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  The Asian Cinema Trifecta and Inflatable Movie Screens

  This Korean period piece feels like a Sherlock Holmes detective story that just happens to be set in another country with a couple of different players. Set in 1910, Jin-ho is a low-rent private eye who specializes in finding cheating wives. He’s trying to save up enough money to buy a cruise ticket to America, where he’s sure there must be tons of cheating spouses. Enter medical student Gwang Su, who has just been told he needs to start studying human bodies instead of animals. When he finds a dead body in the woods, he thinks it’s his lucky day. However, when the body turns out to be the missing son of a local gangster, he panics. Knowing that if he’s found with the body he’ll be killed, he decides to hire Jin-ho to try and find the real killer so he can clear his name.

  Of course the pair fall into an enormous web of connected crimes. With a detective and a doctor teaming up, you get the Sherlock Holmes angle (despite being comedic at times, Jin-ho is also a very accomplished detective), and when you add Jin-ho’s love interest, who builds gadgets for him, it’s almost James Bondian. Private Eye is a film I highly recommend, and Jeong-min Hwang won Best Next Wave Actor for his portrayal of Jin-ho.

  South Korea gives us this story about a common thug named Sang-Hoon Kim, who makes a living roughing up people who owe his boss money, while spewing forth a stream of obscenities. By the end of the flick, you’ll almost be cussing secondhand, just because you’ll be so used to it by that point. He’s not pleasant to anyone he meets, including high school student Yeon-hee Han. However, she shares his attitude and when they butt heads it eventually leads to an unlikely romance.

  As the story unfolds, you find out that Sang-Hoon’s father accidentally stabbed and killed his daughter (Sang’s sister), and while Sang was rushing her to the hospital, his mother was run over by a car as she followed. His father has since served time, but Sang blames him for everything, and visits him from time to time to beat him up. As Sang-Hoon’s romance blossoms with Yeon-hee, he has no idea that her rebellious older brother is now working underneath him as a thug in training, and things eventually come to a head as one gangster struggles to make a name for himself, while the other looks back on his life of brutality and wants to get out. It’s extremely touching, and Yang Ik-June shines as the terrifically understatedSang-Hoon. Well worth finding and watching.

  South Korea gives us this story about a common thug named Sang-Hoon Kim, who makes a living roughing up people who owe his boss money, while spewing forth a stream of obscenities. By the end of the flick, you’ll almost be cussing secondhand, just because you’ll be so used to it by that point. He’s not pleasant to anyone he meets, including high school student Yeon-hee Han. However, she shares his attitude and when they butt heads it eventually leads to an unlikely romance.

  As the story unfolds, you find out that Sang-Hoon’s father accidentally stabbed and killed his daughter (Sang’s sister), and while Sang was rushing her to the hospital, his mother was run over by a car as she followed. His father has since served time, but Sang blames him for everything, and visits him from time to time to beat him up. As Sang-Hoon’s romance blossoms with Yeon-hee, he has no idea that her rebellious older brother is now working underneath him as a thug in training, and things eventually come to a head as one gangster struggles to make a name for himself, while the other looks back on his life of brutality and wants to get out. It’s extremely touching, and Yang Ik-June shines as the terrifically understated Sang-Hoon. Well worth finding and watching.

   

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  Inflatable Movie Screens in London, UK

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  Reliving London’s Transport Past On Inflatable Movie Screens

  Londoners packed out Trafalgar Square last night to take a look at how past generations got around the capital, as part of the BFI London Film Festival.

  The Open Road – a busy street scene in 1920s Whitehall

  In true British style the audience braved the cold weather and camped out in front of a huge inflatable screen that showcased developments to the city’s transport links since 1896.

  The 29 short films were taken mainly from the BFI’s archive and additional footage was supplied by the London Transport Museum and Imperial War Museum.

  Every year during the festival, a free screening is put on under Horatio Nelson’s timeless gaze.

  Robin Baker, head curator at the BFI, has the unenviable task of finding the best films to include.

  He told Sky News Online: “We have over 200,000 films in our archive and choosing which footage to use is a fairly difficult task.

  “I love it though, some of the older stuff shows how the city has really changed, or not, in the last century.

  “It’s a real celebration of London-ness.”

  The silent footage was given live, atmospheric accompaniment by world renowned pianist Neil Brand.

  Some of the oldest archive reels included a rare glimpse of women cycling in Hyde Park in the 19th century, as well as horse-drawn fire engines and the bizarre experiment of gas powered cars.

  Perhaps the oddest vision of the evening was the sight of the maiden flight of the R101 Airship moving across London’s skyline in 1929.

  Robin Baker singled this out as his favourite film of the evening. “It almost looks fake,” he claimed.

  “It’s so beautiful and ethereal, like something from a sci-fi movie that you’ve never seen before and will never see again.”

  The exploration of travel across London concluded with a piece from a young filmmaker from the capital, Yohan Forbes.

  His short film, Project One, followed a skateboarder on his journey from the Thames Barrier to, quite fittingly, the BFI’s base on the South Bank.

  Yohan told Sky News Online: “This is the biggest exposure my work has ever had, it’s really my ode to London.”

  Having grown up in London, he found it fascinating to see the changes that have taken place in the city since the beginning of the 20th century.

  “These films have a very nostalgic feeling; it’s good to feel nostalgic about places because those are the memories that remain.”

   
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  Inflatable Movie Screens in Florida

  The Downtown Crafts Festival will bring local and national crafters to BayWalk to show off their unique gift items, including folk art, pottery, handmade jewelry, paintings, personalized gifts, handmade clothing, scented body products and more. It runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 151 Second Ave. N, St. Petersburg.

  Saturday, Wednesday

  Get your opera fix

  No need to get out the tux. You can see the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD on Saturday and Wednesday at local movie theaters. At 1 p.m. Saturday, the MET series features Verdi’s Aida with Violeta Urmana in the title role at Woodland Square 20 in Oldsmar, Citrus Stadium 20 in Tampa and Grove 16 in Wesley Chapel and the Regency 20 in Brandon. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, catch Puccini’s Tosca with Karita Mattila at Woodland Square 20 in Oldsmar, Citrus Stadium 20 in Tampa, Grove 16 in Wesley Chapel and the Brandon Regency 20.

   
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  Inflatable Movies Screens at University and College

  They seek and devour every resource in sight, with few constraints and even less restraint. At least that’s how Ronald Ehrenberg describes it when explaining the big question on the minds of so many:

  Why does college cost so much?

  “Our sole goal is to find cookies and stuff our mouths,” says Ehrenberg, who directs the Higher Education Research Institute at Cornell University. “Colleges and universities like to grab as many resources as they can. We want to make ourselves as good as we can. We want the best facilities, students, resident halls and labs, so there’s this tremendous drive to be better, and that costs money.” For a long time, he says, “there’s been no check on this drive to get better, because the lines of students wanting to get into institutions keep getting longer.”

  Of course, the U.S. higher-education system has long been the envy of the world. A college degree has become a requirement to enter almost any profession, and can increase lifetime earnings by a million dollars or more.

  So could it be that those who are outraged at the cost of tuition are somehow romanticizing the past? We’ve heard the stories: How kids could once walk to the corner store without Mom or Dad to keep them safe. How you could fill up the tank for $10. How you could work summers to pay for college.

  The reality doesn’t always match. Violent-crime rates have plummeted over the past 15 years. The real price of gas has fluctuated over a century. But when it comes to tuition, the stories check out.

  If tuition and fees had risen at the same pace as inflation over the past 30 years, today it would cost $9,900 annually to attend a private college, $2,300 to attend a public. Instead, the average tuition bill is $25,000 and $6,600 respectively, according to the College Board. Even adjusting for inflation, what you paid for a full year’s tuition in 1978 will barely buy you an academic quarter today.

  Add food and a place to stay, and the cost of attending a prestigious private university can now run $50,000 a year — a cool $200,000 for that undergraduate degree. Multiply that by two, three or four children, and you can see why even the wealthiest are upset.

  Yet only a sliver of all that extra tuition is being put into classroom teaching. According to an analysis by the nonprofit Delta Cost Project, much more has gone into areas like student services, academic support and research (which often pays for itself through outside grants). Universities these days spend just 35 to 44 percent of their budgets on teaching their students.

  One way universities have kept instruction costs down is by employing fewer tenured professors and more low-paid adjunct and part-time faculty. Twenty years ago, two-thirds of university faculty and staff were employed full-time, while these days, it’s barely half. Among full-timers, wages vary according to rank. At the University of Washington Seattle, for instance, professors are paid an average $122,000, associate professors $87,000 and assistant professors $77,000.

  Over time, two forces in particular have been responsible for much of the run-up in tuition — one at the public institutions, the other at the privates.

  For public universities, the problem has been with state governments, which have systematically taken money away. Facing spiraling costs for prisons, health care and K-12 education, lawmakers have time and again taken their axes to university finances. In the early 1990s at the UW, students paid for a third of the cost of their education, while the state picked up the rest. These days, students are paying 58 percent of the freight.

  Outside the public system, something else has been going on. Twenty years ago, private, liberal-arts colleges collected all their tuition and then gave back about 19 cents from every dollar in the form of scholarships and financial aid, helping out certain students. These days, the colleges give back about 33 cents of every dollar. That means more help for some, more cost for everyone else.

  While some of the extra help has gone to poorer students, much has gone into the heated competition for academic achievers. These top students are lured with “merit-based” scholarships. If a college attracts better students, after all, it can lead to a better reputation, better professors, better rankings. And, in the end, more cookies.

  Driving east to Walla Walla, Wash., you can measure the miles by the changing fragrance of the crops. First come fields of mint, then hops, then sweet onions, and finally, grapes.

  This small Eastern Washington town, miles from anywhere, is home to picturesque Whitman College, the only selective liberal-arts college in the state that ranks anywhere near top East Coast colleges like Amherst, Williams and Swarthmore. Whitman accepts less than half its applicants and boasts a 10-to-1 student-teacher ratio. Freshmen typically enter with a grade-point average of 3.9.

  The cost of attending Whitman? About $48,000 a year. That includes tuition and fees of $37,000, room and board of $9,000, books and supplies. About 37 cents of every tuition dollar comes back to students in financial aid and merit scholarships.

  Taking a tour of the campus is Marie Anderson, 17, a high-school senior in the San Francisco Bay Area, and her mom, Nancy Anderson. The family has toured about a dozen similar campuses. Nancy says a private, liberal-arts college is the best fit for her daughter’s learning style.

  While Marie has been looking at schools, Nancy has been polishing her resume. After years as a stay-at-home mom, she’s looking for work to help pay the enormous college bills that are about to start arriving for Marie and her two younger siblings.

  Cost is a huge concern, says Nancy, whose husband is a software salesman. “We’ve been saving since she was born. I was told back then it would cost $200,000 by the time she was college age. I remember laughing at that. But it turned out to be dead on.”

  On the tour, a student guide, Alex Thomas, tells visiting families about how, beyond the classroom, nearly three-quarters of Whitman students play sports — everything from Ultimate Frisbee to lacrosse. There’s not much reason to leave campus on the weekends, Thomas says, what with the giant inflatable movie screen, the casino nights, the moonlight paddling trips, the farm-fresh cafeteria food and the resident advisers who try to take care of your every need.

   
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  Inflatable Movie Screens in Sky Mall Shopping Guide

  SO I WAS DRIVING down the freeway the other day, reading the newspaper, checking my e-mail, texting, changing lanes, watching TV and worrying about health care reform, when it dawned on me that it’s never too early to start Christmas shopping.

  So I used my other hand to pull out the most fantastic thing in the history of the known universe that doesn’t have Velcro attached: the Sky Mall magazine they put in the seat pocket on airplanes.

  I was so enthralled with mine on a recent trip that I carefully, cleverly sneaked it into my carry-on bag while no one was looking. I had to have this wonderful piece of literature filled with a treasure trove of high-performance, boldly styled goodies that can be bought through the mail. Even if I had to break the law to get it, it would be mine. Besides, authority doesn’t scare a worldly thrill-seeker like myself.

  Then my wife pointed out United Airlines tells you to take Sky Mall with you — in big letters, right there on the cover.

  Well, there went all the fun out of my heist. But upon further review, I realized nothing can take all the fun out of a Sky Mall magazine. I’m going to do all this year’s Christmas shopping from that one little magazine of wonder

  For example, somebody’s getting a pair of truck antlers for $24.99. You stick an antler on one side of the cab, an antler

  on the other and bingo! You have “… antlers on your truck. Because, like Sky Mall says, having just one horn on your truck just isn’t enough. HA! Sky Mall cracks me up.

  I know a couple people who could use the X5 Hair Laser. With only three 10-15 minute treatments per week, guys with thinning air can regain that “Rockin’ the Krokus tribute band” (my words, not theirs) look in no time. Although you’d think, for $299, they’d include an optional fire extinguisher. We are talking about middle-aged men and lasers.

  Water works

  Here’s one I might buy for myself — a remote-controlled, 100-foot water cannon. You can control it from 30 feet away. Every time you hear that kid with the motorcycle breaking the sound barrier on your street, you can let him have it. It would also be a safe and easy way to keep that guy from picking through your recyclables at night.

  I don’t think I need to make a case for the marshmallow gun with an LED targeting sight, the upside-down tomato garden, the 10-foot inflatable movie screen, the spiked, aerating lawn shoes, or the be-your-own acupuncturist kit. And just about anyone would love the anti-migraine helmet, the Orbitor Listening Device that can record conversations from 300 feet away, or the sunglasses that allow you to watch movies on the inside lens.

  But the Spyer Agent Watch? That one goes on my Christmas list right now. It contains a secret hidden camcorder, perfect for parties when you want to ratchet up the fun by showing your friends just what they really think of each other.

  And if anyone out there always has wanted their guests to do a double take as they admire your creative home or garden style, a Bigfoot garden sculpture would do the trick. Later, in case the guests wonder who’s doing the cooking, you can brand your initials on their steak with the BBQ Branding Iron.

  It’s going to be a Sky Mall holiday at my house. I just hope my wife really wants shoes that double as swim fins.

   
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  Inflatable Movie Screens and Wii

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  Inflatable Movie Screens Return to Cowra

  THE VOID left in Cowra by the closure of the Savoy Cinema has now been filled. Pics in the Sticks will be launched on Saturday 24 October with a private screening of Slumdog Millionaire.

  With a giant 7m wide by 3m high inflatable screen, state of the art audio and visual equipment, Pics in the Sticks is a totally self-contained unit that can be set up anywhere there is a standard power point or, in more remote locations, by using a car battery and an inverter.

  Manager Ian Mark (pictured) believes that movie nights are a great way for local clubs and charities to raise money. “People love going to the cinema and there is nothing better on a warm summer evening than sitting under the stars with a picnic and a drink, watching your favourite film on the big screen.” The system can also operate indoors at local halls and clubs, extending its use to 12 months of the year.

  The first public screening will be Mamma Mia on Saturday 31 October at the Cowra Japanese Garden. “We are showing the captioned version so the audience can sing along to all the great tunes” Ian said. See next Wednesday’s Guardian or phone 6341 2233 for further information.

  Pics in the Sticks will add a new dimension to corporate functions such as team-building exercises as it can be used with Wii and other interactive software. It is also available for private hire for annivesaries, birthdays, bucks and hens parties etc.

  Please contact Ian Mark or Belinda Mort on 6345 5828 for further information.

   
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  Inflatable Movie Screens in Texas

  Drive-in movies were once a memory reserved for sharing the back seat of a 1950s wing-tipped Cadillac with their sweetheart on a Saturday night. Luckily, nostalgia found its way back to Austin through a local couple and their innovative interpretation with the Driftin’ Drive-In.

  The idea of awakening the dusty outdoor big-screen has been with Charlie Hurtin since he was a child. Unlike the stationary drive-ins of the past, though, he wanted one that could travel. With his wife Rachael he established Wild Street Drive-In in 1999, an inflatable movie screen named for the Austin street where they showed free films on their front lawn.

  ”I love movies,” Hurtin said. “It gives me an excuse to throw [the screen] up and watch a movie — let other people enjoy it besides in our back yard.”

  After a few minor setbacks, the two returned to their day jobs (Charlie created Pyrite Records for his bands Charlie Hurtin and the Hecklers and The Strollers) to save up for a future film company collaboration. Together they founded Driftin’ Drive-In — complete with portable projectors, sound system, generator and 20-by-10-foot inflatable movie screen.

  For the month of October, Driftin’ will be playing horror cult classics at Austin Brevita, beginning with Little Shop of Horrors on Thursday. Brevita is a tiny, yellow hut that serves piping hot coffee creations and appropriately shares its large gravel lot with donut trailer Gourdough’s. Tiffany and Duane Youngren opened Brevita in June and hope to inspire interest in the South Austin community.

  “It’s another opportunity for the general public to come in and get to know the different businesses,” Tiffany said.

  Hurtin said he enjoys the like-minded, burgeoning ‘mom-n’-pop-type places’ like Brevita and, in an effort to help their businesses and gain exposure for his own company, he screens most of the films free of charge.

  His biggest inspiration, though, is his childhood love of the silver screen.

  “The novelty – the idea that just being able to go out and sneak into a Drive-In. You know, like the old ‘60s and ‘50s, the kids, what would you do on a weekend night? You would go to the drive-in movie theater,” Hurtin said. “Sitting at home watching your TV is boring. To come out and watch a nice classic horror film with neighbors is the Austin way to do things.”

   
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  Inflatable Movie Screens in the Hollywood Movies

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  Inflatable Movie Screens Go to Hollywood

  Check out the Fresh Air Flicks giant inflatable outdoor movie screen in the final scene of the feature film “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.” We were hired by the movies producers last year to set up our screen in Brooklyn’s Empire-Fulton Ferry Park, on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge.

  I am excited about our outdoor movie screen appearing in a feature film, not just for what it means to our company, but for what it means to the industry. It’s evidence that outdoor movie events are becoming more a part of popular culture resulting in increased demand and opening up new and interesting growth opportunities.

  This is certainly not the first time an outdoor movie has been featured in film or tv. About 5 years ago, an inflatable movie screen ws featured in an episode of “CSI: MIami.” Most recently an inflatable screen made an appearance in “The Simpsons.”

  Please tell me if you know of any other references to outdoor movies on the big (or small) screen. I’m just too busy setting the things up to watch tv or go to the movies.

  BTW – If you haven’t seen an outdoor movie under the Brooklyn Bridge, it is something you MUST DO next summer.