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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Hollywood</title>
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		<title>Robert A. Daly Is New AFI Board of Directors Chair</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/robert-a-daly-is-new-afi-board-of-directors-chair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced former Warner Bros. Chairman  and CEO Robert A. Daly has been elected Chair of the AFI Board of Directors.  The Board of Directors acts as an  executive committee, setting the institute’s priorities and overseeing its  programs.  Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman  and CEO of the Sony Corporation, remains Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. 
 Daly succeeds Jon Avnet and  John Cooke, who served with distinction as Co-Chairs for the Board of Directors  for 8 years.  Both men remain on as  Directors, and Avnet continues on as Vice-Chair of the Trustees. 
 Also voted to return to the  AFI Board of Trustees were leaders from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Weiner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heath Ledger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spider-Man 3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Knight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobey Maguire]]></category>
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Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (top); Tobey Maguire in Spider Man 3 (bottom)

&#34;When Worlds Collide: The  Science of Movies&#34; is the title of the Academy&#8217;s  Science and Technology Council&#8217;s program about the  physics behind some of Hollywood’s best-known action and science-fiction  scenes. &#34;When Worlds Collide&#34; will be presented on  Thursday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel  Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 
The evening  will be hosted by author Adam Weiner (Don’t Try This at Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies)  and will feature film clips and a panel discussion with  Oscar-winning visual effects artists Robert Legato (Titanic) and  Scott Stokdyk (Spider-Man 2), Oscar-nominated visual effects artists  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LOREN CASS No Longer Undistributed</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/loren-cass-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Fuller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kino International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loren Cass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socially Conscious Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travis Maynard]]></category>

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Kino International has acquired the theatrical release of Loren Cass (2007), directed, written and edited by first-time filmmaker Chris Fuller. 
Nominated for a Gotham Award as one of the best undistributed films of 2007, Loren Cass is finally scheduled to premiere in New York City on July 24 at the Cinema Village. The film will expand to other major markets during the summer and fall of 2009, before being released  on DVD at the end of the year.
Filmed  in St. Petersburg, Florida, Loren Cass is set in 1997, when  a group of teenagers struggle to rebuild their lives following violent ethnic riots provoked by the  (real-life) killing of an 18-year-old black adolescent, who was gunned down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Jackson</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/michael-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wiz]]></category>

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Michael Jackson, one of the two or three biggest pop-music icons of the second half of the 20th century,   died of a heart attack at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles earlier today. Jackson was 50. Beginning July 12, he was scheduled to give a series of already sold-out London-area shows &#8212; 1 million tickets were gone within a matter of hours. 
Despite his enormous success &#8212; 750 million albums sold worldwide; 13 Grammy awards &#8212; Jackson&#8217;s life a difficult one. 
The little  black kid with the great melodious voice grew into an androgynous adult whose skin became increasingly lighter with the passing of time. (The skin disease vitiligo was reportedly the culprit.) Jackson&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ABYSS Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-abyss-james-cameron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ed Harris]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pseudopod]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Abyss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Terminator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Todd Graff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Underwater Movies]]></category>
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The Abyss, the costly, special-effect-laden, deep-sea adventure drama about underwater aliens and a bickering married couple, will be screened at a special 20th anniversary event by the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, June 23, at  7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. 
This Academy screening will  premiere a newly struck 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive. Considering that The Abyss boasts awesome underwater cinematography and first-rate  visual and sound effects, this is a great chance to catch it on  the big screen. 

Presented  by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council, the evening will be  hosted by film historian and author Eric Lichtenfeld and will feature  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribute to Dick Smith: The Godfather of Special Makeup Effects</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/tribute-to-dick-smith-makeup-effects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Pacino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amadeus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Clement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dustin Hoffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Cannom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guillermo del Toro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hal Holbrook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Tsuji]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rick Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxi Driver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Exorcist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Godfather]]></category>
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The Godfather: Dick Smith and Al Pacino (top); Smith, Marlon Brando, and Phil Rhodes (bottom)

&#34;A Tribute to Dick Smith: The Godfather of Special Makeup Effects&#34; will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on  Wednesday, June 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.  
Six-time Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker will host the evening,  which will be attended by Dick Smith himself and will feature a panel  discussion including writer-director Guillermo del Toro, actor Hal  Holbrook, and makeup artists Greg Cannom, Kazuhiro Tsuji and Andrew  Clement, among others.
The evening will highlight Smith&#8217;s  long career, which began in 1945 when he became NBC&#8217;s first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoe Beloff&#8217;s SHADOWLAND, CHARMING AUGUSTINE at the REDCAT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/zoe-beloff-shadowland-charming-augustine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charming Augustine]]></category>
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PRESS RELEASE
FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS
 
Zoe Beloff: Conjuring Specters
Mon Apr 27 &#124; 8:30 pm
Jack H. Skirball Series
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
New York artist Zoe Beloff’s unique and mesmerizing films are philosophical toys: objects with which to think. Her work has especially borne on “phantoms,” on images that are “not there,” and on a precinematic version of the virtual, created by means of a stereoscopic Bolex camera that produces spectral 3-D images. Shadowland Or Light From The Other Side [above], starring Kate Valk of The Wooster Group, locates a link between Victorian spiritualism and the birth of cinema in late-19th century “Ghost Shows,” where actors interacted with magic lantern slides and stereoscopic views. Charming Augustine is an experimental narrative inspired by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joan Harrison and Alfred Hitchcock at Movie Morlocks</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joan-harrison-alfred-hitchcock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
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At the Turner Classic Movies blog Movie Morlocks, Moira Finnie discusses screenwriter-producer Joan Harrison:
&#34;&#8217;Women,&#8217; writer-producer Joan Harrison (1907-1994)  told the New York Times in 1943, &#8216;must have something to pull for, you  know, whether it’s a dog, a horse, an old beggar – or even another woman!&#8217;
&#34;If pioneering writer and producer Harrison is remembered today at all, it is often likely for her contributions, along with those of the key figure of Alfred Hitchcock’s wife, Alma Reville,  to helping to shape and present to the world the talent and the image  of the great director of suspense and anxiety. An educated  Englishwoman, becoming his secretary while in her 20s, Harrison,  who claimed that she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betsy Blair</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/betsy-blair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Betsy Blair, best known for her Academy Award-nominated performance as Ernest Borgnine&#8217;s  love interest in the 1955 Oscar- and Palme d&#8217;Or-winning drama Marty, and for her marriage to Gene Kelly, died  of cancer on March 13 in London. Blair, who was 85, had been a London resident for many years.
Born Elizabeth Winifred Boger on Dec. 11, 1923, in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, the former child model switched to professional acting in the early 1940s. Throughout the next five decades, she was to appear on Broadway (in, among others, the Cole Porter musical Panama Hattie), in more than two dozen films, and several television shows.
In addition to Marty (she lost the best supporting actress Oscar to Jo Van Fleet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natasha Richardson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Tony-winning actress Natasha Richardson, Liam Neeson&#8217;s wife and daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and  the late Tony Richardson, was taken off life support earlier today after being declared brain dead following a head injury  while skiing at the luxury resort of Mont Tremblant in Canada two days ago. She was 45.
Natasha Richardson was born in London on May 11, 1963, into a prestigious show business family. 
Mother Vanessa Redgrave was a stage performer who would find film stardom three years later with two back-to-back hits, Michelangelo Antonioni&#8217;s Blowup and Karel Reisz&#8217;s Morgan, for which she received her first of six Academy Award nominations (including one win in the supporting category for Julia in 1977). Father Tony Richardson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE, THE LARAMIE PROJECT Offend</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/otto-or-up-with-dead-people-the-laramie-project-offend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tina O&#8217;Grady, a member of the Ohio Department of Public Safety&#8217;s  &#34;cultural competency initiative&#34; was scolded by her boss after co-workers complained about an e-mail she  had forwarded  promoting the gay-themed Out@Wex Film Festival in Columbus.
As per the Columbus Dispatch, O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s co-workers seemed to be particularly offended by the festival&#8217;s  description of Bruce LaBruce&#8217;s Otto; or, Up With Dead People in its release. Otto is summed up as an &#34;art-porn provocation [that] depicts an explosion of cannibalistic, sodomy-seeking zombies in Berlin.&#34;
What exactly in that sentence &#8212; art, porn, provocation, explosion, cannibalism, sodomy, zombies,  Berlin &#8212; offended some of the Ohio Department of Public Safety workers remains unclear.
The  judges at the Milan International Lesbian and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Redford to Be Honored at San Francisco Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/robert-redford-san-francisco-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Robert Redford &#8212; actor, filmmaker, political and environmental activist, and independent film festival creator &#8212; will be the recipient of this year’s Peter J. Owens  Award at the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at 7:00 pm. at  the Castro  Theatre.
The Robert Redford tribute will feature   career retrospective film clips, audience Q&#38;A, and an onstage  interview with Phil Bronstein, editor-at-large of the San Francisco Chronicle. That will be  followed by a screening of the film that turned Redford into a superstar, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), directed by George Roy Hill, and co-starring Paul Newman and Katharine Ross.
Among Redford&#8217;s most notable films as a director are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOKYO SONATA, I LOVE YOU, MAN Buzz</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/asian-cinema/tokyo-sonata-i-love-you-man-buzz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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At GreenCine Daily, Vadim Risov on Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;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&#8217;s framing is  always a bit cluttered and claustrophobic, and his willingness to sit  and watch for a little too long makes it seem like violent disaster is  always just on the verge of breaking out. And then suddenly it does  and all hell breaks out.&#34;
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At Cinematical, Eugene Novikov is enthusiastic about Paul Rudd&#8217;s star turn in the comedy I Love You, Man, directed by John Hamburg, written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation V: RUTHLESS, Vitaphone Varieties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Schedule and synopses from the UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives press release.
Saturday, April 18
  7:30  p.m.
  Preservation  funded by The Film Foundation 
  RUTHLESS  (top photo)
  (1948, Edgar G. Ulmer) 
  Director Edward G. Ulmer’s complex  psycho-melodrama Ruthless (1948) is  undoubtedly worthy of rediscovery.  A  flashback-structured tale of a sociopath’s remorseless drive for station and  wealth, Ruthless (often referred to  as Ulmer’s Citizen Kane) employs a  relentless undercurrent of emotional violence.   As relayed in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Ulmer envisioned his  feature as “a Jesuitic morality play… a very bad indictment against 100 percent  Americanism—as Upton Sinclair saw it.”  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation I: A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A TALE OF TWO CITIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Schedule and synopses from the UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives press release:
Photos: Courtesy of UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives
Click on the photos to enlarge them.
Friday, March 13
  7:30  p.m
  Preservation  funded by The Film Foundation and GUCCI
  A WOMAN UNDER THE  INFLUENCE
  (1974, John Cassavetes)
  Over  30 years after its self-distributed release, screenwriter-director John  Cassavetes’ masterpiece retains the  power to shock and unnerve for its raw, often harrowing depiction of a  blue-collar Los Angeles family on the rocks.   At its trembling heart, Gena Rowlands’ performance as Mabel Longhetti,  wife of everyman Nick (Peter Falk) and mother of three, stands as a virtually unmatched  tour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UCLA Festival of Preservation 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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The UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives&#8216; 2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation, which kicks off this evening and continues until April 26, leaves me at a loss. The problem is: I don&#8217;t know what not to recommend. (See full schedule below.)
Now, it&#8217;s not that I think  every single one of the listed films are  waiting-to-be-rediscovered masterpieces &#8212; or even that they&#8217;re mostly enjoyable fare. What makes me so excited about the Festival of Preservation is that it features  films that for the most part are incredibly rare, thus offering audiences a unique chance to either get to know (or to get reacquainted with) our cinematic past.
Here&#8217;s some of what&#8217;s in store for you if you live in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Spotlight Premieres</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: Spotlight Premieres
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Adventureland
Director/Writer: Greg  Mottola
In 1987, a recent college graduate takes a nowhere  job at his local amusement park and discovers the job is perfect  preparation for the real world.  Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen  Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Martin Starr
Alexander the Last
Director/Writer: Joe  Swanberg
A sensual and intimate portrait of a young marriage.  Focusing on an artistic young couple, the film illuminates the  challenges of monogamy amidst myriad sexual and creative temptations.   Cast: Jess Weixler, Justin Rice, Barlow Jacobs, Josh Hamilton, Jane  Adams (World Premiere)
Beeswax
Director/Writer: Andrew  Bujalski
Something like a legal thriller for anyone who  considers “legal thriller” an oxymoron, the film revolves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Documentary Feature Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: Documentary Feature Competition 
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45356
Director: Bill Ross
An inquiring look at everyday life in middle  America, the film explores the congruities of daily life in an American  town Sidney, Ohio. (World Premiere)
Garbage Dreams
Director: Mai Iskander
Filmed over four years, the film follows three  teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s  largest garbage village. Each boy chooses a different path when their  community is suddenly faced with the globalization of their trade.   (World Premiere)
MINE: Taken By Katrina
Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of pets were  rescued and adopted by families around the country, leading to many  custody battles. Through these stories, the film examines issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Narrative Feature Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Hal Holbrook in That Evening Sun.
The 2009 SXSW Film Festival runs March 13-21, 2009, in Austin, Texas.
SXSW Film Festival 2009: Narrative Feature Competition
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Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart.  Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic  quest to craft the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known and  reclaim the heart of his beloved Angie.  Cast: Mark Scheibmeir, Sydney  Andrews, Stephen Taylor Fry, Dan Braverman (World Premiere)
Bomber 
Director/Writer: Paul  Cotter
A bittersweet comedy about love, family and dropping  bombs on Germany. Cast: Shane Taylor, Benjamin Whitrow, Eileen Nicholas  (World Premiere)
Breaking Upwards
Director: Daryl Wein.  Writer: Peter Duchan, Daryl Wein, Zoe Lister-Jones
A young New York couple who, desperate to escape  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard Hawks at LACMA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Late Hawks&#34; is the title of a film series featuring the, what else?, later works of Hollywood auteur Howard Hawks, which runs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from March 13-27.
Personally, I tend not to buy into  the auteur theory in general, and certainly not when it comes to the widely varied work of Howard Hawks. That said, who cares?
 The good thing about LACMA&#8217;s Hawks series is the chance to catch on the big screen some of the director&#8217;s lesser-known efforts such as the battle-of-the-sexes comedy Man&#8217;s Favorite Sport? (1965), with Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss; the car-racing soap opera Red Line 7000 (1965), with James Caan; and the Western Rio Lobo (1970), with John Wayne. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Douglas Fairbanks&#8217; THE THIEF OF BAGDAD and THE IRON MASK Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Rare screenings of the Douglas Fairbanks adventure classics The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Iron Mask (1929) will be  presented  on Friday, March 20, and Monday, March 23,  respectively, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’  Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.  Both screenings will start at 7:30 pm. Silent  film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow will be a guest  presenter at both events.
In the enjoyable The Thief of Bagdad  (1924), directed by Raoul Walsh, Fairbanks plays a (mostly bare-chested) thief who falls in love with the Caliph of  Bagdad’s daughter (Julanne Johnston, in her most important film role). There&#8217;s just one glitch: in order  to win [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carmen Miranda Does &#8220;Cai, Cai&#8221; in THAT NIGHT IN RIO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The more I see Carmen Miranda, the more I find her one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. In this clip from Fox&#8217;s 1941 musical comedy That Night in Rio, Miranda sings and shakes to the rhythms of Roberto Martins&#8216; &#34;Cai, Cai.&#34;
Now, what the heck is she singing?
Cai, cai, cai, cai
Eu não vou te levantar
Cai, cai, cai, cai
Quem mandou escorregar?
Fall, fall, fall, fall
I&#8217;m not going to help you get up
Fall, fall, fall, fall
Whoever told you to slip?
That&#8217;s why songs should usually be left untranslated&#8230;
 Also in the That Night in Rio cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, S.Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish, Curt Bois, and the Bando da Lua.
Clip posted by esmiscrino.
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Vivien Leigh on Turner Classic Movies
Carole Lombard on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SARI&#8217;S MOTHER, SICKO: Contemporary Documentaries Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Part II of the  27th annual &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; screening series, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, kicks off   with  two Academy Award-nominated documentaries, James Longley&#8217;s short Sari’s Mother and Michael Moore&#8217;s controversial feature Sicko, on Wednesday, March 25, at 7 p.m. at the  Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the  series is free. 
Sari’s Mother chronicles an Iraqi woman’s struggle to help her  10-year-old son, Sari, who is dying of AIDS.
Directed by Michael Moore and  produced by Moore and Meghan O’Hara, Sicko is an indictment against  the ailing U.S.  health care system, through which huge corporations get richer at the expense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY HOLIDAYS: Q&amp;A with Filmmaker James C. Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m always happy when a filmmaker is inspired by Woody Allen &#8212; as opposed to, say, Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder. 
Case in point: First-timer James C. Ferguson (right, in blue), whose Happy Holidays (written by Ferguson and Tom Misuraca) is a three-way character study about old school friends who are reunited   at their Connecticut hometown for a brief period right before Christmas. During that time, deeply buried emotions burst to the surface, old secrets are revealed, and one character ends up suffering a  nervous breakdown. Old buddies can do that to you.
Shot in black in white during the course of two weeks, Happy Holidays features Paul Hungerford as Patrick Donovan, an openly gay man and avowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIDNIGHT COWBOY at the DGA in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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John Schlesinger&#8217;s 1969 socio-psychological drama Midnight Cowboy, one of the better best picture Oscar winners,  will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on Monday, March 16, at  7:30 p.m. at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in New York City.  
David V. Picker, the executive-in-charge at United Artists during the  making of Midnight Cowboy, will moderate an onstage discussion with Academy Award-winning producer Jerome Hellman,  Academy  Award-nominated (supporting) actress Sylvia Miles,  actor Bob Balaban, cinematographer Adam Holender, composer  John Barry, and costume designer Ann Roth.
Adapted by Waldo Salt from  James Leo Herlihy&#8217;s  novel, Midnight  Cowboy stars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CAKE EATERS Sneak Preview at the Egyptian Theatre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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A sneak preview of Mary Stuart Masterson&#8217;s directorial debut, The Cake Eaters, starring Kristen Stewart, Aaron Stanford, and Bruce Dern, will be presented on Wed., March 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the American Cinematheque&#8217;s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Masterson, actor Bruce Dern, and various other cast members. 

Written by Jayce Bartok (who also co-stars), The Cake Eaters is described as &#34;a light-hearted, bittersweet romantic drama  set in a small town where the intimate secrets and tensions of two families force them to  come to terms with life, love and death.&#34; The film took the audience award at the Ashland Independent and Ft. Lauderdale film festivals.
Also in the Cake Eaters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jennifer Jones, one of my all-time favorite performers, turned 90 yesterday, March 2.
The name doesn&#8217;t ring a sonorous bell? Well, it should.
Jennifer Jones, the sensitive, darkly beautiful actress who won an Academy Award (and the very first best actress Golden Globe) for the 1943 box-office sensation The Song of Bernadette. 
Jennifer Jones, who starred in Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters  (1945), Duel in the Sun (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Carrie (1952), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), A Farewell to Arms (1957), and Tender Is the Night (1961).
Jennifer Jones, the  unlucky woman who falls off the elevator in The Towering Inferno (1974) and who happened to be Gone with the Wind  producer David O. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Jones: From DUEL IN THE SUN to THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Jones: THE SONG OF BERNADETTE
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I still haven&#8217;t watched Ernst Lubitsch&#8217;s Cluny Brown (right, 1946), in which Jennifer Jones plays a perky housemaid with whom Charles Boyer falls in love, but I&#8217;ve watched Duel in the Sun about three times.
One of Hollywood&#8217;s biggest blockbusters up to that time, the $5 million production Duel in the Sun (above) was Selznick&#8217;s attempt to create another Gone with the Wind and to turn his beloved Jennifer into a superstar. Things, however, didn&#8217;t quite work as planned. (In David Thomson’s  Showman, screenwriter Ivan Moffat is quoted as saying that “David  and Jennifer  lived a life of  considerable unreality, each giving the other the illusion of what they  wanted themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Jones: From A FAREWELL TO ARMS to THE TOWERING INFERNO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Jones I: THE SONG OF BERNADETTE
Jennifer Jones II:  DUEL IN THE SUN
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Jennifer Jones&#8216;  two 1957 vehicles were big productions: A Farewell to Arms, opposite Rock Hudson,  and  The Barretts of Wimpole Street, made in England, with John Gielgud and Bill Travers. 
A Farewell to Arms  had started with John Huston as director, but Selznick&#8217;s maddening demands and interminable memos sent Huston packing. Charles Vidor was the replacement. Jones reportedly insisted that Ernest Hemingway should get a percentage of any eventual profits, but the writer retorted that considering how miscast (too old for the role) Jones was that there probably wouldn&#8217;t be any. He was wrong. Though hardly a success among critics, the way overlong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woody Allen&#8217;s WHATEVER WORKS to Open Tribeca 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Woody Allen&#8217;s latest, Whatever Works, will open the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival on April 22. Whatever Works is Allen&#8217;s first film shot in New York City since 2004: Match Point, Cassandra&#8217;s Dream, and Scoop were filmed in Britain, while Vicky Cristina Barcelona was filmed in Spain.
Thus far, the Whatever Works plot  remains murky &#8212; something to do with an upper-class New Yorker who decides to go for a more bohemian lifestyle &#8212; but whatever it&#8217;s about, here&#8217;s hoping that Whatever Works will be funnier than Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Starring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Henry Cavill, Ed Begley Jr. and Patricia Clarkson, Whatever Works will open in the US in late summer 2009. 
Allen&#8217;s next project, as yet untitled, [...]]]></description>
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