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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; religion</title>
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		<title>THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: Most Important Religion Films of All Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A list of the 50 Most Important Religion Films of All Time is now online at Film Snobbery, which is paying tribute to &#34;the union of the sacred and cinematic&#34; in celebration of Epiphany (Jan. 6), the final day of the Christmas holiday season. Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is not the #1 film on the list. Instead, that position belongs to Cecil [...]]]></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>LATTER DAYS Clip: Mormons Vs. Gays</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Californians will be voting on Proposition 8 this coming Tuesday. Considering how religious beliefs are the engine behind the anti-gay marriage proposition, and that according to numerous reports the Mormon Church has been fighting the fight to make sure that gays and lesbians never have their unions recognized by the state, I thought it only appropriate to post a clip from the 2003 romantic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAVE ME/Gays &amp; Conversion Therapy: Q&amp;A with Robert Cary</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/save-me-robert-cary-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, when I read an Associated Press report stating that US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s church &#34;is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer,&#34; I immediately thought of Save Me. Directed by Robert Cary (right) from a screenplay by Robert Desiderio, Save Me, which opens in Los Angeles on Friday, September 19, chronicles the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: WORLDS APART Is Denmark&#8217;s Submission</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/worlds-apart-oscar-2009-submission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via European-Films.net: &#34;The Danes are the first Europeans out of the gate this year with their announcement of their 2009 Foreign Language Oscar submission. The country will submit Niels Arden Oplev’s religious drama To verdener (Worlds Apart), which was a big hit in Denmark with over 300,000 tickets sold. Based on a true story, To verdener follows young Sara (Rosalinde Mynster), who comes from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film at UCLA</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/visualizing-the-sacred-islam-on-film-at-ucla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 22:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;What we wanted to say is, if these people [Iranians, Muslims] scare you, look closer: They have parents, they have lovers, they have hope, they have stories.&#34; That’s filmmaker and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, referring to Persepolis, at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. (Top photo: Brick Lane by Sarah Gavron. Right photo: Of Love and Eggs by Garin Nugroho.) Whether or not following on Satrapi’s lead, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brigitte Bardot vs. Muslims</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/brigitte-bardot-vs-muslims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next round of Brigitte Bardot vs. Muslims. No, Bardot’s animosity has nothing to do with, say, a planned Algerian-made sex melodrama called And Allah Created Woman. Bardot, like millions of others in France and elsewhere, apparently just doesn’t like Muslims, period. She’s now on trial for the fifth time since the mid-1990s for &#34;inciting racial hatred&#34; due to recent controversial remarks she made about Islam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Documentaries Banned from 2008 Singapore Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/four-documentaries-banned-singapore-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Screendaily reports that four documentaries scheduled for the 21st Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), which kicked off on April 4, have been banned by local censors. According to the report, two of the documentaries &#8212; Arab-American director Bassam Haddad’s Arabs and Terrorism, about opposing views on political terror, and Mano Khalil’s David the Tolhildan, which follows the son of a former Swiss Federal Supreme Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur C. Clarke and God</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/religion/arthur-c-clarke-and-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/religion/arthur-c-clarke-and-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Park’s &#34;Arthur C. Clarke’s down-to-earth legacy&#34; in the Los Angeles Times: &#34;. . . [Arthur C. Clarke] left explicit instructions that no religious ceremony accompany his death. (For good measure: In what was possibly his last interview, in BBC Focus magazine last December, he said the greatest danger humanity faced was &#8216;Organised religion polluting our minds as it pretends to deliver morality and spiritual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INCORRECT ENTERTAINMENT: Q&amp;A with Author Anthony Slide</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/incorrect-entertainment-anthony-slide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran author Anthony Slide has another book out, Incorrect Entertainment or Trash from the Past: A history of political incorrectness and bad taste in 20th century American popular culture (BearManor, 2007, paperback, US$19.95). Lengthy title for a highly controversial subject matter. Chapters range from &#34;This Race Business&#34; and &#34;Sex&#34; to &#34;Bodily Functions and Dysfunctions&#34; and &#34;Hollywood’s Fascist Follies.&#34; There’s surely something in the book to [...]]]></description>
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