The News Review:
- ‘The Red Shoes’ takes a bow at Cannes
- Contributors save Washington Park Summer Festival
- Salt Lake festival connects many to their roots
- Film Festival is splitting up
- The Cannes Film Festival
- Roxie Cinema hosts B film noir festival
- John rr: Sunshine arrives for Mountain View Ala Carte & Art festival
‘The Red Shoes’ takes a bow at Cannes
Los Angeles Times
A new print of the classic movie. Martin Scorsese oversaw the restoration process working with the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Contributors save Washington Park Summer Festival
Bizjournals.com
More than 25 businesses and individuals contributed to the call from Gordon Sondland the CE of Hotel deLuxe and Hotel Lucia and co-principal of the Sondland Durant Foundation to match his challenge to save the Festival’s 2009 season. The $50000 in funds to match his challenge had to be committed by May 15 in order to proceed. The successful fundraising effort will enable Portland Parks & Recreation to present the festival during the first two weeks of August continuing the 60-year tradition free of charge for the community to enjoy.
Salt Lake festival connects many to their roots
Deseret News
She wraps both ends of the weft thread around the warp threads pullsthem out and cuts them off. She’ll tie the double knot once twice 73968times for this rug. “It’s pretty simple” Moffat said as she set up her display for SaltLake City’s Living Traditions Festival Friday afternoon on the WashingtonSquare grounds of the City County Building. She’ll push the shuttle along carrying the wool through the cottonthreads then pound each row down with a special hammer. Moffat learned the craft from her father an engineer who always makessure the tension of his loom is perfect. Her father learned from hisfather an Armenian immigrant who displayed his riental rugs at the firstLiving Traditions festival 24 years ago. Her grandfather was a young boy when he left Turkey in 1909.
Film Festival is splitting up
Philadelphia Inquirer
TLA and the Philadelphia Film Society are dividing community property and the calendar year. TLA president Ray Murray says his group (which has run the March movie madness since 2000) will continue to produce a festival – CineFest – in spring and QFest (formerly the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival) in summer both under the aegis of the Philadelphia Cinema Alliance. The Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF) will be produced by the Philadelphia Film Society says executive director J. Andrew Greenblatt and will take place in fall starting in ctober 2010.
The Cannes Film Festival
FranceToday.com
The Cannes Film FestivalMay 14 2009Les chats Persans (“The Persian Cats”) premiered at Cannes today. The film was directed by Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi and co-written with his partner the Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi made famous this week due to her imprisonment and subsequent release by the Iranian government on suspicion of espionage. Although expected Saberi was not present on the red carpet.
Roxie Cinema hosts B film noir festival
San Francisco Chronicle
This is the back alley of 1940s and ’50s American cinema. While Gene Kelly was dancing with Leslie Caron in Technicolor terrible things were happening in the black-and-white shadows: cruelty betrayal blackmail murder. You’ve seen this era’s superego. Here’s the chance to check out some pure unadulterated id.
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John rr: Sunshine arrives for Mountain View Ala Carte & Art festival
San Jose Mercury News
: That curious ball of flame that’s been hanging in the sky recently is the sun and it has made for some pretty nice weather for this weekend’s Ala Carte & Art festival in Mountain View. Lather up with sunscreen and wear a broad-brim hat to stroll up and down Castro Street to hear the live music check out the 250 exhibitors eat food and drink yourself silly if you are of a mind to do so. There is a “Kids’ Tons of Fun Zone” which includes a 120-foot “Super Slide” a virtual reality motion theater (what is that? one might reasonably ask) a circus a climbing wall face painting temporary tattoos and other stuff. This is always a fun event.