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New Chinese Films at UCLA For this latest edition of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s New Chinese Cinema series, we are pleased to welcome the California Institute of the Arts .... GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA WMM has announced that GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA has received an Emmy nomination for BEST DOCUMENTARY.<br>Produced and directed by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy .... Romania at LAFF ‘07 In three short years, since Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (multiple wins including Un Certain Regard in Cannes, Silver Hugo in Chicago, and several .... Meeting the Makers of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" Ask Julian Schnabel what drove him to make his current feature The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, based on the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby, and this is what he offers:“I wanted this film to be a tool, like his book, a self-help device that can help you handle your own death. That’s why I did it.”As explanations for movies go, this has to rank as one of the least sanguine in film .... O Jerusalem, a film by Elie Chouraqui O Jerusalem is a film that tries to give an account of the struggle that besieged the birth of Israel. In the middle of the turmoil are .... <i>Man Push Cart</i>: Impressions from Life In two lines from Persian poetry, Rumi tells us, “I am the polo stick; you are the ball. Wherever I hit you, you will go; but wherever you .... "3:10 to Yuma", Mangold brings back the idea of what westerns should be about The film begins by introducing Ben Wade, a notorious outlaw and Dan Evans a rancher who after a drought is struggling to sustain his family. In .... DVD Review: Shinobi: Heart Under Blade Director Ten Shimoyama takes us back to 1614 feudal japan with a twist. Labeled as part of the chambara film genre, in the midst of .... The Wedding Video Takes An American Tradition To The Zaniest Level If you think you’ve already been witness to the most dysfunctional wedding of your life, think again. THE WEDDING VIDEO, a new .... “Nightmare Detective”, a classic horror film for many years to come Immensely gritty, and gruesome, “Nightmare Detective” delivers edgy cinema with chilling visuals to make your hair stand up on end. .... <i>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix</i>, Second openion! <i>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix </i>is the fifth installment in the series and by far the darkest to date. <i>The .... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, IMAX 3D So, walking into this movie, I was thinking how the bloody devil are they going to get an 800 + page book into a 2 hour and 18 minute movie? I .... “Death Note” is an amazing work with stellar a cliffhanger(Japan Cuts-New York) When Light Yagami (prominent son of a police inspector and a brilliant law student in his own right) discovers the other world book .... YURERU, Sway, directed by Miwa Nishikawa (Japan Cuts – New York) With half the film backdrop set in a courtroom with intense drama, Director Miwa Nishikawa’s, “Sway”, takes the viewer into .... Profile of an Artist, Shuichi Nakahara Shuichi Nakahara is a multi-talented, multi-tasking creative artist with a love for animation. Shuichi is a highly .... Virtual Set Productions Are Reality Hollywood is an old-fashioned town in some aspects. Once I saw an ad for a digital editing software enticing would-be .... Borat & Panasonic’s AJ-HDC27 VariCam HD .... World Cinema, Harutyun Khachatryan, One of the foremost filmmakers Armenia Harutyun Khachatryan was born in Georgia in 1955 where he completed his film studies. He worked as director and .... Lagan Sebert, a good friend of the press I met Lagan Sebert, a young publicist, at AFI FEST 2006. Lagan did such a great job helping journalist that we decided .... Cinema in Georgia An interview with David Abdaladze. Chairman of “Kino Plus”. The Georgian film producer’s .... Those Flying Controllers! As Christmas looms over the horizon, gamers and technology aficionados alike flock to their nearest electronic store to .... Thus spake Zartosht Soltani NY-based Animator and Art Director <br>In 1999 Zartosht Soltani graduated from Fine Arts at Azad University of .... Canvas-Falcons live at the Orpheum Fifteen years ago a young theatre arts student rifting through a compilation of WWI flyboy vignettes recognized a .... iPod, Prius and 3D social networks Let me say it upfront: I do not own an iPod. I bought one for Christmas two years ago for my son who was very happy ....