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	<title>Alternative Film Guide</title>
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		<title>Sacha Baron Cohen in BRÜNO: Photos</title>
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Directed by Larry Charles, and written by  Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, and Jeff Schaffer, Brüno stars Cohen (above, with Gayby) as a gay Austrian fashionista who comes to the US  to become &#34;the most famous Austrian since Hitler&#34; while at the same time trying to pass for a hetero dude [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-photos/</link>
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		<title>Michael Jackson&#8217;s Family and Home Photos</title>
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The above photo provided by real estate developer Mohamed Hadid  shows Michael Jackson with  Hadid (left), Hadid&#8217;s children,  and Jackson&#8217;s children Michael Joseph Jr. (far left), Paris Michael  Katherine (center) and Prince Michael II (front center) on November 27, 2008 at   Jackson&#8217;s Holmby Hills residence in Los Angeles&#8217; Westwood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/michael-jackson-family-home-photos/</link>
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		<title>HOLLYWOOD, JE T&#8217;AIME: Q&amp;A with Jason Bushman</title>
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Writer-director Jason Bushman&#8217;s feature-film debut, Hollywood, je t&#8217;aime was recently screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The tale of a Frenchman befriended by a handful of social outcasts while looking for Hollywood stardom, Hollywood je t&#8217;aime turned out to be a quirky, funny, touching revelation. The good news is that those who missed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/jason-bushman-hollywood-je-taime-interview/</link>
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		<title>Karl Malden (1912 &#8211; 2009)</title>
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  Karl Malden, Tyrone Power in Diplomatic Courier (1952)

Karl Malden, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951, died &#34;of natural causes&#34; at his Brentwood home earlier today. He was 97.
In addition to his film work &#8212; which includes dozens of features from 1940 to the late 1980s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/karl-malden/</link>
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		<title>Outfest 2009: TRAINING RULES Screening</title>
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Winner of the Audience Award for best documentary at San Francisco&#8217;s Frameline 2009, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Dee  Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker&#8217;s Training Rules, about anti-lesbian discrimination in women&#8217;s sports, will be screened at Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay &#38; Lesbian Film Festival, on Saturday, July 11, at 4:30 p.m. at the Fairfax  1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/training-rules-outfest-2009/</link>
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		<title>Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;This Is It&#8221; Rehearsal Photos</title>
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The images above  show Michael Jackson at his last rehearsal on June 23 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
Concert promoter AEG Live (UK) has announced that full refunds will be available to fans who purchased tickets through authorized agents for any of Jackson&#8217;s 50 &#8216;This Is It&#8217; concerts which were to take place at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/michael-jackson-this-is-it-photos/</link>
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		<title>Outfest 2009: Box Office Is Now Open</title>
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The Outfest 2009 box office is now open at the DGA
  for will-call and ticket purchase.
Directors Guild of America (DGA)
  7920 Sunset Blvd. 
Hollywood 90046
 In addition to purchasing tickets over the phone  (213.480.7065) or online (outfest.org) you may purchase tickets in person.
Outfest 2009 DGA Box Office hours:
  June 30-July 9 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/outfest-2009-box-office-is-now-open/</link>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: Academy Invites 134 New Members</title>
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James McAvoy in Atonement (top); Michelle Williams, Lucy in Wendy and Lucy (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 134 artists and executives to join its roster in 2009.
As per the Academy&#8217;s press release,  all the various branches could pick a maximum of 166 new members, but as in the previous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2009-academy-invites-new-members/</link>
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		<title>TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Tops Box Office</title>
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Though massacred by critics, Michael  Bay&#8217;s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen crushed the  North American box office this week with an impressive $201.2 million in ticket  sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, and Josh Duhamel, the  anticipated sequel to Transformers opened at 4,234  locations Wednesday and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-tops-box-office/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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2009 Los Angeles Film Festival Awards
2009 Los Angeles Film Festival: June 18-28
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Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace&#8217;s debut feature Wah do dem (top) follows a  man whose girlfriend has dumped him right before he goes off on a Caribbean cruise.  Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman&#8217;s Those Who Remain (middle) portrays the effects of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/los-angeles-film-festival-awards-2009/</link>
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		<title>Saturn Awards 2009</title>
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2009 Saturn Awards
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy &#038; Horror Films&#8217; 2009 Saturn Award winners: June 25, 2009
(&#8221;*&#8221; denotes the winner in each category)
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Iron Man (top); Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2nd from top); Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2nd from bottom); Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (bottom)
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FEATURE FILMS
Best Science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/saturn-awards-2009/</link>
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		<title>Nastri d&#8217;Argento 2009</title>
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2009 Nastri d&#8217;Argento
National Union of Italian Film Journalists&#8217; 2009 Nastri d&#8217;Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 29, 2009
2009 Nastri d&#8217;Argento winners: Taormina Film Festival, Sicily, on June 27, 2009
(&#8221;*&#8221; denotes the winner in each category)
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Toni Servillo (center) as Italian prime-minister Giulio Andreotti in Paolo Sorrentino&#8217;s scathing political comedy-drama Il Divo. At the Nastri d&#8217;Argento awards ceremony, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nastri-dargento-2009/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: THE COVE, UNITED RED ARMY, Music Videos</title>
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Eight time world-champion freediver Mandy Rae Cruickshank and humpback whale friend in The Cove (top); The Cove by Louie Psihoyos (2nd from top); United Red Army by Koji Wakamatsu (2nd from bottom); &#8220;Fortress: Pinback&#8221; by Elliot Jokelson (bottom)

Los Angeles Film Festival, Sunday, June 28, highlights:

Louie Psihoyos&#8216; documentary The Cove (Majestic Crest, 1 pm), the Audience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/the-cove-united-red-army-la-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: Pandas, Jeanne Crain, Dennis Hopper &amp; Zombies</title>
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Shu Hin, Ryu Hin in Panda Diary (top); Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews in Hot Rods to Hell (middle); ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (bottom)

Los Angeles Film Festival, Saturday, June 27, highlights:

A second screening of Sophie Barthes&#8216; Cold Souls (The Regent, 1:30 pm), starring Paul Giamatti as a man whose soul is smuggled into Russia.
Narrated by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/panda-diary-jeanne-crain-zmd-la-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<title>Farrah Fawcett Tribute</title>
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Unlike Michael Jackson&#8217;s sudden death, Farrah Fawcett&#8217;s didn&#8217;t come as a surprise. For quite some time, Fawcett had been suffering from a rare form of cancer that had recently spread to her liver. The former television star and sex symbol (born in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 2, 1947) was 62. 
But expected or no, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/farrah-fawcett/</link>
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		<title>Michael Jackson (1958 &#8211; 2009)</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/michael-jackson/</link>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Ten Best Picture Nominees</title>
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Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in Frank Capra&#8217;s You Can&#8217;t Take It with You, the Best Picture winner of 1938. There were 10 nominees that year, among them The Adventures of Robin Hood, Four Daughters, Jezebel, The Citadel, and Angels with Dirty Faces.

In terms of  rules and regulations, this is likely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2010-oscar-2010-ten-best-picture-nominees/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: UNMADE BEDS, COLD SOULS, ZMD: ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION</title>
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Unmade Beds (top); Paul Giamatti in Cold Souls (2nd from top); Autumn (2nd from bottom); ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (bottom)

Los Angeles Film Festival, Thu., June 25, highlights:
Alexis dos Santos&#8216; Unmade Beds (Landmark 4, 2:30 pm) chronicles  the emotional, romantic, and sexual entanglements of a group of young denizens of London&#8217;s East End. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/cold-souls-zombies-of-mass-destruction-la-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: ZERO BRIDGE, I SELL THE DEAD, WEATHER GIRL</title>
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Zero Bridge (top); I Sell the Dead (middle); Weather Girl (bottom)

Los Angeles Film Festival  highlights on Wed., June 24:

John Maringouin&#8217;s Big River Man, about a middle-aged, pot-bellied Slovenian who decides to swim the length (or rather, the width) of the Amazon River, will have its second screening at the Landmark 8 at 2:15 pm.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/zero-bridge-i-sell-the-dead-la-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<title>San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2009</title>
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The Fall of the House of Usher (top); John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman in Bardelys the Magnificent (middle); Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez in The Gaucho (bottom)

Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, and Lillian Gish are only a few of the superstars to be found at the 14th San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which will take place July 10-12 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/san-francisco-silent-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<title>Olivier Meyrou&#8217;s BEYOND HATRED on PBS</title>
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Olivier Meyrou&#8217;s 2006 documentary Au-delà de la haine / Beyond Hatred, an exploration of the effects of  a  29-year-old gay man&#8217;s brutal murder in the northeastern French city of Rheims, will be shown as part of PBS&#8217; P.O.V. series on Tuesday, June 30, at 10:00 pm.
François Chenu happened to be at the wrong [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/olivier-meyrou-beyond-hatred-pbs/</link>
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		<title>Silver Docs Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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2009 Silver Docs Film Festival Awards
 2009 Silver Docs Film Festival: June 15-22 in Washington, D.C.
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Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher&#8217;s October Country (top) depicts the multi-generational story of an American working-class family coping with myriad problems, from poverty to war. Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey&#8217;s Mugabe and the White African chronicles the fight of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/silver-docs-film-festival-2009-awards/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: CARMEN MEETS BORAT, 35 SHOTS OF RUM, PUBLIC ENEMIES</title>
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Carmen Meets Borat (top); 35 Shots of Rum (middle); Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies (bottom)

Los Angeles Film Festival, Tuesday, June 23:

In Mercedes Stalenhoef&#8217;s Carmen Meets Borat (The Regent, 2 pm), a Romanian teenager dreams of going to Spain to escape the backwards town in which she lives. (The place is so backwards that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/carmen-meets-borat-public-enemies-la-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<title>Shanghai Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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2009 Shanghai Film Festival Awards
2009 Shanghai Film Festival: June 13-21
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Antonio Tublén and Alexander Brøndsted&#8217;s Original tells the story of Henry (best actor winner Sverrir Gudnason), a man who has always tried to be what others expected of him. However, after being invited by a friend to open a restaurant in Spain, Henry must finally decide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/shanghai-film-festival-2009-awards/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: PAPER MAN, THE QUEEN AND I, EXTRAORDINARY STORIES</title>
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Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds in Paper Man (top); Nahid Persson Sarvestani, Empress Farah Diba in The Queen and I (middle); AnneBruce Falconer in Danse Macabre (bottom)

Los Angeles Film Festival, Monday, June 21, highlights:

Michele Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney&#8217;s Paper Man (Landmark 4, 2 pm) stars Jeff Daniels as a middle-aged teacher who goes through growing pains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/paper-man-the-queen-and-i-la-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<title>Sandra Bullock&#8217;s THE PROPOSAL Tops Box Office</title>
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Anne Fletcher’s romantic comedy The Proposal debuted in first place at the North American box office this weekend with $34.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, the film scored an average of $11,163 per theater at 3,056 locations. The plot follows an overbearing book editor who forces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/sandra-bullock-the-proposal-box-office/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: HOLLYWOOD, JE T&#8217;AIME; BRANSON; EL GENERAL</title>
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Chad Allen, Eric Debets in Hollywood, je t&#8217;aime (top); Branson (middle); El General (bottom)

Los Angeles Film Festival Sunday, June 21, highlights:

One-hour &#34;Coffee Talks&#34; (W Los Angeles-Westwood Hotel, beginning at 11 am) with directors (Zach Helm, Todd Phillips, Jason Reitman), actors (Andre Royo, Melissa Leo, Freddy Rodriguez), composers (Harry Gregson-Williams, Lyle Workman, Christopher Young), and screenwriters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/la-film-festival-2009-hollywood-je-t-aime-branson/</link>
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		<title>Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard in PUBLIC ENEMIES Photos</title>
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Johnny Depp

In Michael Mann&#8217;s period crime drama Public Enemies, Johnny Depp plays  John Dillinger, the Depression Era bank robber  who became the top target of J. Edgar  Hoover&#8217;s  FBI. Christian Bale plays Dillinger&#8217;s nemesis, investigator Melvin Purvis;  Marion Cotillard is Dillinger&#8217;s gal, Billie Frechette; and Billy Crudup is Hoover the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/johnny-depp-bale-cotillard-public-enemies/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: THE STONING OF SORAYA M., BRONSON, BIG RIVER MAN</title>
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Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò in The Stoning of Soraya M. (top); Martin Strel in Big River Man (bottom)

Los Angeles Film Festival 2009 &#8211; Saturday, June 20, highlights:

Starring Academy Award-nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, and Mozhan Marnò, Cyrus Nowrasteh&#8217;s The Stoning of Soraya M. (Mann Festival Theater,  3:30 pm) revolves around the true story of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/la-film-fest-2009-the-stoning-of-soraya-m-bronson/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: HUMPDAY, PASSENGER SIDE, EMBODIMENT OF EVIL</title>
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 Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard in Humpday (top); Embodiment of Evil (middle); Joel Bissonnette, Adam Scott in Passenger Side (bottom)

A few highlights today at the Los Angeles Film Festival, currently being held (mostly) in the Westwood Village and at the Westside&#8217;s Landmark theater complex. The festival runs until June 28.
Among today&#8217;s highlights are:

 Passenger Side, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/la-film-fest-2009-humpday-embodiment-of-evil/</link>
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