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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Actors: Nick Raio (actor), Jacque Fresco (actor), Gerard Adimando (actor), Summer Perry (actress), Summer Perry (actress), Peter Joseph (writer), Peter Joseph (editor), Peter Joseph (producer), Peter Joseph (actor), Peter Joseph (director), Peter Joseph (actor), Robert Myers (actor), Roxanne Meadows (actress), Lili Haydn (composer), Jerry Goralnick (actor),

Plot: A feature length documentary work which presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a "Resource-Based Economy".

Keywords: advertising, automation, biology, capitalism, conditioning, consumerism, debt, determinism, economics, efficiency
Genres: Documentary,

Quotes:

Roxanne Meadows: [from trailer] The problems that we have today will continue to go on. This will never go away within a monetary system.

Dr. James Gilligan: [from trailer] In the past, throughout nearly all of human history, the main threat to human survival was Nature. Today it is culture.

John McMurty: [Dr. McMurty is Prof. emeritus of University of Guelph] You know, economists are, in fact, not economists at all, they are propagandists of money value.

Dr. James Gilligan: [from trailer] Not only does structural violence kill more people than behavioural violence, it is also the cause of the majority of behavioural violence.

Jacque Fresco: I'm 94 years old now, and I'm afraid my disposition is the same as it was 75 years ago: This $hit's got to go!

Narrator: Money is in fact a *false* incentive, and it causes a hundred times more distortion than it does contribution.

Jacque Fresco: Now, we have to change our system - or perish.

Martin Luther KIng Jr.: [from trailer] There is some things in our society and some things in our world which I'm *proud* to be maladjusted to, and I call upon all men of good will to be maladjusted to these things.

[first lines]::opening title card: In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it. - Ernst Fischer::voiceover-collage: ...deadly riots over the government's plan to avoid defaulting on its loans... is that the unemployment keeps rising, and it has to keep rising just because it has an excess supply of goods... because this is all borrowed money that our kids... and our debt is owned by banks, you know... to build a cigarette that delivers the taste and... I first learned it from my grandmother. Now my grandmother was a wonderful person. She taught me how to play the game Monopoly. She understood that the name of the game is to acquire. She would accumulate everything she could, and eventually she became the master of the board. And then she would always say the same thing to me, she'd look at me and say "One day you'll learn too play the game."

[last lines]::Jacque Fresco: The in-group will do all it can to stay in power. And that's what you've got to keep in mind. They'll use the army and the navy and lies or whatever they have to use to keep in power. They're not about to give it up. Because they know of no other system that perpetuates their kind.

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Actors: Nick Raio (actor), Jacque Fresco (actor), Gerard Adimando (actor), Summer Perry (actress), Summer Perry (actress), Peter Joseph (writer), Peter Joseph (editor), Peter Joseph (producer), Peter Joseph (actor), Peter Joseph (director), Peter Joseph (actor), Robert Myers (actor), Roxanne Meadows (actress), Lili Haydn (composer), Jerry Goralnick (actor),

Plot: A feature length documentary work which presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a "Resource-Based Economy".

Keywords: advertising, automation, biology, capitalism, conditioning, consumerism, debt, determinism, economics, efficiency
Genres: Documentary,

Quotes:

Roxanne Meadows: [from trailer] The problems that we have today will continue to go on. This will never go away within a monetary system.

Dr. James Gilligan: [from trailer] In the past, throughout nearly all of human history, the main threat to human survival was Nature. Today it is culture.

John McMurty: [Dr. McMurty is Prof. emeritus of University of Guelph] You know, economists are, in fact, not economists at all, they are propagandists of money value.

Dr. James Gilligan: [from trailer] Not only does structural violence kill more people than behavioural violence, it is also the cause of the majority of behavioural violence.

Jacque Fresco: I'm 94 years old now, and I'm afraid my disposition is the same as it was 75 years ago: This $hit's got to go!

Narrator: Money is in fact a *false* incentive, and it causes a hundred times more distortion than it does contribution.

Jacque Fresco: Now, we have to change our system - or perish.

Martin Luther KIng Jr.: [from trailer] There is some things in our society and some things in our world which I'm *proud* to be maladjusted to, and I call upon all men of good will to be maladjusted to these things.

[first lines]::opening title card: In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it. - Ernst Fischer::voiceover-collage: ...deadly riots over the government's plan to avoid defaulting on its loans... is that the unemployment keeps rising, and it has to keep rising just because it has an excess supply of goods... because this is all borrowed money that our kids... and our debt is owned by banks, you know... to build a cigarette that delivers the taste and... I first learned it from my grandmother. Now my grandmother was a wonderful person. She taught me how to play the game Monopoly. She understood that the name of the game is to acquire. She would accumulate everything she could, and eventually she became the master of the board. And then she would always say the same thing to me, she'd look at me and say "One day you'll learn too play the game."

[last lines]::Jacque Fresco: The in-group will do all it can to stay in power. And that's what you've got to keep in mind. They'll use the army and the navy and lies or whatever they have to use to keep in power. They're not about to give it up. Because they know of no other system that perpetuates their kind.

A Lower Power (2009)

Actors: H.P. Mendoza (composer), George Rush (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Sugarman (actor), Kyle Parker (actor), Terri J. Freedman (actress), Kyle Parker (actor), Kyle Parker (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Bridges (producer), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Matthew Bridges (actor), Tim Bland (producer), Tim Bland (actor), Keith Shawn (actor), Keith Shawn (actor),

Plot: Thibodeaux, a young gay San Franciscan, yearns to reject his parents' hedonistic ways. But when his emerging sexual desires repeatedly get the better of him, he conjures up twisted, self-repressive rationalizations that threaten to drive away his friends and the hunky, mythic man of his dreams.

Genres: ,
Taglines: In the battle between his head and his heart, there was a weapon bigger than both of them.

A Lower Power (2009)

Actors: H.P. Mendoza (composer), George Rush (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Sugarman (actor), Kyle Parker (actor), Terri J. Freedman (actress), Kyle Parker (actor), Kyle Parker (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Bridges (producer), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Matthew Bridges (actor), Tim Bland (producer), Tim Bland (actor), Keith Shawn (actor), Keith Shawn (actor),

Plot: Thibodeaux, a young gay San Franciscan, yearns to reject his parents' hedonistic ways. But when his emerging sexual desires repeatedly get the better of him, he conjures up twisted, self-repressive rationalizations that threaten to drive away his friends and the hunky, mythic man of his dreams.

Genres: ,
Taglines: In the battle between his head and his heart, there was a weapon bigger than both of them.

A Lower Power (2009)

Actors: H.P. Mendoza (composer), George Rush (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Sugarman (actor), Kyle Parker (actor), Terri J. Freedman (actress), Kyle Parker (actor), Kyle Parker (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Bridges (producer), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Matthew Bridges (actor), Tim Bland (producer), Tim Bland (actor), Keith Shawn (actor), Keith Shawn (actor),

Plot: Thibodeaux, a young gay San Franciscan, yearns to reject his parents' hedonistic ways. But when his emerging sexual desires repeatedly get the better of him, he conjures up twisted, self-repressive rationalizations that threaten to drive away his friends and the hunky, mythic man of his dreams.

Genres: ,
Taglines: In the battle between his head and his heart, there was a weapon bigger than both of them.

A Lower Power (2009)

Actors: H.P. Mendoza (composer), George Rush (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Sugarman (actor), Kyle Parker (actor), Terri J. Freedman (actress), Kyle Parker (actor), Kyle Parker (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Bridges (producer), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Matthew Bridges (actor), Tim Bland (producer), Tim Bland (actor), Keith Shawn (actor), Keith Shawn (actor),

Plot: Thibodeaux, a young gay San Franciscan, yearns to reject his parents' hedonistic ways. But when his emerging sexual desires repeatedly get the better of him, he conjures up twisted, self-repressive rationalizations that threaten to drive away his friends and the hunky, mythic man of his dreams.

Genres: ,
Taglines: In the battle between his head and his heart, there was a weapon bigger than both of them.

A Lower Power (2009)

Actors: H.P. Mendoza (composer), George Rush (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Sugarman (actor), Kyle Parker (actor), Terri J. Freedman (actress), Kyle Parker (actor), Kyle Parker (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Bridges (producer), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Matthew Bridges (actor), Tim Bland (producer), Tim Bland (actor), Keith Shawn (actor), Keith Shawn (actor),

Plot: Thibodeaux, a young gay San Franciscan, yearns to reject his parents' hedonistic ways. But when his emerging sexual desires repeatedly get the better of him, he conjures up twisted, self-repressive rationalizations that threaten to drive away his friends and the hunky, mythic man of his dreams.

Genres: ,
Taglines: In the battle between his head and his heart, there was a weapon bigger than both of them.

A Lower Power (2009)

Actors: H.P. Mendoza (composer), George Rush (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Sugarman (actor), Kyle Parker (actor), Terri J. Freedman (actress), Kyle Parker (actor), Kyle Parker (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Bridges (producer), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Matthew Bridges (actor), Tim Bland (producer), Tim Bland (actor), Keith Shawn (actor), Keith Shawn (actor),

Plot: Thibodeaux, a young gay San Franciscan, yearns to reject his parents' hedonistic ways. But when his emerging sexual desires repeatedly get the better of him, he conjures up twisted, self-repressive rationalizations that threaten to drive away his friends and the hunky, mythic man of his dreams.

Genres: ,
Taglines: In the battle between his head and his heart, there was a weapon bigger than both of them.

A Lower Power (2009)

Actors: H.P. Mendoza (composer), George Rush (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Sugarman (actor), Kyle Parker (actor), Terri J. Freedman (actress), Kyle Parker (actor), Kyle Parker (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Bridges (producer), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Rajiv Khilnani (actor), Matthew Bridges (actor), Tim Bland (producer), Tim Bland (actor), Keith Shawn (actor), Keith Shawn (actor),

Plot: Thibodeaux, a young gay San Franciscan, yearns to reject his parents' hedonistic ways. But when his emerging sexual desires repeatedly get the better of him, he conjures up twisted, self-repressive rationalizations that threaten to drive away his friends and the hunky, mythic man of his dreams.

Genres: ,
Taglines: In the battle between his head and his heart, there was a weapon bigger than both of them.

My Blueberry Nights (2007)

Actors: Wendy Cohen (miscellaneous crew), Kar Wai Wong (director), Kar Wai Wong (writer), William Chang (costume designer), Kar Wai Wong (writer), William Chang (editor), Natalie Portman (actress), Rachel Weisz (actress), Kar Wai Wong (producer), Donald Meyers (actor), Frankie Faison (actor), David Strathairn (actor), Jude Law (actor), Susan Hegarty (miscellaneous crew), Kristi Frankenheimer (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Elizabeth's heart is broken. For solace, she drops in late at night a few times at Jeremy's diner for blueberry pie a la mode; they talk. Once, he watchers her sleep, her head on the counter. Abruptly, she leaves New York City to get away from her pain. She works a couple of jobs in Memphis. There, a heart-broken cop is drinking himself into oblivion, his ex occasionally showing up where he drinks and Lizzy works. Then, she's in Nevada, working at a casino where she uses her savings (she wants a car) to stake Leslie, a busted gambler, in a high rollers' game. After, Beth drives Leslie to Vegas where Leslie's estranged father lives. Broken relationships. What about Jeremy?

Keywords: abstaining-from-alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, bar, bartender, betrayal, blueberry-pie, british-expatriate, budding-friendship, car-accident
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without?

Quotes:

Elizabeth: So what's wrong with the Blueberry Pie?::Jeremy: There's nothing wrong with the Blueberry Pie, just people make other choices. You can't blame the Blueberry Pie, it's just... no one wants it.::Elizabeth: Wait! I want a piece.

Elizabeth: Why do you keep them? You should just throw them out.::Jeremy: No. No, I couldn't do that.::Elizabeth: Why not?::Jeremy: If I threw these keys away then those doors would be closed forever and that shouldn't be up to me to decide, should it?::Elizabeth: I guess I'm just looking for a reason.::Jeremy: From my observations, sometimes it's better off not knowing, and other times there's no reason to be found.::Elizabeth: Everything has a reason.::Jeremy: Hmm. It's like these pies and cakes. At the end of every night, the cheesecake and the apple pie are always completely gone. The peach cobbler and the chocolate mousse cake are nearly finished... but there's always a whole blueberry pie left untouched.::Elizabeth: So what's wrong with the blueberry pie?::Jeremy: There's nothing wrong with the blueberry pie. Just... people make other choices. You can't blame the blueberry pie, just... no one wants it.

Elizabeth: [wiping her tears] How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without? I didn't say goodbye. [pause] I didn't say anything. I just walked away.

[last lines]::Elizabeth: It took me nearly a year to get here. It wasn't so hard to cross that street after all, it all depends on who's waiting for you on the other side.

Katya: Sometimes, even if you have the keys those doors still can't be opened. Can they?::Jeremy: Even if the door is open, the person you're looking for may not be there, Katya.

Jeremy: A few years ago, I had a dream. It began in the summer and was over by the following spring. In between, there were as many unhappy nights as there were happy days. Most of them took place in this café. And then one night, a door slammed and the dream was over.

Leslie: You're hopeless...::Elizabeth: You're hopeless too!

Elizabeth: When you're gone, all that is left behind are the memories you created in other people's lives or just a couple of items on a bill.

Leslie: Sometimes your rhythm's off, you read the person right but still do the wrong thing.::Elizabeth: Because you trust them?::Leslie: Because you can't even trust yourself.

Elizabeth: The last few days, I've been learning not to trust people and I'm glad I've failed. Sometimes we depend on other people as a mirror to define us and tell us who we are and each reflection makes me like myself a little more.