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Encounters at the End of the World
There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science.
Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted. In his first documentary since GRIZZLY MAN, Werner Herzog, accompanied only by his camerman, traveled to Antarctica, with rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate Down Under.
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Herzog’s latest meditation on nature, explores this land of Fire, Ice and corrosive Solitude.
Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent’s unique locations. Herzog’s voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about “fluffy penguins,” but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape. They begin at McMurdo Station and interview some maintenance and support workers, as well as iceberg geologist Douglas MacAyeal. They travel next to a nearby seal camp supervised by zoologist Olav Oftedal. Next they join the film’s composer/producer, research diver Henry Kaiser at his diving camp, and interview cell biologist Samuel Bowser and zoologist Jan Pawlowski. Kaiser and Bowser stage a rooftop guitar concert.
Herzog and Zeitlinger return to McMurdo for some more interviews, and visit the preserved original base of Ernest Shackleton. After some brief footage at the South Pole, Herzog interviews penguin scientist David Ainley. This footage includes a shot of a penguin marching in the wrong direction, walking to a certain death in the barren interior of the continent.
Herzog and Zeitlinger next visit Mount Erebus, and interview volcanologists. A strange sequence follows which was shot in tunnels deep below the station carved from snow and ice. Various trinkets and mementos, including a can of Russian caviar and a whole frozen sturgeon, are placed in carved-out shelves in the ice walls, and preserved by the extremely cold and dry air. On the slope of the volcano, Herzog and Zeitlinger explore inside ice caves formed by fumaroles.
The film next visits the launch of a giant helium balloon used in a neutrino detection project (ANITA) and features an interview with physicist Peter Gorham. The film concludes with some philosophical words from a maintenance worker, and more footage from the fumarole ice caves and Kaiser’s dives.
Nadprodukcja (Surplus) – Terror Konsumpcji
reżyseria: Erik Gandini, Johan Söderberg
scenariusz: Erik Gandini
produkcja: Szwecja
gatunek: Dokumentalny
Film porusza temat społeczeństwa konsumpcyjnego, jego zachowań, celów i braku szczęścia mimo możliwości zaspokojenia wszystkich materialnych potrzeb. Autorzy filmu stawiają zasadnicze pytania: – Dlaczego powszechnie obowiązujący konsumpcyjny styl życia wzbudza tyle sprzeciwów i wznieca rewolty antyglobalistów na całym świecie? – Dlaczego przywilej robienia zakupów i dokonywania wyborów konsumenckich nie prowadzi automatycznie do szczęścia? – Skąd bierze się poczucie pustki i osamotnienia jednostek pomimo materialnej zasobności społeczeństw zachodnich? Ten brawurowo montowany dokument (użyto w nim metaforycznie zdjęć z manifestacji alterglobalistów w Genui) do pewnego momentu wydaje się wykładem poglądów radykalnego krytyka ideologii konsumpcji Johna Zerzana. Film wskazuje jednak również innego ideologa, Fidela Castro, realizującego w karykaturze, na żywym społeczeństwie ideę świata bez rynku. Efekt tego zderzenia jest ironiczny, niepokojący. Dokument współgra ze światowym fermentem ostatnich lat, z ożywieniem ruchów społecznych nowego typu. Ich wspólnym mianownikiem jest potrzeba wyrwania się z letargu. Poszukiwanie idei innej niż konsumpcja, niepodobnej do skompromitowanych ideologii XX wieku. Wreszcie – poczucie wyobcowania w świecie unifikowanym przez wielkie korporacje, a zarazem rozdzieranym przez lokalne fundamentalizmy.
Suspect Nation
Since Tony Blair’s New Labour government came to power in 1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. ASBOs were introduced by Section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and first used in 1999. The right to remain silent is no longer universal. Our right to privacy, free from interception of communications has been severely curtailed. The ability to travel without surveillance (or those details of our journeys being retained) has disappeared. Indeed, as Henry Porter (the Observer journalist famous for his recent email clash with Tony Blair over the paring down of civil liberties) reveals in this unsettling film, our movements are being watched, and recorded, more than ever before.
PANIC NATION – A FILM BY GEORGE ADAMS
Production Executive – JAMIE FERRANTI
Media Liaison- YARENI ALVARADO
Produced by GEORGE ADAMS Co-Produced by KLAUDIA KOVACS
Written and Directed by GEORGE ADAMS
State laws like Arizona’s SB1070 and Oklahoma’s HB1804 are affecting more than just those without documentation. These laws are affecting entire communities, counties and states. Reports estimate that there are over 45 million Hispanics in the United States, of that, 12 to 18 million are in this country illegally. Until recently, the Federal government was taking little action against the issue of the illegal or undocumented. Various states began passing laws, on their own, targeting the problem of illegal immigration. In the eyes of some American citizens, state sponsored laws are the answer to prayer. To others, state sponsored laws have opened doors to bigotry and hate creating questions about our civil liberties.
This distinctive motion picture examines state sponsored immigration laws with an open, direct approach. There must be a balance among subjects including national security, job protection, labor concerns, and our economy. We need to create a dialogue sitting at a table rather than yelling at each other from across the street.
We, at Panic Productions, have captured the thoughts, and ideas, of those drafting, promoting, and passing these laws. We directly address individuals, business owners, professionals, and others who have been or will be affected by the laws. Those we have spoken to tell their stories interwoven with one another, allowing viewers to see the separation between those making the laws and those who are directly affected by them.
http://www.panicnationmovie.com/
Exit Through the Gift Shop
This is the inside story of Street Art – a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world’s most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.
One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale… with bolt cutters.
Chcieliśmy, aby nasz film zrobił dla street artu to, co „Karate Kid” dla sztuk walki. Żeby każde dziecko wyszło na ulice z puszką sprayu w dłoni. Skończy się tak, że nasz film może zrobić dla street artu to, co „Szczęki” dla surfingu… – mówi Banksy, legendarny, brytyjski artysta graffiti, któremu od lat udaje się utrzymać w tajemnicy swoją tożsamość, choć poluje na nią cały świat. „Wyjście przez sklep z pamiątkami” jest jego reżyserskim debiutem i genialną prowokacją, podobną do zaskakujących akcji ulicznych Banksiego.
Bohaterem jest Thierry Guetta, ekscentryczny właściciel butiku z vintage’ową odzieżą w Los Angeles. Ten filmowiec-amator obsesyjnie i za wszelką cenę pragnie odnaleźć i zaprzyjaźnić się z Banksym, człowiekiem enigmą, znanym na całym świecie z niesamowitych dzieł sztuki, które można znaleźć na ulicach Londynu, Nowego Orleanu, czy „murze bezpieczeństwa” w Izraelu. Czarny humor, ekscytujący thriller i świat miejskich partyzantów w jednym filmie. Niemożliwe?
Walc z Baszirem lub Walc z Bashirem (ang. Waltz with Bashir, hebr. ואלס עם באשיר – Vals im Bashir)
– film izraelskiego reżysera Ariego Folmana z 2008. Jest to animowany film dokumentalny, opowiadający o staraniach reżysera mających na celu odzyskanie jego wspomnień z wojny w Libanie w 1982, w której brał udział jako żołnierz armii izraelskiej.
W Polsce pierwszy raz film został wyświetlony na 24. Warszawskim Festiwalu Filmowym (10-19 listopada 2008). Wygrał w kategorii “filmy fabularne” w Plebiscycie Publiczności[2]. Dystrybucję w Polsce wykupiła firma Against Gravity, premiera miała miejsce 3 kwietnia 2009. W październiku 2009 film ukazał się na DVD w serii Magazyn Sztuki Dokumentu.
Film mimo animowanej formy ma charakter dokumentalny. Obrazy wspomnień z wojny przeplatają się z typowymi dla filmów dokumentalnych scenami rozmów ze świadkami i ekspertami, które zostały narysowane na wzór faktycznie nagranych wywiadów. Także postacie pojawiające się w filmie są stworzone na wzór prawdziwych osób – reżysera i jego towarzyszy, którzy (z pewnymi wyjątkami) podkładali własny głos.
Główny bohater, reżyser Ari Folman, spotyka się ze swoim byłym przyjacielem z jednostki, Boazem. Okazuje się, że Boaza dręczą wspomnienia z wojny, w przeciwieństwie do Ariego, który nie może sobie przypomnieć nic z tego okresu. Pod wpływem prośby Boaza o pomoc w rozwiązaniu tego problemu i pojedynczego, zagadkowego wspomnienia które po spotkaniu pojawia się w jego pamięci, Ari postanawia odzyskać pamięć z okresu wojny, a szczególnie z jej najbardziej dramatycznego fragmentu, masakry w Sabrze i Szatili – obozach palestyńskich uchodźców. Przy pomocy dawnych towarzyszy broni – Oriego, Carmiego i Frenkela powoli przypomina sobie kolejne wydarzenia. W filmie widzimy także wywiady z jednym z izraelskich dowódców, Drorem Harazim, oraz z korespondentem wojennym Ronem Ben-Jeszaim, którzy mieli bezpośredni kontakt z masakrą.
http://www.waltzwithbashir.com/
Metropia
The end of the millenium marked the end
of many things.
Koncepcja wizualna i efekty opracowane specjalnie na potrzeby „Metropii”, sprawiają, że ten film, nie przypomina niczego, co do tej pory powstało w kinie.
Twitch Film
Wyprodukowana przez Zentropę, firmę Larsa von Triera, mroczna opowieść fantastyczno-naukowa, rozgrywająca się w Europie przyszłości, w której gigantyczna sieć metra łączy ze sobą najodleglejsze zakątki kontynentu. Ten „nowy wspaniały świat” skrywa jednak przerażającą tajemnicę…
„Metropia” została wykreowana dzięki nowatorskim efektom specjalnym łączącym aktorskie kreacje z animacją komputerową. Film miał swoją światową premierę na ubiegłorocznym festiwalu w Wenecji, gdzie otrzymał nagrodę za pionierskie efekty. Film Tarika Saleha, w którym bohaterom użyczyli głosów m.in. Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis i Udo Kier otwierał także Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy.
http://www.metropiathemovie.com/
Southland Tales
is a 2007 science fiction/drama/black comedy film, written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. Set in the then near future of an alternate history, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial news-tainment complex. The film features an ensemble cast. Original music for the film was provided by Moby. Samuel Goldwyn Films in partnership with Destination Films and Sony Pictures released Southland Tales.
The film premiered May 21, 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a largely negative reception. After significant edits, the final version premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2007. It opened in limited release in California on November 14, 2007 and in Canada as well as nationwide in United States, in just 63 theaters,[4] on November 16, 2007. The film opened in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2007.
Richard Kelly wrote Southland Tales shortly before the September 11, 2001 attacks. The original script involved blackmail, a porn star, and two cops. After the attacks, Kelly revised the script. He said, “[The original script] was more about making fun of Hollywood. But now it’s about, I hope, creating a piece of science fiction that’s about a really important problem we’re facing, about civil liberties and homeland security and needing to sustain both those things and balance them.”[9] He described the film as a “tapestry of ideas all related to some of the biggest issues that I think we’re facing right now . . . alternative fuel or the increasing obsession with celebrity and how celebrity now intertwines with politics”.[11] With the film’s premise of a nuclear attack on Texas, Kelly wanted to take a look at how the United States would respond and survive while constructing a “great black comedy.”[11]
Kelly said: “[Southland Tales] will only be a musical in a post-modern sense of the word in that it is a hybrid of several genres. There will be some dancing and singing, but it will be incorporated into the story in very logical scenarios as well as fantasy dream environments.”[12] Kelly said the film’s biggest influences are Kiss Me Deadly, Pulp Fiction, Brazil and Dr. Strangelove. He called it a “strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick”.[13] The film often references religious and literary works; a policeman says, “Flow my tears,” in reference to a Philip K. Dick novel of that name. (“Taverner” is the name of the main character in the same book and suffers identity problems of his own.) Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake) quotes Biblical scripture from the Book of Revelation in narrating the film and allusion is made both to Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and an altered version of T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men.
http://www.southlandtales.com/
THE ROAD
After the Apocalypse by Michael Chabon
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Charlton Heston and a savagely coiffed vixen, wrapped in animal skins, riding horseback along a desolate seashore, confronted by the spike-crowned ruin of the Statue of Liberty half buried in the sand: everyone knows how the world ends. First radiation, plague, an asteroid, or some other cataclysm kills most of humankind. The remnants mutate, lapse into feudalism, or revert to prehistoric brutality. Old cults are revived with their knives and brutal gods, while tiny noble bands cling to the tatters of the lost civilization, preserving knowledge of machinery, agriculture, and the missionary position against some future renascence, and confronting their ancestors’ legacy of greatness and destruction.
Ambivalence toward technology is the underlying theme, and thus we are accustomed to thinking of stories that depict the end of the world and its aftermath as essentially science fiction. These stories feel like science fiction, too, because typically they deal with the changed nature of society in the wake of cataclysm, the strange new priesthoods, the caste systems of the genetically stable, the worshipers of techno-death, the rigid pastoral theocracies in which mutants and machinery are taboo, etc.; for inevitably these new societies mirror and comment upon our own. Science fiction has always been a powerful instrument of satire, and thus it is often the satirist’s finger that pushes the button, or releases the killer bug.
This may help to explain why the post-apocalyptic mode has long attracted writers not generally considered part of the science fiction tradition. It’s one of the few subgenres of science fiction, along with stories of the near future (also friendly to satirists), that may be safely attempted by a mainstream writer without incurring too much damage to his or her credentials for seriousness. The anti–science fiction prejudice among some readers and writers is so strong that in reviewing a work of science fiction by a mainstream author a charitable critic will often turn to words such as “parable” or “fable” to warm the author’s bathwater a little, and it is an established fact that a preponderance of religious imagery or an avowed religious intent can go a long way toward mitigating the science-fictional taint, which also helps explain the appeal to mainstream writers such as Walker Percy of the post-apocalyptic story, whose themes of annihilation and re-creation are so easily indexed both to the last book of the New Testament and the first book of the Old. It’s hard to imagine the author of Love in the Ruins writing a space opera.
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Blueberry
(Blueberry: L’expérience secrète) is a French movie adaptation of the popular Franco-Belgian comic book series Blueberry, illustrated by Jean Giraud (better known as Moebius) and scripted by Jean-Michel Charlier. It is very loosely based on the comic (so much so that the late Charlier’s family disowned the film[citation needed]) and adds in mystical and shamanic elements not present in the source material of interest to the movie’s director, Jan Kounen. The film starred the French star Vincent Cassel as the title character along with Michael Madsen and Juliette Lewis. Although the film is a French production, the language of the film is in English because the story is set in America’s Wild West in the 1870s. Since the character of Blueberry remains obscure in the States, the film was released on DVD in America in November 2004 under the title Renegade and marketed very much as a conventional Western.
Jean Giraud, the famous Franco-Belgian comics creator and the illustrator of the original Blueberry comics, appears in a cameo role in the film, while Geoffrey Lewis, who had appeared in several Spaghetti Westerns and his daughter Juliette Lewis play a father and daughter in the movie.
The movie features several elaborate psychedelic 3D computer graphics (fractal) sequences as a means of portraying Blueberry’s shamanic experiences from his point of view. Jan Kounen, the director of the film, drew upon his extensive first hand knowledge of ayahuasca rituals in order to design the visuals for these sequences, Kounen having undergone the ceremony at least a hundred times with Shipibo language speakers in Peru. An authentic Shipibo ayahuasca guide appears in the film and performs a sacred chant. In the film, the exact nature of the entheogenic sacramental liquid which Blueberry (and his enemy, Blount) drink remains undisclosed. During the final visionary scene, however, there is a bowl of leaves shown accompanied by a twisting vine which is probably the ayahuasca vine,Banisteriopsis caapi. Historically, Native Americans living in the Southwest United States, would have had no geographic access to ayahuasca.
Peyote is shown growing in the sacred areas throughout the film, and the buttons are prominently displayed at the end, although we cannot be sure what Rumi offers to the Marshall either time.
Eden Log
is a 2007 sci fi horror film directed and co-written by Franck Vestiel. The film was Vestiel’s first as a director, who shot the entire film using only hand-held cameras.
Reviews towards the film were mixed, which received an aggregated score of 43% from Rotten Tomatoes. In North America, it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2008.
In an underground cave, Tolbiac (Cornillac) wakes up disoriented, not knowing how he got there. A dead man lies next to him.
As he stumbles around in the limited light, cold, and darkness, he comes upon a dilapidated area with damaged pieces of technology all around him. While he is trying to get a damaged panel to work, suddenly, digital phantoms appear and inform him of a paradise known as Eden Log. They play a generic welcome message for the workers, where Tolbiac learns that workers are volunteers making sacrifices with the hope of gaining citizenship, presumably for the society above ground, and that Eden Log can offer a passport. Tolbiac passes through the main entryway, but remembers nothing, even after examining several crude maps and some damaged equipment.
A second message plays, reasserting the fairness of the worker’s contract, though the details lack context. The workers will enter the “cycle,” and by working below can contribute to the world above through a fair exchange. Their job is described as “looking after the plant,” and they are promised that if they do so, the plant will “look after them.” The worker’s message reiterates that the worker’s only reward is found in their drive to become part of the new society.
Alex Proyas, (The Crow) directs this futuristic thriller about a man waking up to find he is wanted for brutal murders he doesn’t remember. Haunted by mysterious beings who stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the riddle of his identity.
Directed by: Alex Proyas
Starring: Ian Richardson, Frank Gallacher, Colin Friels, David Wenham, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, Mitchell Butel, Richard O’Brien, Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Bruce Spence
http://newline.com/properties/darkcity.html
You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. What happens first is you can’t sleep. What happens then is there’s a gun in your mouth. And what happens next is you meet Tyler Durden. Let me tell you about Tyler. He had a plan. In Tyler we trusted. Tyler says the things you own, end up owning you. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Fight Club represents that kind of freedom. First rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. Tyler says self-improvement is masturbation. Tyler says self-destruction might be the answer.
http://www.movieweb.com/movie/fight-club
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film’s title refers to its primary antagonist: a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature which stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship. Dan O’Bannon wrote the screenplay from a story by him and Ronald Shusett, drawing influence from previous works of science fiction and horror. The film was produced through Brandywine Productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox, with producers David Giler and Walter Hill making significant revisions and additions to the script. The titular Alien and its accompanying elements were designed by Swiss surrealist artist H. R. Giger, while concept artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the human aspects of the film.
Alien garnered both critical acclaim and box office success, receiving an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects,[4] Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright,[5] and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, along with numerous other award nominations.[6] It has remained highly praised in subsequent decades, being inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2002 for historical preservation as a film which is “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.[6][7][8] In 2008 it was ranked as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre by the American Film Institute, and as the thirty-third greatest movie of all time by Empire magazine.[9][10]
The success of Alien spawned a media franchise of novels, comic books, video games, and toys, as well as three sequel and two prequel films. It also launched Weaver’s acting career by providing her with her first lead role, and the story of her character Ripley’s encounters with the Alien creatures became the thematic thread that ran through the sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997).[11] The subsequent prequels Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) abandoned this theme in favor of a crossover with the Predator franchise.
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious – and perhaps murderous – activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/
In 1975 terrorist violence is the stuff of network nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS television network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/
Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like “Stay Asleep”, “No Imagination”, “Submit to Authority”. Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/
A doctor becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter after his wife admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for dishonesty in not admitting to his own fantasies. This sets him off into unfulfilled encounters with a dead patient’s daughter and a hooker. But when he visits a nightclub, where a pianist friend Nick Nightingale is playing, he learns about a secret sexual group and decides to attend one of their congregations. However, he quickly learns he is in well over his head and finds he and his family are threatened.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/
Donnie Darko doesn’t get along too well with his family, his teachers and his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank – a large bunny which only Donnie can see. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his bedroom, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie’s escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie’s mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/
A vision of an apocalyptic future set in the wastelands of Australia. Total social decay is just around the corner in this spectacular cheap budget gang orientated road movie. Where the cops do their best to lay down the law and the outlaw gangs try their hardest to defy the system. Leather clad Max Rockatansky husband, father and cop turns judge, juror and executioner after his best friend, wife and baby are killed. Here we see the final days of normality of a man who had everything to live for, and his slip into the abyss of madness. Mad Max is the antihero on the road to vengeance and oblivion.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/
In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town’s reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess’s faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286106/
In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed “The Prawns,” appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new ‘Prawn’ friends.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/
A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante’s invincibility.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109506
In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods. Jaguar Paw hides his pregnant wife and his son in a deep hole nearby their tribe and is captured while fighting with his people. An eclipse spares his life from the sacrifice and later he has to fight to survive and save his beloved family.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472043/
Taylor and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Taylor is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so that he is silent and cannot communicate with the apes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/
In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/
In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad “Precrime”. They use three genetically altered humans (called “Pre-Cogs”) with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes the system’s flawlessness steadfastly. However one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn’t even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery’s core by finding out the ‘minority report’ which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that “might” tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/
An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/
Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind’s savage nature.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/
Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. For the contract’s entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only direct real-time interaction is with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day to day needs. With such little human contact and all of it indirect, he feels that three years is far too long to be so isolated; he knows he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches. All he wants is to return to Earth to be with his wife Tess and their infant daughter Eve, who was born just prior to his leaving for this job. With two weeks to go, he gets into an accident at one of the mechanical harvesters and is rendered unconscious…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/
Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a malevolent hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines which live off of their body heat and imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents, super powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/
Protagonist Alex is an “ultraviolent” youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he’s arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If he goes through the program his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex’s ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/
Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children who quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he, oblivious to such, is horrified to find an underground world of workers, apparently who run the machinery which keeps the above ground Utopian world functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder’s father, Joh Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is Maria, who espouses the need to join the “hands” – the workers – to the “head” – those in power above – by a mediator or the “heart”. Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in the want for a better life. But when Joh learns of what Maria is espousing and that Freder is joining their cause…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/
George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people. THX 1138 stops taking the drugs, and gets LUH 3417 pregnant. They are both thrown in jail where they meet SEN 5241 and start to plan their escape.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/
A couple lose their young son when he falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. The mother’s grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, “Eden”, where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870984/
Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her bodyguard. Unfortunately, her pod, an organic gaming device that contains the only copy of the eXistenZ game program, is damaged. To inspect it, she talks Ted into accepting a gameport in his own body so he can play the game with her. The events leading up to this, and the resulting game lead the pair on a strange adventure where reality and their actions are impossible to determine from either their own or the game’s perspective.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt012090
Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough’s novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in an Islamic port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough’s books.
