'Cube'ün yönetmeninden, insanı kendi tuhaf belirsizlik ve paranoya dünyasına çekerek avuçlarının içine alan, zeki bir bilim-kurgu gerilim filmi.
America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat expense account. But there's a growing pit in Karly's stomach. Something isn't right behind the scenes at big pharma. Based on the director's decade working directly for the industry.
Pek zeki sayılmayacak taşralı genç Norville Barnes'ın kafasında çocuklar için ideal olduğunu düşündüğü bir oyuncak projesi vardır. Bunu gerçek yapabilme hayalleri içinde büyük şehire gelir ve en alttan işe koyulur: devasa bir şirket olan Hudsucker Industries'de memur olarak çalışmaya başlar. Bunlar olurken şirket yönetim kurulu, başkan Waring Hudsucker'ın trajikomik intiharı ile sarsılır. Gücü ele geçirme fırsatını kaçırmak istemeyen müdürlerden Sidney Mussberger, kendisine projesini anlatmaya gelen Barnes'ın naifliğinden yararlanmaya çalışır ve bir aptalı yönetim kurulu başkanlığına getirerek şirketi parmağında oynatabileceğini düşünür. Oysa Barnes'ın çılgın projesi basit bir hulahoptan başka bir şey değildir ama beklenmedik başarısı işleri karmakarışık edecektir.
Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal which brings fame and fortune but soon realize they are pawns of two people who want to control the youth of America. They must clear their names, even if it means losing fame and fortune.
Inherit The Viper, suç ile iç içe olan üç kardeşin hikayesini konu ediyor. Riley kardeşler, babalarının ölümünden sonra yasadışı yollarla ağrı kesici satarak hayatta kalmaya çalışır. Kip ve Josie, babalarından miras kalan bu işle uğraşıp geçimlerini sağlarken, küçük kardeşleri Boots'u bu dünyadan uzak tutmaya çalışır. Yaptıkları bir anlaşmada çıkan büyük bir sorun karşısında Kip, artık bu işlerden uzak durmak istediğini söyler. Ancak Kip'in onun işten kurtulma girişimi, hem onun hem de Josie ve Boots'un hayatının parçalanmasına neden olur.
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.
When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don't have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system - it seems to be coming apart already. But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future. Backed by Jensen's narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music... Written by Franklin Lopez
Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many films have hidden agendas.
Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-Dimensional Man by the philosopher Herbert Marcus…
As a family of siblings and their spouses gathers at their father's deathbed, old jealousies and new angers and liaisons lead to an inevitable climax.
A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.
The doors of the jam produced by a company do not open. In order for them to be able to sell their jam, they reward the one who can open the jam. All the people try to open the door of the jam.
Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness.
The main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing deficiencies in the constructed bakery, did not sign the act of its delivery. But the fate of not only many people associated with the construction, but also the life of the town as a whole depends on this. Lyonya Shindin — a conscientious and decent man — is trying by all means and by any means to change the decision of the commission...
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a documentary and symbolic work.