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[Root Magazine] Root Magazine: The Films of Tony Gatlif: There is a lot to say about the role Gatlif's film plays as a mediatorbetween Western and Romani cultures, and it is certainly reasonable tocontrast the two, given the gulf in understanding that separates them.The Roma remain the least integrated and the most persecuted people ofEurope. Their recent history in Romania, where an estimated two millionlive, is particularly dark.

[TravBuddy.com: Latest Travel Blogs and Travel Reviews] Transilvania Film Festival (TIFF 2009) - Cluj: It also became the traditional premiere venue of domestic features which later became landmarks of the “Romanian New Wave” of filmmakers like Occident (by Cristian Mungiu), The Death of mr. Lazarescu (by Cristi Puiu), 12:08 East of Bucharest (by Cristi Mitulescu), The Paper Will Be Blue (by Radu Muntean), and the winner of the 2007 Palme d’Or at The Cannes Festival • 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days.

[Buzzle: History] Eugen Weber: Some historians have contested Weber's chronology - they suggest that to make his case more effective he concentrated on "backward" regions and underestimated the extent to which elsewhere in France the modernization process began much earlier than the 1870s. But even if the central thesis is no longer accepted uncritically, the book survives as a dazzling, rich, erudite and kaleidoscopic account of France which anyone interested in the country should read.

[Romania News Watch] Romania News Watch: Romania's reinvention in EU image: As the Hungarian director of the splendid Teleki Library in Targu-Mures put it to me, rather sadly, the young are not interested in the old history any more. Just money.

[Digital Podcast New Podcast Update] Film Trailers: Plot Outline: A young man's return to Strasbourg, in search of the woman that he loved six years earlier sets the stage for the lyrical IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA, which premiered internationally In Competition at Venice Film Festival, and in the UK at Edinburgh Film Festival. The latest film by Jose Luis Guerin is an homage to cinema, painting, love and women that continues in much the same tradition as his 1997 feature Train of Shadows: The Spectre of Le Thuit, which was a tribute to the beginnings of film.

[HollywoodChicago.com: Film, theater, TV and DVD coverage from Adam Fendelman] 12th Annual EU Film Festival Highlights, Week One: 'I'm All Good ...: Synopsis: “A vivacious portrait painter who seems to collect misfits brings Alex, a reclusive expatriate British actor living in Lisbon, together with Bruno, an anti-social young locksmith with a strange nocturnal hobby, as rivals for her flirting friendship. One day the lady disappears without a trace and the two men take over her cluttered apartment, jealously vying with each other for clues until a road trip to Spain puts a new slant on their relationship.

[Answers.com: Today in History] World War II: West's Encyclopedia of American Law (Full Article ...: When Germany occupied (Mar., 1939) all of Czechoslovakia, and when Italy seized (Apr., 1939) Albania, Great Britain and France abandoned their policy of appeasement and set about creating an "antiaggression" front, which included alliances with Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Poland, and speeding rearmament. Germany and Italy signed (May, 1939) a full military alliance, and after the Soviet-German nonaggression pact (Aug., 1939) removed German fear of a possible two-front war, Germany was ready to launch an attack on Poland.

[Killing Batteries] Killing Batteries » New hidden cam video of Transdniestr reveals ...: Now, in fairness, what this video doesn’t show, mostly because it’s off-topic I suppose, is that with the right prep work and avoiding the Bendery border crossing, Transdniestr is really a mesmerizing place to visit. My visit in 2006 was wrought with relatively minor problems (I brought a Russian-speaker with me, but not one that had experience traveling in the region, which may have contributed to some of the social ostracizing we experienced), but my visit in May of 2008 revealed a whole new, seemingly chilled out Transdniestr.

[Raleigh News Blog | New Raleigh] Full Frame 2009 Line Up Announced | New Raleigh: Through a collection of personal stories, this graceful film reveals the unique and unfamiliar significance of Thessaloniki, a city at the crossroads of religion, geography and history. Say My Name Directed by Nirit Peled.

[1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] A murder, a public outcry and some Italian politicians: There is still fairly powerful social stigma attached to associating with gypsies, so one suspect, by herself, seen with whiter friends is prima facie evidence that the suspect is not gypsy. (I have seen instances of single gypsies being accepted in groups of nons, but I can’t recall one instance of groups of twos or threes mixing freely, gypsies and nons.) I can speak knowledgibly about this because I *am* Serbian and I have lived there (so JW, do give it up). 

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] Strange Conspiracy in a Land of Freedom, Honor and Integrity 2 ...: In 2000, a Parliament Commission report from the  Gruppo Democratici di Sinistra l’Ulivo  concluded that the strategy of tension had been supported by the United States to  stop the PCI, and to a certain degree also the PSI, from reaching executive power in the country .A 2000 Senate report, stated that  Those massacres, those bombs, those military actions had been organized or promoted or supported by men inside Italian state institutions and, as has been discovered more recently, by men linked to the structures of United States intelligence.  According to The Guardian,  The report [claimed] that US intelligence agents were informed in advance about several rightwing terrorist bombings, including the December 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan and the Piazza della Loggia bombing in Brescia five years later, but did nothing to alert the Italian authorities or to prevent the attacks from taking place.

[The 9 Intenseexperiences Blog] Share Your Intense Experience!: I have had many intense experiences, but one I would like to share here about my trip to Romania with a medical team. I volunteered to be part of a group of doctors and nurse to travel to Romania to help some doctors there learn the surgical techniques used in the US, as they had been under communist rule and were not aware of the latest procedures.

[common places] ARTISTSâ€♠BOOKS IN (what was formerly known as) EASTERN EUROPE ...: The focus of this article is not on the aspect of the artistsâ€♠book understood as physical form transformed in certain “auratic objects” or “democratic multiples”, but rather on transformative and communicational aspects realized through different forms of artistsâ€♠publications, magazines, books, samizdats, etc., which form a parallel to the institutional art system and at the same time its critique. The focus is on the potential of social, critical and institutional spaces that such practice could generate, on the impact that different artistsâ€♠groups, collectives, and temporary and informal communities have on the practice of artistsâ€♠books and publications, and on the ways in which neo-avant-garde practices of self-publishing in the 60s, 70s, and 80s formed communities, related to international art scenes, and continued to affect younger generations of artists.

[Interracial Dating Central Blog] Black women. Black men. Best frenemies. : Interracial Dating ...: First we divide 12 million African slaves by 400 years, which comes to a total of 30,000 Africans per year;d divide by 12 months for a total of 2500 Africans per month.How ever, PBS on-line website reports,”each slave ship could hold a maximum of 222.2 Africans, plus a crew of 75 armed europeans on a 7 month journey. I estimate the journey to come out to 88,880 African slaves in a four hundred year period.Clearly this does not add up to 12 million by the 1900’s.Since math is the only thing that makes sense these numbers do not add up to what the european history has presumed, therefor this HISTORY IS INCORRECT.

[Roger Ebert's Journal] Roger Ebert's Journal: Archives: In the Documentary Competition, the Gold Hugo went to Peter Kerekes' "Cooking History" (Austria/Slovakia/Czech Republic) "for its originality and humor, and for presenting a view of war from an unexpected angle, so as to shock, entertain, and educate." The Silver Hugo was won by "Racing Dreams" (USA) "for revealing in an unsparing yet sympathetic way the inner life of young people aspiring to break into professional sports." The Gold Plaque in Direction to went to "Soundtrack for a Revolution" (USA) "for its inventive combination of historical footage, interviews, and musical performance."

[Anthony Bourdain] Past Imperfect/Future Shock | Anthony Bourdain: The food is to die for in Uruguay, the people are devine, and the land is beautiful. Anytime I go for a visit to see my family I try to lose some weight anticipating that I will be doing my best "Cookie Monster eying up a plate of Chips Ahoy cookies" impersonation when confronted with a Chivito, plate of super fresh pasta, or pizza...mmmmmmmmm.

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