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After you’ve watched Total Recall, come back and listen to our Spoiler Special discussion with Dana Stevens and Chris Wade. You can also download the podcast here. 'The Future Forms Of Life,' David Lance Film, Shows What Happens When We Play God. The idea of human beings playing God and creating new life forms is a sci-fi plot we're all familiar with.
In these films and stories, more often than not the creations take on powers that nobody saw coming, and we're all left wondering -- did we go too far? David Lance's new short film, albeit a familiar plot, brings freshness to this theme. Chris Marker Dead: 'La Jetee' Director Dies At 91. PARIS — Chris Marker, the influential French filmmaker whose career spanned six decades, has died, France's Culture Ministry confirmed Monday.
He was 91. President Francois Hollande led tributes to the director, whose large body of work includes the 1962 classic "La Jetee" – an award-winning post-apocalyptic movie that's often ranked among the best time-travel films ever made. In a statement, Hollande said the 28-minute black and white film comprised almost entirely of stills "will be remembered by history. " Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made. By Maria Popova Forty years of anticipation and how to almost-get an autograph from a cinematic icon.
After the incredible success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick began working on a large-scale biopic about Napoleon Bonaparte. He spent countless hours digging through manuscripts, reading books and researching the life of the great French emperor, created a meticulous card catalog of the places and doings of Napoleon’s inner circle, and amassed over 15,000 location scouting photographs and 17,000 slides of Napoleonic imagery. Stanley Kubrick on Mortality, the Fear of Flying, and the Purpose of Existence: The 1968 Playboy Interview. 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Kentroversy Papers. The Hidden (1987) Opening pursuit Ferrari 308 GTS. Tom Cruise vs. Werner Herzog and Adventures in Perilous White People Tourism: It's Time for Trailer Hitch. This is awesome News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. The Good: AMAZING effects and character design!
The battle droids actually *looked* like devices built for live combat situations—heavily-armoured, heavily-ARMED, and just...heavy! The Bad: 1) WHEN will people finally drop the completely stupid "careful withdrawal of consciousness from virtual environment" trope? The rig on the interrogator's head is clearly a simple noninvasive magnetic-resonance device stimulating parts of his brain. You know how you "withdraw" from such an interface? 2) If a battle bot has some way of overloading its batteries or onboard generator to generate an EMP, IT WILL FRY ITSELF IN THE PROCESS. I know, I know, I'm a nitpicking geek...but, really, what's the excuse for complete scientific illiteracy in so-called "sci-fi" film-making?
Spielberg Explains Ending of A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Some thoughts on Prometheus. On Friday night I caught a preview of Ridley Scott’s much anticipated Prometheus, and since despite the slightly OTT security they didn’t make me sign anything agreeing to an embargo, I thought I’d record my thoughts about this flawed, frustrating but intermittently brilliant film.
The first thing to say is that you should ignore the misinformation about it not being a prequel to Alien, because it is, quite explicitly (and sometimes to its detriment). Indeed if you’ve seen the trailer you’ve probably got the basic idea: trail of archaeological clues lead humans to distant planet, hope turns to terror, horrible secrets consume them. The film opens on a suitably epic note, with aerial images of a stark, volcanic landscape. Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Sundance Selects The artist Ai Weiwei, left, in “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” in the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center.
James Helmer/Cinedigm Entertainment and Docurama Films Lieut. Elle Helmer in “The Invisible War,” Kirby Dick’s look at sexual abuse in the military. Katherine Fairfax Wright/Call Me Kuchu. Michael Fassbender’s David in Prometheus is just the latest great robot performance. Still from the Prometheus promotional video "Meet David.
" For all the blood and tentacles in Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi horror film Prometheus, the creepiest part may be Michael Fassbender’s wonderfully uncanny performance as the robot David. Many actors have leapt into the discomfiting chasm between the human and the inhuman, known as the uncanny valley, but few actors have as gracefully danced to-and-fro across the divide. He’s such a robot! He’s such a human! That eerie territory has never been so much fun. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side.
At one point in my conversation with filmmaker Todd Solondz — which was very friendly and funny overall — he accused me of using big words and having gone to graduate school. (Only for one semester, I protested.) Todd Solondz: I'm Judd Apatow's dark side - Interviews. South Park City Sushi. SCTV Uzbeks CCCP1. Ricardo Montalban School Of Fine Acting. SCTV Midnight Cowboy Remake. SCTV, 11/6/81 - "THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW: THE 60s" Leave it to Beaver 25th Anniversary Party. What makes ’Borgen’ and ’The Killing’ special? Anne Hathaway - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 12/01/08. Cognitive Science Movie Index.
Project Prometheus. The Big Lebowski (1998) - Memorable quotes. Global horror takes a new "Road" - Horror. Is there any country on earth — at least any country with its own cinema tradition — that doesn’t produce its own homegrown horror films, spiced up with a little local gruesomeness? Every time I write about horror, I get at least a couple of letters from people who see the cruelty, bloodlust, misogyny and so forth found in many such movies as a symptom of contemporary culture’s descent into depravity and brutality. On one hand, I always want to leave room for divergent tastes and opinions, but on the other — that’s just not true.
The appetite for gore and terror that finds its modern expression in horror movies is nothing new: Check out the uproarious Brothers Grimm tale “How Some Children Played at Slaughtering,” in which an entire family is destroyed in a pointless orgy of violence. You can certainly argue that you find horror movies repellent, or that they reflect deeply unpleasant aspects of human nature — but you don’t get to blame any of that on Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush. Pick of the week: Childhood adventure from a Japanese master - Our Picks. “I Wish” is an old-fashioned kind of movie about a subject that might sound, at first, both worn-out and a little retrograde: the dislocating and disorienting effects of a family breakup.
It’s also a movie whose principal actors and characters are children, that tries to view the world from a child’s point of view — and that’s an enterprise so perilous, so prone to easy gags, cheap tears and nauseating sentimentality, that hardly anyone ever gets it right. But “I Wish” is a wonderful adventure film that’s no less thrilling for its modest scale, and a film whose emotional power and intelligence sneak up on you. Thoroughly accessible and rewarding, it might finally mark the mainstream breakthrough (relatively speaking) of Hirokazu Kore-eda, one of the finest living Japanese directors. I should add that “I Wish” is that rarest of fauna in the international art-house market, a genuine family movie that will charm both adults and children, albeit for somewhat different reasons. Kermit the Frog's German TV Offense - Hans Beinholtz - The Colbert Report - 2012-02-05. “Children of Men” Recut as the Darkest, Artiest Sitcom Ever. New Dolby Technology to Make Horror Movies Scarier.
FilmDistrict If you don’t like the sounds in scary movies but sometimes get dragged along to the theater anyway, you’re not going to be a big fan of the latest technology from Dolby Laboratories.
The company announced a new sound system Monday called Dolby Atmos, which can move sounds around a theater in an entirely new and realistic way. Rather than pushing the sound out from the left and right side of the theater, as happens in movies today, the new Atmos system will also deliver sound from above in a theater and will be able to swirl sound around in any direction. During a demonstration at Dolby’s San Francisco headquarters, Stuart Bowling, senior technical marketing manager for Dolby Laboratories, said the Atmos system was one of the most advanced technical jumps the company had made in 20 years and would create an entirely new viewing experience for theatergoers.
“Whores’ Glory”: A riveting, humane prostitution documentary. Prostitution isn’t just the world’s oldest profession. It’s also a longtime focus of cultural obsession, across many historical periods and on every continent, from the poetry of Catullus to the woodblock prints of 19th-century Japan. There’s such a long history of male artists, writers and filmmakers who depict prostitution in erotic, romantic and sentimental terms that it’s only natural to approach Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger’s “Whores’ Glory” with suspicion. Indeed, in the film’s opening scene, Glawogger’s camera directly engages the lurid allure of sex work, showing a group of scantily clad young women in a Bangkok brothel called the Fish Tank as they try to attract clients: Pretending to make out with each other, pressing their breasts and buttocks against the window, using a laser pointer to pick out likely-looking men on the street.
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The video, which can only be described as a TED talk on steroids, stars Guy Pearce as the reptilian entrepreneur Peter Weyland, whose Weyland Industries was arguably the true monster of the original sci-fi classic. Kyle Sees The Passion (Season 8, Episode 4) - Video Clips. Total Recall – Official Trailer. The Best Memes From Season Two Of "The Walking Dead" ‘The Raid - Redemption,’ Directed by Gareth Huw Evans. Robert De Niro: I'm prone to overanalysis - Movies. Since his first major film roles in “Mean Streets” (1973) and “The Godfather” (1974) Robert De Niro has built an enviable career and become one of the greatest actors of our time.
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