Film Review: 'This Is Not a Film' highlights Iranian filmmaker's talents while under house arrest

Source: The Nahmias Cipher Report

It’s a marvel what one learns about filmmaking while watching the anti-film This is Not a Film. In 2010, acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was confined to his condo in Tehran under house arrest as part of his punishment for intend ...
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PCU Centre hosts first annual Pow Wow

Source: The Daily Graphic

The First Annual Sacred Buffalo Festival and Pow Wow took place at the PCU Centre Saturday night. The event will raise money for local organizations. “We are raising money for the Aboriginal School of Dance and other local organizations,” said event foun ...
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Alabama Phoenix Festival in Birmingham draws self-proclaimed "nerds" for creativity and fun

Source: Everything Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama--Chris Allen got out of his car this afternoon, wearing blue pants, a blue top, a white holster, white boots and a brown bowler hat. He was no longer a drug counselor from Jasper, but Timothy Aloysius Cadw ...
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Weekend Reading: Avengers, Starlin, Finger and Bagge

Source: Gear Live

Next week, we'll all be talking about Men In Black III, but this week was still a lot of chatter about Joss Whedon's The Avengers. Let's hit that: Avengers creators assemble! Here’s a short but excellent interview with Jim Starli ...
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Cuenca Ecuador

Source: Travel Blog

I'm alone now. My travelling buddy heads to the coast while I break for the mountains. I find comfort here. Cuenca. Cuenca it is. From what I read it is beautiful. I can't tell yet. It is 3am and I'm sitt ...
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Rays' Maddon refuses to go 'by the book'

Source: The Orange County Register

There is unorthodox, and then there is Joe Maddon. Baseball's best out-of-the-box thinker was at it again this week. The Tampa Bay Rays manager, a longtime Angels coach, had first baseman Carlos Pena leading off for th ...
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Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures, Sadler's Wells, London; Ballo della Regina/La Sylphide, Royal Opera House, London

Source: The Independent

It's not just the humour of Matthew Bourne's early work that makes it so remarkable. It's also the gayness. Emerging from dance training in the late 1980s, Bourne set up his fledgling company in a world still sniggering behind its hand ...
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up

Source: Guardian Unlimited

At a time when eye-straining, ear-bashing, hi-tech 3D movies are being drearily touted as the inevitable "future of cinema", Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist (2011, Entertainment, PG) reminds us that great movies ...
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Today's racing tips- 27/05/12

Source: Daily Express

BEV SWINGELL is the principal tipster for the Daily Express and Sunday Express, and for the last 20 years he has been acknowledged as one of the top private handicappers in England. He won the Racing Post's National Press Challenge in 2005, and ...
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