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...increasingly, Sundance, Toronto saves lots of tickets for civilians, who buy the majority of the more than 300,000 tickets each year. And though hotel and restaurant prices have risen in recent years, you don't have to be on an expense account to go. With its "receptive, English-speaking audiences," Toronto offers "a more American-centric personality," says veteran publicist Tony Angelotti...
...list English-language slate is just a small part of the TIFF experience. At its inception in the '70s, it was called the Festival of Festivals, and that name still applies: all kinds of genres, dozens of national cinemas, play to an equally diverse audience. Indeed, TIFF could split itself into eight or 10 different festivals, run throughout the year, instead of the one smorgasbord from which no one can get his or her fill...
Students remember Sommers as a teacher who reviewed drafts meticulously, returning notes in different colors of ink from multiple readings. This fall, she brought English professor and New Yorker critic James Wood into her classroom to discuss the works of author Joan Didion and invited an acting coach to teach public speaking...
...fable Mulan; a martial arts team-up of Jackie Chan and Jet Li; and a remake of the 1954 classic, The Seven Samurai, which transplants Kurosawa's besieged Japanese village to the outskirts of Bangkok and recasts the Japanese fighters as mercenary soldiers, three of whom speak English...
...sound, no one I met in Vientiane had ever heard of this surreal plot. Of course, it may simply not be the sort of news the nation's secretive leaders are keen to disseminate. The first morning I was in Vientiane, the front page of the Times, the local English-language daily, heralded booming comradely relations with Vietnam, and the donation of some computers by a Scandinavian NGO. Not a single negative news story marred the sunny propaganda spirit of the paper...