Tag: Spaceship Earth

  • Safdie Brothers Producing Paul Reubens Documentary for HBO

    Safdie Brothers Producing Paul Reubens Documentary for HBO

    Josh and Benny Safdie, the filmmaking duo behind “Good Time” and “Uncut Gems,” are producing a documentary about Paul Reubens for HBO.HBO announced on Thursday that the two-part documentary, which is currently untitled, will center on the life of Reubens, the longtime comedian and actor best known for creating the Pee-wee Herman character. The premium…

  • Brave new worlds: what can we learn from film’s utopian visions?

    Brave new worlds: what can we learn from film’s utopian visions?

    From eco fantasies to dystopian nightmares, cinema has long explored how life might be different. Our post-lockdown existence could look to them for pointersAs we emerge blinking into the sunlight after lockdown, many of us will be daring to dream of a more harmonious, ecological future. It’s what the subjects of Spaceship Earth were hoping…

  • Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong

    Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong

    In the 1990s, a troupe of hippies spent two years sealed inside a dome called Biosphere 2. They ended up starving and gasping for breath. As a new documentary Spaceship Earth tells their story, we meet the ‘biospherians’It sounds like a sci-fi movie, or the weirdest series of Big Brother ever. Eight volunteers wearing snazzy…

  • Charades unveils multiple deals on Neon titles including ‘Spaceship Earth’ (exclusive)

    Charades unveils multiple deals on Neon titles including ‘Spaceship Earth’ (exclusive)

    Titles were sold with a special Covid-19 era marketing package devised by Neon.Paris-based sales company Charades has announced a raft of deals on Spaceship Earth, The Painter And The Thief and She Dies Tomorrow, which it added to its slate at the end of April under an innovative deal with leading Us arthouse distributor Neon.Under…