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Dear all
This Wednesday for Cultural Evening we decided to show a film "Himalaya". A couple who are our regular Cultural Evening fans came up with this great film, and they will give the introduciton of the film themselves on Wednesday night.
Himalaya
Director: Eric Valli
Duration: 1h44mins
It is caravan time in Dolpo, high in the Himalayas of Nepal. The villagers must trek for days across the mountains with laden yaks to trade their salt for grain. But when Karma (Gurgon Kyap) returns to the village with the body of Lhakpa, leader of the caravan and son of the old chief Tinle (Thinlen Lhondup), the new chief blames Karma for the death, and will not allow him to lead in Lhakpa's place. Though Tinle's grandson, Tserin (Karma Wangiel), is far too young to lead the tribe, Tinle simply renames him Passang--a chief's name--and prepares him to lead the caravan. Karma challenges Tinle, threatening to take away the yaks, Lhakpa's widow Pema (Lhapka Tsamchoe), and Passang before the day that the caravan begins. Old Tinle in turn visits the monastery to gather his son, Norbou (Karma Tenzing Nyima Lama), a frescoe-painting monk, to join him on the caravan. But Norbou refuses to join his father, and Tinle returns to the village to discover that Karma has left early, taking most of the caravaneers with him. Tinle, Pema, Passang, the late-arriving Norbou, and the old men of the village leave on the scheduled day, and leading their own caravan in an effort to end the rivalry that threatens every resident of Dolpo.
Theatrical release: June 22, 2001 The excellent sound design for HIMALAYA was recorded by Denis Guilhem and Denis Martin. HIMALAYA was nominated for the 2000 for Best Foreign Language Film. HIMALAYA was awarded the César for BeAcademy Award st Cinematography and Best Original Music. The Dolpo region of Nepal, where HIMALAYA was filmed,is located in the Northwest Himalayas.
Hope to see you all there
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Dear all,
Tomorrow Wednesday 30 September at 8 PM in Cafe Amsterdam we will show the film Transsiberian.
It is a 2008 thriller film directed by Brad Anderson with Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega
and Ben Kingsley.
Plot:
Roy and Jessie, an American couple, takes the train from Beijing to Moscow as an adventurous side trip on their return home from a Christian mission in China. In the train they encounter the more adventurous backpackers Carlos and Abby and boarding mid-way is Ilya Grinko a Moscow police detective.
Like a Hitchcock classic there is the feeling that things are not all as they seem and there is that uneasy feeling that something very bad is going to happen. The tension is eerie and relentless, with telling glances and social conservation that suggest the relationships between these four are going to take a disturbing turn.
Come to see this exciting Hitchcock kind of thriller with beautiful photography and real authentic characters.
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Dear all,
This Wednesday's Cultural evening at 8 PM in Cafe Amsterdam we have a lecture by Glenn H. Mullin titled "Roerich and the Mongolian Contribution".
Canadian Glenn H. Mullin is one of the world's foremost Tibetologists and has published approximately twenty books on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. He is an internationally renowned Buddhist scholar, an acclaimed translator of Tibetan classics and a well-known speaker on the international lecture circuit.
The lecture will be about the Russian born New York artist Nicholas Roerich, the first Buddhist nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was a student of the Mongolian lama Agwan Dorjeff in the early 1900s and his travels through Mongolia in the 1920s and 30s inspired many of his greatest paintings. His dozens of essays and books on Mongolian-related subjects, and his hundreds of Mongolian paintings, where a major factor introducing Mongolia to the international community.
The house in Ulaanbaatar in which Roerich lived and worked during 1926 an 1927 was saved from demolition several years ago by the distinguished Mongolian academic professor Bira, the last living student of Nicolas Roerich's son George Roerich.
Glenn H. Dunn has been assisting professor Bira in the work of restoring the house and transforming it into a museum, which opened recently in July.
Wednesday night we will also have the opening of a new exhibition "Limitless Word" by Mongolian artist J. Gursenge, who was awarded "Best Young Artist 2009" by the Nicholas Roerich Museum in a competition for Mongolian artists to make art inspired on Nicholas Roerich.
So come for an interesting evening this Wednesday evening to Cafe Amsterdam.
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Dear all,
Tomorrow Wednesday 8 PM we will show in Cafe Amsterdam the recent Dutch film "Winter in Wartime" ("Oorlogswinter" in Dutch) with the original Dutch and partly German dialogue and English subtitles.
About the film from the magazine Variety:
Dutch film director Martin Koolhoven finds the perfect blend of classical cinema and arthouse sensitivities in WW2 coming-of-ager "Winter in Wartime". Adaptation of a popular novel portrays a 14-years-old boy's brutal loss of innocence during the winter of 1944-45, when circumstances force him to become a one-man resistance movememt. Film has been a huge hit in The Netherlands since its last Christmas release and could be Koolhoven's springboard to international fame (maybe will be nominated for the Oscars).
Preceding the start of the film there will be a short introduction of the new Cafe Amsterdam exhibition "My Mongolian Winter Friends" by Caitriona Ni Threaswaigh from Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from the National College of Art, Dublin in 2004, BFA with honours in Painting. The exhibition is work done by her during the past winter. Intertextual in form, the paintings include verbal captions, quotations and titles that serve to highlight the attitude or background information for the characters in question-giving glimpses of context and lived by the characters. In this way the lines between art and story telling become blurred. The imagined landscapes are where some of these characters may reside.
Hope to see you all tomorrow night
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Dear all,
Come join in the fun as Canadian Tyler (from Sub'baatar fame) exposes the Mongolian underground music scene in UB at this Wednesday's Cultural Evening in Cafe Amsterdam. Talking about everything from struggling talented musicians to the up and coming MUMA awards show. Also guest speaking will be BD, Hifi radio Dj and local underground music promoter. There will also be a guest live performance by Budee, a young, up and coming Mongolian musician.
So come Wednesday 9 August 8 PM to Cafe Amsterdam for an interesting evening about UB's underground music scene.
Staff Cafe Amsterdam |
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