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/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-BRAZIL: “Doña Flor” Returns to Heat Up Big Screen
Sonia Braga, Brazil's leading female sex symbol of the 1970s, has returned to the big screen in an uncut version of "Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands", the biggest box-office hit in national film history./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-JAMAICA: Today’s Main Event, Patois vs. Queen’s English
Patois, the Jamaican dialect, has consistently stirred heated debate here as to whether and what its place should be in modern Jamaica. A U.S. college student, however, is keen to make it fashionable among his compatriots./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-BRITAIN: Harrison’s Love of East Was Never a Fad
For former Beatle George Harrison the East was never a passing fad of the sixties. An absorption with forms of Hinduism and with Indian music remained a part of his life to the very end./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-U.S.: A Man, A Goldfish and a Strange Land
A young Egyptian screenwriter takes a wild ride through London as he attempts to find a room to rent, a girl to marry, a paying job, and all before his visa expires, in this latest drama-comedy of the Egyptian-born writer-director Khaled El- Hagar./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-MEXICO: Thousands Celebrate Tattoos and Piercings
More than a thousand people dyed, pierced or burned their skin at a tattoo festival held in Mexico where specialists in these unique art forms gathered to share experiences and information on new techniques./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ART-CUBA: Cartoon Artists Put Smiles on Italian Faces
Dark, ironic humour that emphasises social and political problems which afflict the world predominate among the works by Cuban cartoonists that were exhibited in Italy for the country's first cartoon and animation exposition./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-LATAM: The Unstoppable Havana Festival
More than 400 films are ready in Cuba to enthral the lovers of what is known as "the seventh art" during the 23rd International Festival of New Latin American Film, the island's top annual cultural event./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-CHILE: Boom in Documentaries Awaits Echo on TV
Documentary films have reached a high point in Chile, with broad support from the public and several international awards, but the future of this genre will remain uncertain as long as support from local television networks is not resolved./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-SINGAPORE: Chinese Opera Struggles for Space in Pop Culture
Singapore's urbane non-character - highlighted by a pop culture marked by the penchant for having coloured hair and aping the MTV swag - poses a tough hurdle for purists out to revive a vanishing part of the island state's Chinese immigrant heritage: the street opera./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Burning Spear to Favour Studio Over Road
In the era of multi-platinum recordings and pampered stars, Burning Spear is a throwback to the days when an artist's reputation depended on their making serious music and touring non-stop./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-LATAM: The Unstoppable Havana Festival
More than 400 films are ready in Cuba to enthral the lovers of what is known as "the seventh art" during the 23rd International Festival of New Latin American Film, the island's top annual cultural event./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-CHILE: Boom in Documentaries Awaits Echo on TV
Documentary films have reached a high point in Chile, with broad support from the public and several international awards, but the future of this genre will remain uncertain as long as support from local television networks is not resolved./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-SINGAPORE: Chinese Opera Struggles for Space in Pop Culture
Singapore's urbane non-character - highlighted by a pop culture marked by the penchant for having coloured hair and aping the MTV swag - poses a tough hurdle for purists out to revive a vanishing part of the island state's Chinese immigrant heritage: the street opera./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Burning Spear to Favour Studio Over Road
In the era of multi-platinum recordings and pampered stars, Burning Spear is a throwback to the days when an artist's reputation depended on their making serious music and touring non-stop./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-PERU: ‘Criolla’ Songs Alive and Kicking
The raucous audience at a recent concert by singer Eva Ayllón - 70,000 people, mostly university students - demonstrated the force of 'criolla' music from the Peruvian coast, a style that has often been given up for dead./ARTS & ENTERTAINEMENT/MUSIC-SWAZILAND: Gospel Fever Seizes African Kingdom
When King Mswati III, of Swaziland, recorded a track for a gospel album earlier this year, the sensation of a head of state singing holy praises was merely a part of the cresting enthusiasm his country has for the infectious music./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-COSTA RICA: Festival in the Tropics
The Costa Rican Film and Video festival, born a decade ago with modest aims, has become one of Latin America's leading cultural events./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/AUSTRALIA: Muslims Face Labeling, More Understanding Too
Sultan M Deen, head of the Islamic Council of Queensland, says one just cannot easily get a copy of the English version of the Koran these days, because "virtually everyone is after it"./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-COLOMBIA: Multi-Pronged Efforts to Stimulate Reading
Public libraries are receiving a boost from the government and civil society in joint efforts to establish them as democratic and participatory cultural centres and to encourage the population to develop the habit of reading./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-BRAZIL: Television Provides Material for the Big Screen
"Caramurú", which premiered last weekend in movie theatres throughout Brazil, is seen as a test of the consolidation of a formula in which a popular television series is made into a film, reversing the normal route in which the big screen serves as the foundation for a new TV show./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-SYRIA: Foreign Offerings Scoop Top Awards
The movie "Aberdeen", by Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland, has won the 2001 Damascus Film Festival top award.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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