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
The Last Flight (2009 film) Flight" opened in France in the fifth position behind "Avatar", "Arthur and the Invisibles", Nicolas Vanier's ', and '. By 27 December it had earned only $2.8 million. The Last Flight (2009 film) The Last Flight (Le dernier vol) is a 2009 French film. Directed by Karim Dridi, it stars Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet. The film is based on the French novel "Le dernier vol de Lancaster" by Sylvain Estibal which is loosely based on the real life events surrounding the disappearance of British aviator Bill Lancaster. Aviator Marie Vallières de Beaumont (Cotillard) goes on a journey to find