Specifically she is speaking about what role the arts play in “our lives and in society as a whole.” OK, I guess that’s not so specific. But hey, if she gets the conversation going, I’m sure the results will be interesting — especially …
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Rachel Maddow Speaks on the Arts at Jacob's Pillow Saturday …
A native of Lansing, Mich., who later moved to suburban Chicago and set much of his work there, Hughes rose from ad writer to comedy writer to silver screen champ with his affectionate and idealized portraits of teens, …
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'80s teen-comedy director John Hughes dies at 59. (Obit and poll …
Being a part of the fourth Rome International Film Festival’s out-of-competition official selection, “Julie & Julia” is given the honor to be the closing movie at the festival which will run from October 15 to 23.
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'Julie and Julia' to Close 2009 Rome Film Festival
ROMANTIC COMEDY ~ Steamboat Bill Jr. ~ Buster Keaton 2pm Saturday 5th ~ 1928 ~ 71mins. Willie is the effete son of riverboat captain ‘Steamboat Bill’, visiting his dad after years away.
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Comedy! Melodrama! Schmaltz! « The Bioscope
The Fort Ontario Festival of the Arts is made possible in part by a Decentralization Grant secured through the Cultural Resources Council from the New York State Council on the Arts , and is hosted and sponsored by the NYS Office of …
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PONTIAC, Mich. — Oakland County, Local 4, and Arts Beats and Eats Festival will support the Big 3 at this year’s festival held Labor Day weekend. Monday, August 3, 2009.
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At Bruges we intertwine several threads of lectures and screenings, and this year we had silent films (The Cat and the Canary, The Wind), Hollywood’s cinema of emigration (Florey, Siodmak, Ophuls, etc.), and contemporary Korean film . …
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Observations on film art and FILM ART : Class of 1960
Complete coverage of Silent Films released on DVD.
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Silent DVD: The 2009 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
A documentary by Aleksandr Sokurov, a famous Russian director, called “Reading the Book of Blockade” will be screened as part of the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 9.
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Russian doc makes it onto Venice Film Forum's line-up – RT