Take Away English-London Film Festival 伦敦电影节

The opening of the Film Festival Film lovers are looking to London for the next two weeks, to discover the best in UK cinema at the 51st British Film Institute London Film Festival. The festival will include exclusive showings of 184 feature films a

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DIALOG 28 1--Did you see the movie on channel 6 last night? 2--No. I missed it. I went shopping for clothes. 1--It was an excellent film. It had been made especially for television, you know. 2--I rea

Take Away English-Long-Awaited Film 期待已久的影片

The glamorous stars of Sex and the City Sex and the City was a very popular TV show that ran from 1999 to 2004. It was a romantic comedy drama based on the semi-autobiographical New York newspaper columns written by Candace Bushnell. The show follow

Dutch Muslims Face Greater Challenges

By Serena Parker On the morning of November 2, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot on his bicycle going to work. As he stumbled away toward a nearby building, his alleged assailant, Mohammed Bouyer

New York Jewish Director Makes Pro-Palestinian Film

Miral, a new film by acclaimed director Julian Schnabel, is based on a book by Palestinian author Rula Jebreal. It chronicles the lives of four Palestinian women - from 1948 when the state of Israel was created to the 1990s. Through the four women, a

Historical epic film eyes box-office record

BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The Founding of a Party, an epic film to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is expected to set a new box-office record. The 140-minute film features an all-star cast and follo

英语听书《海底两万里》第81期 第7章 一种从未见过的鱼(4)

Conseil's unflappable composure cheered me up. 康塞尔这样坚定和冷静，鼓舞了我的力量。 I swam more vigorously, but hampered by clothes that were as restricting as a cloak made of lead, I was managing with only the greatest difficult

Zhang Yimou's Nanjing Massacre film to get Japan release

BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese director Zhang Yimou's upcoming film Nanjing Heroes set during the Japanese invasion of China will be released in Japan. Film producer Zhang Weiping was quoted by Sohu.com as saying that the film had found a Ja

Woody Allen Film Opens Cannes Film Festival

American director Woody Allen's latest work Midnight in Paris, featuring a cameo appearance by French first lady Carla Bruni, opened this year's Cannes film festival to applause on Wednesday. Allen's romantic comedy was shot in Paris and tells the st

Chinese film festival kicks off in Seoul

SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese film festival that has played a major role in bolstering cultural exchanges between South Korea and China raised its curtains on Wednesday in Yongsan, Central Seoul. Under the theme of Meet the Greatest Muses i

French film wins London Film Critics' Circle top award

LONDON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The annual London Critics' Circle Film Awards saw 'Amour' triumph as best film, as well as picking up two further awards, on Sunday. 'Amour' is Austrian director Michael Haneke's French language tale of an elderly married

Beijing Filmfest brings film feast to citizens

BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of film fans have sat in the open air of the Beijing Olympic Park and watched movies screened for free as part of a program attached to the 2nd Beijing International Film Festival that closes on Saturday. Among

Vancouver film community eyes China business

VANCOUVER, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- When the Vancouver International Film Festival kicked off Thursday night, Mayor Gregor Robertson gave a special greeting in Mandarin to a delegation of visiting Chinese film producers. Robertson, a distant relative of

Bond movie prompts call for film review reform

BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- An edited version of the new James Bond film Skyfall hit Chinese theaters on Monday, prompting film industry insiders to call for reforms for the country's movie review system. Shi Chuan, a professor from Shanghai Univers

23rd James Bond film hits China

BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The 23rd James Bond film, Skyfall, will debut in China on Monday, centering on a plot involving Bond, intelligence chief M and former MI6 operative Raoul Silva, the antagonist. The lengthiest 007 film, it tells of Bond's

VOA标准英语2008年-New York's Largest Film Festival Showcased Film

By Carolyn Weaver New York 05 May 2008 New York City's largest film event, the Tribeca Film Festival, is screening 120 films this year in theaters around downtown Manhattan. The 12-day festival [which ran through May 4] was created to revive the econ

Emmy winner taps Chinese film market

BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- On a wooden bench in Christopher Bremble's office sit two golden Emmy trophies, awards for excellence in American television. Bremble's Beijing-based studio, Base FX, has earned acclaim for its work on HBO dramas The Pac

Iranian film awarded top prize in Shanghai film festival

SHANGHAI, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The Bear, an Iranian film, was awarded top prize at the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival which concluded on Sunday evening. It was the second time for the film's director Khosrow Masoumi to win this award after

65th Cannes film festival near end with "Mud"

CANNES, France, May 26 (Xinhua) -- The 65th Cannes film festival has wrapped up its competition screenings on Saturday as the Mississippi river film Mud by Jeff Nichols had its premiere as the last of the 22 films selected for the Palme d'Or race. St

69th Venice Film Festival opens with 9/11 film

VENICE, Italy, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The 69th Venice Film Festival opened here on Wednesday with Venice-regular Indian director Mira Nair's political thriller which explores life changes of a young Pakistani man rising through the ranks on Wall Street