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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Casablanca</title>
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		<title>Claude Rains on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Casablanca]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Four Daughters]]></category>
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		<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&#8216; 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&#8217;d say check him out in The Invisible Man and (ouch!) The Lost World; his supporting roles opposite Priscilla Lane and Bette Davis; his Oscar-nominated roles in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Mr. Skeffington, and Notorious;  his brief appearances in Lawrence of Arabia and The Greatest Story Ever Told; his cinematic swan song, Twilight of Honor. In sum, if Claude Rains is in it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Film Registry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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 The National Film Registry, Library of Congress 
 1) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
  2) ADAM&#8217;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 KING&#8217;S MEN (1949)
  12) AMERICA, AMERICA (1963)
  13) AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
  14) AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
  15) ANNIE HALL (1977)
  16) ANTONIA: A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN (1974)
  17) THE APARTMENT (1960)
  18) APOCALYPSE NOW [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASABLANCA Vs. EVERYBODY COMES TO RICK&#8217;S</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/casablanca-vs-everybody-comes-to-ricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worth checking out:
Martin N. Kriegl&#8217;s brief 2004 essay on the differences (in html) between Murray Burnett and Joan Alison&#8217;s &#34;Everybody Comes to Rick&#8217;s,&#34; the unproduced play that was the basis for Casablanca, and the film&#8217;s screenplay credited to Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard Koch.
Here are a couple of snippets from Kriegl&#8217;s text:
&#34;Upon first reading both stage play and screenplay, one is tempted to jump to the conclusion that Casablanca is one of the rare occasions where a story, through adaptation from one medium to another, is elevated from a mediocre (if promising) source material to a gem of rare beauty. &#8230;
  &#34;The character Rick, a former rebel with apparently inviolable values and principles, who has lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASABLANCA VII &#8211; Final Commentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Dooley Wilson, Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca

CASABLANCA Review Part VI
On the plus side, Casablanca is quite  modern  in terms of  pacing (and in some aspects of editing), for within the first ten or twelve  minutes you feel as if you know these archetypal characters (for good or ill),  as if you&#8217;d already had a full movie&#8217;s worth of them under your belt. This  is part of the reason why the film sucks you into its vortex, and gets (subjectively) better as it goes on, even if, objectively, it&#8217;s  fairly static  in terms of plot. 
On the downside, Casablanca has not dated well because of its poor special effects (at the level of Alfred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASABLANCA VI &#8211; Review</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/casablanca-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca

CASABLANCA V d: Michael Curtiz
In his essay &#8216;Casablanca, or, The  Cliches Are Having a Ball&#8216; writer-philosopher Umberto Eco states:
&#8216;Casablanca is not just one film. It is many films, an  anthology. Made haphazardly, it probably made itself, if not actually against  the will of its authors and actors, then at least beyond their control. And  this is the reason it works, in spite of aesthetic theories and theories of  film making. For in it there unfolds with almost telluric force the power of  Narrative in its natural state, without Art intervening to discipline it. And  so we can accept it when characters change mood, morality, and psychology from  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASABLANCA V d: Michael Curtiz</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/casablanca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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CASABLANCA IV &#8211; Ingrid Bergman
Casablanca  is part of a two-disc DVD package, put out by Warner Bros.  Disc one has the film in a transfer  (1.33:1 aspect ratio) stunningly free of  blemishes. The disc also has two theatrical trailers (the original  and re-release trailers); an introduction by Bogart&#8217;s widow, Lauren Bacall;  and  two commentaries. The lesser one is by film historian Rudy Behlmer. It&#8217;s loaded  with information on the making of the film, but Behlmer is just reading from a  script of Warner Bros. inter-office memos about the film, and few of the  facts are scene-specific. Behlmer&#8217;s monotone is also rather off-putting, and he  rarely ventures an idea or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASABLANCA IV &#8211; Ingrid Bergman</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/casablanca-ingrid-bergman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca

CASABLANCA III &#8211; Humphrey Bogart
That brings me to the last and least of the trio of star performances:  Ingrid Bergman&#8217;s rather mediocre portrayal of Ilsa Lund. First, it&#8217;s not a truly bad  performance, but it&#8217;s nowhere near great. One need only look at contemporaneous  performances by, say,  Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, or even Judy  Garland, to see how much Bergman pales in contrast. Ilsa is a pawn, a toy, a  heroine whose life is the plaything of the two men in her life &#8212; and,  incidentally, isn&#8217;t it interesting how similar in facial construction both  Henreid and Bogart are? A fortuitous development that adds some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASABLANCA III &#8211; Humphrey Bogart</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/casablanca-humphrey-bogart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CASABLANCA II &#8211; Paul Henreid
Now, contrast  Henreid&#8217;s Victor with Bogart&#8217;s Rick. Rick is rather one-dimensional despite  the character&#8217;s early evocations of depth. His attraction to Ilsa seems quite  superficial; after all, in the flashback scenes in Paris and even those in  Casablanca, does he ever speak of higher purpose? No, Rick is wholly selfish,  through and through. Bogart&#8217;s Rick  is also a far showier role than Henreid&#8217;s Laszlo. But does Bogart do anything  more with it?
Despite some wittier lines and the nice scene where  Rick lets a Romanian refugee couple win at roulette to pay for their visas out  of Casablanca, is Rick Blaine sufficiently different from the Sam Spade Bogart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASABLANCA II &#8211; Paul Henreid</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/casablanca-paul-henreid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca

CASABLANCA Review Part I
Beginning with the three top-billed  actors: Humphrey Bogart as club owner Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as his ex-lover  Ilsa Lund, and Paul Henreid as Ilsa&#8217;s husband, the Czechoslovakian Nazi  Resistance outlaw, Victor Laszlo. Virtually all critiques of this trio leave  Henreid as the odd man out, mainly because the film focuses on the love angle  between Rick and Ilsa. But from a purely technical standpoint, Henreid gives,  by far, the best performance of the trio.  Because it is the most retrained and understated, however, it usually gets  dismissed as stiff acting, rather than good acting of an intentionally stiff  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASABLANCA</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/casablanca-d-michael-curtiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Casablanca (1942)
Direction: Michael Curtiz
Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch; from Murray Burnett and Joan Alison&#8217;s unproduced play &#34;Everybody Comes to Rick&#8217;s&#34;
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, S. Z. Sakall, Dooley Wilson, Joy Page
&#160;

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
About three years  ago, I finally gave in to watch It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life (1946) for the first time.  I had hesitated because of the five- and ten-minute snippets of the film I had  seen, and for its reputation as a hokey Christmas story &#8216;chestnut.&#8217; Well, was I wrong, for It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life  is a truly great film &#8212; arguably the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedy Lamarr III: CASABLANCA, Private Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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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&#8217;s get one thing straight off the bat. Hedy Lamarr never turned down Casablanca. 
 L. B. had her solidly booked for several movies, two of which, I think, defined both her talent and her image. True, [producer] Hal Wallis wanted her for it, but Mayer said no as he had Tortilla Flat, Crossroads, and White Cargo already lined up. 
 Why should L. B. have loaned her over to [Warner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Films &#8211; 1942</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1942/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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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, Billy Wilder
Once Upon a Honeymoon
d: Leo McCarey; scr: Sheridan Gibney
Random Harvest 
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Claudine West, George Froeschel, Arthur Wimperis
Tales of Manhattan 
d: Julien Duvivier; scr: Ben Hecht, Ferenc Molnar, Donald Ogden Stewart, Samuel Hoffenstein, Alan Campbell, Ladislas Fodor, Laslo Vadnay, Laszlo Gorog, Lamar Trotti, Henry Blankfort
The Talk of the Town
d: George Stevens; scr: Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman
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Carole Lombard, [...]]]></description>
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