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Recent exhibitions include White Blues at Kunstvereniging, Diepenheim, The Netherlands (2010); The House in my Head at Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark (2010); Larger than Life, Stranger than Fiction at The 11th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, Germany (2010); Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe, Bruge Central, Belgium (2010); The Magic of Clay, GI Holtegaard, Copenhagen, Denmark (2011); and SFMOMA's New Work Series (2011).

Joan Fontcuberta: Stranger than Fiction at Science Museum The new media space at Science Museum has had a great start and this was a fantastically surreal and humorous exhibition.

Recent group exhibitions includeStranger than Fiction at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Opening Ceremonyat Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York; and Else, curated by Derrick Adams, at Tilton Gallery, New York, all in 2010.

Not exact matches

But as stories and news travel at lightning speed, it's more difficult than ever to tell fact from fiction.

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

Which is why we need smart TV more than ever, because fiction in all forms still steals past the watchful dragons of our own presuppositions and prejudices and helps us look at the world in a different light.

To join the Foreign Legion of the Church, no longer able to be full citizens at home within it: this seems to define what has come to be called, more on the basis of the fiction than on knowledge of the author himself, a «Graham Greene Catholic.»

If our models are to lead us to ask, and seek answers for, new questions about the world, we must regard them as something more than «logical superfluities», «illicit attempts at explanation», «convenient fictions», or the like.

I do not have the figures in front of me, but I expect that golfers buy more instruction books, chuckle at more golf whimsy, read more fiction about their sport and sympathize more fully with accounts of the agonies of their brethren of the links than any other athletes.

ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS In science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocity.

WORLD building is at the heart of great science fiction, but it can be tricky at less than book length.

Rather than obsessively checking my e-mail or keeping up with journal articles, I laid around and read bad fiction, hung out with my family, caught up with friends from high school, and marveled at how much everything had changed since I started graduate school.

One view, subscribed to by the towering French figure of Jules Gabriel Verne, a man with a better claim to being the Father of Science Fiction than anyone else, was that the genre should consider itself almost a legitimate field of science proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code of rigor.

A spectacular string of advances in superconductivity and nanotechnology reported by researchers at Lucent Technologies» Bell Labs since 1998 were probably more fiction than fact, according to a panel established in May to look into allegations of scientific misconduct at the company.

It was standing room only Friday night at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel's Hale Hoaloha Pavilion; more than 750 attendees came to enjoy a behind - the - scenes peek at Interstellar and an in - depth look at how Dr. Thorne assisted Hollywood in turning science fact into science fiction.

Revisiting Gattaca at this time is important precisely because it coincides with the emergence of new genetic technologies that are making a then - futuristic vision put forth two decades ago more a matter of science than fiction.

FIXED: The Science / Fiction of Human Enhancement takes a close look at the drive to be «better than human» and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.

Critic Consensus: The Lovers and the Despot offers a compelling — albeit by no means comprehensive — look at one of the more bizarrely stranger - than - fiction episodes in cinematic history.

Critics Consensus: The Lovers and the Despot offers a compelling — albeit by no means comprehensive — look at one of the more bizarrely stranger - than - fiction episodes in cinematic history.

It's not long before the movie's vigorous efforts to channel Charlie Kaufman and Andrew Niccol, not to mention Ferrell's efforts to follow in Jim Carrey's footsteps, leave Stranger Than Fiction looking rather familiar, not strange at all.

None is funnier than McAdams, who gets to hilariously act out the hostages in the diner opening to «Pulp Fiction,» never realizing she's waving a real gun at real bad guys who really need to be taken hostage.

Before 1968's Planet of the Apes Science Fiction films had been middling performers at best, and more often than not slightly juvenile in appeal.

A documentary / fiction hybrid that's more effective as the former than the latter, Woodpeckers deserves to follow up its appearance in Sundance's World Dramatic competition section by serving time at festivals with a social conscience.

What initially seems hard to watch, even excruciating at times, becomes hard not to, a fascinating fiction that seems to be more real than just about any actual documentary you can imagine.

More than that, the work of Sam Barlow could be an illuminating beacon for future games that aim at offering innovative gameplay in police fiction games.

STRANGER THAN FICTION, a dark comedy - drama from comedian Will Ferrell (TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY; BLADES OF GLORY) and director MARC FORSTER (QUANTUM OF SOLACE; THE KITE RUNNER) is quite notably funny, and even when you think you're going to regret laughing (I won't ruin the movie for those of you who have not seen it), you do not regret anything at all.

When Gravity came out a bit more than a year ago, a thousand science - fiction - loving bloggers leapt to their keyboards to explain why the film was a «game changer»; Boyhood doesn't have a constituency that's quite so... naturally vocal, so this post is here for the next time someone shrugs at the marvels of Boyhood.

Marc, whose credits include Monster's Ball and Stranger Than Fiction has previously worked at the studios on Finding Neverland with Johnny Depp.

However, Po has absolutely no skills whatsoever, so he is groomed by master trainer Shifu (Hoffman, Stranger Than Fiction), who is skeptical that Po was the right choice, to hone some skills to have a chance at being the kind of master he was chosen to be.

But even Avalos had never met anyone like Danny Houck, the violin - obsessed subject of his irresistible, way - stranger - than - fiction documentary «Strad Style,» which screened this week at Sundance's crosstown rival, Slamdance.

2002 — John C. Reily — Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Good Girl 2002 — Leonardo DiCaprio — Catch Me If You Can, Gangs of New York 2003 — Sean Penn — Mystic River, 21 Grams 2003 — Johnny Depp — Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Pirates of the Caribbean 2004 — Mark Ruffalo — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Collateral, 13 Going on 30, We Don't Live Here Anymore 2004 — Jamie Foxx — Ray, Collateral, Breakin» All the Rules 2005 — Terrence Howard — Hustle & Flow, Four Brothers, Get Rich or Die Tryin» 2005 — Vince Vaughn — Wedding Crashers, Be Cool, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thumbsucker 2006 — Leonardo DiCaprio — The Departed, Blood Diamond 2006 — Will Ferrell — Stranger Than Fiction, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 2007 — Michael Cera — Juno, Superbad 2007 — Phillip Seymour Hoffman — Charlie Wilson's War, The Savages, Before the Devil Knows Your Dead 2008 — Robert Downey Jr. — Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, Charlie Bartlett 2008 — Daniel Craig — Quantum of Solace, Defiance 2009 — George Clooney — Men Who Stare At Goats, Up in the Air, Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 — Robert Downey Jr. — Sherlock Holmes, The Soloist

Sacha Gervasi was a surprise nominee for the Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award at this year's Independent Spirit Awards, and now it looks like the movie will finally be getting a proper U.S. theatrical release.

What sets it apart from similarly themed works is its expert storytelling — at times feeling more like a Roman Polanski film than a first swing from a relative newcomer at fiction.

But Solaris is less a science - fiction film than it is an existentialist melodrama that, by winnowing itself down to the fierce romanticism at the heart of Lem's novel (and Tarkovsky's trance - like adaptation), locates the core issues of identity and love that plague the dark hours.

Also, this is only the second time in more than a decade that three soundtracks have been in the top five, with the other two releases being the original musical The Greatest Showman (at number three) and the original fan - fiction garbage Fifty Shades Freed (at number five).

For a moviemaker equally at home on blockbusters like World War Z (2013) and more intimate features like Finding Neverland (2004) or Stranger than Fiction (2006), Forster has impressively maintained a unique visual style that is identifiably his own.

Marc Forster's Stranger than Fiction even winks at the Adams connection with a sentient wristwatch and a moment where Crick's apartment gets demolished, Arthur Dent - like, by an uncommunicated work order.

My favourite part was the picture montage at the end proving that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!

«Children Of Men» For a film which is, ostensibly at least, science fiction (it creates one of the most coherent, fascinating futuristic dystopias ever seen on screen), «Children of Men» sums up our War - on - Terror, immigration - panic era better than any contemporary drama could.

«Bombay Beach» took the top documentary prize at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and received a «Truer Than Fiction» Spirit Award nomination.

Upstream Color is science fiction at its best, using a far - out concept to explore emotions rather than something more remote or conceptual.

The film awards circuit is a much different beast than it was 15 years ago when Tarantino exploded onto the scene with «Pulp Fiction,» even if his long time confidant Harvey Weinstein is still at the campaign's helm.

This movie is more watchable than some of the so called films that recently screened at the Ohio Science Fiction Movie Marathon and Honor Marathons.

In order to capture this ludicrous, stranger - than - fiction story in it's entirety, it demands a maestro at work and Affleck can certainly consider himself one.

As the duo begin to cackle, director Bennett Miller («Moneyball») points at the dark heart of his stranger - than - fiction drama — one that's almost all wick, burning slowly but brightly.

Both came to mind watching «The Post,» both historical fiction and a breakneck shot - at - speed allegory for the present moment of journalism and politics, begun and released in less than nine months.

It was recently screened at the IFI Stranger Than Fiction 2012 documentary festival and now Dublin audiences have another chance to catch this important documentary as it is exclusively released at the IFI.

Chuck has questions about how Stephen always seems to be in the right place at the right time to capture his stranger - than - fiction scoops, but with everyone so enraptured by Stephen's work, Chuck looks like a jealous colleague rather than a journalist following his natural instincts.

Paul McGuigan There's a lovely warmth and likability to this heartwarming stranger - than - fiction love story, starring Jamie Bell as Peter Turner, an out - of - work actor in the 1970s who met and fell for the legendary Hollywood star Gloria Grahame, who was then in the endgame of her career and suffering from ill health — and who later came to stay with Turner's mum and dad, played by Julie Walters and Kenneth Cranham, at their home in Liverpool.

Besides movies about comedy and / or Gillian Jacobs, it's hard to say what makes a «Tribeca» film, at least on the fiction side; the festival has much less of an identity than, say, Sundance or NYFF.