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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Andre Soares</title>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Actress &#8211; Drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annette Bening]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emily Blunt]]></category>
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2010 Golden Globe  Predictions: Best Actress &#8211; Drama

Annette Bening, Mother and Child
A middle-aged woman must come to terms with her past

Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Radical ideologue Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s wife Sofya has to put up with him

Carey Mulligan, An Education
In 1960s London, a teenager falls for a man in his 30s

Michelle Pfeiffer, Chéri
An older courtesan gets back on the job

Gabourey  Sidibe, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
An  abused pregnant teen tries to take control of her life
&#160;




Hilary Swank in Amelia (top); Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (middle, upper); Emily Blunt in Young Victoria (middle, lower); Natalie Portman in Brothers (bottom)


Not that long ago, there was a time &#8212; a very long time, stretching from the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Actor &#8211; Drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Single Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Pitt]]></category>
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2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Actor &#8211; Drama

Colin Firth, A Single Man
In 1960s Los Angeles, a gay college professor wants to end his life after learning that his lover has died in an accident.

Morgan Freeman, Invictus
By staging the Rugby World Cup in South Africa, Nelson Mandela attempts to unite black and white South Africans.

James McAvoy (above, with Paul Giamatti), The Last Station
Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s secretary and follower tries to reconcile reality with his idol&#8217;s radical ideology.

Viggo Mortensen, The Road
A man and his son struggle to survive in a  cold, brutal post-apocalyptic world.

Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds
A ruthless Jewish-American guerrilla leader wants to kill as many Nazi officers as possible.


Stars are what matter. For every Golden Globe-nominated Djimon Hounsou there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture – Comedy or Musical</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[It's Complicated]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Informant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Men Who Stare at Goats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Proposal]]></category>
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2010 Golden Globes Predictions: Best Picture &#8211; Comedy or Musical

The Informant! (above, with Matt Damon), d: Steven Soderbergh; scr: Scott Z. Burns
A pathological liar  helps the US government nab a nefarious agribusiness conglomerate.

Julie &#38; Julia (above, with Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci), d &#38; scr: Nora Ephron
Julia Child starts cooking decades ago, while in the  early 21st-century blogger Julie Powell decides to boil and broil every single recipe found in Child&#8217;s first book.

The Men Who Stare at Goats (above, with Kevin Spacey), d: Grant Heslov; scr: Peter Straughan
US military &#34;intelligence&#34; and its use of paranormal activities.

Nine (above, with Judi Dench, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson), d: Rob Marshall; scr: Michael Tolkin, Anthony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture &#8211; Drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire]]></category>
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2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Picture &#8211; Drama

The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow; scr: Mark Boal
A  US Army  elite unit disarms bombs  in Iraq.

Invictus (above, with Matt Damon), d: Clint Eastwood; scr: Anthony Peckham
Newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela campaigns to stage the Rugby World Cup in South Africa so as to unite blacks and whites.

The Last Station (above, with Helen Mirren, James McAvoy), d &#38; scr: Michael Hoffman
Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s family life is upended by the writer&#8217;s radical politics.

The Lovely Bones (above, with Saoirse Ronan), Peter Jackson; scr: Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
A murdered girl sees the world, chiefly her small Pennsylvania town, from up above.

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, d: Lee Daniels; scr: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Documentary Feature Semi-Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-documentary-semi-finalists-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the  15 semi-finalists in the 2010 Academy Awards&#8217; Documentary Feature category. Eighty-nine films had  been in the running. 
The 15 documentary feature semi-finalists are:


The Beaches of Agnes, Agnès Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris)

Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films)

The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society)

Every Little Step, James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment)

Facing Ali, Pete McCormack, director (Network Films Inc.)

Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, director (Robert Kenner Films)

Garbage Dreams, Mai Iskander, director (Iskander Films, Inc.)

Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mark N. Hopkins, director (Red Floor Pictures LLC)

The  Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon  Papers, Judith Ehrlich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE FUPLERS: Q&amp;A with Matt Koval</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/matt-koval-interview-the-fuplers-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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There are few web series that I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching; of those, Matt Koval&#8217;s &#34;The Fuplers&#34; is probably my favorite. The series chronicles the table-time interactions of your typical Mondo Bizarro family, with Koval playing Mom, Dad, Teen Son, and lithping, pig-tailed Little Daughter. 
According to Koval&#8217;s  profile on his website, in one year his 20-video YouTube channel has grown   from 50 to 50,000 subscribers, while &#34;The Fuplers&#34; has been averaging 300,000 views per episode. Additionally, earlier this year Koval  wrote and directed a web series for Fox Digital Studios.
The Los Angeles-based filmmaker has also done work away from the Internet. Among his film credits are Ryan Craig&#8217;s feature  Small Town Saturday Night,  starring Star [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoav Shamir&#8217;s DEFAMATION Opens in NY/LA</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/yoav-shamir-defamation-screenings-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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  European Film Award nominee and a very likely contender for the 2010 best documentary feature Academy Award*, Yoav Shamir&#8217;s Defamation opens on Friday, Nov. 20, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities across the United States.
The film info below is from distributor First Run Features&#8217; website:
&#34;Intent on shaking up the ultimate ‘sacred cow’ for Jews, Israeli  director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative &#8212; and at times irreverent  &#8212; quest to answer the question, &#8216;What is anti-Semitism today?&#8217; Does it  remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used  by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics?
&#34;Speaking  with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCM Classic Film Festival: A STAR IS BORN, METROPOLIS, BREATHLESS, 2001</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/turner-classic-film-festival-a-star-is-born-metropolis-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2001: A Space Odyssey]]></category>
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Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom)

Turner Classic Movies&#8216;  first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor’s  A Star is Born (1954), starring Judy Garland and James Mason; the North American premiere of the  restored version of Fritz Lang’s  Metropolis (1927); and a 50th anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s Breathless, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.  
The TCM Classic Film Festival will also feature a special presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s  2001: A Space Odyssey, including a discussion with Oscar-winning visual-effects artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Czech Films</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/new-czech-films-milos-forman-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Well Paid Walk]]></category>
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A Well Paid Walk by Milos Forman (top); Vaclav Havel in Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek (middle); The Karamazovs by Petr Zelenka (bottom)

New Czech Films at New York&#8217;s BAMcinématek. The series includes works by two-time Academy Award winner Milos Forman and Jan H?ebejk, whose Divided We Fall (2000) was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar. Václav Marhoul&#8217;s war drama Tobruk, which is supposed to show that there&#8217;s &#34;a very thin line between heroism and cowardice,&#34; sounds particularly intriguing. All films in Czech with English  subtitles.
  Schedule and film information from the BAMcinématek website: 
  A Well Paid Walk (Dob?e Placená Procházku) (2009) 85min
  Wed, Nov 18 at 6:50*, 9:40pm
  *Q&#38;A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Woodward</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/edward-woodward-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bryan Brown, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant

Edward Woodward, the star of the 1980s television series The Equalizer and of the  film classics  The Wicker Man (1973) and  Breaker Morant (1980), died on Monday in Truro, Cornwall, England. Woodward had been suffering from heart problems and other ailments; the cause of death was pneumonia.
Born  to working-class parents in Croydon, Surrey, south of London, on June 1, 1930, Woodward began his acting career onstage in 1946. As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played roles in, among others, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, in addition to starring in Cyrano de Bergerac on the West End and in Noel Coward&#8217;s Broadway musical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Auteurs World Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/the-auteurs-world-cup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Charulata by Satyajit Ray (top); Moolaadé by Ousmane Sembene (middle); El Sur by Víctor Erice (bottom)

The Auteurs World Cup was launched yesterday, Nov. 16. David Hudson, formerly of The Daily and GreenCine Daily, describes the AWC thus: 
 &#34;It&#8217;s a competitive game measuring up national and regional cinemas against each other[,] created and organized by the online community at The Auteurs. Like the World Cup in soccer, only with movies.
&#34;Background: Kicked off in September with 32 teams, then separated into 8 groups of 4, from which the top 2 in each group have qualified for the last 16. The last 16 match line-ups are here. Each team has had a manager making the selections. In each match 3 films are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly: GREEN FIRE, THE ROCKINGHAM TEA SET</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-green-fire-the-rockingham-tea-set-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger in Green Fire

Grace Kelly is once again the focal point of Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Thursday evening schedule. And as far as I&#8217;m concerned, next Thursday, Nov. 19, is going to be the most interesting of the Grace Kelly evenings this month.
The reason for that is simple:  TCM will be showing the one Kelly feature I&#8217;ve yet to see &#8212; the Colombian-set adventure drama Green Fire (1954), co-starring Stewart Granger and Paul Douglas &#8212;  and two of Kelly&#8217;s pre-stardom television vehicles that I&#8217;ve also yet to see &#8212;  &#34;The Rockingham Tea Set&#34; (1950) and &#34;The Kill&#34; (1952), both made for the Studio One anthology series and both directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, best known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOLLOW REED &#8211; Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/hollow-reed-martin-donovan-joely-richardson-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Hollow Reed   (1996)
Direction: Angela Pope
Screenplay: Paula Milne
Cast: Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Sam Bould, Ian Hart, Jason Flemyng, Annette Badland, Roger Lloyd-Pack
&#160;

 Hollow Reed, the tale of a little boy loved by his gay father and abused by his hetero stepfather, was the winner of the Audience Award at the 1996 Dinard British Film Festival. That shouldn&#8217;t be surprising. After all, director Angela Pope and screenwriter Paula Milne squeeze every possible dramatic element the story could offer, from relentless closeups of young actor Sam Bould&#8217;s soulful face to a climactic bloody fight between the film&#8217;s warring dads. Most audiences love that.
Personally, I believe that approach is perfectly fine as long as  the filmmakers don&#8217;t take themselves too seriously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CineKink San Francisco 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/sex/cinekink-san-francisco-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A. Benjamin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[At the Porno Shop]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Casey Clark]]></category>
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CineKink San Francisco will take place from November 19-21 at the
  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 
Screening films include James Westby&#8217;s The Auteur, a farcical comedy about has-been Italian erotica filmmaker Arturo Domingo&#8217;s trip  to Portland to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award;  A. Benjamin&#8217;s Kinky (above, lower photo), a 2008 documentary that explores sexuality issues among black Americans; and a couple of dozen shorts, including &#34;Best of CineKink&#34; selections Belle de Nature (above, top photo) by Maria Beatty, Kink, Inc. by Casey Clark, and At the Porno Shop by Michael Rehfield.
Of those, I&#8217;ve only seen The Auteur. Most of the humor eluded me, while the film  promises more risque situations than it delivers. That said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LYSISTRATA-Themed Screenings at the Getty Villa</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/lysistrata-the-girls-a-miami-tail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Miami Tail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristophanes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bibi Andersson]]></category>
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Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom in The Girls

Michael Patrick Kelly&#8217;s documentary Operation Lysistrata, Melvin James&#8216; A Miami Tail, and Mai Zetterling&#8217;s The Girls will be screened at the Getty Villa&#8217;s Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14-15. Admission is free, but a separate ticket is required for each film.
Having staged Aristophanes&#8216; Peace earlier this season, Los Angeles&#8217; Getty Villa continues its celebration of &#34;the father of comedy&#34; with this three-film series based on the Athenian playwright&#8217;s best-known work, the  anti-war satire Lysistrata, in which the women of Athens and neighboring cities go on a sex strike so as to force their male partners to reconsider their warring habits.
Of the three, Mai Zetterling&#8217;s The Girls (1968) is the one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour &#8211; Program 2</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/shorts/ann-arbor-film-festival-tour-program-2-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alla Kovgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ann Arbor Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrie Lozano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Clapin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skhizein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utopia Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall]]></category>

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Skhizein by Jeremy Clapin (top); Utopia, Part 3: The World&#8217;s Largest Shopping Mall by Sam Green, Carrie Lozano (middle); Nora by Alla Kovgan, David Hinton (bottom)

The Los Angeles Filmforum will present Program 2 of the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
  As per the LA Filmforum&#8217;s press release, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is &#34;the original and longest-running independent film festival in the United States, recognized as a premiere showcase for risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema.&#34; Program 2 explores &#34;themes of a changing globalized world through personal, existential journeys.&#34;
The screening films are:

Cattle Call (Mike Maryniuk &#38; Matthew Rankin, 4 min)
    Utopia Part 3: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin 2010: Play it Again &#8230;! Series</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-play-it-again-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the  retrospective &#34;Play it Again &#8230;!,&#34; featuring  40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals.
Among them are  Curzio Malaparte&#8217;s The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg&#8217;s Miss Julie,  Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s To Live,  Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s Breathless,  Michael Cimino&#8217;s The Deer Hunter,  Zhang Yimou&#8217;s Red Sorghum, Niels Arden Oplev&#8217;s We Shall Overcome, and Paul Thomas  Anderson&#8217;s Magnolia.
  Also, Nagisa Oshima&#8217;s In the Realm of the Senses, which caused a furor  in 1976.  German authorities &#8212; who probably had better things to do (weren&#8217;t the Baader Meinhof running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Chaplin&#8217;s ZEPPED Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips reports that a long-thought lost Charles Chaplin film has been accidentally found after a film collector made an eBay bid  on a nitrate film canister.
Phillips explains that &#34;the footage turned out to be the obscure Chaplin short [Zepped], a World War  I propaganda effort designed to buck up British morale, combining  stop-motion animation and outtakes and unused alternate shots from  films Chaplin made for both Keystone and Essanay studios.
&#34;The hybrid, over which Chaplin apparently exercised no creative  control, includes a shot or two from His New Job, the short film  Chaplin made for the Chicago-based Essanay during his 23-day residency  here in late 1914 and early 1915.&#34;
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		<title>Jack Lemmon, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ruby-dee-jack-lemmon-sidney-poitier-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Raisin in the Sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Lemmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Sturges]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Last Train from Gun Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sidney Poitier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Out-of-Towners]]></category>
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Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun

Screen Actors Guild Life  Achievement Award winners Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies with a four-film presentation beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, the night before TCM&#8217;s sister networks TNT and TBS present a live simulcast of the 2010   Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Of the four films &#8212; the short Tit for Tat, and the features The Out-of-Towners, A Raisin in the Sun, and Last Train from Gun Hill &#8212; I&#8217;ve only seen the moderately entertaining John Sturges Western Last Train from Gun Hill, whose most memorable feature is Carolyn Jones as the female lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly on TCM: REAR WINDOW, THE COUNTRY GIRL</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-rear-window-the-country-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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James Stewart, Grace Kelly in Rear Window

Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Grace Kelly series continues this Thursday, Nov. 12, with  three of Kelly&#8217;s biggest hits, all from 1954: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and The Country Girl. Kelly, who died in 1982 following a car accident in Monaco, would have turned 80 on Nov. 12.
Some consider Dial M for Murder a minor Alfred Hitchcock effort. Personally, I find it more enjoyable than Hitchcock&#8217;s revered Rear Window. Part of the reason is a pair of deadly scissors found in the former but not in the latter;  yet, I&#8217;d say that the chief reason is that neither one of Kelly&#8217;s leading men in Dial M for Murder is James Stewart. Instead, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.W. Griffith in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Filmforum will present &#34;D.W. Griffith in California,&#34; on Sunday,  Nov. 15, at 7:30 pm. at the Echo Park Film Center. At the screening, film  scholar Tom Gunning will discuss D. W. Griffith and his early Californian films.
Six of those Griffith productions will be screened: Man&#8217;s Genesis (1912, 17 min); The New Dress  (1911, 17 min.); The Massacre (1914, 20 min); The Unchanging Sea   (below right, 1910, 14 min.); The Sands of Dee (1912, 17 min); and The Female of the  Species (1912, 17 min).
All in 16mm, with live musical accompaniment by  Cliff Retallick.
Among the early stars featured in those shorts are Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Arthur Johnson, Wilfred Lucas, and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awards 2010: Warren Beatty to Receive ADG Honor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Warren Beatty will receive the Art Directors Guild’s   Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award, &#34;given to an individual whose body of work in the film industry has richly enhanced the visual aspects of the movie-going experience,&#34;  at the ADG Awards ceremony on February 13, 2010,  at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
 Nine other ADG awards will also be presented, along with a Lifetime Achievement Award for production designer Terence Marsh (Mary Queen of Scots, A Touch of Class, Clear and Present Danger, The Green Mile). Additionally, three production designers will be inducted into the ADG’s Hall of Fame: Malcolm F. Brown, Bob Keene, and Ferdinando Scarfiotti.

Among the 72-year-old Beatty&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott &amp; Costello, Mickey Rooney &amp; Judy Garland Screenings</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/abbott-costello-mickey-rooney-judy-garland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Packard Campus&#8217; November Series Intro
Schedule and film information from the Library of Congress&#8217; Packard Campus website:

Thursday, November 05 (7:30 pm.)
THE MIRACLE WORKER (United Artists, 1962)
The story of Anne Sullivan&#8217;s struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Directed by Arthur Penn.
With Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.
35 mm, black &#38; white, 106 minutes. Copyright collection print.
&#160;
  Friday, November 06 (7:30 pm.)
CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (Warner Bros., 1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Directed by Anatole Litvak.
With Edward G. Robinson and Francis Lederer.
35mm, black &#38; white, 104 minutes. Print preserved by the Library of Congress.
&#160;
  Saturday, November 07 (7:30 pm.)
RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (MGM, 1962)
Two aging gunslingers sign on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Chaplin&#8217;s THE CIRCUS, ALADDIN, EASY RIDER Screenings</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/charles-chaplin-the-circus-aladdin-easy-rider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Among the upcoming screenings in the November film series of the Library of Congress&#8217; Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va., are vehicles for just about everyone, from Charles Chaplin to Dennis Hopper; from Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland to Robin Williams&#8216; voice. 
I&#8217;ve never seen Disney&#8217;s Aladdin, though I know it was a big hit when it came out. Robin Williams was particularly praised for his voice work as the Genie &#8212; some even went as far as to demand that the Academy come up with Oscars for best voice performance. 
No one came up with that demand when Charles Chaplin&#8217;s The Circus was released, perhaps because the film has no audible dialogue. I&#8217;m not a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love in From Here to Eternity(top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film (bottom)

Fred Zinnemann&#8217;s 1953 Academy Award-winning drama From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift,  Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra, will be screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on  Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in  Beverly Hills. The presentation will feature the premiere of a new digital  restoration, as well as an onstage discussion with Ernest  Borgnine, who has a supporting role in the film.
Adapted by Daniel Taradash from  James Jones&#8216; bestselling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRECIOUS Music: Q&amp;A with Composer Mario Grigorov</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The son of a concert pianist and trumpeter, Bulgarian-born, Austrian-trained composer Mario Grigorov has been creating film music for two decades, having become particularly busy in the last ten years or so. Among his movie credits are Leonardo Ricagni&#8217;s  29 Palms (1999) and El chevrolé (2002), Alison Thompson&#8217;s documentary The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story (2007), additional music for Alex Gibney&#8217;s Oscar-winning Iraq War documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, and a number of short films.
Grigorov&#8217;s other music credits include the albums &#34;Rhymes with Orange&#34; and &#34;Aria on Café del Mar,&#34; musical scores for numerous  commercial outlets, and even playing in the Shah&#8217;s Symphony Orchestra in Iran, where Grigorov lived for six years. &#34;Both on disc and onstage,&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anselmo Duarte</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tônia Carrero, Anselmo Duarte in Tico-Tico no Fubá

Brazilian actor and filmmaker Anselmo Duarte, whose 1962  anti-religious intolerance drama Keeper of Promises remains the only Brazilian production to have won the Palme d&#8217;Or at Cannes, died yesterday, Nov. 7, at a hospital in the city of São Paulo. Duarte, who was 89, had suffered a massive stroke.
The São Paulo State native (born in the town of Salto, on April 21, 1920) began his film career as an actor in the 1940s. Although Orson Welles is supposed to have hired the newcomer to play a bit part as a dancer in his fictionalized &#34;documentary&#34; It&#8217;s All True in 1942, Duarte&#8217;s first important credits came out later in the decade, e.g., Edmond [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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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