It’s been over 13 years since James Cameron’s Avatar premiered in theaters. In celebration of the release of its long-awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, we’ve put together a list of 13 of the best sci-fi movies to be released since Cameron’s epic sci-fi opus.
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By now, Don Hertzfeldtâs hapless cartoon stick figures are as distinctive a motif as Mark Rothkoâs block panels, e e cummingsâs lower-case poetry or Buster Keatonâs stone face; 25 years into his career, the Austin, Texas-based independent is animationâs laureate of mock-naive existential gallows humour and wonder. If his most plain-drawn student movies â Ah, LâAmour (1995), Genre (1996), Lily and Jim (1997), Billyâs Balloon (1998), mostly available on Hertzfeldtâs YouTube channel â led on the slapstick cruelty their maker could inflict on their twig figures, Hertzfeldt delighting in the power of his creative hand, his maturing works have opened up vistas of pathos and puzzlement around those long-suffering ciphers, at the same time as he embedded them in richer worlds of analogue animation technique.