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CANNES Authentic Andrus Peat Jersey , France, May 22 (Xinhua) -- British director Ken Loach returned to compete for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) for the best film at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, with his new movie screened on Thursday.
Winning the Palme d'Or for "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" in 2006, Loach this time tells a story in the early 20th century.
In 1921, Jimmy Gralton opened a dance hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland, where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream, but above all to dance and have fun, according to the official synopsis provided by the festival organizer.
With the portrayal of the "uncompromising" character, "Jimmy's Hall" is Loach's 14th participation in the Selection of the Cannes Film Festival.
It is a film "that is true to his style," commented the official daily digest of the film festival.
At a press conference on Thursday for "Jimmy's Hall", Loach and his team spent a while discussing the traditional and the latest technology on filming.
Talking about the technical aspect and the difference between 35mm film and digital one, Loach said "with 35mm film, which has to be cut, you pay more attention to what you're doing, because it's a much more human cooperation."
"35mm film is something you can touch and see. It was very expensive to order new reels, so we asked the editors if they had something in their garage. The Pixar people found some!"
While chief cameraman Robbie Ryan said "it's a shame that things have changed so much. I hope the two systems could coexist but it hasn't turned out that way."
Screenplay writer Paul Laverty said "people like traditional technology so we're going to keep on cutting films."
A total of 18 feature films have been selected in Competition. The winners will be announced on May 24, one day before the originally planned date due to the European Parliament elections on May 25.
BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- A draft revision to the Standardization Law highlighted the supporting role of standards in facilitating industrial upgrades and economic restructuring.
The draft revision was given a second reading at the bimonthly session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, which opened Monday.
It called on the central government to promote the application of standards to increasing innovation.
The draft also stated the country's support for making company standards and group standards in key industries, such as strategic new industries and shared technologies.
Both company and group standards are voluntary standards in China.
The government should promote the integration between military and civilian standards, as well as transforming advanced military standards into civilian fields, according to the draft.
The current Standardization Law came into force in 1989.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- According to many producers and traders in Vietnam, people burn around 50,000 tons of votive paper objects worth many millions of U.S. dollars each year.
As the Ghost Festival is nearing, more and more real money is being "burnt."
The Dong Ho village in the Bac Ninh province, located around 35 km northeast of the capital city of Hanoi, is the busiest during Tet (Lunar New Year Festival) and the Hungry Ghost Festival, which is also known as the Yulan or Zhongyuan Festival.
The festival falls on the 15th day of July according to the lunar month (in early September 2017) and it is a day for people to pay their respects to the deceased by offering sacrifices.
The festival is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist event held in a number of Asian countries. Activities during the festival often include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper, offering papier-mache items, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of people's ancestors.
In Dong Ho, during Tet or the Hungry Ghost Festival, some 90 percent of families there work very hard, producing the village's main source of income, which is votive paper objects.
These paper objects symbolize real objects such as banknotes, gold ingots, clothes, shoes, boats, horses, and even villas, cars and smartphones, and are burnt as offerings to ancestral spirits.
"My family has made votive paper objects over the past two years. Most of the products are sold for the Hungry Ghost Festival. As the festival is approaching, our sales are increasing," Minh Tu, a local middle-aged woman in the village's Dao Tu hamlet, told Xinhua on Monday.
Along every road within the village, votive paper objects are piled up. Another local middle-aged woman who is the owner of a production base, said, "The best-selling items before the 15th day of July according to the lunar month include costumes and means of transport such as horses, motorbikes and cars."
Some buyers prefer modern items such as smartphones and cameras. Usually, each paper item costs from 20,000 Vietnamese dong (0.9 U.S. dollars) to 200,000 Vietnamese dong (9 U.S. dollars).
As for banknotes, the production base churns out 0.2 tons of the votive objects a day, she noted.
A young man who works at the Nghinh Viet production base, said, "This production base specializes in making paper dragon boats. The wholesales price is around 20,000 Vietnamese dong, but end-users may have to pay 40,0. http://www.wholesalemlbjerseysforcheap.com/ http://www.wholesalecheapnfljerseysfootball.com/ Wholesale Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys Cheap Jerseys From China Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys |
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