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		<title>Cannes 2008: Michael Moore, Jane Birkin, Woody Allen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Horn talks about Michael Moore&#8217;s upcoming documentary, tentatively titled &#34;While America Slept,&#34; in the Los Angeles Times:
&#34;Even though he says the new film &#8216;isn&#8217;t about Bush,&#8217; the president is clearly a central target.
&#34;&#8217;He and his cronies and his supporters literally got away with murder,&#8217; Moore says. But it is also obvious that the country&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cannes-2008-moore-birkin-allen/</link>
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		<title>Woody Allen in the LONDON TIMES</title>
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James Mottram on Woody Allen in the [London] Times:
&#34;This weekend Vicky Cristina Barcelona [above], the 38th film of Allen&#8217;s 42-year career, has its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in an out-of-competition slot. The story of two American students on holiday in Spain, it stars three of Hollywood&#8217;s hottest current stars: the recent Oscar winner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/woody-allen-in-the-london-times/</link>
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		<title>THE WAR TAPES, THE GROUND TRUTH Academy Screening</title>
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The Iraq War documentaries presenting the point of view of U.S. soldiers, The War Tapes (above) and The Ground Truth, will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; Spring 2008 &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; series on Wednesday, May 28, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. 
Patricia Foulkrod, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/the-war-tapes-the-ground-truth-screening/</link>
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		<title>2008 Student Academy Award Winners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eleven students from eight US colleges and universities have been named winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; 35th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. The winners will take part in a week of industry-related activities and social events, culminating in the awards ceremony on June 7 at the Academy&#8217;s Samuel Goldwyn Theater [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2008-student-academy-award-winners/</link>
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		<title>THE GANG&#8217;S ALL HERE d: Busby Berkeley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gang&#8217;s All Here (1943)
Direction: Busby Berkeley. Screenplay: Walter Bullock; from a story by Nancy Wintner, George Root Jr., and Tom Bridges. Cast: Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, James Ellison, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman, Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, Sheila Ryan, Eugene Pallette, Tony De Marco, Bando da Lua
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From the moment The Gang&#8217;s All Here opens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-gangs-all-here-alice-faye-carmen-miranda/</link>
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		<title>Cannes Film Festival 2008 - Official Competition Line-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

IN COMPETITION

Laurent Cantet - Entre les murs / The Class
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Three Monkeys
Jean-Pierre &#38; Luc Dardenne -Le Silence de Lorna
Arnaud Desplechin - A Christmas Story
Clint Eastwood - Changeling

Atom Egoyan - Adoration
Ari Folman - Waltz with Bashir
Philippe Garrel - La Frontiere de l&#8217;Aube
Matteo Garrone - Gomorra
Charlie Kaufman -Synecdoche, New York
Eric Khoo - My Magic
Lucretia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cannes-film-festival-2008-competition-line-up/</link>
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		<title>Cannes Classics 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CANNES CLASSICS 2008

Synopses/intros from the Cannes Film Festival press release.
Main event: LOLA MONT&#200;S by Max Oph&#252;ls
The Technicolor restoration of LOLA MONT&#200;S, directed by Max Oph&#252;ls in 1955, is to have its world premiere, presented by the Cin&#233;math&#232;que fran&#231;aise, on Saturday May 17th.
 Documentaries about cinema
NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY: LASZLO &#38; VILMOS (2008,105&#8242;, USA) by James Chressanthis. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cannes-classics-2008/</link>
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		<title>WATER LILIES: Q&#038;A with Céline Sciamma</title>
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&#34;Watching the film I want the audience to embrace the journey of being a girl. Everyone in the room has to identify [with] a fifteen-year-old teenage girl. That&#8217;s why there are no adults in the movie, nor boys.&#34;
That&#8217;s screenwriter-director C&#233;line Sciamma, talking about her widely praised first film, Naissance des pieuvres / Water Lilies. Initially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/water-lilies-celine-sciamma-interview/</link>
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		<title>THE KID d: Charles Chaplin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kid (1921)
Direction and Screenplay: Charles Chaplin. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller
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Although I have never been much of a Charles Chaplin fan, The Kid is one sweet picture. In fact, it is the only Chaplin vehicle I would want to see over again.
The story, also penned by Chaplin, is simple: a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-kid-charles-chaplin-jackie-coogan/</link>
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		<title>REFUSENIK: Q&#038;A with Laura Bialis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laura Bialis&#8216; well-received documentary Refusenik chronicles the thirty-year grassroots movement to free Soviet Jews. (Read Ella Taylor&#8217;s positive &#8212; if sobering &#8212; review in The Village Voice.) 
Refusenik is told through the eyes of the activists, among them those then living in the Soviet Union &#8212; some of whom were punished for their efforts. Much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/refusenik-laura-bialis-interview/</link>
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		<title>THE GREAT GABBO d: James Cruze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Great Gabbo (1929)
Direction: James Cruze. Screenplay: Story by Ben Hecht; Continuity and Dialogue by Hugh Herbert. Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Donald Douglas, Marjorie Kane
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The Great Gabbo is one terrific early talkie. Sure, the film is old and creaky, while its technical aspects are cheap and primitive. But the story, the music, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-great-gabbo-erich-von-stroheim-cruze/</link>
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		<title>WATER LILIES d: Céline Sciamma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Naissance des pieuvres / Water Lilies (2007)
Direction and Screenplay: C&#233;line Sciamma. Cast: Pauline Acquart, Louise Blach&#232;re, Adele Haenel, Warren Jacquin, Christelle Baras
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Writer-director C&#233;line Sciamma&#8217;s Naissance des pieuvres / Water Lilies is a film about teens beginning to discover who they are. It is also a film that actually stars teens &#8212; as opposed to mid-twenty-year-olds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/water-lilies-d-celine-sciamma/</link>
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		<title>L.A. CONFIDENTIAL: Great To Be Nominated</title>
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Curtis Hanson&#8217;s 1997 Best Picture nominee L.A. Confidential will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; &#34;Great To Be Nominated&#34; series. The neo-noir crime drama will be screened on Monday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy&#8217;s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 
Following the screening, cast member [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/la-confidential-great-to-be-nominated/</link>
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		<title>BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST d: Fred Niblo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Direction: Fred Niblo. Directorial Associates: Alfred L. Raboch and B. Reeves Eason (and Christy Cabanne, uncredited). Screenplay: Carey Wilson and Bess Meredyth, based on June Mathis&#8217;s adaptation of General Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel. Titles: Katherine Hilliker and H. H. Caldwell. Cast: Ramon Novarro, May McAvoy, Francis X. Bushman, Betty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/ben-hur-ramon-novarro-bushman-niblo/</link>
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		<title>IRON MAN Beats SPEED RACER</title>
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Iron Man soared past Speed Racer, thus taking the trophy at the North American box office this weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. 
With US$50.5 million, Paramount&#8217;s comic-book adaptation took the No. 1 spot for the second straight weekend, lifting its domestic total to $177.1 million after only two weeks in release. Directed by Jon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/iron-man-beats-speed-racer/</link>
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