A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Đoković otvorio vrata Holivuda za "Montevideo"

Samo nekoliko sati posle sjajne pobede na mastersu, u Indijan Velsu, Novak je sa užim krugom svojih saradnika specijalnim letom stigao u Los Anđeles, gde su ga sačekali reditelj Dragan Bjelogrlić, zvezde filma Miloś Biković, Viktor Savić, španska glumica Elena Martinez i producenti „Intermedia Network“ Dejan Petrović i Zvonimir Šimunec.

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Među pozvanima je bio i slavni producent Robert Evans, koji je potpisao mnoge kultne filmove kao što su "Kum 1 i 2", "Kineska četvrt", "Maratonac" i drugi.

- Poznajem Dragana Bjelogrlića, režisera filma, već dugi niz godina. Čak me je i pozvao da glumim u prvom delu filma i sada mi je žao što tu ulogu zbog obaveza nisam prihvatio. Ali, ovo večeras je na neki način moj doprinos filmu. Gledao sam ga pre mesec i po dana u Beogradu i zaista je bio velika inspiracija za mene - rekao je Novak najavljujući "Montevideo".

- U filmu ćete videti i ljubavnu priču, priču o prijateljstvu,odanosti i poštenju, a sve su to vrednosti kojima sam bio veoma inspirisan kada sam pogledao film. Za mene je bilo posebno važno i to što ovaj film na jedan potpuno drugačiji način predstavlja Srbiju u odnosu na ono što Holivud prikazuje proteklih 20 i nešto više godina. Činjenica je da postoji nekakav stereotip o likovima i filmovima iz Srbije, koji je po mom skromnom mišljenju, a nadam se da mi nećete zameriti – negativan. Ovaj film je suprotnost onome što je naša kinematografija predstavljala u proteklih 30 godina. Zaista sam osetio potrebu, a kasnije video i mogućnost da ovako nešto podelim sa vama. Nadam se da ćete uživati u filmu koliko sam i ja. Kao sportistu, film me je iskreno dotakao a ono što mi se posebno dopalo jeste to što se u filmu promoviše puno pozitivnih životnih vrednosti - ispričao je Nole.

Reditelj Dragan Bjelogrlić, i sam nekada stanovnik Holivuda, zahvalio se gostima što su pokazali intersovanje za srpski filmski i televizijski hit, a posebno je izrazio divljenje za Novakovu pordšku filmu:

- Novak nije samo vrhunski teniser, po meni danas najbolji na svetu, već je učinio gest koji govori koliko je veliki čovek. Prepoznao je neke vrednosti našeg filma i kao Srbin koji voli i bori se za status svoje domovine, poželeo da ovakvu Srbiju vide i moćni ljudi iz šou biznisa, a moguće i gledaoci širom sveta. Sada više nije bitno da li će se bilo kakva poslovna varijanta realizovati, za mene i ekipu filma je najvažnije da nas je Novak učinio ponosnim što je stao iza filma i prepoznao ono zbog čega smo i snimili „Montevideo" - rekao je Bjelogrlić.

- Projekcija u Los Anđelesu, posebno ovakvom sastavu poslovnih ljudi, sama po sebi predstavlja ozbiljan poslovni domet. Ali, ako se ima u vidu da se sve odigralo uz podršku i organizaciju Novaka Đokovića, to daje događaju poseban značaj i čini čast producentskoj kući „Interemedia Network" - dodao je producent filma Dejan Petrović.

Izvor: Blic, 18. 3. 2014.


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Ana Popovic

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Ana is invited to play the prestigious New Orleans Jazz Fest where she introduces her new project; a nine-piece power blues and funk machine under the name Ana Popovic & Mo' Better Love. With AP & Mo' Better Love, Ana fronts a musical collaboration with Tony Coleman (drummer BB King) and John Williams on bass (Al Green), adding rhythm guitar, keys, a horn section and background singers. On April 16th follows the world wide release of 'Can You Stand The Heat', Ana's ninth full-length album. The daring release features guest performances of Grammy Award winner Tommy Sims and Grammy Award nominee Lucky Peterson.

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0