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204 – Cloud Atlas (2012)

spacetime coordinates: Pacific Islands, 1849 // Cambridge/Edinburgh, 1936 // San Francisco, 1973 // London, 2012 // Neo Seoul, 2144 // Big Isle (Hawaii), 106 winters after the Fall (2321)

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Cloud Atlas is a 2012 German-American science fiction film written and directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. Adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell, the film has multiple plots set across six different eras, which Mitchell described as “a sort of pointillist mosaic.”  The official synopsis describes it as “an exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.”  Tom HanksHalle Berry, and Jim Broadbent lead an ensemble cast.

Lana Wachowski stated “people will try to will Cloud Atlas to be rejected. They will call it messy, or complicated, or undecided whether it’s trying to say something New Agey-profound or not. And we’re wrestling with the same things that Dickens and Hugo and David Mitchell and Herman Melville were wrestling with. We’re wrestling with those same ideas, and we’re just trying to do it in a more exciting context than conventionally you are allowed to. … We don’t want to say, ‘We are making this to mean this.’ What we find is that the most interesting art is open to a spectrum of interpretation.”

imdb // wikipedia

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184 – Shot Caller (2017)

spacetime coordinates: 2010’s Southern California

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Shot Caller is an American crime thriller film directed and written by Ric Roman Waugh. The film stars Nikolaj Coster-WaldauOmari HardwickLake BellJon BernthalEmory CohenJeffrey DonovanEvan Jones, with Benjamin Bratt, and Holt McCallany.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4633690/

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183 – World War Z (2013)

spacetime coordinates: 2012  Philadelphia,  Newark, New Jersey //Camp Humphreys – South Korea // Jerusalem // Freeport, Nova Scotia

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World War Z is a 2013 American action horror film directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by Matthew Michael CarnahanDrew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof is from a screen story by Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski, based on the title of the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks. The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie pandemic.

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In January 2012, director Forster and Paramount said that “They each view World War Z as a trilogy that would have the grounded, gun-metal realism of Matt Damon‘s Jason Bourneseries tethered to the unsettling end-times vibe of AMC’s The Walking Dead“. Plans for future installments were shelved due to the film’s production troubles.

On February 8, 2017, Paramount announced that the sequel has still not started filming and would not be released until 2018 or possibly even 2019. On June 24, 2017, David Fincher was confirmed by Paramount as the director of the sequel, with Brad Pitt returning to his role.

In a 2012 interview, Brooks stated the film had nothing in common with the novel other than the title.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_(film)

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178

Inferno (2016)

spacetime coordinates: 2016  Florence, Italy //  Istanbul

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inferno is a 2016 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by David Koepp, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Dan Brown. The film is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, and is the third installment in the Robert Langdon film series.


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Botticelli – Inferno (2016 documentary)

Botticelli Inferno is a 2016 Italian-German documentary film directed by Ralph Loop. The film is part of the project Great Art Cinema and analyses one of the most mysterious works of Sandro Botticelli, the Map of Hell in the Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli in the Vatican Library The map was originally part of an illustrated manuscript of Dante‘s Divine Comedy, featuring artwork by Botticcelli.

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175 – Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

spacetime coordinates: 2012  southern Louisiana bayou community called the “Bathtub” (a community cut off from the rest of the world by a levee)

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Beasts of the Southern Wild is a 2012 American drama film co-written, co-scored and directed by Benh Zeitlin. It was adapted by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from Alibar’s one-act play Juicy and Delicious. 

…Meanwhile, in the Arctic, the frozen Aurochs in an ice shelf start drifting into the ocean…

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The fictional island of the film, “Isle de Charles Doucet” known to its residents as the Bathtub, was inspired by several isolated and independent fishing communities threatened by erosion, hurricanes and rising sea levels in Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish, most notably the rapidly eroding Isle de Jean Charles. It was filmed in Terrebonne Parish town Montegut.

imdb, wiki

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Hushpuppy: [about an emergency shelter] When an animal gets sick here, they plug it into the wall.

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174 – giants

Colossal (2016)

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imdb     wikipedia

I Kill Giants (2017) 

i kill giants posterI Kill Giants is a 2017 American fantasy thriller film directed by Anders Walter with a screenplay by Joe Kelly, based on Kelly and Ken Niimura’s graphic novel of the same name. The film stars Madison WolfeImogen Poots, Sydney Wade, Rory Jackson and Zoe Saldana.

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