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Oscar-Shortlisted ‘From Ground Zero’, ‘The Damned’ & Film Forum’s Cautionary AI Fest ‘Metropolis’ To ‘Ex Machina’ – Specialty Preview
Oscar shortlisted 'From Ground Zero' with The Damned' are new indie films opening. Film Forum debuts an AI Film Festival from 'Metropolis' to 'Alien' to 'Star Wars'
As awards season heats up, From Ground Zero, Palestine’s Oscar entry that’s on the short list for Best International Feature, debuts at about 70 AMC locations in top 20 markets and select arthouses including the Quad in New York and Laemmle Royal in LA. Also stars Joe Cole ( Peaky Blinders, A Small Light), Turlough Convery ( Killing Eve, Belfast), Lewis Gribben ( Somewhere Boy, Generation Z), Francis McGee ( KIN, The Tourist), Mícheál Óg Lane ( The Guard, Calvary). This is a festival of 30 movies that helped introduce the world to the concept of artificial intelligence, some well before the term was first coined in the 1950s, he said, starting with Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis, which broke new ground in science fiction storytelling with the creation of Maria, a robot designed to look human and control the workers in an underground city.
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