400 Screens, 400 Blows is a weekly column that takes an in-depth look at the films playing below the radar, beneath the top ten, and on 400 screens or less.

Filmmaker Jean Renoir, the son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, is inarguably one of the great cinematic poets. He established a fluid, almost unobtrusive style that allowed him to burrow directly into the souls of his characters. In his most acclaimed film, The Rules of the Game (1939), he appears as a kind of buffoonish party guest, and speaks a line of dialogue that has come to be associated with the real-life filmmaker and all his films: "Everyone has his reasons."

Just this week I caught up with Philippe Claudel's directorial debut I've Loved You So Long (52 screens), which some critics have compared to Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married (216 screens). Both films feature contenders for Best Actress, both try to concentrate on human emotions and behavior rather than a forward-thrusting plot, and at least one film has been compared to Renoir. However, one film succeeds and the other fails, and it comes down to the issue of trust. One filmmaker steps back and lets his characters evolve within the film, and the other constructs the characters as specific types to drive the story (he tells rather than shows).

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Released: Nov 14, 2008
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A simple 3D-type maze. How to play: First,you are in south west corner of 20x20 dungeon. Your purpose is to get Treasure and then reach to goal at north east corner. Right icon is compass(red sign towards to north),and left icon is radar(blue sign towards to Treasure. If you got Treasure,radar disappear). Touch buttons with arrow, then you can move or turn. Enjoy.



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December 1st is observed around the world as AIDS Day and the occasion is largely publicized. Unlike the attention World AIDS Day receives, World Disability Day barely registers on the world media’s radar.

Circle of friends by Flickr user Jimee, Jackie, Tom and Asha and used under a creative commons license

Celebrated every year on December 3rd, World Disability Day honors the contribution made to our world by those with physical and mental handicap. In case of South Asia, there is severe stigma attached any kind of physical and mental handicap. World Disability Day is an opportunity to spread awareness about the rights of the handicapped and that being differently able is not a sin or something to be ashamed of.

In India, activist Javed Abidi, the country’s leading advocate for the rights of the handicapped, will lead an event called “Dilli Chalo” or “Lets go to Delhi” to mark the occasion. It will be held at the historic India Gate.

Mr. Abidi says that India has made some progress in securing rights of the disabled but more needs to be done.

“Now, in India, as we are aware, we have had the Disability Act for the last 12 years. Last year we thought was a momentous year for two reasons. One was that our country ratified the UN Convention, and the second was that we also got the XI Plan. And in the XI Plan.....for the first time, there is a distinct chapter or a section on disability. And we thought that things were going to change. ......if we were look at the last one year, we find that things have not really moved the way we had expected them to move....”

Along with addressing legal issues related to the rights of the disabled and the opportunities they deserve, efforts are also needed to help those living in abject poverty because of their physical condition.

A news report published by the The National shows how urgently India’s poor disabled citizens need their government to take steps to insure that they are able to live in dignity.

Shaikh Azizur Rahman reported this November that an elderly father taking care of two severely disabled bed ridden daughters has asked the Indian President that they be allowed to be euthanized. He said that he is too poor to take of his daughters who need round the clock care and attention. Fatema, one of his daughters, says that she too wants her life to end.

“I told my father many times to bring poison for me. Nobody is helping me to kill myself.”

Across the border in Pakistan, there is still the mountain of odds facing citizens with disability. Writing for Dawn, Zahid Abdullah, who works for the Center for Peace and Development in Islamabad, says that country still has a long way to go before those with different ability can feel that society values them too. He also expresses frustration at slow pace of legal reform regarding the rights of the disabled.

Like in India and Pakistan, the society in Nepal too views physical and mental handicaps as a result of past life’s sins. Handicapped are usually treated as sub human; they have very limited access to education and meaningful employment. Often you can see a person with physical disability begging on the streets to sustain life.

Meen Raj Panthi says that families hide those with a disability to protect their honor and prestige:

“The notion that people with disabilities have equal rights and duty as any other individual, is largely absent from the popular mindset.”

Children are most vulnerable to discrimination. National Disabled and Helpless Upliftment Association in Nepal cites an example of a little girl named Manisha held captive by her parents because she is blind:

“While her parents work at fields, she is often locked in her own room and tethered with rope by her parents because she has no one to look after her at home. But her elder brother and sister go to school.”

Thumbnail image by Flickr user Shizhao and used under a creative commons license

pC'est un des principaux défauts et heureusement ça bouge pas mal dans ce domaine en ce moment :/p ul liune interface d'a href="http://sioc.me/"exploration en 3D des contenus SIOC/a assez délirante, je n'ai pas l'impression que tout fonctionne très bien mais en tout cas c'est innovant (regardez la vidéo) ;/li liune interface simple pour a href="http://foaf.me/"créer son profil FOAF/a, l'avantage c'est qu'ils expérimentent sur la plateforme le a href="http://www.biologeek.com/2008/11/vous-reprendrez-bien-un-peu-de-web-semantique/"FOAF+SSL dont je parlais précédemment/a, attention c'est en cours de développement ;/li liune proposition pour a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/12/getting-openid-into-the-browse.html"intégrer OpenID dans le navigateur/a, c'est exactement ce dont je parlais avec a href="http://blog.mozbox.org/"Paul/a lors de Paris-Web ;/li lia href="http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/"Nepomuk/a et le bureau sémantique a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/90221"semblent bien progresser/a, il faudra que je me replonge là-dedans un de ces jours ;/li liet pour finir un peu de technique avec l'article a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-crud/index.html"Building Semantic Web CRUD operations using PHP/a qui reprend notamment les bases pour faire de la création, récupération, mise à jour et suppression avec SPARQL, bon à savoir même s'il existe des a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORM"ORM/a pour ça aussi :-)./li /ul div style="font-size: small; padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px; border: 1px solid #bcb895; color: #333; background-color: #f4f4ed;" p a href="http://www.biologeek.com/" title="" img src="http://media.biologeek.com/css/images/logo.png" alt="Logo biologeek" style="float:left;margin-right:5px;border:none;" / /a a href="http://www.biologeek.com/2008/12/interfaces-et-promotion-du-web-semantique/"strongInterfaces et promotion du Web Sémantique/strong/a a été rédigé par a href="http://david.larlet.fr"David Larlet/a pour a href="http://www.biologeek.com"biologeek.com/a et a été originellement posté le 03 Décembre 2008. À part exceptions, c'est ©2008 David Larlet et sous a href="/contact/#licence" title="À lire avant toute (re)copie"licence (presque) libre/a autorisant la reproduction, la distribution et la modification sous certaines conditions. Veuillez les respecter. /p /div

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Getting OpenID Into the Browser  —  Google Chrome did a smart thing: Less.  They unified the search box and address bar, since that's what people do anyway.  That gives us back precious pixels for the only thing that's as important to an average web user as where they're going: Who they are.

A film that was slammed on our radar last night was Rupert Glasso's Coffin Rock, which we've been heavily researching over the past 24 hours. If you click on over to BDTV you can check out a very impressive trailer for the film, along with two clips. Beyond the break you can check out a lo-res one sheet, along with the first official image and synopsis for the film that comes from the producer of WOLF CREEK. We're told this is one to watch, so we'll be keeping a very close eye on it.