January 14, 2012
“The Iron Lady,” the new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversial before audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayal of the aging former prime minister’s dementia. The current UK prime minister, David Cameron, suggested the movie was premature and shouldn’t have been made while Thatcher was alive. Her former [...]
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October 22, 2011
Posters of the intrepid boy reporter with the quiff and funny pants have been plastered across Brussels for Saturday’s launch of Steven Spielberg’s Tintin film. Belgium rolled out a royal red carpet Saturday for Tintin, its most celebrated son, as Steven Spielberg premiered his blockbuster movie in the comic book hero’s home capital. Posters of [...]
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October 15, 2011
A scene from Canh dong bat tan (Floating lives), a box-office hit adaptation of Nguyen Ngoc Tu’s 2005 sensational short novel of the same name. ‘Floating lives’ was short-listed but not selected to represent Vietnam at next year’s Oscars. As the National Film Selection Committee was debating which of its three candidates – Canh [...]
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August 28, 2011
John Trinh, a Vietnamese American filmmaker whose film about Agent Orange victims in Vietnam has been screened at 20 international film festivals. The Vietnam War raged when John Trinh, then Trinh Long Hoang, was growing up in Vietnam. But he knew nothing about its most insidious impacts until three decades after it ended in 1975. [...]
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June 4, 2011
Geof Heydon, vice president of Digital Economy at Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. Broadcasters, policy makers, regulators, and experts in media sector have met in Hanoi on May 24-25 for the 8th Asia Media Summit, which was viewed as a significant platform to address challenges and to identify opportunities in the new age of digital economy. The [...]
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February 28, 2011
A tour bus advertising the movie “Sex and the City 2” is seen in New York in 2010. Martial arts fantasy flick “The Last Airbender” swept the board at the pre-Oscar Razzie awards for worst movies of 2010 Saturday, while “Sex and the City 2” also won one of the dubious honors. “Airbender,” a box [...]
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December 28, 2009
The Zeeuws Museum in the Netherlands has shot a film about Vietnamese ceramics to screen at its special exhibition. A scene from “Porcelain”. Based on the idea “how to effectively introduce the history of collections at the museum to visitors,” instead of exhibiting items, the Zeeuws Museum has cooperated with a group of Danish artists named [...]
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December 26, 2009
Dustin Nguyen was awarded a Golden Lotus for best actor at the 16th Vietnam Film Festival for his part in The Legend Is Alive. It came as no surprise to everyone. LookAtVietnam – Dustin Nguyen was awarded a Golden Lotus for best actor at the 16th Viet Nam Film Festival for his part in Huyen [...]
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December 10, 2009
The 16th Vietnam Film Festival is underway in HCM City with all films being shown for free, with the aim of creating a friendly and warm atmosphere. Actors of “I want to be famous” take photos with fans after the show. Movies made for cinema are attracting the largest audiences. Fifteen movies are screened at once [...]
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December 4, 2009
Famous Irish photographer John Minihan will talk about the role of photography in Irish writers’ lives during his discussion in Ha Noi tonight, December 4. Photographer John Minihan.Born in Dublin in 1946 and raised in Athy, County Kildare, Minihan was brought to live in London in 1958, and then went on to become an apprentice [...]
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