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		<title>Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture &#8211; Drama</title>
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2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Picture &#8211; Drama

The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow; scr: Mark Boal
A  US Army  elite unit disarms bombs  in Iraq.

Invictus, d: Clint Eastwood; scr: Anthony Peckham
Newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela campaigns to stage the Rugby World Cup in South Africa so as to unite blacks and whites.

The Last Station, d &#38; scr: Michael Hoffman
Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s family life is upended by the writer&#8217;s radical politics.

The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson; scr: Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
A murdered girl sees the world, chiefly her small Pennsylvania town, from up above.

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, d: Lee Daniels; scr: Geoffrey Fletcher
A pregnant, abused, illiterate teen is helped by a kind teacher.

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		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/golden-globes-2010-predictions-best-picture-drama-123/</link>
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		<title>Noel Clarke&#8217;s ADULTHOOD on IFC Festival Direct</title>
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Noel Clarke&#8217;s Adulthood, which was screened at this year&#8217;s Karlovy Vary Film Festival, opens  this week on IFC Festival Direct, a  distribution outlet presenting &#34;a collection of the best and most innovative cinema&#34; from film festivals around the world, exclusively on demand.
Adulthood is a follow-up to  Kidulthood (2005), which Menhaj Huda directed from Clarke&#8217;s screenplay about a group of teenagers doing some quick growing up in west London&#8217;s seamy streets: Following the release of Sam (played by Clarke himself), who&#8217;d been in prison for killing Trife (Aml Ameen in Kidulthood), several of the original film&#8217;s characters must confront the consequences of that violent night in their past.
Also in the Adulthood cast: Ben Drew, Danny Dyer, Scarlett Alice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/noel-clarke-adulthood-ifc-direct-123/</link>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Documentary Feature Semi-Finalists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the  15 semi-finalists in the 2010 Academy Awards&#8217; Documentary Feature category. Eighty-nine films had  been in the running. 
The 15 documentary feature semi-finalists are:


The Beaches of Agnes, Agnès Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris)

Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films)

The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society)

Every Little Step, James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment)

Facing Ali, Pete McCormack, director (Network Films Inc.)

Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, director (Robert Kenner Films)

Garbage Dreams, Mai Iskander, director (Iskander Films, Inc.)

Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mark N. Hopkins, director (Red Floor Pictures LLC)

The  Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon  Papers, Judith Ehrlich [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-documentary-semi-finalists-123/</link>
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		<title>THE FUPLERS: Q&amp;A with Matt Koval</title>
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There are few web series that I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching; of those, Matt Koval&#8217;s &#34;The Fuplers&#34; is probably my favorite. The series chronicles the table-time interactions of your typical Mondo Bizarro family, with Koval playing Mom, Dad, Teen Son, and lithping, pig-tailed Little Daughter. 
According to Koval&#8217;s  profile on his website, in one year his 20-video YouTube channel has grown   from 50 to 50,000 subscribers, while &#34;The Fuplers&#34; has been averaging 300,000 views per episode. Additionally, earlier this year Koval  wrote and directed a web series for Fox Digital Studios.
The Los Angeles-based filmmaker has also done work away from the Internet. Among his film credits are Ryan Craig&#8217;s feature  Small Town Saturday Night,  starring Star [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/matt-koval-interview-the-fuplers-123/</link>
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		<title>Yoav Shamir&#8217;s DEFAMATION Opens in NY/LA</title>
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  European Film Award nominee and a very likely contender for the 2010 best documentary feature Academy Award*, Yoav Shamir&#8217;s Defamation opens on Friday, Nov. 20, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities across the United States.
The film info below is from distributor First Run Features&#8217; website:
&#34;Intent on shaking up the ultimate ‘sacred cow’ for Jews, Israeli  director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative &#8212; and at times irreverent  &#8212; quest to answer the question, &#8216;What is anti-Semitism today?&#8217; Does it  remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used  by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics?
&#34;Speaking  with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/yoav-shamir-defamation-screenings-123/</link>
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		<title>TCM Classic Film Festival: A STAR IS BORN, METROPOLIS, BREATHLESS, 2001</title>
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Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom)

Turner Classic Movies&#8216;  first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor’s  A Star is Born (1954), starring Judy Garland and James Mason; the North American premiere of the  restored version of Fritz Lang’s  Metropolis (1927); and a 50th anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s Breathless, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.  
The TCM Classic Film Festival will also feature a special presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s  2001: A Space Odyssey, including a discussion with Oscar-winning visual-effects artist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/turner-classic-film-festival-a-star-is-born-metropolis-123/</link>
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		<title>FOUR SEASONS LODGE Screenings</title>
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Directed by Andrew Jacobs, Four Seasons Lodge is currently playing at New York City&#8217;s IFC Center at Sixth Avenue at West Third Street. The film opens Friday, Nov. 20, at the Quad Cinema at 34 West 13th Street. This week, the filmmaker will be present at the IFC Center&#8217;s Wednesday-Thursday 8pm shows.
The Four Seasons Lodge summary reads:
&#34;From the darkness of Hitler&#8217;s Europe to the lush mountains of New  York&#8217;s Catskills, Four Seasons Lodge follows a community of Holocaust  survivors who come together each summer at their beloved bungalow  colony to dance, cook, fight and flirt &#8212; and celebrate their survival.  Beautifully photographed by a team of cinematographers led by Albert  Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/four-seasons-lodge-screenings-123/</link>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Hash Hamilton to Direct Oscar Telecast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hamish Hamilton will direct the 2010 Academy Awards telecast, show  producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman have announced. It will be  Hamilton”s first time directing the Oscar show.
Among Hamilton&#8217;s credits are  the “MTV Video  Music Awards” and the “MTV Europe Music Awards,” in addition to live  concert performances by the likes of U2, Neil  Diamond, Josh Groban, Stevie Wonder, and Christina Aguilera, among   others. In February 2010, he will direct the Super Bowl XLIV half-time  show.
The  2010 Academy Award nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February  2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 
The Academy  Awards ceremony will take place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/hash-hamilton-direct-oscar-2010-telecast-123/</link>
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		<title>New Czech Films</title>
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A Well Paid Walk by Milos Forman (top); Vaclav Havel in Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek (middle); The Karamazovs by Petr Zelenka (bottom)

New Czech Films at New York&#8217;s BAMcinématek. The series includes works by two-time Academy Award winner Milos Forman and Jan H?ebejk, whose Divided We Fall (2000) was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar. Václav Marhoul&#8217;s war drama Tobruk, which is supposed to show that there&#8217;s &#34;a very thin line between heroism and cowardice,&#34; sounds particularly intriguing. All films in Czech with English  subtitles.
  Schedule and film information from the BAMcinématek website: 
  A Well Paid Walk (Dob?e Placená Procházku) (2009) 85min
  Wed, Nov 18 at 6:50*, 9:40pm
  *Q&#38;A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/new-czech-films-milos-forman-123/</link>
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		<title>European Film Academy Ambassadors</title>
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Maria de Medeiros (top); Belén Rueda (middle); Kim Rossi Stuart (bottom)

The European Film Academy (EFA) has enlisted a group of Ambassadors of European Film to cooperate in the promotion of European cinema and the European Film Awards. 
From the European Film Academy&#8217;s press release, the EFA Ambassadors are:

Moritz Bleibtreu, actor, Germany
    One of the best-known German faces in international cinema, Moritz Bleibtreu first shot to international attention as Manni in Tom Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN (1998). He was nominated in 2001 for the EFA People’s Choice Award for THE EXPERIMENT by Oliver Hirschbiegel and is now nominated for European Actor for his role as Andreas Baader in THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX by Uli Edel.
Stephen Daldry, director, UK
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		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/european-film-academy-ambassadors-123/</link>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2010: Five Best Animated Feature Nominees</title>
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Up by Pete Docter

The 2010  Golden Globes will feature  five Best Animated Feature contenders,  as members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted last week to expand this year&#8217;s number of nominations for that category.
The amended rule for the Best Animated Feature category now reads: &#34;Eligible films must be feature-length (70 minutes or longer) with no more than 25% live action. If less than eight animated films qualify, the award will not be given, in which case the films would be eligible for Best Picture. If less than twelve animated films qualify, the category will be limited to three nominations per year.&#34; 
(The Golden Globes press release doesn&#8217;t indicate the number of animated-feature submissions this year, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/golden-globes-2010-five-best-animated-feature-nominees-123/</link>
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		<title>Edward Woodward</title>
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Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bryan Brown, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant

Edward Woodward, the star of the 1980s television series The Equalizer and of the  film classics  The Wicker Man (1973) and  Breaker Morant (1980), died on Monday in Truro, Cornwall, England. Woodward had been suffering from heart problems and other ailments; the cause of death was pneumonia.
Born  to working-class parents in Croydon, Surrey, south of London, on June 1, 1930, Woodward began his acting career onstage in 1946. As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played roles in, among others, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, in addition to starring in Cyrano de Bergerac on the West End and in Noel Coward&#8217;s Broadway musical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/edward-woodward-123/</link>
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		<title>The Auteurs World Cup</title>
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Charulata by Satyajit Ray (top); Moolaadé by Ousmane Sembene (middle); El Sur by Víctor Erice (bottom)

The Auteurs World Cup was launched yesterday, Nov. 16. David Hudson, formerly of The Daily and GreenCine Daily, describes the AWC thus: 
 &#34;It&#8217;s a competitive game measuring up national and regional cinemas against each other[,] created and organized by the online community at The Auteurs. Like the World Cup in soccer, only with movies.
&#34;Background: Kicked off in September with 32 teams, then separated into 8 groups of 4, from which the top 2 in each group have qualified for the last 16. The last 16 match line-ups are here. Each team has had a manager making the selections. In each match 3 films are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/the-auteurs-world-cup/</link>
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		<title>Grace Kelly: GREEN FIRE, THE ROCKINGHAM TEA SET</title>
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Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger in Green Fire

Grace Kelly is once again the focal point of Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Thursday evening schedule. And as far as I&#8217;m concerned, next Thursday, Nov. 19, is going to be the most interesting of the Grace Kelly evenings this month.
The reason for that is simple:  TCM will be showing the one Kelly feature I&#8217;ve yet to see &#8212; the Colombian-set adventure drama Green Fire (1954), co-starring Stewart Granger and Paul Douglas &#8212;  and two of Kelly&#8217;s pre-stardom television vehicles that I&#8217;ve also yet to see &#8212;  &#34;The Rockingham Tea Set&#34; (1950) and &#34;The Kill&#34; (1952), both made for the Studio One anthology series and both directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, best known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-green-fire-the-rockingham-tea-set-123/</link>
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		<title>Jocelyn Quivrin</title>
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Jocelyn Quivrin, Bénabar in Incognito

Jocelyn Quivrin, the  French Academy&#8217;s César winner for most promising newcomer in 2008, died after losing control of his sports car while driving in a tunnel just outside of Paris   on Sunday (Nov. 15) night. Quivrin was 30.
Quivrin&#8217;s off-screen companion was actress Alice Taglioni, best known for playing a top model in Francis Veber&#8217;s  comedy The Valet. The couple had a child in March. According to reports, Taglioni was driving in front of Quivrin on Sunday night; she  called the police when the actor didn&#8217;t arrive home. 
Quivrin  (born on Feb. 14, 1979) began his show-business career at the age of 10, appearing in the television series Les compagnons de [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jocelyn-quivrin/</link>
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		<title>2012 Smashes Box Office</title>
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Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic  actioner 2012 destroyed its competition at the  North American box office this weekend with a solid $65 million in ticket  sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Sony’s 2012  opened at 3,404 locations Friday, scoring  an explosive average of $19,095 per  theater while  easily beating the $35.8 million opening gross of  Emmerich’s previous film 10,000 B.C.
Starring John Cusack, Amanda  Peet, Oliver Platt, and Danny Glover, 2012 follows a group of  individuals trying to survive a series of cataclysms as the world is about to come to an end.

Pirate Radio,  this week’s other wide release,  made it only to No. 11, with $2.8 million  from ticket sales [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2012-precious-box-office-123/</link>
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		<title>Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, Gordon Willis: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Honorary Award recipients Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall, and  Gordon Willis at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.
&#8220;It&#8217;s so much better &#8230; that nobody&#8217;s worrying whether 36.5 million people are watching us or 29.2,&#8221; remarked Warren Beatty, a former Irving G. Thalberg Award recipient who paid homage to this year&#8217;s Thalberg Award honoree John Calley, who, reportedly suffering from serious health issues, was unable to attend the ceremony.
After Kirk Douglas declared he once unsuccessfully tried to seduce her, and Anjelica Huston praised her &#8220;steadfastness,&#8221; 85-year-old Lauren Bacall waved away an escort trying to help her get to the podium, remembered her &#8220;great love&#8221; Humphrey Bogart, her myriad leading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-roger-corman-gordon-willis-123/</link>
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		<title>Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Vera Farmiga: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch, and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Da Vinci Code, Angels &#038; Demons), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Actress Vera Farmiga, a potential contender for the 2010 best supporting actress Oscar

Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges and wife Susan

Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme (for The Silence of the Lambs) and Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman
Photos: Michael Yada / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tom-hanks-steven-spielberg-vera-farmiga-123/</link>
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		<title>George Lucas, Meg Tilly, Kirk Douglas: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Academy Award-nominated actresses Jennifer Tilly (as best supporting actress, for Bullets Over Broadway) and Meg Tilly (also in the best supporting actress category, for Agnes of God), arrive at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient and two-time best director Academy Award nominee George Lucas with investor/TV show hostess Mellody Hobson

Three-time Academy Award nominee Kirk Douglas pays tribute to Lauren Bacall, his co-star in both Young Man with a Horn (1950) and Diamonds (1999)
Photos: Michael Yada (Jennifer and Meg Tilly, Lucas), Richard Harbaugh (Douglas) / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-lucas-meg-tilly-kirk-douglas-123/</link>
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		<title>Roger Corman, Anjelica Huston, Sally Kellerman: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman, the producer-director of cult classics such as House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Tower of London, The Terror, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The St. Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre, and Bloody Mama, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Academy Award-nominated actress Sally Kellerman (in the supporting category, for M*A*S*H, in 1970) and Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston (also as best supporting actress, for Prizzi&#8217;s Honor in 1985)

Five-time Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, among whose credits are The Black Stallion, The Right Stuff, The Natural, and The Passion of the Christ
Photos: Michael Yada / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/roger-corman-anjelica-huston-sally-kellerman-123/</link>
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		<title>Gordon Willis, Ron Howard, Dana Delany: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as Klute, The Godfather films, Serpico, All the President&#8217;s Men, Annie Hall, Comes a Horseman, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14. Despite his impressive list of credits, Willis has been nominated for only two Academy Awards: Zelig (1982) and The Godfather Part III (1990)

Ron Howard, who won a best director Academy Award for A Beautiful Mind in 2002

Actress Dana Delany of the television series Desperate Housewives
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		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/gordon-willis-ron-howard-dana-delany-123/</link>
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		<title>Lauren Bacall, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall, who appeared in, among others, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Young Man with a Horn, How to Marry a Millionaire, Woman&#8217;s World, Sex and the Single Girl, Murder on the Orient Express, The Fan, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Maria Bello, the leading lady in A History of Violence

Oscar 2010 co-host Alec Baldwin, a best supporting actor Academy Award nominee for The Cooler
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		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-maria-bello-alec-baldwin-123/</link>
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		<title>Tom Hanks, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Norman Jewison, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Remains of the Day, The Da Vinci Code), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Norman Jewison, whose socially conscious cop drama In the Heat of the Night won the best picture Oscar in 1968

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science&#8217;s Board of Governors  posed for a group photo following the 2009 Governors Awards
Front Row (left to right): Sid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tom-hanks-annette-bening-warren-beatty-123/</link>
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		<title>Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Dino de Laurentiis: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Warren Beatty, who also won a best director Oscar for Reds in 1982, at the presentation of the Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Steven Spielberg, who also won two best directors Oscars, for Schindler&#8217;s List and Saving Private Ryan

Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Dino de Laurentiis, the producer of classics such as La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, The Great War, The Stranger, and Serpico
Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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		<title>Lauren Bacall, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall, the star of classics such as To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Designing Woman. Bacall was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for The Mirror Has Two Faces in 1996.
&#8220;A man at last,&#8221; the 85-year-old Bacall exclaimed while holding her Honorary Oscar. &#8220;I&#8217;m here to stay so you better get used to the idea.&#8221;

Three-time Oscar nominated actress Annette Bening toasts Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall during the 2009 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather Part II, All the President&#8217;s Men, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, receives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-annette-bening-jeff-bridges-123/</link>
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		<title>Warren Beatty, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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Past Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Norman Jewison, Walter Mirisch, Steven Spielberg presenting this year&#8217;s Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman, the producer-director of numerous low-budget films including Attack of the Crab Monsters, Carnival Rock, Bloody Mama, and House of Usher

Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather, Annie Hall, and Manhattan, with Jeff Bridges, one of the stars of Bad Company, a 1972 Western shot by Willis
Richard Harbaugh (Willis/Bridges, group photo), Matt Petit (Corman) / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/warren-beatty-george-lucas-steven-spielberg-123/</link>
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		<title>HOLLOW REED &#8211; Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson</title>
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Hollow Reed   (1996)
Direction: Angela Pope
Screenplay: Paula Milne
Cast: Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Sam Bould, Ian Hart, Jason Flemyng, Annette Badland, Roger Lloyd-Pack
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 Hollow Reed, the tale of a little boy loved by his gay father and abused by his hetero stepfather, was the winner of the Audience Award at the 1996 Dinard British Film Festival. That shouldn&#8217;t be surprising. After all, director Angela Pope and screenwriter Paula Milne squeeze every possible dramatic element the story could offer, from relentless closeups of young actor Sam Bould&#8217;s soulful face to a climactic bloody fight between the film&#8217;s warring dads. Most audiences love that.
Personally, I believe that approach is perfectly fine as long as  the filmmakers don&#8217;t take themselves too seriously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/hollow-reed-martin-donovan-joely-richardson-123/</link>
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		<title>Blue Dragon Awards 2009</title>
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2009 Blue Dragon Awards
2009 Blue Dragon Awards &#8211; Nominations: Nov. 14, 2009
2009 Blue Dragon Awards &#8211; Winners: KBS Hall in Seoul on Dec. 2, 2009
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Directed by Joon-ho Bong, Mother chronicles the fight of a middle-aged mother to clear the name of her son, accused of a vicious crime. Mother is South Korea&#8217;s submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Awards.
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Best Film
Take Off &#8211; Yong-hwa Kim
Good Morning President &#8211; Jang Jin
Mother &#8211; Joon-ho Bong
Thirst &#8211; Chan-wook Park
Haeundae &#8211; Je-gyun Yun 
Best Director
Yong-hwa Kim &#8211; Take Off
Jang Jin &#8211; Good Morning President
Joon-ho Bong &#8211; Mother
Chan-wook Park &#8211; Thirst
Je-gyun Yun &#8211; Haeundae
Best New Director
  Hyeong-cheol Kang &#8211; Scandal Makers
Keon-hong Park &#8211; Lifting King Kong
Ik-jun Yang &#8211; Breathless
Yong-ju Lee &#8211; Possessed
Ki-hun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TO EACH HIS OWN &#8211; Olivia de Havilland, John Lund</title>
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To Each His Own   (1946)
Direction: Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Jacques Théry; from a story by Brackett
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin
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Olivia de Havilland, John Lund in To Each His Own
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Olivia de Havilland, who had starred in the 1941 melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, returns to the wartime milieu in To Each His Own (1946), once again under the direction of Mitchell Leisen, who guides the proceedings with his characteristic sincerity while cleverly skirting the Production Code&#8217;s restrictive guidelines. 
 In To Each His Own, de Havilland plays Jody Norris, a small-town woman who falls quickly in love &#8212; much like her character in Hold Back the Dawn, but this time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOLD BACK THE DAWN &#8211; Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard</title>
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Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Direction: Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; from Ketti Fring&#8217;s story
Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp
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Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard in Hold Back the Dawn
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Olivia de Havilland shines in Mitchell Leisen&#8217;s melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, a sort of opening bracket for the director&#8217;s World War II-era films.
Adapted by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett from Ketti Frings&#8216; semi-autobiographical story, Hold Back the Dawn stars Charles Boyer as George Iscovescu, a Romanian dancer unable to enter the U.S. from Mexico due to immigration quotas imposed at the onset of the European conflict.
Paulette Goddard is his scheming former partner, Anita, who marries an American to [...]]]></description>
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