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Dark Knight Viral Campaign Continues With Citizens For Batman

2008-06-30 19:17:00 by Editor in Movie Blog
 
...Citizens for Batman. We received a package with this awesome t-shirt, the stickers and key-chain you see below, and a little note that gives us some juicy teaser on things to come. Apparently as insane as things have been lately, the guano is about to hit the fan next week. Where, when, how, why, who? We can answer some of those questions for...
 
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: Are We Headed For a Technological Panopticon?

2008-01-22 00:22:28 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...citizens, law breakers and terrorists) and large corporations (tracking consumers to shove more crap at them), there will always be exploitable holes, exploitable by technology and by ingenuity. In a similar way that no computer program can be bug free, there will never be a surveillance program that does not have either technological or...
 
 
 
 
 
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THE OVERLOOKED JOHN FRANKENHEIMER: "FRENCH CONNECTION II"

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2008-10-13 00:05:18 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...citizens with handheld cameras and hidden cameras. He and production designer Jacques Saulnier built sets which they modeled after real places, like the citys police station, a jail and the bottom-rung hotel. And Charniers lab, incredibly, was built under the guidance of a group of Corsican heroin dealers who had taken an interest in the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Dreams Perverted

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2008-10-12 20:42:00 by Mr. Peel in Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur
...citizens the ones we really need to fear) but this film surprisingly never goes that route. At least, I think it doesnt. Certain things are still left ambiguous when the credits roll, a true willingness to stick to nightmare logic which is admirable But thats nothing compared to the most vivid passagesone, which follows Anitra Ford from a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Metropolis: A Film Far Ahead of its Time

2007-12-20 11:59:54 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
...citizens called the Thinkers lead a life of luxury and endless entertainment. The city is run by Johann Joh Frederson, who also designed it The workers are planning a revolt against Frederson but they are convinced by Maria, an evangelical figure, that they must await the arrival of an able Mediator who would lead them to a true and...
 
 
 
 
 
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2008 Oscars: Best Foreign Language

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2008-02-13 04:32:34 by HASH0x8c452d0 in Matte Havoc
...citizens. The point that concerns me would be my hope to see something different. As I had alluded to in my opening statement it is wonderful to watch a foreign film to view a story that is different from the American films that I could see on any given weekend. At the core of the plot for Beaufort lies the same concept that I would see in...
 
 
 
 
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

2008-06-28 07:25:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
...citizens are asked to spy upon one another to keep the system intact. Outside fire stations are carefully placed hot-red "information boxes" where citizens can leave tips about law violators (anti-social elements organized in "cells", just like terrorists....) Again, this doesn't seem very futuristic today. Remember, after 9/11 the Bush...
 
 
 
 
 
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Spotlight on South America

2008-09-08 06:01:00 by Sachin in Scribbles and Ramblings
 
...citizens. The citizens went on vacation, never to return back The world did not know of this vacation policy until much later. In the meantime, Brazil danced to the 1970 World Cup victory in some style, playing possibly the best football the world has seen. In 1978, Argentina won their first ever World Cup title, although the rumours of...
 
 
 
 
 
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SiCKO (2007) PG-13 123min

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2008-01-24 00:22:14 by Maxim in Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions Blog
...citizens, but ultimately the problem being a conflict between democracy and capitalism: people with money having more power then poor people and how our government is serving the banks and not the people because ones who control the money control the people. It also talks a lot about America becoming more and more a police society where...
 
 
 
 
 
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Euro 2008 Film Festival: Group A, Switzerland