Celebrate the end of summer with the quarterly FLUX Screening Series at the Hammer Museum, which features innovative short films, music videos, filmmaker retrospectives and performances. The September 15th program will highlight these films by artists who will be on hand to speak about their work:

Live Video Performance: Miwa Matreyek, Myth and Infrastructure

Acclaimed visual artist Miwa Matreyek will perform the continuation of her Myth and Infrastructure series. Matreyek premiered this multimedia piece at the TED Conference in Oxford in July of 2010, impressing critics and attendees with her masterful artistry as she used her shadow to interact with her projected animation.

World Premiere: Brett Simon, Crooked Arms

Brett Simon’s new short film is an affecting social commentary on how mobile phones interfere with our everyday reality.

MGMT “Congratulations”
Directed by: Tom Kuntz

Tom Kuntz will be present to speak about his first video in two years, the poignant, brand new “Congratulations” for MGMT, which features the band trekking through the desert with a creature designed by Where the Wild Things Are art director, Sonny Gerasimowicz.

Cee-Lo “No One’s Gonna Love You”
Directed by: Skinn

Filmmakers David Hache, Marc-Edouard Leon and Dori Oskowitz, collectively known as Skinny, will be sharing their experiences with their latest work for Cee-Lo, “No One’s Gonna Love You,” which follows a summer fling from its honeymoon phase to the point where reality sets in.

Yeasayer “Madder Red”
Directed by: Andreas Nilsson

In Andreas Nilsson’s new video for Yeasayer’s “Madder Red,” Kristen Bell plays an all-American actress struggling to dote on Bommel, a fading and ghastly-looking creature under her care.

The Hundred in the Hands “Pigeons”
Directed by: Daniels

Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, a.k.a. Daniels, will present their music video “Pigeons” for The Hundred in the Hands, in which a drunk woman ducks out of a party vomiting sparks and experiencing her intoxication in oddly physical ways.

The evening will also feature new videos by Charles de Meyer for Amon Tobin, Anthony Francisco Schepperd for Blockhead and Kristof Luyckx + Michèle Vanparys for Hermanos Inglesos, as well as the new short Words by Everynone in collaboration with NPR and WNYC’s Radiolab.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

7PM: Box Office opens. Pre-screening reception with special guest DJs Kim Anh + Anon (Booby Trap!, Saint Le Roq) in the courtyard. Hammer Cafe and Bar will be open and selling food and drinks all night.

8PM: Screening and filmmaker presentations.
10PM: After-party in the courtyard with DJs Kim Anh + Anon.

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE

Parking is available under the Museum. There is a $3 flat rate after 6:30 p.m.

Visit www.flux.net for more information.

Hammer Museum

Billy Wilder Theater
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310.443.7000

Flux Screening Series Press and Media Inquiries to:
Dayna Crozier
dayna@flux.net

Event is Free and Open to the Public

Press RSVP: dayna@flux.net

ANIMATED FEATURE
Up
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Coraline
The Secret of Kells
The Princess and the Frog

DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
James Cameron (Avatar)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
Lee Daniels (Precious)

ACTOR
Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart
George Clooney Up in the Air
Colin Firth A Single Man
Morgan Freeman Invictus
Jeremy Renner The Hurt Locker

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Matt Damon (Invictus)

ACTRESS
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sibide (Precious)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mo’Nique (Precious)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)

ART DIRECTION
Avatar
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
The Young Victoria
Nine
Sherlock Holmes

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

COSTUME DESIGN
The Young Victoria
Bright Star
Coco avant Chanel
Nine
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Cove
Food Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Burma Vj
Which Way Home

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Last Truck: The Closing of GM Plant
The Last Campaign of Gvernor Booth GardnerSendak
Rabbit a la Berlin
Music by Prudence
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

EDITING
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
District 9
Precious
Inglourious Basterds

MAKEUP
The Young Victoria
Il Divo
Star Trek

ORIGINAL SCORE
Michael Giacchino (Up)
James Horner (Avatar)
Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker)
Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes)
Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr. Fox)

ORIGINAL SONG
“Take it All” (Nine)
“The Weary Kind” (Crazy Heart)
“Almost There” (The Princess & the Frog)
“Down in New Orleans” (The Princess & the Frog)
“Loin de Paname” (Paris 36)

SOUND EDITING
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Avatar
Up
Inglourious Basterds

SOUND MIXING
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Avatar
Transformers 2
Inglourious Basterds

VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
Star Trek
District 9

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Up in the Air
An Education
Precious
District 9
In the Loop

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Up
The Messenger

LIVE ACTION SHORT
The Door
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
Kavi
Instead of Abracadabra

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
French Roast
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, BLACK DYNAMITE is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight) stars as BLACK DYNAMITE, a gun-toting, nunchuck-wielding, ladies man and soul brother. Written and directed by Scott Sanders (Thick as Thieves), BLACK DYNAMITE also stars Tommy Davidson, Nicole Sullivan, Bokeem Woodbine, Arsenio Hall and John Salley.

www.blackdynamite.com

http://www.fightsmackintheorphanage.org/

In 1973, feminist writer/child advocate Gloria Grey published her seminal best-seller We Are A Gentle Angry People: The Rise of Orphan Smack Addiction in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century. Though it was often filled with inaccuracies, misconceptions, factual errors, and plagiarized portions of unpublished Jacqueline Suzanne novels, it managed to catch of eye of community leader, Marion Barry – the godfather of the anti-Smack movement of the early 70s.

Though unlikely partners, Gray and Barry joined forces to lay the groundwork of what was to become Fight Smack in the Orphanage (FSITO) by organizing the first citywide “Smack-down” in Los Angeles in 1974. Later that year, with help from several government grants and the proceeds of Ms. Gray’s lucrative mail order macramé business, they opened the first FSITO Rehabilitation Center on Crenshaw Boulevard in L.A.

Over the next thirty years, more than one-hundred FSITO Centers opened their doors in locations all across the United States and Guam. These centers are no longer just places that kids can get clean, but symbols of hope that inspire the entire community. Some also offer Pilates.

Sadly, the battle is not over. There are still thousands of Smack-addicted orphans on the streets looking for their next fix.

FSITO refuses to give up. We know that with your help and support we can fight Smack and save the orphans.

Alex Jones’ highly anticipated documentary lifts the lid on how seductive tools of propaganda are being used to hypnotize the masses into accepting tyranny

Fall Of The Republic Exposes How Brand Obama Is Destroying America

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Alex Jones’ highly anticipated upcoming documentary Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack Obama boldly lifts the lid and unveils the fraud behind Brand Obama and how the globalists are using their newest, and slickest ever puppet to destroy the last vestiges of America’s freedom, Constitution and economy, all while helping the bankers loot the country clean.

The film exposes the agenda that Obama was put in place to accomplish, a world government allied with a bank of the world run by globalist eugenicists hell-bent on destroying America’s first world status and replacing it with a hollow shell of tyranny.

The mind control, the television programming, and all the media talking points that serve to reinforce the image of Brand Obama are laid bare, unveiling the naked ruth, as legendary author and documentary film maker John Pilger recently discussed, that Obama is nothing more than a corporate marketing creation, a skilled hypnotist using seductive tools of propaganda – race, gender and class – to hoodwink the masses into accepting his rhetoric while ignoring the contradiction of his actions.

The film exposes how Brand Obama says one thing – to make people buy into the brand – and then the real Obama does another.

The burgeoning police state, warrantless wiretapping, secret arrests, indefinite detention of citizens, torture, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Pakistan, have all been expanded under Brand Obama despite his promises to reverse them all.

The real question to ask is not which class Obama claims to represent or fight for, but which class Obama serves. Fall of the Republic leaves no room for doubt that the class Obama serves is the elite and it is their agenda he is diligently following.

In terms of focused research and factual content, Fall of the Republic dominates even The Obama Deception for hardcore evidence and documented material. The film proves how Obama was put in power to cement the gains of tyranny and oppression achieved under Bush while the masses slept, lulled into a deep hypnosis with empty promises of change, hope and progress.

The movie picks up from where The Obama Deception left off, highlighting how Obama has continued and expanded the socialized financial takeover introduced by Bush and how the bankster gangster cronies have made off with trillions in taxpayer’s money, bankrupting the future of the country for generations to come.

The hypocrisy and underlying deceit of people like Al Gore, John P. Holdren and Obama himself are displayed in plain view as the cap and trade hoax is demolished and revealed to be nothing less than a total takeover of the American economy, its infrastructure, and a mandate to micromanage every aspect of every citizen’s private life.

Obama’s role in converting American from a free market, free Republic, to a command and control state-run oligarchy controlled by offshore banking interests is explored at length in the documentary.

In order to make this the most hard-hitting documentary we have ever released, the biggest budget ever allocated to a single movie was made available, primarily for the purpose of traveling all over the country to conduct no less than 19 separate sit down interviews for the film.

Personalities who will appear in the movie include Gerald Celente, Alan Watt, Jesse Ventura, climatologist Tim Ball, economist John Perkins, the Oath Keepers, Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, Webster Tarpley, Bob Bowman, Wayne Madsen and George Humphrey.

Fall of the Republic is an unprecedented two hour romp through the highly concentrated and brazen levels of tyranny and corruption displayed by Obama and his administration in the short period since they took office.

The end of the movie is encapsulated by the idea that the fight to maintain and restore a free Republic is a constant struggle against those who harbor the virus of evil in their souls.

Fall of the Republic will be available first exclusively for Prison Planet.tv members on October 21st. If you are not yet a member, click here to get your subscription and enjoy high quality streaming and download of the movie immediately upon its release. Pre-orders for the DVD will be taken on September 21st at the Infowars shopping cart.

USA Today has released some images from Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice In Wonderland 3D film. Burton regulars are present with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen of Hearts. Also starring in the film is Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Mia Waskiwska as Alice. Some supporting actors include Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Crispin Glover, Marton Csokas, Stephen Fry, Christopher Lee, Michael Sheen, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Lindsay Duncan. The film’s story involves Alice returning to Wonderland 10 years after her original visit…a journey which she has previously forgotten. Check the full gallery after the break below.

(Source: USA Today)

We are big fans of the first installment of highly acclaimed Spanish horror [REC] and images of the sequel has us dancing jigs and firing shots in the air. How do you use the first-person perspective formula and make it brand new? Make it a first-person shooter! Gaming geeks might find some of the imagery all too familiar.

Enjoy!

INTL. COMPETITION JURY PRIZES

Palme d’Or
“The White Ribbon” (Michael Haneke, Germany-France-Austria-Italy)

Grand Prix
“A Prophet” (Jacques Audiard, France)

Lifetime achievement award
Alain Resnais, “Wild Grass” (France)

Director
Brillante Mendoza (“Kinatay,” France-Philippines)

Jury prize
“Fish Tank” (Andrea Arnold, U.K.), “Thirst” (Park Chan-wook, South Korea-U.S.)

Actor
Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds” (U.S.-Germany)

Actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg, “Antichrist” (Denmark-Germany-France-Sweden-Italy-Poland)

Screenplay
Mei Feng, “Spring Fever” (Hong Kong-France)

UN CERTAIN REGARD JURY AWARDS

Main Prize
“Dogtooth” (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece)

Jury Prize
“Police, Adjective” (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)

Special Prize
“No One Knows About Persian Cats” (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran), “Father of My Children” (Mia Hansen-Love, France)

OTHER MAIN JURY AWARDS

Camera d’Or
“Samson and Delilah” (Warwick Thornton)

Special Mention
“Ajami” (Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani, Israel-Germany)

Critics’ Week Grand Prix
“Farewell Gary” (Nassim Amamouche, France)

FIPRESCI AWARDS

Competition
“The White Ribbon” (Michael Haneke, Germany-Austria-France-Italy)

Un Certain Regard
“Police, Adjective” (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)

Directors’ Fortnight
“Amreeka” (Cherien Dabis, Canada-Kuwait-U.S.)

SHORT FILMS JURY PRIZES

Palme d’Or
“Arena” (Joao Salaviza, Portugal)

Special Mention
“The Six Dollar Fifty Man” (Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland, New Zealand)

CINEFONDATION

First Prize
“Baba” (Zuzana Kirchnerova-Spidlova)

Second Prize
“Goodbye” (Song Fang)

Third Prize
“Diploma” (Yaelle Kayam)

“Don’t Step Out of the House” (Jo Sung-hee)

ECUMENICAL PRIZE

“Looking for Eric” (Ken Loach, U.K.-France-Italy-Belgium-Spain)

PRIX VULCAIN TECHNICAL AWARD

Aitor Berenguer, sound mixer (“Map of the Sounds of Tokyo,” Spain)

Synopsis
Continuing the storyline based on the hit Playstation game Final Fantasy VII, two years have passed since the ruins of Midgar stand as a testament to the sacrifices made in order to bring peace. However, the world will soon face a new menace. A mysterious illness is spreading fast. Old enemies are astir. And Cloud, who walked away from the life of a hero to live in solitude, must step forward yet again . . .
BD Features

* On the Way to a Smile – Episode: Denzel Animated Film
* “Legacy of FINAL FANTASY VII” Featurette
* Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete Trailers
* “Reminiscence of FINAL FANTASY VII Compilation” Story Digest
* Exclusive Sneak Peek at FINAL FANTASY XIII
* “Reminiscence of FINAL FANTASY VII” Original Story Digest

Cast and Crew
* Director: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
* Producer: Shinji Hashmoto, Yoshinori Kitase

BD Details
* Genre: Sci-Fi
* Sub: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin Simplified), Chinese (Mandarin Traditional), Dutch, English (UK), English (US), French (Parisian), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin Am), Thai
* Color/B&W: Color

Another ridiculously bloody splatterfest from the creators of Tokyo Gore Police. The trailer below speaks for itself. You just gotta love these guys…

Gommora (a.k.a Gommorah)
Written by Roberto Saviano (book), Maurizio Braucci (screenplay), Ugo Chiti (screenplay), Gianni Di Gregorio (screenplay), Matteo Garrone (screenplay), Massimo Gaudioso (screenplay), Roberto Saviano (screenplay)
Directed by Matteo Garrone
Country: Italy
Year: 2008
Genre: Drama

Power, money and blood: these are the “values” that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the “System”, the Camorra.
Only a lucky few can even think of leading a “normal” life.

Five stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel and ostensibly invented world, but one that is deeply rooted in reality.

Short synopsis:
An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

www.obamadeception.net

The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people.

The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery.

We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order’s plans. It’s not about Left or Right: it’s about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation.

Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you.

Watch the Obama Deception and learn how:

* Obama is continuing the process of transforming America into something that resembles Nazi Germany, with forced National Service, domestic civilian spies, warrantless wiretaps, the destruction of the Second Amendment, FEMA camps and Martial Law.

* Obama’s handlers are openly announcing the creation of a new Bank of the World that will dominate every nation on earth through carbon taxes and military force.

* International bankers purposefully engineered the worldwide financial meltdown to bankrupt the nations of the planet and bring in World Government.

* Obama plans to loot the middle class, destroy pensions and federalize the states so that the population is completely dependent on the Central Government.

* The Elite are using Obama to pacify the public so they can usher in the North American Union by stealth, launch a new Cold War and continue the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The information contained in this film is vital to the future of the Republic and to freedom worldwide. President Barack Obama is only the tool of a larger agenda. Until all are made aware, humanity will remain captive to the masters of the New World Order.

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – Christian Colson

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Sean Penn for Milk (2008/I)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008)

Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: Okuribito (2008)(Japan)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – A.R. Rahman, Sampooran Singh Gulzar(“Jai Ho”)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – A.R. Rahman

Best Achievement in Editing
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – Chris Dickens

Best Achievement in Sound
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: The Dark Knight (2008) – Richard King

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) – Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: Smile Pinki (2008) – Megan Mylan

Best Documentary, Features
Winner: Man on Wire (2008) – James Marsh, Simon Chinn

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008)

Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: Spielzeugland (2007) – Jochen Alexander Freydank

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Achievement in Makeup
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) – Greg Cannom

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: The Duchess (2008) – Michael O’Connor

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo

Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: Maison en petits cubes, La (2008) – Kunio Katô

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: WALL·E (2008) – Andrew Stanton

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – Simon Beaufoy

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: Milk (2008/I) – Dustin Lance Black

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

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This March, Medicom Toy is releasing Crows Zero figures based on the movie. The upcoming releases include Genji Takiya and Tamao Serizawa. I would pre-order as soon as possible as I guarantee these will not last.

Hot Damme! Jean Claude Van Damme’s highly acclaimed comeback film is finally getting a proper R1 DVD release on April 28th, 2009. If you have a region-free DVD player and if you’re like me and can’t wait that long, the UK release comes out next Tuesday February 2nd, 2009.

Full trailer and more on the official US site at
http://www.jcvd-themovie.com/

From The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, a classic Shaw Brothers Studio martial-arts film from Hong Kong, come the first two figures in a series of minutely detailed 12″ tall articulated figures by MINDstyle. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin is considered by many to be a seminal work in the genre, widely regarded as “one of the greatest martial-arts films of all time.” The main character, San Te, played by Gordon Liu, is an historical figure from the Manchu dynasty.

Publication Date: May 06, 2009
Format: 12″ tall articulated figure, Limited-edition
Price: $139.99

www.mindstyle.com