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"A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. It is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K. Dick and his own experiences. Like a graphic novel come to life, "A Scanner Darkly" uses live action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process (interpolated rotoscoping) to create a haunting, highly stylized vision of the future. The technology, first employed in Richard Linklater's 2001 film "Waking Life," has evolved to produce even more emotional impact and detail. Written for the screen and directed by Richard Linklater, the film stars Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Rory Cochrane.
This video is a spin off of the Shaun White and Jay-Z HP commercials. This time, Keanu Reeves tells his interesting life story with the help of some CG visual aid.
American Express: Jerry Seinfeld
An American Express commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld ... in England!
The Week in a Minute is a quick trip through the past week's best video content.
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"Weird Science" trailer (1985)
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Josef Stylin featuring Maveric and Fantastik: "The Grind"
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"Beatle Mick"
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Jerry Hawkins: "I'd Be in Heaven in a Truck"
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New version of the Firefox browser
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Sri Lanka
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Boom Boom Satellites: "Dive For You" (anime video)
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"Art School Confidential" trailer
9.)
1984 Apple commercial
10.) Exclusive interview with director Wim Wenders: Part 5
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This installment of the Week in a Minute brings teenage witchcraft, a giant praying mantis, and the death of the Blackberry. The Week in a Minute is a cut-and-paste compilation of some of our favorite videos from the past week.
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Jaga Jazzist: "Animal Chin"
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"Tamara" trailer
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Sarah Harmer: "I Am Aglow"
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Hillary for president?
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Zion I: "The Bay"
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Is Army near breaking point?
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"Akeelah and the Bee" trailer
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The French Maids present: "How to Video Podcast"
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Miss America, on her platform
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Funki Porcini: "What Are You Looking At?"
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Singing the BlackBerry blues
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"Unknown White Male" trailer
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Gnocchi, featuring "orange rescue"
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Amon Tobin: "Four Ton Mantis"
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After the death of his father, Charlie Price must save his family's failing shoe factory or his entire town will be left out in the cold. When Charlie looks for a way to reinvent the family business, he finds help in the most unusual of people, Lola, a feisty female impersonator with a flair for design.
A one-time tennis pro, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) was used to falling just short in his life. But when he befriends Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode) and marries his sister, Chloe (Emily Mortimer), the doors are opened to the kind of money and success that Chris has once only dreamed of. Chris should have settled for happiness, but he is torn by his attraction to Tom's impossibly beautiful and sensual fiance, Nola (Scarlett Johansson). The attraction turns to an obsession that forces Chris to make a critical choice. Now everything in his life hinges on if Chris falls short again...and whether or not his luck runs out. "Match Point" is a drama about ambition, the seduction of wealth, love, and sexual passion. Perhaps most importantly, however, the story reveals the huge part luck plays in events, refuting the comforting misconception that more of life is under our control than really is.
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Acclaimed filmmaker Paul Greengrass ("The Bourne Supremacy") writes and directs an unflinching drama that tells the story of the passengers and crew, their families on the ground and the flight controllers who watched in dawning horror as United Airlines Flight 93 became the fourth hijacked plane on the day of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil: September 11, 2001. "United 93" recreates the doomed trip in actual time, from takeoff to hijacking to the realization by those onboard that their plane was part of a coordinated attack unfolding on the ground beneath them. The film attempts to understand the abject fear and courageous decisions of those who--over the course of just 90 minutes--transformed from a random assembly of disconnected strangers into bonded allies who confronted an unthinkable situation. Greengrass, known for films such as "Resurrected" and "Bloody Sunday," brings to United 93 a history of compassionate filmmaking that has explored some of the most troubled incidents of recent world history--when politics turns to violence, when beliefs slip into zealotry. As there is no perfect record of the hijacking's exact details and hostage retaliation, Greengrass takes a careful hand and partially improvises the events with an ensemble cast of unknown actors who were given studies of their UA Flight 93 counterparts. "United 93" intends to dignify the memory of those on that flight, the men and women whose sacrifice remains one of the most heroic legacies of the incomprehensible tragedies that unfolded on that autumn morning.
When the farmer's away, all the animals play ... and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis (Kevin James), a carefree bull.
"Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" trailer
"Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" is the clever, comic, post-modern take on the construction of a film, from an intricate, hilariously complex autobiographical novel of surreal situations and fierce rivalries, "The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne. Starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Kelly MacDonald, Jeremy Northam, James Fleet, Ian Hart, Shirley Henderson, Stephen Fry, and Gillian Anderson.
