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‘Following Sean’
Documentary. Featuring Sean Farrell. Directed by Ralph Arlyck. (Not rated. 87 minutes. At the Lumiere Theatre in San Francisco, the Act 1 & 2 in Berkeley, and the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael.)
At its exhilarating best, “Following Sean” is reminiscent of the lauded British documentaries that began with “7 Up” and continued to follow a cross-section of 7-year-olds into adulthood to see how they turned out. Only one kid is featured in the new film. But Sean Farrell is such a charmer and his upbringing so bizarre from a 21st century perspective that he hardly needs company.
Sean is first seen as a precocious 4-year-old more than ready for his close-up. Hippiedom is in full swing in the Haight-Ashbury, where the boy lives in the same building as novice filmmaker Ralph Arlyck. Looking for a project for a film class at San Francisco State, Arlyck turns his camera on his guileless neighbor with the dancing eyes and Beatles mop. Sitting barefoot on Arlyck’s couch, Sean casually talks about his preference for eating pot instead of smoking it and how he can always spot speed freaks because they’re all skin and bones. The short black-and-white film that results becomes a cause celebre on the film festival circuit in the late 1960s, sharing a bill with François Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” at Cannes.
Scenes from the short are interspersed throughout “Following Sean,” in which Arlyck returns to San Francisco almost three decades later to see what became of his own wild child. Unlike the “7 Up” series, in which its subjects were interviewed at seven-year intervals, the documentary leaps from Sean as a little boy to him fully grown with no footage of the intervening years. Sean and his relatives — including the parents who presumably sanctioned his marijuana use and allowed him to roam the Haight alone — fill in the gap verbally. But listening to them talk about Sean’s evolution into a responsible adult against all odds can never be as involving as watching it happen.
The bigger problem is that Arlyck has to figure out how to fill the screen between Sean’s sporadic appearances. The director makes an unfortunate decision to graft on his own story of how he wound up in the Haight, why he left and what became of him. The film transmutes into “Following Ralph” as Arlyck interviews his parents, his wife and family and slips in clips from his later work. You get the sense it’s a pain to be anywhere in the vicinity of his camera. Turning it on his adolescent son eating dinner while Arlyck is in the midst of another documentary, the youngster asks quite reasonably, “What does this have to do with a film about human rights?”
More to the point, what does it have to do with a film about Sean Farrell? Fortunately, Sean turns up again in the nick of time to spark our interest. He’s 31 and working steadily as an electrician in San Francisco. He’s even a union member. Meanwhile, his father, who renounced the suburban life in Redwood City to be a free spirit in the Haight, still can’t hold down a regular job and lives in a trailer with no savings. Sean loves him, but can’t understand his transient existence.
Arlyck quickly re-establishes his bond with Sean and gets him to open up about his feelings. He’s as magnetic onscreen as he was at 4. The film chronicles him throughout his 30s as he marries and has a son, who by the end is the same age as his father when he was first captured on celluloid.
The unanswered question in “Following Sean” is why its subject isn’t strung out in prison. Remembering back to the short film, Dad may have been a positive influence when he appointed Sean his little helper building a boat in which they were to sail around the world. That never happened. But by allowing his son to handle tools at such a young age, did he give Sean the tools for his eventual livelihood? Or are some kids just so resilient they can survive anything?
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MAS launches Malaysia’s 1st Community Airline FireFly
Firefly is Malaysia’s first community airline, offering safe, affordable and comfortable flying experience to exclusive travel routes, making flying with us a fun and smart choice for our guests.
We operate twice daily services out of Penang International Airport to Kota Bharu, Langkawi, Kuantan, Kuala Terengganu, and daily services to Phuket and Koh Samui in Thailand.
Firefly, Malaysia’s first community airline, is expected to achieve profits next year by tapping into a potential customer base of 100 million in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle.
Managing Director, Mr Eddy Leong said Firefly would be able to capture the growing budget travelers market in the north and east coast points of the Peninsula, and southern Thailand as the airline flies to 6 destinations that are currently not served by any other airline.
In addition, it is the only airline connecting 3 popular tourist destinations, Penang, Koh Samui and Phuket, enabling it to expand its reach to the foreign travelers market.
He said, “Firefly will be a profitable venture as we work from a low-cost base. We are a no-frills airline, offering point-to-point travel with fares from as low as RM9.00. Firefly is about taking people off the roads, ferries and boats, and getting them to their destinations faster.
“Our aim is to bring communities closer by overcoming geographical constraints, link the world to the communities we serve, and contribute to the economy of the communities by bringing trade and tourism”.
Commencing Monday, 2 April, Firefly will offer 14 weekly flights to Kota Bahru, Kuantan, Kuala Terengganu, Langkawi and 7 weekly flights to Phuket and Koh Samui, from Penang. To commemorate the occasion, Firefly will offer more than 2,000 free seats for the month of April.
Bookings will start Monday, 19 March. Tickets can be purchased from its 24-hour call centre, 03-7845 4543 and MAS’ ticketing office in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, KLIA, Kota Bahru, Terengganu, Kuantan and Langkawi. Tickets will be available on its website, www.fireflyz.com.my from mid May.
Malaysia Airlines Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, Mr Idris Jala said Malaysia Airlines is excited about this new venture as Firefly, its wholly-owned subsidiary, presents the national carrier with the opportunity to grow from a new market segment.
“Our aim this year is to generate profit, and achieve profitable growth in 2008. One of the ways to achieve our objective is to gain new businesses. Firefly will enable us to grow from a new market segment.
“MAS is now in a stronger position as it is able to grow its full service passenger market, and tap into the budget traveler market. We expect Firefly to boost our revenue, and help us meet our net profit of RM500 million next year,” he also said.
“Firefly is also our nursery. Our aim is to run Malaysia Airlines on a low cost structure to ensure our competitiveness in the long term. We aim to adopt the key learnings from Firefly, allowing us to further simplify processes, multi-task and implement a thorough structural cost reduction,” he added.
Earlier at the media briefing, Mr Jala introduced Mr Leong, 34, to the journalists.
“Eddy is a familiar face in the airline industry. He was formerly with our Turnaround Management Office which oversees all turnaround initiatives and provides in-house consultancy to the business units. He has extensive operational experience, and is focused on the P&L which makes him the ideal man to lead a low cost based airline,” he said.
Later in the evening, Chief Minister of Penang, Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon and Minister of Finance II, Senator Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop unveiled the Firefly logo which is symbolized by firefly wings in four colours ranging from deep orange to yellow.
The name Firefly (in Mandarin fei1 ying2) was chosen to depict the airline’s personality which is agile, brilliant, charming and fun. Since the name is unique and evocative, Firefly has the potential to grow and command a brand premium in the future.
Malaysia Airlines Chairman, Dato’ Dr Munir Majid and Executive Director/ CFO, Tengku Dato’ Azmil Zahruddin were also present at the event.
Issued by: Media Relations, Communications Division
Malaysia Airlines, Subang
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