High Science Fiction

By: Matthew Gordon Long

You can debate whether or not Number 1 on this list is Sci-Fi at all. I call it science fiction of the mind. The suggestion that the fantastic is just outside the edge of the frame.

• 01
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 02
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 03
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 04
  Blade Runner
  Ridley Scott
• 05
  Alien
  Ridley Scott
• 06
  Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
  Mamoru Oshii
• 07
  Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 08
  Gattaca
  Andrew Niccol