While movements such as Fridays for Future and environmental organizations showing us the footprint humans leave on the earth, the amount of destruction and exploitation, from the extinction of species to deforestation, it is hard to grasp just how much change the advent of humanity has brought to the planet. In his 2007 non-fictional book titled “The World Without Us” US author Alan Weisman used research and interviews with scientists and experts in order to present how the world would develop if suddenly mankind would cease to exist, at times with scary and quite revealing results and images. Using the Mekong River Delta as a starting point, the anthology “Mekong 2030” features the vignettes by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Anysay Keola, Kulikar Sotho, Pham ngoc Lan and Sai Naw Kham, and follows a similar idea with Weisman’s, making predictions on the changes of the landscape and its inhabitants in ten years time.
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- 12/1/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Alan Weisman, a longtime producer for “60 Minutes” known for his work with Morley Safer, died Thursday at his home in New Jersey of natural causes. He was 68.
Weisman produced some of Safer’s most memorable “60 Minutes” segments, including the 1984 profile of Jackie Gleason and the 1989 jailhouse interview that brought national attention to the plight of Joyce Ann Brown, whose conviction for murder was set aside shortly after the segment aired. Weisman also produced Safer’s interviews with such showbiz notables as Jack Lemmon, Woody Allen and violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.
Weisman worked on the “60 Minutes II” series that aired on CBS from 1999 to 2005. Most recently he produced segments for the Showtime series “60 Minutes Sports.”
“Alan Weisman was a brilliant writer and sophisticated storyteller. He was also a brutally honest and funny colleague,” said Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes.” “I have never met anyone prouder to have worked at CBS and ’60 Minutes.
Weisman produced some of Safer’s most memorable “60 Minutes” segments, including the 1984 profile of Jackie Gleason and the 1989 jailhouse interview that brought national attention to the plight of Joyce Ann Brown, whose conviction for murder was set aside shortly after the segment aired. Weisman also produced Safer’s interviews with such showbiz notables as Jack Lemmon, Woody Allen and violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.
Weisman worked on the “60 Minutes II” series that aired on CBS from 1999 to 2005. Most recently he produced segments for the Showtime series “60 Minutes Sports.”
“Alan Weisman was a brilliant writer and sophisticated storyteller. He was also a brutally honest and funny colleague,” said Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes.” “I have never met anyone prouder to have worked at CBS and ’60 Minutes.
- 2/24/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The wild, coastal landscapes where Bruno Dumont's antihero roams free from retribution create a lucid dream of violence and beauty
It could be the antihero who is supposed to be "outside Satan" in Bruno Dumont's latest film, or it could be the remote, islanded world he inhabits. He and they are quite close to Satan, at all events; it is perhaps truer to say he is outside both God and Satan. Devotees of Dumont's earlier films – particularly his 1999 film Humanity – will instantly recognise the style, the locale, the narrative, the bizarre quasi-realism, in which events take place in a world infinitesimally different from the one we inhabit. As ever, the visionary, radioactive glow is compelling.
We are back in the broad, wild coastal landscapes of northern France, of which Britain's nearest equivalent is the East Anglian fen, a world of largely unsmiling, often unspeaking characters represented by non-professional actors.
It could be the antihero who is supposed to be "outside Satan" in Bruno Dumont's latest film, or it could be the remote, islanded world he inhabits. He and they are quite close to Satan, at all events; it is perhaps truer to say he is outside both God and Satan. Devotees of Dumont's earlier films – particularly his 1999 film Humanity – will instantly recognise the style, the locale, the narrative, the bizarre quasi-realism, in which events take place in a world infinitesimally different from the one we inhabit. As ever, the visionary, radioactive glow is compelling.
We are back in the broad, wild coastal landscapes of northern France, of which Britain's nearest equivalent is the East Anglian fen, a world of largely unsmiling, often unspeaking characters represented by non-professional actors.
- 1/4/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Maybe J.J. Abrams has been watching too many episodes of Life After People, or reading Alan Weisman’s landmark book The World Without Us. Not that I’m complaining, nor will viewers, I imagine, once his latest TV venture, Revolution, hits the small screen. Taking place 15 years after a worldwide blackout deprived humanity of all use of electricity — no iPhones, no TVs, no lights, not even any batteries — the leftover population is struggling to make a new civilization by living in pre-20th century conditions. Goat herders and corn growers now line the streets of Chicago, and holistic healers are all [...]...
- 7/12/2012
- by Stacey Harrison
- ChannelGuideMag
The first time I heard about the 18-minute short film "Plastic Bag" directed by Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo, Chop Shop and Man Push Cart) featuring director Werner Herzog as the voice of a plastic bag was at the tail end of March when it was featured at the South-by-Southwest Film Festival as part of the Futurestates series of 11 fictional mini-features exploring possible future scenarios. Unsurprising, based on the talent involved, it's an impressive feature that touches upon an issue I'm not sure many people realize is becoming a major problem in our world.
"Plastic Bag" reminded me a lot of Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us" and how plastics, of all things, will be around forever and are choking our the Earth's ecosystem. Bahrani's short film explores such a scenario as the immortal life of a plastic bag is followed as it is discarded by its "maker" and left...
"Plastic Bag" reminded me a lot of Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us" and how plastics, of all things, will be around forever and are choking our the Earth's ecosystem. Bahrani's short film explores such a scenario as the immortal life of a plastic bag is followed as it is discarded by its "maker" and left...
- 4/6/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
It must be nice being a Fox executive - no matter how dumb your new idea is, you know there's always someone waiting in the wings to come up with something stupider. Case in point: the studio has just bought the film rights to Alan Weisman's environmental nonfiction best-seller "The World Without Us", which envisions life on Earth if humans were suddenly to disappear. The book explores how long it would take houses and other man-made artifacts to deteriorate and what environmental impact nuclear waste and other pollutants would have.So how does Fox plan to translate this inherently non-cinematic scientific "What if?" into big-screen dollars? By making a documentary? Nope, instead they're going to cut out the science (read: the entire book) and just turn the thing into a Roland Emmerich movie.The studio has hired I Am Legend writing/directing team Mark Protosevich and Francis Lawrence to...
- 4/3/2009
- Films N Movies
20th Century Fox has picked up film rights to the environmental nonfiction book "The World Without Us" written by American journalist Alan Weisman. They intend on turning it into a tentpole feature which Mark Protosevich can write and Francis Lawrence may helm. The best-selling book tells of what life on Earth would be like if humans just disappeared and explores how houses would deteriorate, which man-made objects would last and which wouldn't, how lifeforms would evolve, the impact on the environment by nuclear waste left behind as well as other pollutants, how nature would engulf established environments and more. Alan Weisman wrote four books prior to "The World Without Us"...
- 4/2/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
20th Century Fox has picked up film rights to the environmental nonfiction book "The World Without Us" written by American journalist Alan Weisman. They intend on turning it into a tentpole feature which Mark Protosevich can write and Francis Lawrence may helm. The best-selling book tells of what life on Earth would be like if humans just disappeared and explores how houses would deteriorate, which man-made objects would last and which wouldn't, how lifeforms would evolve, the impact on the environment by nuclear waste left behind as well as other pollutants, how nature would engulf established environments and more. Alan Weisman wrote four books prior to "The World Without Us"...
- 4/2/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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