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All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:36:21 GMT Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:36:21 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - Boing Boing tv: We're a Year Old, and Yes We Can (Announce a New Programming Plan) http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/boing-boing-tv-we-re-a-year-old-and-yes-we-can-announce-20081118129.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/boing-boing-tv-we-re-a-year-old-and-yes-we-can-announce-20081118129.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:18:24 GMT Today, we announce some changes over at Boing Boing tv -- the good kind. The show completed its first year of Boingsistence on October 2, 2008 (remember our very first day back in 2007?), and we've spent some time in recent weeks thinking through new things we'd like to explore, and how to stay nimble and consistently fresh during a time when many online video shows are, to be frank, having a rather hard time of things. Here's what we're doing. Each MONDAY, we'll post a brief update of goings-on around the mothership blog, hosted by me, including iChat Video or Skype interviews with folks we've blogged about recently. Kind of a fast news update, and a way for us to keep you in the loop on things that Cory, Mark, Pesco and I have posted here on Boing Boing that have taken on a life of their own. We're posting the first one of these momentarily (yeah, I know it's Tuesday, but we're kicking things off today.) UPDATE: Here's our first Boing Boing tv Weekly Update episode! TUESDAY, expect a Boing Boing Gadgets item. We're producing a bunch of short electronics/tech stuff reviews from Joel Johnson, and we hope to include BB Gadgets co-editors John Brownlee and Rob Beschizza, soon, too. WEDNESDAYS, we'll feature stuff from Brandon Boyer and crew at Boing Boing Offworld, the games blog we launched yesterday. Check out offworld.com for a hint of how this will feel: gaming seen through a wide lens that encompasses the art, culture, and human experience of gaming, not just a buying guide. THURSDAYS, we'll continue to bring the engaging original programming that we love to produce, and you, our audience, seem to love just as much. We?ll keep bringing you reports from around the world; mini-documentaries about tech and culture topics with me, the other Boingers, and other brilliant people around the world (Kyle Glanville doing coffee treks in Brazil, Joi Ito galavanting around in Tokyo, Sean Bonner hunting monsters, Monochrom herding inebriated Vikings, John Behrens and the Omega Recoil Tesla Coil builders); and all the other brain exploding material we have yet to find! FRIDAYS? The return of the Unicorn Chaser. This will surprise and delight you. It will be super awesome. You will thank us all weekend long. So, that's the plan. And on behalf of my Boing Boing partners, a very special THANKS to everyone who made the first year of Boing Boing tv possible, including, but not limited to, and in no particular order...current crew members and alumni Derek Bledsoe, Rob Bergsma, Keith Carunida, Dana Devonshire, and Wesly Varghese; our jungle-dwelling consigliere and creative consultant Jolon Bankey; our production advisor Matt West of DECA; DECA co-founders Michael Wayne and Chris Kimbell, and the entire staff and management team of DECA, George Ruiz at ICM; our attorney Rob Rader of MSK; the good folks at Creative Commons and the EFF, to Sarah Milstein, and the teams at Castfire and Episodic, our sysadmin Ken Snider ("The Man in the Jeffries Tubes"), and the management and sales superheroes at Federated Media -- John Battelle, Chas Edwards, Bernie Albers, Jason Weisberger, Mugs Buckley, Neil Chase, Jennifer Tamez, James Navin, Josh Mattison, Jackie Mogol, Alison Marino, Jason Ratner, Mac Delaney, Lester Lee, Leona Laurie, Matt Jessell, Sacha Lien, Cindy Murphy, James Gross, Ivan Kanevski, Liam Boylan, Eric Amsden, and Jonathan Schrieber. A very special thanks to the many friends who've contributed talent to the show, including John Hodgman, the MAKE (event and magazine) folks, Johannes and the team at monochrom; Matt and Hiroko, Todd Lappin; Bill Barminski; Syd Garon; Russell Porter; Eddie Codel, Jason McHugh, Charis Tobias, Adam Koford, EBOY, Mister Jalopy, and many others. Thanks to the guys at Virgin America, Apple/iTunes, and YouTube, for help with distribution. And much gratitude to Boing Boing tv's past and present sponsors, including: Intel, Dell, Samsung, Verizon, Microsoft, Crowdfire, Toshiba, BMW, IBM, T Mobile, Amazon, Adobe, SanDisk, and JCPenney. [gasps for breath]. Also, God, and our moms. Thank you and good-boing.... Boingboing.Net Boing Boing tv: We're a Year Old, and Yes We Can (Announce a New Programming Plan) {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Today, we announce some changes over at Boing Boing tv -- the good kind. The show completed its first year of Boingsistence on October 2, 2008 (remember our very first day back in 2007?), and we've spent some time in recent weeks thinking through new things we'd like to explore, and how to stay nimble and consistently fresh during a time when many online video shows are, to be frank, having a rather hard time of things. Here's what we're doing. Each MONDAY, we'll post a brief update of goings-on around the mothership blog, hosted by me, including iChat Video or Skype interviews with folks we've blogged about recently. Kind of a fast news update, and a way for us to keep you in the loop on things that Cory, Mark, Pesco and I have posted here on Boing Boing that have taken on a life of their own. We're posting the first one of these momentarily (yeah, I know it's Tuesday, but we're kicking things off today.) UPDATE: Here's our first Boing Boing tv Weekly Update episode! TUESDAY, expect a Boing Boing Gadgets item. We're producing a bunch of short electronics/tech stuff reviews from Joel Johnson, and we hope to include BB Gadgets co-editors John Brownlee and Rob Beschizza, soon, too. WEDNESDAYS, we'll feature stuff from Brandon Boyer and crew at Boing Boing Offworld, the games blog we launched yesterday. Check out offworld.com for a hint of how this will feel: gaming seen through a wide lens that encompasses the art, culture, and human experience of gaming, not just a buying guide. THURSDAYS, we'll continue to bring the engaging original programming that we love to produce, and you, our audience, seem to love just as much. We?ll keep bringing you reports from around the world; mini-documentaries about tech and culture topics with me, the other Boingers, and other brilliant people around the world (Kyle Glanville doing coffee treks in Brazil, Joi Ito galavanting around in Tokyo, Sean Bonner hunting monsters, Monochrom herding inebriated Vikings, John Behrens and the Omega Recoil Tesla Coil builders); and all the other brain exploding material we have yet to find! FRIDAYS? The return of the Unicorn Chaser. This will surprise and delight you. It will be super awesome. You will thank us all weekend long. So, that's the plan. And on behalf of my Boing Boing partners, a very special THANKS to everyone who made the first year of Boing Boing tv possible, including, but not limited to, and in no particular order...current crew members and alumni Derek Bledsoe, Rob Bergsma, Keith Carunida, Dana Devonshire, and Wesly Varghese; our jungle-dwelling consigliere and creative consultant Jolon Bankey; our production advisor Matt West of DECA; DECA co-founders Michael Wayne and Chris Kimbell, and the entire staff and management team of DECA, George Ruiz at ICM; our attorney Rob Rader of MSK; the good folks at Creative Commons and the EFF, to Sarah Milstein, and the teams at Castfire and Episodic, our sysadmin Ken Snider ("The Man in the Jeffries Tubes"), and the management and sales superheroes at Federated Media -- John Battelle, Chas Edwards, Bernie Albers, Jason Weisberger, Mugs Buckley, Neil Chase, Jennifer Tamez, James Navin, Josh Mattison, Jackie Mogol, Alison Marino, Jason Ratner, Mac Delaney, Lester Lee, Leona Laurie, Matt Jessell, Sacha Lien, Cindy Murphy, James Gross, Ivan Kanevski, Liam Boylan, Eric Amsden, and Jonathan Schrieber. A very special thanks to the many friends who've contributed talent to the show, including John Hodgman, the MAKE (event and magazine) folks, Johannes and the team at monochrom; Matt and Hiroko, Todd Lappin; Bill Barminski; Syd Garon; Russell Porter; Eddie Codel, Jason McHugh, Charis Tobias, Adam Koford, EBOY, Mister Jalopy, and many others. Thanks to the guys at Virgin America, Apple/iTunes, and YouTube, for help with distribution. And much gratitude to Boing Boing tv's past and present sponsors, including: Intel, Dell, Samsung, Verizon, Microsoft, Crowdfire, Toshiba, BMW, IBM, T Mobile, Amazon, Adobe, SanDisk, and JCPenney. [gasps for breath]. Also, God, and our moms. Thank you and good-boing....
Boing Boing tv: We're a Year Old, and Yes We Can (Announce a New Programming Plan) - Boing Boing {...}
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]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - Limbaugh's guest host is latest radio host to compare current policies or proposals to slavery http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/limbaugh-s-guest-host-is-latest-radio-host-to-compare-20081142631.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/limbaugh-s-guest-host-is-latest-radio-host-to-compare-20081142631.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:32:26 GMT While discussing potential Republican outreach efforts toward African-Americans during the November 14 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Jason Lewis stated: "[T]his whole notion of taxing -- taxing America's labor -- you know, I don't know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody's ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor." Lewis later added: "We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because they know what it's like to have to work for free. And during the times of slavery, we targeted black folks. Well, now I guess it's OK to target wealthy folks. Either way, you're taking something that doesn't belong to you." Lewis hosts a weekday radio show on Minnesota's 100.3 KTLK-FM, the same station that broadcasts The Chris Baker Show. As Media Matters for America documented, on the November 6 broadcast of Clear Channel's The War Room, co-host Jim Quinn compared "slave[s] in the old South" to welfare recipients today, the "difference" being that "[t]he slave[s] had to work for" the benefits Quinn said they received. Quinn defended those comments on the November 7 broadcast of his radio show, saying, "Now, naturally, the point that I was making was that there are two forms of servitude: There's the servitude that you can be forced into, and there's the servitude you can be coerced into, I mean, the horrors of slavery notwithstanding -- naturally, that was my point." Additionally, on the September 3 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show, host Lee Rodgers said: "Bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. ... Free of the stifling stupidity of liberalism, which disguises slavery as benevolence. That's -- that's the program for the Obama campaign, by the way." From the November 14 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: LEWIS: What was the party in control? During the Jim Crow era, what was the party in control? The Democrats. CALLER: The Democrats. LEWIS: Yeah. CALLER: Nobody knows that, though, Jason. Nobody knows none of that history, particularly down here where I'm at. Nobody knows. They've been lying to them, man, for 40 years. LEWIS: By the way, it's another great point you bring up. It's also very dangerous to rely on the Supreme Court and unelected judges, because it was the Supreme Court that upheld Plessy versus Ferguson in -- I think it was 1896 -- that said separate but equal is just fine, for 60 years. Well, what was the court made up of? I mean, you're right -- CALLER: Nobody knows that history, Jason. We -- I saw -- somebody was reading it off one of the morning shows or something, what all the Republicans have did as pertaining to that issue. And the Democrats -- LEWIS: I got you. CALLER: -- ain't got nothing compared to that. So, we're talking -- LEWIS: Well, it might change. [Caller], I gotta go -- I gotta go, buddy. But it might change if former Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, who has announced his candidacy for the position of chairman of the Republican National Committee -- conservative African-American -- becomes the head of the party. I know he's been wanting Republicans to go into the African-American community and saying that. And I would only add that this whole notion of taxing -- taxing America's labor -- you know, I don't know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody's ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor. We fought a great war over that. And you're quite right. We lost 600,000 Americans, many of them white, by the way. This country repaired itself. This country repaired the damage it was done. Those are reparations -- 600,000 lives. The bottom line, however, is, that we need to go into the African-American community as conservatives. It's a natural constituency. Seventy percent of African-Americans voted to uphold traditional marriage in California, and now they're seeing the intolerance of the militant gay left. We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because they know what it's like to have to work for free. And during the times of slavery, we targeted black folks. Well, now I guess it's OK to target wealthy folks. Either way, you're taking something that doesn't belong to you. Thanks for the call and the reminder. Mediamatters.Org Limbaugh's guest host is latest radio host to compare current policies or proposals to slavery {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - While discussing potential Republican outreach efforts toward African-Americans during the November 14 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Jason Lewis stated: "[T]his whole notion of taxing -- taxing America's labor -- you know, I don't know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody's ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor." Lewis later added: "We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because they know what it's like to have to work for free. And during the times of slavery, we targeted black folks. Well, now I guess it's OK to target wealthy folks. Either way, you're taking something that doesn't belong to you." Lewis hosts a weekday radio show on Minnesota's 100.3 KTLK-FM, the same station that broadcasts The Chris Baker Show. As Media Matters for America documented, on the November 6 broadcast of Clear Channel's The War Room, co-host Jim Quinn compared "slave[s] in the old South" to welfare recipients today, the "difference" being that "[t]he slave[s] had to work for" the benefits Quinn said they received. Quinn defended those comments on the November 7 broadcast of his radio show, saying, "Now, naturally, the point that I was making was that there are two forms of servitude: There's the servitude that you can be forced into, and there's the servitude you can be coerced into, I mean, the horrors of slavery notwithstanding -- naturally, that was my point." Additionally, on the September 3 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show, host Lee Rodgers said: "Bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. ... Free of the stifling stupidity of liberalism, which disguises slavery as benevolence. That's -- that's the program for the Obama campaign, by the way." From the November 14 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: LEWIS: What was the party in control? During the Jim Crow era, what was the party in control? The Democrats. CALLER: The Democrats. LEWIS: Yeah. CALLER: Nobody knows that, though, Jason. Nobody knows none of that history, particularly down here where I'm at. Nobody knows. They've been lying to them, man, for 40 years. LEWIS: By the way, it's another great point you bring up. It's also very dangerous to rely on the Supreme Court and unelected judges, because it was the Supreme Court that upheld Plessy versus Ferguson in -- I think it was 1896 -- that said separate but equal is just fine, for 60 years. Well, what was the court made up of? I mean, you're right -- CALLER: Nobody knows that history, Jason. We -- I saw -- somebody was reading it off one of the morning shows or something, what all the Republicans have did as pertaining to that issue. And the Democrats -- LEWIS: I got you. CALLER: -- ain't got nothing compared to that. So, we're talking -- LEWIS: Well, it might change. [Caller], I gotta go -- I gotta go, buddy. But it might change if former Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, who has announced his candidacy for the position of chairman of the Republican National Committee -- conservative African-American -- becomes the head of the party. I know he's been wanting Republicans to go into the African-American community and saying that. And I would only add that this whole notion of taxing -- taxing America's labor -- you know, I don't know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody's ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor. We fought a great war over that. And you're quite right. We lost 600,000 Americans, many of them white, by the way. This country repaired itself. This country repaired the damage it was done. Those are reparations -- 600,000 lives. The bottom line, however, is, that we need to go into the African-American community as conservatives. It's a natural constituency. Seventy percent of African-Americans voted to uphold traditional marriage in California, and now they're seeing the intolerance of the militant gay left. We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because they know what it's like to have to work for free. And during the times of slavery, we targeted black folks. Well, now I guess it's OK to target wealthy folks. Either way, you're taking something that doesn't belong to you. Thanks for the call and the reminder.
Media Matters - Limbaugh's guest host is latest radio host to compare current policies or proposals to slavery {...} While discussing potential Republican outreach efforts toward African-American s, Jason Lewis stated on The Rush Limbaugh Show : "[T]his whole notion of taxing -- taxing America's labor -- you know, I don't know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody's ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor." Lewis later added: "We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because they know what it's like to have to work for free." {...}
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {NEWS > BREAKING NEWS} - Top 10 Wired.com Reader Portrait Photos, Decided by You http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/top-10-wired-com-reader-portrait-photos-decided-20080910928.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/top-10-wired-com-reader-portrait-photos-decided-20080910928.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT : While a portrait can be one of the most difficult types of photo to do well, our readers have once again demonstrated their superior taste by selecting these 10 photos from our portrait photo contest. Jason Lee takes home the gold with his photo "Kayla" at left. Mr. Lee will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk. Since we had so many great photos that we thought should've received more votes, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Portrait Photo Gallery. Our next twice-monthly photo contest is fall. As the world packs up shop for winter, we want to see what signifies fall for you. Check out the contest page for more information. Left: Kayla Submitted by Jason Lee Photographer's comment: "Just a simple portrait of my younger daughter.? : Building Contractor Submitted by Shane Knudsen Photographer's comment: This man stopped by while I was visiting with my friend, Sajid. I remember that he was a building contractor (and a rather busy one considering the 2005 earthquake), but I never caught his name. This is just one of those faces you absolutely have to photograph. Fortunately, my friend was able to translate posing instructions for me, since I don't speak Pari or Urdu.? : Under the Overpass Submitted by Anonymous Photographer's comment: "On the streets of Houston." : Sam Stanley Kubrick Submitted by Richard Penny Photographer's comment: "Portrait of my middle son in the garden riding his toy bike whilst wearing my motorbike helmet. Looks very 2001: A Space Odyssey." : Marble Mayhem Submitted by Tyler Klemp Photographer's comment: "She's wearing a really soft Russian rabbit hat." : Filthy Habit Submitted by Ciaran Whyte Photographer's comment: "A smoker in a pub doorway, in Dublin." : smoke'n hot... Submitted by Max Trombly Photographer's comment: "My friend kriss and I were hang'n out and she was in need of a light ?. This photo was taken using the natural light emitting from the molotov.. no added light from another source ... 1/80 f./5 1600 iso shot with a canon 20D in my driveway." : Commute Submitted by Kent Colony Photographer's comment: "Nikon Digital" : Rafa Submitted by Chyett de Landròn-Smith Photographer's comment: "I took this image of Raphael, my nephew. We were quite bored, and decided to take some photos. The little guy is so photogenic." : The Dream Submitted by Joe Russo Photographer's comment: "A photo project for JieXin, the dancer you see in the photo. Somewhat of mid-night dream sequence. Colours by Lightroom. No photoshop. Nikon D300, 50-mm 1.8, natural light." Wired.Com Top 10 Wired.com Reader Portrait Photos, Decided by You {new window}   Www.Wired.Com - : While a portrait can be one of the most difficult types of photo to do well, our readers have once again demonstrated their superior taste by selecting these 10 photos from our portrait photo contest. Jason Lee takes home the gold with his photo "Kayla" at left. Mr. Lee will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk. Since we had so many great photos that we thought should've received more votes, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Portrait Photo Gallery. Our next twice-monthly photo contest is fall. As the world packs up shop for winter, we want to see what signifies fall for you. Check out the contest page for more information. Left: Kayla Submitted by Jason Lee Photographer's comment: "Just a simple portrait of my younger daughter.? : Building Contractor Submitted by Shane Knudsen Photographer's comment: This man stopped by while I was visiting with my friend, Sajid. I remember that he was a building contractor (and a rather busy one considering the 2005 earthquake), but I never caught his name. This is just one of those faces you absolutely have to photograph. Fortunately, my friend was able to translate posing instructions for me, since I don't speak Pari or Urdu.? : Under the Overpass Submitted by Anonymous Photographer's comment: "On the streets of Houston." : Sam Stanley Kubrick Submitted by Richard Penny Photographer's comment: "Portrait of my middle son in the garden riding his toy bike whilst wearing my motorbike helmet. Looks very 2001: A Space Odyssey." : Marble Mayhem Submitted by Tyler Klemp Photographer's comment: "She's wearing a really soft Russian rabbit hat." : Filthy Habit Submitted by Ciaran Whyte Photographer's comment: "A smoker in a pub doorway, in Dublin." : smoke'n hot... Submitted by Max Trombly Photographer's comment: "My friend kriss and I were hang'n out and she was in need of a light ?. This photo was taken using the natural light emitting from the molotov.. no added light from another source ... 1/80 f./5 1600 iso shot with a canon 20D in my driveway." : Commute Submitted by Kent Colony Photographer's comment: "Nikon Digital" : Rafa Submitted by Chyett de Landròn-Smith Photographer's comment: "I took this image of Raphael, my nephew. We were quite bored, and decided to take some photos. The little guy is so photogenic." : The Dream Submitted by Joe Russo Photographer's comment: "A photo project for JieXin, the dancer you see in the photo. Somewhat of mid-night dream sequence. Colours by Lightroom. No photoshop. Nikon D300, 50-mm 1.8, natural light."
We challenged our readers to give us their best portrait photos and vote on which ones they liked best. Here are the results. {...}
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]]> News > Breaking News {EUROPE > HEADLINE LINKS} - Afghan battle Para a 'role model' http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/headline-links/afghan-battle-para-a-role-model-20080952423.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/headline-links/afghan-battle-para-a-role-model-20080952423.htm Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:53:00 GMT A British soldier shot dead in a firefight with the Taleban in Afghanistan is named as Private Jason Lee Rawstron, 23. News.Bbc.Co.Uk Afghan battle Para a 'role model' {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - A British soldier shot dead in a firefight with the Taleban in Afghanistan is named as Private Jason Lee Rawstron, 23.
BBC NEWS | UK | Afghan battle Para a 'role model' {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media > Headline Links {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Jason Solomons takes a look at the films that are rejuvenating French cinema http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/jason-solomons-takes-a-look-at-the-films-that-are-20081174326.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/jason-solomons-takes-a-look-at-the-films-that-are-20081174326.htm Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:03:35 GMT When director Laurent Cantet accepted the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May, he took to the stage surrounded by a large cast of children. African, Caribbean, white, Arab, Chinese - these French faces were the young stars of his film Entre les murs (The Class). It was a stirring, televised spectacle for the host nation - not only was it the first time in 21 years that a French film had picked up cinema's most prestigious trophy but it was a film about youth, hope and multi-culturalism that had achieved it.The Class is a magnificent film tracing a state school year in the lively, racially mixed classroom of one teacher, François Bégaudeau. A winning blend of documentary style and improvised drama, the film reflects the changing nature of French society in microcosm, using these 14-year-old Parisian kids' identities and personalities to touch on themes of race, postcolonialism, language and law. Cantet's film is not typical of traditional French cinema, but does its success at Cannes mean that, finally, France's film-makers are opening up to the possibilities of reflecting the new world around them?Perhaps the cosy, traditional French bourgeois drama is becoming a thing of the past. Such films have tended to fall into two categories: the country house affair, with large family gatherings on sun-filled terraces; or the urbane Parisian comedy, packed with bistro meetings, girls in summer dresses, chic women in Chanel suits, fabulous apartments overlooking the Seine and strolls in the Jardin du Luxembourg.Perhaps the optimism inspired by France's victory in the football World Cup that it hosted in 1998, when the 'rainbow nation' team of Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry and Youri Djorkaeff paraded along the Champs-Elysées, has now filtered into French culture. 'All I know is that this film struck a chord with this particular jury at Cannes in this particular year,' says Cantet. 'I greatly enjoyed making the film and spending a year with these wonderful young people, so, personally, I think there is great cause for hope in the future of our country and it is encouraging to see that hope reflected in French cinema.'These are heady times for French film, which seems finally to have found a new voice after many years spent emerging from the long shadows of the Nouvelle Vague and battling the influence of Hollywood. French films are taking centre stage around the world and the names of French directors are once again rolling off the tongues of cinephiles: Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, Olivier Assayas, Agnès Jaoui. Is this the start of a new New Wave?This group of directors is disparate but certainly brings a new edge to French film. Cantet has been building a distinctive career with socially aware films such as Human Resources and Time Out, films about men caught in suffocating systems and workplaces. Kechiche, born in Tunisia, has also - in films such as L'esquive (The Dodge) and last year's César-winning Couscous - concentrated on a social realism more in tune with the films of Britain's Ken Loach than anything in the French tradition. The films of Assayas, a former film critic, range widely, from twentysomething Parisian bourgeois angst in Fin août, début septembre, to a spin on period drama among a porcelain-producing family in Les destinées sentimentales, to doom-laden global futurism in Demonlover.'We're not a family, that's for sure,' says Agnès Jaoui, the writer, director and actress whose new film, Let's Talk About the Rain, is now playing in UK cinemas. Jaoui - known for polished ensemble comedies such as the Cannes-winning Comme une image (Look at Me) and The Taste of Others - was brought up by poor immigrant Tunisian Jewish parents in Paris. 'I don't feel that we're part of a new school or fashion or movement. But, yes, we are, we must be, united by something - the fact that, somehow, 15 years or so ago, French cinema survived.'Jaoui is referring to 'la loi Toubon', the law introduced in 1994 by culture minister Jacques Toubon which protected French language and production. Two out of every five songs on the radio, for example, must be in French. The laws on film production led to tax breaks and levies pouring money into French productions and keeping French films playing in multiplexes.According to Jaoui, all European countries would benefit from such laws. 'French cinema was nearly destroyed by the weight of its own history and by the power of Hollywood on its young people,' she says. 'Maybe even film-makers were against these laws at first, but now I would say that, among us all in the current generation, there is a general feeling, a mood, of survival and of diversity.'In France, 2008 has been a landmark year. Not only did The Class win the Palme d'Or but Marion Cotillard won a Best Actress Oscar - the first French language performance ever to do so, propelling her film, La Vie en Rose, to impressive international box-office figures (£1m in the UK). France also produced its most successful film ever in Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Sticks), a culture-clash comedy based in small-town northern France, which brought 20 million French people into cinemas, grossing more than $200m and, so far, racking up more than two million DVD sales. No film, French or American, has been more popular.In the UK, French film dominates the foreign language releases. The number of French films in 2008 stands at 42, with receipts expected to be above £15m. According to Unifrance, which promotes French film abroad, the number of tickets sold in the UK for French films in the past three years has increased fivefold.What we are seeing, in other words, is a new wave of commercialism in French cinema. Rather than wowing the world - as the New Wave did with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle or Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups - with a new style or a new film grammar, France has positioned itself as a powerhouse of production, cultivating a domestic scene that also feeds international reputation and demand. For instance, it is not seen as a commercial risk to have French actor Mathieu Amalric as the latest Bond villain.French cinema is using this new internationalism wisely. Guillaume Canet, for instance, is perhaps best known for starring with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach. But he is also the young director behind Tell No One, a stylish thriller that enjoyed a long run in British cinemas last year and is now enjoying cult success in New York and Los Angeles. You would not call it traditional 'arthouse', but it does trade on being more upmarket simply because it's in a foreign language. It also depicts a grittier, urban France, which is also reflected in one of the most anticipated French films, Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One, an epic, two-part crime saga starring Vincent Cassel as one of France's most notorious gangsters. This year's current stylish French mystery - complete with bluesy guitar slides reminiscent of Tell No One - is I've Loved You So Long, which looks likely to earn several awards nominations for its leading lady, Kristin Scott Thomas, who also appeared in Tell No One, and is, of course, familiar around the world.The global reach of French cinema is both a blessing and a curse, according to a veteran observer of such things. Agnès Varda, often labelled the 'grandmother of the New Wave', is now 80 but has just completed a beguiling personal film called Les plages d'Agnès. 'Nowadays, French cinema has to be international to survive. There is so much competition, so much pressure. Now you have films from a dozen other countries. We never had that. Our only competition used to be from the Italians.'Varda thinks highly of Abdellatif Kechiche whose La graine et le mulet (Couscous) is a wonderful film which follows an elderly Arab immigrant, Slimane, as he tries to build his dream: a fish couscous restaurant on a disused boat in the town of Sète, near Marseille. Again, like Cantet, using improvisation and documentary techniques in a realist tradition, Kechiche's masterly work brought to the fore a cast of characters - mostly Arab in origin - ignored by French cinema for too long. An unexpected commercial success at the French box office, Couscous introduced the actress Hafsia Herzi and she is now on her way to becoming French cinema's first female Arab superstar.France's leading Arab film star is Jamel Debbouze, who first became known through TV comedy but who has now moved to the big screen in films such as the Asterix adaptations starring Gérard Depardieu, Amélie opposite Audrey Tatou and, most significantly, the fine revisionist Second World War drama Days of Glory, directed by Algerian-born Rachid Bouchareb, about the contribution of African troops in liberating France from the Nazis. Debbouze is now starring in Let's Talk About the Rain. 'Jamel is a phenomenon in France, not just a star,' says Jaoui. 'But would you believe we still got some sniping in the press, that we were seeking bigger audiences by working with Jamel, that we were somehow dumbing down our usual ensemble to include him. That's just rubbish, but it shows how hard it still is to change things around in France.'Even more traditional French films have been given a twist. It's interesting to note that idiosyncratic director Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale and Olivier Assayas's recent hit, Summer Hours, starring Juliette Binoche, are both about old French families coming to terms with the death of their matriarch and the divvying up of the family home. Let's Talk About the Rain has similar themes. All three films show a big French family shaken up by modern life, with its taxes, globalism and multiculturalism. For Assayas, a return to making bourgeois drama was, ironically, the route for him to say more about the future of French culture. In the film, family members (including Binoche, Jérémie Renier, Charles Berling) meet to discuss what to do with the valuable art collection left in their family summer house after the death of their mother (Edith Scob), once the lover of a great artist. The film borrowed many fabulous artworks from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.'I was surprised how easily this kind of bourgeois story was the canvas for talking about issues that obsess me,' says Assayas. 'Namely, how to respect the past yet also to embrace the future and appreciate its styles, fashions and ideas as much as what came before. I was surprised, too, by how popular this type of story still is with audiences, particularly abroad.'It's interesting that this generation of film-makers see themselves as reacting to the New Wave. 'The films of Godard and Truffaut are fine,' says Jaoui, 'but I think it took the new generation so long to come out of the shadow of the Nouvelle Vague that they did as much harm as good. You know, the Cahiers du Cinéma [France's leading intellectual film magazine] and the critics, that sort of snobisme held back film-makers for too long - it made us scared, lacking in experimentation to find our own voice to say: this is who we are, this is how we want our films to sound, to look, to be about.'I'm French but I'm the child of Tunisian parents, so I don't know if I would call my film French in any typical way. What is that now? Is it sophisticated comedy or realist social drama or big budget action? What we see now is very talented film-makers realising, hey, we're all still here, we're all alive, so let's just make the films we can and enjoy it. If that's a movement, then that's what we're all part of.' ? The Class opens in FebruaryWhat do you think? Email us at review@observer.co.ukNew classics: Cinq to see Irreversible (2002) Violent stunner from Argentinian-born director Gaspar Noé, a long, dark Paris nightmare about Vincent Cassel seeking revenge for the rape of his lover, Monica Bellucci. Prompted walk-outs and fainting at Cannes.The Beat My Heart Skipped (2005) Career-making performance by actor Romain Duris in Jacques Audiard's urban thriller about a property repo-man among immigrant squatters who really wants to be a concert pianist. Hidden (2005) Directed by Austrian Michael Haneke, Hidden gripped audiences with its unsettling mystery about a couple (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) sent incriminating video tapes - a brilliant film about post-colonial bourgeois guilt and the first to mention a police massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris in 1961.La Vie en Rose (2007) Olivier Dahan's biopic of Edith Piaf earned Marion Cotillard the first-ever best actress Oscar for a French language performance. Controversially skated over the Nazi occupation of Paris, and Piaf's performances for German officers.Couscous (2007) Released in France as La graine et le mulet, it was the surprise winner of four Césars earlier this year. The long family Sunday lunch is one of the great food scenes in film.World cinemaguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Jason Solomons takes a look at the films that are rejuvenating French cinema {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - When director Laurent Cantet accepted the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May, he took to the stage surrounded by a large cast of children. African, Caribbean, white, Arab, Chinese - these French faces were the young stars of his film Entre les murs (The Class). It was a stirring, televised spectacle for the host nation - not only was it the first time in 21 years that a French film had picked up cinema's most prestigious trophy but it was a film about youth, hope and multi-culturalism that had achieved it.The Class is a magnificent film tracing a state school year in the lively, racially mixed classroom of one teacher, François Bégaudeau. A winning blend of documentary style and improvised drama, the film reflects the changing nature of French society in microcosm, using these 14-year-old Parisian kids' identities and personalities to touch on themes of race, postcolonialism, language and law. Cantet's film is not typical of traditional French cinema, but does its success at Cannes mean that, finally, France's film-makers are opening up to the possibilities of reflecting the new world around them?Perhaps the cosy, traditional French bourgeois drama is becoming a thing of the past. Such films have tended to fall into two categories: the country house affair, with large family gatherings on sun-filled terraces; or the urbane Parisian comedy, packed with bistro meetings, girls in summer dresses, chic women in Chanel suits, fabulous apartments overlooking the Seine and strolls in the Jardin du Luxembourg.Perhaps the optimism inspired by France's victory in the football World Cup that it hosted in 1998, when the 'rainbow nation' team of Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry and Youri Djorkaeff paraded along the Champs-Elysées, has now filtered into French culture. 'All I know is that this film struck a chord with this particular jury at Cannes in this particular year,' says Cantet. 'I greatly enjoyed making the film and spending a year with these wonderful young people, so, personally, I think there is great cause for hope in the future of our country and it is encouraging to see that hope reflected in French cinema.'These are heady times for French film, which seems finally to have found a new voice after many years spent emerging from the long shadows of the Nouvelle Vague and battling the influence of Hollywood. French films are taking centre stage around the world and the names of French directors are once again rolling off the tongues of cinephiles: Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, Olivier Assayas, Agnès Jaoui. Is this the start of a new New Wave?This group of directors is disparate but certainly brings a new edge to French film. Cantet has been building a distinctive career with socially aware films such as Human Resources and Time Out, films about men caught in suffocating systems and workplaces. Kechiche, born in Tunisia, has also - in films such as L'esquive (The Dodge) and last year's César-winning Couscous - concentrated on a social realism more in tune with the films of Britain's Ken Loach than anything in the French tradition. The films of Assayas, a former film critic, range widely, from twentysomething Parisian bourgeois angst in Fin août, début septembre, to a spin on period drama among a porcelain-producing family in Les destinées sentimentales, to doom-laden global futurism in Demonlover.'We're not a family, that's for sure,' says Agnès Jaoui, the writer, director and actress whose new film, Let's Talk About the Rain, is now playing in UK cinemas. Jaoui - known for polished ensemble comedies such as the Cannes-winning Comme une image (Look at Me) and The Taste of Others - was brought up by poor immigrant Tunisian Jewish parents in Paris. 'I don't feel that we're part of a new school or fashion or movement. But, yes, we are, we must be, united by something - the fact that, somehow, 15 years or so ago, French cinema survived.'Jaoui is referring to 'la loi Toubon', the law introduced in 1994 by culture minister Jacques Toubon which protected French language and production. Two out of every five songs on the radio, for example, must be in French. The laws on film production led to tax breaks and levies pouring money into French productions and keeping French films playing in multiplexes.According to Jaoui, all European countries would benefit from such laws. 'French cinema was nearly destroyed by the weight of its own history and by the power of Hollywood on its young people,' she says. 'Maybe even film-makers were against these laws at first, but now I would say that, among us all in the current generation, there is a general feeling, a mood, of survival and of diversity.'In France, 2008 has been a landmark year. Not only did The Class win the Palme d'Or but Marion Cotillard won a Best Actress Oscar - the first French language performance ever to do so, propelling her film, La Vie en Rose, to impressive international box-office figures (£1m in the UK). France also produced its most successful film ever in Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Sticks), a culture-clash comedy based in small-town northern France, which brought 20 million French people into cinemas, grossing more than $200m and, so far, racking up more than two million DVD sales. No film, French or American, has been more popular.In the UK, French film dominates the foreign language releases. The number of French films in 2008 stands at 42, with receipts expected to be above £15m. According to Unifrance, which promotes French film abroad, the number of tickets sold in the UK for French films in the past three years has increased fivefold.What we are seeing, in other words, is a new wave of commercialism in French cinema. Rather than wowing the world - as the New Wave did with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle or Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups - with a new style or a new film grammar, France has positioned itself as a powerhouse of production, cultivating a domestic scene that also feeds international reputation and demand. For instance, it is not seen as a commercial risk to have French actor Mathieu Amalric as the latest Bond villain.French cinema is using this new internationalism wisely. Guillaume Canet, for instance, is perhaps best known for starring with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach. But he is also the young director behind Tell No One, a stylish thriller that enjoyed a long run in British cinemas last year and is now enjoying cult success in New York and Los Angeles. You would not call it traditional 'arthouse', but it does trade on being more upmarket simply because it's in a foreign language. It also depicts a grittier, urban France, which is also reflected in one of the most anticipated French films, Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One, an epic, two-part crime saga starring Vincent Cassel as one of France's most notorious gangsters. This year's current stylish French mystery - complete with bluesy guitar slides reminiscent of Tell No One - is I've Loved You So Long, which looks likely to earn several awards nominations for its leading lady, Kristin Scott Thomas, who also appeared in Tell No One, and is, of course, familiar around the world.The global reach of French cinema is both a blessing and a curse, according to a veteran observer of such things. Agnès Varda, often labelled the 'grandmother of the New Wave', is now 80 but has just completed a beguiling personal film called Les plages d'Agnès. 'Nowadays, French cinema has to be international to survive. There is so much competition, so much pressure. Now you have films from a dozen other countries. We never had that. Our only competition used to be from the Italians.'Varda thinks highly of Abdellatif Kechiche whose La graine et le mulet (Couscous) is a wonderful film which follows an elderly Arab immigrant, Slimane, as he tries to build his dream: a fish couscous restaurant on a disused boat in the town of Sète, near Marseille. Again, like Cantet, using improvisation and documentary techniques in a realist tradition, Kechiche's masterly work brought to the fore a cast of characters - mostly Arab in origin - ignored by French cinema for too long. An unexpected commercial success at the French box office, Couscous introduced the actress Hafsia Herzi and she is now on her way to becoming French cinema's first female Arab superstar.France's leading Arab film star is Jamel Debbouze, who first became known through TV comedy but who has now moved to the big screen in films such as the Asterix adaptations starring Gérard Depardieu, Amélie opposite Audrey Tatou and, most significantly, the fine revisionist Second World War drama Days of Glory, directed by Algerian-born Rachid Bouchareb, about the contribution of African troops in liberating France from the Nazis. Debbouze is now starring in Let's Talk About the Rain. 'Jamel is a phenomenon in France, not just a star,' says Jaoui. 'But would you believe we still got some sniping in the press, that we were seeking bigger audiences by working with Jamel, that we were somehow dumbing down our usual ensemble to include him. That's just rubbish, but it shows how hard it still is to change things around in France.'Even more traditional French films have been given a twist. It's interesting to note that idiosyncratic director Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale and Olivier Assayas's recent hit, Summer Hours, starring Juliette Binoche, are both about old French families coming to terms with the death of their matriarch and the divvying up of the family home. Let's Talk About the Rain has similar themes. All three films show a big French family shaken up by modern life, with its taxes, globalism and multiculturalism. For Assayas, a return to making bourgeois drama was, ironically, the route for him to say more about the future of French culture. In the film, family members (including Binoche, Jérémie Renier, Charles Berling) meet to discuss what to do with the valuable art collection left in their family summer house after the death of their mother (Edith Scob), once the lover of a great artist. The film borrowed many fabulous artworks from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.'I was surprised how easily this kind of bourgeois story was the canvas for talking about issues that obsess me,' says Assayas. 'Namely, how to respect the past yet also to embrace the future and appreciate its styles, fashions and ideas as much as what came before. I was surprised, too, by how popular this type of story still is with audiences, particularly abroad.'It's interesting that this generation of film-makers see themselves as reacting to the New Wave. 'The films of Godard and Truffaut are fine,' says Jaoui, 'but I think it took the new generation so long to come out of the shadow of the Nouvelle Vague that they did as much harm as good. You know, the Cahiers du Cinéma [France's leading intellectual film magazine] and the critics, that sort of snobisme held back film-makers for too long - it made us scared, lacking in experimentation to find our own voice to say: this is who we are, this is how we want our films to sound, to look, to be about.'I'm French but I'm the child of Tunisian parents, so I don't know if I would call my film French in any typical way. What is that now? Is it sophisticated comedy or realist social drama or big budget action? What we see now is very talented film-makers realising, hey, we're all still here, we're all alive, so let's just make the films we can and enjoy it. If that's a movement, then that's what we're all part of.' ? The Class opens in FebruaryWhat do you think? Email us at review@observer.co.ukNew classics: Cinq to see Irreversible (2002) Violent stunner from Argentinian-born director Gaspar Noé, a long, dark Paris nightmare about Vincent Cassel seeking revenge for the rape of his lover, Monica Bellucci. Prompted walk-outs and fainting at Cannes.The Beat My Heart Skipped (2005) Career-making performance by actor Romain Duris in Jacques Audiard's urban thriller about a property repo-man among immigrant squatters who really wants to be a concert pianist. Hidden (2005) Directed by Austrian Michael Haneke, Hidden gripped audiences with its unsettling mystery about a couple (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) sent incriminating video tapes - a brilliant film about post-colonial bourgeois guilt and the first to mention a police massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris in 1961.La Vie en Rose (2007) Olivier Dahan's biopic of Edith Piaf earned Marion Cotillard the first-ever best actress Oscar for a French language performance. Controversially skated over the Nazi occupation of Paris, and Piaf's performances for German officers.Couscous (2007) Released in France as La graine et le mulet, it was the surprise winner of four Césars earlier this year. The long family Sunday lunch is one of the great food scenes in film.World cinemaguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - After Shock: earthquake alternate reality game http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/after-shock-earthquake-alternate-reality-game-20081126617.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/after-shock-earthquake-alternate-reality-game-20081126617.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:35:57 GMT Today, Jason Tester, my colleague at Institute for the Future, and Art Center College of Design launched a fascinating new alternate reality game that simulates public response to a massive earthquake. After Shock asks the key question: What will you do when the big one hits? The game runs for three weeks. Jump in anytime! From Wired News: Aftershock, run by the Institute for the Future and Art Center College of Design, is based on a 300-page U.S. Geological Survey scenario report that details the extensive damage that Southern California could experience in the aftermath of a 7.8-magnitude quake on the San Andreas Fault. The game began on Thursday and will run for three weeks, prompting users to complete real-world missions ? and submit content based on them to the gaming community. "Disaster preparedness was at the point where the messaging had hit the limit. You can give people this really elegantly designed flyer, and they stick it in a drawer and it hits them in the head during the earthquake," said Jason Tester, the lead game designer at the IFTF. "[The game] says, 'You are experiencing a real earthquake.' We're trying to make it feel visceral." Play After Shock (aftershock.net), "LA Preps for the Big One With Massively Multiplayer Earthquake" (Wired) Previously on BB: ? Jason Tester: Case for Human-Future Interaction ? Aftifacts from the Future at IFTF... Boingboing.Net After Shock: earthquake alternate reality game {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Today, Jason Tester, my colleague at Institute for the Future, and Art Center College of Design launched a fascinating new alternate reality game that simulates public response to a massive earthquake. After Shock asks the key question: What will you do when the big one hits? The game runs for three weeks. Jump in anytime! From Wired News: Aftershock, run by the Institute for the Future and Art Center College of Design, is based on a 300-page U.S. Geological Survey scenario report that details the extensive damage that Southern California could experience in the aftermath of a 7.8-magnitude quake on the San Andreas Fault. The game began on Thursday and will run for three weeks, prompting users to complete real-world missions ? and submit content based on them to the gaming community. "Disaster preparedness was at the point where the messaging had hit the limit. You can give people this really elegantly designed flyer, and they stick it in a drawer and it hits them in the head during the earthquake," said Jason Tester, the lead game designer at the IFTF. "[The game] says, 'You are experiencing a real earthquake.' We're trying to make it feel visceral." Play After Shock (aftershock.net), "LA Preps for the Big One With Massively Multiplayer Earthquake" (Wired) Previously on BB: ? Jason Tester: Case for Human-Future Interaction ? Aftifacts from the Future at IFTF...
After Shock: earthquake alternate reality game - Boing Boing {...}
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]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Film Weekly podcast: Jason Solomons meets Mark Strong and Paddy Considine http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/film-weekly-podcast-jason-solomons-meets-mark-strong-20081198322.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/film-weekly-podcast-jason-solomons-meets-mark-strong-20081198322.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:27:26 GMT If I were a British film-maker and someone gave me a few quid to make a movie, I'd cast two British actors as my leads: Mark Strong and Paddy Considine. They're both always brilliant in whatever film they're in, powerful character actors who hold the screen and who can switch the mood from dark to light and back again in an instant. Well, I'm not making a film this week, but the very least I can do is have them both on Film Weekly for you. Mark Strong, after years of fine work in films from Fever Pitch to Syriana and RocknRolla, is finally mixing it with the big boys in Hollywood. He's in Ridley Scott's whizz-bang Middle East actioner Body of Lies, opposite Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. Mark takes a break from filming Guy Ritchie's new Sherlock Holmes movie, with Robert Downey Jr, to talk to us about wigs, baddies and being patient. Paddy Considine is perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Shane Meadows, as the menace in Dead Man's Shoes or A Room for Romeo Brass. He also created memorable characters in Pawel Pawlikowski's The Last Resort and My Summer of Love before taking his skills to Hollywood for Jim Sheridan's In America, Ron Howard's Cinderella Man and Paul Greengrass's The Bourne Ultimatum. Paddy's back on home turf for his directorial debut Dog Altogether, a moody, blistering short film featuring the mercurial presence of Scottish actor Peter Mullan. Ahead of a career retrospective at Bristol's Encounters Short Film and Animation festival (Nov 18-23), Paddy talks frankly and exclusively to Film Weekly about his work, past and future, and why it's not always up to his own exacting standards. Also on this week's show, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw and I see if the week's films meet our own exacting standards. German blockbuster The Baader-Meinhof Complex, Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno and debt documentary I.O.U.S.A are all up for discussion in our unmissable review section. Let us know your thoughts, as ever. Have you got a favourite Paddy Considine moment? Have you worked with Mark Strong (he's been in everything, after all)? And if you've seen any of them yet, what did you think of any of the movies we've reviewed? Guardian.Co.Uk Film Weekly podcast: Jason Solomons meets Mark Strong and Paddy Considine {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - If I were a British film-maker and someone gave me a few quid to make a movie, I'd cast two British actors as my leads: Mark Strong and Paddy Considine. They're both always brilliant in whatever film they're in, powerful character actors who hold the screen and who can switch the mood from dark to light and back again in an instant. Well, I'm not making a film this week, but the very least I can do is have them both on Film Weekly for you. Mark Strong, after years of fine work in films from Fever Pitch to Syriana and RocknRolla, is finally mixing it with the big boys in Hollywood. He's in Ridley Scott's whizz-bang Middle East actioner Body of Lies, opposite Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. Mark takes a break from filming Guy Ritchie's new Sherlock Holmes movie, with Robert Downey Jr, to talk to us about wigs, baddies and being patient. Paddy Considine is perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Shane Meadows, as the menace in Dead Man's Shoes or A Room for Romeo Brass. He also created memorable characters in Pawel Pawlikowski's The Last Resort and My Summer of Love before taking his skills to Hollywood for Jim Sheridan's In America, Ron Howard's Cinderella Man and Paul Greengrass's The Bourne Ultimatum. Paddy's back on home turf for his directorial debut Dog Altogether, a moody, blistering short film featuring the mercurial presence of Scottish actor Peter Mullan. Ahead of a career retrospective at Bristol's Encounters Short Film and Animation festival (Nov 18-23), Paddy talks frankly and exclusively to Film Weekly about his work, past and future, and why it's not always up to his own exacting standards. Also on this week's show, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw and I see if the week's films meet our own exacting standards. German blockbuster The Baader-Meinhof Complex, Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno and debt documentary I.O.U.S.A are all up for discussion in our unmissable review section. Let us know your thoughts, as ever. Have you got a favourite Paddy Considine moment? Have you worked with Mark Strong (he's been in everything, after all)? And if you've seen any of them yet, what did you think of any of the movies we've reviewed?
Film Weekly podcast: Jason Solomons meets Mark Strong and Paddy Considine | Film | guardian.co.uk {...} This week, Mark Strong talks about playing a Jordanian in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies with Leonardo DiCaprio, Bourne Ultimatum actor Paddy Considine discusses his exacting standards and directorial debut… {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {EUROPE > NEWSPAPERS} - Lodger was convicted criminal who tried to flee the country http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/newspapers/lodger-was-convicted-criminal-who-tried-to-flee-20081128317.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/newspapers/lodger-was-convicted-criminal-who-tried-to-flee-20081128317.htm Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:48:31 GMT Profile: Jason Owen the lodger Telegraph.Co.Uk Lodger was convicted criminal who tried to flee the country {new window}   Www.Telegraph.Co.Uk - Profile: Jason Owen the lodger
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media > Newspapers {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Jason Krejza's eight wickets on Test debut keep Australia in hunt against India http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/cricket/news-and-media/jason-krejza-s-eight-wickets-on-test-debut-keep-australia-20081187310.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/cricket/news-and-media/jason-krejza-s-eight-wickets-on-test-debut-keep-australia-20081187310.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:55:18 GMT Spinner takes eight wickets on Test debut to keep tourists hopes alive in final Test against India. Telegraph.Co.Uk Jason Krejza's eight wickets on Test debut keep Australia in hunt against India {new window}   Www.Telegraph.Co.Uk - Spinner takes eight wickets on Test debut to keep tourists hopes alive in final Test against India.
Jason Krejza's eight wickets on Test debut keep Australia in hunt against India: Cricket - Telegraph {...} Spinner Jason Krejza took eight wickets on his debut to keep Australian hopes alive in the final Test against India in Nagpur. {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Recreation and Sports > Sports > Cricket > News and Media {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Australia begin fightback against India as Jason Krejza claims eight wickets http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/cricket/news-and-media/australia-begin-fightback-against-india-as-jason-20081193315.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/cricket/news-and-media/australia-begin-fightback-against-india-as-jason-20081193315.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:41:43 GMT Day two stumps: Australia 1892 v India 441 An eightwicket haul from debutant offspinner Jason Krejza and a swift 92 not out from Simon Katich saw Australia battle their way back Telegraph.Co.Uk Australia begin fightback against India as Jason Krejza claims eight wickets {new window}   Www.Telegraph.Co.Uk - Day two stumps: Australia 1892 v India 441 An eightwicket haul from debutant offspinner Jason Krejza and a swift 92 not out from Simon Katich saw Australia battle their way back
Australia begin fightback against India as Jason Krejza claims eight wickets: Cricket - Telegraph {...} Day two (stumps): Australia 189-2 v India 441 {...}
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