So
the emergence of a film like Grassroots is surprising and welcome.
Not exact matches
Signs,
like M. Night Shyamalan's previous two
films The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, is virtually impossible to talk about without spoiling something, with the
film undoubtedly faring best among viewers with little foreknowledge
of the plot (which follows Mel Gibson's former preacher as he investigates the
emergence of a huge pattern in his crops).
The
emergence of the campus underground, coupled with the establishment
of film co-operatives
like Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, London
Film Co-op, the Intermedia
Film Co-op (Vancouver), and the Independent
Film Makers Co-op (Montreal), allowed an effective system
of distribution to develop; this network
of parallel co-ops also helped to establish lines
of communication between filmmakers in different parts
of the country who would otherwise not have had means
of contact.
When one considers
films tagged as queer, one probably first thinks
of provocations: perhaps the
films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Germany in the 1970s; or the aesthetic austerity measures imposed by Derek Jarman in England throughout the 1970s and»80s; or the quiet
emergence of the New Queer Cinema movement in the U.S. in the»80s and its explosive continuation into the»90s, when filmmakers
like Gregg Araki and Todd Haynes and Kimberly Peirce and Rose Troche were taking no prisoners.
Producer Wyck Godfrey says the Gears
of War
film will follow the events
of Emergence Day and the ensuing 48 hours, and that «it's more
like Cloverfield or something
like that» instead
of «people just in battle», focusing on the survival aspect
of E-Day.