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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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 ) .
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 »
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 .
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 .


the real badlands is a 2009 documentary film produced by current tv and rockwood pictures , by british filmmakers tim clark and craig ford .

the film tells the story of a newark on trent couple ( simon burgess and susan moran ) , who fed up with modern-day life , quit their jobs , sell all of their possessions , and move into the woods .

the real badlands

the real badlands is a 2009 documentary . . . - once upon a time in the wild
this article is about the geographic map of badlands . for articles about the badlands game maps , the badlands region , and other uses , see badlands ( disambiguation ) .
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the mountains surrounding the central valley of badlands recall the mountain ranges surrounding the rio grande valley .
“westerns were so exciting and so heroic and so unlike the world that i lived in . they were real in a kind of mythological way . they weren’t real like going to see the girl next door but one was real , or going down the shops . but they seemed to have a kind of reality about them . ”
after checking the link mentioned above , i don’t see how they are the same . it’s obviously not the same islands . gursky photographs real places . this work is built from models to resemble real places . two different concepts resulting in similar images .
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is this a remake of the sissy spacek movie ? ha . no , that was just badlands . and there is nothing out there like into the badlands .
the navigable course of the columbia river rises through forested mountains into near - dessert badlands .
wendy madsen’s badlands at the bedside : fact or fiction stands alone as a unique engagement with the badlands concept . it translates the space of the badlands to the nursing bedside , examining the struggle between trained and untrained nurses in late 19th century queensland , and how this struggle proceeded in accord with an imaginary badlands structured through cultural narrative and fiction .
hopefully journey to the west ' s real influence on into the badlands will become even more clear when we tune into the series premiere ,
the fort ,
this sunday at 10 : 00 p . m . et on amc .
ally ioannides as tilda in into the badlands . photograph : patti perret / amc / amc
terrence malick , badlands and caril fugate : an interview - paul maher jr .
amc , like several other cablers , doesn’t like to release live + same day numbers nowadays , going more for the delayed viewing of live + 3 results . that might be where the real kick is for into the badlands later this week .
real estate agent christina roush , retired air force col . steve seroka and summerlin resident laura feher are all vying for the ward 2 job .
the bad blood has reached a boiling point in the battle over the future of the badlands golf course in west las vegas .
the posts about anthropogenic climate change were quickly deleted from the badlands national park ' s official twitter page .
much of the campaign rhetoric has revolved around the controversial plan to put residences on the badlands golf course . a political action committee formed last month has launched a mailing campaign targeting seroka and roush’s stances on the badlands issue .
director ericson core wanted a “sense of authenticity and real peril” in the movie’s action sequences . so he enlisted a cadre of accomplished athletes to get it .
past these badlands , the columbia and snake rivers divide and each river rises up into higher mountains beyond .
wild west badlands tours provides half - day and full - day guided tours in . . .
if i remember right , badlands was a story about him , where the other two were inspired by him .
so when robinson was asked to make a documentary series about the real wild west , he couldn’t resist comparing the places where it all happened with his black and white images of them from the 1950s .
guess who screencapped the glorious @ badlandsnps revolt of 2017 right before the tweets were deleted . # moi # badlands # climatechange urltoken
it is said that charles starkweather is indeed the inspiration for the movies badlands , natural born killers , and wild at heart .
but over on the feed for badlands national park ( a subsidiary twitter of the central nps acccount ) , somebody with the twitter password spent tuesday afternoon getting real about climate change . instead of landscape pictures and weather reports , @ badlandsnps tweeted jarring statistics about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and about ocean - acidity levels .
cool . i have never heard of the guy . just checked him out on the net . thanks , brian . . . it ' s interesting that malick has tried to make kit more humane than the real starkweather who appears to have been a complete evil psycho judging from what i ' ve read about him so far . i have to say though that badlands is the only film of the ones most often mentioned that is the closest to an actual adaptation from the real life story . natural born killers feels more inspired by badlands then directly by the life of charles starkweather . but i base that on my 15 minutes old knowledge of the man .
daniel wu executive produces and stars as trained assassin , sunny , on amc ' s
into the badlands .
map badlands . walker couldn ' t confirm if those maps would arrive on the xbox 360 or playstation 3 versions of the game .
in her real estate role , roush has presented items before local governments . but she thinks she would bring new ideas and change to the other side of the podium in las vegas city council chambers .
the most lethal of the badlands’ clippers is sunny — the regent ( head clipper ) and most trusted advisor of baron quinn . for decades , quinn has been unchallenged as the badlands’ most powerful baron ; however , the territory’s newest baron , the widow , has begun testing his appetite for a fight .
these badlands are irrigated to grow wheat , which is shipped off on the river . ( see ocean vessel in granary )
a development issue prompted seroka , who lives near the badlands golf course , to challenge beers , who he says has mishandled the issue .
the subreddit for discussing anything and everything about amc ' s martial - arts tv show * * * into the badlands * * * .
badlands is the ideal environment for learning through play with seven areas for children to interact , create , and grow in confidence .
criterion has recently re - released a digitally - remastered print of badlands on blu - ray with the complete involvement of malick .
real landscapes at gallery f5 . 6 , munich 8 may – 20 june 2009‘i see the world as a kind assembly kit , a grand stage , as image and simulacrum . ’ – thomas wrede
whoever is managing the twitter account for south dakota ' s badlands national park probably isn ' t going to have the duty for much longer .
“they’re seeking an arbiter of the application before us or keeping the golf course , ” said beers , who represents the ward that includes badlands . “that’s not the decision before us . ”
ryan was one of six students wednesday supposedly upset about budget cuts . be real . adults — be they parents , teachers or union officials — turned these kids into human shields and media props .
into the badlands : marton csokas as quinn , oliver stark as ryder and daniel wu as sunny . photograph : patti perret / amc / amc
the horrific rampage became the basis of the film ' badlands ' starring martin sheen and sissy spacek . in 1975 , spacek was nominated most promising newcomer to leading film roles at the bafta awards .
at badlands parties , children will run , jump and climb through obstacle courses , and enjoy amazing food straight from our kitchen .
on their way towards the badlands of montana they leave a trail of dispassionate and seemingly random murders . the film received rave reviews at film festivals including the new york film festival .
almost everyone quit the filming of badlands , but those who stayed behind found they had made an american classic . ryan gilbey on the debut of the brilliant , perverse director terrence malick
not to my knowledge . for the most part , she couldn’t relate to it as a movie because it was close enough to the real story to be able to look at it objectively , but not accurate enough to capture the emotions of what really happened .
there are no ocean ports in new mexico . if the navigation represented in upwards is a depiction of the hale river , then the point of placing the hale river is to provide ocean shipping to the game maps . the columbia and snake rivers in washington and oregon carry hundreds of millions of bushels of wheat each year . the hale river depicted on this map recalls these rivers , running a course on the map of badlands through geography similar to that of those real rivers .
on a related note : whoever runs the badlands national park account is going to need a new job soon . for supporting facts and reality . urltoken
it remains to be seen how this story will tie into the plot of badlands . here ' s the official plot synopsis of the show , courtesy of amc ' s own website :
last season , game of thrones introduced viewers to the castle of zafra in the province of guadalajara , the badlands of bardenas reales in the navarre region , and castell de santa florentina in the town of canet de mar .
yeah , probably . anyway , badlands is a great movie and malick one of my favourite directors . if he had directed twice as many movies in his career and they were of the same quality as masterpieces badlands , days of heaven and the thin red line , he would have been the favourite director of mine probably .
terrence malick first began working on badlands in 1972 . when he was finished , before he began filming , did he ever let caril read the script ?
moroccan travel company lawrence of morocco has put together an infographic showing exactly where every set in the show in real life is based . magheramorne quarry in northern ireland stands in for castle black and hardhome , while the verdala palace grounds play the part of illyrio mopatis ' manse .
neither roush nor seroka like the characterization of them as single - issue candidates . both brought up crime as an important issue that they wish were a focal point of the campaign beyond the badlands .
previous references in the team fortress 2 storyline locate the badlands in the state of new mexico ; this map has features that correspond to features of north central new mexico , particularly the surroundings of the española basin and albuquerque basin of the rio grande rift valley .
' badlands ' was written and directed by terence malick and made an estimated $ 450 , 000 in box office sales following its 1973 release .
las vegas city councilman bob beers , a former state assemblyman who has represented ward 2 since 2012 , is being challenged by two first - time candidates — real estate developer christina roush and air force veteran steve seroka . while most incumbents at the municipal level find themselves easily outpacing their lesser - known opponents when it comes to donations and support , beers has found himself on the defensive for his role in the proposed development of the shuttered badlands golf course .
recently i had the opportunity to ask mr . mcarthur a few questions about fugate’s involvement with malick , her reception of badlands and her fondness for martin sheen’s performance .
seroka has taken issue with the city negotiating a 15 - year contract extension for republic services without seeking alternative options . and , in an election seemingly focused on the future of one high - profile piece of real estate , he points out that roush is also a developer .
badlands is a nature - inspired play space and interactive environment where children can take risks , succeed at challenging themselves , and find their own way .
“i know from working in commercial real estate that the first question people ask is ‘how are our schools ? ’ the answer shouldn’t be , ‘well , we have a lot of private schools . ’ that’s beyond means for most people , and even those schools are at capacity . ”
daenerys targaryen finally returned to the shores of westeros in season seven - dragonstone , to be precise - and the real - life location is remarkably easy to visit . that rocky beach seen so frequently in the show is called itzurun , and it lies beside a spanish seaside town called zumaia , in the province of guipúzcoa .
the sacred black hills in south dakota are wonderful and the badlands are extraordinary . the green grass stops , the land plunges down a couple of hundred feet and below you is the bleakest imaginable terrain that looks like a black desert drawn by a kid .
we still don’t know the fate of glenn rhee , but we certainly know who the chief clipper of the fall is – and we don’t mean chris paul . we also know that sunday’s the walking dead and the premiere of into the badlands proved to be a good night for amc .
this issue of transformations follows from the making badlands conference held in december 2005 , and jointly hosted by transformations and the bundaberg media research group . the conference included an exhibition space along with the theme of the conference , and an online version of this exhibition was available on the transformations artspace site .
unfolding the repressed history of this space from the early days of white settlement , when the aboriginal population were shunted to this unwanted swampland , the paper examines the processes of change at work on this site over the past two centuries , as it has evolved from the periphery to the front line of the new docklands precinct . from tip site to shantytown during the depression , to wasteland , and now in the 21st century , to invaluable real estate , the historical and contemporary sense of dudley flats alters , as its identity swings from the otherness of destitution to the otherness of elitism .
it ' s really appropriate that
into the badlands
returns on st . patrick ' s day weekend as the amc martial arts drama gives a lot of credit to ireland for helping to enlarge the scope of its second season .
with the real bonnie & clyde gunned down eighty one years ago , now seems as good a time as any to revisit the movie , nearly fifty years old , yet it still looks pretty fresh . if you’re attempting a true crime story , you can do a lot worse than start here with your research .
iron fist is on netflix now while into the badlands is currently on its second season on amc . below , watch marvel editor - in - chief axel alonso talk about the comic company ' s 2017 plans :
set for an aug . 28 release on astralwerks / capitol records , halsey ' s full - length debut , badlands - - which could land in the upper reaches of the billboard 200 with more than 75 , 000 equivalent - album units its first week , industry forecasters suggest - - is a dystopian concept album inspired by hedonistic hubs like las vegas and , curiously , star wars planet tatooine . (
it seems like a real place if you forget all the aliens ,
she says . )
racists love trump is part of the newest trilogy of new proverbs , an exclusive line of protest signs made by paul chan and badlands unlimited . the three new signs were made with messages of love follo . . .
trump loves rape is part of the newest trilogy of new proverbs , an exclusive line of protest signs made by paul chan and badlands unlimited . the three new signs were made with messages of love followi . . .
wild west badlands tours provides half - day and full - day guided tours in the alberta badlands . tours offered include badlands , dinosaurs and pre - historic times , the wild west adventure , which includes hayrides into a buffalo herd on the prairies , and the ultimate dinosaur experience - a tour that features a trip to the royal tyrrell museum . pick - up services are available in drumheller at hotels , campgrounds , bed and breakfasts and the world ' s largest dinosaur . for pickup service in calgary groups of eight or more are required . group and family rates are available and vacation packages can be arranged . chartered services for your special events are also available .
eat ass pray love is part of the newest trilogy of new proverbs , an exclusive line of protest signs made by paul chan and badlands unlimited . the three new signs were made with messages of love follow . . .
after a 10 - month editing period , badlands was premiered at the new york film festival on october 13 1973 . by all accounts , the reception it received overshadowed even scorsese ' s mean streets , which played at the same festival . vincent canby of the new york times called malick ' s debut
cool , sometimes brilliant , always ferociously american
. sheen himself later said :
i will never be better than i was in badlands .
audiences , however , stayed away . but if ever there was a lesson that box - office success is not synonymous with influence and longevity , badlands is it .
if you’re buying a ticket to the point break remake , it probably isn’t for the plot : ericson core’s rendition of the 1991 action classic is pure eye candy for fans of extreme sports and breathtaking views alike . filmed on four continents using pro athletes in place of stuntmen , the movie pits high - stakes stunts against the primal forces of nature . from the world’s tallest waterfall to a massive fissure in the alps , these are the real - life point break filming locations you can visit from the film .
i wouldn’t say that into the badlands is definitely a feminist show . certainly , it doesn’t have any particular feminist message that it’s trying to get across . however , it’s a show that cares about being inclusive and diverse . it cares about examining power structures and oppression , and it cares about having a real conversation about it . it’s not a show that pretends to have all the answers ; it’s a show that gives us a whole bunch of characters trying to figure things out , and it’s compelling as hell .
star wars may be set in a galaxy far , far away , but many of the series’ famous scenes are filmed slightly closer to home . in preparation for star wars : the force awakens —which was reportedly filmed in scotland , new mexico , abu dhabi , iceland , and ireland—check out the other real - life locations that have played inspiration to some of the films’ most epic sequences .
i just thought of a quote i would like to give you , because this sort of sums up my feelings about my involvement with the movie throughout my life . because of my knowledge of the true story , i’ve never been able to look at badlands objectively . as a result , i’ve never been able to really appreciate badlands the way other people do , but i do appreciate terry . and the reason i appreciate him is because he didn’t pretend that he was making the actual story into a movie . he made up a fictional one with his own vision , and removed the names of the real people from it . he did this out of a sense of responsibility , something that is sorely lacking in hollywood . i’ve always valued the fact that he believed that , since he wasn’t making the true story , it wouldn’t be right for him to pretend that it was the true story .
this handmade artist book was a collaboration between paul chan and calvin tomkins , and uses material from tomkin ' s 2012 badlands book marcel duchamp : the afternoon interviews in order to create a bra . . .
the conference was based around the concept of the “badlands” arising from ross gibson’s seven versions of an australian badlands ( uq press , 2002 ) which describes the central queensland region as haunted by a violent colonial past and fraught with troubling incidents that make it an australian badland . this conference addressed the concept of an australian badland — what it means to speak of a space as a badland , its relation to history , the imaginary , and to questions of regionality , representation , myth , archival authority , and the formation of narrative and discursive knowledge .
other maps published in the shadow boxers comic further confirmed that the badlands area is centrally based on the geography of north central new mexico ; these later maps show recognizable outlines of actual forests , preserves , reservations , highways , rivers , and lakes located in that part of the state .
hbo ' s epic fantasy series
game of thrones
takes place over two sprawling continents , westeros and essos — from the icy wastes north of the wall , to the arid badlands that surround meereen in slaver ' s bay . the sets for the show are equally diverse , ranging from chilly scotland to the luscious beaches of croatia and the deserts of morocco .
utah first sniffs out his targets when he discovers that they jumped out of a cargo plane straight down into the cave of swallows , the world’s largest cave shaft . diving in here from the sky might seem pretty nuts , but the 1 , 220 - foot - deep pit is actually a popular base jumping location in real life . the pit cave also teems with flocks of swifts and parakeets , which it is named for .
gaming attorney and resident frank schreck discusses the proposed land rezoning while standing in his backyard at badlands golf course on monday , nov . 7 , 2016 . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jeffscheid
gaming attorney and resident frank schreck discusses the proposed land rezoning while standing inside his home at badlands golf course on monday , nov , 7 , 2016 . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jeffscheid
god hates trump is part of new proverbs , an exclusive line of protest signs made by paul chan and badlands unlimited . they first premiered at the history making million women ' s march in washingt . . .
god hates ivanka is part of new proverbs , an exclusive line of protest signs made by paul chan and badlands unlimited . they first premiered at the history making million women ' s march in washing . . .
map of badlands or map of mann ' s land refer to illustrated background content originally published on the engineer update page . presented as a map taped to the brick wall behind engineer ' s drafting bench , it revealed some of the geography of team fortress 2 .
the aesthetics of photography and painting are intertwined in my visual work to set up a tension for the viewer . the image is at once , framed and autonomous , yet like a trompe l’oeil portal , open to the projection of the viewer . the notion of a “badlands” in my image making is hauntingly implied by transient borders and undefined perspectives .
one of the best - known images of warfare , robert capa’s falling soldier , has also been contested . although no one knows whether it was faked , kamber has his doubts . “i believe the falling soldier photo is staged – i photographed combat for many years , and never photographed anyone at the moment of death – capa has two pictures on the same roll of film at the moment of death… i think the chances of that being real are astronomical . ”
the making badlands conference also examined how imaginary spaces are actively produced through technological , aesthetic , conceptual , visual , audio and other sensory engagements with the materiality of regional contexts , and sought to develop ways in which these may be contested through alternative practices of making that may lead to more progressive and empowering visions of regions . to this end , the conference also included an exhibition space where artists and artist practitioners engaged with these various senses of the badlands . the online version of this exhibition is produced here on the transformations artspace site .
there were other setbacks . all the cameras were destroyed during the filming of the morbidly beautiful sequence in which kit burns down holly ' s family home . by the end of the shoot , malick was $ 35 , 000 over budget , forcing him to take on more rewriting assignments before the picture could be edited . but he inspired loyalty among those who stayed the course and kept their sanity .
people who ' ve worked with terry either love him or hate him ,
said spacek .
i love him . badlands was a real turning point for me . we ' d spend hours talking about things , and then the next day i ' d look at the rewrites , and there ' d be all the things i told him .
i salute you , badlands national park tweeter who is probably going to get fired but is going out in style . urltoken — kate sheppard ( @ kate _ sheppard ) january 24 , 2017
gaming attorney and resident frank schreck discusses the proposed land rezoning while standing in his backyard at badlands golf course on monday , nov . , 7 , 2016 . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jeffscheid
to the opponents’ contention of an inappropriate relationship between the developer and the city , beers said the situation is “quite the contrary . ”
fed up with modern day life , simon burgess and susan moran quit their jobs , sell all of their possessions and move into a remote forest in deepest , darkest nottinghamshire . with winter on the way , will the couple and their relationship be able to survive all the mother nature can throw at them ? watch as simon , a self proclaimed survival expert attempts to provide for himself and susan in an unfamiliar and unforgiving world , with hilarious results ! the real badlands is a film about the ultimate urban escape , it ' s a film that offers an alternative to the nine - five grind , an alternative that has been described by critics as stranger than fiction !
traffic streams along rampart boulevard near charleston boulevard thursday , nov . 3 , 2016 , near the proposed ehb companies housing development on the badlands golf course . the developer this week withdrew the portion of its application that a majority of the las vegas planning commission voted down in octoberjeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
just days after the national park service ( nps ) was forced to shut down its twitter activity over two retweets the department of the interior deemed inconsistent with the agency’s mission , the twitter account for badlands national park in south dakota seems to have gone rogue , tweeting numerous scientific facts about climate change that have since been deleted .
a woman convicted of going on a killing spree with her boyfriend 55 years ago that left 11 people dead and whose story inspired the hit 1973 film ' badlands ' has been badly injured in a car crash in michigan .
queens ridge residents frank schreck , left , and elaine wenger - roesener discusses the proposed badlands golf course land rezoning on monday , nov . , 7 , 2016 . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jeffscheid
lowie contends because of the depth of the part of the property where the 720 units are slated to go , the roofline of the new development won’t go any higher than the podium located off the back of the queensridge towers and that tower residents will maintain their views of the mountains and the strip .
golf carts travel along the trail at badlands golf course on wednesday , oct . 9 , 2016 . residents are concerned they will loose their views if the controversial , high - density development is approved for the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
centuries from now , a feudal society has emerged in the wake of civilization ' s destruction . this area is now called the badlands and is uneasily divided among seven rival barons . each baron enforces their iron rule with the aid of loyal armies of trained assassins known as clippers .
apparently , it does . her debut album , badlands , debuted at # 2 on the billboard 200 this week , second only to the weeknd once again . and really , the blockbuster numbers of beauty behind the madness are an aberration ; in the statistical wasteland that is 2015 album sales , 115 , 000 equivalent units and 97 , 000 in pure sales would have made badlands an easy # 1 on most weeks . like her twitter buddies in twenty one pilots , halsey is a budding superstar whether you’ve heard of her or not .
developer yohan lowie with ehb companies discusses his proposed large - scale and controversial development for the badlands golf course in his office on friday , oct . 21 , 2016 . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jeffscheid
developer yohan lowie with ehb companies discusses land zoning on his proposed large - scale and controversial development for the badlands golf course on friday , oct . 21 , 2016 . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jeffscheid
into the badlands ’ martial arts coordinator , huan - chiu ku , has worked on numerous highly recognizable martial arts projects , including crouching tiger , hidden dragon and kill bill , and what he brings to the small screen is probably the best and most beautifully choreographed fights scenes to ever make their way to television . every one of this show’s fights is at least good , and a high proportion of them are just breathtaking . if you at all enjoy choreographed martial arts , into the badlands is a must - see piece of the genre .
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the main courses of the badwater pipeline follow major rivers or highways in the area .
unless there’s an extension or a new operator is found , the badlands course will be shuttered , as early as dec . 1 . opponents challenge whether the company can build on the golf course , charging that the master plan never allowed for residential units there . that , of course , is something lowie vehemently counters .
i hid my newfound knowledge from my parents , hanging on every moan , every plea my grandmother made to her killers , detailed with lurid fascination . yet this account of the so - called starkweather murders , like every other account i was to come across , failed to recognise a real story as being so much more than a sum of its horrific parts . i watched badlands , terrence malick ' s film inspired by the case , and years later oliver stone ' s natural born killers ; in both , the perpetrators emerge as the alluring anti - heroes . what of the people who lost their lives , and the survivors who had to pick up and continue with the uncertain business of living ? the details surrounding the case didn ' t tell me what i wanted to know . the facts alone only raised questions .
yohan lowie , ceo & founder of ehb companies , views the landscape at badlands golf course on wednesday , oct . 9 , 2016 . ehb companies are planning on building the controversial , high - density development on the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
a view badlands golf course near rampart boulevard is seen from queeenridge towers on tuesday , oct . 11 , 2016 . the las vegas planning commission is expected to take up the controversial , high - density development on the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
ward 2 residents have been inundated with campaign flyers about the queensridge - badlands controversy . one , sent by a recently formed political action committee , urges voters to “say no to the siroka - roush ( sic ) $ 250 million tax , ” referring to the potential cost of inverse condemnation .
i thought i read somewhere that there is a book called into the west which is what badlands is based off of . anyone know where i could find that ? and , are there also other books you can find with really good pictures / maps / logos - etc of the badlands ? if you look on pinterest there are all sorts of really cool images on itb stuff - stuff that looks like it came out of high quality books , and i wonder where the source material is from .
one part of the two stories that is consistent is that no pressure to delete the tweets came from above . in fact , deleting them could wind up being problematic if the nps didn ' t retain a record of the tweets , as they arguably now belong in the national archives . fortunately , someone has already created a witty badlands parody account to help fill the twitter void .
this map illustrates the geography of a region called badlands . it locates several facilities in that region that are represented by some of the team fortress 2 game maps . some of the locations are marked by images of recognizable buildings from those game maps , such as the cart ramps in pipeline . it is inferred that the map also locates settlements adjoining the facilities ; for example , name of the town of teufort is used instead of the name of the game map 2fort .
backyard views from tudor park development show golfers putting at the badlands golf course on thursday , oct . 10 , 2016 . residents are concerned they will loose their views if the controversial , high - density development is approved for the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
with a rising twd as a primo lead - in , into the badlands came roaring out of the gate at 10 pm with 6 . 4 million viewers and 3 . 994 million among 18 - 49s for a 3 . 15 rating . ahead of supergirl and blindspot ’s 3 . 1 ratings result by a hair , that makes the post - apocalyptic martial arts series the top - rated new series of the fall on either cable or broadcast . with daniel wu as an assassin warrior ( called clippers on the show ) named sunny , badlands had a very sunny start — it also marked the best fall debut amc has ever had .
while the main national parks service twitter account is now back up and tweeting , its posts since the temporary halt at that agency have remained largely innocuous : benign tweets about new research libraries , sled dogs in denali and the motivational power of the mountains . those posts seem certain not to rub the trump administration the wrong way . badlands’ posts on the carbon cycle and climate change , however , seem to have proven otherwise .
a marker identifies queensridge community at badlands golf course on wednesday , oct . 9 , 2016 . residents are concerned they will loose their views if the controversial , high - density development is approved for the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
in february , the las vegas city council narrowly approved plans to build 435 condos on a portion of the shuttered badlands golf club , which runs through and adjacent to the wealthy queensridge neighborhood . beers , who was one of four council members who voted to approve , is being cast as the deciding vote and has received much blowback from residents opposed to the development .
for the record , after watching the first two episodes provided to critics - - the second of which debuts next sunday ( nov . 22 ) at 9 p . m . ct - - i ' m what you ' d have to call a tentative fan . in my
into the badlands
review for urltoken | the times - picayune , i wrote :
golf carts travel past queensridge towers at badlands golf course on wednesday , oct . 9 , 2016 . residents are concerned they will loose their views if the controversial , high - density development is approved for the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
all of these papers pursue badlands as spaces of multiplicities , greater than , and hence excessive to , the centres found within them – sites of boundaries , margins , peripheries , and frontiers , with contingent and transversal relations to any ‘core’ centre . all centres are regional , and all regions have their centres . urban , suburban , inner and outer metropolitan , town and country , outback , bush , are all regions capable of both producing and resisting badlands as cultural imaginaries .
in the book pro bono : the 18 - year defense of caril fugate , her chief defender’s grandson , jeff mcarthur , details fugate’s trial and , in one chapter , details her involvement with the film badlands , a 1973 terrence malick film . sissy spacek played holly , a character loosely - based on fugate .
outside valentine became primarily the story of lowell bowman , an art dealer in new york city who lost his parents to starkweather one snowy nebraska winter , long ago . yet lowell proved the most difficult to pin down of the characters in the book ; in this way he is perhaps the most real . my father often writes things on scraps of paper , only to lose track of them in the giant fog that must come from existing in two places at once : he , like his fictional foil , always has one foot in another world .
“in years past , we assumed photos weren’t altered – now we wonder , ” says american former photojournalist michael kamber . “now you look at a photo and think ‘has that been photoshopped so much that it no longer represents the reality that i’m being presented with – is it an altered reality ? ’ we shouldn’t have to put a disclaimer on our photos to tell people that they’re real . ”
eddie canonic views the badlands golf course from his backyard at his townhouse at tudor park on thursday , oct . 10 , 2016 . canonic is concerned that he will lose his view if the controversial , high - density development is approved for the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
yohan lowie , ceo & founder of ehb companies , stands in the drainage area at badlands golf course near queensridge towers on wednesday , oct . 9 , 2016 . ehb companies are planning on building the controversial , high - density development on the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
eddie canonic views the badlands golf course from his backyard of his townhouse at tudor park on thursday , oct . 10 , 2016 . canonic is concerned that he will loose his view if the controversial , high - density development is approved for the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
this paper investigates a peripheral space within the city of melbourne which until the 21st century escaped the jurisdiction of any melbourne authority . although geographically situated at the confluence of the maribyrnong and yarra rivers , and bordered by the main road to the west and the railroad ; neither the railways , the harbour trust , the mmbw , the city council , nor the crown lands dept . had responsibility for this land .
eddie canonic views the badlands golf course from his kitchen window in his townhouse at tudor park on thursday , oct . 10 , 2016 . canonic is concerned that he will loose his view if the controversial , high - density development is approved for the golf course . jeff scheid / las vegas review - journal follow @ jlscheid
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pictured , the gardens on back of the house , also featured in the series . the first season was headquartered at the st . john center soundstage , where the set of the decaying street was built . according to a
amc ' s new orleans - shot martial - arts series
into the badlands
premiered sunday night ( nov . 15 ) , complete with flying fists , crunching bones and gushing stab wounds . what did you think of it all ? will you be tuning in for the rest of the series ' six - episode run ?
yes , into the badlands dropped 52 % of its 9 pm lead - in’s demo and 50 % of its viewership . however , that’s actually only 5 % more than better call saul ’s demo fall from its twd lead - in when the breaking bad prequel debuted on february 8 this year .
how do we know if what we’re looking at is real ? with the advent of smartphone apps , cgi and instagram , we’re increasingly seeing the world through a filter . when that filter is applied to soft - focus selfies and marauding dinosaurs , it’s arguably not such a problem . but what about an image of a news event : an act of war or a feat of bravery ? how can we know that hasn’t been tampered with ?
the film ' s dislocated emotional effect arises almost entirely from holly , whose blank - affect narration goes starkly against the grain . traditionally , a voiceover fills in the gaps for the audience , but badlands is defined by the contradiction between what we see and what we hear .
holly seems at times to think of her narration as like what you get in audio - visual courses in high school ,
explained malick .
when they ' re crossing the badlands , instead of telling us what ' s going on between kit and herself , she describes what they ate and what it tasted like , as though we might be planning a similar trip .
the pass to the impregnable eyrie is found in the thingvellir national park , not far from reykjavik . filmmakers made do with northern ireland the rest of the time .
number of refugees accepted into the u . s . falls below the rest of the world combined for the first time . . .
one day , sunny rescues m . k . , a teenage boy who has survived a deadly ambush . sunny soon comes to understand that the teen harbors a dark secret and has a hefty bounty on his head . together , they will embark on an odyssey that could mean the difference between chaos and enlightenment for everyone in the badlands .
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forever preserved in a state of precariousness , the mountain sculptures also manifest a suspension of time . this notion of temporality carries over to rondinone’s new series of sculptures , sun . composed of branches cast in aluminum and then gilded , the world’s oldest gauge of time is rendered static . as the exhibition’s poetic title indicates , this interior presentation of an exterior natural occurrence calls into question not only our conception of time’s passage , but also the ways in which society turns nature into artificial intervals . in the same breath , by fashioning abstracted solar forms from the branches of real - life trees , rondinone venerates the quotidian world as nothing short of extraordinary .
in fact , with a highly teased sneak peek at the season’s penultimate twd episode deep in its first half - hour , badlands is the fourth - best cable demo debut ever and the third amc series in that top four list . the top debut among 18 - 49s is the august 23 start of fear the walking dead ( 6 . 3 million ) , followed by better call saul ( 4 . 4 million ) , and then 2002’s usa’s the dead zone ( 4 . 034 million ) from the non - dvr past .
this unpaved , one - way , 2 . 7 - mile loop winding through sun - scorched badlands was used in 1983’s episode vi : return of the jedi to show r2 - d2 and c - 3po’s journey to jabba’s palace , and is easily accessible today off california’s route 190 .
when netflix and marvel ' s latest series iron fist premiered , there was a lot of excitement but also some controversy . some felt the lead—who is a magical , kung fu warrior—should have gone to someone of asian descent instead of english actor finn jones . hong kong - based american actor daniel wu , who also stars in the martial arts–based into the badlands series , weighed in on the issue .
wu ' s thoughts were perhaps best summed up when talking about why his into the badlands show was special ,
we ' re not going ' this is an asian american show ' —it ' s just a cool show , that just so happens to have an asian american lead .
everyone ' s been separated and blown apart , but it gives everyone a common path ,
he told us .
even though they ' re going through different things , they ' re all trying to focus on the one thing : trying to get back together . sunny is trying to get back to veil and the baby , as well as find m . k . m . k . is also looking for sunny . veil is also hoping that sunny appears somewhere . she doesn ' t know where he is , and he might be dead . then you have the issues with the barons and their story , and trying to control the badlands . so everyone is converging back into the badlands from last season .
that sort of lukewarm critical reception seemed to be rule of the day , with the national press giving director david dobkins ' pilot episode a passing grade - - though barely - - if not a full vote of confidence . on rotten tomatoes , the inaugural season of
into the badlands
had a score of 42 percent as of monday morning . at metacritic , it boasted a score of 54 / 100 .
in formations that immediately call to mind rock spire outcroppings , or “hoodoo , ” endemic to the badlands of north america , rondinone’s mountain sculptures consist of rocks vertically stacked on concrete plinths of varying sizes . austere in their reference to minimalist composition and titling , the artist mitigates severity in both the day - glo coloring of the boulders , as well as the deferential nod to the tradition of stone stacking , a practice seen from prehistoric dolmens to contemporary cairns . in these gestures , rondinone extends the specificity of art history to a universality gleaned from cult objects that exist worldwide . it is this ability to meld the romanticism of the individual into the transcendence of the metaphysical that ties together all works in the exhibition .