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Tuesday 13 May 2008

Lebanon 'Under the Bombs' by Philippe Aractingi

In August 2006, at the height of the bombing campaigns in Lebanon, Philippe Aractingi took out his camera and started making a film which is part-fiction, part-documentary.
  • CINEMA
    Lebanon 'Under the Bombs' by Philippe Aractingi
    In August 2006, at the height of the bombing campaigns in Lebanon, Philippe Aractingi took out his camera and started making a film which is part-fiction, part-documentary.
  • CINEMA
    Spielberg may be planning Lincoln biopic
    For the 200th anniversary of the birth of 16th US president Abraham Lincoln, movie director Steven Spielberg is planning a biopic, according to the Los Angeles Times. Actor Liam Neeson has been tipped to play Lincoln's role.
  • ITALY - CINEMA
    Rome mayor clamps down on foreigners at film festival
    The recently-elected mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, plans to shift the focus of the city's film festival from celebrities to a celebration of Italian cinema. The festival was inaugurated only two years ago by Alemanno's predecessor Walter Veltroni.
  • CINEMA - VIDEO GAMES
    Smash hit video game BioShock goes to Hollywood
    'Pirates of the Caribbean' director Gore Verbinski will make a movie out of the award-winning videogame 'BioShock,' a futuristic underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong.
  • CINEMA - USA
    Oliver Stone's movie on Bush to be released ahead of polls
    "W", Oliver Stone's political biography of President George W. Bush, will hit US screens in October, one month ahead of the presidential election. The director of 'JFK' and 'Platoon' said the main character would make his new film "funnier."
  • ARCHITECTURE
    Vertical in a nave by Richard Serra
    The glorious Grand Palais in Paris has opened its huge nave to the American contemporary sculptor Richad Serra. Designed to interact with the environment, his new creation 'Promenade' fills visitors with a sensation of Vertigo.
  • ART - TIBET
    Tibetan art in exile
    Intended to help meditation, long painted banners known as Thangkas portray the Dalai Lama or Buddhist deities. Chinese authorities have banned them in Tibet and scholars now have to travel to Dharamasala in India to learn the century-old skills.
  • INTERNET - RELIGION
    Vatican puts Latin online
    The Vatican's official website now features a Latin section, alongside the site's six modern languages. The pages called 'Sancta Sedes' (Holy See) are intended to remind viewers that Latin is still the official language of the Roman Catholic Church.
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