listen to britain is a 1942 british propaganda short film by humphrey jennings and stewart mcallister .

the film was produced during world war ii by the crown film unit , an organisation within the british government 's ministry of information to support the allied war effort .

the film was nominated for the inaugural academy award for documentary feature in 1943 , but lost against four other allied propaganda films .

it is noted for its nonlinear structure and its use of sound .

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listen to britain 2017 will again look to observe life in the united kingdom , seeking unique interpretations inspired by the original film and created by emerging filmmakers .
created in 1942 , listen to britain was aimed at boosting morale during wwii and galvanising global support for the united kingdom . directed and edited by jennings and mcallister , listen to britain pioneered a new form of documentary film - making , engaging audiences in a way never been seen before .
the editing in listen to britain is trademark jennings : simple comparisons between scenes from everyday life and the manic , unreal struggle of the war effort .
to celebrate the 75th anniversary of listen to britain - humphrey jennings and stewart mcallister ' s poetic collage of british life - bbc four is partnering with bfi net . work to offer the next generation of filmmakers an exciting opportunity to capture the diversity of modern britain .
it is clear sign of britain ' s arrogance that people will be willing to come to the uk to be second class citizens .
humphrey jennings ' s work for the crown film unit in the 1940s gives us a fascinating insight into britain during wartime . here , in a clip from his 1942 short film listen to britain , we get a glimpse of his talent for picking out the details in the lives of ordinary people that was acclaimed by the likes of lindsay anderson and kevin macdonald .
listen to rat : “jesus christ , man , i write this beautiful fucking letter , i slave over it , and what happens ? the dumb cooze never writes back . ”
clash is a short experimental documentary critiquing the lack of diversity in on - screen representation in britain today .
humphrey jennings and stewart mcallister ' s masterly collage of the various people and classes of britain - at home and at work , at war and at peace - is one of the great films of war - time britain .
archie baron , creative director at wingspan productions , says :
the original listen to britain remains such an inspiring and intriguing film - it’s simultaneously an observational essay , creative soundscape , film poem , and a piece of very british propaganda . but we live in such different times . i can’t wait to see how today’s new and emerging filmmakers respond imaginatively to the original . who knows ? maybe they’ll even create works of their own which will come to embody britain in 2017 for those looking back 75 years hence .
open exclusively to new filmmakers , listen to britain 2017 will commission up to 12 documentary pieces , all of which will be considered for broadcast on bbc four and a special screening at bfi southbank . entries will be judged by a panel of industry experts from the bbc , bfi and award - winning wingspan productions . production awards of up to £5 , 000 will be issued to fund , or part - fund , the successful submissions .
to
yield the prize ,
for
he rais ' d a mortal to the skies ,
while
she drew an angel down
to listen to her . but dryden qualifies the victory of saint cecilia by offering an alternative ,
or both divide the crown
: dryden seems to identify with
old
cassian harrison , channel editor bbc four , says : “we are incredibly proud to be fostering new and innovative documentary talent on bbc four with our partners at bfi and wingspan productions . i see bbc four as a place to support new film - making that reflects the diverse country we live in . listen to britain 2017 perfectly fits this ethos and we are excited to see the dynamic films that result from this project . ”
“heaven was known to the ancients as thessaly , william , and now , with this war , the spirit matter is rolling between the hills like thunder . ” he paused , seemed to listen , smiled , jerked his head and continued : –
listen to britain - poetry , propaganda , myth and ambiguity . . . war’s early years that the public considered it “un - british to shove propaganda down your throat” , so jennings realised that he would have to take a different approach to succeed . . . jennings therefore chose to hide the propaganda with ambiguity . . . line’ , in spite of ansley and anderson’s beliefs that poetry and propaganda were incompatible , and the use of poetry in relation to the constraints imposed by the audience and motivations of jennings . . .
“just came to me , ” he whispered . “the moral , i mean . nobody listens . nobody hears nothing . like that fatass colonel . the politicians , all the civilian types , what they need is to go out on lp . the vapors , man . trees and rocks—you got to listen to your enemy . ”
“god’s truth , ” mitchell sanders said . “a six - man patrol goes up into the mountains on a basic listening - post operation . the idea’s to spend a week up there , just lie low and listen for enemy movement . they’ve got a radio along , so if they hear anything suspicious—anything— they’re supposed to call in artillery or gunships , whatever it takes . otherwise they keep strict field discipline . absolute silence . they just listen . ”
12 : add the verbs
to be
,
to do
and
to allow
to the one i mention at 4 .
he plights his faith ; and we believe him just his honour is to promise , ours to trust . thus britain ' s basis on a word is laid , as by a word the world it self was made .
‘boys like us’ : a cutting of ‘how the beatles changed britain’ ( later titled ‘eight arms to hold you’ ) , as originally published in the guardian weekend supplement , 2–3 november 1991 .
17 barbara bush ,
the history of blacks in britain : the 1930s ,
history today 31 ( sep . 1981 ) : 46 - 47 .
the amusing thing is that thatcher ' s attempt to convert britain to an american - style business - based society has failed . it is not something that could possibly have taken in such a complacent and divided land , especially one lacking a self - help culture . only the immigrants in britain have it ; they have much to fight for and much to gain through being entrepreneurial . but it ' s as if no one else can be bothered – they ' re too mature to fall for such ideas .
photograph of paul mccartney and george harrison by bob whitaker , printed alongside ‘how the beatles changed britain’ ( later titled ‘eight arms to hold you’ ) in the guardian weekend supplement , 2–3 november 1991 .
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28 see tom nairn , the break - up of britain : crisis and neo - nationalism ( london : verso , 1977 / 1981 ) 255 - 90 .
the full piece refers to others as well , and looks back as well to a recruitment ad from 1802 calling upon the men of manchester to join the army and travel at once to gibraltar . be sure to click through to check it out .
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images and sounds of wartime britain , including bud flanagan and chesney allen singing at a lunchtime concert at a munitions factory , and myra hess playing at the national gallery .
photograph of john lennon with his wife cynthia and son julian by bob whitaker , printed alongside ‘how the beatles changed britain’ ( later titled ‘eight arms to hold you’ ) in the guardian weekend supplement , 2–3 november 1991 .
“if you wanted to stay indoors , why didn’t you say so ? ” she grumbled to it . but the inspiration continued to sulk .
when britain’s national trust acquired slepe heath in dorset , the supposed inspiration for thomas hardy’s egdon heath , its spokesperson characterised the place in terms of atmosphere – it was , he said , “a place to lose yourself in” .
documentary , public information film , morale booster ; propaganda film – all descriptions that apply to humphrey jennings and stewart mcallister ' s extraordinary war - time film . using his customary combination of poetry and propaganda , jennings constructs a collage of the various people and classes of britain , at home and at work , at war and at peace . the result , while not overtly proselytising , sounded a clear clarion call to internal and international audiences to fight and save great britain from the onslaught of war .
the most famous example of the power of his associative montage is provided by the commentary - less listen to britain , an extraordinarily poetic evocation of daily life in britain at war , but also very striking is words for battle ( 1941 ) , in which images of wartime britain are imaginatively counterpointed on the soundtrack by passages from milton , blake , browning , kipling and others . his feature length dramatised documentary , fires were started ( 1943 ) , is equally resonant but also broke new ground for jennings in its use of a fictional narrative ; in addition it is a remarkably authentic picture of london during the blitz and depicts its working - class characters in a notably unpatronising and naturalistic fashion , as does the silent village ( 1943 ) , jennings ' sombre re - creation of the destruction by the nazis of the czech village of lidice .
68 george padmore ,
how britain governs the blacks ,
negro anthology , ed . nancy cunard ( new york : negro up , 1934 / 1969 ) 809 - 13 .
sergeant , sergeant , oh give back my stirrups to me , to me . sergeant , sergeant , oh give back my stirrups to me .
“yeah , but listen , it’s still true . those six guys , they heard wicked sound out there . they heard sound you just plain won’t believe . ” sanders pulled on his rucksack , closed his eyes for a moment , then almost smiled at me .
listen to britain ' s title might suggest a strong sound element . there are the very recognisable sounds that one might expect in a wartime film : the evocative thunder of the 1000 horse power rolls royce merlin engines of spitfires and lancasters , the cacophony of wartime heavy industry - tank factories , steel works , steam trains - but also the sounds of music ; the egalitarian free classical music concerts , and radio ; workers ' play time , flanagan and allen performing live at a lunchtime factory concert .
a well - to - do woman is unable to answer her child’s cries due to a coughing fit , in this exaggerated anti - smoking advert .
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national archives and records administration listen to britain office for emergency management . office of war information . overseas operations branch . new york office . news and features bureau . ( 12 / 17 / 1942 - 09 / 15 / 1945 ) arc identifier 38651 / local identifier 208 . 18 . consists of miscellaneous british scenes and sounds that illustrate her wartime activities . these scenes and sounds include singing by women ambulance drivers and by service men at a canteen , war production at factories , lunchtime symphony concerts , and airplane detection units at work .
[ we ] can help to stimulate the growing consciousness of the blacks . . . [ and ] to learn from the black masses the lessons of the profound experiences that they accumulate in their daily toil , to point out certain pitfalls that may be avoided , to co - ordinate information and organization , to do an incessant propaganda in every quarter of britain , exposing the evils , pressing such remedies as are possible , and mobilising whatever assistance there is to be found in europe for the cause of african emancipation . 60
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when belgium in her dire need appealed to great britain to carry out her pledge , that country’s course was clear . she had either to break faith , letting the sanctity of treaties and the rights of small nations count for nothing before the threat of naked force , or she had to fight . she did not hesitate , and we trust she will not lay down arms till belgium’s integrity is restored and her wrongs redressed .
a depiction of life in wartime england during the second world war . director humphrey jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war , all without narration . the title is literal - - the director is asking us to
listen
to
britain
. not necessarily its people , and not the narration of someone telling us how to feel . just the sound of the radio , the airplane , and anything else going on in daily life during the war . they even dance to
roll out the barrel
, though in some weird circular slow dance style rather than the polka version i know and love . this is probably considered humphrey jennings ' masterpiece . that may be a fair assessment .
10 on this point , see kenneth little , negroes in britain : a study of racial relations in english societ y ( london : routledge and kegan paul , 1948 / 1972 ) ; edward scobie , black britannia : a history of blacks in britain ( chicago : johnson publishing , 1972 ) . two recent and more comprehensive books that address the experiences of the black communities in london during this period are gretchen gerzina , black england : life before emancipation ( london : john murray , 1995 ) , and norma myers , reconstructing the black past : black in britain c . 1780 - 1830 ( london : frank cass , 1996 ) especially chapter 3 .
11 a quantitative social history of this population remains woefully underresearched . see fryer , staying power ; ron ramdin , the making of the black working class in britain ( aldershot : gower publishing , 1987 ) 16 - 20 .
35 stedman jones 281 - 314 ; also , see jenny bourne and a . sivanandan ,
cheerleaders and ombudsmen : the sociology of race relations in britain ,
race and class xxi . 4 ( spring 1980 ) .
to my honour ' d friend , dr charleton ,
in chorea gigantum , or the most famous antiquity of great - britain , vulgarly called stone - heng , standing on salisbury plain , restored to the danes , by walter charleton ( london : printed for henry herringman , 1663 [ i . e . , 1662 ] ) .
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there has been a black community in britain for over five hundred years . the maritime explorations of west africa from the fifteenth century onwards gradually brought that continent and its people to the active attention of the europeans . by the 1500s , a black presence in britain was perceived as inevitably
troublesome
a contaminant within the body politicand was defined increasingly as a social
problem
to be solved by repatriation . in 1596 , in a letter to the lord mayor of london , queen elizabeth i protested that there were of late
divers blackamoores brought into these realms , of which kind there are already here to manie . . . .
7 a 1601 royal proclamation pronounced that the queen was
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there was one independent squadron operating elsewhere at the outbreak of the war : admiral maximilian von spee ‘s german east asia squadron , which had been based out of tsingtao in china . with the declaration of war , however , and japan’s decision to enter on the side of great britain , the then - at - sea squadron could not return to port and was forced to flee . vastly outnumbered and with few options ( other german colonies and ports in the area having been swiftly seized ) , von spee decided to take his ships into the atlantic to subject allied shipping to their predations until better opportunities came along . it was also hoped that they’d be able to dock at valparaiso in chile to refuel and rearm .
in the end , of course , a true war story is never about war . it’s about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do . it’s about love and memory . it’s about sorrow . it’s about sisters who never write back and people who never listen .
54 during the period 1880 - 1950 , there was operating in britain a black press consisting of over a dozen publications that were predominantly black - edited and black - controlled / owned and included newspapers , periodicals , organizational newsletters , etc . a good summary of these materials is roderick macdonald ,
the wisers who are far away : the role of londons black press in the 1930s and 1940s ,
essays on the history of blacks in britain : from roman times to the mid - twentieth century , eds . jahdish s . gundara and ian duffield ( avebury : ashgate publishing , 1992 ) 150 - 72 . a fuller examination can be found in ionie benjamin , the black press in britain ( stoke - on - trent : trentham books , 1995 ) .
for example , the refrain to paul a . reuben’s popular “we don’t want to lose you” ( 1914 ) ran thus :
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position , the more he came to doubt the church of england ' s claim to authority . by the time he wrote
it was 1968 and i was 13 . for the first time in music appreciation classes we were to listen to the beatles ' ‘she ' s leaving home’ , with the bass turned off . the previous week , after some brahms , we ' d been allowed to hear an elton john record , again bassless . for mr hogg , our music and religious instruction teacher , the bass guitar ‘obscured’ the music . but hearing anything by the beatles at school was uplifting , an act so unusually liberal it was confusing .
and that leads me on to the second main area i would like to address - and those are the wider challenges presented to so - called
traditional
media by social media .
“i looked at the long grey street , and for a moment it seemed to me to be exactly like the long grey neck of a horse flung up to heaven . but in a moment my sanity returned , and i said , ` but this is all nonsense . streets go to the place they have to go . a street must always go to its end . ’
biographers will never ascertain just why dryden converted , and critics will probably always accuse him of being a trimmer . but there is a logic to his conversion if one studies his works . they are preoccupied with the need for political stability and the concomitant necessity of loyalty to de jure monarchs , whose titles are inherited through primogenitive patrilinearity . as dryden shifted from his early optimism concerning britain ' s future as an expansionist imperial power to his defensive posture with regard to the principle of succession amid threats of civil war , his own loyalty to james and to unbroken succession grew stronger . it appears that the more he examined his
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often in a true war story there is not even a point , or else the point doesn’t hit you until twenty years later , in your sleep , and you wake up and shake your wife and start telling the story to her , except when you get to the end you’ve forgotten the point again . and then for a long time you lie there watching the story happen in your head . you listen to your wife’s breathing . the war’s over . you close your eyes . you smile and think , christ , what’s the point ?
and endorse it they did . the authors’ declaration had boasted fifty - three of the biggest names in literary and academic britain ; the drafters of the german manifesto , not to be outdone , brought together ninety - three such persons in addition to a host of internationally renowned scientists , theologians , musicians and artists . the list of signatories included no fewer than ten nobel laureates .
,
died only to be
translate [ d ]
to heaven . moreover , the person praised is a poet - - and a woman to boot . dryden uses the occasion to apotheosize art itself . anne is a beatrice , a descendant of
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for some inexplicable reason government concern over immigration centres on ' net ' immigration - meaning that exporting uk citizens helps as much as not importing foreigners . if exporting uk citizens becomes less attractive because of the falling pound this will make may ' s target even harder to achieve . of course encouraging grumpy old brexiters to leave a britain they apparently no longer much like could have other benefits . . .
“i got a confession to make , ” sanders said . “last night , man , i had to make up a few things . ”
however , now i ' d like to add just a little context to the growth of social media for the audiences of bbc news .
8 fryer 4 - 12 . see also , paul edwards ,
the early african presence in the british isles ,
essays on the history of blacks in britain : from roman times to the mid - twentieth century , eds . jahdish s . gundara and ian duffield ( avebury : ashgate publishing , 1992 ) 9 - 29 .
filmmakers will be given freedom to select their style , content and tone , with films limited to two to ten minutes in duration . the project will be co - ordinated , supported and managed by wingspan productions .
the treaty with belgium made our duty clear , but many of us feel that , even if belgium had not been involved , it would have been impossible for great britain to stand aside while france was dragged into war and destroyed . to permit the ruin of france would be a crime against liberty and civilization . even those of us who question the wisdom of a policy of continental ententes or alliances refuse to see france struck down by a foul blow dealt in violation of a treaty .
when these efforts failed great britain had still no direct quarrel with any power . she was eventually compelled to take up arms because , together with france , germany , and austria , she had solemnly pledged herself to maintain the neutrality of belgium . as soon as danger to that neutrality arose she questioned both france and germany as to their intentions . france immediately renewed her pledge not to violate belgian neutrality ; germany refused to answer , and soon made all answer needless by her actions . without even the pretense of a grievance against belgium she made war on the weak and unoffending country she had undertaken to protect , and has since carried out her invasion with a calculated and ingenious ferocity which has raised questions other and no less grave than that of the willful disregard of treaties .
on the fifth day an abased and dejected ivy confided to her old governess that she didn’t believe she knew how to write a short story .
while tynan made brecht acceptable to the british theatrical establishment , he also hampered his reception somewhat by assuming that audiences had to share brecht ' s anti - capitalism in order to embrace the plays . in the 1970s—and with extra vigour in the thatcherite 1980s—the emphasis in staging brecht in britain was on his political critique at the expense of the epic sweep of the dramas , the songs and jokes and the sheer delight in story - telling . the excessive emphasis on brecht ' s marxism ( “a highly personalised version” , as george steiner has noted ) was sometimes peculiar . the introduction to the methuen edition of his letters includes an encomium to the
sanders was quiet for a second , just working the yo - yo , then he smiled at me . “so , after a couple days the guys start hearing this real soft , kind of wacked - out music . weird echoes and stuff . like a radio or something , but its not a radio , it’s this strange gook music that comes right out of the rocks . faraway , sort of , but right up close , too . they try to ignore it . but it’s a listening post , right ? so they listen . and every night they keep hearing this crazyass gook concert . all kinds of chimes and xylophones . i mean , this is wilderness—no way , it can’t be real—but there it is , like the mountains are tuned in to radio fucking hanoi . naturally they get nervous . one guy sticks juicy fruit in his ears . another guy almost flips . thing is , though , they can’t report music . they can’t get on the horn and call back to base and say , ‘hey , listen , we need some firepower , we got to blow away this weirdo gook rock band . ’ they can’t do that . it wouldn’t go down . so they lie there in the fog and keep their months shut . and what makes it extra bad , see , is the poor dudes can’t horse around like normal . can’t joke it away . can’t even talk to each other except maybe in whispers , all hush - hush , and that just revs up the willies . all they do is listen . ”
71 see roderick macdonald ,
the wisers who are far away : the role of londons black press in the 1930s and 1940s ,
essays on the history of blacks in britain : from roman times to the mid - twentieth century , eds . jahdish s . gundara and ian duffield ( avebury : ashgate publishing , 1992 ) 150 - 72 .
“yes ; if it’s not too much . ” the lance - corporal became eloquent . “to remember you by , and all your kindness ; we want to know if you won’t give one to each of us — ”
whatever the world destiny of germany may be , we in great britain are ourselves conscious of a destiny and a duty . that destiny and duty , alike for us and for all the english - speaking race , call upon us to uphold the rule of common justice between civilized peoples , to defend the rights of small nations , and to maintain the free and law - abiding ideals of western europe against the rule of “blood and iron” and the domination of the whole continent by a military caste .
27 on this point , see barbara j . fieldss arguments in
ideology and race in american history ,
region , race and reconstruction : essays in honor of c . vann woodward , eds . j . morgan kousser and james m . mcpherson ( new york : oxford up , 1982 ) ; and ,
slavery , race and ideology in the united states of america ,
new left review 181 ( may / jun . 1990 ) ; see , also , hazel v . carby ,
white woman listen ! black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood ,
the empire strikes back : race and racism in 70s britain ( london : hutcheson press , 1982 ) .
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straight - talking anti - smoking promo , which introduces us to janice , a 51 - year - old woman who uses a ventilator to breathe .
here they come , here they come , second of foot but second to none . here they come , here they come , second of foot but second to none . bullshit , bullshit , covered from head to foot in it . bullshit , bullshit , covered from head to foot in it .
losing yourself is , of course , the whole point of fiction . and if the writer is aiming to destabilise readers , to conjure a sense of dissonance and unease , where better to take them than a wild place ?
at least , lennon wanted to do this . in the 70s , the liberation tendencies of the sixties bifurcated into two streams – hedonism , self - aggrandisement and decay , represented by the stones ; and serious politics and self - exploration , represented by lennon . he continued to be actively involved in the obsessions of the time , both as initiate and leader , which is what makes him the central cultural figure of the age , as brecht was , for instance , in the 30s and 40s . but to continue to develop , lennon had to leave the containment of the beatles and move to america . he had to break up the beatles to continue to lead an interesting life .
no terror to my view , no frightful face of danger can be new . inur ' d to suffer , and resolv ' d to dare , the fates , without my pow ' r , shall be without my care .
despite this royal edict , the black community increased . during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , it was fashionable for titled and propertied english families to have black slaves as part of their household staff . 9 more than any proclivity on the part of the british aristocracy , however , the increased black population in britain during this time was a result of increased white settlement of the west indies and the explosive expansion of the slave trade . the
triangular trade
involved the capture of greater numbers of africans and their shipment from their homelands to the new world . trading ships returning to england carried tropical fruits and , not infrequently , a
coffle of slaves ,
as did the ships bearing planters , sailors , and military and government officials returning to england for their retirement . by 1770 , the black population in london was estimated to be between 14 , 000 and 20 , 000 ; for britain as a whole , it was estimated at between 40 , 000 and 50 , 000 . 10
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in july 1956 , a few weeks before the berliner ensemble ' s first british tour , bertolt brecht died of a stroke . he left instructions to the actors at his theater am schiffbauerdamm in east berlin . the english , he said , expected german drama to be heavy and plodding . “therefore our playing will need to be quick , light and strong . ” he was right about british fears . even after kenneth tynan ' s enthusiastic benedictions of the ensemble ' s performances , the reception of brecht in britain has always been troubled and quarrelsome .
i want to turn now to a consideration of the interstices of race , gender , and class variables in late - nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century britain . despite my specific focus on a black , mainly middle - class intelligentsia , the predominantly working - class status of blacks within english society is especially significant to the evolution of racialist ideologies . barbara fields posits that race and genderand i would add classare interdependent and socially constructed . 27 in highly class - conscious britain , these characterizations constitute , as well , social hierarchies which , in turn , gave rise to master narratives and discourses . these narrative discourses could be and were crafted and deployed by one group with the intent of subordinating the other . importantly , the discourses of british racialism were predicated , in part , on preconceived attitudes toward distinctions of class . a 1894 issue of the english race , an ideological journal published by the royal society of st . george , read :
these debates were inflamed during the race riots that followed the end of world war i . during 1919 and 1920 ,
disturbances
visited nearly every port town where a black community resided , prompting government calls for deportation . discharged white soldiers who were resentful of and bitter over the scarcity of employment directed their frustrations and hostilities against the black workers . accusations of
stealing
whites jobs were accompanied by charges of
stealing
whites women , renewing historically long - lived fears of miscegenation . 14 despite the accusations of demobilized soldiers , most members of the black workforce lost their positions to the returning white veterans . indeed , the circumstances were so dire in many instances that some individuals and families felt they had no choice other than to leave britain . most of the newer immigrants , howeverif questionedconsidered themselves british subjects and chose , when possible , to remain in britain .
during these centuries of colonial domination and exploitation , the imperialists of britain can truly be said to have learnt the art of governing .  their policy is a dual one . on the one hand , they maintain their domination over the colonial masses through deceit , hypocrisy and corruption . and when these methods fail , brute force and terrorism , backed up by machine guns and bombing planes are brought into action in order to maintain the authority and prestige of these white overlords . 68
the editor sent a heavily - marked copy to miss spang , who was immensely flattered , and felt that at last she had been understood . but nobody she knew read “zig - zag , ” and nobody who read “zig - zag” seemed to care to know her . so nothing in particular resulted from this tribute to her genius .
the royal navy was greatly concerned by the threat von spee’s squadron posed to the pacific theatre , but also with the above possibility of it making its way around the cape to enter the atlantic . rear - admiral christopher cradock ‘s south atlantic squadron was given orders to take up the hunt . cradock was given considerable operational leeway , and decided that it would be best to split the squadron into two patrols , the one to sail up and down the western coast of chile from the cape to valparaiso , the other to patrol the southern coast of argentina . cradock and his flagship , hms good hope , accompanied the western patrol — both were going to their death .
and bowing slightly to the mustard - pot , the man in the restaurant withdrew .
“oh , ” she gasped , trying to readjust her carefully acquired theory of esthetics .
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the nineteenth century brought great upheaval to western societies . democratic ideals and the industrial revolution swept through europe and changed the daily lives of citizens at all levels . struggles between the old world order and the new were the root causes of conflicts from the napoleonic wars to the american civil war . from new york , to london , to vienna , the world was changing and the consequences can still be felt to this day .
how has social media changed the way newsrooms work ?
it would seem they have possibly affected people ' s ability to conjugate the verb
to have
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' 12 . at 08 : 33 11th sep 2011 , lastsong - anonymity yet ability to comment unfettered leads to libel and trash talking and there is no responsibility to prove or check what you are writing . no doubt . but not exclusive to areas , and people that still those in the msm try and paint as such exclusively . urltoken
jennings employed his surrealist imagination in his observation of working - class leisure pursuits in pre - war britain in spare time ( 1939 ) . with its intermittent , minimalist commentary , a music track that often bears little obvious relationship to the images , and a perfunctory , snapshot - like mise - en - scène , the film is a far cry from the realism of a documentary such as housing problems ( d . arthur elton / edgar anstey 1935 ) and was disliked by the documentary traditionalists , who mistook its refusal to ennoble its working - class subjects as an attempt to satirise them .
the ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool , firm , and upright in the earth , with a curious expression . she saw them as a sleeper waking from a heavy sleep sees a brass candlestick reflecting the light in an unfamiliar way , and closes his eyes and opens them , and seeing the brass candlestick again , finally starts broad awake and stares at the candlestick with all his powers . so the heavy woman came to a standstill opposite the oval - shaped flower bed , and ceased even to pretend to listen to what the other woman was saying . she stood there letting the words fall over her , swaying the top part of her body slowly backwards and forwards , looking at the flowers . then she suggested that they should find a seat and have their tea .
based on who voted to leave , what would make sense is for the eu to demand having its own workers back , but allow those from great britain to remain in the eu . . i had previously suggested that the eu encourage immigration from the united states , which has a shortage of walkable , transit - served cities , due to the eu ' s demographic challenges . . speaking as an american , i can tell you that immigration works like this . the first generation lives in enclaves where it speaks its native language and shops at stores providing familiar goods , but the children attend local schools and assimilate . you get a confirmed citizen of your country in two generations .
jane austen . you may have heard of her . she wrote a book called pride and prejudice , later made famous by dashing actor colin firth and his wet shirt . many americans still want her autograph and others ask questions as to whether she might be enjoyed by male readers , the answer to which may seriously cause me concerns regarding my sexual and gender identity . austen refuses to throw any conan the barbarian - like bones to her male readership , who are going to have to take it on trust that their peni
in brief , the authors’ declaration of sept . 1914 was a manifesto , signed by fifty - three of the most prominent british novelists , poets , dramatists and scholars , which declared in unambiguous terms that the german invasion of belgium the previous month had been a crime , and that britain “could not without dishonour have refused to take part in the present war . ” the declaration was one of the earliest efforts of the nascent war propaganda bureau to craft a coherent intellectual message in support of the war effort .
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12 these questions were raised in the 1772 somerset case . see david brion daviss book the problem of slavery in the age of revolution ( ithaca : cornell up , 1975 ) 479 - 501 . also , see douglas a . lorimer ,
black resistance to slavery and racism in eighteenth century england ,
essays on the history of blacks in britain : from roman times to the mid - twentieth century , eds . jahdish s . gundara and ian duffield ( avebury : ashgate publishing , 1992 ) 58 - 80 .
my father was an important member of the community in church and state . we were british and proud of it . . . . all education from kindergarten to university in freetown was english . so was history , inc 1066 & all that school children learnt . the whole empire pledged their troth annually by sitting to the same senior school leaving certificate of cambridge , with the option of london matriculation & oxford being available . we know the geography of britain & europe better than that of our own country . . . . 19
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the photograph was really too charming to be wasted , and ivy , feeling herself forced onward by an inexorable fate , sat down again to battle with the art of fiction . her perseverance was rewarded , and after a while the fellow authors ( though mademoiselle disclaimed any right to the honors of literary partnership ) arrived at what seemed to both a satisfactory result .
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5 see cedric robinson , black marxism : the making of the black radical tradition ( london : zed books , ltd . , 1983 ) 369 - 80 ; robinson ,
black intellectuals at the british core : 1920s1940s ,
essays on the history of blacks in britain : from roman times to the mid - twentieth century , eds . jahdish s . gundara and ian duffield ( avebury : ashgate publishing , 1992 ) 173 - 201 .
60 editorial , international african opinion 1 . 1 ( jul . 1938 ) : 1 . reported in roderick macdonald ,
the wisers who are far away : the role of londons black press in the 1930s and 1940s ,
essays on the history of blacks in britain : from roman times to the mid - twentieth century , eds . jahdish s . gundara and ian duffield ( avebury : ashgate publishing , 1992 ) 150 - 72 .
fortunately , the british school system can be incompetent , liberal and so lacking in self - belief that it lacks the conviction to crush the creativity of young people , which does , therefore , continue to flourish in the interstices of authority , in the school corridor and after four o ' clock , as it were . the crucial thing is to have education that doesn ' t stamp out the desire to learn , that attempts to educate while the instincts of young people – which desire to be stimulated but in very particular things , like sport , pop music and television – flower in spite of the teacher ' s requirement to educate .
she had heard a good deal about not allowing one’s self to be “influenced , ” about jealously guarding one’s originality , and so forth ; the editor of “zig - zag” had been particularly strong on that theme . but her story had to be written , and she didn’t know how to begin it ; so she decided just to glance casually at a few beginnings .
after a day’s brooding over “fact and fiction , ” she decided to begin on the empiric system . ( “it’s sure to come to me as i go along , ” she thought . ) so she sat down before the mauve paper and wrote “a shot rang out — ”
at first , in that heavy text , on those heavy pages , it seemed to her a pitifully small thing , hopelessly insignificant and yet pitilessly conspicuous . it was as though words meant to be murmured to sympathetic friends were being megaphoned into the ear of a heedless universe .
' 20 . at 14 : 08 13th sep 2011 , lastsong - there must be intense pressure on media channels ( only so called free in the so called free world ) to block out news that is inconvenient to the power blocs . of that , no doubt . hence being ' sensitive ' to being told that is not the case , often , when bending to such pressures , either in agreement or to spite them seems pretty much clear and present .
if prior to 1880 englishness was construed primarily within constitutional parameters , the post - 1880
traditions
relating to identity were reinvented to emphasize a celebratory sense of moral and cultural superiority , skin color , 20 the english language , and the popular ideals of freedom . freedom , as it was represented by nineteenth - century liberalism , was characterized as
an ideal force . . . [ located ] deep within the national character , and capable of universal dissemination as englands special gift to the world ,
21 and , above all , to her colonies . englishness became linked inseparably to
otherness ,
and the former became a
peculiarity
that was determined by relationship rather than by classification . in his pivotal examination of the concepts of orientalism , edward said posits that during the last two decades of the nineteenth century the efficacy of the dominant version of englishness resided in its ability to represent both itself to others and those others to themselves . 22 or , as is argued , the potency of englishness lay in its ability to recognize , to interpret , and , i would maintain , to contrive .
to collect herself , she decided to remain a while in the ward , serving tea to the soldiers and n . c . o . ’s before venturing into number 5 , which the previous week had been occupied only by a polo - player drowsy with chloroform and uninterested in anything but his specialty . think of harold harbard lying in the bed next to that man !
gothic literature was thriving when many advances were taking place and much of the world was in chaos . thanks to the industrial revolution ( 1760 - 1840 ) , changes were evident throughout society in areas including technology , education , culture , medicine , and the economy . in great britain human labor was being replaced with powered machinery and iron and coal were supplanting wood . capitalism was on the rise , and during this historic era all aspects of society were altered .


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 ( 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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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 .
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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 ) .
a good picture is one thing , but a film needs more . a film production demands a coherent story . this is being perfected by the right shot , the right concept and storyboard and the subsequent cut . moreover , the right selection of models and artists via a true - to - concept casting is of great importance . there are different kinds of film productions : we differentiate in broad outline between product , advertisement and editorial film . at the beginning of every production are the creation of a script and the planning of a concept .
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 »
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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 .
the trial between hulk hogan and gawker media pitted privacy rights against freedom of the press , and raised important questions about how big money can silence media . this film is an . . . see full summary »
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 .
saving capitalism is a documentary film that follows former secretary of labor and professor , robert reich , as he takes his book and his views to the heart of conservative america to speak . . . see full summary »
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 .