PROVINCETOWN “Oyez, oyez!” Provincetown’s newest town crier, Daniel Gómez Llata, began his new role earlier this month, welcoming the summer season.
The old French terminology for “hear ye” is used by town criers internationally, Llata, a history buff, explained prior to his first birthday announcement. But Provincetown is the only town in the United States that maintains the tradition, he said.
From birthday greetings in backyards and quick chats with visitors driving down Commercial Street to reading 113-year-old Provincetown Advocate articles outside the library and asking a group of kids if they know the answer to the infamous question “Where did the Pilgrims first land? Llata is quick on his buckled boots.
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TV tonight: Domina – a game of thrones in Ancient Rome Ammar Kalia, Graeme Virtue, Ellen E Jones, Phil Harrison and Simon Wardell
Domina
9pm, Sky Atlantic
It’s back to ancient Rome for this psychological drama examining the rise to power of Livia Drusilla (Kasia Smutniak), wife and adviser to Augustus Caesar. We open in the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s assassination and young Livia’s marriage to Tiberius Claudius Nero – a political alliance that sees the couple forced to flee Italy. Seeking to return home, Livia begins to plot how she could ascend the ranks of society. Co-starring Isabella Rossellini and Game of Thrones’ Liam Cunningham.
These Are the 100 Best Films of All Time, According to Critics
By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News
AND Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker News
On 5/9/21 at 9:00 AM EDT
For more than a century, there have been movies, and people paid to review them. The first film critic, W.G. Faulkner, began churning out weekly reviews in January 1912.
Since then, movie criticism has retained countless core consistencies while evolving to keep pace with the medium itself. During this time, the two respective arenas have developed what some might call a symbiotic relationship. Movies often, but not always, depend on solid reviews to succeed, and movie critics rely on the emergence of new films to keep their jobs.
European directors under 35 placed centre stage at the Riviera International Film Festival
As Far as I Know by Nandor Lorincz and Balint Nagy
One of the first European film festivals to start back up again after lockdown, the fifth edition of the Riviera International Film Festival is scheduled to unfold between 20 and 30 May in Sestri Levante, offering up a hybrid programme unspooling online and in person.
Young people and the environment have been confirmed as the festival’s themes, but escape is what really unites the ten films in competition this year, all of which are directed by under-35s. “Escape in the sense of emigration, an escape from reality, from social conventions or in an attempt to find oneself. Escape from illness, adolescence, or for love. This common feature aside, these stories are totally different, in stylistic and visual terms too”, explains Head of Programming