The News Review:
- Vancouver Film Festival features Chinese films
- Coppola comeback at Rome film festival
- Paisley opens book town festival
- Skylon Royal Festival Hall London SE1
- Turn up the volumes: The Baltimore Book Festival opens for the…
- Song festival next year
Vancouver Film Festival features Chinese films
æ°åç’ – Sep 29, 2007
28 (Xinhua) — Chinese films will be on the spotlight during the 26th Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) which runs from Sept. The festival which kicked off Thursday will showcase as many as 24 Chinese films in a new China focus program named “China in the Spotlight” in its expanded “Dragons and Tigers: the Cinemas of East Asia” section according to a VIFF release. “We’re proud to be able to represent the breadth of critical Chinese filmmaking today by presenting at VIFF a cross-section of films from each of these vital areas” said Shelly Kraicer programmer of “China in the Spotlight.
Coppola comeback at Rome film festival
Stuff.co.nz – Sep 29, 2007
Like its main Italian rival the Venice festival which ended earlier this month the lineup in Rome this year is laden with US productions exploring the US response to the September 11 2001 attacks and a tarnished image of America. That is the case with Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs in which he stars alongside Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep. The film tells the story of two soldiers wounded behind enemy lines in Afghanistan and the repercussions back home. Also screening will be Gavin Hood’s Rendition which premiered at the Toronto festival.
Paisley opens book town festival
BBC News – Sep 29, 2007
He was speaking in Wigtown to launch the event which runs until 7 ctober and involves dozens of writers. This year one of the themes of the festival is the celebration of peace in Northern Ireland. Thousands of visitors are expected to attend the 10-day event of readings exhibitions and debates. Mr Paisley delivered the opening address at the town’s festival marquee.
Skylon Royal Festival Hall London SE1
guardian.co.uk – Sep 29, 2007
ptimism was heavily rationed too in a country that was economically paralysed by warfare and by Washington’s disdain about bailing it out and this elegantly modernistic building and the Festival of Britain it housed were designed to project a sense of hope about a gleaming future of peace prosperity democratised high culture chocolate and bananas. Laying the foundation stone in 1949 Clement Attlee probably didn’t foresee the day when cooks would cease fretting about getting half a pound of sugar on the black market and would learn to speak freely of their “food philosophy”. But isn’t that the way with unshowy Labour PMs? As we learned last week after driving to Fife for dinner at a Gordon Brown-recommended Cantonese restaurant where the most popular dish on the menu was chicken curry and chips they have no philosophy of food themselves. Helene Puolakka of Skylon at the refurbished RFH on the other hand does.
Turn up the volumes: The Baltimore Book Festival opens for the…
Free with registration – Baltimore Sun – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 29, 2007
(29-SEP-07) Baltimore Sun (Baltimore MD). 29–For most of the authors sitting pensively in the stalls of the Baltimore Book Festival attracting passers-by to their titles was hard work. But not for Clifford the B.
Song festival next year
Panorama – Sep 29, 2007
The availability of the premises has been agreed by Fabian Vinet Minister for Culture “to whom we extend our most sincere gratitude as well as the Director Mr. Joe Hernandez” said a Press release from the organisers. As regards the theme tune for the festival local composers were invited to enter new musical compositions. Eleven entries were received and judged with the £1000 prize awarded to Mr.