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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Casablanca</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/casablanca/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:26:24 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Conrad Veidt on TCM: THE HANDS OF ORLAC, CASABLANCA, NAZI AGENT</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/conrad-veidt-the-hands-of-orlac-casablanca/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/conrad-veidt-the-hands-of-orlac-casablanca/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:54:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Conrad Veidt is Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; performer of the day. An international star since the 1920s, Veidt worked in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Hollywood &#8212; twice. [Conrad Veidt Movie Schedule.] In the late '20s, Veidt was the star of unusual Hollywood fare such as Paul Leni's The Man Who Laughs (1928), in the title role as a man with a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/conrad-veidt-the-hands-of-orlac-casablanca/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Review Pt.8 &#8211; Exception to the Auteur Theory?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/casablanca-michael-curtiz-auteur-theory/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/casablanca-michael-curtiz-auteur-theory/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:22:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26734</guid> <description><![CDATA[Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman on the poster of Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part VII &#8211; Comparisons to Other Great Cinema Classics Film critic Andrew Sarris claimed that Casablanca was, &#34;the most decisive exception to the auteur theory,&#34; but he was wrong &#8212; and wrong for several reasons. First, auteur theory generally applies toward films or filmmakers that are great, and while Casablanca has been [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/casablanca-michael-curtiz-auteur-theory/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Review Pt.7 &#8211; Comparisons to Other Great Cinema Classics</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/casablanca-commentary/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/casablanca-commentary/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:20:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16046</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dooley Wilson, Humphrey Bogart in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part VI &#8211; Lack of Great Themes As I've shown, there are many flaws in Casablanca's narrative; among them the fact that it is melodrama &#8212; driven by plot, not character development. All the characters react to what the plot dictates; the plot does not organically flow from their personae. Now, before you claim, &#34;But [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/casablanca-commentary/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Review Pt.6 &#8211; Lack of Great Themes</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/casablanca-review/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/casablanca-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:18:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16034</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part V &#8211; DVD: Lauren Bacall Documentary BACALL ON BOGART Now, the biggest mistake that prevents Casablanca from reaching greatness is its lack of great themes. There is nothing in the film that is so overwhelmingly majestic, technically or performance-wise, that can put it in a class with many of the other highly praised motion [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/casablanca-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Review Pt.5 &#8211; DVD: Lauren Bacall Documentary BACALL ON BOGART</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/casablanca/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/casablanca/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:15:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16033</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dooley Wilson, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part IV &#8211; Ingrid Bergman The ending is good &#8212; Louie and Rick talk of leaving Casablanca after Louie covers for Rick's killing the Nazi Major Strasser &#8212; but there is nothing either actor does that lifts the scene above its own well-written basis. Then there is Strasser's portrayer, Conrad Veidt, an actor [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/casablanca/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Review Pt.4 &#8211; Ingrid Bergman</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/casablanca-ingrid-bergman/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/casablanca-ingrid-bergman/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:12:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16032</guid> <description><![CDATA[Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part III &#8211; Humphrey Bogart Now, compare scenes where Humphrey Bogart tries to act with his eyes the way Paul Henreid does, and one notices Bogart's utter limitations &#8212; he could do cynicism well, and pain ok (aided by a drink in hand), but that's about it. This is not because Rick is constricted emotionally [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/casablanca-ingrid-bergman/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Review Pt.3 &#8211; Humphrey Bogart</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/casablanca-humphrey-bogart/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/casablanca-humphrey-bogart/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:11:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16031</guid> <description><![CDATA[Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part II &#8211; Paul Henreid As an aside, compare that moment with a similar bit toward the end of the aforementioned Paths of Glory, where a captured German girl is put on stage in front of drunken French soldiers seemingly willing to ravage her, until she starts singing a plaintive German tune of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/casablanca-humphrey-bogart/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Review Pt.2 &#8211; Paul Henreid</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/casablanca-paul-henreid/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/casablanca-paul-henreid/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:10:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16030</guid> <description><![CDATA[Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part I Once again, this is not to say that the Casablanca screenplay &#8212; credited to Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch &#8212; lacks charm; the comic scenes in the film, such as those involving the pickpocket, are good, but compare them with the deeper and blacker humor [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/casablanca-paul-henreid/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Review d: Michael Curtiz</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/casablanca-d-michael-curtiz/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/casablanca-d-michael-curtiz/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6005</guid> <description><![CDATA[CASABLANCA (1942) Direction: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, S. Z. Sakall, Dooley Wilson, Joy Page Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch; from Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced play &#34;Everybody Comes to Rick's&#34; Oscar Movies Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: About three years ago, I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/casablanca-d-michael-curtiz/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Oscar; Vivien Leigh, Rudolph Valentino, Christopher Plummer Costumes: &quot;Moguls &amp; Movie Stars&quot; Exhibit</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/casablanca-oscar-vivien-leigh-moguls-movie-stars-exhibit/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/casablanca-oscar-vivien-leigh-moguls-movie-stars-exhibit/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:53:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25442</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind Turner Classic Movies' Moguls &#38; Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood special tour tied to the seven-part documentary series that begins tonight at 5 p.m. PT on TCM will reach Los Angeles (at The Grove) on Nov. 18-20. Among other artifacts, the exhibit will feature an Oscar statuette for Michael Curtiz's Casablanca; a costume [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/casablanca-oscar-vivien-leigh-moguls-movie-stars-exhibit/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claude Rains on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-movies-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-movies-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:54:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15768</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claude Rains, one of the greatest actors of the studio era &#8212; in fact, one of the greatest film actors of the 20th century &#8212; is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of September. What would I recommend? Well, whether on TCM or on DVD or on VHS or in some hidden vault somewhere, I'd say check him out in The Invisible Man and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-movies-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>National Film Registry</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/national-film-registry/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/national-film-registry/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:41:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6418</guid> <description><![CDATA[The National Film Registry, Library of Congress 1) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) 2) ADAM'S RIB (1949) 3) THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) 4) THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) 5) ALIEN (1979) 6) ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) 7) ALL MY BABIES (1953) 8) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 9) ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) 10) ALL THAT JAZZ (1979) 11) ALL THE [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/national-film-registry/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CASABLANCA Vs. EVERYBODY COMES TO RICK&#039;S</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/casablanca-vs-everybody-comes-to-ricks/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/casablanca-vs-everybody-comes-to-ricks/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:15:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6009</guid> <description><![CDATA[Worth checking out: Martin N. Kriegl's brief 2004 essay on the differences (in html) between Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's &#34;Everybody Comes to Rick's,&#34; the unproduced play that was the basis for Casablanca, and the film's screenplay credited to Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard Koch. Here are a couple of snippets from Kriegl's text: &#34;Upon first reading both stage play and screenplay, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/casablanca-vs-everybody-comes-to-ricks/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hedy Lamarr III: CASABLANCA, Private Life</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/hedy-lamarr-iii-casablanca-private-life/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/hedy-lamarr-iii-casablanca-private-life/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:08:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17257</guid> <description><![CDATA[Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr in Algiers Hedy Lamarr &#8211; Q&#038;A with Author Patrick Agan: Part II Is it true that Hedy Lamarr refused the lead roles in Casablanca, Gaslight, and Saratoga Trunk? If so, do you know what her reaction was after those three films became huge hits for Ingrid Bergman? Let's get one thing straight off the bat. Hedy Lamarr never turned down Casablanca. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/hedy-lamarr-iii-casablanca-private-life/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1942</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1942/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1942/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:02:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4333</guid> <description><![CDATA[FILM Bambi d: David Hand; scr: Larry Morey and others The Black Swan d: Henry King; scr: Ben Hecht, Seton I. Miller Casablanca d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch Johnny Eager d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: John Lee Mahin, James Edward Grant The Magnificent Ambersons d, scr: Orson Welles The Major and the Minor d: Billy Wilder; scr: Charles Brackett, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1942/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
