The News Review:
- Malibu Film Festival opens tonight with ‘Jesse’s Story’
- Arts Briefly Catherine Deneuve Booed in Tuscany
- Miss. festival pays tribute to Sam Cooke
- A Moment of Muddy Grace
- 3 more Chinese films pulled at Melbourne festival
- New Jersey wines featured at annual festival
- Music festival leaves NJ state park mired in muck
Malibu Film Festival opens tonight with ‘Jesse’s Story’
Los Angeles Times
" It involves a small group of thrill-seekers for whom surfing was a "way of life?one that sometimes was seen through the lens of psychedelics" according to the film's description. "Sea of Darkness" is said to recapture "the life and attitude of this wild '70s surfing culture. "The Malibu Film Festival which runs through Saturday night features many other independent films from around the world. Check the blue link for a lineup and more information. –Pete ThomasVideo trailer is for "Sea of Darkness".
Arts Briefly Catherine Deneuve Booed in Tuscany
New York Times
Deneuve was booed during a performance in Italy when she and the Italian actor and director Michele Placido performed at the cultural festival in Marina di Pietrasanta Tuscany The Associated Press reported. The pair did a staged reading of Georges Perec’s book.
Miss. festival pays tribute to Sam Cooke
The Associated Press
Cooke will remind fans about when he attends a Mississippi music festival this weekend dedicated to the 1950s and ’60s singer. “If they look at it Sam was first in everything” L. Cooke said in a telephone interview from his home in Chicago. “All his masters belong to Sam and that was unheard of.
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A Moment of Muddy Grace
New York Times
Why should we? It’s one of the few defining events of the late 1960s that had a clear happy ending. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia.
3 more Chinese films pulled at Melbourne festival
San Jose Mercury News
Rebiya Kadeer’s scheduled visit to the Melbourne International Film Festival on Aug. 8 has already prompted Venice Film Festival winner Jia Zhangke and Hong Kong director Emily Tang to withdraw their movies. The makers of the short Chinese documentary “YB Box” the Hong Kong-Taiwan romance “Miao Miao” and the Hong Kong black comedy “The Moss” have also withdrawn their films festival spokeswoman Louise Heseltine told The Associated Press in a phone interview. The boycotting filmmakers are upset by Kadeer’s visit and the screening of a documentary about her Heseltine said.
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New Jersey wines featured at annual festival
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Gene Ventimilgia owner of Ventimiglia Vineyards in Sussex and one of this weekend’s attending winemakers says the Wine Country Passports have been essential to putting his business on the map. “There’s an enthusiasm around the passport program that’s really impressed me” he says noting that his tasting room has been open only since last summer. “It takes a couple years to get your operation going but right from the start as we started selling wines we started to see visitors from places like Point Pleasant and Hamilton — a lot of younger enthusiastic wine drinkers who drive quite a ways to check us out. The Fresh Wine & Food Festival much like the passport program places an emphasis on the breadth and diversity of the Garden State wine scene.
Music festival leaves NJ state park mired in muck
Philadelphia Inquirer
state park mired in muck JERSEY CITY N. – A three-day music festival has left parts of the park near the Statue of Liberty a muddy mess. rganizers of the second annual All Points West festival which featured Jay-Z among other headliners say they are surveying the damage and plan to reseed areas of Liberty State Park that were damaged. Downpours over the weekend combined with heavy equipment and 70000 concertgoers destroyed the grass in sections of the Jersey City park. The muddy mess reminded many of the 1969 Woodstock festival. Liberty Events Management producer Ken Tesler said that the group prided itself on leaving a venue in better condition than it was before an event.