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...That she's a real woman, she just had a baby and she's out there every day doing what she's passionate about are all things I can relate to so closely," says Karan of her stark, sci-fi-inspired fall campaign starring Blanchett...
METROPOLIS. Director Rin Taro worked with Osamu Tezuka to adapt Tezuka’s 1949 manga, a riff on Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi classic. This adaptation is an anime film that follows Kenichi (Kei Kobayashi) and his uncle, Shunsaku Ban (Kousei Tomita), in a futuristic city in which robots do most of the work, but must live underground. Shunsaku is a detective on the trail of a fugitive who is creating a robot named Tima (Yuka Imoto), but soon Kenichi and Tima are on the run together. Since Tima is unaware of her purpose...
...epitome of sci-fi gadgetry. In Minority Report, Tom Cruise, playing a cop who fights crimes that are to take place in the future, gestures into the air like an orchestra conductor wearing a space glove--only he's calling up computer images that float before him in holographic splendor...
...joined a hundred or so spectators and watched in awe as huge, wide-bodied jets made seemingly impossible turns on the famous, curved approach to Runway 13. Aircraft banked an improbable 90?, almost skimming the tops off the neighboring apartment blocks. The scene was straight out of sci-fi: huge, metallic birds coming home to nest with a demented roar...
...especially with small, boutique publishers. Two anthologies of this type really stood out. ?Project: Telstar? (AdHouse; $16.95) printed in black, white and an iridescent silver ink features short stories about robots or space. Using a varied range of styles and sensibilities, it completely defies the genre stereotypes associated with sci-fi. The other standout anthology was the mammoth 350-page ?Kramer?s Ergot? number four (Avodah/Alternative Comics; $25). Printed in full color, it gives some of the medium?s edgiest (and youngest) artists the opportunity to break out of the muddy world of Kinko?s photocopies and indulge themselves...