2007年VOA标准英语-Documentaries, Feature Films Highlight Tribeca
时间：2019-02-07 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（五月）
New York City
04 May 2007
The sixth annual Tribeca Film Festival, which runs through May 6, features more than 150 films from around the world, including dozens of documentaries and narrative 2 features from the Middle East, Africa and East Asia.
Actor and director Robert DeNiro and producer Jane Rosenthal, together with developer Craig Hatkoff, founded the festival after the 2001 terrorist attacks. They wanted to help revive downtown New York, especially the area known as Tribeca, near the World Trade Center. The 12-day event has since become a showcase and laboratory for emerging filmmakers, both from overseas and the U.S., who gather daily in the filmmakers' lounge.
“Tribeca does a lot for filmmakers,” said filmmaker A.P. Gonzalez. “I'm from the west coast, and I've got a screenplay called Cross My Heart, and they've invited me out to make a presentation this year. I show a couple of my films, talk to people, hopefully find some financing."
Full-length documentaries at Tribeca included the premiere of We Are Together (Thina Simunye), which tells the story of an orphanage 3 choir 4 from South Africa. Most of the children at the Agape Orphanage have lost their parents to AIDS. The film was directed by a former volunteer at the orphanage, Paul Taylor.
9 Star Hotel is about some of the thousands of Palestinian men who sneak 5 into Israel every day in order to work constructing new homes. They themselves camp out in the nearby hills. A portrait of the friendship among some of the men, the film will open in New York and several other American cities later this month.
The Devil Came on Horseback examines the situation in Darfur, Sudan, through the eyes of a former U.S. soldier who was stationed there as an unarmed observer. The photographs he took led to the film, which activists 6 hope will help focus attention to the crisis in Darfur.
Tuya’s Marriage (Tu ya de hun shi), from China, is the tale of a shepherdess and reluctant divorcee in Mongolia
Among the feature films from East Asia is Tuya's Marriage, a tragicomedy about a Mongolian shepherdess whose husband is disabled in an accident. When she herself is injured, they divorce -- so that she can look for another husband who will agree to support them both.
The Tribeca Film Festival's big-budget movie event this year was the U.S. premiere of the latest in the Spiderman series. Spider-Man 3 premiered at a theater in the New York borough 7 of Queens that's the home of the fictional 8 hero, played by Tobey Maguire.
- She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快，而且布的质量很好。
- The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。
- He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
- Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。
- They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
- They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。
- The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
- The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。
- He raised his spear and sneak forward.他提起长矛悄悄地前进。
- I saw him sneak away from us.我看见他悄悄地从我们身边走开。
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was slated for borough president.他被提名做自治区主席。
- That's what happened to Harry Barritt of London's Bromley borough.住在伦敦的布罗姆利自治市的哈里.巴里特就经历了此事。