Orestes News

A Fairmount man was hospitalized Tuesday morning after the van he was driving was struck by a tractor-trailer between Orestes and Elwood.

A history pic focusing on the story of Alexandrian philosopher and astronomer Hypatia is scheduled to be released to theaters this December.

For four decades, no Werner Herzog film ever was accepted for competition at the Venice Film Festival.

The political dark comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats , starring Ewan MacGregor and George Clooney and The Road , a post-apocalyptic tale based on the Cormac McCarthy novel, have been added to TIFF 09, along with several other additons - including a new film by Werner Herzog and the directorial debut of fashion designer Tom Ford.

Although no self-respecting epic can come in at less than two hours, Alejandro Amenabar will nevertheless need good word-of-mouth to attract wider audiences willing to sit through 144 minutes and a heavy-handed beginning in his new film, "Agora." Hopefully, he will get it.

I managed to miss all of the build up to this. Cannes last night was host to Agora , the Alejandro Amenabar-directed film on the fourth century philospher and mathematician Hypatia .