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...director, Leon Panetta, told journalists that it was important to know how the global economic downturn is affecting the stability and foreign policies of key U.S. allies and rivals, especially China, Russia and countries in Latin America. He singled out Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela as countries in particularly dire straits. The briefing will also be shared with "key players in the Administration." The objective, Panetta said, is to "give policymakers a feel for what's going on ... so they can use it [in decision-making...
...stability of the world," Panetta said. "As an intelligence agency, we've got to pay attention to that because we have to know whether or not the economic impacts in China or Russia or any place else are influencing the policies of those countries when it comes to foreign affairs and when it comes to the issues that we care about...
...quite Slumdog's tale of rags to riches - more like shining maggots to Oscar gold. The path that led Japan to take its first Oscar in Best Foreign Language film at this week's Academy Awards started with the film's lead actor, Masahiro Motoki, contacting author Shinmon Aoki to quote a passage of his novel Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician in the actor's own travel diary. "Maggots are life, too," the passage, in the voice of the novel's protagonist, reads. "When I thought that, I could see the maggots shining...
...both films were in categories never before won by Japanese films. Departures won an upset victory over the Israeli animated documentary Waltz with Bashir and the French entry The Class, the story of a Paris schoolteacher. The last time that a Japanese film was nominated for the category of Foreign Language Film was with The Twilight Samurai in 2003. Samurai, The Legend of Musashi won an honorary foreign language film award in 1955 - but that was a year before the 1956 establishment of the foreign language category. (See pictures of some of the greatest ever animated movies...
...fact that the Academy Awards recognized this is a big encouragement to the Japanese film industry," she says. Festivals like Berlin, Venice and Cannes have recently given more recognition to Japanese films, of which more than 400 were released last year in the domestic market. They now outnumber foreign films being shown in Japan, and increased competition in the film industry is slowly improving the quality of films and creating an environment for movies like Departures, to rise to the top. (See pictures of Japan...