Daily Archives: March 18, 2021

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Rose Plays Julie explores the flipside to the happy reunion between a mother and the child she put up for adoption.

There are tears of a different kind when Rose, a university student raised happily in an adopted family, forces a meeting with her less-than-interested birth mother.

The Cleveland Institute of Arts Cinematheque is streaming the psychological suspense thriller starting March 19.

Also beginning March 19, Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee, the Capitol and Chagrin Cinemas) and the Cinematheque are screening fun French comedy Perfumes.

Director Grgory Magnes new film about a haughty, diva-esque fragrance designer and her down-on-his-luck new driver stars Emmanuelle Devos and Grgory Montel Rose (Call My Agent!).

Virtual screening rooms continue to offer movie lovers a safe way to view first-run films online during a pandemic. Half the proceeds from the virtual films go back to the local theater. Costs vary for each film, which is accessible for either 48 or 72 hours.

Heres a look at new and current films streaming this weekend through Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas:

Eyes Without A Face

Presented as part of the 2021 Cleveland Humanities Festivals theme of Identity, Georges Franjus 1960 film Eyes Without A Face is a surrealistic nightmare about a mad surgeon who kidnaps beautiful young women with the intention of transplanting their faces onto his disfigured daughter. (Cinematheque)

The Fever

Acclaimed documentarian Maya Da-Rin makes her feature film debut with The Fever about a middle-aged indigenous widower working as a security guard in a Brazilian industrial city who yearns for his Amazonian rainforest roots. (Cinematheque)

Perfumes

If youre in the mood for something light, fun and foreign, French comedy Perfumes will check all of the boxes. Director Grgory Magnes new film about a haughty, diva-esque fragrance designer and her down-on-his-luck new driver stars Emmanuelle Devos and Grgory Montel Rose (Call My Agent!). (Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas)

Rose Plays Julie

Rose Plays Julie explores the flipside to the happy reunion between a mother and the child she put up for adoption. However, there are tears of a different kind when Rose, a university student raised happily in an adopted family, forces a meeting with her less-than-interested birth mother. The result is a psychological suspense thriller including hidden truths involving larger themes like identity. (Cinematheque)

Wojnarowicz: F**K You F*Ggot F**Ker

AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz is the subject of Chris McKim new documentary Wojnarowicz: F**K You F*Ggot F**Ker. The film profiles the queer, downtown New York City artist, writer and photographer who during the 1980s AIDS epidemic weaponized his work and waged war against the establishments indifference to this plague. (Cinematheque)

Acas, My Home

Acas, My Home tells the poignant and poetic story of a Romanian family with nine children living off the grid for nearly two decades in the Bucharest Delta who must move to the city after their home becomes part of a new nature preserve. Radu Ciorniciucs documentary has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (Cinematheque)

Another Round

Booze is good is the simplistic premise put to the test of four unhappy high school teachers in new film Another Round. Director Thomas Vinterbergs (The Celebration) comedy-drama finds the characters testing out a prominent psychologists theory that human beings would be more creative, happier and relaxed with a constant level of alcohol in their blood. (Cinematheque)

Blizzard of Souls

The horrors of war reach new depths in the Blizzard of Souls, which is Latvias official submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Aleksandrs Grns that was banned in the Soviet Union for 60 years, the detailed historical drama follows a wide-eyed teens journey from farm boy to hardened WWI soldier. (Cinematheque)

Brooklyn Castle

A decade after its premiere -- and perhaps capitalizing on The Queens Gambit popularity -- the Emmy Award-nominated Brooklyn Castle is getting re-released. The documentary features five chess team members from an inner-city junior high school, which has won the most national championships. (Cleveland Cinemas)

Collective

Recently named Romanias official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2021 Academy Awards, Alexander Nanaus gripping documentary Collective delves into the fallout from the Bucharest 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire, which killed or injured more than 200 people. Weaving together accounts from whistleblowers, newspaper reporters, government officials and burn victims, the impressive piece of investigative journalism uncovers deadly corruption within Romanias healthcare industry. (Cinematheque)

Coming Home Again

Director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing and The Joy Luck Club) based his new film Coming Home Again on a New Yorker essay about a first-generation Korean-American man who returns to his San Francisco home to care for his ailing Korean mother. (Cinematheque)

Falling

Academy Award-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen makes his directorial debut in new film Falling, which finds a headstrong and independent father -- struggling with early stages of dementia -- forced to leave his rural farm and stay with his son in Los Angeles. The drama stars Mortensen, Lance Henriksen and Laura Linney. (Cleveland Cinemas)

Food Club

Foodies will enjoy Danish film Food Club, which follows three mature women -- girlfriends since elementary school -- who find their lives transformed when they take a cooking course in Italy. (Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas)

F.T.A.

Obscure documentary F.T.A. was the lefts answer to Bob Hopes USO tours. Filmed during the height of the Vietnam War protests, the recently-restored movie documents Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and a troupe of entertainers traveling stateside and through Southeast Asia presenting an anti-war musical-comedy revue to soldiers. (Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas)

The Good Traitor

During WWII, Henrik Kauffmann was Denmarks ambassador to the United States. Director Christina Rosendahl brings his story to life in new feature film The Good Traitor. When the Danish government surrendered to Nazi Germany in 1940, Kauffmann, who was living in Washington, D.C., declared himself the only true representative of a free Denmark. (Cinematheque)

Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman

Known as the father of the American Arts and Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) designed and manufactured furniture, published The Craftsman magazine and founded Craftsman Farms, which is a forerunner to the farm-to-table movement. Herb Stratfords new documentary Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman includes interviews and archival materials. (Cinematheque)

Identifying Features

Director Fernanda Valadezs impressive film debut, Identifying Features, which won an Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, revolves around a Mexican mother trying to discover the fate of her adolescent son who left home to cross the U.S. border. The suspenseful drama has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (Cinematheque)

The Inheritance

Based on his experiences in a West Philadelphia radical collective, filmmaker Ephraim Asilis newest project is The Inheritance. Honoring generations of pioneering Black writers, musicians and radicals, the comedy revolves around an African-American man who opens his recently inherited grandmothers house to artists and activists. (Cinematheque)

Just Dont Think Ill Scream

Director Frank Beauvais eclectic debut movie, Just Dont Think Ill Scream, is a collage film that strings together clips from B-movie and 70s horror flicks to create a tortured monologue to mirror the filmmakers post-breakup blues. (Cinematheque)

Keep An Eye Out

Cult director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber and Deerskin) is back with his own unique, bizarre and absurd take on 1970s police procedurals. The dark comedy Keep An Eye Out stars Benot Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog). (Cinematheque)

Lost Course

Chinese documentary Lost Course chronicles a fishing villages eight-year journey toward a grassroots democratic movement. While ousted local officials were illegally selling land, the newly elected officials turned out to be just as corrupt. (Cinematheque)

Mafia Inc

Despite the fact the Mafia movie genre has been poked and prodded to death, every now and then theres a fresh take. This is the case with the brand new Mafia Inc, which is set in Montreal and based on a true story. The Sicilian-mafia drama -- which stars veteran Italian actor-writer-director Sergio Castellitto -- has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (Cinematheque)

M.C. Escher: Journey To Infinity

Robin Lutzs new documentary M.C. Escher: Journey To Infinity delves into the life and legacy of Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, whose surreal, psychedelic bland-and-white drawings bridged the worlds of art and mathematics. The film includes surviving family members with Graham Nash providing voice over. (Cinematheque)

Meeting the Beatles In India

In 1968, Paul Saltzman -- who was studying transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- unexpectedly crossed paths with the Fab Four. Now the Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker has turned this experience into new documentary Meeting the Beatles In India, which is narrated by Morgan Freeman and includes never-before-seen personal photos. (Cinematheque)

Minari

Director Lee Isaac Chungs Minari, which stars Steven Yeun (Walking Dead), is a touching, tender, semi-autobiographical work about a Korean immigrant family that relocates from California to a farm in rural Arkansas during the 1980s. Currently boasting a 99 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is the winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at last years Sundance Film Festival. (Cinematheque)

My Little Sister

The official Swiss submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film is My Little Sister, which has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The drama finds a once brilliant playwright -- who no longer writes -- returning to her craft when her famous stage actor twin brother is diagnosed with leukemia. (Cinematheque)

Nasrin

Jeff Kaufmans new documentary Nasrin spotlights Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is currently a political prisoner serving a 38-year sentence. The portrait of the Iranian human rights lawyer -- who has fought for the rights of women, children, LGBT prisoners, religious minorities, journalists, artists and death row inmates -- is narrated by Olivia Colman and features interviews with filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and journalist Ann Curry. (Cinematheque)

Night of the Kings

Night of the Kings tells the harrowing story of a new arrival at an Ivorian prison who in an attempt to stay alive must spin an all-night tale. Director Philippe Lactes newest movie is Ivory Coasts official submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film category. (Cinematheque)

The People vs. Agent Orange

New documentary The People vs. Agent Orange explores how the toxic chemical was employed as a defoliant during the Vietnam War, as well as how it continues to be used by the American timber industry today. The film focuses on the crusade of two women -- an American and French resident -- trying to stop the use of Agent Orange, which causes deformities, disabilities, disease and death. (Cinematheque)

The Reason I Jump

Winner of the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, The Reason I Jump follows five autistic people from around the globe who lack the ability to speak. Jerry Rothwells documentary is based on the acclaimed book by Naoki Higashida. (Cleveland Cinemas)

Ruth: Justice Ginsburg In Her Own Words

For those fans of Ruth Bader Ginsburg who dont feel its soon after her death last year, Freida Lee Mock has a documentary for you. Ruth: Justice Ginsburg In Her Own Words tells the improbable story of how Ginsburg -- who couldnt get a job despite tying first in her graduating law class and making Law Review at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools -- became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. (Cleveland Cinemas)

Songs My Brothers Taught Me

While director Chlo Zhaos third feature film Nomadland is currently attracting Oscar buzz, her 2015 debut, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, is worthy of viewing. Shot on location in South Dakotas Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the film provides insight into troubled Native American life while following two teens who react differently to the death of their rodeo father. (Cinematheque)

Stray

Elizabeth Los imaginative new film Stray is a mostly wordless documentary that follows a stray dog living in Istanbul alongside other homeless canines, as well as Syrian refugees. In addition to the feature, theres an exclusive Q&A with Lo. (Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas)

Test Pattern

Shatara Michelle Fords debut feature, Test Pattern, taps into the Zeitgeist touching upon everything from health care inequities to the #MeToo movement to policing and race in America. The award-winning feature focuses on the relationship between a young Black woman and her white boyfriend as he drives her in search of a rape kit after she is sexually assaulted by another man. (Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas)

Til Kingdom Come

Director Maya Zinshteins new documentary Til Kingdom Come explores the unlikely ties between an impoverished coal-mining town in Kentucky and Israel. Specifically, the film follows the Bluegrass State pastors and their Evangelical congregants who believe the Jews are crucial to Jesus return. (Cleveland Cinemas)

To the Ends of the Earth

Director Kiyoshi Kurosawas (Cure and Pulse) latest project is the black comedy To the Ends of the Earth, which stars J-pop icon Atusko Maeda. A Japanese TV reporter takes her travel show to Uzbekistan, where while searching for a mythical fish her life quickly unravels into a self-discovery journey. (Cinematheque)

The Tunnel

For those folks looking for a different type of disaster movie, Norways The Tunnel could be the answer. The high-concept film followers Christmas travelers trapped in a tunnel due to a tank truck explosion. Naturally, a raging blizzard hinders the arrival of first responders. (Cinematheque)

Two of Us

Frances official submission for the 2021 Oscar for Best International Feature Film is Two of Us, which follows two elderly women who have been neighbors -- as well as secret lovers -- for decades. Their decision to relocate to Rome and live openly is met with unexpected consequences. Viewers can view a pre-recorded, post-film discussion between writer/director Filippo Meneghetti, star Barbara Sukowa and international film icon Isabelle Huppert. (Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque)

True Mothers

Japans official submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film is True Mothers, which is a heart-wrenching story about a married couples struggle to keep their adopted child after his birth mother arrives in the picture. (Cinematheque)

What Happened Was

Tom Noonans directorial debut, What Happened Was, which won the top prize at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, was recently restored. The film depicts the awkwardness associated with first dates when two lonely co-workers spend an uneasy Friday night together. (Cinematheque)

Women Composers

After realizing her repertoire consisted almost exclusively of music composed by men, Leipzig pianist Kyra Steckeweh began searching for pieces written by women. The result is new documentary Women Composers, which is receiving an apropos release date during Womens History Month. Steckeweh discusses the music and lives of Frances Mel Bonis and Lili Boulanger, as well as Germanys Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. (Cinematheque)

You Will Die At Twenty

Billed as a coming-of-death fable, You Will Die At Twenty -- which is Sudans first-ever official submission for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film category -- is about a Sudanese boy who as an infant was prophesied to live for only two decades. Obviously stigmatized by the prediction, the child must overcome ridicule and an over-protective mother in order to live life to the fullest. (Cinematheque)

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By any estimation, the Woody Allen business looks like its in terrible shape. The 85-year-old filmmaker was further ostracized by the industry when Allen v. Farrow, the four-part HBO series from directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, resurrected sexual assault allegations leveled against him by his daughter Dylan Farrow. Now, as the finale of Allen v. Farrow reverberates, some may assume that Allen has no path forward to keep making movies.

He does, of course. Pushback wont faze him hes got a decade of it under his belt nor will box-office ignominy, as his career has more of that than success. What about an entertainment industry thats actively hostile toward financing the small, specific, not-inexpensive dramas that he makes? Thats irrelevant: While hes intractable about the movies he makes, Allen appears to be infinitely flexible when it comes to financing and perhaps more than any major filmmaker working today doesnt care about what happens to his films after hes made them.

As Allen v. Farrow points out, Allens pariah status in the U.S. bears similarities to convicted rapist Roman Polanski, whose An Officer and a Spy won Frances Cesar Award for Best Film almost exactly a year ago. Like Allens latest film, Rifkins Festival, it has yet to secure U.S. distribution. With #MeToo pushback expanding across Europe, disgraced artists who once found sympathetic crowds abroad now look more vulnerable.

However, because Allen was never convicted of a crime and even the Allen v. Farrow allegations allow the filmmakers defenders to maintain their line of defense there is more leeway for the support system that enables him, and allows him to maintain the resources he needs to make movies, albeit outside of the U.S. As Diane Keaton said in the 2014 Golden Globes tribute sampled in the docuseries: Its safe to say that Woody Allen is an anomaly.

The current spate of Allen backlash has come in fits and starts, beginning with Ronan Farrows tweet criticizing the Golden Globes for airing an Allen tribute in 2014. That was followed by a piece by Farrow in The Hollywood Reporter on May 11, 2016, which overshadowed the premiere of Allens Cafe Society as the opening selection of the Cannes Film Festival. The #MeToo movement followed a year later with Harvey Weinsteins downfall.

Still, for Allen, the impact wasnt immediate apparent. In September 2017, Amazon Studios announced that it would distribute his next film, Wonder Wheel, as part of a multi-film deal. The next month, the world changed. The New York Times ran its Weinstein expose, followed by Farrows own reporting in The New Yorker; meanwhile, then-Amazon Studios president Roy Price was suspended over allegations of sexual misconduct and Amazon canceled the red carpet for the Wonder Wheel premiere at the New York Film Festival.

When A Rainy Day in New York came around in 2018, stars Timothee Chalamet and Elle Fanning distanced themselves from the project and Amazon dropped its U.S. distribution. The movie grossed about $22 million worldwide. (In the U.S., it fizzledtheatrically but briefly topped VOD charts.)

By then, Allen had completed his 49th feature, Rifkins Festival a self-referential comedy starring Wallace Shawn as neurotic film professor who accompanies his publicist wife (Gina Gershon) to the San Sebastin Film Festival. The movie offers no sense of a fallen auteur: Shot by world-class DP Vittorio Storaro, it turns on black-and-white homages to classic cinema that form the professors outrageous dreams, from Breathless to The Seventh Seal, the latter of which includes a cameo by Christoph Waltz. The Breathless bit is quite funny, but the schtick gets old and the romcom setup is tiring from the start. In a bizarro universe in which Allens scandals never happened, it would still rank as an underwhelming shrug from a filmmaker who never bothers to reflect on his failures.

Six months after it premiered at the very festival where it takes place, Rifkins Festival has yet to secure U.S. distribution. The movie did come out in Spain, where it grossed $1.3 million to date; Italian distributor Vision said it still planned to release the movie when theaters reopen. Signature Entertainment, the U.K.-based company that brought Rainy Day to North American theaters and VOD, did not respond to a request for comment about whether it would take on the new movie. The dwindling forces that allowed Rainy Day to find its way to the American market have dissipated for now, while even European markets historically sympathetic to his situation pull back.

Though Allen v. Farrow singles out longtime Allen publicist Leslee Dart as one of the forces responsible for managing blowback, Dart left 42 West, the company she co-founded, last year. She maintains a position at parent company Dolphin, but no longer represents Allen, who has no American publicist nor much need for one, since the market for his movies in the U.S. barely exists. (Hyperactives Caroline Turner continues to represent him overseas.) Requests for comment from 42 West were forwarded to Allens sister and longtime producer Letty Aronson, who hasnt responded to media inquiries beyond the joint statement from Allens camp lambasting Allen v. Farrow weeks ago.

His infrastructure looks frail, but Allens success or failure doesnt depend on industry savvy. Much of his career has been defined by commercial uncertainty, and outright failure, but hes had no shortage of people willing to give him money and leave him alone. All he requires is a lot of freedom, said one executive with a history of working with Allen. He never expects a picture to be a success, so he never gets angry and is always surprised when a picture is successful. Thats rare.

When Allen pivoted from his satirical work of the 60s and early 70s to the more acclaimed dramedies of Oscar juggernaut Annie Hall and Manhattan, he did so under the guidance of United Artists executive Arthur Krim, who gave Allen free rein. When Krim co-founded Orion in 1978, Allen followed and spent the prolific next decade of his career juggling more ambitious material (Zelig, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days) as his international reputation continued to blossom. When Orion imploded at the end of the 80s, Allen scored a final-cut deal with TriStar Pictures to make Husbands and Wives. That flopped at the box office, leaving the studio disinterested.

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So Allen pivoted again, turning to private financing for much of the 90s, with producer Jean Doumanians Sweetland Films supporting the filmmaker on well-received work ranging from Bullets Over Broadway to Everyone Says I Love You. After the partnership ended in a lawsuit, Allen careened through a series of deals with Dreamworks, Searchlight, Focus, and The Weinstein Company, before settling with Sony Pictures Classics for seven movies. Three of these won Oscars Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Midnight in Paris, and Blue Jasmine, which also became the filmmakers highest-grossing release.

Allen left that arrangement because Amazon Studios, which signed a TV deal with him for the much-maligned 2016 miniseries Crisis in Six Scenes, lured him with a lucrative offer to finance his splashy ensemble comedy Cafe Society. Amazon also committed to Allens next two projects and insiders say the studio seemed to think little of the pushback at the time. It wasnt until Wonder Wheel hit the New York Film Festival the next year that the public outcry intensified. Though Allen received a standing ovation at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center possibly the last time he would be received that way for the New York audience that had embraced him for decades the wider response was at the other end of the spectrum.

People were really woke by then, one marketing executive involved in the release. The negative publicity had cut in. The way he delivers his movies, theres not a lot of time. Everybody was worried, but just had to ride it out.

Allen was in post-production on A Rainy Day in New York when Amazon decided not to release the movie and sever its ties to the director. Amazon executives were reportedly caught off-guard by the decision, which took place at the highest levels of the corporate hierarchy; the people who would have been tasked with working on the movie never even saw it. The filmmaker went on to sue the studio and win back the rights, which he sold to a set of international territories. In the meantime, Spanish production studio Mediapro signed on to finance Rifkins Festival.

Even now, Allen could garner another deep-pocketed supporter. He wants to be with people that want to be with him, said one executive with a history of working on several successful Allen ventures. He can get financing from wealthy individuals that want to back him. Theres probably always someone out there who would want to back Woody. In some cases, U.S. distributors of his work havent even been privy to the budgets of the movies before theyve boarded the projects.

That point remains critical because, many insiders agree, Allen would rather stop working than work for cheap. Hes fast, but his budgets tend to have sizable price tags both Wonder Wheel and A Rainy Day in New York cost $25 million and not only because of their name actors, many of whom would probably done the projects for free. Allen maintains a homegrown pace, sometimes reshooting large patches of his movies until hes satisfied, and insists on top-tier crew.

Anyone who supports Allen works on his terms. For now, he remains surrounded by the dealmakers who have guarded him for decades, including Aronson and ICM agent John Burnham. They dont try to hustle people, said one source familiar with the process. They never have.

The only enabler necessary for Allen to keep working is someone willing to write a check, and plenty of well-heeled figures, public and private, spend their money in ethically dubious ways. It doesnt feel like hes desperate to do this, one former producer said. He would only do it if he has total control. He wont be hired by somebody.

Still, Allen faces a broader cultural reckoning that makes its own decisions. Even if he does make another movie, his impact will continue to wane. The nebbishy Jewish caricature that cemented his brand years ago doesnt exactly register with the zeitgeist. A Rainy Day in New York likely found some measure of success due to the profitable allure of its young star, Timothee Chalamet.

However, the obnoxious, self-obsessed characters and their ravenous sexual appetites found in many of Allens earlier movies dont parse in 2021. The scandals mean respected actors are increasingly unlikely to associate themselves with his work, much less nurse a romantic obsession with it. Then there are the movies themselves, which zig-zag through half-baked ideas that read as reductive variations of formulas he exhausted long ago.

For those of us who grew up adoring much of Allens early versatility, the diminished returns often register as a repudiation of nostalgia. There are passionate Allen fans across the industry who still defend him, albeit in whispered tones, proclaiming the injustices committed against a major artist ostracized in the court of public opinion. People who have never read legal briefings or shown much investment in sexual assault cases now see themselves as bold truth-tellers in service of Allens exoneration.Its a wonder how much better those efforts would work toward advocating for stronger artists worth the investment.

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Allen v. Farrow lacks Allens perspective beyond audio clips from his recent memoir, but a more balanced take wouldnt change the appetite for his hit-or-miss oeuvre. Hes explored combustible relationships through intellectual soul-searching, and laced bleak, Bergman-esque melodrama with intrigue, but his movies no longer make a case for their own survival.

Allen and his financiers share a general indifference to negative publicity, but the world at large seems all too eager to move on without him. It would be convenient to conclude that Allen v. Farrow will serve as the sour coda to Allens career, but theres a lot of competition for that slot between industry attrition, shifting cultural interests, and the filmmakers own apparent disinterest to his fate. It has become a clich to cite Allens Annie Hall line that he would never join a club that would allow a person like me to be a member. Allen was quoting Groucho Marx, but its not the only time the director has received more credit than hes due.

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Utahs technology sector continues to make waves, with five metro areas topping the Milken Institutes tech-focused Best-Performing Cities index. Utahs software, consumer tech, and health tech sectors are turning heads and attracting huge amounts of money and prestige.

To see where Utahs next big tech boom will come from, you need to look up way up. After quietly building momentum for decades, Utahs aerospace industry is primed for a prolonged heyday, fueled by an innovation imperative across the civil, defense, and space sectors. Utah is home to established players and startups alike who are pushing the boundaries of whats possible in space and sky to drive next-level innovations and secure our future against evolving threats.

Over the next decade and beyond, Utahs aerospace industry will make major contributions to the kinds of breakthroughs future generations will read about in history books. Along the way, the nearly 1,000 aerospace companies in Utah will bring boomtown economic benefits to the Beehive State.

Utah has a robust, if underhyped, aerospace heritage that goes back nearly a century. In 1930, Hill Air Force Base was established in northern Utah as major supply, repair, and logistics hub. Located 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, Hill AFB has been a critical military outpost through times of peace and conflict, including World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and Operation Desert Storm. Today, its a major test site for the vaunted F-35 fighter jet.

In the private sector, successful homegrown companies and industry consolidation have attracted some of the worlds largest and most influential aerospace companies to Utah, including major Tier 1 suppliers, Original Equipment Manufacturers, and big divisions of aerospace manufacturers such as L3-Harris, Lockheed Martin, and Parker Hannifin. Northrop Grumman owes its massive Utah presence7,000 Utah employees and counting to the rollup of Hercules, Thiokol, and Orbital ATK over the past few decades.

On the scrappier side, Utah has a proud entrepreneurial history in aerospace. Four decades ago, St. George residents Ray and Melzie Ganowsky started RAM Company, an aerospace engineering and manufacturing operation, in their garage. Today, RAM Company is one of Southern Utahs largest private employers and has put precision valves on major civil, defense, and space platforms, including the commercial crew transport capsules currently contracted by NASA to shuttle astronauts to and from the space station.

Its been a while since the last Charles Lindbergh or Neil Armstrong moment. The world is yearning for another cultural and technological zeitgeist to shift our perception of whats possible.

Powerful forces are converging to put renewed focus on aerospace. For starters, theres growing demand to get people from one part of the planet to another faster, more efficiently, and with less hassle. At a higher altitude, nation-states are competing in a new space race, punctuated by the US, China, and United Arab Emirates all launching successful Mars missions in recent weeks. On the defense side, global threats are evolving with next-generation cyber-attacks, unmanned drones, and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

These colliding vectors have produced an innovation imperative across the civil aviation, defense aerospace, and space sectors. For decades, aerospace has operated on incrementalism and a zero-risk mentality. Today, innovation has replaced incrementalism and a zero-boundaries mentality has supplanted the zero-risk mindset. We cant afford to tip-toe toward progress anymore.

This impacts every aspect of the nearly trillion-dollar global aerospace industry. Its even upending how defense contracts are awarded. Dr. Will Roper, the former procurement chief for the US Air Force, wrote, Our clunky, Cold War-era process of defense procurement is in need of a major refresh. While it still produces world-leading military systems, its escalating timelines and cost are unsustainable byproducts. The stark contrast with commercial industry warns the US military may have peaked, unless we find a better waysoon.

This shift to zero-boundaries thinking gave birth to the digital engineering movement, a technical discipline pioneered by our teams at Northrop Grumman for customers across every military branch. In years past, the pace of innovation in aerospace was slowed by having to physically design, build, and test everything at every stage. Now, thanks to step-function leaps in computing technology, we can use data instead of documents to prove out nearly every phase of even the most ambitious megaproject.

The innovation imperative has major implications for the aerospace supply chain, as well. You cant build tomorrows innovations with yesterdays technologies. We need more investment in downstream technologies to unlock upstream breakthroughs. This reality is unleashing a land grab among highly technical aerospace suppliers.

Today, theres a palpable energy in Utahs aerospace industry that reminds us of the software buzz 8-10 years ago. Its tangible and firm. You can feel it.

Over the next decade, aerospace will bring thousands of jobs, billions in wages, and hundreds of millions in tax revenue and capital improvements to Utah. As Val Hale, former executive director of the Governors Office of Economic Development, wrote in the Deseret News, Utahs aerospace and defense industry plays a vital role in our states economy. The aerospace industry accounts for approximately 944 different businesses, with more than 31,390 jobs. Its projected to grow by two percent per year over the next decade. The innovative technologies developed by these companies diversify our supply chain and fuel the growth of our economy.

The Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Program is a shining example of the innovation imperative bringing big opportunities to Utah. The GBSD is the most ambitious overhaul of American ICBM infrastructure in history, and its being spearheaded by a sophisticated digital engineering effort at Northrop Grummans Utah outpost. This program will make America safer, create a unified collaboration environment that benefits every branch of the US military, and will lead to as many as 100 new high paying jobs in Utah every month for the foreseeable future. We cant hire fast enough to fuel this vital program.

In the supply chain, and at the other end of the I-15 corridor, Utah will play a big role in enabling future breakthroughs with startup innovations. At Intergalactic, were developing novel thermal management technology that is a missing link in many mind-bending possibilities, including electric flight, supersonic air travel, and even interplanetary exploration. As an anchor tenant on Tech Ridge in St. George, we hope to be a literal light on the hill to attract great technical talent, strategic investment, and innovative partners to the red rocks of Southern Utah.

Theres a renaissance happening in aerospace. Were on the cusp on major breakthroughs that will completely change our world, and Utah is right in the middle of it. We hope these unprecedented opportunities inspire a new generation of Utah professionals to pursue careers in mechanical, electrical, and software engineering. Lets do historically big things together.

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