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THE CLICKER Friday’s highlights on TV include: After weeks of culinary throw-downs on “MasterChef Junior,” the young contestants see how it all pans out in tonight’s finale. The
winner gets a trophy to leave behind in their bedroom when they go away to college, and a $100,000 prize to pay for college. 8 p.m., Fox. From Herald news services
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Friday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2016. There are 337 days left in the year. Today’s highlight: On Jan. 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. On this date: In 1820, Britain’s King George III died at Windsor Castle. In 1843, the 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, was born in Niles, Ohio. In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union. In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk. In 1936, the first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, New York. In 1956, editor-essayist H.L. Mencken, the “Sage of Baltimore,” died at age 75. In 1958, actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married in Las Vegas. In 1964, Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear war satire “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb” premiered in New York, Toronto and London. The Winter Olympic Games opened in Innsbruck, Austria. Actor Alan Ladd, 50, died in Palm Springs, California. In 1975, a bomb exploded inside the U.S. State Department in Washington, causing considerable damage, but injuring no one; the radical group Weather Underground claimed responsibility. In 1990, former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood went on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges stemming from the 1989 oil spill. (Hazelwood was acquitted of the major charges, and convicted of a misdemeanor.) In 1995, the San Francisco 49ers became the first team in NFL history to win five Super Bowl titles, beating the San Diego Chargers, 49-26, in Super Bowl XXIX. In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.) Associated Press
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PARK CITY, Utah — Gun violence was on the minds of more than a few filmmakers this year. The ongoing issue was the main subject of four new films at the Sundance Film Festival — two feature documentaries (“Newtown,” “Under the Gun”) one short documentary, “Speaking is Difficult,” and one feature, “Dark Night.” The wave of films dealing with essentially the same subject — mass shootings in America — is both a coincidence and an indicator that the filmmaking community is engaging with the national consciousness. “We don’t program films based on ideas we have of what issues we want to spark conversations about at the festival. We respond to the films,” said Trevor Groth, Sundance’s director of programming. “Those films stood out to us because of the way they were made and the power within them.” Sundance founder Robert Redford echoed Groth’s sentiments, joking that if they did seek out certain issues to spotlight, he’d make sure there would be lots of environmentalist films. But he also sees why the gun issue is so urgent for filmmakers. “Guns, of course, are a big issue,” Redford said. “It’s not just going to sit there because the deaths keep coming. It’s going to keep rising up and rising up and it’s going to get heated and I think there
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Producer Maria Cuomo Cole (left) and director Kim A. Snyder pose for a portrait Sunday to promote the film, “Newtown”, at the Toyota Mirai Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
will be some resolve of some kind. I think it’s time.” “Speaking Is Difficult” director AJ Schnack believes the multiple films were borne out of frustration and a feeling of powerlessness. “I think it’s great that filmmakers are addressing this topic and are going to come at it from a bunch of different perspectives,” Schnack said. “It gives people permission to ignite those conversations in their communities and with their families and elected officials.” Here’s a look at the various ways filmmakers tackled the subject:
“Newtown” Director Kim Snyder goes deep into the community of Newtown, Connecticut, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings where 20 children and 6 educators were murdered. In her documentary, Snyder explores the lives of those affected by the tragedy — the parents of children who were killed, parents of children who survived, Sandy Hook teachers, local law enforcement, religious leaders, and even a volunteer EMT. “I didn’t really have any big agenda,” Snyder said,
other than showing the community truthfully. “But, as (Sandy Hook parent) David Wheeler says, the people who have the most motivation to allow that intrusion of a camera are people who, as he said, feel compelled to say something or do something that might prevent another town or family from having to go through this.”
“Dark Night” “Dark Night” is the sole narrative feature in the bunch, and deals with a mass shooting in a Florida suburb. The not-so-oblique title references the Aurora, Colorado, massacre of 2012 during a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” “It starts with the massacre in Aurora,” director Tim Sutton said. “There was something that happened to the movie theater that day. The movie theater became unsafe. It became corrupted, possibly forever. I felt as a filmmaker a responsibility to try to touch on this theme.”
“Under the Gun” Katie Couric and director Stephanie Soechtig (“Fed Up”) returned to Sundance with a sweeping overview of guns in America — melding jawdropping stats (like how
gun stores outnumber Starbucks and McDonald’s combined in the U.S.), historical perspective (how the NRA used to stay out of politics), and emotional accounts from the families of the deceased (including mothers in Chicago and the brother of a girl killed in Aurora). They also speak to a variety of progun advocates, from those who support background checks to those who scoff at the idea. “Even people who’ve been immersed in this issue for years told us they learned some things from the film,” Couric said. “I was surprised how the NRA’s tentacles spread so far and wide and how the organization has its finger prints on so many things.”
“Speaking Is Difficult” “Speaking is Difficult” may never be finished. The short documentary is a living film, meaning every time there is another mass shooting, director AJ Schnack and his team will update it. He’d submitted a rough cut of the film to Sundance months ago and had to update it twice since then as new events occurred. Schnack’s film shows the locations of the shootings, as they exist now, overlaid with 911 calls from the event. “It’s becoming almost a ritual where an event happens, there is a level of outrage for a few days and then as it gets further away it recedes and we go through it again,” Schnack said. “The events were starting to become like echoes of previous events.” Schnack found the nownormalcy of the settings quite striking. “A lot of the locations have returned to being the same place — a restaurant, a salon, a school,” he said. “People walk past as if nothing has happened.”
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