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populationgo: First Poster For “Life Of Pi” The first poster for Ang Lee’s latest feature film, Life of Pi, has hit the web. Novel synopsis below: The movie—based on the best selling novel of the same name—stars Suraj Sharma as Pi Patel, a son of zookeeper with an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and fervent love of stories.  When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them “the truth.” After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional–but is it more true? — Amazon [MoviePosters]
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First Poster For “Life Of Pi”

The first poster for Ang Lee’s latest feature film, Life of Pi, has hit the web.

Novel synopsis below:

The movie—based on the best selling novel of the same name—stars Suraj Sharma as Pi Patel, a son of zookeeper with an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and fervent love of stories. 

When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them “the truth.” After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional–but is it more true? — Amazon

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Weekend Box Office Actuals

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Here are your top five films at the box office for the weekend of July 20th-22nd:

  1. The Dark Knight Rises - $160,887,295 (Opening Weekend) - ($250m production budget)
  2. Ice Age: Continental Drift - $20,416,978 = $88,840,284 10-Day Total - (production budget n/a)
  3. The Amazing Spider-Man - $10,887,111 = $228,611,425 20-Day Total - ($230m production budget)
  4. Ted - $10,011,610 = $180,431,425 24-Day Total - ($50m production budget)
  5. Brave - $6,024,987 = $208,774,173 31-Day Total - ($185m production budget)
The box office numbers took a bit longer to release this past weekend out of respect for the shooting victims in Auroro, Colorado, but when the numbers were finally released it wasn’t a surprise that this past weekend’s biggest release fell shy of matching The Avengers $207 million opening. When all was said and done, though, Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his Batman Trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, opened up to the third highest total of all-time at over $160 million over the weekend, besting its predecessor’s then record breaking $158 million opening. 
Beast of the Southern Wild review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ the latest from, filmmaking group, Court 13 follows, a young girl, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father, Wink (Dwight Henry) as they deal with life in the ‘The Bathtub’. ‘The Bathtub’ is a town presumably in south Louisiana were life is simple and money is all but obsolete. Most of the town breaks of when a freak thunderstorm hits and floods the town. We follow Hushpuppy, through her perspective, through a classic coming-of-age tale with a twist. The thing that I really enjoy about ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ is its magnificent and gritty cinematography by Ben Richardson. Its filmed almost documentary style showcasing life in ‘The Bathtub’. The acting in this movie is phenomenal. At some points if really does feel like a documentary and I totally forgot these people were acting, which I also attribute to the writers for writing dialogue that is very natural for these characters. All around its a fun movie that manages to dodge away from controversial subjects like poverty, and child abuse, which it could of easily delven into. However, something I don’t enjoy about this movie is its seemingly video quality footage. A minor squabble but nonetheless annoying for someone like me who makes sure everything is a standard 24 fps. Hats off to Court 13 for making a near flawless film with only slight imperfection her and there. TL;DR 91 out of 100 Stars
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Beast of the Southern Wild review:

‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ the latest from, filmmaking group, Court 13 follows, a young girl, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father, Wink (Dwight Henry) as they deal with life in the ‘The Bathtub’. ‘The Bathtub’ is a town presumably in south Louisiana were life is simple and money is all but obsolete. Most of the town breaks of when a freak thunderstorm hits and floods the town. We follow Hushpuppy, through her perspective, through a classic coming-of-age tale with a twist. The thing that I really enjoy about ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ is its magnificent and gritty cinematography by Ben Richardson. Its filmed almost documentary style showcasing life in ‘The Bathtub’. The acting in this movie is phenomenal. At some points if really does feel like a documentary and I totally forgot these people were acting, which I also attribute to the writers for writing dialogue that is very natural for these characters. All around its a fun movie that manages to dodge away from controversial subjects like poverty, and child abuse, which it could of easily delven into. However, something I don’t enjoy about this movie is its seemingly video quality footage. A minor squabble but nonetheless annoying for someone like me who makes sure everything is a standard 24 fps. Hats off to Court 13 for making a near flawless film with only slight imperfection her and there.

TL;DR 91 out of 100 Stars

Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Originally filmed and released in three parts, the nine-and-a-half-hour, film ‘The Human Condition’ Remains one of my favorite films of all-time with some of the most beautiful cinematography by Yoshio Miyajima the best movie of all-time.

Stupefaction of Society

What happened to all the cool art? All the artistic movements, Literary trends, popular philosophy its gone. What do we have now? Does are generation have a Picasso or a Magritte? Does our generation have a Nietzsche or a Schopenhauer? No, we have Stephanie Meyer and Kanye. Its because of our materialist, plastic society that we only absorb pleasure and take offense to any intellectual effort. Our technology has doomed us to lives of repetition and reliance on a microchip. We glorify metal and plastic, and shun intellectual simulation. Even our own politicians use terms like “Intellectual elite” to slander other running mates. We are not the Baby Boomers. We are not Generation X. We are the Generation of Consumption.

We are doomed

‎”The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.” - Albert Camus
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