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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Australian Cinema</title>
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		<title>MARY AND MAX to Open Sundance 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/mary-and-max-to-open-sundance-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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The 2009 Sundance Film Festival will open with Adam Elliot&#8217;s clay animation feature Mary and Max, the tale of an 8-year-old Australian girl who becomes the pen pal of an obese, 44-year-old male  New Yorker. Throughout their two-decade exchanges, they discuss a wide range of subjects, from autism to taxidermy.
Written and directed by Elliot, who won an Academy Award for his 2002 animated short Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max sounds like a quirky variation on the 84 Charing Cross Road theme, the James Roose-Evans play that became a 1984 movie directed by David Hugh Jones, and starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins as long-term, pen-paling bookworms. She in New York; he in London.
Mary and Max features the voices of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE Clip</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/australian-cinema/an-angel-at-my-table-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jane Campion&#8217;s 1990 biopic An Angel at My Table tells the story of New Zealand author Janet Frame, who was considered so &#34;different&#34; &#8212; she was incredibly shy &#8212; that she was sent to a mental institution for 8 years. This beautifully shot film (by Stuart Dryburgh) boasts a marvelous performance by Kerry Fox.
Clip posted by neurasthenic.
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CAIRO STATION Clip
BEN-HUR Chariot Race Clip
&#34;The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat&#34; Clip
STELLET LICHT Clip
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK Clip
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		<title>PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK Clip</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/picnic-at-hanging-rock-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Before Peter Weir went Hollywood in the mid-1980s, he actually knew how to make solid, complex films in his native Australia. Gallipoli (1981) is a well-crafted anti-war drama while the subtly haunting The Last Wave (1977) may well be the best The End Is Near film ever made.
Below is a clip from Weir&#8217;s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Much like The Last Wave, it deals with mystery and mysticism &#8212; in addition to a healthy dose of Victorian sexual repression. The plot revolves around the unsolved disappearance of a group of schoolgirls while on a trek to Hanging Rock at the turn of the 20th century, but Weir and screenwriter Cliff Green (adapting Joan Lindsay&#8217;s novel) are less concerned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Campion&#8217;s THE PIANO: Great To Be Nominated</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/jane-campion-the-piano-great-to-be-nominated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Writer-director Jane Campion&#8217;s Gothic drama The Piano, the best of the 1993 Best Picture Oscar nominees and one of the greatest &#8212; and greatest-looking &#8212; films of the 1990s, will be screened as the first feature in the fifth and final season of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; &#34;Great To Be Nominated&#34; series. The Piano screening will take place on Monday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy&#8217;s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Afterwards, actor Cliff Curtis and U.S. casting director Victoria Thomas will take part in a discussion about the film. 
Set in the mid-19th century, The Piano follows the emotional struggles of a mute Scotswoman, beautifully played by Holly Hunter, sent off with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIBERTY IN RESTRAINT Screening in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 9, the Cinekink folks will screen Michael Ney&#8217;s documentary feature Liberty in Restraints, about recently deceased sex fetishist [see Ney's comment below] Noel Graydon, at 7 p.m. at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater in New York City.
Ney&#8217;s Australian-made film is described as a &#34;riveting documentary [that] introduces the mentors, muses and masochists who inspired Noel&#8217;s artistic endeavors over the years, giving a glimpse into a world of S/M enthusiasts who approach their play &#8216;like an advanced driving course in sex,&#8217; one where the initiated take carnal license to extreme limits.&#34;
Graydon died of a heart attack this past July, after suffering an asthma attack while riding his push bike.
The Two Boots Pioneer Theater is located at 155 E. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROGUE: Human-Eating Crocodile Flick Opens in Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/australian-cinema/rogue-crocodile-horror-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Maxine Frith and Christine Sams in Melbourne&#8217;s The Age
&#34;Australia&#8217;s most expensive horror film, Rogue, premiered in Darwin last night, with tourism bosses predicting its killer croc star would attract visitors to the Northern Territory rather than frighten them off.
&#34;When Wolf Creek, the debut film from Rogue director Greg McLean, came out in 2005, the British media claimed it would do for Australia&#8217;s outback what Jaws did for swimming in the ocean. But backpacker visitors to Australia increased by 9 per cent in the year after the film was released.
&#34;Rogue, which tells the story of an American travel writer&#8217;s encounter with a killer croc, is expected to prompt even more visits to Australia.&#34;
Rogue stars Michael Vartan (top photo), Radha Mitchell, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAMING NUMBER TWO, A CASA NOSTRA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[***

Dennis Harvey in Variety:
&#34;New Zealand playwright Toa Fraser makes a smooth transition to the screen directing No. 2, an adaptation of his 2000 stage work. This warmly observed drama about a Fijian-Kiwi matriarch [veteran American actress Ruby Dee] gathering her discordant clan around one last fete is formulaic at its core: One can guess grandma&#8217;s fate from the start, but only after, all wounds have been healed and every narrative string tied. Still, assured handling and an appealing cast make this a deserving crowd-pleaser (it won the dramatic World Cinema audience award at Sundance) that should find friendly theatrical and tube berth in numerous terrains. Title, however &#8212; which in the U.S. is scatological slang [--] may have to go.&#34;
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG (1906) Canberra Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/silent-films/the-story-of-the-kelly-gang-1906-canberra-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Australia&#8217;s ABC:
This evening &#8212; right now, in Australia, it would be &#34;last night&#34; &#8212; Canberra audiences watched a restored portion of what is reportedly the world&#8217;s first feature-length narrative film, the 1906 Australian production The Story of the Kelly Gang.
Shot on location outside Melbourne, Charles Tait&#8217;s* 60-minute &#34;Bushranger&#34; &#8212; the Australian Western &#8212; focuses on the deeds of iconic outlaw Ned Kelly (1855&#8211;1880).
Once thought completely lost, 18 minutes of The Story of the Kelly Gang have been pieced together by the National Film and Sound Archive, with the assistance of Dutch digital restoration experts.
 &#34;The sequences that came to us were fairly vague and flickery and milky in its [sic] quality and the digital enhancement of that image has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stockholm Film Festival 2006 Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/stockholm-film-festival-2006-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For only the second time, the Stockholm Film Festival&#8217;s Best Film award was presented to a female director, Laurie Collyer, whose feature-film debut, Sherrybaby, took the festival&#8217;s top prize and brought star Maggie Gyllenhaal a Best Actress award. Earlier this year, Sherrybaby won those two honors at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The U.S.-made Sherrybaby tells the story of a former heroin addict who, after serving a three-year jail sentence, tries to prove to herself and to those around her that she can take care of her little daughter.

The Best Actor award went to Canadian-born Ryan Gosling for his superb portrayal of an idealistic drug-addicted New York City high-school teacher in the Ryan Fleck&#8217;s Half Nelson, which has been nominated in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Film Institute Awards &#8211; 2006 Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/australian-film-institutes-2006-afi-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Film Institute's 2006 AFI Award nominees include Candy, by Neil Armfield, with Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, and Geoffrey Rush, Ten Canoes, by Rolf de Heer and Peter Dijigirr, with Jamie Gulpilil, Kenny by Clayton Jacobson, with Shane Jacobson and Ronald Jacobson, Suburban Mayhem by Paul Goldman, with Emily Barclay and Anthony Hayes, and Jindabyne by Ray Lawrence, with Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Century Ago: The Films of 1906&#8243; in New York City</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/silent-films/a-century-ago-the-films-of-1906-in-new-york-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["A Century Ago: The Films of 1906" will have a New York City screening, presented by Randy Haberkamp. Among the scheduled films are Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton, Voyage autour d'une etoile / Trip Around a Star by Gaston Velle, Skyscrapers, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, and footage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.]]></description>
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		<title>A Century Ago: The Films of 1906</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/silent-films/a-century-ago-the-films-of-1906/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Century Ago: The Films of 1906 is a special screening of short films from 1906, including Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, Voyage autour d'une etoile / Voyage Around a Star, In the Haunts of Rip Van Winkle, The Impossible Convicts, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, and others. Organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST &#8211; Sunday Picks</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/afi-fest-sunday-picks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few picks for today at the AFI FEST:

Directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison, and Frances de la Tour, the dramatic comedy The History Boys (12:30pm) was written by Alan Bennett from his own Tony Award-winning play about eight young students trying to get into college. The film has received 4 nominations for the British Independent Film Awards, including Best Actress (de la Tour) and Best Screenplay (Bennett).
At 1:30pm, one can travel back in time to the ancient world of Rolf de Heer&#8217;s Ten Canoes, which tells a story within a story within a story that isn&#8217;t much of a story at all. But if Ten Canoes is lacking in terms of plot and drama, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2007: VOLVER, TEN CANOES Submitted</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/volver-ten-canoes-oscar-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s Volver, winner of the Best Screenplay Award and of an ensemble Best Actress Award at this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival, has been chosen as Spain&#8217;s submission for the 2006 Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award.
The family drama stars Penélope Cruz and Lola Dueñas as sisters whose mother&#8217;s ghost (played by Almodóvar veteran Carmen Maura) shows up so as to bury the (figuratively speaking) ghosts of the past.
Volver was up against Agustín Díaz Yanes&#8216; swashbuckling historical drama Alatriste, starring Viggo Mortensen, and Manuel Huerga&#8217;s Salvador, the story of a young Catalonian anarchist and bank robber played by Daniel Brühl.
Almodóvar has already won two Oscars. Todo sobre mi madre / All About My Mother (in which Cruz co-starred) was chosen the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Male Rape in THE BOOK OF REVELATION</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/australian-cinema/male-rape-revealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 06:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Based on Rupert Thomson&#8217;s novel, The Book of Revelation opened this week in Australia. This psychological thriller directed by Ana Kokkinos, and co-written by Kokkinos and Andrew Bovell (Strictly Ballroom), has engendered some controversy because it depicts the horrors faced by a man (Tom Long) who&#8217;s turned into a sex slave for three cloaked and masked women. If that wasn&#8217;t all, after the ordeal is over no one seems to care about his suffering. Heck, isn&#8217;t that sort of rape the sexual fantasy of millions of men everywhere? Well, quite probably yes, but The Book of Revelation draws parallels between female and male rape &#8212; why one is considered appalling while the other is the subject of bad jokes. 
Kokkinos&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand Film Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards: SkyCity Theatre in Auckland on August 24, 2006
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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The World&#8217;s Fastest Indian was the big winner in the film categories at this year&#8217;s Air New Zealand Screen Awards ceemony held in Auckland this past Thursday, Aug. 24. 
Writer-director Roger Donaldson&#8217;s film about an ageing bike racer who set the land-speed world record at a bike competition in Utah won seven awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins). 

Other winners include American actress Ruby Dee, for her role as a Fijian matriarch in No. 2, and cinematographer Alun Bollinger for his work on River Queen, the tale of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Film Institute Awards &#8211; 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Film Institute Awards &#8211; 2005
The nominees of the L&#8217;Oréal Paris 2005 AFI Awards were announced by Claudia Karvan and Alex Dimitriades at the Wharf Restaurant in Sydney on October 21, 2005. 
The winners of the 2005 AFI Awards were announced at two ceremonies: Russell Crowe hosted both the L&#8217;Oréal Paris 2005 AFI Craft Awards on November 25 and The L&#8217;Oréal Paris 2005 AFI Awards Dinner on November 26.
Note: The AFI International Awards are given to Australians working abroad.
2005 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award Nominations &#8211; Brief Article
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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FEATURE NARRATIVE FILMS
 BEST FILM
Little Fish, Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts, Richard Keddie
* Look Both Ways, Bridget Ikin 
Oyster Farmer, Anthony Buckley, Piers Tempest
The Proposition, Chris Brown, Jackie [...]]]></description>
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