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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Andre Soares</title>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Rules &amp; Relevance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments

European Film Awards 2009 &#8211; Nominations: Part I
Among the eligible films and performers that failed to nab a mention were Giovanna Mezzogiorno for Vincere, Audrey Tautou for Coco Before Chanel, Maren Ade&#8217;s Everyone Else, Ulrich Tukur for The White Ribbon, Martina Gedeck for The Baader Meinhof Complex, and Michael Fassbender for Fish Tank.
Also, Christian Petzold&#8217;s Jerichow, Nina Hoss for Jerichow, Jan Troell&#8217;s Everlasting Moments, Maria Heiskanen for Everlasting Moments, Corneliu Porumboiu&#8217;s Police, Adjective, Andrzej Wajda&#8217;s Sweet Rush, and Philippe Lioret&#8217;s Welcome.
Now, the curious thing about the European Film Awards  is that the awards&#8217; timing and eligibility rules (some of which have varied throughout the years) make many of the nominations seem like old news. Indeed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-european-film-award-nominations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire (middle); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (bottom)

Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards. They are:

Andrea Arnold&#8217;s Fish Tank, about a teenager (best actress nominee Katie Jarvis) upset that her mother has found herself a new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender)
Stephen Daldry&#8217;s The Reader, a melodrama starring Kate Winslet as a former Nazi guard who believes that being illiterate is worse than being an accomplice to mass murder
Jacques Audiard&#8217;s A Prophet, a prison drama about a toughie (best actor nominee Tahar Rahim) fighting his way to the top of the world behind bars
Danny Boyle&#8217;s Slumdog Millionaire, about a young man (best actor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2009 European Film Awards
2009 European Film Award nominations: Nov. 7, 2009
2009 European Film Award winners: Bochum, Germany, on Dec. 12, 2009
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (middle); Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire (bottom)
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BEST EUROPEAN  FILM
Fish Tank, UK
  written and directed by Andrea  Arnold
produced by Kees Kasander &#38; Nick Laws 
Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the  Right One In), Sweden
  directed by Tomas Alfredson
  written by John Ajvide Lindqvist
  produced by John Nordling &#38; Carl Molinder
Un Prophète (A  Prophet), France
  directed by Jacques Audiard
  written by Jacques Audiard &#38; Thomas Bidegain based on an original  idea by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/chicago-lesbian-gay-film-festival-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/chicago-lesbian-gay-film-festival-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Baby Jane by Billy Clift (top); Shirley Knight, Liz Jahren in Not Fade Away (middle); Homewrecker by Paul Hart (bottom)

Reeling 2009, this year&#8217;s edition of the Chicago Lesbian &#38; Gay International Film Festival, kicked off on Thu., Nov. 5, with a screening of Casper Andreas&#8216; The Big Gay Musical. 
Upcoming feature films include:

Billy Clift&#8217;s Baby Jane, a recreation of What Ever Happened with Baby Jane? starring real drag queens playing the two female leads &#8212; as opposed to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis playing drag queens playing the two female leads.
Florencia Manovil&#8217;s  romantic drama Fiona&#8217;s Script, about an insecure bisexual woman who reluctantly enters into a relationship with a ladies&#8217; tomboy.
Rob Williams&#8216; Make the Yuletide Gay, a family Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: THE LAST STATION, AFTER.LIFE</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/the-last-station-after-life-afi-fest-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station

AFI FEST 2009, Sat., Nov. 7 at the Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 on 2nd Street in Santa Monica.
AFI FEST 2009 comes to a close with the following screenings:

Michael Hoffman&#8217;s The Last Station, which is set near the end of Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s life, has been getting lots of Oscar buzz for its stars: James McAvoy as Tolstoy&#8217;s assistant; Helen Mirren as Tolstoy&#8217;s wife; and Christopher Plummer as the verbose author of the never-ending War and Peace.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash&#8217;s Sweetgrass offers a look at sheepherding in Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth mountain range. Apart from the sheep and the high peaks, there&#8217;s no  connection to Brokeback Mountain.
Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar&#8217;s stop-motion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009 Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/afi-fest-2009-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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AFI FEST 2009 Awards
AFI FEST 2009: Hollywood/Santa Monica, Oct. 30-Nov. 7, 2009
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Andrea Arnold&#8217;s Fish Tank focuses on a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) frustrated that her mother has found a new beau (Michael Fassbender); Javier Rebollo&#8217;s Woman Without Piano is a dramatic portrait of 24 hours in the life of a Madrid housewife (Carmen Machi); and Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani&#8217;s Ajami (above) chronicles the day-to-day, anything-but-routine lives of several denizens of a tough neighborhood in Jaffa, where Muslims, Jews, and Christians are sworn to live in bloody disharmony.
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NEW LIGHTS COMPETITION AWARD WINNER

FISH TANK DIR: Andrea Arnold  UK

WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO (LA MUJER SIN PIANO) DIR: Javier Rebollo Spain/France

SPECIAL JURY MENTION
AJAMI DIR: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani Israel/Germany

AFI FEST 2009 NEW LIGHTS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: POLICE, ADJECTIVE; TO DIE LIKE A MAN</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/police-adjective-to-die-like-a-man-afi-fest-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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To Die Like a Man by João Pedro Rodrigues (top); Police, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu (bottom)

AFI FEST 2009 continues in a more compact version on Friday and Saturday at the Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 on 2nd Street in Santa Monica. There&#8217;ll be only four screenings per day, with the last one starting at 5:00 p.m.
The screening films on Friday, Nov. 6, are:

Japanese filmmaker Sabu&#8217;s Kanikosen, described as &#34;Sergei Eisenstein put into a blender with Busby Berkeley.&#34;
João Pedro Rodrigues&#8216; To Die Like a Man, a chronicle of a Lisbon drag queen who has been living as a woman for decades, but ends up meeting her maker as a man. Rodrigues is the director of the intriguing O Fantasma.
Jiri Barta&#8217;s stop-motion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, THE SWAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I
Thanks to Kelly&#8217;s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity &#8212; it&#8217;s the sort of &#34;gutsy&#34; and &#34;realistic&#34; film adaptation of a  respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby&#8217;s drunk is about as convincing as Kelly&#8217;s frumpish housewife (a role that should have gone to original choice Jennifer Jones), but that didn&#8217;t prevent a number of Academy members from making sure Crosby, director George Seaton, and the film itself  received Academy Award nominations.  Seaton, in fact, did win an Oscar for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Stating the obvious:  most people take great pleasure in idealizing  their idols &#8212; which is why idols are idols. 
Whether we&#8217;re talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop stars,  the process is pretty much the same: flaws are expunged, deeds that never took place are turned into (at times miraculous) facts,  the Pantheon of the Immortals becomes their abode following their earthly demise. (In some extreme cases &#8212; assorted gods, Elvis &#8212; the idol in question doesn&#8217;t die, period.)
Grace Kelly, Turner Classic Movies&#8217; Star of the Month, is one of the lofty ones now dwelling in the aforementioned Pantheon. True, the flesh-and-bood Philadelphia-born (Nov. 12, 1929) woman (nee Grace Patricia Kelly) may have been quite different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: A SINGLE MAN, THE SINGULARITY</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/a-single-man-the-singularity-afi-fest-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man (top); Steve Evets, Eric Cantona in Looking for Eric (bottom)

AFI FEST 2009 highlights on Thursday, Nov. 5:

Robert Barry Ptolemy&#8217;s The Singularity sounds fascinating: Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses the just-around-the-corner impact of human technology, which has been growing exponentially. Imagine a world without death, hunger, disease. (Well, I&#8217;m assuming all those great things will happen if humans don&#8217;t self-destruct first. After all, all lab studies indicate that human imbecility is growing even faster than the species&#8217; technological advances &#8212; talk about a scientific paradox; someone should come up with a documentary about that.)
Directed by Tom Ford, A Single Man stars Venice 2009 winner Colin Firth, who&#8217;ll quite likely receive an Oscar nod come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: THE ROAD, EASIER WITH PRACTICE</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/the-road-easier-with-practice-afi-fest-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road (top); Brian Geraghty in Easier with Practice (bottom)

Tonight, Wed., Nov. 4, at AFI FEST 2009 in Hollywood:

The Road has been getting a lot of Oscar buzz for star Viggo Mortensen, director John Hillcoat, and for the film itself, a futuristic father-son adventure drama set in a post-apocalyptic world.
In Eduardo Coutinho&#8217;s documentary Moscow, the director of a theater group in Brazil&#8217;s third largest city sets out to stage a production of Chekhov&#8217;s Three Sisters.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez&#8217;s Easier with Practice sounds like an unusual road movie, one in which a book author (Brian Geraghty) traveling with his brother (Kel O&#8217;Neill) becomes emotionally attached to a sexy voice on the phone. Could his brother have something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows of Russia Schedule</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate

Below is the complete &#34;Shadows of Russia&#34; schedule on Turner Classic Movies:

Wednesday, Jan. 6
Part One:   Twilight of the Tsars
8  p.m.              The Scarlet Empress (1934)  – starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lodge.
10  p.m.            Rasputin and the Empress (1932) –  starring John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore.
Part Two:  Red  Romance
12:15 a.m.       Red Danube (1949) – starring Walter Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore.
2:30  a.m.         Reds (1981) – starring Warren Beatty, Diane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows of Russia: Communism on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (top); Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford in The Way We Were (bottom)

From the  Romanovs&#8217; last stand to Warren Beatty&#8217;s first solo directorial effort: On every Wednesday in January 2010, Turner Classic Movies  will present the 20-film festival &#34;Shadows of Russia,&#34;  a showcase of Hollywood movies portraying Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) and the sociopolitical reverberations of Communism throughout the 20th century.
Among the scheduled films are classics such as Ninotchka, The Manchurian Candidate, and Reds, in addition to lesser-known fare like Counter-Attack, I Was a Communist for the FBI, and The Strawberry Statement. Get ready for some laughs and a few tears &#8212; mostly laughs. And mostly of the unintended kind.
I must red-facedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Movies&#8217; Top Five Scariest Living Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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In The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment not only sees dead people, he hears them as well. Bruce Willis, for his part, sees and hears what he wants to see and hear.

The Day of Dead ended on this meridian  about five hours ago. But the Night of the Dead is still here. It isn&#8217;t quite midnight, yet. (It wasn&#8217;t; it took me longer to write this post than I expected. Even so, it isn&#8217;t midnight in Hawaii, yet.)
In honor of this Christianized pagan holiday &#8212; the pagans came up with some of the most important Christian holidays &#8212; below is my list of the movies&#8217; Top Five Scariest Living Dead. By that I don&#8217;t mean actors, characters, or real-life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PONY EXPRESS &#8211; Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-pony-express-betty-compson-ricardo-cortez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Pony Express (1925)
Direction: James Cruze
Screenplay: Walter Woods; from Woods and Henry James Forman&#8217;s story
Cast: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, George Bancroft, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery, Al Hart
&#160;

The Pony Express is a  rousing James Cruze Western depicting the founding of the Pony Express with a backdrop of political ambitions concerning a senator&#8217;s plans to get California to secede from the United States so he can build his own empire. 
A great cast and Cruze&#8217;s direction keep this one interesting &#8212; even though Ricardo Cortez in a period film seems woefully out of place and pretty Betty Compson&#8217;s role is more or less that of an ingenue,  merely requiring her to look good while reacting  to the things going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doha Tribeca Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/doha-tribeca-film-festival-awards-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
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Team Qatar by Liz Mermin (top); Hiam Abbass in Najwa Najjar&#8217;s Pomegranates and Myrrh (bottom)

Doha Tribeca Film Festival Executive Director Amanda Palmer and Robert De Niro handed out two audience awards, worth US$50,000 each, at the festival&#8217;s closing night gala on Nov. 1. Coincidentally, both winning films  were directed by women.
British filmmaker Liz Mermin&#8217;s documentary Team Qatar, which chronicles the creation of that country&#8217;s first debate team, was awarded Best Festival Film, while Palestinian Najwa Najjar&#8217;s debut feature, Pomegranates and Myrrh (talk about a poetic title), was chosen the Best Arab Film.
Starring Hiam Abbass (who deserves a best actress Oscar nod for Lemon Tree), Pomegranates and Myrrh revolves around a Palestinian woman torn  between being faithful to her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Fetish Film Festival Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Flemish filmmaker Erik Lamens&#8216; SM-rechter / SM Judge (above) was chosen  the best narrative feature at the 2009 Fetish Film Festival, held in the northern German city of Kiel from Oct. 29-31.
Inspired by a true story, Lamens&#8217; SM Judge tells the story of Belgian judge Koen Aurousseau, who, as per Flanders Today, &#34;was accused of physical assault and incitement to prostitution&#34; in 1997. Following his conviction, Aurousseau found himself mired in a deep emotional and financial hole; his only source of support was his wife, Magda, the person who&#8217;d initially asked him to get involved in S&#38;M sex practices.
“I heard on TV the other day that this is &#8216;the  most controversial film of the year,&#8217; Lamens is quoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: SOMETHING&#8217;S GONNA LIVE, ABOUT ELLY, DOCTOR PARNASSUS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (top); A Lake by Philippe Grandrieux (middle); Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest (bottom)

AFI FEST 2009 highlights, Nov. 2:

Daniel Raim&#8217;s documentary Something&#8217;s Gonna Live, which features interviews with several behind-the-scenes veterans, including Robert Boyle, Conrad Hall, and Haskell Wexler
Terry Gilliam&#8217;s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which marks Heath Ledger&#8217;s last film appearance
Asghar Farhadi&#8217;s drama About Elly, winner of the Silver Bear for best director at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival
Andrea Arnold&#8217;s family drama Fish Tank, winner of the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Bahman Ghobadi&#8217;s No One Knows About Persian Cats, about the obstacles faced by a couple of Iranian teenagers trying to form a rock band [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: PRECIOUS, THE WHITE RIBBON, AJAMI</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire by Lee Daniels (top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (middle); Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi in Vincere by Marco Bellocchio (bottom) 

Among the Sunday, Nov. 1, highlights at the AFI FEST 2009 at the  Chinese Theater  complex in Hollywood are:

 Lu Chuan&#8217;s historical drama City of Life and Death, winner of the Golden Shell for best picture at the San Sebastian Film Festival
Claude Chabrol&#8217;s psychological mystery-drama Bellamy, his first collaboration with Gérard Depardieu
Lee Daniels&#8216; Precious: Based on the Novel &#8220;Push&#8221; by Sapphire, a strong possibility for the Oscar 2010 best picture shortlist and the Sundance 2009 US Narrative Jury Prize winner
Michael Haneke&#8217;s Palme d&#8217;Or winner and potential Oscar 2010 contender [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Five Movie Screamers</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/top-five-movie-screamers-leigh-wray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Top Ten Movie Screamers: 10 to 6


5 &#8211; Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960)
I don&#8217;t recall myself recoiling in horror while watching Janet Leigh&#8217;s shower scene in Psycho, but I do recall quite vividly  one night long ago when I was showering at an acquaintance&#8217;s place and imagined myself facing the same fate as Leigh&#8217;s unlucky bank teller. So, I guess that sequence  did leave a lasting impression on me. (Needless to say, I was out of that acquaintance&#8217;s shower stall and all dried up in a matter of seconds.)


4 &#8211; Fay Wray in King Kong (1933), Doctor X (1932), and The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Fay Wray has to be here. To her belongs the title of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Movie Screamers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
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Doctor X directed by Michael Curtiz (top); Janet Leigh in Psycho (bottom)

Halloween Time. So, here&#8217;s my list of the Top Ten Movie Screamers of All Time. 
Well, at least the Top Ten Movie Screamers of All Time That I Can Think of Right Now.
You won&#8217;t find any new movies here because I tend to avoid most recent horror movies &#8212; partly because most of the recent ones I&#8217;ve seen are total crap; partly because there&#8217;s enough horror in the world out there and I see no need for me to go looking for more at the movies.
Also, most of the screaming newcomers don&#8217;t have the vocal flair of their predecessors. Even Naomi Watts, a really good actress, pales next to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Documentary THIS AREA IS UNDER QUARANTINE Banned</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/gay-this-area-is-under-quarantine-banned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Thunska  Pansittivorakul&#8217;s Thai-made experimental documentary This Area Is Under Quarantine, which discusses  the difficulties faced by both gays and Muslims in Thailand, has been banned by that country&#8217;s Ministry of  Culture from  showing at next month&#8217;s World Film Festival of Bangkok. 
According to a report in the Bangkok Post, the problem has less to do with an outright ban of the film&#8217;s themes &#8212; which includes mention of the Tak Bai Incident of 2004, a case of  police/army brutality that left nearly 100 Muslim protesters dead in the southern Thai province &#8212; than with labyrinthine new laws involving ratings committees and subcommittees that are supposed to classify films shown at special screenings or festivals.

On his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: Phone Sex Gets EASIER WITH PRACTICE</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/easier-with-practice-phone-sex-alvarez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Brian Geraghty in Easier with Practice

Kyle Patrick Alvarez&#8217;s feature-film debut Easier with Practice, CineVegas Grand Jury Award winner and Best International Feature at the Edinburgh Film Festival, will screen at the AFI FEST 2009 on Wed., November 4, at 10 p.m.
Easier with Practice tells the story of a writer (Brian Geraghty of The Hurt Locker) who, in a desperate attempt to promote his still-unpublished novel, hits the road with his younger brother  (Kel O’Neill) on a self-planned book tour.  Things don&#8217;t go very well at first, but when out of the blue a sexy female voice calls the writer at his ordinary motel room &#8212; to ask what he&#8217;s wearing, no less &#8212; everything changes. The phoning couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sophie Okonedo in SKIN: Black Daughter of White Parents</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/sophie-okonedo-skin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Sophie Okonedo in Skin

Winner of four audience awards, including at the AFI Dallas and Santa Barbara film festivals,  Skin tells the factually inspired (and quite curious) story of Sandra Laing (Hotel Rwanda&#8217;s Academy Award nominee Sophie Okonedo as an adult; Ella Ramangwane as child), the &#34;black&#34; daughter of  &#34;white&#34; Afrikaner parents (veterans Sam Neill and Alice Krige), who until then &#8212; South Africa in the 1950s &#8212; had been  unaware that they must have had some black ancestors.
Though raised as a white girl by her parents, Sandra soon discovers the importance of her skin color after she&#8217;s officially reclassified as black and is expelled from her school. Her parents then fight a judicial battle to have their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federico García Lorca&#8217;s Remains to Be Exhumed</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/federico-garcia-lorca-exhumed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Javier Beltrán as Federico García Lorca, Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes

According to reports, forensic experts have begun digging at a mass unmarked grave in search of the remains of poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (right), executed in the early days of Spain&#8217;s bloody 1936-39 civil war.
The work is taking place on a remote hillside area near Granada, in Spain&#8217;s southern province of Andalusia. The assassins were  members of a militia loyal to right-wing Gen. Francisco Franco. Approximately 500,000 people were killed during the civil war, which erupted after Franco, abetted by Spain&#8217;s business establishment and the Catholic Church, rebelled against the elected leftist Republican government. (Guillermo del Toro captures the brutality of this dark period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny Mercer Centennial Tribute</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/johnny-mercer-centennial-tribute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Johnny Mercer (top); Mercer, Donald O&#8217;Connor, Hoagy Carmichael at the 1951 Academy Awards ceremony (bottom)

 Johnny Mercer&#8217;s musical legacy will be celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences  with a gala centennial  tribute featuring film clips of many of Mercer&#8217;s  classic songs, in addition to  performances and appearances by friends and colleagues, on  Thursday, November 5, at 8 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater  in Beverly Hills.
Note: This event is sold-out, but standby tickets may become available.
Program host Michael Feinstein and Monica Mancini (daughter of Mercer’s longtime friend, Henry Mancini)  will perform some of Mercer’s best-known songs, while  Oscar-winning  songwriter-composer Alan Bergman, Oscar-nominated songwriter Arthur  Hamilton, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro III: Anita Page, Murder, Life As a Gay Man</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/ramon-novarro-ellenberger-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Anita Page, Ramon Novarro in The Flying Fleet

Ramon Novarro: Allan Ellenberger Interview II
Ramon Novarro and Anita Page. Do you  believe he actually asked her hand in marriage as she claimed later in life?
I do, and the main reason is that I knew Anita Page  and interviewed her extensively for over a year before her health really began  to decline. At that point, she would have short-term memory loss due to a stroke,  which made interviewing her more difficult. That, and the image that she  presented to the world in some ways made her appear unreliable. All I know is  that I was able to prove most of the stories she told me with secondary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro II: Best Films, Rex Ingram</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro in The Cat and the Fiddle. Photo: Courtesy Matias Bombal Collection.

Ramon Novarro: Allan Ellenberger Interview I
 How would you describe Ramon Novarro  the actor?
Novarro was a first-rate actor – maybe not an  Olivier, but a good solid actor. Even in bad films such as Laughing Boy (1934),  he had his moments. He was excellent in dramatic roles such as the aviator Alexis Rosanoff  opposite Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931), or as the rapist-suitor of Myrna Loy  in The Barbarian (1933). He excelled in light comedic moments, especially in  The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and in several of his musicals including The Cat  and the Fiddle (1934) and The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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I first contacted author Allan Ellenberger  shortly before the publication of his book on Old Hollywood star Ramon Novarro, as at the time I  was working on my own Novarro bio. Instead of treating me like a pesky rival, Allan generously shared the information he&#8217;d amassed throughout about a decade of research &#8212; and for that I was very thankful.
We&#8217;ve since become good friends (but Allan, you need to buy me pizza more often), so I&#8217;m glad to report that his Ramon Novarro (McFarland, 1999) is now available in paperback at online bookstores. In his carefully researched book (I&#8217;ve read it about four or five times), Allan discusses Ramon Novarro&#8217;s life and career from his early beginnings in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Angry Young Men: Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Tom Courtenay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Photo: Bryanston Films Ltd./Photofest

&#34;Four Angry Young Men&#34; is the title of a four-film series to take place on two consecutive Saturdays, Nov. 14 and 21, at the Getty Center&#8217;s Harold M. Williams Auditorium. Note: The screenings are free, but a separate reservation is required for each film.
The Four Angry Young Men in question &#8212; no actorish Marlon Brando-James Dean types, they &#8212; are Richard Burton (Look Back in Anger), Albert Finney (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning), Richard Harris (This Sporting Life), and Tom Courtenay (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner). Good-looking, (mostly) working-class blokes with the chance of happiness and success at their fingertips if only &#8230; Well, if only life [...]]]></description>
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