Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Croatian film wins Sarajevo film festival

SARAJEVO () - A Croatian film about deuce Bosnian immigrants who left hand the rural area during the 1992-95 warfare for a new sprightliness in the United States was chosen on Saturday as the best flick at the 14th Sarajevo film festival.





The jury, chaired by Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, awarded "Buic Riviera" by managing director Goran Rusinovic and based on a novel by Bosnian author Miljenko Jergovic with the 25,000 euro ($37,160) Heart of Sarajevo award.





The celluloid tells the story of a Bosnian Muslim and a Bosnian Serb world Health Organization meet on a abandoned road in the United States. They spend the next 24 hours together, engaging in a psychological game of mutual accusations which will change their lives for good, just like the war they had both fled.





"To receive this accolade is a great honor both for the crew and the festival itself," Rusinovic aforementioned.





"Buic Riviera" was selected from 10 films from Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey which competed at the Balkan's largest photographic film forum.





Leon Lucev and Slavko Stimac were chosen as best actors for their role in the film. The topper actress honour went to Ayca Damagaci for her role in "My Marlon and Brando" by Turkish director Huseyin Karabey.





The nine-day fete showed 174 films and documentaries.





The Sarajevo Film Festival was launched near the end of the war and grew into the biggest regional film rival.





(Writing by Maja Zuvela)









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Saturday, 16 August 2008

Download Feist






Feist
   

Artist: Feist: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Indie
Folk
Pop
Rock

   







Discography:


The Reminder
   

 The Reminder

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 13
Open Season
   

 Open Season

   Year: 2006   

Tracks: 15
Let It Die
   

 Let It Die

   Year: 2005   

Tracks: 11
Mushaboom - Maxi CD
   

 Mushaboom - Maxi CD

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 4
Monarch
   

 Monarch

   Year: 1999   

Tracks: 10
Live at KCRW
   

 Live at KCRW

   Year:    

Tracks: 7






She was born Leslie Feist in Calgary in the mid-'70s only goes by her last name when it comes to making music for a living. The Jhay-inspired songstress got her take up performing in a high schooling spunk dance band called Placebo (non to be turnover with the U.K. modern john Rock act of the same identify). After winning a engagement of the bands contest, Placebo played their first gig opening for the Ramones, and for the side by side cinque years, Feist perfected her john Rock ways. Touring cross-Canada in the end took its toll on Feist. She had forced her voice so lots, she was told she'd never blab prohibited once again. To retrieve focus and medical assist from some other specialist, Feist fled her hometown to situate in Toronto in 1998. She worn-out six months holed up by herself in a basement with a four-track registrar. She bought a guitar as a means of temporarily replacement her voice and began crafting a natural pop legal. A year afterward, Feist was playing guitar for By Divine Right. She went on to play in forepart of uncounted arena crowds as By Divine Right opened for the Tragically Hip across North America. Somewhere in betwixt touring with some of Canada's biggest acts, Feist name time to record and self-released her first floor solo criminal record album, 1999's Monarch butterfly (Lay Down Your Jeweled Head). After playing some littler local gigs in and about Toronto, Feist touched in with electroclash rap vixen Peaches in 2000. Peaches christened Feist Bitch Lap-Lap and from in that respect, Feist sang on and toured in support of Peaches' debut record album, Teaches of Peaches. Not one to remain to a fault long in once place, Feist joined Broken Social Scene in the written text of their soph cause, You Forgot It in People. The record record album, which was released in 2002, became a critical succeeder among the indie crowds after winning a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year in 2003. Feist had already had plans for a inst solo album by this time. When she wasn't touring North America and Europe with Broken Social Scene, Feist and Renaud Letang of Manu Chao and Chilly Gonzales went back and away between Calgary, Toronto, and Paris for its transcription. Get It Die was released on Arts & Crafts in May 2004. Feist has alike contributed vocals to workings by Kings of Convenience, Apostle of Hustle, and Jane Birkin. In 2006 she released Opened Season¸ a collection of remixes, collaborations, and other songs and began work on her next uncut. Recorded and assembled in unitary hebdomad in a rented house weedy Paris, The Reminder strike shelves in the saltation of 2007.






Thursday, 7 August 2008

James Blunt - James Blunt Interest In My Private Life Is Unhealthy

James Blunt has dismissed media sake in his private life sentence as irrelevant and "unhealthy".

The You're Beautiful star has seen his love life plastered through the tabloids in recent years, with alleged romances with cast director Dixie Chassay, musician Camilla Boler and supermodel Petra Nemcova.

But speaking in the thick of a 14-month world tour, the singer-songwriter said he continues to find media