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Alex Garland and EX MACHINA

April 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Alex Garland and EX MACHINA

One of Alex Garland’s goals in writing the script for his directorial debut, EX MACHINA, was to get the science right, even for subjects such as consciousness and artificial intelligence, which are so poorly understood. He vetted the script with experts, refusing to shoehorn the science to make his story work. He’s still smarting from… Read More »

Tagged With: Adam Rutherford, AI, Alex Garland, Alicia Vikander, Artificial Intelligence, consciousness, Danny Boyle, Domnhall Gleeson, EX MACHINA, gender, gender issues, Gia Milinovich, Imperial College, John Hodges, Murray Shanahan, Oscar Isaac, post-it notes, Screenwriting, SUNSHINE, The Beach, Turing Test

The E-TEAM Talks

October 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The E-TEAM Talks

Human Rights Watch could want no better documentary about their work about their Emergency Teams than E-TEAM, which follows two of those team, one in Libya, one in Syria, bearing witness to human rights abuse. The Syrian team, Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang traveled to San Francisco along with filmmakers Ross Kauffman and Katy Chevigny… Read More »

Tagged With: Anna Neistat, documentary, gender issues, Human Rights Watch, Katy Chevigny, Libya, Ole Solvang, Ross Kauffman, Syria

Joe Wright & Saoirse Ronan Create HANNA

September 1, 2014 By 1 Comment

Joe Wright & Saoirse Ronan Create HANNA

Joe Wright and Saoirse Ronan’s previous collaboration on ATONEMENT resulted in an Oscar(tm) nomination for Ronan. Their latest project, HANNA, casts Ronan as a 16-year-old trained to be the perfect assassin, in a tale that combines elements of fairy tales and sharp social commentary on what our culture does and doesn’t expect from the female… Read More »

Tagged With: action/adventure, actress, ATONEMENT, Cate Blanchett, cinema, cultural expectations, director, film, gender issues, HANNA, Joe Wright, movie, narrative, physical training, red hair, Saoirse Ronan, trained assassin

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