This article was originally published on the Film Independent blog and has been republished here with permission. Read More: Why 'Ex Machina' Writer-Director Alex Garland Doesn't Consider Himself a First-Time Filmmaker Grantland writer Kevin Lincoln summed up "Ex Machina" beautifully when he wrote, "It's a story about artificial intelligence, not-artificial intelligence, trust, love, parenthood, sincerity, watching Oscar Isaac exercise, the ethics of surveillance, the future of the human race, and beer." For us at Film Independent, the film—with its incredibly alluring fembot in the leading role—is also a fantastic opportunity to explore the magical world of VFX, and the role of a VFX supervisor. We recently spoke to the film's VFX Supervisor Andrew Whitehurst, who works for Double Negative, the large visual effects company based in London that "Ex Machina" director Alex and his production company, DNA Films, had approached to work on the film....
- 6/26/2015
- by Pamela Miller
- Indiewire
Hitting theaters on April 24th, Ex MacHina is a new sci-fi film where Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac).
Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.
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Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.
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- 4/14/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Kris Tapley looks at the "lay of the land" regarding Oscars after the current New York Film Festival concludes. He says the "Interstellar" onslaught is already beginning with a new trailer, TV spots, posters, and more. The Christopher Nolan film has a reported "massive" runing time, but that it possibly "finds a sweet spot between the emotion of Steven Spielberg and intellect of Stanley Kubrick." The race becomes even more interesting with the unseen "Unbroken" (Angelina Jolie), American Sniper" (Clint Eastwood), "Fury" (David Ayer), "A Most Violent Year" (J.C. Chandor), and "The Gambler" (Rupert Wyatt). HitFix -Break- Join the lively film and TV discussions going on right now in the Gold Derby message boards Kevin Lincoln proclaims that director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson "is one of the few mainstream filmmakers capable of inciting feverish curiosity by virtue of his name alone....
- 9/30/2014
- Gold Derby
#ThrowbackThursday came a little earlier this week. One of Girls star Adam Driver‘s former classmate unleashed onto the world some classic gems he tweeted out several of the actor’s yearbook photos in response to Kevin Lincoln‘s Grantland article on the actor. Like with all high school pictures, it’s endearingly cringe-worthy and with a full dose of...Read more»...
- 9/23/2014
- by Gabrielle Chung
- Celebuzz.com
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