Paper Man is a directorial debut from Michele & Kieran Mulroney which turns a story of friendship across a generational divide into an appealing comedy-drama. Set in Long Island, Richard Dunn (Jeff Daniels) is an unsuccessful writer who lives a rambling, boring life. He enters into a platonic relationship with a most intelligent teenage girl (Emma Stone) that opens his eyes to new possibilities.
Michele recalls. “I wouldn’t say writer’s block per say, but nobody wanted to read what we were writing, we were at a sort of stalled out point in our own careers. We really related to this idea of, well if you’re writing and no ones reading, no ones making your film, is there any point in going on?” Read More.
Posted by admin on April 23rd, 2010
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13TH STREET is an interactive horror movie which enable audience to communicate with the protagonist playing their own part. Viewers are encouraged to use their own intuitive power to solve the crime as a detective. The movie is controlled by a member through a cell phone inside the theater and the interaction between the audience and character are controlled by a language recognition software which transforms the participant’s answers via mobile phone and establish dialogue between the audience and the characters via voice recognition and the answers are converted into commands and processes to an appropriate follow-up scene.
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In a desolate future where the borders have been sealed, huge computer networks commodity reminiscences and corporate warriors have been militarized, a tech-savvy man from a small Santa Ana farm village discovers a mystifying transmission that seems to be a blueprint for the city of the future. Fleeing to Tijuana, Memo (a young campensino) has implants placed in his body in order to become a “node worker” and strike into a vast network that operates robots located in the United States. Breaking barrier of technology the film Sleep Dealer set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, remote warfare, virtual labor and a global digital network, the film provide a new perspective about immigration debates with the idea of the “global village” of the Internet age.
The futuristic Cyberpunk science fiction film also gives possibilities that in near future people can be able to record and then buy, sell and share memories.
Directed by Alex Rivera
Produced by Anthony Bregman
Written by Alex Rivera & David Riker
Starring Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas
Music by Tomandandy
Cinematography Lisa Rinzler
Editing by Alex Rivera
Distributed by Maya Entertainment
Release date: Sundance Film Festival: 19 January 2008
Theatrical Release: 17th April 2009
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running time 90 min
Review at Moviesonline
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Posted by admin on April 18th, 2009
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The researchers from Philips Electronics developed a jacket that lets people feel movies. The jacket is connected with vibration motors, this would be the first step to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer’s emotional response to what is being experienced on the big screen. Paul Lemmens, a Philips senior scientist, says ” “We want people to feel Bruce Lee’s anxiety about whether he will get out alive.”
The jacket contains 64 independently controlled actuators distributed across the arms and torso. The actuators are arrayed in 16 groups of four and linked along a serial bus; each group shares a microprocessor. Read more at Spectrum.ieee.org
Posted by admin on March 21st, 2009
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Examined Life is the documentary on philosophy by Astra Taylor which reveal power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it. The documentary covers original thinking by eight diverse intellectuals on the streets, sidewalks and roadside paths.
Examined Life- the title is derived from a quote by Socrates, featuring Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor, the doc thrives on conversation with the help of diverse thinkers.
Interview: Astra Taylor
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Philosophy/Education/General Interest
Limited Theatrical Release: Feb 25, 2009
Posted by angela on February 28th, 2009
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