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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Maria Popova: "Read by Terry Burns and featuring an appropriately haunting score from the young British composer Lennert Busch, the film belongs to — pioneers, perhaps — an emerging creative genre: the cinematic poem." 
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![Behind The Innovative Social/Content-Driven [Transmedia] Campaign For “Prometheus” | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/ViAUifZ6QC6BrJjEXMwSZjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Ari Karpel: "The plot of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi film Prometheus--a sprawling exploration of the origins of man--may have raised some questions but the movie’s marketing campaign was, unquestionably, one of the most original and absorbing in recent memory" ...
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Jon Spaihts: "Ridley is a creative volcano and it was a major part of my job just trying to keep up with him. He's a marvel." DRC: Also interesting is Spaihts on why Hollywood & the video game industry take such a different approach to producing science fiction properties.
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Ridley Scott unveiled fresh footage for Prometheus in a mind-melting 3-D trailer that suggests a triumphant return to sci-fi form for the British maestro... To experience the film's transmedia marketing campaign, visit: Peter Weyland at TED2023: I will change the world; Prometheus Viral Video David 8 Our Family is Growing; & ProjectPromethus.com, an alternate reality game.
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Joe Berkowitz: "Writer/director Rian Johnson’s Looper, which opens on September 28, is the latest in a long line of time travel movies. Here, Johnson talks to Co.Create about continuity, character, and making up the rules of time travel" ...
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John Hiscock: "In the first film, the unlucky crew of the space freighter Nostromo finds a derelict spaceship with a “space jockey” – a giant humanoid with an exploded chest in the pilot’s chair. Who he was and what he was doing there was never explained and the question has dogged Alien buffs ever since"...
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Mike Ryan: "Earlier today, the Tribeca Film Festival hosted a screening of the 1983 Matthew Broderick classic (and a personal favorite), "WarGames." In front of a, sadly, less than packed house (or, happily, a more than empty house) the film was screened"...
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After revisiting his classic Alien with the upcoming 3D Fox film Prometheus, Ridley Scott is committing to direct and produce a film that advances his other seminal and groundbreaking science fiction film.
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This is an unusual one. But I really enjoy reading the works of H.G. Wells and upon viewing this, I felt it kept to the quality of that author.
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A Solitary World — a breathtaking homage to H.G. Wells, with text adapted from five of his most celebrated works: The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The First Men in the Moon (1901), In The Days of the Comet (1906), The World Set Free (1914). Read by Terry Burns and featuring an appropriately haunting score from the young British composer Lennert Busch, the film belongs to — pioneers, perhaps — an emerging creative genre: the cinematic poem.
OK. So is this Progress? Are Humans Moving Forward?
Well - art, creativity and idea-innovation are all part of that. So in the loose and all-embracing way we love, the sanswer is yes!