THE Dune de Villeneuve, best

Denis Villeneuve’s rereadings of the classics of the genre that are Dune And Blade Runner were also celebrated by the Rolling Stone. At 53^e rank, the Dune: Part One du Québécois greatly outperforms the version by David Lynch, published in 1984, which could not do better than the 140^e place.

It is the opposite for Blade Runner. In 4^e position, the original is considered a science fiction masterpiece. Villeneuve’s version appears in 87^e position.

Unsurprisingly, it is 2001, A Space Odyssey which is considered by the Rolling Stone as the best science fiction feature film of all time. Kubrick’s masterpiece is ahead Stalker, by Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and the classic by Steven Spielberg Encounters of the third kind.

The best science fiction films of all time

1-2001, A Space Odyssey (2001, A Space Odyssey)

2-Stalker

3-Encounters of the Third Kind (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind)

4-Blade Runner

5-Alien

6-Under the skin (Under the Skin)

7-The sons of man (Children of Men)

8-Metropolis

9-Star Wars (Star Wars)

10-The matrix (The Matrix)

11-Space Patrollers (Starship Troopers)

12-The day the Earth stood still (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

13-The man who came from elsewhere (The Man Who Fell To Earth)

14-The arrival (Arrival)

15-A day without tomorrow (Edge of Tomorrow)

Also in the list

16-Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

19-The Planet of the Apes (Planet of the Apes)

22-The Empire Strikes Back (The Empire Strikes Back)

39-Wall-E

42-Back to the future (Back to the Future)

45-The journey to the moon

58-RoboCop

60-AND the alien (ET the Extra-Terrestrial)

Source: Rolling Stone