How Are You Spending Your Last Month of Summer? What To Do In Paris In August     August is vacation month in France, and although most Parisians are off visiting other beautiful places, some of us are still here. Whether Paris is your destination location, or you just decided to suck around for the month, try and profit from all the vacant seats in the metro and empty lines. Here are some great things to do for the month of August. have fun!   ...

Next time you go to the movies, take a look around at the number of lights you see. It might be more than you first expect! Lights are used not just to keep the room from being dark, but its signage, such as the candy bar or restrooms, to mark certain points throughout the building, such as seat numbers, or simply as decoration. Increasingly, movie theaters are using LED lighting instead of the traditional lighting technology. In this article, we’re going to take a look at the reasons why. ...

Next time you go to the movies, take a look around at the number of lights you see. It might be more than you first expect! Lights are used not just to keep the room from being dark, but its signage, such as the candy bar or restrooms, to mark certain points throughout the building, such as seat numbers, or simply as decoration. Increasingly, movie theaters are using LED lighting instead of the traditional lighting technology. In this article, we’re going to take a look at the reasons why. LE...

Screen Naija Open Air Cinema Festival is now a member of the Projection Foundation (http://projectionfoundation.org.)The Projection Foundation addresses technological inequity by providing communities with: (1) the tools and training necessary to produce digital media, and (2) the resources to exchange their stories through local cinema screenings, regional open air film festivals, and a representation within global social media networks. What Do We Do?The Projection Foundation combines village-...

Caphirinas, dee-jayed dança and Brazilian beats in Central Park – even if Cine Fest Petrobras Brasil (June 5 to 12, 2010) weren't bringing a week of new Brazilian cinema to New York, it'd still be a pretext to samba. Back for its eighth run, the week-long carnival will lead off with the Opening Night film, The Well Beloved One/O Bem Amado, followed by a festa brasileira. Guel Arraes's feature adaptation of playwright Dias Gomes's classic comedy sends up small-town politics and mores ...

    The Zlin Film Festival, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary from May 30 to June 6, is a chance to not only discover cinema from the past and the present, but also an introduction to the city's unique status as a UNESCO Heritage Site. For those who know their modernist architectural history, Zlin is indeed a utopia of modernity. Situated in the Moravian district in the eastern corner of what is now the Czech Republic, Zlin was a planned city that espoused modernis...

  One of the main venues for the Connecticut Film Festival, which opens tomorrow evening, is the Palace Theater on Main Street in Danbury, a once prosperous town 50 miles north of New York City. From the theater's simple facade and faded charm, it is hard to imagine that this was one of the important theaters in the Northeast, where headliners and musical legends once entertained Danbury's upper crust. The historic theater, originally built in 1928 when Danbury was a wealthy town, h...

In the heart of San Daniele Next, we go to the Prosciutto Morgantic rustic showroom in San Daniele.   The Morgante family and the Friuli region have been part of the history of the company since before the first half of the 19th century when it all started with Luigi, a trader in Tarcento (Ud). His son Cesare later opened a butcher’s shop and his grandson Olvino learned the art of meat processing. The industrial structure of the company, based in the lowlands of Friuli, in ...

  Right after Mao, in Communist China  early 1980s, director Buming XU recalls the situation in most households where a standard toilet was a luxury and people used "potties". A young Chinese girl Dan, lives in  a stifling environment with her family in a house without toilet and has to empty her obnoxious younger brother's waste after he spends most of the day sitting on the loo. When she finally has a flush  toilet  closestool installed next to her bedroom, she suddenly finds ...

By Maria Esteves - July 7, 2008 The 2008 International DJ (Disc Jockey) Expo (DJX20), presented by DJ Times Magazine and Testa Communications, will be held at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, Atlantic City, NJ, August 11-14, 2008. DJ Expo exposition and conference is the international dance music event showcasing seminars, hands-on workshops, panel discussions, exhibit hall, DVJ/IDJ software/hardware system giveaways, parties, and awards ceremony. DJ Expo attracts artists, DJs, VJs, industry p...

Filmfestival.com (an official partner of Cannes Market teamed with a group of designers Primium and Elegangz to create new links between Cannes Festival and Virtual 3D World. The teams reproduced Cannes, the croisette and the red carpet, the 3.14 beach were filmfestivals hosted panels... A chance for all invited on "gangz" island to have fun, chill out and walk up the prestigious stairs in good company. Some "AvaStars" like Bruce Willis, Marylin Monroe, Luc Besson, Depardieu can be spotted on th...

Tuesday, April 17---While Sarasota may be noted for its beautiful sunsets, pristine beaches and cultural offerings, it is also an important city of architectural interest. In the years after the second World War, a number of architects, influenced by modernism and the Bauhaus movement, built a number of intriguing public and private buildings, which constitute an architectural legacy of some renown. Whether this legacy is properly prized by local authorities is another issue. As Sarasota grows i...

 The Berlinale is coming to a close and the exhibitors at the European Film Market are starting to pack their stuff after one full week of fruitful exchanges between buyers, sellers and institutions. The building that hosted most of the companies, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, is still teeming with life as people are meeting in the huge atrium around cups of coffee, as the weather is so freezing outside, taking time to marvel at the wonderful structure inspired by Italian Renaissance. Watching th...

Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack tries his hand at the non-fiction format in SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY, his intimate film portrait of one of the world’s most successful and creative architects.Pollack, whose directorial career dates back to the 1960s, and includes such legendary films as THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, TOOTSIE and the multi-Academy Award winner OUT OF AFRICA, is one of a handful of directors who is also a prolific producer (THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY,...