zero ( 2016 film )
betting on zero premiered at tribeca film festival in april, 2016, where it earned a special jury mention for investigative filmmaking .
reviewed at berlin film festival (competing), feb. 17, 2016. running time: 116 min .
zero (aka) zero is a tamil movie with production by balaji kapa, direction by shiv mohaa, cinematography by ie babu kumar, editing by r sudharsan. the cast of zero (aka) zero includes ashwin kakumanu, sshivada .
the shortlisted filmmaking teams for 2016 - 17 have been selected, and are now in the training and development phase .
zero (aka) zero is a tamil movie with production by balaji kapa, direction by shiv mohaa, cinematography by ie babu kumar, editing by r sudharsan. the cast of zero (aka) zero includes ashwin kakumanu, shivada nair .
portland press herald march 8, 2016 filming underway in maine for tess gerritsen’s horror movie ‘island zero’ the film is directed by the author’s son, josh gerritsen, and features veteran actress laila robins of the showtime tv series ‘homeland. ’
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crew members of the horror film “island zero” apply fake blood to a lobster boat in camden harbor last week .
vstv soup de jour january 29, 2016 chris quimby talks with mariah klapatch, josh and tess gerritsen about their new monster movie, island zero, which has been shot locally in mid - coast maine .
shivada who made a terrific debut as manga the feisty girl in nedunchalai has started shooting for her second film titled zero .
crew members of the horror film “island zero” apply fake blood to a lobster boat in camden harbor last week. tess gerritsen photo
betting on zero is the first film presented by biltmore films, an independent film production and development company based in north carolina. biltmore films specializes in business and financial subjects .
resurgence isn' t a good movie, but if you' re trying to work out what independence day means in 2016, that isn' t the point .
best - selling camden author tess gerritsen and her son have teamed up to make an indie horror film titled “island zero” around camden and rockport this month .
' zero' is an engaging horror - fantasy that can leave you guessing all the way through .
watch betting on zero director ted braun' s 4 / 15 / 16 interview on bloomberg tv .
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hours after betting on zero premiered at tribeca film festival, where paid contractors distributed leaflets attempting to discredit the film, herbalife launched an attack website. the website, bettingonzero. com, is a repository of false and misleading information about the film and is subject to periodic wild and dramatic revisions .
regrettably, the film' s place - setting opening lays the scene for a different, more exciting film that never really unfolds .
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dystopian chase thriller zero and psychological horror the visitor were the films commissioned from the 2014 - 15 development slate .
zero days is an intriguing, disturbing watch. and to return to the title, there is another echo – of lucy walker’s nuclear - weapons documentary countdown to zero. we need some kind of cyber - nonproliferation treaty .
there are two ugly interrogation scenes in the opening minutes of zero dark thirty that haunt the rest of the experience, and that have come to haunt critical reception of the film itself .
by necessity, far more questions than answers are raised in zero days. all of the questions and answers are troubling .
* this post originally stated that a terrorist attack in khobar depicted in the zero dark thirty occurred in 1996, six years prior to the action in the film. in fact, the film depicts an attack in khobar that happened in 2004. we regret the error .
filming for “island zero” began last week in camden and rockport and will continue in midcoast towns and on islesboro until march 26. klapatch said the film is scheduled to be finished by september and then submitted for entry into film festivals. the filmmakers hope festival showings will lead to a distribution deal that lands the film in theaters at some point .
ill manors was winner of the coup de coeur and best cinematography awards at the 2013 dinard british film festival, and was nominated for three british independent film awards along with breakthrough british filmmaker at london critics circle film awards .
it’s in the film of 2010 that the big world - saving stakes come to the forefront. and the film updates that final message, too :
one of the protagonists and the editor of the film on the red carpet .
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zero days plausibly makes the case that cyber - aggression of nation states is a new form of dangerous geopolitical dysfunction. photograph: handout / epa
eerie imagery, building suspense and a cleverly executed sense of dread help move the film along from a standard doco to having the trimmings of a straight - up horror film .
feinstein, who shared mccain’s convictions about torture, was outraged by zero dark thirty, walking out of a special screening arranged for her just fifteen or twenty minutes into the film. “i couldn’t handle it, ” she explained. “because it is so false. ”
the core findings of betting on zero are practically identical to the core findings of the ftc after its multi - year investigation of herbalife. this is not a coincidence .
zero days is... under attack from little stylistic worms that threaten to turn an otherwise solid doc on the evil that 21st - century hackers do into a hack job .
this is explicitly depicted in the film when louise uses different events throughout her life to affect other occurrences, regardless of their non - sequential order. we repeatedly witness louise interact with events in the future and the present by being simultaneously aware of both. by talking with ian in 2016 montana about zero sum games, she is able to help her daughter hannah with her homework in the future. and again, with perhaps the whole future of humanity (and the heptapods 3, 000 years hence) at stake, she is able to discuss with the high chinese general shang the details of their fateful phone call from 18 months ago… while simultaneously having that conversation at gunpoint in montana .
population zero edges towards disappointing its audience, but is interesting enough in its early stages to make it a worthwhile watch, and certainly one of the better mock - documentaries you will come across .
the story of “island zero” focuses on the people of a remote island off maine who find themselves without power or any way to communicate with the mainland after the ferry stops coming. then people start dying .
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a low - rent horror film in need of an exorcist, as it never recovers from being cursed with a bad script .
“people are just so eager and excited to help; it’s very different from shooting projects around major production hubs like los angeles and new york, ” klapatch said, adding she hoped the film might lead to more film projects coming to the state. the independent film has a budget of up to about $ 400, 000 and is being financed directly by the gerritsens, klapatch said .
strident rhetoric is required for describing brad peyton' s latest film, a maddening hodgepodge of ideas that range from undercooked to unoriginal .
morelia, mexico – willem dafoe will play the lead in “opus zero, ” the directorial debut of oz producer daniel graham, which starts shooting next week in mexico. dafoe revealed his new role while attending the 14th morelia int’l film fest as a guest of honor and to co - present the world premiere of “padre, ” the latest [ … ]
an ambitious next - generation spin on the found - footage genre, population zero starts out like an indie version of a true - crime tv news magazine and turns into a horror - tinged drama with a topical slant .
crew members prepare for filming on the independent horror movie “island zero” on the pier in rockport last week. the screenplay was written by best - selling camden author tess gerritsen and is directed by her son, josh gerritsen .
our most recent release, lilting, was winner of the cinematography award (world cinema - dramatic) following its world premiere as the opening film at the 2014 sundance film festival before going on to be nominated for outstanding debut by a british writer, director or producer at the bafta awards, as well as best achievement in production and douglas hickox awards at the british independent film awards (bifa) .
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the film is directed by the author‘s son, josh gerritsen, and features veteran actress laila robins of the showtime tv series ’homeland. ’
there' s not enough here for a full length feature film - something that becomes obvious the longer the movie is on the screen .
the criticism is unfair, and its reading of both the film and the actual story seems willfully mistaken. torture may be morally wrong, and it may not be the best way to obtain information from detainees, but it played a role in america' s messy, decade - long pursuit of osama bin laden, and zero dark thirty is right to portray that fact .
in the end, zero is a thrilling ride into the unknown. a discrepancy between what’s on paper and the final output renders the make - believe aspect a little less convincing. still, it is a new experience for the audience .
crew members prepare for filming on the independent horror movie “island zero” on the pier in rockport last week. the screenplay was written by best - selling camden author tess gerritsen and is directed by her son, josh gerritsen. tess gerritsen photo
the film cost $ 40 million, took years to make, required everyone involved (including cillian murphy, chris evans pre - captain america, and rose byrne pre - everything) to believe passionately that they had to work hard on an unsettling space movie with zero mass appeal about a spaceship moving realistically slowly toward total doom. the film came out, made less than $ 4 million in america, was generally vilified by scientists and totally ignored by critics. (it’s a cruddy business, sometimes, making movies. )
gerritsen said monday the film sprang from a casual mention to her son that she’d love to write a horror film like “the old classics” she loved as a child, when horror movies were more than just “teen slasher flicks. ” her favorite is “invasion of the body snatchers” from 1956 .
“with this story about isolation, the sea and hardy islanders, it was obvious that maine was the place to film, ” gerritsen said .
ultimately, not the best film. although it was better than x - men: last stand. so they have that going for them .
it' s almost as if the director, along with the editor / screenwriter, played bourne bingo and the winning card became the finished film .
fixing the malfunctioning avalon requires addressing the fundamental damage, but the film seems to argue that the same does not hold true for the human heart .
passengers is not a good trip. director morten tyldum' s film is a mish - mash of genres and premised on a creepy plot point .
so, how true is it? it was a mistake for those involved in the film to suggest that zero dark thirty is
journalistic ,
and to have touted their access to seal team members and cia field officers. no matter how remarkable their research and access, the film spills no state secrets. no movie can tell a story like this without aggressively condensing characters and events, fictionalizing dialogue, etc. boal' s script is just 102 pages: fewer than 10, 000 words, the length of a longish magazine article .
zero days is more than just, as a source puts it ,
a cool spy story
. it is also a cautionary tale of the dangers of secrecy and a clarion call for an honest discussion on cyber weapons and their lethal potential .
the world descends into chaos, and banks stares at a chalkboard. the fate of the world depends on amy adams thinking hard: so arrival qualifies as “cerebral, ” on the sliding scale of popular hollywood sci - fi. 2016, we can’t forget, was the year of batman v superman, a movie where the fate of the world depends on amy adams grabbing a spear out of the water after she threw that spear into the water. compared to kindergarten, fifth grade is college .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
the film is directed by the author' s son, josh gerritsen, and features veteran actress laila robins of the showtime tv series' homeland.'
shifty was nominated for the 2010 bafta award for' outstanding debut by a british writer, director, or producer', and' best achievement in production' and' best technical achievement' at the british independent film awards, as well as winning' best screenplay' at stockholm film festival,' best feature film screenplay (newcomer)' at the writers' guild of great britain awards, and the geneva cinéma tout ecran' best actor' award .
dense with plot and mythology, the film is refreshingly unpredictable - if only because guessing what comes next would require understanding what the hell is going on .
is substantially more entertaining than any film adapted from an app has any right to be - - which may or may not be much of an endorsement .
while the underlying concept of the series is the examination of a big social experiment, this gets lost in the film. extremely lackluster fare, overall .
morelia, mexico – willem dafoe will play the lead in “opus zero, ” the directorial debut of oz producer daniel graham, which starts shooting next week in mexico. dafoe revealed his new role while attending the 14th morelia int’l film fest as a guest of honor and to co - present the world premiere of “padre, ” the latest pic by his wife, italian filmmaker giada colagrande. graham was the line producer of “post tenebras lux, ” directed by carlos reygadas who boards the project as an associate producer. “opus zero” leads an ambitious slate from julio chavezmontes ’ mexico city - based production - distribution house, piano. sutor kolonko y maze pictures co - produce .
but actually, arrival more closely resembles contact, a film about jodie foster wearing headphones and listening to those headphones and then listening really hard to those headphones .
it' s a great - looking film with an original idea. watch it for its stars but it won' t have an astronomical impact on you .
while together these subjects and gibney’s storytelling skills make “zero days” play like a riveting espionage thriller crossed with a uniquely chilling sci - fi horror yarn, the film remains in the realm of fact throughout. gibney starts out recalling the assassination of iranian nuclear scientists in 2010, and then the discovery of stuxnet, in belarus. though the virus was identified as coming from iran, by that time it had spread all over the world .
the initial version, which can be accessed here, made the case that betting on zero was funded by bill ackman, whose campaign to draw regulatory attention to herbalife' s business practices is one of the subjects of the film. this was a lie, and the company knew it was a lie, as it appears to admit on an updated version of the website in its description of its numerous meetings with director ted braun .
the best known of the film’s cast is laila robins, a veteran theater and tv actress who played the ambassador to pakistan on the showtime cable series “homeland. ”
as one interviewee puts it in gibney’s film, there is a “whiff of august 1945” about the natanz attack – the first chapter in a new history of warfare .
zero is a venture that is made with a lot of sensualism, religion and love. it deserves a watch for the efforts that the team has put into it. though there are scenes where one might question the laws of science, the fictitious story overrides those questions .
there should be a subgenre of documentaries solely defined by their capacity to incite righteous anger in the audience. titles would include' blackfish,'' inside job,'' the act of killing,' and ted braun' s' betting on zero.'
zero is a supernatural abstract tale of two lovers who struggle to be together. it rewrites adam and eve’s basic mythology and is a mix of reality and dreams. the intimate scenes between the lead couple deserve a mention while the groundwork gone into the story making tags along with it .
in the end, the cia’s energetic cooperation with boal and bigelow paid off enormously, with zero dark thirty serving as the most effective piece of propaganda for the agency’s torture program since 24. the film made the case that bin laden’s capture would not have been possible without information that was extracted under torture. the filmmakers might have taken great pains to portray the smallest details of bin laden’s compound accurately. but on this fundamental issue, they blatantly violated the truth .
easily the most important film anyone has released this year, it is a documentary that deserves to be seen by every sentient citizen of this country - and indeed the world .
the question of whether
enhanced interrogations
work is separate from whether they' re moral—a distinction kathryn bigelow' s film, but not all of its critics, understands .
about 35 people make up the cast and core crew, with many others helping part time. about 80 percent of those working on the film are from maine, klapatch said .
directed by marek kanievska and starring andrew mccarthy, jami gertz and robert downey, jr. the album marks the world premiere release of the film’s original score composed by academy award nominee
if you' re an accompanying adult, be rest assured, there' s plenty of chuckles in it for you too. it' s a real egg - citing film .
this dreadfully boring film ends with the hope of a sequel. it' s time to introduce the makers to john lennon.' make love, not war...'
mankatha fame ashwin k is working around an ancient ghost apparently. his next film, zero, directed by v arun kumar is a supernatural thriller that revolves around a ghost from the biblical times, which possesses a girl. ashwin takes up the mission of rescuing the heroine from the hold of the spirit. the word is that the director hasn’t given into any commercial compromises like unnecessary glamour or comedy sequences. he is confident about his script and is proceeding with the shoot at a good pace .
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with “ taxi to the dark side, ” “going clear” and scads of other impressive titles to his credit, alex gibney has established himself as an incredibly prolific and gifted documentary - maker who is also extraordinarily courageous: he goes where other filmmakers dare not go. but his latest, “zero days, ” almost belongs in a category by itself. easily the most important film anyone has released this year, it is a documentary that deserves to be seen by every sentient citizen of this country—and indeed the world .
zero, starring ashwin kakumanu and sshivada nair, is an engaging horror - fantasy that can leave you guessing all the way through. the premise is easy enough to understand: the wife of a recently married couple begins to have inexplicable changes in her behavior to the point of becoming crazy. the cause behind this seems hard to ascertain, and although initially one could trace it out to her loony mother, that still doesn’t explain the sudden moody outbursts. perhaps, is there something more to this? something a bit more ominous. by trying to answer this, zero explores territories that are strange, twisted and outlandish to the human mind .
that is not the choice our nation made back in 2001, when this story begins. the fear that contaminated our military prisons in subsequent years became a scandal. it would be very neat to conclude that it was not only wrong, but useless. zero dark thirty doesn' t do that, nor should you .
this is what happens when the comic book fanboys have taken over the asylum. it is damaged goods from the get - go, the kind of film grown in a petri dish in hollywood .
i feel as though the dc comics franchise may have publicly performed its suicide with this film. what began with a few interesting characters, dragged on into a 40 minute exposition of the film' s universe and a census of the overpopulated neighborhood. then the big baddie is revealed - - and it makes no sense. the wheels fell off the wagon from there. dreadful. absolutely dreadful .
“zero days” is merely the latest documentary to take aim at the issue of secrecy in american government, slamming both george w. bush and barack obama for their policies — not just for implementing offense - oriented cyberwarfare strategies, but for threatening to prosecute anyone who talks about them to the media. in one clip, hilary clinton holds the party line: that the u. s. had nothing to do with stuxnet. but gibney presents overwhelming evidence to the contrary, starting with a detailed analysis of the worm itself. working with analysts at symantec research labs, “zero days” literally sets out to decode the malware, with two analysts clearly explaining how the worm operates .
trouble in the peace is the story of a growing grassroots revolution against the multinational energy extraction industry. the film offers an unflinching look into the dark viscous world of... see full summary »
jason bourne
is exciting and frenetically paced at times - - but i really couldn' t be sure it wasn' t just a shot - for - shot remake of the prior film .
independence day: resurgence
is a dull, brainless sequel, representing how sadly major studio film quality has declined in the intervening two decades. and how gullible the makers think audiences have become .
bitcoin is the most disruptive invention since the internet, and now an ideological battle is underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism. the film shows the players who are defining how this technology will shape our lives .
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in one of the final scenes of arrival, the new first - contact science fiction film with a focus on linguistics, dr. louise banks (amy adams) explains why she got divorced. “he said i made the wrong choice, ” the linguist tells her daughter hannah. it’s an easy line to overlook, especially as the gravity of the film’s second - half surprise sinks in. throughout the film, louise is experiencing not her memories of the past, but living out precognitive moments of her own future. she is experiencing time out of order, because her efforts to understand an alien language have irreversibly rewired her brain .
in 2014, christopher nolan delivered interstellar, a film which gilds wormhole physics with daddy - daughter emotionality. it’s a film i gather some people love — currently # 32 on the imdb top 250, whatever that means anymore. and it’s unquestionably a nice film. it declares that the whole fourth dimensional architecture of time and space is made out of love. it sends a man into a wormhole, where the universe sends him back to his daughter. interstellar even has its own variation of heptapods: extra - dimensional beings, evolved from humanity, who exist outside of time, so they can save humanity and provide third - act catharsis .
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to the delight of morelia festival director daniela michel, who stood in the theatre aisle, he said: “film festivals are very important because they keep the dialogue alive, and they also help some films that if they were just thrown out into the marketplace, would not be introduced in the right way. ’ he added: “alleluia for this film festival and others that don’t just function as arms of the local tourism bureau. ”
devin adair is founder of adair entertainment. devin produced break point (jk simmons, jeremy sisto, amy smart) which premiered at sxsw and betting on zero with glen zipper. devin is in pre - production on grace, a film she wrote and will direct, produced by trish hofmann (get on up, emmy and golden globe nominated hemingway & gellhorn, devil, notorious, the new world), gabe cowan, (sxsw audience award winner cheap thrills and numerous other films including courtney cox’s directorial debut, before i go), and laure sudreau, founder of ourobors entertainment .
the film was directed by neill blomkamp, who has since admitted that the story wasn’t quite all there. blomkamp had a reputation as a sci - fi thinker after district 9, but he’s never been as pretentious as his partisans. he likes action scenes, and he likes space guns. elysium is, in that sense, a fairly standard contemporary blockbuster action film. it suffers from our modern story gravity: the world is at stake .
the partnership between langley and the zero dark thirty filmmakers proved so tight that national - security reporters felt slighted. “a lot of other people who covered the beat like i did in that search for bin laden—we didn’t get close to that kind of cooperation from the agency on telling the inside story, ” the long - time washington post intelligence reporter greg miller later told pbs’s frontline .
incarnate is an interesting premise that would have better performed as a netflix series instead of a feature - length film. in what should have been a supernatural horror film feels more like comic book origin movie with no way to turn a good idea into a good movie. while it is more entertaining than many other films in the blumhouse library, at the end of the day, incarnate doesn' t have the story to pull off its own ideas .
hollywood gave langley another propaganda gift in the growing debate over torture when the film zero dark thirty was released in 2012. the film reunited the director kathryn bigelow and the screenwriter mark boal, the creative team behind the hurt locker, a gritty depiction of a u. s. army bomb disposal unit in iraq that won the 2009 academy award for best picture. bigelow and boal tried to bring the same sense of gripping reality to their new project, which purported to tell the “story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man, ” osama bin laden. when president obama announced on may 1, 2011, that an elite team of us navy seals had just killed bin laden at a compound in the pakistani city of abbottabad, the cia was already helping boal with a script involving bin laden’s escape from the tora bora cave complex in afghanistan. now that he had a concrete ending to the bin laden tale, boal started rewriting. he and bigelow also began pressing cia and pentagon officials for as much access as possible to people involved in hunting and killing bin laden. in other words, the makers of zero dark thirty were deeply embedded in the u. s. security world from the very beginning .
langley’s investment in ben affleck, and vice versa, paid handsome dividends with the hugely popular, if factually challenged, 2012 film argo, directed by affleck, who also starred as the cia makeup artist tony mendez. based on a 2007 wired article by joshuah bearman, argo told the [ sort of ] true story of how the cia rescued several american hostages in tehran, with the help of mendez, who set up a fake hollywood production company and was pretending to shoot a science - fiction fantasy film in iran. according to richard klein, a consultant who helps connect hollywood studios with the cia and other government agencies, argo was the first movie to get permission to film inside langley headquarters in fifteen years .
talking about the universal symphony of love and hatred, this story also spotlights the connection between souls from physical intimacy. what’s confusing is the fact that it’s not entirely fictitious nor it is reality in general. the gear shifting may not go down well with the general audience. each of its worlds is governed by independent rules and dynamics that stir confusion and restlessness. leisurely paced screenplay is zero’s other disadvantage .
incidentally, paid contractors posing as' community activists' also leafletted the august 6 screening in east hampton, ny, but at least on that occasion they admitted to one of the producers that they had no idea what the film was about .
the angry birds movie is really not bad. it is actually very actively okay. the film has taken its bird - brained brand... and used it to construct characters and plots that are certainly serviceable, and possibly even inspired .
sean baker, director of the acclaimed tangerine (a film shot on the iphone 5), told ​ indiewire that he originally intended for his film to be
a return to dogme 95 ,
the (in) famous and somewhat tongue - in - cheek cinematic' vow of chastity' written by lars von trier and thomas vinterberg; the manifesto called for such self - imposed limitations as lack of props, artificial lighting, and, especially, music. but while editing his film, baker became entranced by the sounds of two djs from newark whom he eventually found through a roundabout path on the music site soundcloud, where musicians can post high - quality copies of their songs for streaming or downloading. according to baker :
defining the musicians earning
filthy lucre
is offensive and stupid. musicians as film makers and plumbers are workers and they do a job when they wrote music and perform it. the few last generation of wannabe film makers, corrupted by internet and the tale that the music is that shit that you find on line for free, are alway trying to save on the music not thinking about the fact that a soundtrack composer work must be paid .
filthy lucre
is when a film maker or producer is exploiting musicians (but not only) and making a profit out of it. saving on the music when everybody else is paid is a disgusting habit. also doing the music with loops out of logic or garage band is like making a movie with film footage collected for free on the internet or best case scenario bought from those sites selling it. and also doesn' t give to the movie that plus value that a composer would give working on the scenes one by one .
since completing her studies at the american film institute (afi), executive producer sonya burres has worked as a producer, line producer and executive producer. she produced the award - winning feature always say goodbye and co - produced the film zoe. from 2001 - 2006 ms. burres and her two norwegian partners operated a commercial production company, brown cow pictures, that filmed internationally. she has produced projects for showtime and channel 4, and writes about cinema and television for a variety of outlets .
after the ftc announced it would force herbalife to pay $ 200 million in restitution and completely restructure its business, the film' s financier publicly discussed his involvement with the film in this interview on cnbc, and the company changed its tune. here is the new version of urltoken, which argues that critics of multilevel marketing companies cannot be trusted to speak honestly about multilevel marketing companies, and that people who manage money for others cannot support documentaries about business and financial subjects that reflect their personal beliefs .
this malayalee girl from angamaly in north kerala is currently settled in chennai and was the first choice for debutant director arun kumar, an associate of bharath bala. this film a supernatural thriller has started rolling and is a start - to - finish project .
arrival certainly has a lot in common with close encounters. spielberg’s film ends with scientists at a base camp trying to communicate with extraterrestrials in a floating ship. that’s where arrival begins, middles, and ends, what with time being such a flat circle .
foster came back to science fiction in 2013’s elysium, a movie that boldly argues that there are rich people and there are poor people, and that’s uncool, man. having established a tone of bare social realism, the film immediately becomes an eerie fable of privilege bestowed: matt damon plays a white messiah to a working - class trashworld seemingly populated exclusively by hispanics. the film solves wealth disparity using advanced medical technology. it’s the least thoughtful sort of science fiction: having addressed a real problem, elysium invents an impossible solution .
sapir - whorf is mentioned briefly in the film when louise first starts having her breakdowns. like many 21st century linguists, she views this double - named concept - paradigm (which is also first raised in the film by ian) as naïve and impossible. yet, this is exactly at the root from which ted chiang’s short story and eric heisserer’s screenplay have sprung from. within the very first minute of arrival, we watch the life and death of louise’s daughter hannah in a presumable “flashback, ” even though the girl has yet to live .
i agree. there are literally thousands of great composers out there, some of them still in in their teens, others a lot older, who are more than happy to score a half - decent film. when they get a great edit, they can really shine .
maybe at this point it' s too much to hope for an animated film like the angry birds movie to exist as anything other than marketing fodder, but hopefully it' s not too much to ask for that # content to have a shred of substance to it .
as in his “client 9” documentary, gibney hires an actress (joanne tucker) to perform testimony too sensitive for his sources to present themselves, although he takes the effect to a higher level here, putting the footage through an elaborate digital filter. he also pulls the trick of presenting her as a single high - level national security agency whistleblower, when in fact, her interview has been compiled from various sources. combine this with the shadow - shrouded israeli security figure whose computer - garbled confession opens and closes the film, as well as a hollywood - caliber recreation (lifted from an iranian state tv documentary) of the assassination of two nuclear scientists, and “ zero days ” takes on an exciting cloak - and - dagger dimension .
whether this means she could consciously (re) live her life forever in a loop is unclear. that is one potential application for the gifted - weapon. and it seems we have 3, 000 years to figure out how to use it well. this film certainly did .
babu kumar, a former assistant of natty, is helming the camera and sudharsan is editing the film. national award winning costumer, poornima is onboard the project too, along with art director raju mohan. thegidi fame nivas prasanna is scoring music and balaji kapa is bankrolling the venture .
shivada nair of nedunchalai fame, jd chakravarthy, thulasi and ravi raghavendra will appear in important characters. while ashwin plays a social worker in the movie, shivada nair features as a house wife. the word is that apart from horror, the film also has a lot of scope for romance .
clear, urgent and positively terrifying at times, the latest bombshell from one of america’s most prolific and unapologetically probing docu directors should do well for magnolia pictures, which acquired the film in advance of its berlin film festival premiere, having previously backed gibney’s no - punches - pulled films about steve jobs, eliot spitzer and the architects of the enron fiasco. it was likely another of gibney’s films, “we steal secrets: the story of wikileaks” — in which the helmer found inventive visual solutions to present a relatively technical subject — that inspired producer marc shmuger to approach gibney with the idea of investigating stuxnet .
instead of treating that message like a superpower to acquire, the film delivers it as a subtle worldview. hidden under arrival ’s more palatable themes about overcoming cultural differences and uniting as one species is chiang’s more direct message about learning how to appreciate life’s moments, to live outside the bounds of time .
some films don' t need music, and that' s part of their aesthetic. but just imagine the
blue danube waltz
docking sequence from 2001 without sound and you' ll see what i mean. music can take a film and make it more than the sum of its parts .
dafoe will play a musicologist grieving over the demise of his father who settles in the town of real de catorce, san luis potosi. while there, he tries to reconstruct an early 20th century symphony by a norwegian composer, and gets drawn into investigating the disappearance of a woman from the village. dafoe leads a cast that includes mexican thesps irene azuela, cassandra ciangherotti and brontis jodorowsky. graham wrote “opus zero. ” chavezmontes produces; ingmar trost, jörg schulze, and andreas zielke co - produce .
the film’s second great subject is the secrecy that surrounds the first and prevents citizens and their governments from discussing it, much less doing anything about it. gibney doesn’t explore how much this is a result of post - 9 / 11 paranoia and security measures, and how much simply a product of a decades - long growth in government secrecy, which climaxed with the obama administration’s unprecedented war on whistle - blowers. but the film shows that even some of the nation’s highest - ranking secret keepers now think the policies have been taken too far, and indeed increase rather than reduce the dangers posed by cyber warfare .
i can' t believe that people are suggesting that filmmakers should write their own score with garageband find a school of music that has a post grad. composition for screen course and contact them. the student composers i teach at the rcm in london are more than happy to score a half decent film .
hi justin, soundation is a web based app that is also easy to put together a basic soundtrack with. also not sure if you are familiar with creative commons sites like incompetech? that was the site that inspired me to make my own library of music available for film. best, dan - o
the most prominent among those who now insist torture played no part in the bin laden hunt are senators dianne feinstein, carl levin, and john mccain. all three serve on congressional committees with access to classified material and are in a position to know what they are talking about. indeed, in a letter protesting zero dark thirty to sony chairman michael lynton last month, they claim to have reviewed
six million pages
of intelligence records, which may help explain why congress has such a hard time getting anything done .
as significant as these ground - breaking attacks and counter - attacks were, they only indicated a tiny portion of what was possible even then. as “zero days” reveals, the u. s. has a program called nitro zeus that makes olympic games look like a sandbox game. aimed to “disrupt, degrade and destroy” iran’s infrastructure, the program would mean “a full scale cyber war, ” in the words of one expert, a war in which the u. s. would be subject to the same sort of attacks .
gansa said the zero dark thirty controversy illustrates the dangers of working with agency consultants who may have their own agendas. “i was so upset about that movie, ” gansa said. “clearly mark and kathryn did research but they listened to a consultant who felt that torture clearly worked and led to the capture of osama bin laden. many people would dispute that, so to represent that as the truth and put that out there to millions of people? you don’t take one person’s word as gospel and present it as factual. ”
a foia request about the film filed by judicial watch, a conservative watchdog group, turned up a series of emails between the filmmakers and langley that further demonstrated how eager the cia was to support the project. on june 7, 2011, cia spokesperson marie e. harf argued that both the agency and pentagon should back the boal / bigelow film over competing projects. “i know we don’t pick favorites but it makes sense to get behind a winning horse, ” she wrote. “mark and kathryn’s movie is going to be the first and the biggest. it’s got the most money behind it, and two oscar winners on board. ”
a screenplay is more like a sonnet than a novel. action on screen unfolds with visceral immediacy, but any story with sweep—this one takes place over nearly a decade—can only be told with broad impressionistic strokes. the challenge is greater when trying to tell a true story. the interrogation scenes in the beginning color the entire tale, but they are necessary. they are part of the story. without them, i suspect some of the same critics now accusing it of being pro - torture would instead be calling zero dark thirty a whitewash .
in a way, gibney has given us a “ dr. strangelove ” for the generation of warfare beyond the nuclear era. my suggestion is that, after the upcoming political conventions are finished, the film be shown on national tv and the candidates devote their first debate to its implications. that would be a start .
writer - director ted braun ’s critically acclaimed first feature film, darfur now, was nominated for best documentary of 2007 by the national board of review and the broadcast critics association, and went on to win the naacp image award for best documentary of the year. warner brothers distributed darfur now worldwide and financed along with participant media, which spearheaded a global social action campaign. for his work writing and directing the film, the international documentary association awarded braun their 2007 emerging filmmaker of the year. braun is an associate professor in screenwriting at usc’s school of cinematic arts where he has just been appointed the joseph campbell endowed chair in cinematic ethics .
they have a lot in common with the martian, starring damon as a man who becomes his best self when he’s left alone in the cosmos. the bizarro - world inversion of dr. mann. i’m hesitant to even mention the martian in an essay about science fiction; the film is famously accurate about everything besides the dust storm at the beginning. actually, the most fantastical part of the martian is the stuff back on earth, where nasa has bottomless funding and china shares technology with any government that needs it. (apparently, the martian is set a couple decades in the future, making the film’s disco obsession even less convincing. )
one doesn’t need a mushroom cloud — though gibney offers a few — to imagine the potential havoc malware can unleash, though it’s not stuxnet the world has to fear. that worm had a built - in cut - off date, but if gibney and sanger’s sources are to be believed, operation nitro zeus represents a far greater threat, one that could be just as easily redirected against us. the film illustrates how iran already struck saudi aramco and several u. s. banks, and then there’s the question (reported in the news, but not so explicitly raised here) of how u. s. ally israel might use the technology. while most people weren’t looking, america went and changed the rules of engagement, and with “zero days, ” gibney urgently suggests how little time the world has to clarify its stand before the wrong party goes too far.
zero is a 2016 indian tamil-language fantasy horror film written and directed by shiv mohaa . the film features ashwin kakumanu and sshivada in the leading roles , while jd chakravarthy plays a pivotal supporting role . 
zero is a 2016 indian tamil-language fantasy horror film written and directed by shiv mohaa. the film features ashwin kakumanu and sshivada in the leading roles, while jd chakravarthy plays a pivotal supporting role.
zero is a 2016 indian tamil-language fantasy horror film written and directed by shiv mohaa. the film features ashwin kakumanu and sshivada in the leading roles, while jd chakravarthy plays a pivotal supporting role.