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| Sundance Film Festival reveals offbeat out-of-competition lineup Posted: 03 Dec 2011 03:13 AM PST  The Sundance Film Festival will show experimental low-budget films in its 2012 out-of-competition schedule. – Photo by Jill Orschel Four programmes, Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, NEXT <=> and New Frontier, feature films in the festival that depart from more traditional storytelling. Highlights include Rodney Ascher's Room 237, which explores the meaning of Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining, Your Sister's Sister starring Emily Blunt. The Midnight section, which focuses on thrillers and bizarre comedies, will show seven world premieres. Highlights include Richard Bates, Jr.'s Excision with filmmaker John Waters, and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, a wacky comedy featuring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Zach Galifianakis. Also, Shut Up and Play the Hits, a documentary about the end of LCD Soundsystem, will be shown, following frontman James Murphy during the day of the band's final gig at Madison Square Garden. The 28th annual Sundance Festival will screen 110 feature-length films from 31 countries, including 88 world premieres. The remainder of the out-of-competition films, narrative and documentary premieres will be unveiled December 5. http://www.sundance.org/festival/ – AFP Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Sesame Street comes to Afghanistan Posted: 03 Dec 2011 01:26 AM PST  Sesame Street Live charactors on February 4, 2010 outside Madison Square Garden in New York. The children's television show came to Afghanistan this week with the launch of a new series featuring familiar characters like Elmo and Big Bird. – AFP pic "Baghch-e-Simsim" made its debut on a local TV channel Thursday and aims to improve education for children in the desperately poor, warring country. Its initial run is for 26 half-hour episodes featuring Sesame Street's typical mix of Jim Henson's Muppets and short educational films. It is not the first time that the Sesame Street format has been exported. A version of the show came to neighbouring Pakistan earlier this year, funded by the US government's international aid agency USAID, while co-productions have also screened in Bangladesh, Egypt, Mexico and Russia. The latest version is a joint production by Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organisation behind Sesame Street, and Afghan television station Tolo. "Teachers here in Afghanistan will discover that Sesame Street can help children start school well prepared," said the US ambassador to Kabul, Ryan Crocker. "Perhaps most importantly, it shows children the world around them." Afghanistan's deputy education minister Mohammad Siddiq Patman said he believed the programme would "depict traditions, culture and other aspects of Afghan rural and urban life" and would be "profoundly useful" for children. – AFP Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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