Look and think about... China today.

This movie was first released on Jan 21st 2010, and was banned 2 days later on all major
Chinese video websites.

DigiCha says : ... "Google’s recent moves in China have captured global attention about
censorship and Internet controls in China, eliciting protests from inside and outside China.
But there is a much more entertaining protest about China’s web controls circulating on the
Internet :
”网瘾战争 War of Internet Addiction”. It is an hour long video, “shot” almost entirely with
in-game video from World of Warcraft, satirizing the government’s attempt to “harmonize”
China’s Internet with forced installations of “Green Dam Youth Escort” and the travails of
Chinese World of Warcraft players over the last several months.
It is quite brilliant".


(greatestyang)

This video contains a lot of Chinese history and pop culture references along with a lot
of internet meme only known to Chinese since this video is targeted at the Chinese
audience only.
If you wish to understand a bit more, you should read> more info...
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This is Ludo, on Le Mur

# 63 - Ludo - January 21/2010

Ludo on videos
All Le Mur seasons on LeMurAsso
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(Next > February 8/12 > ESAH & ENSPC).

Emmaus now at the CentQuatre

Yes, on January 13, the "Emmaüs Challenge" opened
a new 200 sq m odds and ends market at the "104"
- rue d'Aubervilliers, Paris 19.


PPG readers already know about the
Centquatre, the contemporary creation
center but, if you're new here, you just
lend your ear to this boy's speech (en).




Emmaus is a an international movement with more than 300 projects in over
40 countries worldwide. (Click on Emmaüs logos to learn more).
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Now, why not to spend this Sunday strolling from a secondhand shop to
a flea market, from Emmaus/104 to a yard/garage sales, jumping between
the following G@tto's suggestions...

Paris V
- marché Maubert
Paris X
- Place Johann Strauss
Paris XI
- 8 passage Thiéré (La Mécanique Ondulatoire)
- 11 cour Debille
Paris XX
- Cours de Vincennes
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500 Parisians in Anger...

About 500 people gathered on Saturday 16 in front of the Maison des Métallos
(a cultural institution) in Paris XI, in support to Rayhana...


The actress and playwriter had been doused with gasoline on Tuesday 12, as
she walked into the theater to perform in her play A mon âge, je me cache
encore pour fumer (At my age, I still hide to smoke).

Despite the assault, Rayhana took the stage the same evening and kept acting
until the end, on January 16, as expected.
Since December 8, nine actresses appeared every night on stage at the Maison
des Métallos, in the role of nine Algerian women meeting in a hammam - their
refuge against the world of men, while conversing freely on their daily lives and
their difficulties in the Algerian society.


(berberia666)


The mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë, has told the Press this terrible event could
be linked to the subject of Rayhana's work.
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I'm afraid this attack could also be related to the proximity with one of the most
fundamentalist mosques in Paris.



A look in the Press...

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French New Wave has lost another of its founders

Eric Rohmer, 89, film director and writer, passed away.






A classic from Rohmer's "marivaudages"
Le genou de Claire (Claire's Knee), 1970


(okchicago)

Did I say "marivaudages" ?
"(le mot)... décrit un certain type de dialogue amoureux (dont les comédies
de Marivaux offrent le modèle), il renvoie à une certaine façon de vivre
l'échange sur le mode de la galanterie et du badinage. C'est dans ce sens
large que le mot est de nos jours le plus couramment employé pour désigner
une atmosphère enjouée et spirituelle, des rapports amoureux fondés sur le
jeux de la séduction, tels qu'on les trouve dans les films d'Eric Rohmer,
par exemple".
Eric Négrel, 1999, on "Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hazard".
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On January 14 Arte features Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune (Full Moon in Paris),
1984, with Pascale Ogier (that I met at a party in 1983).