“By any measurement, it’s been an exceptional year for blacks in film. From comedies to high-quality dramas and documentaries, 2016 will forever represent a bonanza year for black cinema, and all cinema really.”
Tag: 11.28.16
China Announces Plans To Build $2 Billion Movie Studio
“The studio in the southwest municipality of Chongqing will include a theme park and tourist attractions, state media reported late Sunday. Construction will begin early next year and is expected to cost 15 billion yuan ($2.18 billion).”
The Simple Life Versus A Complicated Life – Which Is Preferable?
“Through much of human history, frugal simplicity was not a choice but a necessity – and since necessary, it was also deemed a moral virtue. But with the advent of industrial capitalism and a consumer society, a system arose that was committed to relentless growth, and with it grew a population (aka ‘the market’) that was enabled and encouraged to buy lots of stuff that, by traditional standards, was surplus to requirements. As a result, there’s a disconnect between the traditional values we have inherited and the consumerist imperatives instilled in us by contemporary culture.”
Norman Foster Wins Competition To Design Prado Extension
First proposed by the Spanish government in 1995, the project to restore the only surviving part of Philip IV’s Buen Retiro pleasure palace, which housed Spain’s Army Museum until 2005, has been hampered by years of austerity. The building was officially assigned to the nearby Prado last October.
The Life Of A Tour And Production Manager With 250 Crew Members To Wrangle
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra only tours at Christmas, and the band likes its spectacle to be truly spectacular – which means a lot of trucks and a lot of crew. Production manager Elliott Saltzman: “Our schedule is pretty amazing. … We’re going to do almost 22,000 miles, 34 states, 61 cities, 105 shows, and 44 double-show days.”
The High-Tech Workshop That’s Produced Exact Replicas Of Caravaggio Paintings And Tutankhamun’s Tomb
Factum Arte won fame for installing a faithful copy of Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana where Napoleon had ripped the original from the wall. Its full-size copy of the teenage pharaoh’s burial chamber has been installed at Luxor so that tourists can spend time in it without their breath and body moisture damaging the original. Now there’s a hope that Factum could help recreate at least some of what ISIS destroyed at Nimrud.