Sentences with phrase «of foreign language titles»

Talks of Amazon's newest online distribution branch into foreign territory would mean a gateway into a new catalog of foreign language titles, along with the opportunity to reach out into the South American book market without having to take on costly overhead, development of property, and the frustrations of a whole... [Read more...]

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PhD students can now elect representatives to a national students» council and to the academic senate of an increasing number of universities, enjoy economic benefits similar to those of undergraduate students, choose to write their thesis in a foreign language, appeal following a failed defence, and hold their title right after a successful defence, because all further bureaucratic requirements like filing copies of the thesis to the national libraries have been transferred to the universities.

Thanks to mainstream America's huffy dismissal of subtitles when it comes to cinema, we continue with another unnecessary remake of a foreign film, Secret in Their Eyes, an English language, celebrity studded face - lift of Argentinean Juan Jose Campanella's 2009 title (which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film thatforeign film, Secret in Their Eyes, an English language, celebrity studded face - lift of Argentinean Juan Jose Campanella's 2009 title (which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film thatForeign Language Film that year).

Geographically, the five nominated titles in the foreign language film category stretch from the discos of Santiago, Chile («A Fantastic Woman») to the outskirts of Moscow («Loveless») with stops in Lebanon («The Insult»), Hungary («On Body and Soul») and Sweden («The Square»).

It's an Oscar complaint as unfailingly annual as telecast overlength and foreign - language category blunders: with the season so geared towards the glut of prestige titles released in the year's final quarter, standout contenders from the mist - shrouded months of spring and the previous winter have to fight that much harder to be heard — that is, -LSB-...]

Tuesday was a day of mellower pleasures at the Edinburgh Film Festival, from an idle sun - soaked writing break in the park, to a chance conversation with Paddy Considine and Shane Meadows (both as smart and affably bloke - ish as you'd expect) outside the theater, to, most importantly, a trio of quietly impressive, character - oriented foreign - language titles.

I didn't see nearly as many foreign - language or documentary titles as I would have liked, and I'm sure I could program a strong festival out of all the films I was unable to see.

Thompson's source keeps this in mind as he compiles his speculative nominee lists, suggesting daring arthouse and foreign - language titles («Last Tango in Paris,» «Women in Love,» «Seven Beauties») alongside crowd - pleasing blockbusters («Saturday Night Fever,» «The Poseidon Adventure») and a fair amount of studio - pushed failures.

TOP 100 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS FOR 2017 Listed By US Box Office Gross only Title links go to reviews = still in theaters Note: Figures are as of January 21st, 2018

It's still up in the air who the Jedi in the title are (the gendering of foreign languages isn't much help there) but at least we know there's more than one Jedi out there...

Because, aggravatingly, it didn't make the short list of titles to be considered for the foreign - language Oscar, I hope people will take the trouble to find this brave and beautiful film.

The initial batch of announced films include a few key foreign - language titles including Desierto, from Gravity co-writer Jonás Cuarón, about a group of people crossing the border from Mexico who uncover a racist patrol officer, and from France, a Jean Dujardin comedy called Un plus une, directed by 77 - year - old Claude Lelouch.

Born without memory of his past life (the title is the film's first puzzle, as it is really not so much a search for «Bourne's» identity as it is an examination of an identity at birth), Bourne finds himself oddly proficient in self - defence, preternaturally aware of his surroundings, and possessed of a Swiss bank account number (via the laser projector) leading to a safety deposit box full of enough passports and foreign currency to match his ability to speak several languages.

While summer 2013 hasn't exactly been buoyant overall for arthouse films, it's been exceptionally weak for foreign language titles — outside of Bollywood, of course.

Who would release a promising foreign language title, only to see it crushed by The Theory of Everything, Birdman and Whiplash?

Fontaine gives her latest a title you expect to see in one of the foreign language categories on an Oscar ballot.

As a foreign language title, perhaps the best comparison is the Belgian thriller Loft, which was later adapted for US audiences by the same director but starring X-Man James Marsden (another of those remakes that fell off the rope ladder and into the abyss).

Professional development under Title IIA for public and private school staff members must focus on the promotion of academic achievement in one of the core content areas of English, reading or language arts, math, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, geography and social studies.

Publishers will begin to translate more of their upcoming titles into foreign languages and they will continue to devote more people to audiobook production.

The bigger news, though, is the availability of new foreign language titles through a large addition to OverDrive's catalog.

Readers have been delighted by both companies that make foreign translations of English language books available, as well as companies like Le French Book that operate in reverse, taking modern - day bestselling French titles and making them available in English to US and UK audiences via ebook.

Aside from the very obvious benefit to the growing number of library patrons who only access the catalog of titles electronically, this program has some additional features such as access to foreign language periodicals and a highlighted list of very popular favorites.

See several examples of Authorlink's design, layout and conversion work; THE SECOND SON project transformed an old existing printed book in two foreign languages into three digital formats and uploaded the finished files into the author's retail accounts; the children's titles represent some of our work with complex layout and design and digital conversion.

We are seeking to make available as many of these titles as possible (and working to do the same with foreign language titles).

Authors in any of the countries supported by a Kindle Direct Publishing platform can take advantage of the smaller catalog of content for foreign language titles.

«In the next few months, we will expand the number of English and foreign language titles, become a forum for discussion of all things reading and bring the skills of the bookseller and librarian to the online arena.

Kobo, whose line of devices includes ebooks and tablets and whose catalog includes more than four million titles, is already available online in over 190 foreign markets and currently leads the field in access to foreign language titles.

Only a limited number of novels and non-fiction titles have been digitised in a country where the unique language protects publishers from foreign competition.

The Book Worm (3175 Twenty - eighth Street, # 2) is the place for used books — they have a great selection of fiction, children's books, and foreign language titles.

At the same time, there is also a dearth of foreign - language titles in digital form.

All of the titles are English translations of award - winning books originally published in foreign languages.

One should also note that Amazon is already one the largest booksellers of foreign language print books in Brazil, and possibly the largest, with the thousands of English titles ordered every month from Amazon in the US by Brazilian customers.

Get an overview of Danish authors and book titles that have been translated to foreign languages.