SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2014 Actor Dreyfuss: Politics should be noble calling scar winner Richard tive, among other things, pro- thing, which we do all day Dreyfuss told California vides teachers with videos and long,” the senator from Olawmakers Thursday educational tools. “I want to Escondido said. “We consider that he hopes the public will remind you that it wasn’t that this part of our job, but many, once again view politics as a long ago that there were peo- many, many of our constituents noble calling, and he pledged ple who referred to politicians and many, many young people to do his part through his civics and politics as a noble calling,” surveys show don’t know education initiative. The 66- Dreyfuss told senators at the enough.” year-old actor best known for Capitol. “It hasn’t been lately. Dreyfuss won the Academy “Jaws” and “Close Encounters of And I pledge to get back there Award for best actor in 1977 for the Third Kind” was honored by as soon as possible.” Republican “The Goodbye Girl” and California state lawmakers for Sen Mark Wyland presented received a second nomination his work promoting civics in Dreyfuss with a resolution rec- in 1995 for “Mr. Holland’s public schools. ognizing him for speaking out Opus.” He urged lawmakers to In 2008, he founded The about the deterioration of civics work together for the benefit of Richard Dreyfuss Dreyfuss Initiative, a nonprofit education. future generations. that promotes teaching about Wyland, who has promoted said it’s important to remind tem of government or risk los- “We have a responsibility to American democracy in class- civics education in the San the public about the impor- ing it. “This is about preserva- the America of the future,” rooms nationwide. The initia- Diego region he represents, tance of the nation’s fragile sys- tion of this very, very precious Dreyfuss said. —AP Iran’s Asghar Farhadi to head Busan Festival jury ranian filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”) will lead the main competition jury at October’s Busan film festival I(Oct 2-11, 2014) Fellow jurors who will award a $30,000 prize to the winner of the New Currents Asian film competi- tion include film studies professor Dina Iordanova, French philosopher Jacques Ranciere, Indian actress Suhasini Maniratnam, and Bong Joon-ho, Korean director of “The Host” and “The Snowpiercer”. The festival has also enlisted other celebrities. This year’s opening ceremony will be hosted by Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (“Inception,” “The Last Samurai”), and Korean actress Moon So-ri (“Peppermint Candy,” “Oasis”). The jury for Busan’s Wide Angle section, a competition section for shorts, animations, documentaries and experimental films is set to include Singaporean filmmaker Tan Pin Pin, Maria Bonsanti, artistic director of France’s Cinema du Reel and Korean docu- mentary maker, Yi Seung-jun (“Planet of Snail”). In its 19th year, BIFF has named local director Jung-Jin- woo, a well-known producer-director, as the focus of its Korean Cinema Retrospective. Jung made his mark in the social drama genre in the 1960s, dealing with the division of Sylvester Stallone, Ronda Rousey and Arnold the Korean peninsula and class barriers. He was also well- Schwarzenegger, pose on the red carpet for the Macau known for depicting women’s lives on the verge of crisis in premiere of their movie “The Expendables 3” in Macau, the tumultuous 70’s in South Korea. Eight films from his China yesterday. — AP photos body of over 50 films will be screened at BIFF including “Does Cuckoo Cry at Night” (1980) and his earlier “Border Nakache and Toldedano’s Line”(1964). — Reuters Asghar Farhadi ‘Samba’ to close San Sebastian amba,” Oliver Nakache and Eric Toldedano’s fol- ‘Maleficent’ to be biggest Hollywood low-up to B.O. behemoth “The Intouchables,” “Swill close Spain’s 62nd San Sebastian Festival live action film in Japan in three years on Sept 27. Co-produced, distributed in France and sold worldwide by Gaumont, “Samba” will be released in n its 7th week on release in Japan, Spain by Adolfo Blanco’s A Contracorriente Films, The “Maleficent” has crossed the JPY 6 closing night gala slot for “Samba” marks the third time in Ibillion ($58 million) box office four years that a Gaumont/A Contracorriente French title landmark, the first live action foreign brings the curtain down on the Spanish fest after 2011’s film to achieve this milestone in “Intouchables” and last year’s “The Young & three years in Japan, where Prodigious T.S. Spivet,” both of which world preemed in Hollywood films have fallen out of San Sebastian. favor. “Samba’s” San Sebastian turn marks its European pre- The pic earned this amount on 4.5 miere after it is first seen as a Gala Presentation at million admissions from its opening Toronto. Also starring “A Prophet’s” Tahar Rahim, “Samba” on July 4 to Aug 20. The last foreign substitutes across-the-tracks bromance for across-the- film to pass this mark was “Harry tracks romance with Sy playing a Mali immigrant, Samba Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Cisse, and Gainsbourg a burnt-out exec recycling as an 2,” which achieved $93 million after immigration worker. She attempts to aid the soon-to-be- opening in July 2011. “Maleficent” is deported Samba with their professional and personal expected to finish with about JPY7 relationships bluring. —Reuters billion ($67 million) on five million admissions. — Reuters.