Zdf Enterprises continues to do strong business at this year’s Mipcom and has launched international distribution for the highly touted upcoming documentary “Going Circular,” produced by Zdfe-owned production company Off the Fence (“The Octopus Teacher”) in association with Arte and Zdfe. The feature-length special was originally commissioned by Curiosity for its Curiosity Stream SVOD platform, where it will premiere on Nov. 4.
“Going Circular” is co-directed by two-time Primetime Emmy nominee and Bafta-winning (“The Human Body”) filmmaker Richard Dale and Nigel Walk (“How to Grow a Planet”).
Promising to be educational and hopefully influential, the documentary is the highest profile yet look at the trending concept of circularity, an economic system designed to eliminate waste and make the most of Earth’s limited natural resources. The film’s narrative tracks four of the world’s foremost innovators in 102-year-old inventor Dr. James Lovelock, biomimicry biologist Janine Benyus, designer Arthur Huang,...
“Going Circular” is co-directed by two-time Primetime Emmy nominee and Bafta-winning (“The Human Body”) filmmaker Richard Dale and Nigel Walk (“How to Grow a Planet”).
Promising to be educational and hopefully influential, the documentary is the highest profile yet look at the trending concept of circularity, an economic system designed to eliminate waste and make the most of Earth’s limited natural resources. The film’s narrative tracks four of the world’s foremost innovators in 102-year-old inventor Dr. James Lovelock, biomimicry biologist Janine Benyus, designer Arthur Huang,...
- 10/14/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Just when we thought the world was doomed by the rejection of scientific rationalism, this lecture docu about the theories and discoveries of researcher Lynn Margulis gives us hope again. Formerly denounced as a scientific radical, Margulis’ ideas supplant the established ‘Neo-Darwinism’ notion of natural selection through competition, with the idea of cooperation on the level of cells and bacteria. For those of us educated in the old ways it’s a real eye opener; John Feldman’s fine direction makes these important scientific concepts easy to understand.
Symbiotic Earth
How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat & started a scientific revolution
DVD
Bullfrog Films
2017 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 147 min. / Street Date January 8, 2019 / available through Bullfrog Films / 24.98
Starring: Lynn Margulis, James Lovelock, John Feldman (narrator).
Graphic Design: Guido Alvarez
Consulting Film Editor: Ann Tegnell
Original Music: Sheila Silver
Produced by Susan Davies
Edited, Written and Directed by John Feldman
The positive message of...
Symbiotic Earth
How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat & started a scientific revolution
DVD
Bullfrog Films
2017 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 147 min. / Street Date January 8, 2019 / available through Bullfrog Films / 24.98
Starring: Lynn Margulis, James Lovelock, John Feldman (narrator).
Graphic Design: Guido Alvarez
Consulting Film Editor: Ann Tegnell
Original Music: Sheila Silver
Produced by Susan Davies
Edited, Written and Directed by John Feldman
The positive message of...
- 1/5/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“Our future,” scientist James Lovelock has written, “is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.”
I thought about Lovelock the other day as I drove across Idaho, watching plumes from a forest fire rise in the distance. My mom and two of my kids were texting me about their experience driving through Redding, the city in Northern California where a “firenado” had devastated the region and accelerated a wildfire that killed six people.
I thought about Lovelock the other day as I drove across Idaho, watching plumes from a forest fire rise in the distance. My mom and two of my kids were texting me about their experience driving through Redding, the city in Northern California where a “firenado” had devastated the region and accelerated a wildfire that killed six people.
- 8/9/2018
- by Jeff Goodell
- Rollingstone.com
A new documentary feature about Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through collaboration.
Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution will premiere worldwide in March 2018 at Oxford University on March 3, the Museum Blau of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona on March 7 and the David Brower Center in Berkeley on March 18. The premieres will launch a worldwide series of community screenings.
Symbiotic Earth is the story of a scientific rebel. A model of female empowerment, Lynn Margulis fought the male establishment and, through her persistence and triumphed.
As a young scientist in the 1960s, Margulis was ridiculed when she articulated a theory that symbiosis was a key driver of evolution. Instead of the mechanistic view that life evolved through random mutations and competition (the Darwin model of “survival of the fittest”), she...
Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution will premiere worldwide in March 2018 at Oxford University on March 3, the Museum Blau of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona on March 7 and the David Brower Center in Berkeley on March 18. The premieres will launch a worldwide series of community screenings.
Symbiotic Earth is the story of a scientific rebel. A model of female empowerment, Lynn Margulis fought the male establishment and, through her persistence and triumphed.
As a young scientist in the 1960s, Margulis was ridiculed when she articulated a theory that symbiosis was a key driver of evolution. Instead of the mechanistic view that life evolved through random mutations and competition (the Darwin model of “survival of the fittest”), she...
- 12/14/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Nuclear power is a myth as much as a reality, a shadow in the modern mind. Behold a place where dark deeds are done
This eerie picture of Sellafield by night shows why it is almost impossible to be rational about nuclear energy. As the nuclear reprocessing plant in north-west England announced a partial shutdown while it investigated a high-radiation reading, our atomic fears once again mushroomed.
There's something unreal about this photograph: it evokes science-fiction images of alien phenomena infiltrating the natural landscape of Cumbria. Behold a place where dark deeds are done deep inside the atom. We've seen the film before, so many times – from cold-war newsreels to 1970s Doctor Who.
Indeed, the iconography of "science as horror" that haunts this photograph is far older than nuclear power itself. This hi-tech nocturne closely resembles Phillipe Jacques de Loutherbourg's 1801 painting Coalbrookdale by Night, which sees one of the great...
This eerie picture of Sellafield by night shows why it is almost impossible to be rational about nuclear energy. As the nuclear reprocessing plant in north-west England announced a partial shutdown while it investigated a high-radiation reading, our atomic fears once again mushroomed.
There's something unreal about this photograph: it evokes science-fiction images of alien phenomena infiltrating the natural landscape of Cumbria. Behold a place where dark deeds are done deep inside the atom. We've seen the film before, so many times – from cold-war newsreels to 1970s Doctor Who.
Indeed, the iconography of "science as horror" that haunts this photograph is far older than nuclear power itself. This hi-tech nocturne closely resembles Phillipe Jacques de Loutherbourg's 1801 painting Coalbrookdale by Night, which sees one of the great...
- 1/31/2014
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Sneak Peek more new spoiler images from director Matthew Vaughn's "The Secret Service", plus comic book creator Mark Millar discusses the big screen film adaptation starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Firth, Taron Egerton and Michael Caine:
"Taron is exactly 'Gary Unwin', " said Millar.
"Without question. He just looks like Dave's drawing come to life. Colin, likewise, looks like he's stepped out of the comic.
"It's just fantastic and having a couple of Oscar winners like he and Michael Caine just gives this project such a huge gravitas.
"Sam's character in the book is more of a 'Mark Zuckerberg' character, an internet entrepreneur who falls for this big global warming concern that's genuinely given me sleepless nights since I first read James Lovelock's 'Gaia' books in my twenties.
"We talked about a lot of young, 20-something actors, but really there was nobody available who felt right...
"Taron is exactly 'Gary Unwin', " said Millar.
"Without question. He just looks like Dave's drawing come to life. Colin, likewise, looks like he's stepped out of the comic.
"It's just fantastic and having a couple of Oscar winners like he and Michael Caine just gives this project such a huge gravitas.
"Sam's character in the book is more of a 'Mark Zuckerberg' character, an internet entrepreneur who falls for this big global warming concern that's genuinely given me sleepless nights since I first read James Lovelock's 'Gaia' books in my twenties.
"We talked about a lot of young, 20-something actors, but really there was nobody available who felt right...
- 1/12/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Mark Millar gained critical acclaim at Marvel and DC for his work on titles like Superman: Red Son, The Ultimates and Civil War. The comic book writer has since embarked on a number of equally praised creator owned projects, many of which have been adapted to the big screen. These include Kick-Ass, Wanted and Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming take on Millar and Watchmen artist Dave Gibbon’s The Secret Service.
The comic book tells the story of a James Bond-like spy who recruits his rough around the edges nephew to battle a mysterious villain responsible for kidnapping a number of public figures, including Star Wars legend Mark Hamill. The movie has assembled an impressive cast which includes Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine and relative newcomer Taron Egerton.
In a recent interview with Comic Book Resources, Millar had this to say about his role as an executive producer...
The comic book tells the story of a James Bond-like spy who recruits his rough around the edges nephew to battle a mysterious villain responsible for kidnapping a number of public figures, including Star Wars legend Mark Hamill. The movie has assembled an impressive cast which includes Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine and relative newcomer Taron Egerton.
In a recent interview with Comic Book Resources, Millar had this to say about his role as an executive producer...
- 1/11/2014
- by Josh Wilding
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The idea that Earth was invaded by microbes from Mars challenges human beliefs about life, the universe and everything
'The evidence seems to be building that we are all actually Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock," Prof Steven Benner told the Goldschmidt meeting, this week's international scientific convention in Florence.
The theory that microbes from Mars "infected" the Earth via meteorites, finding conditions here more conducive to their evolution, is nothing new. But Benner's theory, that the minerals essential to life's formation were only readily available on Mars, is. Such a notion challenges almost every aspect of human culture, from biology to philosophy and faith – and practically every science fiction scenario in the book.
Long before Hg Wells' War of the Worlds threatened the home counties with a Martian invasion, we humans were looking up at the red planet, coursed as it seemingly...
'The evidence seems to be building that we are all actually Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock," Prof Steven Benner told the Goldschmidt meeting, this week's international scientific convention in Florence.
The theory that microbes from Mars "infected" the Earth via meteorites, finding conditions here more conducive to their evolution, is nothing new. But Benner's theory, that the minerals essential to life's formation were only readily available on Mars, is. Such a notion challenges almost every aspect of human culture, from biology to philosophy and faith – and practically every science fiction scenario in the book.
Long before Hg Wells' War of the Worlds threatened the home counties with a Martian invasion, we humans were looking up at the red planet, coursed as it seemingly...
- 8/30/2013
- by Philip Hoare
- The Guardian - Film News
Edge of Darkness
(317 minutes, 6 parts)
Directed by Martin Campbell
Written by Troy Kennedy-Martin
1985, UK, BBC2
The way in which Edge of Darkness reaches its final moments of grandiloquence feels like tonal prolapse; as if, in giving birth to a Cold War-sized tale of nuclear espionage and corruption, a once firm-bellied thriller with a very Northern type of English brooding pushed too hard and ended up stretching itself irreversibly. Then again, from the outset there is a sense, a feeling that the boxy reserve of the visuals will not necessarily extend to theme or narrative or intellect. Think back to the moment in Jacques Audiard’s Un Prophete when it becomes evident that the film has no interest in being your garden variety realist prison thriller. Well, while not as ostentatious or perhaps as mystical, at several points during the six stellar episodes that comprise Edge of Darkness, the show’s...
(317 minutes, 6 parts)
Directed by Martin Campbell
Written by Troy Kennedy-Martin
1985, UK, BBC2
The way in which Edge of Darkness reaches its final moments of grandiloquence feels like tonal prolapse; as if, in giving birth to a Cold War-sized tale of nuclear espionage and corruption, a once firm-bellied thriller with a very Northern type of English brooding pushed too hard and ended up stretching itself irreversibly. Then again, from the outset there is a sense, a feeling that the boxy reserve of the visuals will not necessarily extend to theme or narrative or intellect. Think back to the moment in Jacques Audiard’s Un Prophete when it becomes evident that the film has no interest in being your garden variety realist prison thriller. Well, while not as ostentatious or perhaps as mystical, at several points during the six stellar episodes that comprise Edge of Darkness, the show’s...
- 6/3/2012
- by Tope
- SoundOnSight
After a 13-year silence, the film-maker is back with Robinson in Ruins, the latest in a subversive series about British society
Patrick Keiller has perfect timing. Like an expert ghost carrying out a particularly good haunting, it seems only fitting that the maker of some of British cinema's most wryly subversive documentaries would re-emerge now, at one of the more interesting junctures of modern history. The vehicle is Robinson in Ruins, the third film in a loosely-bound series of glorious square pegs, made over a period of almost 20 years. The films are united by their role as dense, free associative wanderings through the stuff of British life and by their protagonist, Robinson, perhaps the only hero in film to be neither heard nor seen in any of his movies.
A new film from Keiller would mean a celebration round my way at any time. But there is a special pleasure in remaking his acquaintance now.
Patrick Keiller has perfect timing. Like an expert ghost carrying out a particularly good haunting, it seems only fitting that the maker of some of British cinema's most wryly subversive documentaries would re-emerge now, at one of the more interesting junctures of modern history. The vehicle is Robinson in Ruins, the third film in a loosely-bound series of glorious square pegs, made over a period of almost 20 years. The films are united by their role as dense, free associative wanderings through the stuff of British life and by their protagonist, Robinson, perhaps the only hero in film to be neither heard nor seen in any of his movies.
A new film from Keiller would mean a celebration round my way at any time. But there is a special pleasure in remaking his acquaintance now.
- 11/5/2010
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
Our daily Haycasts - podcasts from the festival site - were the highlight of our coverage of last year's Guardian Hay festival. This year, we're heading back to Wales to bring you more of the same - but this time we'd like to hear your questions for the authors we're interviewing
Here's our full list of interviewees:
Joss Ackland
Simon Armitage
Antony Beevor
Helen Dunmore
Ranulph Fiennes
Rick Gekoski
Roy Hattersley
Charlie Higson
Peter Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Kazuo Ishiguro
James Lovelock
Henning Mankell
David Mitchell
Ben Okri
Yotam Ottolenghi
Mal Peet
Kjartan Poskitt
David Remnick
Sue Townsend
Robert Winston
Once we're at the festival, we'll blog and tweet every morning asking for your questions for the authors we're speaking to on the day day, but if you can't wait until then, please email your questions to books.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk. We hope to include one audience question per interview,...
Here's our full list of interviewees:
Joss Ackland
Simon Armitage
Antony Beevor
Helen Dunmore
Ranulph Fiennes
Rick Gekoski
Roy Hattersley
Charlie Higson
Peter Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Kazuo Ishiguro
James Lovelock
Henning Mankell
David Mitchell
Ben Okri
Yotam Ottolenghi
Mal Peet
Kjartan Poskitt
David Remnick
Sue Townsend
Robert Winston
Once we're at the festival, we'll blog and tweet every morning asking for your questions for the authors we're speaking to on the day day, but if you can't wait until then, please email your questions to books.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk. We hope to include one audience question per interview,...
- 5/21/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Director Alfonso Cuaron has two remarkable films on the Children of Men DVD -- the dystopian feature and a startling half-hour documentary that explores the macro-global issues raised by the movie.
The Possibility of Hope docu doesn't have much hope in it. Cuaron rounds up a half-dozen philosophers and futurists who see overpopulation, economic repression and global warming sending the planet into a new dark age. These guys make Al Gore look like a shiny-eyed optimist.
"It's not a matter of people surviving," scientist and philosopher James Lovelock says. "It's a matter of civilization surviving. ... It can easily degenerate into a dark age again. It's quite possible that will happen."
Writer-activist Naomi Klein says of global warming: "I wouldn't say human extinction. But a genocidal (outcome)."
The short is an unusual made-for-DVD extra because it doesn't exist to promote the film or exploit its thinkers' big-headline conclusions. This is grad school territory, where the first reference is to Hegel's metaphysics. The topic is no less than the fate of the human race.
The downtrodden future always seems to elude filmmakers, but many have tried, including the mighty Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange). Few of the films feel plausible, probably because the filmmakers overamped their visions. Children of Men succeeds by Cuaron's insistence that all scenes from his year 2027 "show me the reference in real life." The movie -- about a world where women have mysteriously become infertile -- was one of the best of last year, overlooked at the Oscars. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine star.
Children of Men looks suitably grim on Universal's single-disc release, with the grit, grain and grays of the film all intact. The 1.85 widescreen images are enhanced for 16x9 monitors. (There also is a full-screen version.) The front-centered audio is Dolby 5.1 only.
Other extras include an analysis of the film by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who calls it, curiously, a remake of Cuaron's Y tu mama tambien; a trio of deleted scenes, including one in which Owen and Danny Huston wander nonchalantly among the great artworks of the lost civilization; a discussion of Cuaron's technique of long, "incredibly choreographed takes"; and a special-effects study of the film's miracle baby.
The Possibility of Hope docu doesn't have much hope in it. Cuaron rounds up a half-dozen philosophers and futurists who see overpopulation, economic repression and global warming sending the planet into a new dark age. These guys make Al Gore look like a shiny-eyed optimist.
"It's not a matter of people surviving," scientist and philosopher James Lovelock says. "It's a matter of civilization surviving. ... It can easily degenerate into a dark age again. It's quite possible that will happen."
Writer-activist Naomi Klein says of global warming: "I wouldn't say human extinction. But a genocidal (outcome)."
The short is an unusual made-for-DVD extra because it doesn't exist to promote the film or exploit its thinkers' big-headline conclusions. This is grad school territory, where the first reference is to Hegel's metaphysics. The topic is no less than the fate of the human race.
The downtrodden future always seems to elude filmmakers, but many have tried, including the mighty Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange). Few of the films feel plausible, probably because the filmmakers overamped their visions. Children of Men succeeds by Cuaron's insistence that all scenes from his year 2027 "show me the reference in real life." The movie -- about a world where women have mysteriously become infertile -- was one of the best of last year, overlooked at the Oscars. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine star.
Children of Men looks suitably grim on Universal's single-disc release, with the grit, grain and grays of the film all intact. The 1.85 widescreen images are enhanced for 16x9 monitors. (There also is a full-screen version.) The front-centered audio is Dolby 5.1 only.
Other extras include an analysis of the film by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who calls it, curiously, a remake of Cuaron's Y tu mama tambien; a trio of deleted scenes, including one in which Owen and Danny Huston wander nonchalantly among the great artworks of the lost civilization; a discussion of Cuaron's technique of long, "incredibly choreographed takes"; and a special-effects study of the film's miracle baby.
- 3/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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