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- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- Directed by Steven Spielberg. Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Robards, William Hurt. A drama presenting visions of a future full of astonishing android technology. David, an advanced android child, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity, and dreams of becoming a real boy. Notes: Based on the short story "Supertoys last all summer long" by Brian Aldiss. Special features: 4 hours of never-before-seen behind-the-scene footage approved exclusively for release, new interviews, and featurettes; Spielberg talks about developing the vision of A.I.; Lucasfilm's Industrial Light and Magic group on the film's special effects; Stan Winston explains how the robots were brought to life; featurette on the sound effects and orchestral score for the film; storyboard sequences; effects portfolio; portrait gallery; behind-the-scenes photos with Steven Spielberg; production design photos. 145 min. DVD 2447
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- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- Directed by Michael Anderson. Traveling across two oceans, over five seas and through 16 countries, an Englishman in the 1870s tries to circumnavigate the world in eighty days to win a wager. 179 min. DVD 5483; vhs 999:834:1&2
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- Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
- Directed by Frank Coraci. Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecile de France, Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Ian McNeice, Arnold Schwarzenegger. In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. 120 min. DVD 3164
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- The Aviator (2004)
- Directed by Martin Scorsese. Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law, Adam Scott, Matt Ross, Kelli Garner, Frances Conroy, Brent Spiner, Stanley DeSantis, Edward Herrmann, Willem Dafoe. Follows the life of Howard Hughes as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving the design of oil-drilling bits, who comes to Hollywood with an interest in getting into the picture business. It doesn't take long for Hughes to jump from producer to director of his first major film project, a World War I air epic. The film was a massive hit, and the eccentric inventor became a mogul in Hollywood, making Jean Harlow a star and enjoying a romance with Katharine Hepburn. But Hollywood's old-boy network never fully accepted Hughes, and in time his passion for flying began to reclaim his attentions. In time he began designing new planes, setting air speed records, flying around the world, and risking his life testing aircraft. Hughes also found time to romance Ava Gardner and founded his own airline, Trans-World Airlines. As his ideas became bolder and more eccentric, he gained many powerful enemies. 170 min. DVD 3996
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- Ballet Mecanique(1924)
- An experimental film short from Cubist painter Fernand Leger containing a montage of images and rhythms that create a hallucinatory effect. 11 min. DVD 4095; DVD 4191; vhs Video 999:108
- The Bionic Woman: Doomsday is Tomorrow. (1977, TV)
- Cast: Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Lew Ayres, Kenneth O'Brien, David Opatoshu. After a sky diving accident Jaimie Somers undergoes special surgery to make her the first bionic woman. Now outfitted with super-human powers she must fight the Alex 7000 computer, a "doomsday device" programmed to destroy the world. 47 min. VHS 4759
- The Birth of the Robot (1936)
- Experimental film of Len Lye (1901-1980), who pioneered direct film, film made without a camera, by painting and scratching images directly onto celluloid. Video/C 9417
- Brazil (1985)
- Directed by Terry Gilliam. In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
- 142 min. DVD 101; DVD 1072 (the final cut, with audio commentary by Terry Gilliam).
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- Brazil: The Production Notebook
- Two documentary films on the making of Brazil plus a production notebook of special features: Screenwriters illuminate the script's development through three drafts and three treatments; the production designer displays his designs for the films unique sets; the costume designer discusses the couture of fantasy and fascism; includes storyboards for original dream sequences many of which didn't make it into the film; the composer unveils the sources of his score; includes special effects study with raw footage of unfinished effects; theatrical trailer, and publicity and production stills. Contents: What is Brazil? - Rob Hedden (1985, 30 min.) -- The Battle of Brazil: a Video History - Jack Mathews (1995, 56 min.) 86 min. DVD 102
- Brazil: The "Love Conquers All" Version
- This 94 minute version of Brazil, rearranged in the hope of making the film commercial, stands as a fascinating document to the power of editing to change a picture. Everything is different in this version, the only Brazil not cut by the director, Terry Gilliam. Sometimes known as the syndicated television version or the Sheinberg Edit (from Universal's then boss Sid Sheinberg), it includes all the cuts and changes Gilliam refused to make, from the alternate opening to the infamous happy ending. 94 min. DVD 103
- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969)
- Directed by Joseph Sargent. Cast: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, William Sage. When electronic genius Charles Forbin creates a massive computer complex that is capable of independently regulating the national defense of the United States, it appears that no enemy will ever be able to penetrate its sovereign borders. But such a promising thought turns into a stunning nightmare when it's discovered the Russians have built an equally sophisticated computer and that these two 'doomsday machines' have linked, sharing classified information and top secrets. Desperately, Forbin and his Soviet counterparts try to stop the all-knowing 'monster' computers from seizing command of the world's nuclear missile stockpiles.
100 min. DVD 8663; vhs 999:1528
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- Matheson, T.J. "Marcuse, Ellul, and the science-fiction film: negative responses to technology." (film analysts Herbert Marcuse and Jacques Ellul). Science Fiction Studies v19.n58 (Nov 1992): pp326(14).
- Demon Seed (1977)
- Directed by Donald Cammell. Cast: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Isa Lu.
Obsessed with his work on a top-secret project, Dr. Harris has very little time left over for his beautiful wife. Once they separate, however, he can spend all his time with Proteus IV, the super-computer that can see, hear, talk and even think for itself. A machine of limitless power, for good or evil. In less than four days, Proteus discovers a cure for leukemia. But he becomes suspicious when his creators deny him a terminal. With the help of Harris's robot servant Joshua, Proteus takes matters into his own hands. 97 min. DVD 4974; vhs 999:1519
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- Desk Set (1957)
- Directed by Walter Lang. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell. A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius. Sumner, inventor of the Electromagnetic Memory And Research Arithmetical Calculator, is hired by the network to help computerize operations, with orders to keep his mission secret. Soon the rumor mill is working overtime as everyone fears being replaced by the computer. 103 min. 999:1520
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- The Electric House (Silent, 1922)
- Directed by Buster Keaton, featuring Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton, Myra Keaton, Louis Keaton. Buster mistakenly gets a degree in electrical engineering (not botany). When he is hired to wire a new home he installs lots of fanciful gadgets, which are then rewired by the vengeful guy who should have received the degree. All havoc breaks loose. 23 min. DVD 255; VHS 999:910
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- "Basalla, George. "Keaton and Chaplin: The Silent Film's Response to Technology." In: Technology in America : a history of individuals and ideas / edited by Carroll W. Pursell, Jr.
2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1990. (Engineering T21.T43 1990; Moffitt T21.T43 1990)
- Existenz (1999)
- Director, David Cronenberg. Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Christopher Eccleston, Willem Dafoe. During the first closed-door demonstration of an amazing new virtual reality game the system's brilliant designer, Allegra Geller, is violently attacked by a crazed assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation. Forced to flee into hiding, Allegra enlists a young assistant to help her in testing the damaged system. 97 min. DVD 898
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- FearDotCom (Fear.com) (2002)
- Directed by William Malone. Cast: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Udo Kier, Amelia Curtis, Jeffrey Combs. A mad genius has created a live-cam website that determines a person's deepest fear and then 48 hours later that fear becomes a brutal reality. An investigating detective and a city health inspector know the danger of logging into the site, but both are determined to solve the mystery. 101 min. DVD 3015
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- Forbidden Planet (1956)
- Directed by Fred Wilcox. An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. What they discover is how and why an alien race of geniuses destroyed itself overnight while leaving their technology intact at some point in the distant, distant past. Features one of Hollywood's most classic scifi characters, Robbie the Robot. 99 min.DVD 502; VHS 999:79
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- The General (Silent, 1927)
- Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, featuring Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes. Engineer Johnnie loves Annabelle Lee and his train, "The General". But when the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer, Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board, and Johnny must rescue both his loves. 75 min. DVD 112; VHS 999:58
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- Ghost in the Shell (Kokaku kidotai) (1996)
- Directed by Mamoru Oshii. Based on the manga by Masamune Shirow. Film seamlessly merges traditional cel animation with the latest computer graphic imagery. 82 min. DVD 5012; vhs 999:1579
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- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Inosensu: Kokaku kidotai 2)(2004)
- Written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. Cyborg detective Batou tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. There are no easy answers in a world where the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. 100 DVD 5013
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- Hard Drive (1997)
- Directed by David Fox. Cast: Antony Sprung, John Zerzan, Stephen Dunnifer. Hard Drive is a fictional road-movie in which a man running from technology hits the highways to meet with anarchists, hackers, cyber warriors and the boys from the Pentagon before joining the combatants in the information war. With paranoia spreading like a virus, the U.S. prepares to dominate the international brave new digital age. For many it is a step to far, and the threat is that businesses will use their power to suppress dissenting voices under the guise of protecting national interests. The question is who will win the cyber war? 54 min. Video/C 999:2125
- The House of Tomorrow (1949); The Car of Tomorrow (1951)
- Animated shorts by Tex Avery. Videodisc 152
- I, Robot (2004)
- Directed by Alex Proyas. Cast: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Adrian Ricard, Chi McBride, Jerry Wasserman, Fiona Hogan. In the year 2035, robots are a common, trusted part of life. But that trust is broken when a scientist is found dead, and a skeptical Chicago police detective investigating the murder believes that a robot is responsible. It seems impossible for a robot to break the Three Laws of Robotics, for if that were to happen there would be nothing to stop them from taking over the world. Aiding the detective in his investigation is a psychologist who specializes in the psyches of robots. Will technology ultimately lead to mankind's salvation or annihilation? Based on the idea suggesed in a book by Isaac Asimov. 115 min. DVD 4721
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- The Iron Horse (1924)
- Directed by John Ford. Cast: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick. One of the earliest westerns, this film is a dramatization of the monumental "joining of the rails" in the late 1800's. One man's vision of a coast-to-coast railroad is realized by his son, who overcomes impossible odds to unite the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railways. 133 min. Video/C 999:3502
- The Jetsons
- An animated television sitcom about a futuristic family whose everyday world is cluttered with gadgets that anticipated such technological marvels as the Internet and the cellular phone. George is a corporate sprocket at the mercy of his tyrannical boss ; teenage daughter Judy is boy crazy; Elroy's a boy genius; and Jane's a pretty, sensible woman capable of intervening when George gets stuck on the treadmill. Contents: Astro's top secret -- Elroy's mob -- Las Venus -- A date with Jet Screamer -- Rosie the Robot -- Jetson's nite out -- The space car -- The coming of Astro -- The good little scouts -- The flying suit -- Rosie's boyfriend -- Elroy's TV show -- Uniblab -- A visit from grandpa -- Elroy's pal -- Test pilot -- Millionaire Astro -- The little man -- Jane's driving lesson -- G.I. Jetson -- Miss Solar System -- Private property -- Planet Dude -- TV or not TV. Originally aired on television during the 1962-1963 season. ca. 629 min. DVD 2681
- Stockman, T. "Discrediting the past, rubbishing the future-a critical comparison of "The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons."" Journal of Educational Television, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 27-38, 1994
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- Directed by Robert Longo. Keanu Reeves is a space-age courier who's plugged in, turned on, and buffed up to deliver the most important data of the 21st century wet-wired directly into his brain. 98 min. 999:1518
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- March of the Machines(The Sci-Fi Files Part 3)
- looks at robots, one of the great figures in science fiction. Using clips from classic films and comic strips this episode examines science fiction's obsession with technology, from robotics to computers, from cyberspace to the technological development of weapons. Films reviewed: Robocop, Metropolis, Dr. Who, Johnny Mnemonic, Sleeper, 2001: a space odyssey, Godzilla, Them, War game, Terminator 2, Dr. Strangelove, War games, Mad Max 2, Destination moon, Moonraker, Forbidden planet. Video/C 5989
- The Matrix (1999)
- Directed by Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski. Featuring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano. In an anti-utopian future, the "real" world as we know it is nothing more than a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct, and are now fighting for the future of the human race. 136 min. DVD 118
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- Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- Directors, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski. Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, Jada Pinkett Smith, Gloria Foster, David Kilde, Daniel Bernhardt, Monica Bellucci, Ian Bliss, Paul Cotter, Matt McColm. Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army. In their quest to save the human race from extinction, they gain greater insight into the construction of The Matrix and Neo's pivotal role in the fate of mankind. 138 min. DVD 2093
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- Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- Directors, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski. Cast: Mary Alice, Monica Bellucci, Ian Bliss, Essie Davis, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harold Perrineau, Jada Pinkett smith, Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Lambert Wilson. Neo remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the machine world and the matrix. Bane is still a conduit for Agent Smith, who continues to grow more out of control. Meanwhile, the sentinels are coming dangerously close to Zion. Trinity and Morpheus bargain with The Merovingian to free Neo. Neo, after meeting The Oracle, decides he must leave Zion and go for the machine mainframe. One final battle must ensue, and the future of both races is at stake. Special features: "Revolutions recalibrated" documentary; "CG Revolution: the incredible special effects arsenal" documentary; "Super burly brawl: behind the final Neo/Smith showdown" featurette; "Before the revolution: a 3-D matrix timeline; Future gamer: The matrix online: an introduction to the massively multi-player game; 3-D evolution: multidimensional stills gallery; theatrical trailer;129 min. DVD 2472
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- Metropolis (1926)
- Directed by Fritz Lang. Featuring Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frohlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Theodor Loos, Fritz Rasp. An originally silent motion picture with English intertitles and a newly produced electronic music soundtrack. Elaborately fantasizes a subterranean factory, which is ruled by titans, betrayed by robots, and saved by love. Shows the struggle between management and labor in a city of the future.
124 min. DVD 1574 Restored authorized ed., digitally remastered (Kino 2002).
115 min. DVD 24 Includes direct scene access, lobby poster, biography of Brigitte Helm, interactive trivia questions and answers, movie credits, and more.
107 min. vhs 999:511 (Janus version)
90 min. vhs 999:512 (Kino - earlier restored version)
87 min. vhs 999:513 (Silent film with Japanese subtitles, music by G. Moroder)
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- Minority Report (2002)
- Directed by Steven Spielberg. Cast: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max Von Sydow, Lois Smith, Peter Stormare, Tim Blake Nelson, Steve Harris, Kathryn Morris. Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-Crime Unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up. Based upon the short story by Philip K. Dick. 144 min. DVD 1479
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- Modern Times (1936)
- Directed by Charlie Chaplin, featuring Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann, Allan Garcia, Stanley Blystone, Dick Alexander, Cecil Reynolds, Myra McKinney. The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk undaunted into the sunrise. 103 min. DVD 1778; DVD 195; VHS 999:47
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- The Net (1995)
- Directed by Irwin Winkler. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller. A freelance software analyst, Angela Bennett, is inadvertently drawn into a dangerous conspiracy when a client asks her to de-bug a CD-ROM game. Soon the client turns up dead and Angela is next on the hit-list. After the assassins obliterate her official identity, Angela realizes hers is not the only life being destroyed on the Net. 114 min. 999:1497
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- Peep "TV" Show (1967)
- Directed by Yutaka Tsuchiya. Two mixed up misfits have a meeting of the minds when they run into each other on a Tokyo street. Shooting video of unsuspecting people which they broadcast over the Internet , together the jaded couple takes the concept of reality TV to a new, hideous level in a post 9-11 world of surveillance and paranoia. Blending factual images and fiction, the film offers compelling insight into a media-driven society and how it rules lives with images of fear, terror and torture. 98 min. DVD 5154
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- Playtime (1967)
- Directed by Jacques Tati, featuring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline Lecomte,Valerie Camille, Rita Maiden, Frances Rumilly. A group of American tourists arrive in Paris, only to find that the city is indistinguishable from any other big city. Endless comedies ensue however, when the path of Monsieur Hulot (Tati) crosses that of the group. 120 min. DVD 893; VHS 999:1500
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- The Race is On!(Slapstick encyclopedia; 7)
- Contents: Teddy at the throttle (1917) -- Circus today (1926) -- Water wagons (1926) -- Outbound (1924) -- Chasing choo choos (1927) -- Danger ahead (1926). The daredevil spirit of the 1920's infected early comedy films as a reckless combination of plane, train, streetcar, motorcycle, horse and automobile chases presented side-splitting, breathtaking, white-knuckle art forms that even today are without parallel. Mack Sennett encapsulated the formula of his comedies as "Speed, pretty girls, and spectacular effects." Here are presented six films loaded with action, often quite elaborately produced in which every foil and gag sets another in motion until every prop in sight has been squeezed of comic potential. 120 min. DVD 1316; vhs 999:1904
- Robocop (1987)
- Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Robocop, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer. Robocop is designed to stop a crimewave which is spreading all across America. The cyborg, created from the body of a slain police officer, is programed to serve the public trust, uphold the law and protect the innocent. All goes well at first and Robocop stops every sleaze ball he encounters, but there are forces which will stop at nothing to see him eliminated. 103 min. DVD 678; VHS 999:1498
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- Robocop 2 (1990)
- Directed by Irvin Kershner. Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, Gabriel Damon. RoboCop, the half man/half machine cop, is back, and his mission is to rid the streets of Detroit of a new and deadly drug, "Nuke." To complicate matters, the evil corporation that created him wants to take over the city and develop RoboCop 2, a newer and more powerful version to replace the original. 116 min. DVD 1250
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- Robocop 3 (1993)
- Directed by Fred Dekker. Cast: Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn. RoboCop, sworn to protect the public, joins forces with a band of urban freedom fighters battling to save their neighborhood from the conglomerate that plans to demolish it to build a city of the future. 105 min. DVD 1251
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- Robot Stories (1997)
- Directed by Greg Pak. Cast: Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Wai Ching Ho, Greg Pak, John Cariani, Cindy Cheung, Bill Coelius, Eisa Davis, Ron Domingo, Tim Kang, Julienne Hanzelka Kim, James Saito. A science fiction film presented in four chapters that map an emotional frontier where people confront technology. "My robot baby": A busy couple is challenged to nurture a mechanical infant before they can have the real thing. "The robot fixer": A mother is transformed while trying to connect with her comotose son. "Robot love": Android iPerson Archie questions whether romance can flower between synthetic hearts. "Clay": A sculptor in the lonely twilight of his life must weigh the ethical and spiritual risks of digital immortality. 85 min. DVD 3599
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- Smart House (TV, 1999)
- Directed by LeVar Burton. Cast: Ryan Merriman, Kevin Kilner, Jessica Steen, Katie Volding. Ben Cooper goes on-line to win a house designed to make life easier. The Smart House takes on a virtual motherly identity who not only becomes overly possessive of the Coopers, but replicates herself into PAT (Personal Applied Technology), out-of-control and dangerously un-delete-able. 82 min. 999:3669
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- Strange Days (1995)
- Director, Kathryn Bigelow. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio. A thriller set in the urban inferno of 1999 Los Angeles. Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares available on small disks that are viewable via a compact headpiece that makes every sensation immediate. Nero replays scenes of happier days with Faith Justin, who has run off with sadistic Philo Gant. As he attempts to win Faith back, he hooks up with an old friend, Lornette "Mace" Mason, and the two of them are caught in a deadly fantasy of conspiracy, murder and betrayal. 105 min. DVD 897
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- The Terminator (1984)
- Directed by James Cameron. The cyborg "Terminator" (part man, part machine) is sent to present day Earth from the year of Darkness 2029, on a deadly mission. His task is to kill a young woman whose life will have great significance in the decades to come. This mechanical monster from the future leaves behind him an unspeakable path of destruction which nothing can stop. 107 min. DVD 43
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- Terminator 2, Judgement Day (1992)
- Directed by James Cameron. The Terminator is back with a mission requiring that he travel back in time. A lethal machine has been sent back through time to kill the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. The Termainator is sent to save the boy, assisted by the boy's mother, a woman warrior whose warnings of a world headed toward nuclear disaster go unheeded. 139 min. DVD 47; VHS 999:849
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- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
- Directed by Jonathan Mostow. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken, David Andrews, Mark Famiglietti, Earl Boen, Moira Harris, Chopper Bernet. John Connor is a 20-something living on the streets as a common laborer. His mother has since died, and their earlier efforts did not stop the creation of SkyNet artificial intelligence network. As he will still become the leader of the human resistance, Connor is once again targeted by a Terminator sent from the future by SkyNet. This new Terminator, T-X, is a female and is more powerful than any of her predecessors. To protect Connor, the human resistance sends a new T-101 back from the future. 109 min. DVD 6059
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- Things to Come (1936)
- Directed by W.C. Menzies. This screen adaptation by H.G. Wells, based on his novel. The Shape of things to come, is a science fiction fantasy about the world after a devastating war. 92 min. DVD 559; VHS 999:531
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- Tron (1982)
- Directed by Steven Lisberger. Featuring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan. Produced in 1982, Tron is a film at the flashpoint of a revolution in filmmaking featuring early computer animation. In the storyline a hacker is transported into a computer where he must fight for his life against the Master Control system. The hacker teams up with a bookkeeping program and his girlfriend to try to replace Master Control with Tron. 96 min. DVD 1593
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- The Truman Show (1998)
- Directed by Peter Weir. Featuring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Ed Harris. Truman's life is a fake. He lives in a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere. His friends and people around him are actors who play their roles in the most popular television series in the world: The Truman show. He thinks he is an ordinary man and has no idea about how he is being exploited. What will he do when he finds out? 113 min. 999:2522
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- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
- Directed by Richard Fleischer. Cast: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia, J.M. Kerrigan. A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate and are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine. 127 min. DVD 1698
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- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Directed by Stanley Kubrick. A journey to Jupiter by two austronauts and a computer named HAL becomes a vehicle for a metaphorical journey in which mankind moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
- 139 min. DVD 92 VHS 999:187
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A Primer for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Narrator: Keir Dullea. Produced in 1971 for broadcast on the television program Camera Three. A critique and critical commentary on the science fiction film 2001: a Space Odyssey, which spans four million years of human development. 28 min. Video/C 4653
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- Virtuosity (1995)
- Directed by Brett Leonard. He's a composite of some 200 personalities, each and every one a notorious killer. He's Sid 6.7, a virtual reality creation designed to put L.A. police officers to the test, but how do you stop the virtually unstoppable? 105 min. 999:1607
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- WarGames (1983)
- Directed by John Badham. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy.
Young electronics wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation. 113 min. DVD 6044
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