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Is There Life After Death? Experts Vie To 'Cut Through The Noise'
It is a question that we humans cannot help but ponder… what happens to us when we die?
A group of international researchers, neuroscientists and therapists will join psychologists and health practitioners this weekend at the ‘Australian Afterlife Explorers Conference’ in Melbourne to grapple with the dying question.
The conference has been designed to challenge perceptions of how we view death and how we best live out our lives.
“From a psychological point of view, people would like to have a feeling of assurance that in the end — when you pass away — things don’t just stop; that there is a greater purpose in life,” neuroscientist Vladimir Dubaj told The Huffington Post Australia.
“There are also physiological suggestions that consciousness might survive outside of the body.”
Over three days, speakers and attendees will discuss the link between afterlife science and spirituality — a field attracting research that sets to challenge both mainstream science and sceptics.
“…Scientists sadly often ignore and ridicule reports of strange phenomena from those who have approached, and in some cases gone beyond, the threshold of death … even though such experiences have a profound effect upon those who undergo them,” conference organiser Mick Turner said in a statement.
Dubaj — also the founder of The Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research — will present his most recent findings on ghost and hauntings research. He says science and spirituality are not mutually exclusive, and can be blurred to understand the correlation between an individual experience’s of the afterlife and their living environment.
“It is important to take a step back and say, ‘I acknowledge that something is occurring and I want to understand what conditions this phenomenon manifests.'”
But he calls for a grounded analysis and understanding of research.
“What I would like to do is inform the general public to be critical of the evidence that is put to them…to see the genuine phenomena through the noise –because there is generally a lot of noise in the data,” said Dubaj.
“Mainstream science and sceptics alike want to dismiss the phenomena, and by doing that, you’re sweeping a lot of useful information under the carpet.”
Whether you’re a believer or a sceptic, this is certainly food for thought. Australia – The Huffington Post
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'Cut Bank' opens in its namesake
Screenwriter Roberto Petino chats with Matt Overstreet in the lobby of the Glacier Theater in Cut Bank just before the opening credits to the premiere of his movie “Cut Bank” on Friday evening.(Photo: TRIBUNE PHOTO/RION SANDERS)
CUT BANK – For screenwriter Roberto Patino, the premiere of his film “Cut Bank” in the town that inspired it was “surreal.”
The western noir film starring Liam Hemsworth, Billy Bob Thornton and John Malkovich tells the story of a young man who sees an opportunity to get out of the small town that stifles him using a method outside the law.
The idea for the film’s plot came much later than the inspiration for its setting.
Patino was around 14 when he rode through Cut Bank on a road trip with his parents. The Miami, Fla., kid was amazed at the huge football field on Main Street and the fact that kids could play on large stretches of grass. It was the late ’90s, and Patino’s parents loved driving through national parks. This year, Glacier was on their to-do list.
That drive through Cut Bank made a lasting impression on the young Patino, who was just figuring out that he might want to get into the film industry as a writer. His parents, who were more interested in dollars and cents, didn’t fully support Patino’s dreams.
“You know how lasting memories, they are about the place and the thing you’re remembering, but I think you remember them because they’re about the time in your life that are salient,” said Patino, who has worked on shows like “Sons of Anarchy” and “Prime Suspect” and is currently a writer for a new show called “The Bastard Executioner,” developed by “Sons of Anarchy” creator Kurt Sutter.
That time and that place stuck in his mind for years, so when he was ready to write the film about Dwayne McLaren, who witnesses a murder and tries to profit from the crime, it seemed natural to set the film in the Hi-Line community.
“I developed what became the basis of ‘Cut Bank’ and felt that this place, this place in my head that I had driven through all those years ago that stuck with me all those years, felt like a very organic place for me to set a story like that,” Patino explained.
On Friday, The Cut Bank Area Chamber of Commerce hosted two special screenings of the film with Patino as a guest. As Cut Bank residents streamed through the doors of Glacier Cinema to view the film on the big screen, some expressed bemusement about the entire situation.
“It’s a real neat experience,” Cut Bank Mayor Doug Embody said.
Embody said he hasn’t seen any effects of the film yet, but the economic impact of a film can be difficult to measure, according to Nik Griffith, public relations and multimedia coordinator with the Montana Film Office.
But the Cut Bank Area Chamber of Commerce is hoping to capitalize on the movie, which is entering wide release after premiering at the Los Angeles and Toronto film festivals last year.
Amy Overstreet, executive director of the chamber, said it’s early for film tourism to have an effect on the community of around 3,000, but that it’s a possibility once the film goes into wider distribution.
Overstreet hopes that the film may lead people to enter Glacier National Park from the east side — Cut Bank is about 45 minutes from the East Glacier entrance — to see the penguin, a replica of which is part of the film, and maybe stop to have lunch.
Or, as Embody put it, how will Cut Bank become a Fargo, N.D., which also had a film, and now TV series, named after it.
A sticking point for residents of Cut Bank is that the penguin in the film is indeed a replica. “Cut Bank” was filmed in Innisfree, Alberta, instead of the Glacier county seat.
According to Patino, that decision was a heartbreaking one for him and director Matt Shakman.
The short answer for why the film was shot in Alberta and not Cut Bank is money, Patino said.
As he and Shakman worked to get the cameras rolling on the film (Said Patino: “It was a series of heartbreaks and definite highs. Literally a month before the project was shooting we didn’t even know if we were going to get the money to film it.”), they learned that they could get a film grant in Alberta in which their budget of $ 2.5 million would be matched through the Edmonton Film Commission.
With a $ 5 million dollar budget, they could hire actors like Hemsworth and Thornton, and now the film would happen.
“Suddenly our diehard and fervent plea to film it in Cut Bank was kind of falling on deaf ears,” Patino said.
Now that the dust has settled, Overstreet thinks many of the town’s residents are excited their town is being featured in a film.
Nancy Light and Marilyn Lotvedt came together to see a film whose genre, which gives a nod to 1970s thriller, is one neither usually watches. But they were excited to see the film nonetheless.
“It’s Cut Bank, and we’re proud to be from Cut Bank,” said Light.
The film can be viewed on mediums like Netflix, but neither Light nor Lotvedt had seen it yet. They had heard good reviews from family members.
Wearing T-shirts with Cut Bank’s penguin on the front, Light and Lotvedt had their picture taken with a person in a penguin suit before going down to the theater to watch.
Glacier Cinemas manager Don Grubb said there has been interest in the film, which will continuing screening at normal theater hours for a week.
“It’s pretty crazy right now,” Grubb said. Behind him, employees of the theater served big bags of popcorn and pop to ticketholders.
But whether the film will continue to sell out the theater is anyone’s guess.
“I really don’t know what to expect,” he said.
Following the film’s two Friday screenings, Patino participated in a question-and-answer with the audience, an experience he looked forward to.
“It’s just a dream come true,” he said.
Outside the theater, Cut Bank’s Main Street is quiet on a Friday evening. The real-life town that inspired the film exists in much the same way it did in 1999 when the 14-year-old Patino first traveled through. What impact the film may have on the town remains to be seen. In the meantime, Patino hopes, its residents will find an escape and in the film, while he basks in the joy of seeing his project come to fruition.
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'Cut Bank' opens in its namesake town
Screenwriter Roberto Petino chats with Matt Overstreet in the lobby of the Glacier Theater in Cut Bank just before the opening credits to the premiere of his movie “Cut Bank” on Friday evening.(Photo: TRIBUNE PHOTO/RION SANDERS)
CUT BANK – For screenwriter Roberto Patino, the premiere of his film “Cut Bank” in the town that inspired it was “surreal.”
The western noir film starring Liam Hemsworth, Billy Bob Thornton and John Malkovich tells the story of a young man who sees an opportunity to get out of the small town that stifles him using a method outside the law.
The idea for the film’s plot came much later than the inspiration for its setting.
Patino was around 14 when he rode through Cut Bank on a road trip with his parents. The Miami, Fla., kid was amazed at the huge football field on Main Street and the fact that kids could play on large stretches of grass. It was the late ’90s, and Patino’s parents loved driving through national parks. This year, Glacier was on their to-do list.
That drive through Cut Bank made a lasting impression on the young Patino, who was just figuring out that he might want to get into the film industry as a writer. His parents, who were more interested in dollars and cents, didn’t fully support Patino’s dreams.
“You know how lasting memories, they are about the place and the thing you’re remembering, but I think you remember them because they’re about the time in your life that are salient,” said Patino, who has worked on shows like “Sons of Anarchy” and “Prime Suspect” and is currently a writer for a new show called “The Bastard Executioner,” developed by “Sons of Anarchy” creator Kurt Sutter.
That time and that place stuck in his mind for years, so when he was ready to write the film about Dwayne McLaren, who witnesses a murder and tries to profit from the crime, it seemed natural to set the film in the Hi-Line community.
“I developed what became the basis of ‘Cut Bank’ and felt that this place, this place in my head that I had driven through all those years ago that stuck with me all those years, felt like a very organic place for me to set a story like that,” Patino explained.
On Friday, The Cut Bank Area Chamber of Commerce hosted two special screenings of the film with Patino as a guest. As Cut Bank residents streamed through the doors of Glacier Cinema to view the film on the big screen, some expressed bemusement about the entire situation.
“It’s a real neat experience,” Cut Bank Mayor Doug Embody said.
Embody said he hasn’t seen any effects of the film yet, but the economic impact of a film can be difficult to measure, according to Nik Griffith, public relations and multimedia coordinator with the Montana Film Office.
But the Cut Bank Area Chamber of Commerce is hoping to capitalize on the movie, which is entering wide release after premiering at the Los Angeles and Toronto film festivals last year.
Amy Overstreet, executive director of the chamber, said it’s early for film tourism to have an effect on the community of around 3,000, but that it’s a possibility once the film goes into wider distribution.
Overstreet hopes that the film may lead people to enter Glacier National Park from the east side — Cut Bank is about 45 minutes from the East Glacier entrance — to see the penguin, a replica of which is part of the film, and maybe stop to have lunch.
Or, as Embody put it, how will Cut Bank become a Fargo, N.D., which also had a film, and now TV series, named after it.
A sticking point for residents of Cut Bank is that the penguin in the film is indeed a replica. “Cut Bank” was filmed in Innisfree, Alberta, instead of the Glacier county seat.
According to Patino, that decision was a heartbreaking one for him and director Matt Shakman.
The short answer for why the film was shot in Alberta and not Cut Bank is money, Patino said.
As he and Shakman worked to get the cameras rolling on the film (Said Patino: “It was a series of heartbreaks and definite highs. Literally a month before the project was shooting we didn’t even know if we were going to get the money to film it.”), they learned that they could get a film grant in Alberta in which their budget of $ 2.5 million would be matched through the Edmonton Film Commission.
With a $ 5 million dollar budget, they could hire actors like Hemsworth and Thornton, and now the film would happen.
“Suddenly our diehard and fervent plea to film it in Cut Bank was kind of falling on deaf ears,” Patino said.
Now that the dust has settled, Overstreet thinks many of the town’s residents are excited their town is being featured in a film.
Nancy Light and Marilyn Lotvedt came together to see a film whose genre, which gives a nod to 1970s thriller, is one neither usually watches. But they were excited to see the film nonetheless.
“It’s Cut Bank, and we’re proud to be from Cut Bank,” said Light.
The film can be viewed on mediums like Netflix, but neither Light nor Lotvedt had seen it yet. They had heard good reviews from family members.
Wearing T-shirts with Cut Bank’s penguin on the front, Light and Lotvedt had their picture taken with a person in a penguin suit before going down to the theater to watch.
Glacier Cinemas manager Don Grubb said there has been interest in the film, which will continuing screening at normal theater hours for a week.
“It’s pretty crazy right now,” Grubb said. Behind him, employees of the theater served big bags of popcorn and pop to ticketholders.
But whether the film will continue to sell out the theater is anyone’s guess.
“I really don’t know what to expect,” he said.
Following the film’s two Friday screenings, Patino participated in a question-and-answer with the audience, an experience he looked forward to.
“It’s just a dream come true,” he said.
Outside the theater, Cut Bank’s Main Street is quiet on a Friday evening. The real-life town that inspired the film exists in much the same way it did in 1999 when the 14-year-old Patino first traveled through. What impact the film may have on the town remains to be seen. In the meantime, Patino hopes, its residents will find an escape and in the film, while he basks in the joy of seeing his project come to fruition.
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Review: 'Cut Bank,' Looking to Escape a Small Town and Its Eccentrics
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Teresa Palmer and Liam Hemsworth in “Cut Bank.” Credit A24 Films
The comic neo-noir “Cut Bank” is a far cry from the TV series “Fargo,” whose mixture of the zany and surreal this film strains to recapture right down to featuring two of that show’s stars, Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Platt. The previous credits of its director, Matt Shakman, include the last two episodes of “Fargo.”
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Cut Bank is a small Montana town of around 3,000 residents that welcomes visitors with an oversize plaster penguin announcing it is the coldest spot in the United States. This movie’s smart-aleck rehash of much better films by the Coen brothers and David Lynch looks down at Cut Bank as a town of yokels and eccentrics whose misplaced sense of civic pride is embodied by that penguin. Another cheap shot is a clumsy ear-grating performance of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” at the annual Miss Cut Bank pageant. The comedy comes fitfully alive when Bruce Dern, in a glaring, teeth-gnashing performance as a crazy coot, is on the screen. His character, Georgie Wits, is the larcenous, not-so-friendly mailman in a town crawling with kooks. Foremost among these loonies is Derby Milton (Michael Stuhlbarg), a recluse with a stammer and Coke-bottle lenses, who on his rare appearances in town, surprises the locals by his very existence. More than once, he hears the exclamation, “I thought you were dead.” Derby, when riled, can be quite vindictive. Another, less extreme eccentric is the straight-arrow sheriff (John Malkovich), who carries around a rabbit’s foot and is so leery of violence that he vomits at the sight of gore.
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A scene from the film.
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The bodies begin to topple when an apparent murder takes place in the background while Dwayne McClaren (Liam Hemsworth), a young mechanic, is shooting a video in which his sweetheart, Cassandra (Teresa Palmer), extols the charms of Cut Bank. (Dwayne is desperate to escape town with Cassandra, whose stern father is played by Mr. Thornton.) In the distance behind Cassandra, Georgie’s mail truck appears, followed by a vehicle whose driver shoots him.
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Bruce Dern in “Cut Bank.” Credit A24 Films
The central problem with “Cut Bank” is a screenplay by Roberto Patino that never achieves comic liftoff despite an abundance of facetious humor. Mr. Platt’s character describes the state capital, Helena (unnamed in the film), as “dirty, stressful, angry, lonely, corrupt and expensive,” then adds, “I love it.” In a running joke that lands with a thud every time it’s repeated, Derby obsesses about a package whose delivery was pre-empted by the shooting.
“Cut Bank” has the bumpy momentum of a vehicle jouncing along on a rutted country road. It is up to its fine cast to build what little sense of mystery is conjured and to bring a sense of coherence to a narrative mishmash that is all smirking attitude with no subtext. Think of it as a goof.
“Cut Bank” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Violence and language.
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'Cut Bank' movie trailer teases tense thriller
Actors Liam Hemsworth and Teresa Palmer in a production still for the film “Cut Bank.”(Photo: Courtesy/A24)
The trailer for the film “Cut Bank,” set in the Glacier County seat but filmed in Canada, is making the rounds on the Internet, with an April release planned.
The film was viewed at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival in 2014. The Hollywood Reporter in its review for the film called it “the sort of copycat, self-consciously comedic violent noir of which there were far too many at the Sundance Film Festival in the years after the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino strode onto the scene.”
However, the quality of the film’s cast, which includes Liam Hemsworth, John Malkovich (who, during a break from filming in Canada actually paid a visit to the real Cut Bank), Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Pratt, has recommended it since production was announced.
The director of “Cut Bank” is Matt Shakman, who directed the TV series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
The trailer that’s available for viewing online indicates the film is a crime thriller, with Hemsworth playing Dwayne McLaren, a young man who accidentally films a murder and sets out to profit from the evidence.
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