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Scorsese to Rescue Lost Film Gems

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Martin Scorsese won an Oscar this year for his film The Departed

Oscar-winning film director Martin Scorsese is spearheading a new body aimed at salvaging neglected films.

Scorsese - who has made Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and The Departed - launched the World Cinema Foundation (WCF) at the Cannes Film Festival.

He was joined by a dozen top directors, including Stephen Frears, who will highlight homegrown films from their own countries worth rescuing.

But Scorsese said the WCF would focus on films from developing countries.

Scorsese told reporters he feared seminal foreign films could deteriorate or disappear entirely.

Foreign films on television... introduced so many different cultures to me and I found I was fed by those cultures Martin Scorsese

"Coming from a working-class background in New York, my parents were not educated and weren't in the habit of reading books," the 66-year-old director said.

"So I saw a great deal of film on television in particular.

"This opened up a whole world to me, foreign films on television, and introduced so many different cultures to me.

"I found I was fed by those cultures, and I think the same thing has happened all around the world."

The Queen director Frears, who is chairing the Cannes award jury this year, added his voice to the call for the restoration of older films.

He said the British Film Institute (BFI) need more money to help maintain its archive.

"[It] is under-funded. It needs money. It's as simple as that. It's our lives, our culture. The government does not prioritise this highly enough."

'Important relics'

Cult Chinese director Wong Kar-wai - behind My Blueberry Nights, which opened Cannes this year - will also sit on the WFC board.

He said he had made a pet project out of hundreds of Chinese films he unearthed in a San Francisco warehouse two years ago and planned to bring them back to Hong Kong to restore as many as possible.

"They're just like orphans because they don't know who owned these copies," he said.

He called them invaluable relics of the waves of Chinese workers who left home for the US.

"Just imagine: before the Second World War, all these Chinese men, the immigrants working in the United States - they are not able to bring their wives, their families, they are lonely men in Chinatown and this is their only entertainment.

"And I think all these films have performed something very important, to link all the Chinese around the world because they have something to share."

word for the day - McJob

McJob - an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects (Oxford English Dictionary)

quoting Titit

Angel: Sa Macapagal nga P30 lang yung DVD's!

Me: Saan yung Macapagal?

Titit: Wag nyo sasabihin jan! Ipapa-raid nya yan! Wala na tayong mabibilhan!

who would be interesting grad speakers

1. Father Bernas, but then he already does so in Baccalaureate masses

2. Atty. Jack Jimenez

3. Aty. Ruben F. Balane

4. Judge Learned Hand

5. Justice Hofilena

6. Miranda of Miranda v. Arizona, ay wait! Patay na pala sya.

7. Mang Nats (I bet he looks like Efren Bata Reyes pag naka-suit!)

8. Estelito Mendoza

from History of Copyright

Before the publication, the author has an undeniable and unlimited right.
Think of a man like Dante, Molière, Shakespeare. Imagine him at the time when
he has just finished a great work. His manuscript is there, in front of him;
suppose that he gets the idea to throw it into the fire; nobody can stop him.
Shakespeare can destroy Hamlet, Molière Tartufe, Dante the Hell.

But as soon as the work is published, the author is not any more the master. It
is then that other persons seize it: call them what you will: human spirit,
public domain, society. It is such persons who say: I am here; I take this
work, I do with it what I believe I have to do, [...] I possess it, it is with
me from now on.

- Victor Hugo, 1870, Chair of L'Association Litteraire Internationale

The
author and the owner of the copy may both say about it with the same
right: it is my book! but in a different sense. The first regards the
book as writing or speech; the second only as the mute instrument that
delivers the speech to him or the public, i.e. as a copy. This right of
the author is however no right to the thing, namely the copy (since the
owner may burn it before the author's eyes), but an innate right in his
own person, that is to prevent another from delivering it to the public
without his consent, which consent can by no means be presumed, because
he has already given it exclusively to another.

-Immanuel Kant, Von der Unrechtmäßigkeit des Büchernachdrucks, 1785

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wag sayangin ang boto

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Why Pacquiao should not be running for Congressman

http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=62284

MANILA, Philippines -- The Black and White Movement has issued a blacklist of congressional candidates to discourage voters from electing them. It said it would actively campaign against the 12 candidates they identified.

The list is headed by boxer Manny Pacquiao who is running for congressman of South Cotabato province. The others are Matias Defensor (Quezon City), Erwin Genuino (Makati City), Jose de Venecia (Pangasinan), Mikey Arroyo (Pampanga), Renato Unico (Camarines Norte), Dato Arroyo (Camarines Sur), Luis Villafuerte (Camarines Sur), Raul Gonzalez Jr. (Iloilo City), Iggy Arroyo (Negros Occidental), Michelle Tagarda-Spiers (Cagayan de Oro city) and Virgilio Garcillano (Bukidnon).

The group urged the people to vote for their opponents instead: Darlene Antonino-Custodio (South Cotabato), Danton Remoto (Quezon City), Abigail Binay (Makati), Benjie Lim (Pangasinan), Joey Montemayor (Pampanga), Liwayway Vinzons-Chato (Camarines Norte), Sabas Mabulo (Camarines Sur), Benjie Gimgos (Iloilo City), Apolinario Lozada (Negros Occidental), Tony Soriano (Cagayan de Oro) and Malou Acosta (Bukidnon).

I agree with the list especially as it pertains to Pacquiao. I think Pacquiao has become so swellheaded that he now believes he is God’s gift to the Filipinos. He even went to Makati to endorse Sen. Lito Lapid for mayor. What business does he have butting into the affairs of Makati when he is from General Santos?

In a press conference, Pacquiao said he is running because President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo promised to give whatever he asks for South Cotabato if he is the representative. In other words, he would be a beggar groveling before Malacañang.

He’s got it all wrong. That is not the job of a congressman. The job of a congressman is to make laws, not to be a beggar. Does he know how to write one?

Besides, to Ms Arroyo, a promise means nothing. She has broken so many promises. What makes Pacquiao think her promise to him would be any different?

excerpt from:

AS I SEE IT
Don’t vote for these candidates

By Neal Cruz
Inquirer
Last updated 01:53am (Mla time) 04/25/2007

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