future-kill is a 1985 comedy science fiction-horror film about a group of frat boys who are hunted in a futuristic city by mutants .

the film was directed by ronald w. moore , and stars edwin neal , marilyn burns , and gabriel folse .

the poster for the film was designed by renowned artist h. r. giger .

future - kill

unknown actor in a scene from the film ' future kill ' , 1985 .
everybody’s into weirdness : future - kill ( 1985 ) | birth . movies . death .
future - kill
( citywide ) swiftly self - destructs out of sheer preposterousness .
the 18 - 25 vote . if you want to help build a better future , kill your grandparents . maybe your parents too . aunties and uncles couldn ' t hurt . urltoken
future - kill ( 1984 ) . stars : edwin neal , marilyn burns . director - ronald w . moore . moria - the science - fiction , horror and fantasy film review .
future - kill aka night of the alien and splatter – is a 1985 science fiction horror film directed by ronald w . moore , and stars edwin neal and marilyn burns from the texas chain saw massacre , and gabriel folse .
tags : 1985 , edwin neal , film , future - kill , gabriel folse , h . r . giger , marilyn burns , movie , night of the alien , reviews , ronald w . moore , sci - fi , splatter
just as perplexing as everything else going on in this film is the name : future - kill . why is it called that ? the film’s title sequence features a computer screen and electronic sound effects , but no such technology is featured in the movie . it’s as if they were trying to pull in the mad max crowd with punks in silly costumes and a title that kind - of - sort - of implies a post - apocalyptic setting , but its lies . all lies . future - kill takes place firmly within the present of 1985 .
sometimes , when someone gives you advice , you really ought to take it . i was advised never to watch future - kill by multiple sources , under the impression that it was so absolutely appalling that it could injure me spiritually . i love bad movies , so i figured “what the hell ? ”
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future naval ships are being constructed with
suitable facilities
to include women sailors and sooner or later , women officers will also be onboard them .
the mileage one gets out of a movie like future - kill is going to almost solely depend on their willingness to indulge the movie’s ruddy , lo - fi aesthetic . none of the characters are particularly likable , to the point that you’re actively rooting for splatter to massacre the meatheads – until the mutant sexually assaults a woman , reminding us that he is , in fact , the bad guy . yet future - kill remains undeniably diverting for its brief runtime ( which had to be padded with extra hijinks in order to reach feature length ) . it’s no lost gem , but moore’s lone feature will do the job if you’re in a pinch for an era - specific horror freak out .
now there are bad movies and there are bad movies . future - kill ranks among the type of bad that has no redeeming value , not even from a humor standpoint . i think i’d sooner subject myself to rock ‘n’ roll nightmare or r . o . t . o . r . than a repeat viewing of this sorry excuse for entertainment .
india and the uk are jointly making one of the most powerful engines for fighter jets of the future and the first such engine will be unveiled within a year .
as far as gore goes , future - kill can’t even manage to deliver on that . most of the violence involves the frat boys tackling mutant punks and punching each other a lot . the lighting is so incredibly dim that even if there was any blood you’d have a hard time seeing it . splatter , for all his promotion of that clawed - gauntlet , doesn’t kill all that many people . i’d say he’s a victim of hype… but what hype ? the goriest scene in the film is splatter’s ultimate demise . it actually is pretty cool , though woefully short and hardly worth the eighty - five minute wait .
in future - kill , it’s hard to tell whether or not the apocalypse has already occurred , or if we’re anticipating earth’s eventual fiery demise . frat boys still walk the planet , popping collars before tarring and feathering their rivals , so evidence seems to suggest the latter . nevertheless , downtown austin is overrun by purple - haired , chrome - masked mutants , all of who protest impending nuclear doom . reality – at least as we know it – is on the brink of utter annihilation .
a long , dark urban nightmare ensues , complete with a punk pixie guide ( alice villarreal ) to the mosh pit clubs these sewer cretins call home ( with a show - stopping performance from local rockers , max and the makeups , along the way ) . this climaxes in a funhouse - style showdown inside of a run down industrial high - rise ; each room bathed in a different shade of neon . where the rest of this concrete jungle trek is drab and dimly lit , future - kill comes alive during this final day - glo stalk and slash sequence . it’s far from stunning , but again glimpses moore’s modestly ambitious filmic vision . it’s a movie that makes the most of its meager means , playing like a demo reel for future ragers that never arrived .
debuting writer - director ronald w . moore asks us to believe that in the near future a leak in a nuclear lab has contaminated a portion of the inner city of a major american city but that the area has not been cordoned off .
future kill receives a top - notch transfer from subversive , who have cleaned up the imagery considerably . while grain and speckling are obvious , the picture is considerably better than any other available prints , and a grungy look simply instils more of a mood into the dirty action . this new 16x9 widescreen transfer lends the movie somewhat of an improved scope , lending something to the viewing experience , while audio is satisfying , doing its job professionally ( albeit the track isn ' t as exceptional as many of subversive ' s other releases ) .
not as inventive , or as frightening as the cover suggests , future kill is far from the atrocious experience that many critics have claimed . this freak show is exciting in a goofy , slip - shod manner . a bumbling ode to the ' old dark house ' genre ( albeit on the streets ) with the structural trappings of an exploitation slice - and - dice movie ( and the look of a cheap italian futuristic terror opus ) , this urban potboiler is admirable for its enthusiasm if nothing else , and is worth a look as a favorite of the bygone days of 80s video stores .
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it all starts with the cover art . paintings by h . r . giger will get me every single time , and this is a really cool one , a brooding man whose eyes are hidden in the shadows cast by his brow , his wickedly bladed and spiked mechanical right hand splayed like an eagle’s talon in front of his face . then turn the box around , and the jacket copy woos you with the information that stars of the texas chainsaw massacre may be seen on the tape within . don’t be fooled , though . future kill / splatter may not exactly suck , but neither will it live up to any expectation you may have formed while contemplating whether or not to watch it .
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sometime in that post - apocalyptic near future so beloved of low - budget filmmakers , a small group of fraternity pledges go off to a deserted section of the city to kidnap one of a large group of punk rockers who have occupied the area as a protest against nuclear weapons . they witness one of the punkers , neal , murdering someone with a horrible claw . he keeps . . . read more
“despite its numerous flaws , despite its general silliness , i still found myself enjoying future - kil l . why ? i’m not quite sure . was it the texas chainsaw alums ? was it the “pew pew pew ! ” title placard ? was it the escape from new york - like plonky synth soundtrack ? it could be all of those things , or it could be none of them . ” final girl
odd future are quickly becoming my favorite act around and here is just another reason why . after killing “sandwitches” for about 2 minutes , tyler goes nuts and has the whole crowd chanting “wolf gang” without even asking . although i don’t want to ruin the energy and gusto of the performance , so hit the jump to watch the video for yourself . make sure to stick around until the very end . swag .
imr . as far as modernisation goes , there are far too many big - ticket critical items involving over rs 2 , 00 , 000 crores required urgently to replace obsolescence and fill voids . examples are medium guns , bmp upgrades , future mbt , bms , air defence guns and missiles , helicopters , etc . past record does not inspire confidence . does this backlog and how it will be made up expeditiously worry you ?
on elevation to flag rank in jan 2016 , rear admiral mukul asthana assumed the duties of director general project varsha at new delhi , where he was involved with the development of future infrastructure for the indian navy . he is a recipient of the prestigious nausena medal and commendations by the chief of the naval staff and the flag officer commanding - in - chief , eastern naval command . he was also conferred with the tenzing norgay national award by he the president of india in 2006 .
the navy chief said if china plans to use the pakistani port of gwadar in balochistan as a base for its peoples \ ' liberation army navy ( plan ) , india will have to reassess the threat assessment and devise ways to deal with it .
chinese private companies have acquired a majority stake in gwadar . nor is there any information on whether gwadar is going to be a naval base or a commercial harbour . . . if in future there are pla navy warships stationed in gwadar , it will be a matter of concern , and we will have to look at that and mitigate .
a television trailer for director ronald w . moore ' s 1985 thriller which reunited edwin neal and marilyn burns , co - stars of the original
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austin splatterpunk goes diy with ronald w . moore ' s sole feature film .
the alamo drafthouse is a brand built on weird . beyond being situated in a town that has long aspired to remain eccentric in the face of all normality , it’s easy to forget that the original alamo started as something of a private screening club , running prints of the odd and obscure into all hours of the night * . though the company has obviously grown into an internationally recognized chain of first run movie palaces , the drafthouse ritz in austin , texas remains committed to showcasing genre repertory programming , namely via its terror tuesday and weird wednesday showcases . this column is a concentrated effort to keep that spirit of strangeness alive , as programmers joe a . ziemba and laird jimenez ( often pulling from the extensive agfa archives ) are truly doing satan’s bidding by bringing atx weekly doses of delightful trash art .
rising up from the sewers of philadelphia , jacob knight is a man out of time currently residing in austin , tx . when not lamenting the disneyfication of our current culture , he ' s usually enjoying a whiskey , watching some form of disreputable trash cinema , or drunkenly perusing one of the few remaining video stores . no matter what , do not @ him .
this japanese star wars rip - off makes no sense but sure is fun .
there ' s a lot to love about stuart gordon ' s killer doll movie .
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from this point on , the movie basically turns into a punk rock version of the warriors . the surviving frat boys , who were separated into two groups when their little scheme went awry , have to find a way home through the city where nobody trusts them , and with splatter’s minions ( whom he appears to have hired off the set of some paramilitary action movie set in the jungles of south america ) hot on their heels . the least neanderthal of them succeeds in befriending one punk chick by saving her from being raped by the cops . she agrees to lead the guys to safety , and spends the rest of the film helping them avoid splatter and his misplaced salvadoran guerillas .
is it good ? well , not especially . will it put you to sleep ? probably not . watch it for the scene at the club , and for the scene in which the slutty mutant girl discovers why splatter never shows any interest in the ladies .
a group of protesters who call themselves
mutants
have taken over the inner city streets of a large city . they dress weird to try and show the effects of toxic poisoning . one of the mutants , splatter , has really been affected . a group of fraternity boys decide to go into the mutant territory and kidnap one of the mutants as a prank . they inadvertently get framed for the murder of the mutant leader and are hunted through the abandoned buildings and dark streets by a crazed splatter and his gang .
when frat boys are hated by the whole fraternity , the five trouble makers are sent out on a phony kidnapping for eddie pain , the leader of a seemingly harmless protest group called anti - nuke mutants . protestors dressed in bizarre fashions and make - up to draw attention to their cause on stopping nuclear technology . but eddie ' s top guard splatter ( played by edwin neal ) kills one of the frats , and eddie as well . now the frat boys are lost in the city , their car is destroyed , and they ' re wanted by every mutant . now their only hope is julie and eddie ' s girlfriend dorothy ( played by marilyn burns ) who is hell bent on taking revenge on eddie ' s killer splatter .
the star of
the texas chainsaw massacre
returns in a story about frat boys lost in the big city while hunted by a violent leader and his elite gang of gun - happy guards .
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the poster for the film was designed by renowned artist h . r . giger ( alien ) .
texas university frat boys are held responsible for the accidental killing of the anti - nuke mutants’ leader and must flee through the hostile parts of downtown dallas , aided by friendly mutant julie . they’re mercilessly hunted by the psychopathic splatter ( ed neal ) , the mohawk sporting mutant seeking revenge for the killing of his leader…
“there is a certain ed woods feel to the way the movie was made . when you look past the movie to some of the background you really get the feeling that moore was part hustler / part con artist . h . r . giger who did the art work for alien was somehow persuaded to do a cover for the movie , apparently he was moved by moore’s tearful assertion that the movie would be nothing without great cover art . i have to disagree with that , the movie is still nothing even with great cover art . ” bleak cinema
“the acting is sub - par , the direction is bored , the music simply hurts to sit through and ed neal’s outfit is ridiculous . i really don’t get why he agreed to the role , other than to do a favor for a friend and try something different , since it’s so unlike neal’s personality it’s almost laughable . a cold - hearted killer he is not . ” dread central
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director ronald w . moore seeks to combine the plot of the warriors with some slasher film aesthetics . while this might sound like a cool idea , don’t be fooled ; the result is a boring , tedious mess .
the film attempts to bank on nostalgia from the texas chainsaw massacre , casting two players from the film and even promoting their presence in the trailer . edwin neal , the hitch - hiker from “texas chainsaw massacre” stars as the film’s main villain : splatter . despite a gaudy appearance , it’s a far more subdued role than the off - the - wall hitch - hiker and really doesn’t suit neal’s strengths . his single shining moment in the film is a painfully protracted scene in which a hooker tries to give him a blowjob , only to become horrified by his irradiated junk . be grateful the following screencap isn’t of higher resolution .
the other texas chainsaw alumni featured here is marilyn burns who starred as sally hardesty in that much better movie . here , she plays splatter’s love - interest , though she conspires against him . there’s a reason burns’ filmography can just about be counted on one hand : she’s a terrible actress . the silly punk outfit and hammy dialogue don’t do her any favors , either .
not a lot of people are going to recommend this film to you , and i can hardly blame them . it is bad in a way that makes it a chore to sit through and scarcely entertaining on any level ( so many minutes of characters running down alleys and streets ) . most of the time , you can’t even muster up the enthusiasm to laugh at it .
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as if this weren ' t incredible enough , the contaminated area has become overrun by a young gang of anti - nuclear protesters , the very people you ' d suppose would be most aware of the dangers of hanging around the area . ( would dr . helen caldicott take up residence inside three mile island ? ) what ' s more , they ' ve gotten themselves up in punk attire in a harebrained attempt to call attention to their cause .
some prankish fraternity boys enter the desolate area to kidnap one of the anti - nuke punkers , only to run afoul of the dreaded splatter ( edwin neal ) . a victim of
radium poisoning ,
he hides his mutilated body in futuristic armor that includes an artificial arm with retractable spikes in its fingers .
neal and others on both sides of the camera are
texas chain saw massacre
alumni , but this inept venture , a cheap shot that attempts to combine pious anti - nuke sentiments with the usual exploitation picture gore ( which got it an apt r rating ) , is never going to repeat the earlier film ' s phenomenal success . as one disappointed viewer at a thursday evening invitational preview in north hollywood was overheard remarking ,
i ' d demand my money back if we ' d had to pay to get in .
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' once upon a time ' : lumiere lights the way but one soul is . . .
director / screenplay  ronald w . moore , additional material written by john h . best , edwin neal & gregg unterberger , producers  john h . best & gregg unterberger , photography  jon lewis , music  robert renfrow , pyrotechnic effects  michael osullivan , makeup effects  robert a . burns & kathleen hagan , art direction  marcos gonzales . production company  magic shadow productions .
was a film i spent years trying to locate . around the time that the film was made ,
a good deal of coverage . it always seemed to hold a great deal of promise  it was advertised with a poster from none other than cult artist h . r . giger , best known for creating the creature in
proves to be a considerable letdown . ( marilyn burnss role , for instance , only amounts to a campy cameo as an urban guerrilla near the end ) .
director / writer ronald w . moore  who should not to be confused with ronald
( 2003 - 5 )  clearly had ambitions of making a cyberpunk film . alas moores ( lack of ) budget causes such ambitions to fall flat . the action scenes are cheaply and unconvincingly directed . moores attempts to create a futuristic atmosphere amounts to no more than highlighting a series of 1980s new wave fashions and a general punked - out look . indeed , outside of the character of the armoured cyborg splatter ,
could almost entirely be set contemporary . to moores credit , the character of splatter does work with some modest effect  edwin neal at least has some presence and comes accompanied by some cheaply effective effects , even if most of the films budget appears to have been blown on obtaining these .
was made in austin , texas  somewhat of a hotbed of redneck americana  that has allowed street gangs , the dispossessed and political protestors to all be tarred with the same brush .
splatter ' s elite guard ( as byron ' mr . ned ' blandford )
a group of protesters who call themselves
mutants
have taken over the inner city streets of a large city . they dress weird to try and show the effects of toxic poisoning . one of the mutants , splatter , has really been affected . a group of fraternity boys decide to go into the mutant territory and kidnap one of the mutants as a prank . they inadvertently get framed for the murder of the mutant leader and are hunted through the abandoned buildings and dark streets by a crazed splatter and his gang . written by josh pasnak
this film was shot all over austin , texas without any permits . see more »
when splatter ' s head guard bursts in on the group near the end of the movie , he yells ,
no , it ' s not over !
the next shot , you can hear him say ,
. . . over ,
but his lips aren ' t moving . see more »
featured in trailer trauma 3 : ' 80s horror - thon ( 2017 ) . see more »
radiation - scarred punkers hunt down fraternity pledges in the post - apocalyptic wastelands of earth .
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basically , how do you get rid of cell phones ? or make them useless ? anytime someone is in the dark , people just bust out their phone and use the flash . or could just call the police or anyone at anytime .
how do you truly create helplessness these days when almost everywhere you go is under surveillance ? almost everyone / teen has their phone on their persons 99 % of the time .
the way i ' ve seen cell phones addressed is usually the user is so isolated that they don ' t get reception . on occasion i ' ve seen the leader of a group collect all cell phones on some pretext .
yeah i hate the whole ' no reception thing ' , the only time i haven ' t had a signal is on airplanes , i ' ve been camping and still had a signal , its weak , but there . never liked this idea
i ' ve been plenty of places with no reception , some pretty close to civilization of the a quiet , creepy little town persuasion . but we ' re still talking bfe in the grand scheme of things ; eastern and central oregon aren ' t on most people ' s radars .
and fwiw , i can ' t get a signal in ikea . no one can . . .
as someone who lives in an area with no reception ( except for a 3 ' somewhere in my driveway ) i understand it happens , but it often seems forced .
i ' ve lived in 2 houses in the past couple years that didn ' t get reception , so i have no trouble believing it in movies . these weren ' t exactly out in the middle of nowhere either .
there are plenty of other ways to make these devices useless too . get them wet , fall down and break them , forget to charge them ( my wife ' s ipad is basically always dead )
i always like when they make it part of the plot that they can ' t get or don ' t want help . like in the collector , the main dude can ' t call the police or anything cause he himself is a criminal
people can forget their phones by accident . it wouldn ' t be dumb as long as it wasn ' t just sprung from nowhere , and saw the character leave their phone on their desk or whatever before they leave .
also , phones are fragile . they can get broken , smashed , fried to bits , drowned . . . not to say that every phone should end up broken though .
what if a character has forgotten to charge their phone ? that would render it useless as well . or , what if it was dropped by accident after a chase scene ? how about stolen ?
the
no reception
trope that horror movies have adopted have overused them , yes , but there ' s a reason why it works : it ' s supposed to portray the idea of the characters being isolated , lost , unable to get help immediately , and those same qualities are what are ( or should be ) reflected in the movie . by the same token , just randomly saying , ' i have no reception ' is cheap .
computers are useless without power . so there ' s that . they ' re also just as easily broken .
gps usually goes hand - in - hand with phones and computers . therefore , get rid of one , you get rid of gps .
honestly , if it doesn ' t add to the story , there should really be no need for broken technology .
nah , they ' re stupid . if i was to make a horror movie today it would take place in the 70 ' s to 80 ' s because i don ' t want to see any modern technology . look at the carrie remake , that had vital plot points moved along through texting . instead of having character dialogue , we are staring at a cell phone screen . that ' s disgusting .
i ' ve been working on a story with an almost i am legend scenario where the main character is essentially the thing that the ghosts and monsters fear . they are the ones looking for help , so no need to worry about all of that nonsense .
a technological solution to a technological problem . and if you ' re dealing in supernatural horror , you don ' t even need that .
if the antagonist is paranormal , you can pull from the thousands of real - world accounts that claim electronics go haywire near these entities . from the bermuda triangle to even bigfoot , everything including old spring watches and even compasses tend to stop working if a person is in proximity to them .
a human antagonist could use technology to jam the equipment , or the isolation of the locale . underground areas and metal buildings still wreak havoc with cell phone communication .
regarding the cell phone flash , this can be used to great effect if done properly . reflecting eyes in the dark , showing monsters for a split second and then surrounding protagonists in darkness is terrifying .
girl house makes the killer a computer programmer and uses the house against the girls . he only let ' s people watch the feed ( turns off network going out ) . nobody knows where the house is so they can ' t just go there and help . he also uses the cameras to systematically see where his next victim will be .
just create characters that are too stupid to use convenient and readily available help .
it ' s pretty easy . just set it in the 60s , 70s or 80s . hell , early 90s .
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rolls - royce has opened a new defence service delivery centre ( sdc ) in asia , located at the manyata embassy business park in bengaluru . co - located with the rolls - royce engineering centre , the sdc will offer localised engineering support to improve frontline capability of indian air force ( iaf ) and indian navy ( in ) aircraft , and to hindustan aeronautics limited ( hal ) .
annual underlying revenue was £13 . 8 billion in 2016 , around half of which came from the provision of aftermarket services . the firm and announced order book stood at £80 billion at the end of 2016 .
in 2016 , rolls - royce invested £1 . 3 billion on research and development . we also support a global network of 31 university technology centres , which position rolls - royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research .
rolls - royce employs almost 50 , 000 people in 50 countries . more than 16 , 500 of these are engineers .
the group has a strong commitment to apprentice and graduate recruitment and to further developing employee skills . in 2016 we recruited 274 graduates and 327 apprentices through our worldwide training programmes .
in a bid to strengthen army’s infantry and held it in operations in jammu and kashmir , army has started the process to procure around 1 , 500 anti - materiel lightweight rifles capable of damaging targets like battle tanks , low - flying helicopters and bunkers . the process to procure such kind of sophisticated weapons was pending for the past quite some time .
official sources told the excelsior that a request for information ( rfi ) for purchasing the rifles which should have a range of at least 1 . 8 kilometers with a calibre of 12 . 7 mm / 0 . 50 , has been issued . the light weight rifles will boost operational capabilities of the troops both along the borders as well as hinterland .
“the light weight rifle was a long pending demand of the army . earlier also , the process had been initiated to procure this weapon by floating the request for information . however , the previous efforts didn’t materialize due to varied reasons . this time , the process to purchase the weapon would be set into motion after may 15 when the deadline for request of information will be over , ” they said .
“the ammunition which should be available for the rifles include armour piercing incendiary and tracer , saboted light armour penetrator , armour piercing explosive incendiary and high explosive armour piercing incendiary , ” sources said , adding all these requirements have been made cleared in the request for information floated by the army headquarters .
the interested manufactures have been asked to respond to the rfi by may 15 . the procurement of the anti - materiel rifles has been long overdue after the government had scrapped a deal for it in 2005 .
at present , the army is using south african weapons which are not very light and that is why , it was decided to procure the lightweight rifles whose weight will not be more than 15 kg each . south african firm denel was banned by the then upa government in 2005 after allegations that it had paid kickbacks to secure a deal with the indian army in 2002 to sell 1 , 000 ntw - 20 anti - materiel rifles , along with 3 , 98 , 000 rounds of ammunition .
under the deal , 700 rifles were to be purchased directly and the remaining 300 license - produced in one of the factories of india’s state - owned ordnance factory board . only 400 rifles had been inducted into the army and the remainder put on hold after the 2005 blacklisting .
an anti - materiel rifle ( amr ) is a rifle that is designed for use against military equipment ( materiel ) than against enemy troops .
as per the rfi , in case of foreign vendors , the army asked them to explain whether they will be ready to offer transfer of technology ( tot ) to the indian industry for licensed manufacturing of the weapons . they have also been asked as to whether tot will be offered for sub - systems . the manufacturers have also been asked to give details about cost of annual maintenance , product support package and training of the crew .
state - run ordnance factory , in association with the defence research and development organisation ( drdo ) , had developed an anti - materiel rifle called ` vidhwansak’ in 2007 . the rifle was offered to the indian army but it chose not to induct it due to weight issues . sources pointed out that the army was in search of very light weapons , which would be easy to carry and operate by the army jawans .
ccording to sources , the defence ministry was very keen that the army requirements for the frontiers as well as the hinterland are met expeditiously and it was in this context that global request for information has been floated to purchase the light weight rifles .
sources said the army is confident of getting encouraging response globally for the light weight rifle .
bangladesh prime minister sheikh hasina arrived in india on a four - day visit on friday . during the trip she will hold wide - ranging talks with her indian counterpart , prime minister narendra modi , who was at the airport to receive her as a special gesture .
during hasina ' s visit , which is her first after modi assumed office in 2014 , the two sides will sign at least 25 pacts in various key sectors including civil nuclear cooperation and defence but any agreement on the teesta water sharing is unlikely to be inked .
modi and hasina , who is staying at the rashtrapati bhawan , will hold comprehensive discussions on saturday . india is also set to announce a line of credit of $ 5 billion to bangladesh for military supplies .
apart from a
courtesy call on
by external affairs minister sushma swaraj , hasina ' s schedule on friday included events at the bangladesh high commission .
officials said ,
it will be a visit without water” , indicating that a pact on teesta river waters is not on the cards .
the central government will not go ahead with the agreement on teesta without taking west bengal chief minister mamata banerjee on board and she has been opposing it stridently citing water crisis in the state .
however , the two sides are looking at inking a framework agreement on civil nuclear energy which will provide for extensive cooperation in the sector including setting up of nuclear reactors in bangladesh by india .
it will be a very special visit . we hope the visit will take the ties between the two countries to new level ,
sripriya ranganathan , joint secretary in the bangladesh - myanmar division of the external affairs ministry told reporters .
on the teesta pact , she said the “agreement remains work in progress . . . we have not reached a closure on it .
the teesta deal was set to be signed during the then prime minister manmohan singh ' s visit to bangladesh in september 2011 , but was postponed at the last minute due to objections by mamata banerjee .
teesta water is crucial for bangladesh especially in the leanest period from december to march when the water flow often temporarily comes down to less than 1 , 000 cusecs from 5 , 000 cusecs .
issues like combating terrorism , containing radicalism and enhancing security cooperation between the two countries are likely to figure prominently , besides stalemate over the teesta pact during talks between modi and hasina .
the west bengal chief minister has accepted an invitation by the government to attend the launch of some projects between the two countries as well as a lunch to be hosted by modi in honour of hasina .
on the agreements , ranganathan said another pact on formalising regular defence engagements will also be signed . to boost trade , the two sides are likely to announce setting up of another set of trade facilitation huts along the borders in the northeastern region .
hasina will visit ajmer on sunday and will meet indian business leaders on monday .
minister of state for heavy industries and public enterprises babul supriyo is the minister - in - waiting for the bangladesh pm .
a total of 48 military aircraft and 21 helicopters were lost to crashes since 2011 in which 79 people were killed , the government told lok sabha today . for a country that features among the world ' s top five defence spenders , armed forces personnel losing lives in crashes and malfunctioning machines is a stark irony .
a total of 48 military aircraft and 21 helicopters were lost to crashes since 2011 in which 79 people were killed , the government told lok sabha today .
replying to a question , minister of state for defence subhash bhamre said all such incidents and accidents are thoroughly investigated and preventive actions taken based on probe reports . the figures bear a stark reminder to a report by a parliamentary panel that slammed the ‘ad - hocism’ , and the ‘casual and lackadaisical’ approach of the government in allocating inadequate amounts for the defence budget .
the ministry of defence ( mod ) has asked public sector company hindustan aeronautics limited ( hal ) to ramp up production , speed up existing under - development projects and start out - sourcing work for light utility helicopters ( luh ) and light combat helicopter ( lch ) . hal , produces some 22 - 24 advanced light helicopters ( alh ) , the dhruv , annually and some 200 of these are flying .
the requirement is huge . the armed forces have projected the need for some 700 helicopters . the three armed services need 484 of the luh - type to replace cheetah / chetak fleet of helicopters for which the army requires 259 , iaf 125 and navy around 100 such helicopters equipped with anti - submarine warfare ( asw ) capabilities . the army and the iaf need some 180 attack helicopters . the coast guard and other paramilitary forces have their own requirements which are nearly 100 copters .
the mod wants hal to produce up to 85 - 90 copters per annum of these three types – the dhruv , luh and lch . hal is making a 5 . 5 - tonne - class lch , which is currently under development and undergoing weapons integration . prototypes of the lch and the lch are ready but need operational clearance . out - sourcing of some work had been suggested on the lines of global manufacturing practices .
some 100 copters – are needed annually to meet the needs of the three armed forces , the central armed police forces , the coast guard and smaller friendly nations . while hal continues to be a major player , some of the production can be given to a selected private partner .
israel has been supplying india with various weapons systems , missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles over the last few years , making india one of israelâ€™s largest buyer of military hardware .
israel aerospace industries has been awarded a $ 2 billion indian military hardware deal , considered to be “the largest defense contract in israel’s defense industries’ history . ”
iai announced on thursday that it has signed a mega - contract worth more than $ 1 . 6 billion to provide advanced medium - range surface - to - air missiles ( mrsams ) to the indian army . the balance of some $ 400m . in contracts has been awarded to rafael advanced defense systems .
according to iai , the mrsam provides the “ultimate protection against a variety of aerial threats . ” it was jointly developed for the indian army by iai and india’s defense research and development organization ( drdo ) in collaboration with rafael and iai / elta . several indian companies and other private vendors also took part in its development .
in its existing version , mrsam is operational with the indian air force , indian navy and israel defense forces . the system includes an advanced phased - array radar , command and control , mobile launchers and missiles with advanced active radar radio frequency ( rf ) seekers , the company said .
iai will also supply additional long - range surfaceto - air missile ( lrsam ) air and missile defense systems for indian aircraft carriers .
iai president and ceo joseph weiss stated : “over the past 25 years , iai has worked with the indian defense industries and armed forces in many areas as part of our strategic partnership . the current contracts represent an enormous expression of confidence by the government of india in iai’s capabilities and advanced technologies . ”
weiss added that “this contract award also recognizes the professionalism of all of israel’s defense industries . we at iai are proud to be leading this flagship project after a long and joint development process . ”
president reuven rivlin spoke with weiss and congratulated him on the signing of the deal with india . according to rivlin’s office , the two men spoke about the foundations for the deal during rivlin’s visit to india four months ago and of the importance it played in strengthening the aerospace industry in israel .
the deal comes three months before indian prime minister narendra modi is due to arrive in israel for a state visit . his visit , which will coincide with the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations , comes at a time when the arms trade between the two countries is growing .
in june , more than 50 indian defense companies will be showcased at the isdef exhibition in tel aviv , at the largest national pavilion at the exhibition .
in february , ahead of the aero india exposition in bengaluru ( bangalore ) which saw over a dozen israeli companies showcasing their military technology , the defense ministry’s international cooperation director , brig . - gen . ( res . ) michel ben - baruch , said there has been a “strengthening of cooperation between israel and india in many fields” in recent years , with the most prominent area being defense technology .
israel has been supplying india with various weapons systems , missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles over the last few years , making india one of israel’s largest buyers of military hardware . over the last five years , bilateral non - defense trade between the countries has averaged $ 4 . 6b . per annum and defense trade has seen annual sales worth more than $ 1b .
india is one of the largest importer of arms , with a 14 % share in global imports between 2011 and 2015 , according to the stockholm international peace research institute . after russia and the united states , israel is the largest source of key defense equipment for india as well as in other areas , such as agriculture and water management .
dynamatic technologies signed a cooperation agreement with magal security systems ltd . this new cooperation aims to answer the indian increasing market demand for high - end security products and solutions for critical infrastructure , among other , to provide combined integrated border management solutions ( cibms ) aimed to address the challenges in securing our borders .
magal s3 has unique experience in perimeter security technolog ies and complex technological security projects , among other , defending israel ' s borders , whilst dynamatic technologies has been a partner of indian defence and security establishment for over 3 decades .
udayant malhoutra , ceo & managing director of dynamatic technologies commented .
we intend to bring in smart perimeter and security management technologies that include intrusion detection and prevention on a real time basis . these technologies will be offered to military establishments to prevent infiltration by terrorists . additionally , these systems can be used to secure ports , airfields , industrial buildings , commercial establishments and other critical assets across the country . this furthers
dynamatic ' s initiatives to successfully indigenise critical military industrial capabilities under the national
make in india
program . magal s3 has unparalleled knowledge and experience in integrated border security and we are excited to be working jointly with them .
saar koursh , ceo of magal - s3 commented ,
we are very pleased with this cooperation . we are confident that this cooperation will enable us to increase our presence in the indian security and hls market , eventually position ing ourselves , together with dynamatic as first choice turn - key contractors and solution providers for indian governmental and private sector customers . we are confident that combining dynamatic and magal - s3 proven technological capabilities , past experience and knowledge of the indian market , will benefit both - dynamatic and magal - s3 . last but not least , we were pleased to learn that both managements share sim ilar set of values , a factor that will most likely increase synergy and anticipated cooperation .
india is putting in place a comprehensive defense mechanism to shield its airports against potential terror attacks after an assessment that extremist groups might choose soft targets , such as
vulnerable
public installations and aviation hubs .
the federal civil aviation ministry , which directly owns most of the airports through its operational arm , has asked the central industrial security force ( cisf ) to prepare the security plan . cisf , raised in 1969 and a part of india ' s central armed police force , is responsible for security at many of india ' s civil aviation centers .
the home ministry has put airports on the list of installations that are ' vulnerable ' to terror attacks . a counter - terrorism plan would list all that is required to be done , in the case of a terror attack and prepare airports against terror attacks . we have asked cisf to prepare that report ,
said an official in the aviation ministry .
a counter - terror plan will list out the standard operating procedures in the event of a terror attack at any of our airports . there are 98 operational airports in india , of which 26 are categorised hypersensitive . of the 56 airports categorised as sensitive , cisf manages 37 , while the rest are managed by the respective state police .


across the plains is a 1939 american western film directed by spencer gordon bennet and starring addison randall , frank yaconelli , and joyce bryant .

written by robert emmett tansey , the film is about two brothers who are separated when they are young and who meet again as adults , one good and one bad .

across the plains ( 1939 film )

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flynn is first shown as a union captive in libby prison , from which he and companions escape , later to be assigned to travel across the plains and thwart the conspiracy by which the confederacy hoped to come in possession of all that gold from the nevada hills . miriam hopkins is a singer in a virginia city saloon and travels west on the stage with flynn . she is a rebel spy , fresh from a meeting with jeff davis . there’s the romance .
savage indian attacks . . . ambush by renegade white men . . . jack ; s six - guns take their toll as he blasts his way across the untamed prairie ! ( original poster )
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it’s about the cache of $ 5 million in gold bullion which confederate sympathizers are reported to have offered to the cause of the southern states during the civil war . the catch , of course , is how to get the gold out of nevada and through union scouting lines .
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this film received its earliest documented telecasts in new york city tuesday 21 september 1948 on wcbs ( channel 2 ) , in philadelphia tuesday 20 september 1949 on frontier playhouse on wptz ( channel 3 ) and in los angeles saturday 22 october 1949 on ktla ( channel 5 ) .
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on the theory , perhaps , that one good western deserves another , warner bros follows up dodge city , starring errol flynn , with another saga of the land of the blazing sunsets entitled virginia city . as a shoot ’em up , the picture is first class ; as a bit of cinematic history telling , it is far short of the possibilities indicated by the title and cast .
on the theory , perhaps , that one good western deserves another , warner bros follows up dodge city , starring errol flynn , with another saga of the land of the blazing sunsets entitled virginia city . as a shoot ' em up , the picture is first class ; as a bit of cinematic history telling , it is far short of the possibilities indicated by the title and cast .
on the theory , perhaps , that one good western deserves another , warner bros follows up dodge city , starring errol flynn , with another saga of the land of the blazing sunsets entitled virginia city . as a shoot ’em up , the picture is first class ; as a bit of cinematic history telling , it is far short of the [ … ]
two young brothers are separated when their wagon train is attacked and their parents killed . one brother cherokee is raised by indians and the other , the kansas kid , by the outlaw gang leader buff . twenty years later they unknowingly meet again when the kid goes after wagons being guided by cherokee .
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en route , the stage is held up by john murrell , outlaw , who is really humphrey bogart behind a slick - waxed mustache . there’s the chase .
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a group of strangers , including a drunken doctor , a pregnant army officer ' s wife and an embezzling bank clerk , embarks on a dangerous journey across hostile territory . they are joined by an outlaw , falsely accused of murder , who helps them when a sioux war party attacks . remake of john ford ' s western , with bing crosby and ann - margret .
there ' s some stuff about the long - lost brothers finding each other . . . but that ' s all in the backseat to some pretty standard b - western stuff . it ' s very low budget and the star , addison randall is very forgettable .
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michael curtiz , the director , has taken all this and steamed it up with some noisy trigger work , charging cavalry , dance - hall intimacies and the burning sands of the desert to concoct a bustling western , which is replete with action , although short on credulity .
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and in virginia city is randolph scott , secretly planning the removal of the gold , which is to be taken south in a wagon train . scott also is much in love with hopkins , who leans heavily towards flynn . she betrays flynn into a trap , thus placing patriotism ahead of love . there’s the drama .
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holy woods racism against native americans is also very apparent throughout . an 8 - year - old at the beginning says
pa told me i ' d get to shoot some indians !
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production : warner . director michael curtiz ; producer hal b . wallis ( exec . ) ; screenplay robert buckner ; camera sol polito ; editor george amy ; music max steiner ; art director ted smith
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yelling to the sky is a 2011 american drama film written and directed by victoria mahoney .

the film premiered in competition at the 61st berlin international film festival , were it competed for the golden bear .

yelling to the sky

zoe kravitz plays a teen at a crossroads in ‘yelling to the sky . ’
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join gabourey sidibe from “precious , ” imagenation cinema foundation and the film society of lincoln center for a special screening of yelling to the sky .
in the world of
yelling to the sky ,
good intentions run up against tough reality . and neither turns out to be exactly what we thought .
yelling to the sky is all id . a visceral trip that hits you in the mouth from its opening frames , and grips onto you , unrelentingly until the cathartic close .
the film sincerely strives for emotional maturity , but without a discernible narrative , comprehensible character motivations , or a thematic thread to latch onto , “yelling to the sky” merely whimpers with unfocused gloom .
and , as another aside , speaking of precious , one noteworthy factoid ; correcting what we all believed when it was made public that she had a role in the film , gabourey sidibe actually got the part in yelling to the sky before most of us even knew about lee daniels’ adaptation of sapphire’s novel . we long believed that gabourey’s participation in yelling to the sky was due in some part to her performance in precious . not quite the case .
subscribe to trailers : urltoken subscribe to coming soon : urltoken yelling to the sky official trailer # 1 ( 2012 ) - gabourey sidibe , zoe kravitz movie hd as her family falls apart , seventeen year old sweetness o ' hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain .
this is what i related to and why – despite its flaws – i’m so thankful for yelling to the sky . i may be a white woman and i may not have made the same choices sweetness made , but it showed me i wasn’t alone . it felt cathartic watching .
yelling
is a prosaic look at a hard life . like sweetness , the movie finds its way by instinct .
what i came to realize , hours after i first screened the film , was that , the initial unexplainable reaction i felt in watching it , was more akin to numbness – a numbness that was brought on by the assault on the senses and emotions that yelling to the sky is ; but that’s actually a good thing , so stay with me here for a little bit .
writer - director victoria mahoney’s film aims for rawness , shining a harsh spotlight on an underprivileged teen’s desperate search for parental acceptance and personal dignity . but “yelling to the sky” is a mess . it’s a structural shambles , as if the bleakest footage from the o’hara family home videos were cut - up , shuffled , and blindly spliced back together without rhyme or reason . it’ll have you yelling in exasperation .
movie reviews - ' yelling to the sky ' - a queens chronicle that ' s a little too lifelike writer - director victoria mahoney marries her experiences as a biracial woman to the drama of an unstable family in y elling to the sk y . critic mark jenkins says the film , which stars zoe kravtiz as a troubled teen , struggles to build convincing relationships among its disadvantaged characters .
austin — an elliptical portrait of at - risk youth where little if anything is unambiguous , victoria mahoney ’s yelling to the sky drips with a strange but sometimes moving nostalgia for environs its characters clearly want to escape . its artful indirectness leaves enough gaps to present commercial difficulties , but the right kind of attention on the fest circuit could support an art - house run .
new yorkers ! you should feel privileged to have all of the cool events and showcases right at your fingertips . victoria mahoney’s yelling to the sky is screening tomorrow , august 25th at lincoln center’s walter reade theatre . the director and gabourey sidibe will be in the house and you’ll be treated to some yummy bites from whole foods to keep you going . you may remember seeing the trailer that we posted here back in april , and now is your chance to see the story unfold in person .
sure , some people may find yelling to the sky bleak or hopeless . it’s heartbreaking to watch sweetness spiral out of control . sweetness clamors to escape , to break free . yet there’s nowhere to go . echoing real - life , the film ends with ambiguity and uncertainty . you don’t know how her life will turn out . sweetness’ story – her struggle to survive amidst the chaos swirling around her , desperate to cling to any semblance of community – is one worth telling . and it’s one we don’t see often enough .
yelling to the sky struck a visceral chord with me . i related to it in a way i often don’t with films . i’m not a biracial woman growing up impoverished , who turns to selling drugs as a means of survival . but i grew up with an absent father and a single mother struggling with mental illness , feeling trapped by my surroundings , desperate to break free .
all this leaves little for the actors to play—they are only directed to scowl , glare intensely at the ground , and occasionally cry . meanwhile , the camera lingers on a pot of gravy , or hands at the dinner table , or just the sky , in a misguided attempt to impart importance to the mundane . as sweetness casually dishes drugs to neighborhood kids , the schizo music shifts from indie guitar strumming to hardcore hip - hop . are we in “dawson’s creek” or “girlz n the hood” ?
the ambitions of indie coming - of - age drama “yelling to the sky” must be admired . set within a violent , lower - class suburb , it explores how a fractured home life nearly destroys teenager sweetness o’hara ( zoë kravitz ) . with a verbally and physically abusive dad ( jason clarke ) , a mom ( yolonda ross ) made comatose by depression , and peers ( including gabourey sidibe ) who routinely beat her to a pulp , sweetness decides the only way to survive is to deal drugs .
the movie includes several fistfights , a shooting and a drug bust , plus a shoplifting montage that crackles with teenage recklessness . like the hip - hop tunes that punctuate the alt - pop and faux - classical soundtrack , these moments provide lively counterpoint . they also foreshadow showdowns and comeuppances that never quite arrive . perhaps the clearest evidence that yelling to the sky is based on mahoney ' s own life is that the movie lets its most troubled characters off pretty easy .
yelling to the sky is a searing portrayal of one girl’s pain . of her frustration at being confined and trapped in a world not her choosing . sweetness doesn’t focus on her education or her future . she deals with the immediacy of her pain . she starts selling drugs as a way to make money . she numbs herself with drugs , alcohol and surrounding herself with a cadre of bullies and drug dealers . sweetness desperately yearns to escape . but where to ? where can she go ?
with zoe kravitz playing a character named sweetness and gabourey sidibe in a supporting role , street - chastened , queens - set coming - of - ager “yelling to the sky” will be hard - pressed to avoid comparisons to “precious . ” truth be told , writer - director - producer victoria mahoney’s semi - autobiographical debut feels like a cup - half - full response to that bleak inner - city fable , with a stunningly beautiful fair - skinned black teen [ … ]
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and given the roller - coaster of emotions the 90 - minute yelling to the sky is , from one extreme to another , the numbness i felt immediately after seeing the film made total sense ! but that’s obviously a personal response than a universal one . i tend to “shut down” after experiencing something so intense – or as i already deemed it , an assault on the senses . call it a defense mechanism . it’s like you’ve been emotionally “exposed” by a piece of art , as it’s able to force itself inside of you , and reach places that you’d normally keep shielded . and thus , the immediate reaction there is to create this wall that’s meant to keep the “intruder” ( the film ) out . hence , the numbness / shutting down .
while light - skinned biracial and black women possess privilege , they may also face a backlash and be deemed not “ black enough . ” while the jarring opening scene of yelling to the sky certainly alludes to this , it is never explored further . instead , the film resorts to racial stereotypes : “ dark ( er ) - skinned black people are mean and like to victimize light ( er ) - skinned black people , ” “girls / teenagers / women who are “authentically” black are bad” and “interracial relationships are dysfunctional . ”
in time , despite the violence and its threat , sweetness flounders into a sense of self in a movie that can feel as if it’s undergoing a similar painful metamorphosis . “yelling to the sky” can be frustrating , especially when sweetness takes up with some mean girls from school . as an outsider wanting in , her motivations feel true , but ms . mahoney’s ideas about her and this movie are fuzzier .
the vision of a pregnant woman beating a man until he’s bloody is hard to shake , and it’s the kind of startling , punctuating image that speaks to ms . mahoney’s strengths in this film . “yelling to the sky” is at once a coming - of - age story and a kitchen - sink drama , mostly though , it’s a mood piece and suggests the influence of filmmakers like terence davies and charles burnett . not much happens in story terms , but the film swirls with emotions that make it by turns grim and amusing , heavy and light , obvious and vague .
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but the moment snaps into focus when another woman , ola , raging and yelling , begins beating the man attacking sweetness , climbing on his body to punch him again and again as the crowd surges excitedly around them . when this fury is finally pulled off the attacker , her pregnant belly juts out , defiant as a fist .
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sweetness o’hara , the quiet teenager at the center of the american independent movie “yelling to the sky , ” lives in a small house that seems even smaller when her father is raging through it . as played by the young actress zoë kravitz , sweetness moves through life like a leaf in the wind . she drifts and scatters and at times gets caught underfoot , including by a gang of local bullies . every so often , though , she faces down a more frightening , confusing antagonist , her father , gordon ( jason clarke ) , a violent drunk whose menace overruns his erratic charm .
the actress and director both love the genre , but as they told indiewire , they also knew it needed to be retrofitted to tell the true story of catherine weldon and sitting bull .
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news 8 showed the video to robert ellsworth , former u . s . ambassador to nato and a former deputy secretary of defense .
firefighters spent the day working to get full containment of the west fire which was at 92 percent containment with 505 acres burned , according to the last update from cal fire san diego . but the number of structures destroyed has tripled to 56 including 34 homes . news 8 ' s monique griego reports from alpine outside what use to be the home of a couple who lived in the area for decades .
this overall trajectory is familiar enough , delivering close brushes with prison and death — the two fates that surely await should sweetness continue on this path . but “yelling” unfolds rather listlessly , feeling like a much longer film than it is , due to curious editing choices that , among other things , make it virtually impossible to track how much time passes between the disconnected moments , and the fact that mahoney favors impressionistic fragments over scenes that power the story forward .
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as fire lines were established monday around 92 percent of the fire that swept through eastern alpine , the confirmed number of structures lost in the blaze jumped to 57 .
the magnificent images were captured from the kcbs chopper around 5pm . the location of the missile was described as west of los angeles , north of catalina island , and approximately 35 miles out to sea .
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on my subway ride home , almost immediately , i thought about miles davis , and the organic , experimental approach he used in creating some of his music – notably an album like bitches brew , which was recorded in just three days . the story goes… wiithout any notice , nor giving them any idea of what they were going to be working on , davis summoned the musicians who contributed to the compilation , and , while in the recording studio , they were typically given very few instructions – mostly suggestions as to mood and tone , with his intent being to essentially force the musicians to pay very close attention to one another , to their own performances , and to miles davis’ cues , all of which could change at any moment , without notice .
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when her mother abruptly leaves the scowling gordon , new burdens face sweetness . to survive , she turns to drug dealing before gradually coming ' round to college as an option . while a well - meaning school counselor ( tim blake nelson ) tries to help her make up for a missed sat opportunity , sweetness has to rely on steeliness , and her own sense of savvy and spunk , to fight her way out of her life .
characters transform ; those perceived to be weak , find strength ; and the strong prove to be just as vulnerable . lessons are learned often after extremes , and everyone isn’t exactly who they present themselves to be ( or who we , the audience might instinctively classify them as ) .
for the new york city - based recent graduate of nyu’s tisch school of the arts , little accidents has traveled to numerous festivals , including sundance and the seattle international film festival where it won the grand jury prize for narrative short .
based on the 1980 film xanadu , the musical xanadu opened on broadway in 2007 .
kravitz approaches the change matter - of - factly , offering little outward hint of the character ' s motivations ; some viewers will be frustrated by an inability to identify with the character , while others will embrace the opaqueness as unsentimental realism .
to be heard is the story of three teens from the south bronx whose struggle to change their lives begins when they start to write poetry . as writing and reciting become vehicles for their expressions of love , friendship , frustration , and hope , we watch these three youngsters emerge as accomplished self - aware artists , who use their creativity to alter their circumstances .
elsewhere , the film isn ' t averse to sentiment , portraying even deeply flawed characters in a nearly noble light , particularly the drug dealer ( tariq trotter ) who spreads his money around the neighborhood charitably .
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ms . mahoney opens the story with a spasm of abrupt , unsettling violence that sets an uneasy mood that endures for the run of the movie . sweetness and another teenager are bicycling on an otherwise peaceful street when a gang descends and grabs the girls , knocking them to the ground . it’s a confusing scene , with bodies thrashing inside the frame , partly because the who , what and where of the frenzy are as yet unknown .
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as sweetness , kravitz has to undergo a major transformation with practically no help from the script : when her pregnant big sister runs off , she undergoes an identity crisis and deliberately chooses to become a harder person — convincing a local drug dealer to help her start dealing and recruiting two identically dressed bad girls to form a tiny but tough gang .
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and it’s that same “unboxed” thinking that makes the film a challenge . like the mercurial nature of its characters , it’s just not - so easily classified . tonal shifts are sometimes jarring , and it may at first feel chaotic , but you’ll soon come to realize , as i did some time after the screening , it’s a controlled , contained chaos , if that makes sense . although another way to think about it , is taking into consideration that the unpredictability and uncertainty you feel in watching the film is exactly how you should feel , because victoria does a wonderful job creating the universe zoe kravitz’s sweetness o’hara lives in , both the physical and the psychological . hers is indeed a volatile , chaotic world , so , the fact that i was able to genuinely empathize is a credit to the film and all the talents involved in its making .
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when sweetness’s parents aren’t cuddling each other , her father drinks to excess and her mother fades into muteness , like a woman being erased . she later disappears , perhaps to an institution . as for sweetness , she unpersuasively tries to play a bad girl .
is the film perfect ? no it definitely falters at times . i wish we had learned more about each of the characters . it feels very much like a snapshot , a voyeuristic peek through the window into their messy and complicated lives . just when you’re lured in , the window abruptly closes . but the biggest flaw ? i wish it had more deeply explored the issue of race without resorting to stereotypes .
“stemming from my teenage obsession with chekov’s three sisters and a connection to the theme of “manufacturing illusions in order to sustain day to day life . ” i related on a gut level to the notion of joy and opportunity , existing elsewhere while in the same breadth knowing it was a lie . the illusion of “one day it’ll be different” is what kept me alive and smashing that illusion might’ve been my death . putting this film out is important because ( yet another generation of ) young people are facing the exact same isolation , confusion , neglect , inquiry , desire , and heartache . all these years later , there’s little to no progress or solution . adults have become freakishly focused on ‘self’ , so much so , that we’re failing our responsibilities to participate and aid in the development and advancement of young people’s spiritual and intellectual growth . ”
zoë kravitz was no stranger to the glamorous world of hollywood as a child . she was born in los angeles to a famous couple : her father is musician lenny kravitz , and her mother is actress lisa bonet . . . .
a painful history of colorism and skin shade hierarchy — dark vs . light skin — exists amongst black women . when the media portrays black women , we often see women with lighter skin , straighter hair and more caucasian features . both l’oreal and elle photoshopped black to make their skin appear much lighter . the media often whitewashes black women , continually perpetuating the unachievable attainment of the white ideal of beauty . “ the myth of black beauty ” and the preference for lighter black skin can be traced back to slavery .
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sparrow songs is scheduled to conclude october 2010 . as for what’s next , jablonski will only say , “we’re going to make a feature documentary together as sparrow songs . we’re looking for a producer , and we hope to be shooting this fall . ” — s . m .
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my childhood existed of treacherous terrain to navigate . my mother was preoccupied by her own problems . i never knew what i was walking into when i went home . so i focused on the future . i clung to the hope that one day things would be different . that was the sole reason i survived . it’s the one thing that kept me going . while my mind was fixated on the future , my actions were grounded in the present . like sweetness , i skipped classes and almost didn’t graduate high school for i wanted to numb my pain . it’s this delicate dance of present angst and future hopes that mahoney captures so well .
their goal was to make as many films as they could over the course of a semester , resulting in 14 shorts . ella and the astronaut played festivals all over the world , and charlie and the rabbit premiered at sundance 2010 . the collaboration is just that : after conversations about an idea , they talk each scene out on location , switching up who is filming and who is directing based on a feeling of the moment . both share editing duties .
it’s a rare occurrence that a film is able to create a world that’s so vivid and raw that i’m sucked in and totally immersed in it , experiencing every moment as if i really am right there with the characters – so immersed that when the film ended , it was only then that i realized how involved i was , which lead to the disorientation i felt .
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while i was disappointed the film didn’t explore mother - daughter relationships , it does show the bonds of sisterhood . the relationship between sweetness and ola is my favorite part of the film . we see the girls joke , play , challenge and comfort one another . both rely on one other for support . ola leaves home to live with her boyfriend , leaving sweetness to fend for herself alone . but she’s not the only one trapped . months later , ola must return home with her baby , now a single mother . her dreams of escape nothing but nebulous memories .
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and it’s this kind of “unboxed” approach to cinema that i find appealing . fuck safety . take some risks . i’d more readily applaud a film that challenges the expected order of things and fails ( not that this one does , by the way , but just to make a point ) , than one that simply repeats formula mechanically . the phrasing i’ve heard used is “assembly line cinema . ”
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sara colangelo’s little accidents is one of the more arresting shorts on the festival circuit at the moment , both immediate and restrained in its tale of a woman working in a massachusetts soda drink factory who fears that she’s become pregnant . she recruits her mentally disabled ex - boyfriend to shoplift a pregnancy test for her and bonds again with him as she struggles with what to do . “i was interested in the juxtaposition of two people , one of whom is recently disabled and trying to reintegrate himself into society and who is the stable one , and the other a woman who may be pregnant and who is spinning out of control , ” colangelo says . “and i was interested in the factory setting , which is almost a metaphor for motherhood . through the course of the short , you slowly realize that these people have a past , and that they dated once . i’m always interested in withholding information from the audience . it becomes more interesting for them that way ; it gets their wheels turning . ”
the result is inevitably didactic , but also poetic in its choice of seemingly nonessential details , as in a scene that finds sweetness helping her father stitch up a bleeding head wound . these moments , like the colorful , cluttered house sweetness inhabits , feel lived - in enough to be lifted directly from mahoney’s own experience and promise to linger in our memories long after the occasional awkwardness involved in conveying them onscreen is forgotten .
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smith , who appeared as “rent’s” outgoing mimi on broadway , embodies what dignity looks like in this dead - end environment , but sweetness has bigger aspirations , turning to drug dealing and petty crime to modestly improve her quality of life . at school , counselor coleman ( tim blake nelson ) spots the signs of trouble and tries to steer sweetness straight , but such lessons only can be learned firsthand — and so kravitz takes her character through a remarkable transformation from delicate introvert to self - possessed street thug .
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needless to say , “monetization” is indirect . says jablonski , “at least two times a week i get an e - mail from a random stranger saying , ‘thank you for making these films . they give me a lot . ’ but the big - picture benefit is that michael and i have developed a great friendship , and that friendship is what’s allowed the project to continue . ”
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after working off - off broadway , mahoney went to l . a . , did a number of pilots , a few european films , and a season of seinfeld ( she played gladys mayo , owner of the clothing store putumayo ) . but then there were all those “ridiculous films i did to sustain myself . and that’s when i began to feel [ artistically ] ungratified . so , i slipped into writing . i went to cubby — that’s what we called hubert selby , jr . , who taught the masters program at usc . he gave me a skill set for writing instead of my [ previous ] fantasy of being a writer . ”
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continuing , colangelo says , “we have so much material . one of the film’s arcs deals with john , the older brother . he’s had musical failures , going from band to band and not having them work out . suddenly he puts his younger brother in a band and it starts getting all of this attention . but the film is also about mortality . bill has had two heart surgeries , and john , who wasn’t that close to him early on , worries he doesn’t have much time left with him . ”
but the point here is that central characters definitely aren’t 2 - dimensional “coming of age” movie cut - outs . they are alive , fully realized human beings , all on personal journeys , trying to make sense of the world around them , and really just find some stability amidst the chaos – the non - fleeting kind ; a need that i think is universal . the saying goes that we’re all alike , and when life throws daggers our way , we become interested in one thing and one thing only – our own survival , by any means necessary .
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in a scene that takes place inside the office of a teacher at the high school zoe’s sweetness o’hara attends , a poster hanging on what may have been a wall ( although that’s irrelevant ) read something like , “ character is who you are… ” and in smaller letters , “ when nobody is watching . ” those may not have been the exact words , but close enough . the sentiment is the same and understood .
the nyu film grad counts spike lee , the walking film - directing brand and dean of black cinema himself , as a mentor , influence and friend , but he also name checks paul greengrass , clint eastwood and 2003 25 new face seith mann as influences . “i respect those who have a voice , who speak up , who have something to say , ” he said . his upcoming film , produced by night catches us producer ron simons , is about “a puerto rican family in the bronx whose father returns home from prison after three years to discover that his teenage son is gay / transgender , and the drama that ensues . ” look for it on the festival circuit next year . — brandon harris
character motivations lack scene - to - scene sense . why does sweetness’ sister ( antonique smith ) strangle sweetness for wrecking her car in one scene , then warmly laughs with her while washing dishes the next ? when sweetness chats with her guidance counselor about college , did they forget last week’s coke binge ? what’s the point of sweetness’ father’s constant entrances and exits ? and what about the murdered dude ? the film is less about a dysfunctional family and more a study of dysfunctional storytelling .
sweetness’ unpredictable father gordon ( jason clarke ) vacillates between affectionate charisma and volatile violence and rage . he verbally and physically abuses every woman in the household . he tries to make amends for his deplorable parenting later in the film . but since he’s caused so much trauma , it might be too late for forgiveness .
because of the film’s insistent funereal pace , forgive me for chuckling when sassy bully gabourey sidibe gets dragged by her hair across the school hallway by tiny , vengeful zoë kravitz .
seeped in realism , the naturalistic performances from the cast , including star zoe kravitz , are dynamic – vigorous and purposeful ; active and changing . nary a sequence is wasted .
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the knowledge that these are not just disparate short films but rather installments in a time - based project gives sparrow songs a quiet gravity . the project began when jablonski , who graduated from ucla film school in 2009 , heard about a friend , musician john wood , who was releasing an album a month . “i thought that was such a cool discipline , ” he says . jablonski’s narrative short blue boy had been playing festivals , including tribeca , and he was doing the rounds of meetings . “i realized that [ industry projects ] take a long time , ” he says . “i wanted to do something where i wouldn’t have to ask permission to either make it or show it . ”
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as her family falls apart , seventeen year old sweetness o ' hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain .
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17 - year - old sweetness o’hara ( zoe kravitz ) has arrived at the first of several life changing forks in the road . being the daughter of mixed race parents in a less than tolerant community , she lives with an alcoholic and intermittently abusive father , and a mother suffering from a mental illness , the exact nature of which sweetness is unsure . her protective older sister , ola , is pregnant , with no support from the child’s father . yet , with all this chaos enveloping her , sweetness takes her life into her own hands in a neighborhood where to become an adult , you first must survive as a teenager .
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since graduating , they have made two seasons of their web series american nobodies , short films profiling people in small towns . this may result from growing up in small towns — machoian in king city , calif . ( “6 , 000 when i was there” ) , and ojeda - beck in davis , calif . , where his parents relocated to from peru . for ojeda - beck , “growing up in a small town requires you to look , to see . ”
summary : sweetness ( zoë kravitz ) is a good girl–gone–bad who is suffering with teen angst that ranges from racial identity issues t0 bullying to drugs and more .
set in queens but with no specific geographical references ( and few rooting it to any definite time period ) , the movie focuses on a mixed - race home in which two girls , sweetness ( zoe kravitz ) and ola ( antonique smith ) , are raised by a white father — alcoholic and prone to abuse , but caring when sober — and a black mother afflicted with mental - health issues we never understand .
“this project has been like what musicians call ‘woodshedding , ’” says alex jablonski about his collaborative venture with michael totten , sparrow songs . “we are finding our voice , trying out different styles , and learning so much . ” adds totten , “in the past i’ve let this idea of ‘i don’t have the right money or equipment or subject matter’ prevent me from moving forward . sparrow songs has taught me to get rid of the idea of perfection because it doesn’t exist . ”
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in closing , as i already said , i think this is a film that demands a second viewing for a number of reasons . it ends in almost a similar fashion as it begins , still with an uncertainty of what will come of these characters , despite the cathartic moment that was the very last scene . in essence , i felt like i “interrupted” the lives of these people , spent about 90 minutes with them , although the film takes place over several months , immersed in this chaotic world they exist in , and then almost abruptly left in the same manner in which i entered it . they lived before i met them , and they will continue to live after i left them , however unstable that living might be .
a native of australia , jason clarke has come a long way from his sheep sheering days as a child , graduating from the university of melbourne , victorian college of the arts in 1994 . after graduation , . . .
all the actors give stellar performances in this emotionally raw and gritty film . zoe kravitz in particular captivates with a nuanced , powerful performance as the smart , struggling sweetness o’hara , trying to survive in a whirlwind of turmoil . sweetness and her older sister live in a troubled home with unstable , unreliable parents : their white father , an alcoholic and their african - american mother who suffers from mental illness .
sweetness overhauls her look , trading girly clothes for makeup and gaudy gold jewelry . ( at 22 , kravitz already looks a bit too mature for the role , but is right in so many other ways , it’s best not to quibble . ) her new identity is more independent and assertive , as sweetness breaks away from her dysfunctional family to form a clique of her own , including drug dealer roland ( tariq trotter , who confidently embodies the unlikeliest of role models ) and two of latonya’s former groupies ( shareeka epps and sonequa martin , playing friends so tight they clone one another’s wardrobes ) .
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we don’t see enough female protagonists , women of color in film or female filmmakers of color . we don’t see enough films exploring issues of gender and race . and we should . in an interview , mahoney ( a promising new filmmaker who is certainly one to watch ) shared her inspiration for the film :
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clarke , whose hirsute , semi - hulking appearance hides an appealingly snide villainy , lets just enough charm and vulnerability show within gordon ' s jerkiness . gadibe seems to be coasting , now that we ' ve seen how funny and sly she can be in
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yet she and the rest of the cast find an honest , just - gritty - enough groove that never panders or preaches .
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in a sense , this degree of personal investment compensates for something lacking in kravitz’s otherwise star - making performance . there’s no denying the actress’ beauty , but apart from that , she never really demonstrates what sets sweetness apart from other girls trapped in similar straits , something narration might have solved . mahoney , on the other hand , was clearly driven by a genuine creative gift , and escaped such restraints to unleash this affecting cri du coeur .
mahoney said she wanted to evoke feelings of claustrophobia when sweetness spent time at home . and she succeeds beautifully . you feel just as trapped as sweetness , chained by loneliness , fear and desperation . when she’s out in the streets , it feels frenetic with drunken stupors , drive - by shootings and drug deals gone wrong .
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colangelo is midway through another project , a documentary . “i heard a story on npr one morning about this band , bill , ” colangelo says . “the older brother is the manager , and he put his younger brother , bill , who has down syndrome , in as lead singer . my younger brother has down syndrome , so their process was fascinating to me . i gave them a call and they let me spend a lot of the summer of ’08 with them , sitting in on recording sessions , following them around when they perform . i think disability is talked about a lot when people are younger and going through special needs schools , but when they’re older it feels like they’re forgotten about . they fall off the grid . ”
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i’ve intentionally not revealed any of the film’s plot because i actually think it’s somewhat irrelevant in this case ; if you haven’t figured it out by now , based on all i’ve already said , it’s not a film that’s interested in telling the expected linear narrative . there is a story there , don’t get me wrong – one that i could probably summarize in one sentence ; but the film lives on another level .
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