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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Asian Cinema</title>
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		<title>Asian Film Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 Asian Film Awards 2009 Asian Film Award nominations: Jan. 21, 2009 2009 Asian Film Award winners: March 23, 2009 (&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category) &#160; In Kyoshi Kurosawa’s best Asian Film Award winner Tokyo Sonata, a middle-class worker (Teruyuki Kagawa) loses his job (it’s outsourced to China), but can’t get himself to tell his family about his predicament. Slowly, however, both his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOKYO SONATA, I LOVE YOU, MAN Buzz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At GreenCine Daily, Vadim Risov on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata, which opened this weekend in New York (it&#8217;ll open in Los Angeles on March 27): &#34;Two-thirds of the way in, Tokyo Sonata is a nicely observed low-key drama just unnerving enough to keep you on edge: Kurosawa’s framing is always a bit cluttered and claustrophobic, and his willingness to sit and watch for a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Academy Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 Japanese Academy Awards 2009 Japanese Academy Award winners: Feb. 20, 2009 &#160; Yojiro Takita’s Departures, about an unemployed cellist who finds work as a professional corpse-beautician of sorts, was the big winner at the 2009 Japanese Academy Awards, bagging a total of 10 trophies (out of 13 nominations), including best film, best director, best actor (Masahiro Motoki), best supporting actor (Tsutomu Yamazaki), best supporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dubai Film Festival Awards 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/dubai-film-festival-awards-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008 Dubai Film Festival Awards 2008 Dubai Film Festival: Dec. 11-18, 2008 &#160; In Lyes Salem’s Masquerades, an arrogant man (played by Salem) living with his family in an Algerian village has one dream: to be respected by those around him. The problem is that he has a sister whom everyone believes will end up a spinster. To resolve the issue, the man tells everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOSTANA, THROUGH THE EYES OF PAINTER: Censorship</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/dostana-through-the-eyes-of-painter-censorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agence France-Presse reports that the radical nationalist Hindu groups Sanatan Sanstha and Hindu Jananagruti have succeeded in getting the International Film Festival of India, held in the old Portuguese territory of Goa, to withdraw Maqbool Fida Husain’s 1967 documentary short Through the Eyes of Painter. Husain, 93, who has been called India’s Picasso, became enmeshed in the mid-1990s in an ugly uproar over his paintings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RASHOMON: Monday Nights with Oscar</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rashomon-monday-nights-with-oscar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rashomon-monday-nights-with-oscar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the next film presented as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Monday Nights with Oscar.” The East Coast premiere of the new digitally restored print of Rashomon will take place on Monday, November 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANTARCTICA: Q&amp;A with Yair Hochner</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/antarctica-yair-hochner-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/antarctica-yair-hochner-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In writer-director Yair Hochner’s intriguing, multi-layered, remarkably well-acted Antarctica, which Regent Releasing is opening tomorrow, November 14, at the Regent Showcase in Hollywood, several gay men and a couple of lesbians get enmeshed in a complex web of sexual/romantic entanglements set in the streets, clubs, and apartment houses of Tel Aviv. There’s Omer (Tomer Ilan), a handsome, soft-spoken &#8212; and still single &#8212; librarian who’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIRE Deepa Mehta</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/fire-deepa-mehta-azmi-nandita-das/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire (1996) Direction and screenplay: Deepa Mehta. Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Jaaved Jaaferi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ranjit Chowdhry, Kushal Rekhi, Alice Poon &#160; By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: I watched the 1996 Canadian film Fire by Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta after having long heard of its taboo nature based mainly on its depiction of lesbianism. And while not a silly film &#8212; such as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NO REGRET Playing in LA &amp; NY</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/no-regret-leesong-hee-il-playing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/no-regret-leesong-hee-il-playing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leesong Hee-il’s Huhwihaji anha / No Regret, which has been billed as the &#34;first gay film from South Korea&#34; (I&#8217;m not sure if that’s true), focuses on Sumin (Lee Young-Hoon), a young man who leaves the orphanage where he grew up to study art design in Seoul. After losing his job at a factory due to cutbacks, Sumin tries to make ends meet by working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/batman-gotham-knight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Batman: Gotham Knight (2008) Direction: Shoijiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yasuhiro Aoki, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Jong-Sik Nam. Screenplay: Brian Azzarello, Alan Burnett, Jordan Goldberg, David S. Goyer, Josh Olson, Greg Rucka; based on Bob Kane’s character. Voices: Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Gary Dourdan, Corey Burton, Jason Marsden, Jim Meskimen, Kevin Michael Richardson, George Newbern &#160; &#160; Batman: Gotham Knight is a direct-to-DVD animated film in [...]]]></description>
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