Update: Quantum Computing at Stanford is tonight Wednesday 16th and the movie is skipping the Bay Area until July/August, see showdates or my comment further down. Shouldn't post that late in the night, but I knew that there is something happening this Thursday: The AllwaysOn Salon about Social Software. Does it matter? .
There is a movie slowly making its way down the West Coast. It has been held over for 16 weeks in Portland now, runs in Eugene already and is supposed to arrive in Berkeley this weekend.
What makes that "held over" so fascinating is, that this is not your typical movie, it is a film about Quantum Physics, part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. (Or so they say :-)
Here is a small synopsis: The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality.
At the Planetwork after party people were talking about it with greater anticipation than Fahrenheit 911.
That means, this weekend we could on Thursday get an update to Quantum Computing at Stanford, on Friday get Extreme Physics and some "inspiring visual effects and animations" via the Electric Sheep at the Future Salon and on Saturday the icing on the cake with "What the Bleep do we know" (A bit infantile title for a film if you ask me, or even if you don't ask me)
We could, but I am not sure if I want to jump through all these quantum hoops. Ask me again on Friday evening.
Details:
Loews Beverly Center 13
Opens on Jun 18, 2004
8522 Beverly Blvd. Suite 835
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Show Times & Tickets:
Phone: (310) 652-7760
Filmmakers Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente along with Fred Alan Wolf, will be on hand June 18 and 19 following the 7:00pm showings to answer questions about the film.
"... and is supposed to arrive in Berkeley this weekend."
Huh? August 6 is this weekend?
Posted by: Anonymous Cowherd | June 16, 2004 at 10:03
The Future Salon has a time machine, but don't tell anyone :-)
Posted by: Mark Finnern | June 16, 2004 at 10:06
For the Bay Area people without time machines:
Loews Metreon Theatres & IMAX
Opens on Jul 23, 2004
101 Fourth St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-369-6201
UA Galaxy 4
Opens on Aug 06, 2004
1285 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
Phone: 415-474-8790
UA Berkeley 7
Opens on Aug 06, 2004
2274 Shatttuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-843-0193
Posted by: Mark Finnern | June 16, 2004 at 10:09
Word of caution for you. The movie is a product of & heavily features JZ Knight, who channels Ramtha the Atlantean. Just so you know.
Tim
Posted by: Tim Keller | June 16, 2004 at 12:00