Now, in muzzling him from speaking at a literary festival, authorities have taken precise and meticulous aim at their own feet and opened fire.
On the eve of its world premiere at the 2009 Los Angeles film festival, Gertten and the festival authorities were threatened with libel actions.
Every year in a spirit of cinephilia, I ask the festival authorities if I can please have the hotel where Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie had sex in Don't Look Now.
Even in recent years, he battled with the Salzburg Festival authorities, resigning from the board and threatening a complete break if his veto power - used to reaffirm the festival's essentially conservative direction - was not observed.
At least 58 people were killed and more than 500 injured after a hail of gunfire from a high-rise hotel was fired into the crowd during the final set of the three-day country music festival, authorities said. .
You are also needed to contact the festival authorities in order to become the participant of the event.
Days before the start of the 63rd Venice Film Festival, the authorities in Rome have announced that Kidman will inaugurate the city's first-ever international film extravaganza.
In Austria, at least three people died as the Salzach River burst its banks south of Salzburg and threatened to inundate the city at the height of its famous summer festival, forcing authorities to close most bridges and major roads.
On this day last year, as the high point of a year-long cultural festival, the authorities in his home town of Derry organised a glittering river-borne pageant entitled "The Return of Columcille"—to imply that the saint, like many a homesick Irish emigrant, had given up his wanderings and was finally sailing home.
Huozhe received the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival, but Chinese authorities refused to let Zhang attend the ceremony.
