"A FILM is like a battleground," says Samuel Fuller, playing himself, in Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 "Pierrot le Fou," one of 38 noirs in Film Forum's ambitious, entertaining, blood-and-doom-soaked series "French Crime Wave," which begins Friday and runs through Sept. 11.
They discuss ambitious regulations in global forums, or look to giant multinationals and well-heeled NGOs to set an example.
Ambitious auteurs prowl these forums in search of financing.
The American-sponsored monthly literary magazine, Der Monat, ably edited by Melvin J. Lasky, of N.Y. has within two years come near realizing its ambitious program -"to be a forum of openminded discussion, based on free exchange of opinions from the most divergent groups of thoug in Germany and all parts of the world.
John J. Dobbins, an archaeologist who concentrates on the area, explains how recent research shows that Pompeii's elder statesmen had ambitious plans to rebuild their shattered forum.
The Forum ended with the ambitious goal of forming an alliance of leaders from the continent committed to making sure the voice of those with disabilities grows and is put firmly on the development agenda of the continent.
He has ambitious plans to turn the system into a forum where professionals can exchange ideas along the lines of MySpace.
That sounds rather ambitious, considering the failure of other recent United Nations forums, including the 2009 climate summit meeting in Copenhagen.
Surrounded by a green oasis of flower beds, vegetable patches and greenhouses is the Balsall Heath forum, the heart of a community with ambitious plans.
Sites such as Kickstarter provide a good forum for gathering finance for the more ambitious projects.
