Imagine a "sea" of 200 billion stars. That's our Milky Way, one of the most brilliant and beautiful of God's creations. Travel deep inside to its very core. Experience its pulsars, quasars and mysterious black holes as captured exclusively for NASA by the orbiting Hubble space telescope. Marvel at the order of it all. The grand design. Only the Master Planner could have created it with such precision and loving care.
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly as possible, though they knew that pushing too hard could lead to the ultimate disaster.
A jaded Lower East Side couple have become bored of straight sex, in a bid to spice things up, they decide to imitate some rough sex scenes as seen on TV.
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae.
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Have you watched Journeys to the Edge of Creation The Milky Way & Beyond yet? What did you think about it?
