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Page 13 Today, Bali has been in a crossroad between capitalism and humanism. This condition is hazardous for this small island because the incoming capitalism does not protect the people, so the people of Bali in the future will become the second citizen or marginalized communities.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The office of Cambodia’s most celebrated filmmaker is filled with books on the Khmer Rouge. On his desk, on the walls, in the filing cabinets and in every corner of Rithy Panh’s dimly lit office are memories of his country’s greatest tragedy. Probing the painful past started as a coping mechanism for Panh and evolved into a career. For the past two and a half decades, Panh has made movies that he considers his duty as a survivor, and his debt to the dead. highly original film in which the starring roles are played by static clay figures. It may be his most celebrated work yet: Even before the historic Oscar nomination, it won the top prize in the “Un Certain Regard” competition at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, an award for especially creative or thought-provoking films. The nomination itself is a victory for Panh and for Cambodia, where a film industry is only now re-emerging after Pol Pot’s reign of terror from 1975 to 1979. “I don’t have the impression of going to Los Angeles all alone,” said Panh, describing himself as brimming with “enormous pride” a few days before leaving for Hollywood. “I feel like I’m going with my whole country.” The Khmer Rouge era left more than 1.7 million people dead, mostly from starvation, medical neglect, slave-like working conditions and execution. The regime executed artists, writers and filmmakers as part of its Maoist vision to eliminate the educated elite and transform
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His latest, “The Missing Picture,” is the first time he has focused on his own story of loss and tormented survival. It’s also the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and could win Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this weekend. The 51-year-old filmmaker said he makes movies because “I had to find a way to work with my memories.” “When you survive a genocide, it’s like you’ve been radiated by a nuclear bomb,” Panh said during an interview at his Phnom Penh office, which is inside a film preservation center that he runs. “It’s like you’ve been killed once already, and you come back with death inside of you.” Many of Pahn’s movies have been documentaries that have earned critical acclaim but limited commercial success. He has interviewed the regime’s former torturers, prison guards and survivors as part of his conviction that Cambodia must face its past to build a better future. “The Missing Picture” is a poetic and
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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, Cambodian film director Rithy Panh walks out from his office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
the country into an agrarian utopia. Panh was 13 when Pol Pot’s army entered Phnom Penh, the capital, on April 17, 1975. It emptied the cities, shut schools and hospitals and forced the entire population to labor in the countryside. During the four-year genocide, Panh watched his parents, his sisters and several young nieces and nephews die of illness and hunger.
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SANTA MONICA, California — A California jury has ordered Lisa Kudrow to pay her former manager $1.6 million in residuals from her work on “Friends.” The Los Angeles County Superior Court jury returned its verdict Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Scott Howard. He claimed he had an oral agreement with the actress and was owed a percentage of her earnings on the hit NBC sitcom. Kudrow contended that she had already paid Howard more than $11 million before they parted ways in 2007. Kudrow’s attorney, Gerald Sauer, says the verdict will be appealed. City News Service says testimony during the trial indicated that Kudrow was earning more than $1 million per episode by the end of the show’s run. Kudrow starred on “Friends” from 1994 to 2004.
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Balinese people become second citizen
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DENPASAR - Today, Bali has been in a crossroad between capitalism and humanism. This condition is hazardous for this small island because the incoming capitalism does not protect the people, so the people of Bali in the future will become the second citizen or marginalized communities. It was revealed by the lecturer of the Graduate School of Economics, Udayana University, Dr. Gede Sudjana Budhi, when met in Denpasar. He said the people of Bali were then marginalized as a result of the unstoppable invasion of big capitalists. The development of Bali should be returned to the concept of holistic human, where the government protected its people. “The concept of development must be returned to the model as implemented during the administration of Governor Ida Bagus Mantra by developing Bali with a holistic human, where the inefficient craftsmen and entrepreneurs were protected such as in Kuta. Large entrepreneurs were not allowed to enter,” he said.
Such efforts, said Sudjana, aimed to give the opportunity to people in order they had time to learn so they were ready to compete in the free market. “Such a policy no longer exists today. For instance, more than 60 percent of craftsmen in Tegallalang have shifted their profession to breeder because they lacked of order as a result of role played by greater capital,” he said. According to him, the government should build the community-base business as having been widely applied in a number of developing countries. This effort could be realized when the government was willing to provide protection for them. “What we have today is the community-based
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tourism in the culinary tourism owned by local people of Kedonganan,” he said. He also highlighted the development of Bali which was not in line with the growth of human resources so that Balinese people tended to just become spectator. “In the humanistic concept, we are not necessary to build a large thing if people cannot afford. Large capital is useless if the people are marginalized,” he said. He said the leaders in Bali should much learn from China’s government having abundant resources. However, it decided to postpone the transfer of technology by giving priority to human resources. “In Bali, if we want to build the humanistic aspect, give priority to human resources development, not to the capital. By giving priority to human resources development, Balinese people can become a host at their own home, not a spectator,” he said. Continued on page 6