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Featuring clips from hundreds of films, candid interviews with famous Native and non-Native directors, writers and actors, Reel Injun traces how the image of First Nations people in cinema have influenced the understanding and misunderstanding of their culture and history. A National Search for Human Worth is a documentary about domestic minor sex trafficking and the modern-day abolitionist movement fighting to stop it.

Since September , the crew has traveled to over 30 states and conducted more than 75 interviews with federal agents, victims, politicians, activists, psychologists, porn-stars, among others. Child psychologist Michael Thompson serves as host for this two-hour documentary based on his best-selling book of the same name. The contributing factors may surprise you — could cutbacks in school-sponsored exercise programs be to blame? Their creations include furniture, photography, interiors, multimedia exhibits, games and much more.

After thousands of people around the world joined together to record banal and remarkable everyday events on July 24, , director Kevin MacDonald led a team of editors to condense more than 4, hours of video into this picture of life on Earth. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists into the country to cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang.

But only as tourists. But we went for it. The first leg of the trip was a flight into northern China. At the airport, the North Korean consulate took our passports and all of our money, then brought us to a restaurant. We were sitting there with our tour group, and suddenly all the other diners left and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs.

Can we just go to bed? So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. Assembling rare Pixar footage and conversations with animators, producers, directors and voice actors, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Leslie Iwerks takes viewers on a fascinating tour of the outfit that forever changed Hollywood animation. In over people led by Rev.

Jim Jones died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history, at Jonestown, Guyana. The story is told by survivors, Temple defectors, relatives, and journalists. Married 54 years, Mike and Mina Block were the picture of if not wedded bliss then at least rock-solid stability — or so thought their son, documentary filmmaker Doug Block. Turning his lens on his own family, he discovers much he never knew about the people who raised him. Enthralling black holes, stars that perish and others that spring to life, and other planets possibly bustling with life are just some of the sights seen along the journey.

The master horseman reveals details of his troubled childhood and his dawning awareness of new ways that humans and horses might work with one another. As Buck learns more about horses, he finds that the ways we communicate with our animal companions offer lessons on how we relate to fellow human beings. With a staggering number of Americans suffering from obesity and other food-related maladies, this film takes a timely and hard-hitting look at how the food we eat is helping or hurting our health, and what we can do to live and eat better.

Nutritionists, naturopaths, scientists, doctors, medical journalists and more weigh in on everything from using food as medicine to the value of organic food and the safety of the food we consume. Blending archival footage with modern animation, this documentary examines the massive protests besetting the Chicago Democratic Convention, and the courtroom trial of several activists and participants in the aftermath. Among those featured are Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, who were charged with inciting a riot.

In this absorbing documentary, filmmaker Aaron Rose explores the world of a group of underground artists who began influencing areas from fashion and film to music and pop culture in the early s. With outsider art elements such as graffiti, skateboarding and street music, these mavericks redefined creativity. Whenever Iraq War veterans return to the U. As they share their kindness and support through handshakes and hugs, these compassionate greeters strengthen their community, their country and themselves.

August 14, 21, 28, Harvard psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Daniel Gilbert hosts this three-part PBS series that explores the range of human emotions and how we can strive to become more positive in our day-to-day lives. Family, Friends and Lovers looks at the importance of relationships and why they are central to our emotional well-being. What are the cognitive and neurological processes underpinning our everyday lives, and why do some relationships flourish and others fail?

Facing our Fears looks at emotions that are commonly regarded as obstacles to happiness — anger, fear, anxiety and despair. Why do we have these emotions and how can we best manage them? Rethinking Happiness explores happiness. It is critical to well-being, yet remains such an elusive goal for many. What is it, why is it important and how can we attain more of it? Dirt takes center stage in this entertaining yet poignant documentary from Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow, which unearths our cosmic connection to soil and explores how diverse groups of people are uniting to save the natural resource.

The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth , the filmmakers combine lively animations with personal accounts from farmers, scientists, activists and more. This entertaining documentary explores the phenomenon of Jack Rebney, who became an Internet sensation after a grainy, nearly year-old video of him furiously swearing up a storm while filming a Winnebago sales video made the rounds online. Dynamic documentarian Davis Guggenheim An Inconvenient Truth weaves together the stories of students, families, educators and reformers to shed light on the failing public school system and its consequences on the future of the United States.

Confidential church documents, statements by high-ranking church officials and other sources detail 30 years of efforts to turn back gay rights, particularly by the Mormon-sponsored National Organization for Marriage. What they learn about genetically modified seeds, powerful herbicides and the realities of modern farming calls into question government subsidies, the fast-food lifestyle and the quality of what we eat. This perceptive documentary tells the unusual tale of Maynard James Keenan, the hard-rocking, eccentric front man of Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer who abruptly left Los Angeles in the mids to start a world-class vineyard in Arizona.

Aided by wine guru Eric Glomski, Maynard tills the unlikely soil of the Verde Valley despite scoffing from wine snobs and rock fans. Dive into more than a century of decadence with this tantalizing look at the evolution of burlesque. Cabaret star Leslie Zemeckis traces the art form from vaudeville-style variety show through its extinction and contemporary rebirth.

Narrated by actress Tilda Swinton, the film also honors the work of West Virginia citizens struggling against encroaching coal mines, a West African man educating youngsters about global warming and more. Filmmaker Paul Devlin objectively documents the multifaceted story of a country trying to rebuild itself amid a changing political landscape. Accustomed to getting their electricity for free, the residents of Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, are suddenly faced with shelling out money for power. From filmmaker Charles Ferguson comes this sobering, Oscar-winning documentary that presents in comprehensive yet cogent detail the pervasive and deep-rooted corruption that led to the global economic meltdown of Through unflinching interviews with key financial insiders, politicos, journalists and academics, Ferguson paints a galling portrait of an unfettered financial system run amok — without accountability.

Actor Matt Damon narrates. Capturing their wonder at things Westerners take for granted, this documentary, an award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, paints an intimate portrait of strangers in a strange land. The result is a sobering examination of the line between personal and corporate responsibility. After Abby sends Nev a remarkable painting based on one of his photos, Nev begins corresponding with her family — including her seductive year-old sister. A gripping tale of intrigue and mystery in the art world, this film traces the history of the Barnes collection of Post-Impressionist paintings, which was worth billions and became the subject of a power struggle after the death of the owner.

But the political wrangling over the collection eventually led to its division. As the group sets out to expose the horrifying truths behind the capture of dolphins for the lucrative tourist industry, they also uncover an environmental catastrophe.

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Louie Psihoyos directs this riveting, Oscar-winning documentary. Filmmaker Chris Bell points the camera at his brothers and himself — all of them users of steroids — for this thought-provoking examination of sports, competition and the unyielding pressure to succeed. But ultimately, committing to the church will be his decision. In this engaging documentary, a Fifth Avenue family goes green when writer Colin Beavan leads his wife, Michelle Conlin, and their baby daughter on a yearlong crusade to generate no trash and otherwise make no net impact on the environment.

Taking on rampant American consumerism with a focus on Christmas shopping, the Rev. Billy Bill Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping go on a cross-country journey to save citizens from the Shopocalypse in this hilarious documentary produced by Morgan Spurlock. This Oscar winner for Best Documentary explores the preparations that went into the stunt as well as the event and its aftermath. Obsessed with the towers even before they were fully constructed, Petit sneaked into the buildings several times to determine the equipment he needed to accomplish his daring feat.

Davis Guggenheim, creator of the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth, directs this fascinating profile of three contemporary guitarists: Each talks about their creative process, technique and influences as cameras follow them to key locations in their own music history. A jam session featuring all three musicians is woven into their discussions. Renowned nonfiction director Werner Herzog chronicles the tragic and untimely death of outdoorsman Timothy Treadwell, who devoted his life to studying grizzly bears living in the Alaskan wilderness — only to have one of them maul him to death.

This humorous documentary monitors the exploits of a group of jokester liberals who make names for themselves as they mimic members of the World Trade Organization at various venues across the globe. The absurd facade gets started when two members of The Yes Men create a web site that looks quite similar to the WTO site, resulting in the group being invited to high-level meetings and being mistaken for WTO officials. As they begin to look at and record their world through new eyes, the kids awaken to their own talents and sense of worth.

Neel and Meyer capture the drama as padded swords clash, armies advance and a ruler crosses the line, while off the battlefield, participants open up about what keeps them coming back for more. Amid a volatile climate of ever-changing gas prices, this documentary delves into the short life of the GM EV1 electric car — a fuel-efficient auto that was once all the rage in the mids and now has fallen by the roadside.

How could such a green-friendly vehicle fail to transform lives? Through interviews with government officials, former GM employees and concerned celebs, filmmaker Chris Paine seeks to find out. Moore also explores the widespread use of antidepressants and their possible link to violence. In , British filmmaker Michael Apted interviewed a diverse group of 7-year-olds living in England and vowed to track how their lives progressed every seven years.

Will kids who once had ambitious goals end up living their dreams or falling by the wayside? Looking at the world through the lens of a documentary. Minding the Gap Trailer. The Price of Free Trailer. November 26th, Shirkers was a Singapore-made cult classic from teenage friends Sandi Tan, Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique—or it would have been, had the 16mm footage not been stolen by their enigmatic American collaborator Georges Cardona. November 18th, The behind-the-scenes story of how the original Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders became a controversial pop culture phenomenon at the height of the Sexual Revolution.

November 4th, — Second Showing August 11th, — First Showing Decades after Detroit singer-songwriter Rodriguez disappeared following the commercial failure of his two critically praised records in the s, two fans from South Africa, where Rodriguez was a huge hit, try to track down their idol.

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July 22nd, This documentary examines the career, life, artistry and legacy of the late Robin Williams with intimate archival footage and interviews with his closest confidants. J uly 15, Drawing from over hours of never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives for over 50 years, award-winning director Brett Morgen tells the story of JANE, a woman whose chimpanzee research challenged the male-dominated scientific consensus of her time and revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.

June 24th, Documentary directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, already well-established for bringing gay issues to a mainstream film audience, examined the representation of homosexuality in the film industry itself in this absorbing study. The Celluloid Closet Trailer. June 10th, A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution.

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March 25th, The film follows Rob with unprecedented access over several years as he challenges deeply held conservative ideals while grappling with some of the most important questions of our time: February 25th, Abacus: Last Men In Aleppo Trailer. January 14th, On the morning of Election Day , Americans of all stripes woke up and went about living their radically different lives. December 17th, Gerald Foos bought a motel in Colorado in the s, furnished the room with louvered vents that allowed him to spy on his guests, and kept a journal of their sexual encounters…among other things.

December 10th, What makes a film score unforgettable? November 19th, KEDi is not a documentary about house cats or the strays you occasionally see in your back yard.

November 5th, The hit documentary from the Sundance Film Festival goes inside the life of Steve Gleason, the former New Orleans Saints defensive back who, at the age of 34, was diagnosed with ALS and given a life expectancy of two to five years. October 29th, Staten Island filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio reveal how an urban legend conjured up to keep kids from exploring abandoned buildings became a horrifying reality when a mysterious drifter began abducting children in their tight-knit urban neighborhood.

October 22nd, In this richly penetrating documentary odyssey, Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold shows us a Los Angeles where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America. City of Gold Trailer.

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October 25th, Sons of Perdition follows three boys after they leave Colorado City. October 11th, Here, we enter the city of Mecca that has been forbidden to non-Muslims for 14 centuries.

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The masked hero will also be riding onto the silver screen. The TV series is aimed at a fall premiere. The movie is expected for Christmas Either way, it seems like a great many fans will soon be asking, "Who was that masked man? Like most kids living in relative isolation, Luckinbill found his escape at a nearby movie house. But his celluloid dreams were not the images Star Trek's are made of. For me, outer space was Gabby Hayes. After a two-year stint in the State Department as a theater direc- tor, writer and lecturer in Africa and Italy , he returned to the states where he began pil- ing up film and theater appearances.

Returning to the present and Star Trek V, Luckinbill offers that he has had a number of interesting roles over the years but that Sybok proved particularly attractive. Here was a character who was basically putting everything on the line, making a decision that was more important than in- tellect and then using that philosophy to reach a higher level. Just about everything about Sybok was appealing to me. We just went in and did them. And since I never looked at dailies, I don't have any idea how they play and, in a way, I would be very happy if I never knew.

I'm hoping like hell that what comes through is what I dreamed would come through. At the end, I merge with this alien be- ing who Sybok thinks is God. I don't think anybody is really sure whether Sybok is dead or not, so it's conceivable that I might wash up upon some shore in a future Star Trek. I'm not sure what's next, but I'm ready for whatever comes.

William Shatner is not overly fond of doing interviews. That is put- ting it mildly. Shatner prefers the more blunt approach. The Final Frontier in particular. We've talked about new things and I'm being forced to think about my responses a bit longer. But you would be surprised how often, over the years, I've been asked questions that are prefaced by 'I guess you've been asked this before.

But for past Star Trek films, I've done as many as 25 inter- views in a day and they all seem to ask the same questions. By the time I get to the 25th interview, I feel like I could almost mail my answers in. Those are the people I'll turn the tables on and go after just to make things interesting. But the actor, in an introspective mood this day, digs a little deeper. But I have another idea. The answers are new. And the subject is modern-day myth. Un- fortunately, because everything is explained to us in modern-day society, we don't have mythology any more.

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It touches a pulse that we all seem to respond to and that thing is the unexplained idea of going into space and what we will find out there. Star Trek is like a modern Ulysses; a myth that has been passed down over a period of 25 years and through a number of generations. It is my hope that future Star Trek films will address themselves to the fact that the characters are getting older. I don't think future Star Trek films can ignore the aging process, mortality and the possible loss of people who have been with Star Trek from the beginning.

How would the Federation deal with the aging problem? Would that person be retired? Would they be relegated to a wheelchair? This is a problem future Star Trek films will have to face full-on. He's drawn into a search for a scientist who possesses a blocking device for a mood-altering piece of software, the drug of choice on future Earth.

The search leads to a now-technologically and economically superior Mexico, where the action comes hot and heavy. Shatner's writing life was complicated by one minor distraction: That was the easy part of writing this book. Putting it all down on paper was the hard part. Kingdom of the Spiders!

What can I say? Let's talk about Star Trek some more," chuckles Shatner. Shatner is well aware that, for many fans, Star Trek has become serious business. He has jokingly taken that notion to task in his now-famous "Get a Life" skit on Saturday Night Live. But he takes the middle ground in response to the question of whether people take Star Trek too seriously.

For myself, I've always considered that as part of Star Trek, I am part of an entertainment. I don't think of myself as being part of an ongoing myth. I see myself as just making another movie. Who else is playing Kirk? My personality and characteristics are all in the character. I therefore am Kirk and Kirk is me. But that doesn't mean I go around expecting salutes from my kids," the actor chuckles.

Nor does he go around saluting Star Trek: Shatner says he has never seen the syndicated TV series. But Shatner does use the new series as an example of how dispensible even the long-running characters ultimately are. Star Trek without Kirk would definitely be different. The original cast has created something that is uniquely ours. The interplay is ours. We could be replaced, but it wouldn't be the same. It would be easy for Shatner to be smug in the face of his directorial debut get- ting good financial marks.

I do think the films have a built-in audience. And I think that audience will continue to come back. If they do, I don't think they'll be disappointed. Shatner returns briefly to his Star Trek V experience and claims that his often bumpy directorial debut was, to a large degree, of his own making. Without going into detail, I can safely say that the political side of mak- ing The Final Frontier was just as interesting as the technical side. But Leonard Nimoy and the rest of the cast did a wonderful job of holding me up and helping me get through it.

Hitting the Star Trek trail? That's something Shatner isn't looking forward to that much. All I want to do is make them. The idea for the feature, originally known as Robojox, came to the filmmaker during a trip through Toys-R-Us. He was captivated by the Transformer toys. And it occurred to me that, with the special FX available today, this was a fantasy in search of a film. Homer's The Iliad Achilles is the name of the film's protagonist and, while Gordon's frequent writing collaborator Dennis Paoli worked on several drafts of the screenplay, the final shooting script was written by celebrated SF author Joe Haldeman, whose novel The Forever War became a play directed by Gordon in Chicago.

The world is basically broken down into two superpowers: The Market, which is like the Common Market except that Japan and the United States are part of it, and the Confederation, which is everybody else. Earth has vowed no war will ever take place again, so international disputes are settled by single combat bet- ween pilots of huge robots. I wanted to create these robots as a reality and make it believable for an audience, and I knew Joe Haldeman could do that because of his expertise in futuristic weaponry — he's part of an Air Force think tank now.

When Achilles' robot, for example, changes its configuration into a rocket to blast into space, the cockpit inside becomes an ac- celeration couch to enable the pilot to with- stand the G-forces. Cobb was also asked to design robotic parts made of heavy-duty plastic with metal armatures underneath which special FX supervisor David Allen could reshape, using different models for different shots during the film's major transformation sequences. Director Stuart Gordon gives his Robot Jox some last-minute instructions. Along with some stop-motion FX added later, Allen and his crew shot on location in the Mojave Desert utilizing large models for these mechanical effects; others were used for pyrotechnic explosions, while some doubled as "stunt robots" for shots in which they couldn't destroy their carefully detailed models.

When they came back, they all looked like Lawrence of Arabia. For hand-to-hand combat, there are saws, drills and a magnesium flare which can suddenly blind an opponent. But, says Gordon, "the human story must be the center of it all. No matter how great your FX are, if the audience doesn't care about the people, then there's no movie. That's why I was drawn to the story of Achilles, the warrior who doesn't want to fight anymore but is forced back into it because of his lover's death.

That's the center of ours as well, though we've put it into science-fiction terms. Kids feel intimidated in an adult world because they're smaller, but if you're inside a robot, suddenly you're King Kong. That's how the jocks control them; they're not sitting there pushing buttons. The pilots are well-versed in all kinds of martial arts and, in the final battle, after the long-range weapons have been shut down, it becomes hand-to-hand combat be- tween the two opposing monster robots.

Fifty years after the last atomic war, these giant robots are the only permissible war machines. The losers are scrap metal. Johnson "was hilarious to work with," Gordon smiles. The striking, svelte actress "is about 6 feet tall and she would be walking around Italy [during filming], stopping traffic and turn- ing heads. She would go into Italian restaurants and, by the meal's end, she would be in the kitchen showing them how to make a hot fudge sundae.

On his resume, Gary listed his height as 6'1", and Anne- Marie listed hers as 5' 11 "; on the first day of shooting, I got them face to face in a two- Some combatants don't know when it's over. Achilles Gary Graham pursues his enemy even after both robotic alter-egos are destroyed.

Despite his usual screen persona, Koslo is actually "a very warm and sweet guy although occa- sionally, there would be times we would be in the middle of something and you could see something was rubbing him the wrong way, and it was like waiting for a volcano to blow. But he's such a mild-mannered per- son, I think he knows that, if he ever does blow his top," Gordon chuckles, "some- one's gonna die.

As a child, he started with H. Wells and then continued reading everything else in the genre. And, after all those years, he's thrilled to have made his first SF film. It was great because the thing about science fiction is you end up creating an entire world. For example, there are large posters of pregnant women all over the place in the background, the idea being that, in this post-nuclear world, they're try- ing to encourage people to repopulate the Earth, so we had a number of extras walk- ing around, padded up to look pregnant.

And there's a scene where Achilles visits his brother and the house is full of screaming kids, and the wife's pregnant again. She says, 'Well, I'm just doing my part. Besides, with six kids, you get three bedrooms,' im- plying that, as in the old Maoist China, if you had more kids, you were rewarded with more [living space]. Although his brother is a professional reader, Achilles is an illiterate. However, the filmmaker sees Robot Jox as depicting the opposite of a bleak, depress- ing future world. It's like a gigan- tic jigsaw puzzle, and shot by shot, you're waiting to put the right FX piece in the right place.

I did screenings to get people's reac- tions and every other shot would be a slug saying, 'Shot Missing,' so that became the movie's subtitle," he jokes. Bond becomes so obsessed with punishing the culprit, Sanchez, that he is dismissed from Her Majesty's Secret Service by "M, " and his license to kill is revoked. At 41, Dalton who discussed 00? This is one actor who takes his job very seriously. Let's talk about Bond as he ap- pears in this film; it seems he reveals a private side that he hasn't shown before.

You sur- prise me. How does this happen? Well, maybe we've seen the public Bond before — the man on a mis- sion — without dwelling on his inner motiva- tion and the private pain. I think the story is based on something personal. I mean, he's still the same man, of course, and I would like to think that you saw quite a few glimpses of the man himself in the last film, for exam- ple, because I believe that's important.

I wouldn't say the private Bond. It's still the same man, only here he's driven less objec- tively and professionally than he might be if he was working on a mission or a job. It comes from a personal source, but of course he's still Bond. What was the special challenge for you doing the character in this particular film, given the plot and motivation?

Almost every scene you do is difficult; every scene you do has a challenge, which is find- ing all the right bits of the jigsaw so that when you finish the movie, they will fit together and you'll have a proper picture of the man that fits with the film. It's a different kind of film — more straightforward in its motive. Daylights operated on quite a few levels of deception and intrigue, which I don't think we've got in this story.

There's a fundamen- tal course for aggression here and lots of blocks to the fulfillment of that. License to Kill is about vengeance, retribution, setting a wrong — a personal grievance — right, but it broadens and expands and takes on a larger perspective. Ultimately, as in all good Bond films, good does triumph over evil on a bet- ter basis than just one of personal revenge. I mean, one's own scope, one's own awareness of how he's behaving is enlarged and is brought back to something that is much more calculating and striving for a good end. It's very difficult for me to talk about it, because when you're in the beginning of the film, it's one thing to have broad strokes and outlines in your head, but day by day, through the process of work with your col- leagues, influences change, colors change, textures change.

It's difficult to judge until it's finished. Is he still as monogamous as in The Living Daylights! Yeah, I would pretty much say so. It usually starts with a woman giving him some trouble or problem or he's getting tangled with some woman he perhaps doesn't want to be tangled up with, but through the story, getting to know her better and perhaps either endangering himself in order to protect her or finding that she sometimes protects him and through their [eventual] mutual knowledge of each other, coming much closer, which I think is classic Bond.

In this call of the relationship? Would you say Bond has more of a partnership with her than with the females in the previous movies? I wouldn't say there's more of a partnership, no! Certainly, you could say in The Living Daylights, although the girl wasn't innocent, they developed into being — however haphazardly — partners; she certainly helped him.

I don't want to give the story away; there are complexities to it that shouldn't be revealed. How did you get along with Carey Lowell? Carey is a lovely person. She's extremely bright, responsive, very believable, and very good to work with. I think she has all the potential to be right up there in the forefront of the Bond leading ladies.

She's not a bad girl, just a tangl- ed girl, very attractive, very nice, something of a victim caught up in this affair. What kind of an opponent is Sanchez, as played by Robert Davi? What kind of a Bond villain is he? Before I speak about Davi, I would like to mention that this movie will be a harder, grittier, darker, and perhaps more realistic film than we've seen before. Alec "We both end up together going for this man Sanchez," says Dalton. His relationship with Lowell's character starts out stormy and then grows hotter.

Mills, who's lighting it, and the very texture of the story, both guarantee that. It's cer- tainly much together. And Davi as a villain is not among the "pantomime villains. Much of the film looks very moody and strong and dirty, which I like. One of my three favorite villains anyway was Gert Frobe in Goldfinger. I thought his performance was magnificent in a very wonderful film. Davi, too, is moving towards something fairly unique in the Bond films, and I hope it works. He's a worthy opponent? Oh hell, yes — and it goes beyond the nature of the character or the ac- tor playing the character.

I don't want to give the impression that one is moving away from tradition. He is still quite a monster and a villain in a world scale — his operation is global and destructive [Laughs heartily. Well, sometimes one would prefer to be playing the villain! Since fans have responded favorably to your portrayal of Bond, do you feel a greater ease playing him? I was gratified that so many people did enjoy The Living Daylights, but the responsive has not been percent, because everybody has their preconceptions of how James Bond should be.

But overall, there has been an overwhelming sense of pleasure at the direction the last movie took and how it was received by the audience. But it doesn't give one greater ease at all! You don't see Bond as an old friend you can just slip on? Not really, because it's not quite as simple as that. One has to make it work again and again every day. I have to shoot new scenes and new plotlines and make every moment feel right. That's the prob- lem. It has nothing to do with whether you feel happy, content and relaxed.

It has to do with what your imagination is telling you, what your responses are telling you. However good your previous work has been, the new one is always the new one — it has its own demands. Perhaps you face a bigger challenge than the previous Bonds, because they set the mold for themselves and then stayed with it. But you can't expect every story to be the same. When people talk to me about Roger Moore and Sean Connery, you can't compare the two; you can only say which films you prefer.

But they stayed as themselves within the movies that they made; there was no dramatic evolution. I know, but the movies themselves had the evolution. You could see the evolution between Dr. You could see development, but they were still within a similar area.

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Still, even funny guys have bad days. The expostulation is caused by a spilled can of soda on his end of the line; the spirit of the interview remains dampened long after the soda has dried. Moranis says this with dripping sar- casm. He must be kidding, because there are plenty of ques- tions that he really hates. And that gets us into the movie. Transportation includes a giant bee and a friendly ant made of latex foam core covered with horse hair, requiring up to a dozen operators. This is something that people are doing more and more of, and it's something that you must concentrate on.

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As I'm talking, I'm leaving holes for something to be added later. But in the finished movie, there are tiny children swimming for their lives amidst Cheerios the size of Saturn's rings. The Cheerios are played by textured inner tubes; the 16, gallons of milk is chlorinated water, pigment and a food product thickener. Was it hard to be funny on an empty set, looking down into a bowl of breakfast cereal?

So, in certain instances, a performer is really not that in touch with what the final product is going to be, especially in an effects situation. Ad Libs Not knowing how funny "funny" is go- ing to be when it winds up on the screen seems to cause Moranis less anxiety than not knowing how funny "funny" is going to be when it winds up in print. After giving numerous "funny" interviews, when he was "younger and greener and more glib," Moranis has turned over a new leaf. No more playful sparring with reporters.

All right, he does say something funny, but he does it so reluctantly, he makes it sound like something out of an historical compendium of late 20th-century humor. Although he doesn't only play nerds— "I do As a scientist, Moranis doesn't mind shrinking kids, but as an actor, he takes offense to shortening movie titles like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It's sort of unavoidable for me.

When I did Dark Helmet in Spaceballs, the note for the character said he wore this gigantic helmet. He was Napoleonic, he was fascist. And the press came out and said I was playing the nerdy leader. Does that also apply to Moranis? I feel very uncomfortable trying to come up with an answer for that question. He hated doing Streets of Fire, mostly because he was not allowed to improvise, and he disliked the finished product. I really separate the experience of doing a movie from the final product.

I real- ly put a tremendous value on the experience of doing it, which determines to a great ex- tent how I choose my projects. But Moranis wouldn't do a sequel just for the sake of doing a se- quel. Being down there was pretty frightening. It is absolutely the most polluted place you can imagine. There were days I woke up in my hotel room, and I swore I was sleeping in a garage. The air in my room felt like a car was idling there over- night. The Mexican people are wonderful. They're just in this unfortunate time and place, living in this overpopulated, terribly polluted valley with an inversion layer that has 40 million diesel engines pumping terri- ble fumes into it.

You saw all the knots, the hardwood, the heads of the nails, and all the idiosyncracies of a wood floor Janine Annie Potts and Louis Moranis do their bit to promote the Ghostbusters' return. Also, there were these huge, foot tall blades of grass, and soil and ants. He told me about this movie and about the kind of film he wanted to do. I read the script and looked at my kids— well, at that time I had one kid— and thought, 'What the heck. Moranis also has a movie script of his own, a comedy "God, I hope so" that he isn't ready to discuss.

It's a story of people coping with being a parent and a child in to- day's culture. Somebody's got- ta do the books. It's very col- laborative and fairly improvisational in terms of looking for jokes and action. A river of slime is roil- ing beneath Manhattan, and it all has to do with a museum painting of Vigo the Car- pathian, a baddie who is gradually coming to life.

Moranis speaks often about the impor- tance of collaboration among writers, actors and technicians on movies. But will he ever again have the creative freedom he once had with his Canadian confreres in SCTV1 "That was a unique situation," he observes. When you're young and hungry and green and you're in Edmon- ton and you're on at As soon as the network realizes, 'Hey, this is good, let's put this on in prime time,' it's over. Because now you have peo- ple flying up to Edmonton telling you, Wo, no, no, no, this should be a close-up, don't do that.

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It was a very time-consuming and difficult sequence to shoot. But I enjoy FX movies; there's fun in creating something that doesn't exist and making it believable. And in this film, it was the robots, making the audience believe they're real and weigh 3, tons. Gordon's robots have had an extended birthing process. While the scope and com- plexity of the special FX alone would have guaranteed a two-year shoot, production was held up an additional year due to Em- pire Pictures' financial woes, which resulted in their shutting the film down twice, pulling David Allen's crew out of the desert.

Later, Trans World Entertainment stepped in, viewed existing footage and decided to finish the movie. The subsequent unpredictable weather patterns on the Mojave sands stretched the rest of the filming out several more months. Metal Aftermath An early professional brush with the genre came when Gordon produced Warp, a science-fiction trilogy inspired by Marvel comics, on stage for the Organic Theatre Company.

During that time, he became friends with comic artists Berni Wrightson and Neal Adams. Drawing an analogy be- tween his love for comics and his new film, Gordon notes that "one thing they do well in comics is to create a sense of power with enormous characters or creatures of size, so I think comics were helpful in that regard. Comics are storyboards, really, and as a matter of fact, many comic book artists are doing storyboards and conceptual work. While the producers of Poltergeist and Gordon have been developing a Warp film, no firm plans have yet been made.

Peter O'Toole stars as Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, the real-life expert on torture responsible for thousands of deaths, all in a religious fervor. You have to find new ways to strike fear in- to their hearts. In a bit of swashbuckling, he gets to battle 25 guards while attempting an escape. And Sherilyn The Wraith Fenn plays a suspected witch, who Torquemada tortures while, at the same time, falling in love with her.

This will be much truer to the spirit of Poe than the [] Roger Corman film was, although I'm a fan of the Corman movie. I don't want to put it down in any way. They went as far as they could when that film was made, and we'll do the same for today. Their still-in-development Shadow Over Inns- mouth is about "a town in New England where all the inhabitants are turning into fish; pretty wild stuff.

He does, though, have a story credit on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which began as his own directorial project, The Teenie Weenies see page Stuart Gordon admits he would like to do an all-out comedy one day, noting ironical- ly, "It's amusing to me that, when I, directed theater in Chicago, what I mainly did was comedy but, since Re-Animator, it has been horror and, now, science fiction. But I still love them; I wouldn't want to leave the genre. It would have been nice to get our sub- marine sequence [another transformation] in, but if there's a sequel, we can put it in there.

For the most part, I think things turn- ed out far better than I had ever hoped they would. This is some of the best work I've ever done. War of the Worlds. Outer Limits Episode Guide. Inside Rob- by the Robot. Fenwick and his terrified nerd roommates live in their sleepy little frat house on Willowbrook Way. His latest work, "Nicola's Palace," is an action-adventure novel about three American teenagers who accidently kill a soldier in a Southeast Asian drug lord's private army, and are sold into slavery.

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