“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Micmacs is a 2009 French comedy film by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Its original French title is Les MicMacs à tire-larigot, (‘Non-stop shenanigans’). The film is billed as a “satire on the world arms trade”. [wikipedia]
director tom shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what’s wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it. [imdb]
jesse narveson believes the following 17 movies are more mind blowing than inception:
1. primer (2004), 2. revolver (2005), 3. memento (2000), 4. existenz (1999), 5. donnie darko (2001), 6. eraserhead (1977), 7. being john malkovich (1999), 8. eternal sunshine of a spotless mind (2004), 9. naked lunch (1991), 10. 12 monkeys (1995), 11. dark city (1998), 12. vanilla sky (2001), 13. rashomon (1950), 14. what dreams may come (1998), 15. the fountain (2006), 16. the game (1997), 17. adaptation (2002)
i haven’t seen all of them but i love the ones that i have watched so far.
the fall is a 2006 film by tarsem singh, starring lee pace, catinca untaru, and justine waddell. it is based on the screenplay of the 1981 bulgarian film yo ho ho by valeri petrov.[2] the film earned over $3 million worldwide and was met with mixed reviews. the film was released to theaters in 2008. it should not be confused with another 2008 release of the same title, a legal drama by john krueger. [wikipedia]
