Primer

Starring:Brandon Blagg, Keith Bradshaw, Jay Butler (II), Chip Carruth, John Carruth, Shane Carruth, Jon Cook, Carrie Crawford, Eric De Soualhat, Casey Gooden, David Joyner (II), Delaney Price, Jack Pyland, David Sullivan (IX), Juan Tapia, Samantha Thomson, Anand Upadhyaya, Ashok Upadhyaya, Ashley Warren
Director: Shane Carruth
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Primer won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has drawn repeat viewers eager to crack writer-director-star Shane Carruth's puzzler of a time-travel drama. Carruth, an engineer by training, plays inventor Aaron, whose entrepreneurial partnership with fellow brainiac Abe (David Sullivan) unexpectedly results in a process for traveling back several hours in time. The men initially use these rewind sessions to succeed in the stock market. But a dark consequence of their daily journeys eventually complicates matters. If this sounds like a very commercial, science fiction thriller, Primer is anything but that. Shot on 16mm for $7,000, the film has a tantalizing, sealed-in logic, akin to Memento, that forces viewers to see the fantastic with a certain dispassion. One may be tempted to sit through Primer again to more fully understand its paradoxes and ethical quandaries. --Tom Keogh

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Intelligent and taut story with unique time travel method.......2007-06-19

Primer is a fascinating movie, thoroughly enjoyable if you're one who likes to have something to think about when the story ends. As others have noted, the dialog includes some very technical language, but although it is accurately used, it is just background to show the engineers at work designing their machine. You lose very little if you don't know about superconductors, magnetic field strength, oscillations and etc. Just pay close attention to who goes back in time, when they do it, and what happens as a result, and you'll have plenty to contemplate.

I have read and watched countless time travel stories, and I have never seen any other story that used Primer's concept. I gave the movie five stars in spite of a few flaws in photography and sound because it is such a super piece of work for a first time filmmaker.

More than any other story, Primer makes you feel as if its time travel is real, with real consequences. At one point, it even throws the viewer into exactly the same situation as the story characters.

As innovative as it's premise.......2007-06-18

Primer is a great conceptual Sci-fi film that examines the very real conundrum of what can occour when mans genius and ingenuity run smack up against his pettier motivations for wealth and power.

Though it may be too bleak and dry for some, It was fascinating to me to see a film that grapples the notion that it's not the size of the miracle that counts, but how you use it.

Uncommonly Smart.......2007-06-06

Impressive debut, but for a rare, select audience. But it easily made my personal Best 20 Sci-Fi films of all time list. It won the annual Sundance award (over "Garden State"), and is a 70-minute time travel movie that will blow your mind with the possibilities. It's written (and acted) by a methodical, analytical engineer type, so it's uncommonly smart: This is more "Scientific American" than "Twilight Zone". Best of all, the dialogue, film style, and feel of it has this realism to it that few tech films have ever captured. The engineer inventors never talk down to the audience; instead, the viewer is an eavesdropper and races to keep up with their techno-talk. The time travel ideas are so intricate that they have spawned web sites and forum discussions of their own (it takes repeated viewings to figure out what actually happened, but unlike "Donnie Darko", it does indeed make sense). But it's certainly more demanding (and slow) than standard time travel dramas. So, don't expect to really "enjoy" the movie until you watch it the second time.

All of your brain is needed...........2007-03-06

This is a film in which ALL of your brain has to be used. It's really an interesting, intelligent, and thought provoking film. It was shot on practically no budget, but that doesn't detract from the film at all. In fact, I think it enhances it because there was no budget for special effects, which may have hurt the story. The intricate plot and intelligent execution of it make this film work. I generally dislike indie films, as they all fall into the same formula. They are either quirky, silly, or done for shock value. This is a real film done with a purpose other than being just a little bit different from Hollywood, but not too much. I'm glad this film got picked up for distribution. It's a remarkable piece of work.

Unarguably clever.......2007-03-01

This film gets technologists! If you've ever done genuine scientific or engineering discovery you'll get this film. It's about that edge where it's all coming together but you don't quite see how yet, the rush on that edge, the drive to stay on it 'till it all makes sense. It's dead on, and frankly the time travel and science fictionie aspects are an aside.

I was trying to understand why this film wasn't huge in art theatres, and I think it's because a lot of people into art film really don't get technology or technologists. The "emotional" moments I think are brilliantly done, speaking as a real geek.

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Intelligent and taut story with unique time travel method
As innovative as it's premise
Uncommonly Smart
All of your brain is needed....
Unarguably clever

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Two young engineers, Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan), work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

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Intelligent and taut story with unique time travel method.......2007-06-19

As innovative as it's premise.......2007-06-18

Uncommonly Smart.......2007-06-06

All of your brain is needed...........2007-03-06

Unarguably clever.......2007-03-01

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Conversaciones Con Mama
Starring: Ulises Dumont , China Zorrilla , Tito Mendoza , Eduardo Blanco , and Silvina Bosco
Director: Santiago Carlos Oves
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Elsa Y Fred (Elsa & Fred) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America]
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ASIN: B000EHQ82S
Release Date: 2006-05-02

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Mamá tiene ochenta y dos años y su hijo Jaime, cincuenta. Ambos viven en mundos muy diferentes. Jaime tiene mujer, dos hijos, una hermosa casa, dos autos y una suegra que atender. Mamá se las arregla sola y sobrelleva su vejez con la misma dignidad con que ha llevado toda su vida. Pero un día ocurre lo inesperado; la empresa para la que trabaja Jaime lo deja en la calle por razones de ajuste. La lamentable situación lo lleva a decisiones drásticas. Jaime y su mujer son los dueños del departamento donde vive Mamá. Tendrán que pedirle a Mama que deje el departamento para poderlo vender, solo que cuando Jaime llega a darle las malas noticias a su madre esta le tiene a el una sorpresa mas grande. Mom is eighty-two years old and her son Jaime is fifty. They live in completely different worlds. Jaime is married, has two children, a beautiful house, two cars and a mother-in-law to attend to. Mom manages on her own and endures her old age with the same dignity with which she has lived her entire life. Unexpectedly, the company for which Jaime works downsizes and lays him off. His regrettable situation forces him to make drastic decisions because he can no longer support his lifestyle. Jaime and Dorita, his wife, own the apartment where Mom lives. Jaime soon realizes that he has no way out but to sell his Mom's apartment. When Jaime goes to tell his mother that he has no choice but to sell the apartment, Mom has a bigger surprise waiting for him.

Crystal Meth - A Primer on the Physiological and Psychological Affects

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Crystal Meth - A Primer on the Physiological and Psychological Affects
Starring: Brad Theissen
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Crystal Meth - A Forum For Youth Education
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Release Date: 2006-11-09

The Anthropic Principle - New DVD - Outstanding Primer on Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design malarky
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The Anthropic Principle - New DVD - Outstanding Primer on Intelligent Design

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The Evidence: God, the Universe & Everything
The Case for a Creator
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ASIN: B000LTV6AI

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Since Copernicus revolution, science has tended to grant less and less significance to both the earth and human life when weighed against the age and immensity of the cosmos. Not only doesnt the sun revolve around us, it turns out that our world is merely a speck floating in a dark backwater of one galaxy among one hundred billion others. And man, Darwin and his followers tell us, is a cosmic accident; the result of matter plus time plus chance. But a new revolution has been quietly taking place. Science is discovering more and more evidence for design and intentionality in the universe. And among the most fascinating of these discoveries is what has been called The Anthropic Principle: the idea that the universe appears to have been carefully engineered in order to produce carbon-based life forms and, yes, even man. In this fascinating documentary, eight world-renowned scientists grapple with the science and implications of this principle and conclude that Shakespeare may well have been right: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. This 50 minute program features: Dr. Paul Davies, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Newcastle University Dr. John Wheeler, Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Austin Dr. David Deutsch, Professor of Physics, Oxford University Dr. Dennis Sciama, Professor of Astrophysics, Cambridge University Dr. Frank Tipler, Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University Dr. Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University Dr. Michael Redhead, Professor of Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University Dr. Brandon Carter, Professor, Paris Observatory

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Intelligent design malarky.......2007-02-23

The Anthropic Principle is Intelligent Design writ large. Usually Creationists/ID proponents confine themselves to evolutionary Biology. Not so the scientists interviewed for this documentary. These are Professors of Physics, Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics.

After summarizing the history of astronomy and cosmology since Copernicus in about 2 minutes and, given the sterile mathematical depiction of such a pointless Universe, the "destiny" of human beings is described as "tatty." To call human life "tatty" because in the vast scale of the Universe we are insignificant is to underscore a meaningless point. It also denies the basic inherent value of human life regardless of the size of the Universe. But such a pejorative judgement based on the sheer scope of the Universe is precisely what the Anthropists intend to overturn. And in so doing restore to man his priviliged pre-Copernican status, a special creature at the very center of things. Mathematics, of course, cannot place a value on human existence. And so try as they might, these professors cannot make mathematics render up any meaning about the place of humanity in the cosmos. Most grating, however, is the fact that while they employ mathematics to demonstrate the meaninglessness of human existence, they also employ it to demonstrate that the Universe "must" be as it is in order to produce human life. That is called having one's cake and eating it.

Instead they resort to the ploy of ascribing intentionality to the Universe. These professors seem unaware that they are merely projecting human will and intention onto the impersonal physical processes of the Universe. Paul Davies, for instance, observes the "linkage" between the emergence of the human being and the size of the Universe and concludes that this precise size was required for life and therefore the Universe was purposefully designed and administered to allow for the conditions that allow for life. Which is more a belief than a scientifically provable hypothesis.

The basic Anthropic question is, "How important is mankind in the scheme of things?" But it is worth noting that the "scheme" is merely our construct, and mankind's importance even more so. There is no grand universal scheme in which we are vital participants. Other than this Earth, there is no grand scheme of things in which we might be important. As most astronomers and cosmologists believe that the Universe is teeming with life, it makes no sense to bemoan our current state of isolation or seeming lack of importance in the vast scheme of the Universe.

The underlying presumption of the Anthropists is that the Universe has a reason to be and that reason is human existence. The Anthropists make what they consider hay with the basic physical "constants" that allow for the formation of stable particles, etc. Using mathematics to defend the idea that there is an "order" and, indeed, a reason for the Universe to be (and be as it is), Prof. Sciama of Cambridge notes that if any of these numerical values were even slighly different, Poof! no Universe. But, so what. Maybe this Universe is just the metaphorical roll of the dice. Maybe there have been an infinite number of universes and this one happened to turn out this way. If there is a continuous cycle of birth and death (Big Bang/Big Crunch), then it is incredibly good fortune to be alive. "God" may not play dice with this Universe, but who is to say "he" didn't roll the dice with others that didn't work out quite as neatly. The "what if" is irrelevant in constructing an argument about the reasons why this Universe is as it is. It simply is that way. To posit, even implicitly, a purposeful designer who constructed the Univese as the reason for existence is to leap into theist speculation.

There are, according to this presentation, a number of subtle variations on the Anthropic Principle. The most extreme being the Participatory Principle which asserts that "It would be observers who bring the Universe into existence." This might also be characterized as participatory solopsism since without human observers there would be no Universe. This position is little more than an elaboration on the old conundrum: if there is no observer and a tree falls in a forest does it make a sound. According to eminent physicist John Wheeler the answer is no. And further, based on the ideas of quantum physics and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, the forest itself doesn't exist without a human observing it.

One of the resident experts on the Anthropic Principle is Prof. David Deutsch of Oxford who is a proponent of the Final Anthropic Principle. Deutsch makes Arthur C. Clarke and Olaf Stapledon look like rank amateurs in his description of men like gods who are "destined" to spread across the vast reaches of space, know all there is to know, control all the known powers and, apparently, end up at the resturaunt at the end of the universe.

Finally, the documentary displays a quote from Fred Hoyle (he of the steady state Universe theory), to wit: that the stars in this Universe were "deliberately designed" to allow for the conditions conducive to the development of life. Which rather begs the question.

All-in-all, the Anthropic Principle is the attempt to cast modern cosmology into a medieval frame of mind wherein humans are quite literally the cause, the raison d'etre for which the Universe exists. We have a place in the scheme of things because without us not only would the Universe be pointless, but without a cause. The Universe, apparently, has a purpose and that purpose is us.

A LONG-LOST TREASURE - FOUND!!.......2006-12-13

I heard about this years ago and spent more than a little time trying to track down a copy -- with no success. (Why the BBC drops so many of their productions I will never understand. They also did a great piece on one of my heroes, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, that appears to have also quietly dissappeared.) Anyway, I was thrilled to get my hands on a copy and find that is completely lives up to its reputation. As a Christian who is active in apologetics, this has quickly become one of my favorite tools. Note: I took away a star only because some people may be put off a bit by the datedness of the interviewees (it was produced in 1988). It is not so much their ideas (which are still extremely relevant) but their appearances! Proves the old maxim that great intelligence and an acute sense of style (check out the haircuts) don't necesarrily go hand-in-hand!)

Guitar Lessons: Heavy Metal Primer, learning how to play lead guitar Tommy Bolan instructional lesson DVD

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Starring: Tommy Bolan
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ASIN: B000F1HWKK
Release Date: 2006-04-04

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Tommy Bolan (N.Y.C , Warlock , Freight Train Jane) demonstrates licks and tricks to get your fingers shredding across your fretboard now! Learn the step by step patterns and details to many of Tommys favorite techniques and complete breakdowns of Tommys live and in-studio gear. Learn: Warm Up Exercises, Speed Techniques, Scales, Harmonics, String Skipping, Pendulum Picking, Arpeggios, Tremolo Tricks. Features: On-Screen Tablature, Live Gear Demos, Interactive Lesson Library, Bonus Materials, Exclusive Access To Online Book!

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steps to become a metal shredder.......2006-06-30

This video is great, its perfect for those intermediate guitar players that are looking to speed up their techniques. The video has on screen tabs which are a great help, and the insructor (Tommy Bolan) slows down his techniques to help out.

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MM11: Landscaping Primer

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Release Date: 2006-07-13

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Diane Myrick presents this landscaping primer for both novice and experienced miniaturists. Join Diane as she takes you on a tour of her garden, demonstrating easy-to-do techniques for making bushes, vines, flower beds, hedges, a small pond and a shade tree Diane draws on 20 years of experience and teaching to provide clear, easy-to-understand instruction. The techniques she uses are adapted from creating model railroad scenes, as well as secrets she learned while working for an architectural model supplier.

Charlie Rose with Kurt Masur; Lynne Cheney (May 21, 2002)

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Charlie Rose with Kurt Masur; Lynne Cheney (May 21, 2002)

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The conductor and musical director of the New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur, on his life and orchestra. Then, Lynne Cheney, wife of vice president Richard Cheney, talks about her book America: A Patriotic Primer, meant to educate children through the use of the alphabet and patriotism.

The Vegas 6 Primer - The New Features of Sony's Vegas 6 Editing Software

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The Vegas 6 Primer - The New Features of Sony's Vegas 6 Editing Software
Starring: Gary Kleiner
Director: Gary Kleiner
Manufacturer: Mobile Pro Video
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Includes examples
Easy to follow and understand
Get up to speed quickly
DVD chapters make it easy to find specific topics

ASIN: B000EHL67A

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For users already familiar with Sony Vegas 5.0 tm, Gary Kleiners The Vegas 6 Primer provides an in-depth look at the new features of Sony Vegas 6.0 tm. Learning from detailed examples, youll be up to speed in no time. Topics: ·Keyboard Shortcuts ·Secondary Monitor ·A/V Sync ·Scrub ·VST ·Multi-threaded Rendering ·Decklink Support ·Project Paths ·Nested Projects ·Ripple Mode ·AAF / BWF ·Media Manager ·Working with HDV

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DVD Guelaguetza 2002 Primer Lunes
Starring: Grupos Folkloricos De Oaxaca
Director: Fernando Sanchez
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ASIN: 9685490384
Release Date: 2002-06-30

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YOU CAN SELECT ENGLISH OR SPANISH NARRATION FROM THE MAIN MENU, NOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE GUELAGUETZA CONCEPT, FIRST MONDAY (PART ONE), THE SECOND ONE IS IN ANOTHER DVD, GUELAGUETZA SECOND MONDAY. Esta obra es la memoria vidografica en formato DVD de la manifestacion folklorica, etnica, cultural y mistica mas grande de Latinoamerica que se realizo en Oaxaca, Mexico, el 22 de Julio de 2002, siendo el Primer Lunes de esta serie. Participan las siguientes delegaciones representantes de las siete regiones etnicas del estado de Oaxaca, brindando sus costumbres, tradiciones, misticismo y danza indigenas. Contenido: Documental informativo de 25 minutos en Ingles y Español, seleccionando el menu. Diosa Centeotl, Chinas Oaxaqueñas, Sones Mazatecos, Jarabes Yalaltecos, Jarabe Mixe, Fandango en San Antonino, Sones de Tehuantepec, Jarabe Mixteco, Jarabe Ejuteco, Sones de Pochutla, Jarabes y Chilenas de Sola de Vega, Pinotepa Nacional y sus chilenas, Flor de Piña y Danza de la Pluma de Zaachila.

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