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A traditional legend holds that if visitors throw a coin into the fountain, they are ensured a return to Rome. Instead a man threw a bucket of red paint into Rome’s Trevi Fountain on Friday, coloring the waters of the 18th-century monument bright red in front of an astonished crowd.

The man escaped, leaving a box containing leaflets, referring to Futurist that claimed responsibility for the act: The red paint was a protest for expenses incurred in organizing the Rome Film Festival and symbolically referred to the event’s red carpet, ANSA reported.

The monument, at the juncture of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the “modern” Acqua Vergine, the revivified Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. Designed by architect Nicola Salvi with Bernini’s touch, the Trevi Fountain was finished in 1762 by Giuseppe Pannini, who substituted the present bland allegories for planned sculptures of Agrippa and “Trivia”, the Roman virgin.

Black and white movie lovers will for sure remember this fountain for a glamorous Anita Ekberg’s bathing into the fountain in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita:

Skilfully combining interviews, advertisements, animation and TV, Alina Marazzi’s
We Want Roses Too aims to portray the deep change brought on by the sexual revolution and the feminist movement in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s at The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival.

The film looks again at recent events from a female point of view, through the first-hand accounts provided by the diaries of three women. Anita, Teresa and Valentina come from different Italian regions and different social backgrounds, but share the same feelings: they no longer feel part of a society based on the patriarchal family, on the power of “husbands” and on the supremacy of males, which requires them to be efficient mothers, obedient wives and virtuous daughters.

MOVIMENTO 1977 – 8 marzo Roma

BIELEFELD, Germany. Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU) and the newly founded Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) at Bielefeld University, signed a landmark cooperative agreement. Bielefeld University is one of Europe’s leading establishments in the field of cognition

As part of the collaboration, Honda has provided two ASIMOs to the CoR-Lab, equipped with “whole body movement” software developed at HRI-EU. Using an interdisciplinary approach which integrates the natural, engineering and social sciences, researchers will apply an understanding of how the brain works, its underlying architecture and mechanisms, to develop intelligent systems with similar capabilities. As part of the agreement, Honda is contributing support for the CoR-Lab’s graduate school to educate up to 15 PhD. students and young scientists in joint research projects. It is the first time that a European university will have access to ASIMO as a research platform.

ASIMO is the culmination of more than two decades of humanoid robotics research and development by Honda engineers which aimed to successfully replicate human movement, such as walking and climbing stairs. This was achieved in the 1990s; the latest generation of ASIMO goes even further with advanced mobility. Honda’s ultimate ambition however, remains to develop a robot so advanced that it can genuinely help people, such as those who lack full mobility, or by working in environments too dangerous for humans.

The Humanoid

An Italian production (though some unofficial sources suggest the movie as being an Italian/Tukish co-production).
Year of production was 1979. The movie was passed by the Italian ratings board on March 21st of that year, followed by a theatrical release in Italy on April 11. Italian company Merope Film was credited with the film’s production. It was their fourth and, to date, last cinematic entry ( copyright holder: Merope Film S.r.l MCMLXXIX ).
Other companies involved in the production included Studio 4 and Studio Verzini, who handled the optical effects, Cinesicurta (insurance), D’Angelo (Draperies), Minotaur Photoplay (dialogue recording), Fono Roma (Sound re-recording), GP 11 Safas Cantina (costumes) and Pompei (shoes). Rancati provided the arms, and Rocchetti e Carboni the wigs.
Roma’s Press Photo handled the stills photography. Ennio Morricone’s masterful score was recorded and published on the RCA S.p.a label.

http://www.golobthehumanoid.com/filmmenu.html

The Stanley Kubrick Exhibition will take place in Rome at Palazzo delle Esposizioni from October 6, 2007 to January 6, 2008. The exhibition in a co-operation between ¬ Deutsches Filmmuseum and the ¬ Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt am Main which, shows primary material – for the first time accessed – from the Kubrick Archives: iconographic items from all of his films, costumes, special effects documentation, camera equipment and extensive working and research documents. Architecture, design and contemporary art form a keynote in the sections on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30 is a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by the book of the same title by Friedrich Nietzsche. It was first performed in Frankfurt, with the composer conducting. It was used in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and as Elvis Presley’s and pro wrestler Ric Flair’s entrance music. The introduction is one of the most recognized pieces of music of the last 125 years.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra), subtitled A Book for All and None (Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), was composed by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, in four parts between 1883 and 1885. It famously declares that “God is dead”, elaborates Nietzsche’s conception of the will to power, and serves as an introduction to his doctrine of eternal return.
“ O man, take care!
What does the deep midnight declare?
“I was asleep—
From a deep dream I woke and swear:—
The world is deep,
Deeper than day had been aware.
Deep is its woe—
Joy—deeper yet than agony:
Woe implores: Go!
But all joy wants eternity—
Wants deep, wants deep eternity.”

Control, the debutfeature from former music press photographer Anton Corbijn , is the biopic of late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, and is set firmly in the tradition of black & white Northern realism. The main setting is Curtis’s hometown of Macclesfield in the early 1970s, when the punk revolution happens and Curtis joins local band Warsaw.

Corbijn Interview + Control footage

Inspired by a legendary 1976 Sex Pistols gig in Manchester, the Warsaw play their first gig in May 1977. Drummer Stephen Morris is recruited and they change their name to Joy Division and releases first album Unknown Pleasures and the single Transmission. But on the eve of their first US tour Curtis, his health increasingly erratic and tortured over his love life, hangs himself at his Macclesfield home in May 1980. The single Love Will Tear Us Apart and the album Closer are posthumously released.

1000 people dressed as gorillas went Ape through the streets of London for the day to help save the gorillas. All funds will go to the London-based charity the Gorilla Organisation which organized the marathon to run projects in central Africa. The Great Gorilla Run is an annual event: The next London run to be expected on Sunday, 21st September, 2008.

The Gorilla Organization is an international charity working to the world’s last remaining gorillas from extinction protect the survival of gorillas in their natural environment. In 2007, human interference into habitats is the largest threat to the mountain and eastern lowland gorillas of Central Africa. These precious forests are constantly under attack by unregulated logging, poaching, illegal agriculture, and the hunt for minerals for mobile phones.

The Gorilla Organization confronts these threats while addressing the needs of communities living close to the gorilla habitat. Working in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Congo, the Gorilla Organization provides funds for individuals to start a business, creates access to water for children and families, replants trees, and has started local resource centers that teach environmental education and sustainable agriculture practices.

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King Kong is a landmark black-and-white 1933 Hollywood horror-adventure film about a gigantic prehistoric gorilla named “Kong”.
King Kong was influenced by the “Lost World” literary genre, in particular Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land That Time Forgot (1918), which depicted remote and isolated jungles teeming with dinosaur life. Furthermore, in the early 20th century few zoos had monkey exhibits so there was popular demand to see them on film.

[edit] Dialogue:

Denham: Let me through, officer, my name’s Denham…Lieutenant, I’m Carl Denham.
Passerby: Denham? He’s the one that captured the monster!
Police Lieutenant: Well, Denham, the airplanes got him.
Denham: Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes.It was beauty killed the beast.