How to Colonize the Stars: The Challenge of Interstellar Flight
Leading physicists and engineers in the field of interstellar travel discuss some of the deep issues we face when considering the problem of sending spacecraft to other stars. Will mankind ever truly become a space fairing civilization? Space colonization is no longer the fodder of science fiction, it is becoming a reality. We'll need to learn how to grow food, manufacture and live off our planet.
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A young boy (played by an actual re-purposed Sunday school puppet) loses all faith in religion and afterlife options after having to bury his umpteenth pet, and vows that someday, when he's an adult with money, he'll find a way to become an 'eternal molecule' through science. Then, twenty-two years later, the playing of a pinball game brings dredges up the memory of that vow. Utilizing the hallucinogenic properties of alcohol and cough syrup blends, he undertakes the design of a pinball machine so poignant and dignified that it will convince scientists to create a pinball that we can download our consciousness into and thereby become digitally immortal.
Written
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ECW November to Remember 1999
Rhino joins forces with The Impact Players to face Raven, Tommy Dreamer & The Sandman in the main event. Rob Van Dam defends the ECW Television championship against Taz. Mike Awesome defends the ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Masato Tanaka. Sabu faces Chris Candido. Jerry Lynn collides with Tajiri. Plus, New Jack and much more!
Anniversary
A middle-aged woman and her best friend rush to make her over for the anniversary dinner she’s sure her husband is surprising her with.
Ghost Planet
A group of astronauts venture to a mysterious planet to claim the find of the century.
Karo und der liebe Gott
On the day of Karo's first communion, her parents' marital problems come to light. The ensuing separation hits her hard. Karo complains to God about her desperate situation via walkie-talkie. A gruff voice answers, eventually identifying itself as God and unwittingly providing proof of this. When Karo sees the man behind the voice, she is overcome with doubt. With the goal of reconciling her parents in mind, she forces the man into his divine role and thus to help her. The attempts staged by Karo and God to save her parents' marriage trigger a rollercoaster of emotions. In the end, Karo has grown from her failed goal and has not only found new friends for her life, but also a new perspective.
Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni
Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.
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Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Serbian guerilla fighter General Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović. Based on the General's own memoirs, the film depicts Mihailovitch (played here by Philip Dorn) as a selfless idealist, leading his resistance troops, known as the Chetniks, on one raid after another against the Germans during WW II.
Matter Out of Place
A film about our garbage that is found in the most remote areas and about the people who try to dispose of it. Not only in the sea and on coasts, also in the Arctic, the jungle, high up on the mountains and deep inside the desert, garbage is found almost everywhere in various forms and dimensions, sometimes as whole car wrecks, old TV sets or simply construction rubble, but mostly in the form of disintegrated plastic particles a few millimetres in size. Humanity has handed out its visiting cards thoroughly.
Getting It On
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Ecstasy in Entropy
An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid criminal globalisation through amateur wrestling, gun juggling and anarchist debate.
Past Calling
Kan, a young student who has not moved on from his past, is traveling home to his mother, whom he has barely contacted. While riding the train, he revisits his past and finds fragments of memories about his ex-girlfriend, the story of their relationship, and how it ended. How will Kan learn something and return to his family and move on from the past?
Brothers Liu
Based on the Chinese folk tale. Long ago, three brothers Liu lived in China. They were so similar that even their own mother discerned them on colored ribbons. The first brother could command fire, the second could drink the sea and return it back, and a third knew the language of birds, animals and fish.
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Ørkenens Sønner: Gå aldrig tilbage til en fuser
As summer arrived in Denmark, Ørkenens Sønner took to the stage at Bellevue Teatret on Thursday, June 5, in front of an excited premiere audience. The nerves that had built up among the four desert sons leading up to the premiere quickly proved to be totally unnecessary—the premiere was a resounding success, and praise from both the audience and critics rained down on Ørkenens Sønner.