Avatar (2009 film) and Boris Strugatsky, which are set in the 22nd century on a forested world called Pandora with a sentient indigenous species called the Nave. Various reviews have compared "Avatar" to the films "", "Pocahontas" and "The Last Samurai." NPR's "Morning Edition" has compared the film to a montage of tropes, with one commentator stating that "Avatar" was made by "mixing a bunch of film scripts in a blender". Gary Westfahl wrote that "the science fiction story that most closely resembles "Avatar" has to be Ursula Le Guin's novella "The Word for World Is Forest" (1972), another epic about a benevolent
In the Light of the Moon 2000 Sitges Film Festival, while Railsback and Sally Champlin won Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, at the 2001 Fantafestival. Chuck Parello was also nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award at the 2001 Fantasporto, but lost to Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Amores perros". In the Light of the Moon In the Light of the Moon (also known as Ed Gein) is a 2000 American horror film directed by Chuck Parello, and written by Stephen Johnston. It is based on the crimes of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein. As a child, Wisconsinite Ed Gein is subjected to physical and psychological abuse at