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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Dan Erdman</title>
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	<description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description>
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		<title>SENSO Review: Alida Valli, Farley Granger Luchino Visconti</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SENSO (1954) Direction: Luchino Visconti Cast: Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Nina Morelli, Massimo Girotti, Christian Marquand, Sergio Fantoni Screenplay: Suso Cecchi d&#8217;Amico, Luchino Visconti; from Camillo Boito’s novella Highly Recommended Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Senso Critical consensus regards Luchino Visconti’s Senso as a radical departure, a sign of the director’s shift in focus from the gritty world of downtrodden proles (such as in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GIRL  Fredrik Edfeldt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FLICKAN / THE GIRL (2009) Direction: Fredrik Edfeldt Cast: Blanca Engström, Tova Magnusson-Norling, Emma Wigfeldt, Michelle Vistam, Vidar Fors Screenplay: Karin Arrhenius In rural Sweden, a young girl’s parents jet off to Africa on a charity trip, leaving the child (Blanca Engström) in the care of an inattentive aunt. The Girl &#8212; that’s how she’s listed in the credits, her name is never revealed &#8212; quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIOT Review &#8211; Jim Brown, Gene Hackman Buzz Kulik</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIOT (1969) Direction: Buzz Kulik Cast: Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Mike Kellin, Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Clifford David, Ben Carruthers, Frank Eyman Screenplay: James Poe; from Frank Elli’s novel &#34;A protest, a riot, I don’t care what you call it,&#34; says Red (Gene Hackman), the mastermind of an audacious plan to break out of an Arizona prison in the 1969 release Riot, produced by William Castle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOUNDER Review &#8211; Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson Martin Ritt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOUNDER (1972) Direction: Martin Ritt Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, James Best Screenplay: Lonne Elder III; from William H. Armstrong’s book Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Paul Winfield, Sounder, Kevin Hooks, Sounder Sounder probably features more extremely wide shots than any movie besides Lawrence of Arabia &#8212; and Martin Ritt’s movie is only half as long. Time and again, humans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Feuillade&#8217;s FANTÔMAS DVD Review &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/louis-feuillade-fantomas-dvd-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis Feuillade’s Fantômas: The Murderous Corpse Louis Feuillade’s FANTÔMAS DVD Review Part I The same advice is offered to anyone with the slightest interest in film style. Much of the interest in Feuillade is due to the fact that his career occupied the pre-1920s period in which many of the conventions of film aesthetics hadn’t yet fully solidified. While Fantômas isn’t exactly a radical challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FANTÔMAS &#8211; Louis Feuillade&#8217;s Master Criminal/Super-Terrorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[René Navarre as Fantômas Fantômas (1913-1914) Fantômas in the Shadow of the Guillotine (1913), Juve vs. Fantômas (1913), The Murderous Corpse (1913), Fantômas vs. Fantômas (1914), The False Magistrate (1914) Direction: Louis Feuillade Screenplay: Louis Feuillade; from Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain’s novels Cast: René Navarre, Edmond Bréon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl, Jane Faber True cinephiles know what to say when asked to explain the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE &#8211; David Bowie, Tom Conti &#8211; Nagisa Oshima</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) Direction: Nagisa Oshima Screenplay: Nagisa Oshima, Paul Mayersberg; from Laurens Van der Post’s novel The Seed and the Sower Cast: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuishi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson, Johnny Okura David Bowie, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence He stands in the courtroom, fully inhabiting his allotted space behind the bar, clad in fatigues and a rakish scarf, radiating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HARDWARE &#8211; Dylan McDermott &#8211; Richard Stanley</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hardware (1990) Direction: Richard Stanley Screenplay: Richard Stanley, with additional dialogue by Michael Fallon; from Steve MacManus and Kevin O’Neill’s story &#34;SHOK!&#34; Cast: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Iggy Pop &#160; Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis Hardware &#160; What did you get your sweetie for Christmas?  Mo (Dylan McDermott), a Marine just barely scratching a living out of the post-nuke wasteland of Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLACK RAIN Review II &#8211; Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/black-rain-review-yoshiko-tanaka-shohei-imamura/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BLACK RAIN Review: Part I While the film laments society’s attempts to suppress the past (in the form of the stigma attached to the survivors), it also ridicules the purely reactionary impulse, depicting Shigeko’s later fascination with séances, gravesites and the ghosts of deceased relatives as a morbid fixation. The pastoral surface of this movie conceals &#8212; and eventually reveals &#8212; a deep concern for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLACK RAIN Shohei Imamura</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kuroi ame / Black Rain (1989) Direction: Shohei Imamura Screenplay: Shohei Imamura and Toshirô Ishidô; from Masuji Ibuse’s novel Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shoichi Ozawa &#160; &#160; Animego’s DVD release of Shohei Imamura’s Black Rain includes as a bonus feature a selection of World War II-era anti-Japanese propaganda films.  Sponsored by various U.S. government bureaucracies, most of these shorts traffic in the [...]]]></description>
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