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Buffons skada värre än befarad – borta till januari

Juventus målvakt Gianluigi Buffon kommer inte att vara redo för spel förrän tidigast i januari. Det är en månad senare än först beräknat.

Den italienske landslagsspelaren har varit borta från spel sedan den 5:e oktober på grund av en muskelskada i benet.
- Det är lite allvarligare än vi först trodde, säger Buffon till AP.
- Jag måste fortfarande återhämta mig fysiskt, men jag borde vara redo för 2009.
Buffon kommer att missa Italiens vänskapsmatch mot Grekland nästa vecka, vilket öppnar för Palermos målvakt Marco Amelia. I klubblaget har Alex Manninger vaktat målet under Buffons frånvaro. Juventus har vunnit de fyra senaste matcherna i Serie A och besegrat Real Madrid både hemma och borta i Champions League.
- De senaste matcherna har visat att jag inte är ovärderlig, säger Buffon.
Buffon kan vara tillbaka den 11:e januari i matchen mot Siena. Anfallaren David Trezeguet kan också comeback i januari efter sina knäoperationer

True Blue

Gerard Butler goes for blunt force on-screen. But at the Milan menswear shows, the man who launched a thousand swords expressed his taste for the indispensable navy suit. By Taylor Antrim

Maybe I miscalculated. Before Gerard Butler and I order our lunch, I hand him the text of Mark "Rent Boy" Renton's blistering speech from the film Trainspotting. Butler gamely reads it aloud: "It's shite being Scottish. We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking earth. The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization."
There was a point to this. Back in the nineties, long before 300, the overachieving swords-and-sandals epic that made him Hollywood's out-of-nowhere action hero, Butler played Renton in a stage adaptation of Trainspotting. I consider Trainspotting a pop culture landmark, a scary, pulsating piece of storytelling. Renton's speech is a highlight.
Key fact: Butler is Scottish; I'm not. "A Scottish person can slag off Scotland, that's fine," Butler says. "But if anybody else does, you'll get a punch in the face." He's looking at me with a solemn expression. Remember that scene from 300 where the Persian envoy insults the Spartans? Butler's King Leonidas gives him a long stare, and then horse-kicks him into a bottomless pit. Seconds pass. Finally, the actor breaks into a boyish, mischievous grin. Relief. He's having me on. He lets out a big laugh.
Quick with a joke or a funny story, Butler is a playful guy with something of a roguish streak. ("I'm 38, but I feel like a 24-year-old," he tells me.) That made him the perfect companion for the four-day juggernaut of men's fashion week in Milan last summer. "I'm not a fashion guy," he warned, but went on to prove to Men's Vogue that he was up for anything: runway shows, late-night parties, and even letting a photographer chase him around labyrinthine Milan in an array of choice navy suits. "Man, those suits," he tells me now, wistfully.
His affability also makes him a natural fit for RocknRolla, the latest London gangster flick from Guy Ritchie, and something of a return to form for the director who gave us Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Ritchie's new movie has an ensemble cast; a twisty plot involving a Russian oligarch, a rock star, and a stolen painting; a couple of bravura action sequences; and a healthy dose of laddish humor — largely thanks to Butler's small-time crook, One Two, and his partner, Mumbles (played by The Wire's Idris Elba). The pair look like bulldogs but would rather have a laugh down the pub than rough anyone up.
The RocknRolla script came to Butler soon after he finished 300. "I read it and loved it," he says. "To see Lock, Stock — it was so cool, so hip, I thought everybody involved would be part of some little clique. It's a gang you don't break into. But it really wasn't like that at all. Guy is so easygoing. I was amazed at how open he was."

To read more: http://www.mensvogue.com/arts/movies/articles/2008/11/gerard-butler

أفلام من فلسطين والعراق وعرض فيلم باب الحديد ليوسف شاهين

تنطلق اليوم الخامس والعشرين من شهر اكتوبر في مدينة سانتياغو الاسبانية الدورة الثامنة من مهرجان "آمال السينمائي" ، الدورة التي ستستمر الى الحادي والثلاثين من أكتوبر ستعرض مايقارب من 36 فيلما بين تسجيلي وطويل ، والتي ستتنافس على جوائز المهرجان لافضل فيلم طويل ، افضل فيلم تسجيلي طويل ، افضل فيلم قصير ، افضل فيلم تسجيلي قصير ، افضل مخرج ، افضل ممثلة ، افضل ممثل.لجنة التجكيم للدورة الثامنة من المهرجان تضمن المصرية ماجدة واصف وهي رئيسة لمهرجان معهد العالم العربي والذي اعلن عن توقفه قبل عامين ،عباس أرناؤوط مدير مهرجان الجزيرة السينمائي ، باسل رمسيس مخرج ومنتج عربي مقيم في اسبانيا ، اميليا بلانكو لوكاس وهي احدى المديرات في شركة نوترو فيلم ،ادواردو جالينا وهو سينمائي اسباني ومبرمج مهرجانات سينمائية ،الناقد والخبير السيتنمائي الاسباني اليخاندرو بارريرو مواملو .
من عروض المهرجان للافلام الطويلة ،فيلم العراقي محمد الدراجي "احلام" ، فيلم المخرج التونسي الكبير ناصر الخمير "بابا عزيز" ، فيلم "البيت الأصفر" للمخرج الجزائري عمور حكار ، فيلم "بانتظار بازوليني" للمخرج داوود اولاد السيد كما سيعرض المهرجان فيلم "باب الحديد" للمخرج المصري الراحل يوسف شاهين .المهرجان سيعرض وضمن مسابقاته وبرامجه الاخرى مجموعة متنوعة من الافلام الاسبانية والاميركية ، اضافة الى البرنامج الكبير الخاص بالافلام التسجيلية والقصيرة حيث سيعرض وضمن مسابقة الافلام القصيرة ، افلام مثل "غياب " من اخراج البحريني محمد راشد بو علي. فيلم "تمنى شيء " للمخرجة الفلسطينية شيرين دباس . فيلم "المحطة الاخيرة" للمخرجة غادة تراوي ،فيلم " الليلة الساكنة " للمخرجة آماندا ادلوفسن.
المهرجان الذي تشترك في دعمه وتنظيمه مجموعة من المؤسسات الاسبانية والعربية التي تعنى باوضاع الثقافة العربية في اسبانيا مثل مؤسسة الارجواني والبيت العربي اضافة الى العديد من المؤسسات والشركات الخاصة

Zaha Hadid's concepts lead design collaborations

By: Suzy Menkes
Published: October 20, 2008

Was it a racy bar or a racing car? The conceptual architect Zaha Hadid unveiled two contemporary projects in one venue last week as her ongoing collaboration on dynamic footwear with Lacoste was projected in the space-age new interior for London's historic Home House.
The bar and lounge, with sculpted metallic surfaces finished with car paint or with silvered leather, made an impressive backdrop for the futuristic shoes. Onlookers studied the video images with attention usually reserved for Bill Viola's art, as a digitized version of the famous crocodile logo became a "landscape" that was then transferred by laser on to leather stretched over stainless steel plates.
"Dynamic fluid grids," said Hadid, defining her design expression and explaining how the shoe will expand and contract as it wraps around the foot, allowing the landscaped pattern to come and go.
In March, 1,000 pairs of limited edition Lacoste-Hadid shoes will go on sale, followed by a 10,000-strong diffusion line in May. Meanwhile, Hadid was to be in New York on Monday to open her futuristic construction for Chanel in Central Park.
For Ferragamo, the Frieze fair was a chance to reinforce the company's collaboration between fashion and art, by installing the work of the video artist Cécile Paris with her narrative artistic eye........................

To read the hole article: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/21/arts/fhadid.php

Octavia E. Nasr, an outstanding arabic women

Octavia Nasr is CNN's senior editor for Arab affairs. She serves as an on-air and off-air analyst across all of CNN's worldwide platforms. She appears regularly on CNN/U.S., CNN International and CNN Headline News and offers expertise on issues ranging from Middle East politics and current affairs to insurgency, terrorism and radical Islamist messages and sites. She also contributes to a CNN.com weekly segment that provides audiences with in-depth analysis of breaking news and issues affecting the Middle East.
Prior to this position, Nasr served as anchor and head of newsgathering for CNN World Report. During her years with the program, she coordinated coverage and was responsible for contributions from some 150 international broadcasters from around the world.
In 2005 Nasr traveled to Lebanon and Syria to report on The Cedar revolution and its regional repercussions. During that trip she co-produced a series of reports for CNN’s flagship program Anderson Cooper 360°. She was instrumental in the 2006 coverage of the war between Israel and Hezbollah. In addition to running the Arab desk which monitored and analyzed dozens of Lebanese and Arab TV stations and on-line media, she traveled to the region and contributed to CNN’s award-winning coverage of the conflict. She continues to monitor the situation in Lebanon and report on the many facets of the political and military turmoil’s there.
In 2003, Nasr played a pivotal role during CNN's Operation Iraqi Freedom coverage. She managed the 15-member Arab desk and coordinated all Arabic translations for the network. She also served as executive producer and anchor of CNN's popular segment "Arab Voices" which aired several times a day throughout the war providing CNN domestic and international audiences with an inside look into Arab media and culture and how they viewed the conflict. Since then, her reporting on Iraq has included the fall of Baghdad, the capture and later trial and execution of Saddam Hussein, and the historic national elections. She also followed Arab and Muslim reaction to the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal. She has filed reports on the rise of the insurgency, the continued escalation of violence and terror attacks against coalition and Iraqi forces. She continues to track down Iraq’s insurgency, analyzing their many propaganda messages, websites and videos.
Nasr's experience and deep knowledge of the Middle East put her in the spotlight during CNN's coverage of September 11th and its aftermath. Shortly after the attacks, she spent months traveling in the Middle East region coordinating on-air appearances and forging exclusive newsgathering deals with media partners.
Nasr anchored CNN World Report and CNN International's World News from 1993 to 2003. Among the major stories she covered live were the Bosnian war, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Japan’s Sarin gas attack, the Concorde crash, and every major step of the Middle East peace process.
Nasr is the recipient of the 2006 Excellence in Journalism award from the Lebanese-American Chamber of Commerce. She was honored CNN World Report’s 2003 Achievement Award for her numerous contributions to the program. Her work has also brought her with her colleagues recognition and many prestigious awards including: Edward R. Murrow for Continuing Coverage: CNN, Coverage of the Middle East Conflict; Peabody Award in 2005 for CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath; duPont-Columbia University Award in 2005 for coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia; Golden Cable ACE Award in 1993 for CNN’s coverage of the Gulf War; and Overseas Press Club Award in 2002 for CNN’s post 9-11 coverage.
Nasr joined CNN in 1990 and served as an editor on the international assignment desk coordinating coverage of the first Gulf War. Before joining CNN, Nasr was a war correspondent for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation. She reported from the front lines of the civil war during Lebanon's most dangerous times for journalists. She was the first woman reporter to interview Hezbollah spiritual leader Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. Her journalism career began in 1985 as an assistant news director at LBC before becoming executive producer of news.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication arts from the Lebanese American University. She is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

källa: cnn.com

”سكر بنات” يفوز في مهرجان ستوكهولم ,en kvinna jag stolt över

في مهرجان ستوكهولم السينمائي العالمي الثامن عشر، فاز فيلم سكر بنات للمخرجة اللبنانية نادين لبكي، بجائزة نقاد السينما العالمية كافضل فيلم للعام 2007