Rollerball

Image Not Available Director: Norman Jewison Dvd Release: 24th June, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Rollerball is a 1975 science fiction film directed by Norman Jewison from the short story Roller Ball Murders by William Harrison. In the film the world of 2018 is a global corporate state. In it, the Energy Corporation is a global energy monopoly based in Houston which dealt with nominally-peer corporations controlling access to all Transport, Luxury, Housing & Food on a global basis. In the central theme of the film, Energy also sponsored a Rollerball team which was effectively a violent version of roller derby in which major injuries & death were common. The game was a substitute for all current team sports & for war. Its purpose was entertainment, but within the plot there was also the need for charismatic individuals to be defeated in the course of the game, for the team to be paramount. The film tells the story of Jonathan E, the veteran star of the Energy Corporations team, played by James Caan. The cabal strictly limited access to knowledge including all knowledge of history - there were no competing belief systems such as science or religion. Posters Of Rollerball

Norman Jewison is a Canadian actor, film director & producer. He was born & raised in Toronto & attended Victoria College. As a young man in the 1950s he embarked on a trip through the United States south where he was appaled by the open racism & inequality. This experience gave him a life long concern with racial issues discrimination that can be clearly seen in many of his films including his most acclaimed In the Heat of the Night. He has been nominated for the best director Academy Award on a number of occasions, but has never won. In 1998, he was awarded The Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award, awarded periodically at the Academy Awards ceremonies to Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production. In 1981 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada & was promoted to Companion in 1991. In 1988, Jewison founded the Canadian Film Centre, an advanced film & television training institute located in Toronto, Ontario. Posters Of The Statement

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