Langoliers

The Langoliers is one of four novellas published in the Stephen King book Four Past Midnight in 1990.

On a cross-country red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, some passengers awaken to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared.

There is Brian Engle, an off-duty airline pilot. Dinah Bellman is a young blind girl with minor psychic powers. Fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson takes to watching over Dinah. Nick Hopewell is from England. Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer. There is Rudy Warwick, a businessman. Albert Kaussner is a talented Jewish teen violinist. A teenager with drug problems is called Bethany Simms. Rounding out the group is Bob Jenkins, a mystery author and Craig Toomy, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown. They realize only those sleeping are now left on the plane. Engle takes control and lands the plane in Bangor, Maine.

The airport is abandoned with no signs of life. There are no odors or electricity. Food and drinks are tasteless and fire simply sputters out. They soon hear 'radio static' in the distance. Craig believes it is 'Langoliers', monsters he had heard about as a child who go after those who waste time.

In trying to get to his appointments, Craig snaps and takes Bethany as a hostage. He shoots Albert, who escapes injury because the gun has no force. Craig is subdued and tied up. Bob theorizes that they have flown through a time rip caused by an aurora borealis that the airlines spotted over the Mojave Desert. Bob declares that the world they are in is the past, a world that doesn't allow time travelers to see past events, but a deserted world that "time" has left behind. To get back, Bob theorizes, they must fly back through the aurora.

The survivors work together to refuel the plane. Since it holds 'present time', it will burn properly, unlike the combustible materials in the bullet and matches.

Craig, now completely insane, escapes and rampages through the airport. He stabs Dinah in the chest and kills Don. He fears the others are manifestations of the Langoliers he heard of. Albert defeats Craig and leaves him on the airport floor.

While the plane is in its final preparations Dinah telepathically communicates with Craig and persuades him that his board meeting is being held on the runway. Craig makes his way out and hallucinates arriving at the meeting, but has a breakdown before his boss and screams that he deliberately cost the company millions, ensuring his eventual firing and disgrace.

It turns out Craig is right, in a way. Creatures emerge from the forest and head for the plane, consuming everything in their way. Craig is eaten.

In the plane, Bob determines that the Langoliers are the timekeepers of eternity, and that their purpose is to eat what is left of the past. The plane takes off, and as they fly the passengers see that the rest of the land falls apart, leaving a formless, black void. The survivors make their way back to Los Angeles and discuss their pasts as they fly; Nick reveals himself to be an assassin for the British Army who was going to Boston to find a politician funding the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and assassinate his girlfriend. Dinah speaks to Laurel about how her life is ending happily, and then succumbs to her injuries. Nick confesses his feelings for Laurel and the hopes of a romance with her. Albert and Bethany confess a similar attraction.

Bob realizes all must be asleep to survive going through the rift again. Nick volunteers to manipulate the controls though all know this will cost him his life. He takes a moment to ask Laurel to pass a message to his father, saying that he, Nick, has quit the business. The cabin pressure is decreased and all fall into a deep sleep. Nick vanishes as the plane goes through the rift.

Seemingly, nothing has happened. They land the plane in Los Angeles and the world first seems deserted. When they check outside, they hear a noise; this noise is not the ominous sound of the Langoliers, but a relaxing hum. Inside the airport, sounds echo and food has taste. Bob concludes that the time rift brought them into the future and that this world is not dead, but a world that's waiting to be born. The group moves themselves against the wall to avoid human traffic in the airport. They then see colors with holograms of people and activity going on. A flash hits them and they find themselves in the present again. Happy to be back, the group goes outside for some fresh air. But they freeze in mid-air in a quintessential 90's movie-ending.

The Langoliers was adapted for a two-part TV Movie in 1995. The TV movie starred Kate Maberly, Kimber Riddle, Patricia Wettig, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Frankie Faison, Baxter Harris, Dean Stockwell, David Morse, Christopher Collet and Bronson Pinchot.

The movie version of "The Langoliers", produced for broadcast on ABC-TV, was filmed almost entirely in and around the Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine (author King's hometown) during the summer of 1995. King himself made a cameo appearance in the film as Craig Toomey's boss, during Toomey's hallucination.

The partial main antagonist, Craig Toomy, was known to tear fragments of magazine, or whatever other paper-like material he could get his hands on, into small strips. Ben Hanscom happened to be doing this quite rapidly (with a napkin) at the first table discussion as Grownups in It (novel).

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One-man show

Original title: Moon
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: fiction, drama, thriller, detective
Directed by: Duncan Jones
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey
Premiere: January 23, 2009
Budget: $ 5 million
Running time: 97 minutes

In this age of total computerization of cinema pure sci-fi, not intended to entertain the viewer infinite-paced action scenes so juicy explosions fit already recorded in the Red Book. Entertainment and a beautiful picture - all of this, of course, wonderful, especially when seasoned with sensible plot. But sometimes the overabundance of running around the adventures still tired. Then the soul is looking for stories of more peaceful, ordinary in shape and at the same time unusual in content. As if trying to satisfy this particular request to fans of fantasy, the British director Duncan Jones took his first tape, which in our area is known as "Luna 2112".

Operator lunar base Sam Bell works off a three-year contract, controlling production of the isotope helium-3. This substance is essential for earthlings, because in his time it has saved the planet from the fuel crisis. The process of extraction of valuable source of energy looks very funny: the wheels on the lunar expanses wonderful form harvester and sucks from the lunar surface sand. Neither give nor take - harvester in the extraction of Spice of "Dune 2"! Curiously, while shooting scenes outside the base cost without a computer special effects in principle. Here were engaged exclusively miniature models of equipment. And that was enough to ensure a realistic event.

It is realistic and captivating film. No alien monsters, and unseen monsters! In the center of the story - a man alone with his loneliness. Only a robot assistant is to keep him company, skrashivaya his drab existence. Yes rare conversations with their relatives. But once Sam is an accident, from which he rescues a man like him as two drops of water. In clarifying the relationship between them and the search for an answer to the question "who is whose clone is held by the remaining part of the film.

Another advantage of the film - an impressive actor playing Sam Rockwell, who laid out in the literal sense, for ten. Moreover, he had to portray two Semov Bello (and very different in nature!) Simultaneously, so more had to be almost constantly in the frame. For all the other characters are only sporadic and occur only in the video feed during a communication session with the Earth.

The ideological component "of the Moon 2112" - a serious life and times of human clones in the distant future - is not new and does not possess originality. However, its realization, from which breathes the atmosphere of good old retrofantastiki in the spirit of short stories by Isaac Asimov and Clifford Simak, inadvertently makes off his hat to the director. And let the background of "Solaris" and "Space Odyssey" this film looks a second time, but today no one else takes off, dammit!

One actor, a couple of miniature modelek and decorations - just as much as you need to depict a closed room. Minimalism "Moon 2112" on the background of a riot of colors "Avatar" seems a bold challenge to tradition, the bold experiment that could prove important - even with a minimum budget, you can remove the hard science-fiction movie!

Fantastic Arthouse

Original title: Welt am Draht
Country: Germany
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genre: fiction, thriller, detective, drama
Premiere: October 14, 1973
Budget: 950 000 DEM
Running time: 205 minutes

Many fans of quality kinofantastiki certainly are familiar with the film "The Thirteenth Floor" Joseph Rusnak, who went into the rental time with the legendary "The Matrix" and remained at its background virtually unnoticed. Based on the original, the book of Daniel Francis Gelui "Simulakron-3", he narrated a very advanced simulator virtual reality, inhabited by programs that simulate human behavior with a high degree of similarity. Less well known is the fact that this film is the second adaptation of the novel Gelui. The first was shot in the distant 1973, under the leadership of director arthouse cinema of Rainer Fassbinder.

"World on a Wire" is little known outside of Germany. The reason was the lack of clarity in copyright, because of which the film has never had either on tape or on CD, or on DVD. Do not "roll of" it in cinemas, because originally was "locked up" under the TV format. But even on TV it showed very rare, and only the sale of copies to foreign channels and did it not go! So this two-part film - very ekoticheskaya bird in our area. Russian-speaking actors, Welt am Draht never made public. Find it could so far only on a torrent, at best, with the original voice acting and Russian subtitles. Fortunately, recently the situation with the right to permit, and February 18, 2010 scheduled release a double disc DVD-restored version of the picture. So far, only, again, in Germany. And before you know it, and a full Russian language edition coming soon!

Despite the commonality of the plot and the presence of similar plot turns, "World on a Wire" to "The Thirteenth Floor" is like very little. Hollywood version - is, first of all, genre cinema, it focused on action, detective line and dive into the characters they have created a virtual reality. The film is Fassbinder - Film copyright, not fettered genre framework, and therefore mass audience may seem rather dull spectacle. His characters are not worn one after another, brandishing pistols, and most screen time are intimate conversations among themselves. The main character moves Simulakron only twice, and then only for a short time. Dialogues, actor and game hanging in the air the question "What is happening?" - These are three pillars on which rests "World on a Wire. For them it is definitely worth watching.

Institute of Cybernetics and futurology has created a revolutionary supercomputer - Simulakron, with which you can simulate entire worlds and populate them with artificial persons. Triumph scientists darkened the sudden death of the technical director of the Institute Henri Follmera and strange disappearance security chief, Gunter Lausen. Last literally melted in air at a party where he saw a lot of people! The new director of the Institute, Fred Sztyller trying to understand what happened, but suddenly encountered a new problem: no one remembers the existence of Lausen, and generally more than five years, his position is entirely different person!

Around the emotional ravings of Fred Sztyller and built the whole story. Klaus Levich, who played his role brilliantly managed to pass the state and the emotions of a man caught in a very delicate situation: either he was crazy, or, conversely, all flocking round the reel? Other actors of his game as something not particularly impressive, but one Levich more than compensate inexpressiveness all others. However, as any emotion can be expected from people who play the officials, academics and businessmen in their normal working environment?

Fassbinder film is also interesting that not only concentrates on one technical aspect of the theme of virtual reality, but also affects the philosophical aspects of the human mind and attitude. Together with an intricate plot, which, in addition to a global Mystery, a place, and social, and romantic component, viewers are introduced to a very curious glances of the ancient Greek philosophers. And one of the scenes and did a five-point illustration of Plato's doctrine of "ideas".

From today's perspective is quite interesting and looks even more reluctant Fred Sztyller Simulakron exploit for commercial purposes. The protagonist of "thirteenth floor" worked in a computer corporation, so there is the question: to sell or not the results of their labor, not even standing. Here the action takes place in public institutions. And according to its creators, Simulakron must be used exclusively for the benefit of society, but does not serve the interests of a narrow group of individuals. Such is the theme of troubled director and society in the seventies of last century.

Against the backdrop of modern science fiction films, literally saturated the action, "World on a Wire" stands out for its ordinariness and this, perhaps, it seems even more convincing. See it is if only so that he is the first in the history of cinema film about virtual reality. In Fassbinder filmography as he also occupies a unique place - it is his only painting in the genre of science fiction with elements of social drama.

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Dan in Real Life

Dan in Real Life is a 2007 American comedy-drama film, directed by Peter Hedges and starring Steve Carell and French actress Juliette Binoche.

Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is a newspaper advice columnist, widower and father to Jane, Cara and Lilly in the New Jersey suburbs. His column is in contention to be syndicated nationally. The family takes a trip to the Rhode Island home of his parents (Dianne Wiest and John Mahoney) to visit his family—including his New York City-based brother, Mitch (Dane Cook), a personal trainer—for an annual family get together. Cara does not want to go, as she does not want to leave her boyfriend Marty (Felipe Dieppa) with whom she claims to have fallen in love in just three days. But Dan insists that it is not possible to fall in love in three days and makes her go. The morning after his arrival, Dan's mother encourages him to go into town for a bit to give his daughters some space. Dan visits a bookstore and a customer named Marie (Juliette Binoche) mistakes him for an employee. Dan and Marie have an obvious connection and continue to talk over breakfast. Marie agrees to meet with Dan again before leaving but tells Dan that she has a boyfriend. Dan returns to his parents' house and happily announces he has met someone new, only to find that Marie is there, her boyfriend being Dan's brother, Mitch.

Dan and Marie spend the majority of their time trying to deny their attraction to each other. Cara's boyfriend shows up despite the long journey but is sent home by Dan. Cara chases the car and cries and calls out, "You are a murderer of love!" to Dan when Marty is out of sight. During a family talent show, Dan plays guitar while Mitch sings Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open the Door." But Mitch forgets the words, and Dan steps in, serenading Marie in front of his brother. Marie is unable to continue to deny her feelings for Dan, and she breaks up with Mitch, which makes him distraught. Before leaving town, she calls Dan, and they meet at a bowling alley. After spending some time bowling, Marie and Dan end up kissing. At this point, Dan's family shows up at the bowling alley. Surprised and infuriated at Dan for his betrayal, Mitch punches Dan in the face and Marie runs out.

A short time later, Dan finally meets with a father and daughter who run the newspaper media company. His family sits in on the meeting. Lost at what he has experienced, the meeting turns awkward but unresolved. Dan talks to his daughters and admits he is in love with Marie, even though he has only known her three days. Encouraged by his parents and the three girls, he goes after Marie. Dan finally lets his oldest daughter Jane drive, because his driving license has been annulled due to numerous traffic incidents. The film ends with Dan and his family in New York City where they find Marie at her gym and the two make eye contact, to a voiceover in which Dan narrates his column to the readers, indicating that he was chosen by the newspaper media company to have his column nationally syndicated.

The ending scene in the film shows Dan and Marie descending the steps of his parents' home and dancing following their marriage. Mitch is seen happily dancing with Ruthie Draper, a childhood friend of Mitch's and Dan's, and Cara is happily dancing with her boyfriend Marty.

The film opened October 26, 2007 in the United States and Canada and grossed $11.8 million in 1,921 theaters its opening weekend, ranking #2 at the box office. As of July 6, 2008, it has grossed $62,745,217.

It was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on March 11, 2008.

The film received generally positive reaction from film critics. As of May 1, 2008 on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film received positive reviews from 64% of its critics based on 154 reviews, and received a "fresh" rating. On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 65 out of 100, based on 34 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel named the film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it at #10, calling it a “sweet, yet tangy dessert” and Steve Carell’s performance “wonderful”.

The opening scene was in New Jersey and then Rhode Island in the cities of Newport, East Greenwich, West Greenwich, Jamestown, Westerly, and Providence in November and December 2006. The opening scene was filmed at Seven Stars Bakery in Providence. However, the facade of the building and the interior are altered. When Dan is pulled over by the Rhode Island State Police, he is on Ocean Ave. in Newport. In scenes filmed in Jamestown, two bridges are clearly visible: the Jamestown Bridge and its replacement, the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge. Demolition of the Jamestown Bridge was initiated on April 18, 2006. The film also cast local residents of Aquidneck Island as Dan's nieces and nephews. The date scene was filmed in two different places in Westerly. The inside shots were filmed at Alley Katz Bowling center, while the exterior shots were filmed at Misquamicut Beach. What is now the Windjammer was dressed to look like the outside of the bowling center.

Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche composed the majority of the music in the film, and has a cameo appearance in a scene at the end.

"Mr. Blue Sky" by the Electric Light Orchestra is featured in the TV and radio advertisements for the movie, as well as "Let My Love Open the Door" by Pete Townshend and "Henrietta" by The Fratellis. The club mix of Inaya Day's "Nasty Girl" is also featured in one scene in the movie but is not on the soundtrack. "Human Hands" written by Elvis Costello (original version appears on his album Imperial Bedroom).