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Visitors will discover the cultures of faraway peoples through numerous events and activities including photo exhibitions posters, a screening of the Mongolian film "L'histoire du chameau qui pleure" (The Camel Who Cried) and a documentary on the Silk Road by Elise Blanchard, lectures, creative workshops, cooking and sporting activities.
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For excitement it may not have matched the Samuel L Jackson film, Snakes On A Plane, but passengers on a Qantas flight watched with fascination as one snake fought out its own drama.
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Other strong contenders include US director Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, and French film-maker Barbet Schroeder's thriller L'Inju: la Bete dans l'Ombre, or The Beast in the Shadows.
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In April five candidates for that next gen gathered at an L.A. soundstage to film an episode for the third season of Germany's Next Topmodel, a version of the U.S. smash conceived and hosted by fellow model and friend Tyra Banks.
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This one-night-only film event was via live satellite, broadcast from L.A., which meant watching it in real time as Goodall talked with filmmakers and celebrities before the film aired.
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Japan also makes an appearance in L'Inju: la Bete dans l'Ombre, the latest work from French film-maker Barbet Schroeder.
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Raised in Paris, Roitfeld moved to L.A. at age 18 to study film at the University of Southern California.
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Actor Samuel L Jackson, who was to have starred in the film, said he was "gone too soon" and would be missed.
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Now that a court case has ensured that DC Comics superhero Superman will keep flying at Warner Bros. in the foreseeable future, the studio is readying their plans to move forward with the oft-mentioned Justice League film project and release the movie in 2015, according to sources who spoke to the L.A. Times.
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