Word: roading
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...mountain environments, mountain cultures and communities from various corners of the world," accompanied by discussion forums and exhibitions. Works at the sixth festival, being held Dec. 11-15, come from as far afield as Afghanistan, Peru, Croatia and Switzerland. After screenings in Kathmandu, the films are taken on the road for a tour of Nepalese cities and towns. Details at kimff.org...
...Chinese consumers. Earlier this year, the company launched a $585 million plant expansion to produce another 300,000 cars in Xi'an. In all, domestic investment in the city surged 31% to $8.1 billion in the first three quarters of 2009 from a year earlier. (Read "China: The Road to Prosperity...
...usually fairly easy for a movie critic to drum up a date for a screening. But persuading someone to join you at the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's solemn, searing postapocalyptic novel The Road is apparently akin to asking if they'll help you transport nuclear waste. One friend essentially declared that even if Pauline Kael rose forth from the grave to endorse this cinematic spectacle of father and son wandering a ruined world in search of uncertain sanctuary, she still would...
...Read "The Director Who Confronted - and Survived - 'The Road...
...this fall's schedule before landing in Thanksgiving week suggests that the questions stumped the marketing professionals as well. But if Hillcoat--best known for his Australian outlaw tale The Proposition--and screenwriter Joe Penhall felt any pressure to temper the novel's agonies, they shrugged it off. Their Road is respectful of McCarthy's glumness, and they have made no effort to soften the despair...