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13 movies to be released in September
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VietNamNet Bridge – “Resident Evil 5,” “The Expendables 2” and “Lay Chong Nguoi Ta” (In the Name of Love) are among notable movies that will be screened at local cinemas this month.
The Expendables
Release date: September 7
Director: Simon West
Writers: Richard Wenk (screenplay), Sylvester Stallone (screenplay), and 4 more credits
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Liam Hemsworth and Randy Couture
Storyline: Barney Ross is approached by CIA man Church, who wants him and his guns for hire to go to the former Soviet Union to retrieve something that was on a plane that crashed. Church doesn't tell him what he is getting. And Church sends a woman, Maggie, with him to make sure he gets it. They find the plane and get the thing but some men take one of Barney's people hostage and the leader tells him to give him what they got or he'll kill his hostage. The give it to him but he kills his hostage anyway. Barney asks Maggie what was so important about that thing. She says that it showed the location of a Russian plutonium mine. Barney decides to track the man down and deal with him. They track them down and discover that the man they seek is villain who leads a group known as The Sangs and that they have taken all the men from the surrounding villages to work the mine.
Savages
Release date: September 14
Director: Oliver Stone
Writers: Shane Salerno (screenplay), Don Winslow (screenplay), and 2 more credits »
Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch and Blake Lively
Storyline: Entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable marijuana producer, and friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL, run a lucrative, homegrown industry - raising some of the best weed ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town... until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC, Elena and her enforcer, Lado, underestimate the unbreakable bond of the three friends, Ben and Chon - with the reluctant assistance of a dirty DEA agent - wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high stakes, savage battle of wills.
Finding Nemo 3D
Release date: September 14
Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Writers: Andrew Stanton (original story), Andrew Stanton (screenplay), and 2 more credits
Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres and Alexander Gould
Storyline: A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo. After he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers; Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their lives free again.
The cartoon, 3D version will be released in Vietnam on the same day with the North America.
Ek Tha Tiger
Release date: September 14
Director: Kabir Khan
Writers: Kabir Khan (dialogue), Kabir Khan (screenplay), and 2 more credits
Stars: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Bella Boyd
Storyline: Ek Tha Tiger is a romantic thriller which tells the story of a Trinity College scientist suspected of selling missile technology secrets to Pakistan. The Indian government sends a secret agent, codenamed Tiger (Salman Khan), to find out about the professor's activities. Tiger falls in love with the professor's caretaker Zoya (Katrina Kaif) who is studying at a fictional dance academy located at TCD, and together they embark on a roller-coaster journey that takes them from Dublin to Istanbul then to Kazakhstan and Chile.
The Wedding Party
Release date: September 14
Director: Amanda Jane
Writers: Christine Bartlett (screenplay), Amanda Jane (story), and 1 more credit
Stars: Josh Lawson, Isabel Lucas and Steve Bisley
Storyline: Steve Thompson, a lovable anti-hero, is the youngest son in the gloriously flawed Thompson family. In a bid to save himself from financial ruin, Steve does the unthinkable and agrees to marry Ana, a Russian woman seeking residency in exchange for a huge sum of cash. Behind closed doors the deal is done, a secret wedding is arranged & in no time life will be back to normal, or so Steve thinks... Until a nosy family friend gets wind of the wedding plans and before sundown the whole Thompson family is gripped by wedding fever. Although Steve's family could use some constructive therapy for their own relationships, they rally together to support Steve in preparation for the world's most farcical wedding. What was once a private registry affair is now a fully-fledged spectacle as Steve's lie takes on a life of its own, and he is more and more consumed by the fear that he has ruined his chance to be with his true love, Jacqui, forever.
Resident Evil: Retribution 3D
Release date: September 21
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory and Michelle Rodriguez
Storyline: The Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race's last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex.
Lay Chong Nguoi Ta (In the Name of Love)
Release date: September 21
This is the only Vietnamese film to be released at local box offices this month.
Director: Luu Huynh
Stars: Dinh Y Nhung, Thai Hoa, Huy Khanh
This movie will represent Vietnam at the Toronto Film Festival 2012 and compete for the People’s Choice Award.
The movie tells the story about the tricky life of a woman named Lua. Lua (Dinh Y Nhung) and her husband (Huy Khanh) living a poor life in a fishing village. Their dream is having a baby. However, their child is robbed by a man (Thai Hoa).
The Watch
Release date: September 21
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Writers: Jared Stern, Seth Rogen, and 1 more credit
Stars: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill
Storyline: Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood - and the world - from total extermination.
Cocktail
Release date: September 28
Director: Homi Adajania
Writers: Imtiaz Ali, Sajid Ali
Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and Diana Penty
Storyline: The story revolves around Gautam Khanna (Saif Ali Khan), Veronica D'Costa (Deepika Padukone) and Meera Gupta (Diana Penty). Gautam Khanna (Saif Ali Khan) always had a dream to go to London and have a job. His dream is fulfilled and he gets a job. But his mom, Nita (Dimple Kapadia) says that she has to finalize his marriage to a girl and so he has to wait. She finds her perfect 'bahu' in Meera Gupta (Diana Penty). But she does not tell Gautam about this and tells Meera's parents even to not tell Meera. She tells Gautam to take her friend's daughter Meera as she has an assignment in London for 3 days. On the flight, Meera and Gautam befriend each other. In London, Meera has some problems completing her assignment and therefore fails to give it on time. She loses her job but then Gautam consoles her. They go on a beach party and there they meet Veronica D'Costa (Deepika Padukone)...
Tai Chi O 3D
Release date: September 28
Director: Stephen Fung
Writer: Kuo-fu Chen
Stars: Peter Stormare, Qi Shu and Daniel Wu
Storyline: Young genius Yang Luchan travels to Chen Village to learn the forbidden secrets of martial arts, but quickly learns that the village is menaced by a formidable battalion of Steampunk soldiers. The villagers realize that in order to save their home, they must trust this strange outsider with their knowledge of Tai Chi.
Stolen
Release date: September 28
Director: Simon West
Writer: David Guggenheim
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Malin Akerman and Josh Lucas
Storyline: A former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi.
Legend of Kungfu Rabbit
Release date: September 28
Director: Lijun Sun
Writers: Jingzhi Zou, Mychal Simka (english adaptation), and 1 more credit
Stars: Jon Heder, Tom Arnold and Rebecca Black
Storyline: This is considered another version of Kungfu Panda.
The cartoon has been released in over 50 countries and territories and is among the most successful cartoons of China.
Premium Rush
Release date: September 28
Director: David Koepp
Writers: David Koepp, John Kamps
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon and Dania Ramirez
Storyline: Wilee is one of 1,500 bike couriers in Manhattan who rides on the edge by having a bike with no brakes. On this day, Wilee has a delivery that is so valuable that a corrupt NYC Detective, who needs the money, begins to chase Wilee throughout the city to get it before the envelope is delivered.
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Sep
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Food fair urges young people to go vegetarian
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Eat less meat and seafood, and contribute to environmental protection.
This is a key message that the Green Food Fair 2012, to be held in downtown HCM City from tomorrow to Friday, seeks to impart, particularly to the youth of Viet Nam.
The four-day fair that focuses on health, environment and "expressing gratitude to Mother", will be held at the city's Youth Cultural House.
It aims at raising awareness among the youth about the importance of protecting the environment and different ways of doing it, including reducing meat and seafood consumption.
Nguyen Van Nha, chairman of the Viet Nam Hy Ma Lap Son Company Ltd., which is organising the event, said eating too much meat and seafood could cause many diseases while depleting scarce natural resources.
The Viet Nam Hy Ma Lap Son Company Ltd runs the popular Sai Gon Pho Chay restaurant in District 10. It has several other interests including catering, investment consultancy, trade promotion and travel.
Livestock breeding is a significant generator of greenhouse gases, he said.
The fair, which has 50 food stalls, offers the opportunity for companies producing "green food" to promote their products, Nha said.
At least 120 dishes in Vietnamese, Asian and European cuisine will be offered at 30 stalls by restaurants, pagodas and vegetarian food processing companies in the city.
Since the target of the fair in the youth, the food offered will mostly be fast food items, said Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan, general manager of the company.
She said the dishes would include banh bao (dumpling), banh beo (bloating fern-shaped cake) and banh gio (pyramidal rice dumpling) from Viet Nam, Italian pasta and pizza, Indian curry, Japanese sushi and Thailand rice vermicelli.
"Clean food" processing companies like Thao Dien Clean Vegetables, Song Xanh, Hoa Sua Rice and Ohsawa Chan Nguyen will also participate in the fair.
Several kinds of organic rice cultivated without the use of chemical insecticides or weed killers will be displayed at the fair.
This kind of rice requires a long time and more care than normal to cultivate, so they cost two times as much as normal rice, Loan said.
The fair will also have other raw materials needed to cook vegetarian food and beverages.
Doctor Bui Viet Hoang will deliver a talk titled Eating Vegetarian Food, The Things You May Not Know at 3.30pm on the first day.
Ly Sanh, chairman of HCM City's Chefs Association, will be the judge for the competition Cooking with Famous People that will be held at 2pm on the third day.
Besides the stalls, the fair will host several performance activities. A concert will take place at 7.30pm on the first day. Activities during the second day include a vegetarian food cooking class at 2pm; an open platform on trends in modern vegetarian food at 3.30pm; and a music and poem night about Mother at 7.30pm.
Around 300 visitors are expected to join a candle light vigil to express gratitude to mothers at 7.30pm on the third day.
The first two fairs in 2008 and 2010 attracted around 20,000 visitors each, Nha said.
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TV series focus on rural life
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VietNamNet Bridge – Domestic film studios are making more TV series about the lifestyle changes and aspirations of people who live in the Mekong River Delta.
A scene from the series Vit Keu Dong which is one of the series
produced recently focusing on rural life.
The television comedy Tay Choi Miet Vuon (Countryside's Newly Rich People) depicts the life of three farmers who became well-off after receiving compensation for their ricefields taken by local authorities for industrial projects.
The farmers, To, Gia and Thong, spend their newfound wealth and cause trouble to their families.
The 33-episode series is directed by Le Quang Hung and produced by M&T Pictures Company. Well-known actors in the series include Thanh Nam and Bao Tri.
The episodes are being screened on SCTV14 every day at 8pm.
"Studios have made many TV series about romance, family and city life," said film director Phan Hoang.
Hoang is one of the few film directors that have made TV series about rural life.
His recent series Khat Vong Dong Que (Aspirations of People in the Countryside) was received warmly when it was aired on Vinh Long Television early this year.
Produced by Cuu Long Film Studio, the 20-episode Khat Vong Dong Que tells about the hard life of farmers in a small village in the southernmost Ca Mau Province and their desire to escape poverty.
"I highly appreciate the efforts of young artists like Tan Hung and Ngoc Thao who perform in the series," said overseas Vietnamese Helen Tran, whose parents were born in Tien Giang Province in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.
"There are many scenes depicting the artists working in the rice fields or wading through the mud under the scorching sun and heavy rains," Tran said.
"I also love to see many beautiful natural landscapes of Ca Mau in the series," she said.
After the success of the eight-episode series Vit Keu Dong (Free-Range Ducks), Le Phuong Nam made Dong Que (Countryside), which aired on HTV9 last June.
Misfortune suffered by poultry farmers during the bird-flu epidemic was featured in Vit Keu Dong.
Nam depicts the hard life of Vietnamese farmers between 1935 and 1945 when the country was at war.
The background of Dong Que is remote areas and vast mangrove forests in Dong Nai Province and the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.
After Dong Que, HTV9 aired Dat Man (Salted Land) last month, funded by HCM City Television Film Studio (TFS).
"TV series focusing on rural life will account for about one-third of our production this year," said TFS director Nguyen Viet Hung.
Dat Man directed by Tuong Phuong, tells about the farmers' undaunted struggle to keep their land from being seized by village tyrants.
Several series, including Chuyen Xu Dua (Story in A Coconut Village) and Ben Tinh Yeu (Wharf of Love), show residents' desire to set up craft villages. Both series, which aired on HTV7 early this year, were popular with viewers
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Terraced field festival canceled because of fatal landslides
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11/09/2012 08:58:32
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Blind OV woman enters Master Chef final
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11/09/2012 08:55:07
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Vietnam Airlines cooperates with SNCF from France
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11/09/2012 08:52:06
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Province to boost tourism industry
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11/09/2012 08:50:30
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70 photos about children at war on display in Hanoi
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11/09/2012 08:32:30
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European culinary festival held in HCM City
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11/09/2012 08:29:47
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Vietnamese ethnic designs on show in France
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11/09/2012 08:28:13
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1,500 national relic sites to be restored
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11/09/2012 08:21:25
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Northeastern ethnic groups to hold cultural festival
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11/09/2012 08:18:02
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