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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Classic Movies</title>
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		<title>Edward Woodward</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breaker Morant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Beresford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
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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>
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		<title>The Auteurs World Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/the-auteurs-world-cup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hudson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Auteurs]]></category>
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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>
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		<title>Grace Kelly: GREEN FIRE, THE ROCKINGHAM TEA SET</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-green-fire-the-rockingham-tea-set-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin J. Schaffner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stewart Granger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Studio One]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bridges at Toko-Ri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Kill]]></category>
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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>
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		<title>TO EACH HIS OWN &#8211; Olivia de Havilland, John Lund</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/to-each-his-own-olivia-de-havilland-john-lund-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
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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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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Billy Wilder]]></category>
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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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		<title>LYSISTRATA-Themed Screenings at the Getty Villa</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/lysistrata-the-girls-a-miami-tail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Miami Tail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristophanes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bibi Andersson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gunnel Lindblom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mai Zetterling]]></category>
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Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom in The Girls

Michael Patrick Kelly&#8217;s documentary Operation Lysistrata, Melvin James&#8216; A Miami Tail, and Mai Zetterling&#8217;s The Girls will be screened at the Getty Villa&#8217;s Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14-15. Admission is free, but a separate ticket is required for each film.
Having staged Aristophanes&#8216; Peace earlier this season, Los Angeles&#8217; Getty Villa continues its celebration of &#34;the father of comedy&#34; with this three-film series based on the Athenian playwright&#8217;s best-known work, the  anti-war satire Lysistrata, in which the women of Athens and neighboring cities go on a sex strike so as to force their male partners to reconsider their warring habits.
Of the three, Mai Zetterling&#8217;s The Girls (1968) is the one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GODDESS &#8211; Kim Stanley &#8211; d: John Cromwell</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-goddess-kim-stanley-john-cromwell-1958/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
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The Goddess  (1958)
Direction: John Cromwell
Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky
Cast: Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland, Joan Copeland, Gerald Hiken, Patty Duke
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Kim Stanley in The Goddess
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Paddy Chayefsky evokes a cynical Tennessee Williams in his screenplay for The Goddess, a Hollywood cautionary tale directed by veteran John Cromwell.  Episodic in progression &#8212; the film is broken into three pulpy chapters &#8212; The Goddess serves as  a spotlight for a daring Kim Stanley performance, playing  within the middle-brow arena of melodrama even as it stages dark comedy and acute commentary.  
In The Goddess, Stanley is Emily Ann Faulkner, a broken woman from rural hickdom who has been abandoned by her irresponsible mother. (The child is portrayed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin 2010: Play it Again &#8230;! Series</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-play-it-again-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-play-it-again-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akira Kurosawa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Deer Hunter]]></category>
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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the  retrospective &#34;Play it Again &#8230;!,&#34; featuring  40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals.
Among them are  Curzio Malaparte&#8217;s The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg&#8217;s Miss Julie,  Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s To Live,  Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s Breathless,  Michael Cimino&#8217;s The Deer Hunter,  Zhang Yimou&#8217;s Red Sorghum, Niels Arden Oplev&#8217;s We Shall Overcome, and Paul Thomas  Anderson&#8217;s Magnolia.
  Also, Nagisa Oshima&#8217;s In the Realm of the Senses, which caused a furor  in 1976.  German authorities &#8212; who probably had better things to do (weren&#8217;t the Baader Meinhof running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Chaplin&#8217;s ZEPPED Found</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/charles-chaplin-zepped-found-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Chaplin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips reports that a long-thought lost Charles Chaplin film has been accidentally found after a film collector made an eBay bid  on a nitrate film canister.
Phillips explains that &#34;the footage turned out to be the obscure Chaplin short [Zepped], a World War  I propaganda effort designed to buck up British morale, combining  stop-motion animation and outtakes and unused alternate shots from  films Chaplin made for both Keystone and Essanay studios.
&#34;The hybrid, over which Chaplin apparently exercised no creative  control, includes a shot or two from His New Job, the short film  Chaplin made for the Chicago-based Essanay during his 23-day residency  here in late 1914 and early 1915.&#34;
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		<title>Jack Lemmon, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ruby-dee-jack-lemmon-sidney-poitier-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Raisin in the Sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Lemmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Sturges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirk Douglas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Last Train from Gun Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sidney Poitier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Out-of-Towners]]></category>
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Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun

Screen Actors Guild Life  Achievement Award winners Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies with a four-film presentation beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, the night before TCM&#8217;s sister networks TNT and TBS present a live simulcast of the 2010   Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Of the four films &#8212; the short Tit for Tat, and the features The Out-of-Towners, A Raisin in the Sun, and Last Train from Gun Hill &#8212; I&#8217;ve only seen the moderately entertaining John Sturges Western Last Train from Gun Hill, whose most memorable feature is Carolyn Jones as the female lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly on TCM: REAR WINDOW, THE COUNTRY GIRL</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-rear-window-the-country-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dial M for Murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Seaton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 1954]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ray Milland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rear Window]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Country Girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thelma Ritter]]></category>
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James Stewart, Grace Kelly in Rear Window

Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Grace Kelly series continues this Thursday, Nov. 12, with  three of Kelly&#8217;s biggest hits, all from 1954: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and The Country Girl. Kelly, who died in 1982 following a car accident in Monaco, would have turned 80 on Nov. 12.
Some consider Dial M for Murder a minor Alfred Hitchcock effort. Personally, I find it more enjoyable than Hitchcock&#8217;s revered Rear Window. Part of the reason is a pair of deadly scissors found in the former but not in the latter;  yet, I&#8217;d say that the chief reason is that neither one of Kelly&#8217;s leading men in Dial M for Murder is James Stewart. Instead, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.W. Griffith in California</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/d-w-griffith-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Man's Genesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Pickford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Female of the Species]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Filmforum will present &#34;D.W. Griffith in California,&#34; on Sunday,  Nov. 15, at 7:30 pm. at the Echo Park Film Center. At the screening, film  scholar Tom Gunning will discuss D. W. Griffith and his early Californian films.
Six of those Griffith productions will be screened: Man&#8217;s Genesis (1912, 17 min); The New Dress  (1911, 17 min.); The Massacre (1914, 20 min); The Unchanging Sea   (below right, 1910, 14 min.); The Sands of Dee (1912, 17 min); and The Female of the  Species (1912, 17 min).
All in 16mm, with live musical accompaniment by  Cliff Retallick.
Among the early stars featured in those shorts are Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Arthur Johnson, Wilfred Lucas, and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott &amp; Costello, Mickey Rooney &amp; Judy Garland Screenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Packard Campus&#8217; November Series Intro
Schedule and film information from the Library of Congress&#8217; Packard Campus website:

Thursday, November 05 (7:30 pm.)
THE MIRACLE WORKER (United Artists, 1962)
The story of Anne Sullivan&#8217;s struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Directed by Arthur Penn.
With Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.
35 mm, black &#38; white, 106 minutes. Copyright collection print.
&#160;
  Friday, November 06 (7:30 pm.)
CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (Warner Bros., 1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Directed by Anatole Litvak.
With Edward G. Robinson and Francis Lederer.
35mm, black &#38; white, 104 minutes. Print preserved by the Library of Congress.
&#160;
  Saturday, November 07 (7:30 pm.)
RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (MGM, 1962)
Two aging gunslingers sign on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Chaplin&#8217;s THE CIRCUS, ALADDIN, EASY RIDER Screenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Among the upcoming screenings in the November film series of the Library of Congress&#8217; Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va., are vehicles for just about everyone, from Charles Chaplin to Dennis Hopper; from Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland to Robin Williams&#8216; voice. 
I&#8217;ve never seen Disney&#8217;s Aladdin, though I know it was a big hit when it came out. Robin Williams was particularly praised for his voice work as the Genie &#8212; some even went as far as to demand that the Academy come up with Oscars for best voice performance. 
No one came up with that demand when Charles Chaplin&#8217;s The Circus was released, perhaps because the film has no audible dialogue. I&#8217;m not a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love in From Here to Eternity(top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film (bottom)

Fred Zinnemann&#8217;s 1953 Academy Award-winning drama From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift,  Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra, will be screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on  Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in  Beverly Hills. The presentation will feature the premiere of a new digital  restoration, as well as an onstage discussion with Ernest  Borgnine, who has a supporting role in the film.
Adapted by Daniel Taradash from  James Jones&#8216; bestselling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anselmo Duarte</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[O Caso dos Irmãos Naves]]></category>
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Tônia Carrero, Anselmo Duarte in Tico-Tico no Fubá

Brazilian actor and filmmaker Anselmo Duarte, whose 1962  anti-religious intolerance drama Keeper of Promises remains the only Brazilian production to have won the Palme d&#8217;Or at Cannes, died yesterday, Nov. 7, at a hospital in the city of São Paulo. Duarte, who was 89, had suffered a massive stroke.
The São Paulo State native (born in the town of Salto, on April 21, 1920) began his film career as an actor in the 1940s. Although Orson Welles is supposed to have hired the newcomer to play a bit part as a dancer in his fictionalized &#34;documentary&#34; It&#8217;s All True in 1942, Duarte&#8217;s first important credits came out later in the decade, e.g., Edmond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, THE SWAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I
Thanks to Kelly&#8217;s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity &#8212; it&#8217;s the sort of &#34;gutsy&#34; and &#34;realistic&#34; film adaptation of a  respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby&#8217;s drunk is about as convincing as Kelly&#8217;s frumpish housewife (a role that should have gone to original choice Jennifer Jones), but that didn&#8217;t prevent a number of Academy members from making sure Crosby, director George Seaton, and the film itself  received Academy Award nominations.  Seaton, in fact, did win an Oscar for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/grace-kelly-on-tcm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Stating the obvious:  most people take great pleasure in idealizing  their idols &#8212; which is why idols are idols. 
Whether we&#8217;re talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop stars,  the process is pretty much the same: flaws are expunged, deeds that never took place are turned into (at times miraculous) facts,  the Pantheon of the Immortals becomes their abode following their earthly demise. (In some extreme cases &#8212; assorted gods, Elvis &#8212; the idol in question doesn&#8217;t die, period.)
Grace Kelly, Turner Classic Movies&#8217; Star of the Month, is one of the lofty ones now dwelling in the aforementioned Pantheon. True, the flesh-and-bood Philadelphia-born (Nov. 12, 1929) woman (nee Grace Patricia Kelly) may have been quite different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows of Russia Schedule</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/shadows-of-russia-schedule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate

Below is the complete &#34;Shadows of Russia&#34; schedule on Turner Classic Movies:

Wednesday, Jan. 6
Part One:   Twilight of the Tsars
8  p.m.              The Scarlet Empress (1934)  – starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lodge.
10  p.m.            Rasputin and the Empress (1932) –  starring John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore.
Part Two:  Red  Romance
12:15 a.m.       Red Danube (1949) – starring Walter Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore.
2:30  a.m.         Reds (1981) – starring Warren Beatty, Diane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows of Russia: Communism on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (top); Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford in The Way We Were (bottom)

From the  Romanovs&#8217; last stand to Warren Beatty&#8217;s first solo directorial effort: On every Wednesday in January 2010, Turner Classic Movies  will present the 20-film festival &#34;Shadows of Russia,&#34;  a showcase of Hollywood movies portraying Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) and the sociopolitical reverberations of Communism throughout the 20th century.
Among the scheduled films are classics such as Ninotchka, The Manchurian Candidate, and Reds, in addition to lesser-known fare like Counter-Attack, I Was a Communist for the FBI, and The Strawberry Statement. Get ready for some laughs and a few tears &#8212; mostly laughs. And mostly of the unintended kind.
I must red-facedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE WAR GAME Review II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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THE WAR GAME Review: Part I

Given the spate of nuclear Armageddon films made in the  1960s (e.g., Fail Safe, Planet of the Apes) and up through the early 1980s television production The Day After, it’s  remarkable how such a low-budget effort like The War Game retains its  effectiveness when almost all other films on the topic seem corny. It’s likely  that the timeless effectiveness of Watkins&#8217; film is  the very reason it was banned for  nearly two decades. Scenes of British police shooting civilians were probably deemed too disturbing. Worse yet, the film’s realistic feel and unflinching look at the total  inability of the U.K. government to protect its citizens from a nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE WAR GAME d: Peter Watkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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The War Game  (1965)
Direction and Screenplay: Peter Watkins
Narration: Michael Aspel and Peter Graham
&#160;

&#160;

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
For anyone who  thinks that those 50-pack mega-DVD sets of public domain films put out by  several different video companies are worthless, I would argue that the amount of  films you get for the money is worth it, even if all were mediocre, and that the  truth is:  each DVD package will come with at least 8-10 enjoyable films, a  few true classics like Carnival of Souls or Night of the Living Dead,  and every so often a great little film will pop up that makes  the package a total steal.
One such 50-pack I  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RICH MAN&#8217;S FOLLY &#8211; George Bancroft, Frances Dee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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Rich Man&#8217;s Folly (1931)
Direction: John Cromwell
Screenplay: Grover Jones and Edward E. Paramore Jr.; from Charles Dickens&#8217; novel Dombey and Son
Cast: George Bancroft, Frances Dee, Robert Ames, David Durand, Juliette Compton, Dorothy Peterson
&#160;

Directed by the respected John Cromwell and based on Charles Dickens&#8216; Dombey and Son, Rich Man&#8217;s Folly features George Bancroft as a ruthless, egotistical shipping tycoon whose only concern is his work, all the while  grooming his young son so he&#8217;ll one day take over the family business. In the meantime, the rest of family is completely ignored. 
 That is the kind of role Bancroft did best: Larger-than life, driven, and arrogant men who usually meet a towering, humbling defeat in the final reel. Also in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PONY EXPRESS &#8211; Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Pony Express (1925)
Direction: James Cruze
Screenplay: Walter Woods; from Woods and Henry James Forman&#8217;s story
Cast: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, George Bancroft, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery, Al Hart
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The Pony Express is a  rousing James Cruze Western depicting the founding of the Pony Express with a backdrop of political ambitions concerning a senator&#8217;s plans to get California to secede from the United States so he can build his own empire. 
A great cast and Cruze&#8217;s direction keep this one interesting &#8212; even though Ricardo Cortez in a period film seems woefully out of place and pretty Betty Compson&#8217;s role is more or less that of an ingenue,  merely requiring her to look good while reacting  to the things going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE APARTMENT ABOVE d: Leon Trystan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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Pietro Wyzej / The Apartment Above (1937)
Direction: Leon Trystan
Screenplay:  Emanuel Schlechter, Ludwik Starski, Eugeniusz Bodo 
Cast: Eugeniusz Bodo, Helena Grossówna, Józef Orwid
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Leon Trystan&#8217;s Pietro Wyzej (alternately known in the US as The Apartment Above, Neighbors, and The Neighbor from the Next Floor) is a delightful Polish comedy about two men &#8212; one older (Józef Orwid),  the other younger (Eugeniusz Bodo) &#8212; who happen to have the same name.
The two live on opposite floors of the same apartment building and have an acrimonious relationship. The younger man is a radio announcer and the leader of a swing orchestra; the older man is a classical musician. A string of zany misunderstandings and mistaken identities ensues when the older man&#8217;s niece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE RAVEN &#8211; Henry B. Walthall &#8211; d: Charles Brabin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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The Raven (1915)
Direction: Charles Brabin
Screenplay: Charles Brabin; from George Cochran Hazelton&#8217;s novel and play The Raven: The Love Story of Edgar Allan Poe 
Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard
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Starring Henry B. Walthall, The Raven is an  Essanay feature depicting the life of Edgar Allan Poe, starting with his childhood and going all the way to his marriage to his cousin (played by the little-known Warda Howard). 
Charles Brabin&#8217;s direction is uneven: At some points it&#8217;s stagy and rudimentary;  at other points, Brabin  creates some remarkably striking and eerie visual effects, including a bravura scene for Walthall in which he descends further and further into madness following the death of his wife. Brabin visualizes this with a barrage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M&#8217;LISS &#8211; Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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M&#8217;Liss (1918)
Direction: Marshall Neilan
Screenplay: Frances Marion; from Bret Harte&#8217;s story 
Cast: Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Tully Marshall, Charles Ogle, Monte Blue, Winifred Greenwood
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Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan in M&#8217;Liss
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Directed by Marshall Neilan and written by Frances Marion &#8211; two frequent Mary Pickford collaborators &#8212; M&#8217;Liss is one of Pickford&#8217;s very best films. In this comedy-drama, Pickford plays a spirited and unruly mountain girl, that&#8217;s the M&#8217;Liss of the title, who falls in love with the new schoolteacher (Thomas Meighan) &#8212; who is later falsely accused of murder. 
Pickford, by then already a superstar, gives a sterling performance; she is ably supported by (future star) Thomas Meighan as the schoolteacher, as well as a fine collection of character actors including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT WHITE TRAIL &#8211; Doris Kenyon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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The Great White Trail (1917)
Direction: Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton
Screenplay: Gardner Hunting and Leopold Wharton 
Cast: Doris Kenyon, Paul Gordon, Richard Stewart, Thomas Holding, Louise Hotaling, Hans Roberts, Edgar Davenport
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Some films have &#34;everything except the kitchen sink&#34; as the saying goes. Well, the 1917 melodrama The Great White Trail has a plot that has everything and about three kitchen sinks as well, as it briskly makes its way from one improbable situation after another before everything is happily resolved in the final reel. 
Doris Kenyon plays a happy young wife and mother. When her irresponsible brother appeals to her for help, her husband (Paul Gordon) misunderstands the situation, believing her to be unfaithful. He turns  her out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HER NIGHT OF ROMANCE &#8211; Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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Her Night of Romance (1924)
Direction: Sidney Franklin
Screenplay: Hans Kräly 
Cast: Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Jean Hersholt, Albert Grand, Robert Rendel
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Directed by Sidney Franklin and written by frequent Ernst Lubitsch collaborator Hans Kräly, Her Night of Romance is certainly on my list of top three favorite films at Cinesation 2009.
Constance Talmadge, whose extant films are hard to come by, is always a delightful comedienne. In Her Night of Romance, Talmadge  plays Dorothy Adams, a wealthy young woman who goes about in hideous disguises to ward off  fortune hunters  only interested in her money. Eventually, Dorothy meets and falls in love with an impoverished English Lord (Ronald Colman), who is mistaken for a doctor. The &#34;doctor&#34; goes along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MARINES ARE COMING &#8211; William Haines, Esther Ralston</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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The Marines Are Coming (1934)
Direction: David Howard
Screenplay: James Gruen; from Colbert Clark and John Rathmell&#8217;s story 
Cast: William Haines, Esther Ralston, Conrad Nagel, Armida, Edgar Kennedy, Hale Hamilton
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The Marines Are Coming was  a last-minute substitution for the 1936 version of M&#8217;Liss, starring Anne Shirley, which was originally scheduled but didn&#8217;t arrive in time for Cinesation 2009.
William Haines&#8216; last film, The Marines Are Coming follows Haines&#8217; usual formula:  a cocky, womanizing  soldier  (Haines) vies with his superior officer (Conrad Nagel) for the hand of beautiful girl (Esther Ralston). Inevitably, Haines&#8217; character later proves his worth when he saves his fellow American officers from a band of Mexican bandits. 
Though hardly a good film, The Marines Are Coming [...]]]></description>
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