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Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined

John — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:16:06 +0000

Fun Wired interview with Ridley Scott about the soon to be re-released Blade Runner.
And here is a Blade Runner fan site with up to the minute late breaking news.

time lapse film compresses 35 years of skyscraper construction in Shinjuku district of Tokyo

synthum molyart — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:25:13 +0000

http://blog.longnow.org/2007/09/10/35-year-time-lapse-of-tokyo-skyline/

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‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ film opens; no stars in any film frames?

synthum molyart — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:41:01 +0000

How come no stars in the film/photos taken outside the atmosphere of the Earth? No views of the Star Fields on the 3 day trip to Moon. We went there 9 times?! No comments by any astronauts on the stars and how they do not twinkle in no air…and there would be plenty to see! Duh?! and what gives…I ‘ve never seen a star in any photo by NASA taken by a film camera by a person outside the atmosphere since NASA started…

Astronauts Live ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’

Film Records Deepest Thoughts of Men Who Went to the Moon

By NED POTTER

Sept. 7, 2007 —

In all of time, only 24 human beings have flown to or around the moon, looked back, and seen Earth as a small blue sphere in the blackness of space.

Their numbers are dwindling. Of the 12 who walked on the moon’s surface, only nine are alive today, and the youngest is 71.

So British director David Sington and his crew set out to seize the moment — now, before the opportunity passes, to bring the Apollo astronauts together in one film, and ask them how the experience affected them.

“I think these guys are very sane individuals. They are very down to earth, because, in some sense, they really know what Earth is,” says Sington. “There are 7 billion of us on the planet, and nine of those 7 billion have stood on another heavenly body.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3399586&page=1

Film web site

http://www.intheshadowofthemoon.com/

Clip on Apple

http://www.apple.com/trailers/thinkfilm/intheshadowofthemoon/trailer/

Venezuela giving Danny Glover $18m to direct film on epic slave revolt

John — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:24:03 +0000

· Chávez hopes venture will aid anti-imperialist fight
· Actor wants to educate US on Toussaint Louverture

Rory Carroll in Caracas
Monday May 21, 2007
The Guardian

Pennebaker film article and link to oeuvre for sale

synthum molyart — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:13:13 +0000

His filmography (much of which is available for purchase from www.pennebakerhegedusfilms.com) reads like a who’s-who of the past four decades. Pennebaker has hung out with the mighty and the fallen; he’s the ever-present shadow making public the private moments of people who should have known better. In 1964, he filmed Timothy Leary’s wedding to Nena Von Schlebrugge, which became the 12-minute You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You. In 1971, Pennebaker documented the outrageous women’s-lib debate between, among others, Norman Mailer and Germaine Greer at Town Hall in New York City; the film, Town Bloody Hall, sat unreleased for years, until Hegedus came in one day and edited the thing together in, more or less, an hour (it was the fledgling couple’s first film together). From 1979 to ’81, Pennebaker and Hegedus documented John DeLorean’s quest to design the perfect car, which became nothing less than a stainless-steel Edsel. And in 1990, the two released their film about Jerry Lee Lewis, which charted the oft-seedy life of one of rock’s pioneers.

After Nena divorced Leary she married a Tibetan scholar, Dr. Robert Thurman and her daughter Uma is Uma the actress. Dick Alpert became his own guru, Baba Ram Dass and achieved a sainthood of his own.