8 (2008 film)

8 is an anthology film consisting of eight short films centered on the eight Millennium Development Goals.

Topics

Eight directors had "carte blanche" to treat one of the eight topics:

  • Segment by Abderrahmane Sissako: Tiya's Dream (Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger)
  • Segment by Gael García Bernal: The Letter (Achieve universal primary education)
  • Segment by Mira Nair: How Can It Be? (Promote gender equality and empower women)
  • Segment by Gus Van Sant: Mansion on the Hill (Reduce child mortality rate)
  • Segment by Jan Kounen: The Story of Panshin Beka (Improve maternal health)
  • Segment by Gaspar Noé: SIDA (Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases)
  • Segment by Jane Campion: The Water Diary (Ensure environmental sustainability)
  • Segment by Wim Wenders: Person to Person (Develop a global partnership for development)
  • References

    External links

  • Official website
  • 8 at the Internet Movie Database
  • 8 at AllMovie
  • 8 at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Official broadcasting campaign with links to watch the 8 shorts on YouTube
  • The Letter

    The Letter may refer to:

    Literature

  • "The Letter", a poem by Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
  • "The Letter", a short story in W. Somerset Maugham's 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree
  • "The Letter", 38th sura of the Qur'an
  • Theatre

  • The Letter (play), a 1927 drama by W. Somerset Maugham from his own short story of the same name
  • Film

  • The Letter (1929 film), directed by Jean de Limur starring Jeanne Eagels, adapted from the Somerset Maugham play
    • The Letter (1940 film), directed by William Wyler starring Bette Davis, also adapted from the Somerset Maugham play
  • The Letter (1940 film), directed by William Wyler starring Bette Davis, also adapted from the Somerset Maugham play
  • The Letter (1982 film), 1982 tv film
  • The Letter (1997 film), a South Korean film also known as Pyeon ji
  • The Letter (2004 film), a Thai remake of the 1997 Korean film, also known as Jod mai rak
  • The Letter (1999 film), a Portuguese film
  • The Letter (opera)

    The Letter is an opera by composer Paul Moravec and librettist Terry Teachout. It was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera and was premiered there on 25 July 2009.

    The opera is based on The Letter, a 1927 play adapted by W. Somerset Maugham from one of his short stories. The play has been filmed twice. The first version, called The Letter, was made in 1929 and starred Jeanne Eagels. The better-known 1940 version, also called The Letter, starred Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall and was directed by William Wyler.

    The inspiration for Maugham's story and his subsequent play came from a real-life event which took place in Kuala Lumpur in Malaya in April 1911.

    Development of the opera

    The collaboration

    Both Moravec and Teachout made their operatic debuts with The Letter. Teachout began writing the libretto in November 2006 and started posting an ongoing account of the opera's genesis and development on his blog, About Last Night, when the commission was announced by the Santa Fe Opera on May 9, 2007. He describes it as "a cross between a verismo opera like Tosca and a film noir like Double Indemnity or Out of the Past. We don't want The Letter to sound old-fashioned—Paul's musical language is in no way derivative of Verdi or Puccini—but we do want it to move fast and hit hard."

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    The I

    by: KRS-One

    Where shall we land, there?
    Which city shall we destroy today?
    This one, or that one? This one?
    [KRS-One]
    Take a look a look around, we last forever
    We carry books around, manuals are bound in leather
    We rock the center, the only point that's in the circle
    We free MC's, what we decree will not desert you
    We know what we doin, we wise and we chillin
    We calculate against the continued cries of our children
    They may be cryin now but they won't be cryin later
    We love hip-hop, because WE are it's creators
    So we, build the Temple, write the books, teach the classes
    Create instrumentals, write hooks and rock masses
    NONE passes, without studyin this flow
    It's all good as long as you know Kris know!
    [Chorus: Mad Lion]
    While I deal with I, Jah talk to I
    When I dem go alike, only de one comply
    Whatchu see with de I, look twice toward de I
    If you don't unify your children them a gon' cry
    [KRS-One]
    I stand with the rejected, the unsuspected, the unconnected
    The neglected the one you, never suspected
    It seems you forget hip-hop plays the back
    Sayin that's my sound, and that's my sound
    And that's my track, and that's my rap
    And that's some chorus they did way back, look honey bringin it back
    I'm actually, I'm everywhere at every time
    Animating every rhyme and every dare in every mind
    KRS is my representative on Earth
    Challenge him not, he's been hip-hop since birth
    His main objective, is to put hip-hop in perspective
    Show pity, and DESTROY these wack cities
    [Chorus]
    [Mad Lion]
    Inna style dem a {?}, yo alla dem a cry
    Dey worship slackness and to be under sky
    We lead dem to de water but we cyan't make dem drink
    Pussy to take a sip, cause it gon' make you t'ink
    We don't usually {?} shit {?}, yo alla dem a sing
    Wisdom wort more den any diamond and gold
    People use it and find it like de Dead Sea Scrolls
    [KRS] Take dem Lion, take 'em, take it over!
    [Mad Lion]
    Cause of dem outer, dem outer, dem outer inter outer inter
    Outer inter outer inter out of control
    Dey neva find wisdom til dem dead ohhh
    Mad Lion make de {?} roll
    KRS make up a sea and bulge ya
    Of the story of never been told-a
    Cause we outer, outer, inter outer outer ese
    Out of control, out of control
    I'm so serious ay (what?)
    We don have no time fi play, ay (tell 'em again)
    Some people diss dem {?} hell's in this world
    But dey'll come around one day
    [KRS-One]
    Yo, yo, only Beezlebub think my voice is aggravatin
    Children of light hear my voice and start congregatin
    The mind's debatin, is he a prophet or is he Satan?
    But the tree is only known by it's fruit, what am I creating?
    What am I stating? Have I stood the test of time?
    Or am I fading, or has God blessed my rhyme?
    Settle your dissin, you better be listenin, forever we glisten




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