The Catalan Regional Government has launched a good initiative towards raising consciousness and awareness among their citizens explaining how small gestures make the difference in saving energy, protecting the environment, saving lives or simply let the earth become a nicer place to live..
Using graphics and animated cartoons, the website takes you through a series of practical examples and relevant information on how life in Catalonia (Spain) has improved since when the government introduced new services.
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
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
What happen when Seattle call-center department is outsourced to India, Josh Hamilton plays as Todd a visitor to India in “Outsourced.” Todd is fired but succeeds in hanging onto his job only by agreeing to go to India to train his own replacement. He is initially concerned with improving his employees’ minutes-per-call rating and going home. Todd has an allergic reaction to Indian culture but he embrace it and discovers life and love in India, this movie is the best cross-cultural comedy of the time. Outsourced was the official selection at the Toronto Film Festival ( 2006 ) and released recently in India.
The director of Saw II, III and IV, Darren Lynn Bousman’s Gothic-industrial nightmare horror musical, “Repo! The Genetic Opera”, rolls out this weekend in limited release after a specialized promotion. With a cast including Anthony Head, Paul Sorvino, Sarah Brightman and Paris Hilton, the rock opera is Gothic tale about a future where an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GENECO, a biotech company that offers organ transplants… for a price. and in case if you forget to pay, the repo man comes and takes your organs from you on the spot. This bizarre massive organ harvest nightmare movie seems destined for cult film status.
The Genetic Opera has 64 songs, this is the official list of all the songs in the film.
1. “Depraved Heart Murder at Sanitarium Square”
2. “Genetic Repo Man” – Terrance Zdunich
3. “Crucifixus” – Sarah Brightman
4. “Things You See in a Graveyard (Part One)” – Paul Sorvino
5. “21st Century Cure” – Alexa Vega & Terrance Zdunich
6. “Shilo Wakes” – Anthony Head & Alexa Vega
7. “Infected” – Alexa Vega
8. “Legal Assassin” – Anthony Head
9. “Lungs and Livers”
10. “Bravi!” – Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre
11. “Mark It Up” – Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre
12. “Tao of Mag” – Sarah Brightman
13. “Things You See in a Graveyard (Part Two)” – Paul Sorvino
14. “Limo Ride” – Paul Sorvino & Alexa Vega
15. “Thankless Job” – Anthony Head
16. “No Organes? No Problema!”
17. “Largo’s Little Helpers” – Bill Moseley
18. “Genterns” – Nivek Ogre
19. “Luigi, Pavi, Amber Harass Mag” – Sarah Brightman, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre, Paris Hilton, Paul Sorvino
20. “Seeing You Stirs Memories” – Paul Sorvino
21. “Inopportune Telephone Call” – Anthony Head & Alexa Vega
22. “GraveRobber and Shilo Escape” – Terrance Zdunich & Alexa Vega
23. “Zydrate Support Network” – Paul Sorvino, Sarah Brightman, J. Larose
24. “Zydrate Anatomy” – Terrance Zdunich, Alexa Vega, Paris Hilton
25. “Who Ordered Pizza?” – Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre, Paris Hilton, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head
26. “Night Surgeon” – Anthony Head, Paul Sorvino, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre
27. “Can’t Get It Up If the Girl’s Breathing?” – Paris Hilton & Terrance Zdunich
28. “Come Up and Try My New Parts” – Paris Hilton
29. “Chase the Morning” – Sarah Brightman, Alexa Vega, Nancy Long
30. “Everyone’s a Composer”
31. “Come Back!” – Anthony Head, Sarah Brightman, Alexa Vega
32. “What Chance Has a 17 Year Old Girl” – Anthony Head & Alexa Vega
33. “Seventeen” – Alexa Vega
34. “Happiness is Not a Warm Scalpel” – Paul Sorvino & Paris Hilton
35. “Gold” – Paul Sorvino
36. “Nathan Discovers Rotti’s Plan”
37. “Tonight We Are Betrayed” – Anthony Head
38. “At the Opera Tonight” – Alexa Vega, Sarah Brightman, Anthony Head, Paris Hilton, Terrance Zdunich, Paul Sorvino, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre
39. “Bloodbath!” – Terrance Zdunich
40. “We Started This Op’ra Shit!” – Darren Smith, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre, Poe, Paul Sorvino
41. “Buongiorno”
42. “Needle Through A Bug” – Alexa Vega & Terrance Zdunich
43. “Rotti’s Chapel Sermon” – Paul Sorvino
44. “Blame Not My Cheeks” – Paris Hilton
45. “Chromaggia” – Sarah Brightman
46. “Mag’s Fall”
47. “Pièce De Résistance” – Paul Sorvino
48. “Interrogation Room Challenge”
49. “Let the Monster Rise” – Anthony Head & Alexa Vega
50. “Don’t Poop In My Pool”
51. “Sawman’s Lament” Anthony Head, Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre
52. “The Man Who Made You Sick” – Paul Sorvino
53. “Cut the Ties” – Anthony Head, Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre
54. “Shilo Turns Against Rotti” – Anthony Head, Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre
55. “I Didn’t Know I’d Love You So Much” – Anthony Head & Alexa Vega
56. “Genetic Emancipation” – Alexa Vega
57. “Epitaph” – Terrance Zdunich
Two songs are also to be performed by two of the stars during the ending credits.
1. “Repo Man” – Nivek Ogre
2. “Aching Hour” – Sarah Brightman
Source: wikipedia
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R rating by the MPAA for strong bloody violence and gore, language, some drug and sexual content.
Release date: November 7, 2008 (US)/ November 21, 2008 (CAN)
