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Monday, October 20, 2014
‘Leviathan’ named best picture at London Film Fest Associated Press
LONDON — Movies about corruption, gang violence, honor killing and war took prizes Saturday as the London Film Festival recognized cinema that confronts the harsh realities of our world. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Leviathan,” a tragic satire of small-town Russian corruption, was named best picture. The film, which took the screenplay prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was praised for its “grandeur and themes” by a
jury that included actor James McAvoy and producer Jeremy Thomas. Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy won the firstfeature award for “The Tribe,” a teen-gang drama set at a school for the deaf and performed entirely in
sign language, without subtitles. Actress Sameena Jabeen Ahmed was named best British newcomer for her performance as a BritishPakistani teenager on the run from her family in “Catch Me Daddy.” The documentary prize went to “Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait,” a searing look at war’s brutality by Paris-based director Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan, an schoolteacher who filmed life in the besieged city of Homs. Director Stephen Frears was
awarded the British Film Institute’s Fellowship during Saturday’s ceremony at London’s 17th-century Banqueting House. He was recognized for a career that has traveled from the battered streets of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain in “My Beautiful Laundrette,” to 18th-century France in “Dangerous Liaisons,” seedy Los Angeles in “The Grifters” and Buckingham Palace in “The Queen.” Frears is currently at work on a biopic of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.
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Playwright David Hare, who presented Frears with the honor, said “I can’t think of anyone who’s made a richer, more diverse or more consistently intelligent contribution to British film in my lifetime.” The 58th London festival opened Oct. 8 with “The Imitation Game,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch as World War II Alan Turing. It wraps up Sunday with another tale of that conflict — “Fury,” starring Brad Pitt as a hard-bitten tank commander in the war’s final weeks.
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Ronaldo sets best scoring start in Spanish league
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Ukraine says Russia has agreed to supply gas
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DiCaprio teams with Netflix on gorilla documentary Agence France-Presse
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Bono says he wears sunglasses due to glaucoma Associated Press
LONDON — U2 singer Bono says his ever-present sunglasses aren’t a rock-star affectation — he has suffered from glaucoma for 20 years. The condition — a buildup of pressure that can damage the optic nerve — can make the eyes sensitive to light. Bono told the BBC’s “Graham Norton Show” that he had the condition, but “I have good treatments and I am going to be fine.” He said people would now think of him as “poor old blind Bono.” He also acknowledged that some people had been annoyed when U2’s new album, “Songs of Innocence,” was sent unsolicited to millions of people with iTunes accounts. In comments released Friday by the BBC, Bono said, “We wanted to do something fresh, but it seems some people don’t believe in Father Christmas.”
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio has teamed up with online streaming service Netflix for a documentary about endangered mountain gorillas in east Africa, filmmakers said Friday. The “Titanic” star is an executive producer on “Virunga,” described as “part investigative journalism and part nature documentary” and directed by Orlando von Einsiedel. The documentary follows an embattled team of park rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo “as they are caught in the crossfire of poachers, militia and industry in Africa’s oldest national park,” Netflix said in a statement. Eastern Congo’s protected Virunga sanctuary is home to about a quarter of the world’s critically endangered mountain gorillas. The film will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 7, and via Netflix on the same day. DiCaprio said films like “Virunga” offer “a window into the incredible cultural and natural diversity of our world, the forces that are threatening to destroy it, and the people who are fighting to protect it. “Partnering with Netflix on this film is an exciting opportunity to inform and inspire individuals to engage on this topic.” “With ‘Virunga,’ we’ll work with Leo to introduce viewers around the world to an incredible, gripping story that will have audiences guessing right up until the final act.”
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People passed a banner that congratulate inauguration of Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla as Indonesia President and Vice President on Monday, 20 October, 2014. Indonesia’s first leader without deep roots in the era of dictator Suharto, Widodo will be sworn in at a ceremony in parliament attended by foreign dignitaries, including US Secretary of State John Kerry and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Today, Jokowi sworn in as president Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - Joko Widodo will cap a remarkable rise from an upbringing in a riverside slum when he is sworn in as Indonesia’s president Monday, but takes power amid doubts about his ability to enact much-needed reforms. Indonesia’s first leader without deep roots in the era of dictator Suharto, Widodo will be sworn in at a ceremony in parliament attended by foreign dignitaries, including US Secretary of State John Kerry and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. After the inauguration, Widodo, known by his nickname Jokowi, will travel through Jakarta in a
horse-drawn carriage accompanied by a parade to the presidential palace, and in the evening the heavy metal fan is expected to join rock bands on stage at an outdoor concert. About 24,000 police and military personnel will be deployed to secure the day’s events, which will see Widodo, only Indonesia’s second directly elected president,
taking over from former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after a decade in power. “It’s quite a historic moment for Indonesia to have Jokowi as president,” said political analyst Tobias Basuki, from Jakarta thinktank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. The 53-year-old former furniture exporter who won national attention as Jakarta governor is a “regular commoner”, Basuki said, unlike previous Indonesian leaders since Suharto’s downfall in 1998, who were political and military elites. The Suharto era was marked by
the dictator’s severe repression and colossal corruption. But the euphoria of the inauguration is likely to be short-lived, analysts warn, as Widodo faces up to the task of leading the world’s fourth most populous country, with 250 million people spread over more than 17,000 islands, at a critical moment. Growth in Southeast Asia’s top economy is at five-year lows, corruption remains rampant, and fears are mounting that support for the Islamic State group could spawn a new generation of radicals in the world’s most populous Muslimmajority country.
Easing tensions In one piece of good news, defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto unexpectedly met Widodo Friday for the first time since the election and pledged support, a dramatic U-turn for the ex-general who took his loss badly. “I conveyed to the party that I lead, my friends and supporters, to back Jokowi and his government,” said the controversial figure, who used to be married to one of Suharto’s daughters and has a chequered human rights record.
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