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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; DVDs</title>
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		<title>THE WAR GAME d: Peter Watkins</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-war-game-peter-watkins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Aspel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 1966]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Watkins]]></category>
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The War Game  (1965)
Direction and Screenplay: Peter Watkins
Narration: Michael Aspel and Peter Graham
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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>A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR d: Anthony Asquith</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/a-cottage-on-dartmoor-anthony-asquith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Cottage on Dartmoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Asquith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Schlettow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norah Baring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uno Henning]]></category>

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A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
Direction: Anthony Asquith
Screenplay: Anthony Asquith; from a story by Herbert Price
Cast: Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Schlettow
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Uno Henning in A Cottage on Dartmoor
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Very  little in a career overview of filmmaker Anthony Asquith prepares a  viewer for the brilliant thriller A Cottage on Dartmoor, released by Kino, which he both wrote (from a story by Herbert Price) and directed. Asquith&#8217;s wonderful  but straightforward adaptations of Pygmalion (1938) and The Browning  Version (1951) &#8212; and, to a lesser extent, The Importance of Being Earnest  (1952) and Libel (1959) &#8212; do not really speak to the dynamics of this 1929 film.
The director fully embraces the tale of obsessive love in terms of  silent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karloff &amp; Lugosi Horror Classics: Bela Lugosi Disc</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/karloff-lugosi-horror-classics-bela-lugosi-disc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/karloff-lugosi-horror-classics-bela-lugosi-disc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bela Lugosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kay Kyser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[You'll Find Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zombies on Broadway]]></category>

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Darby Jones, Bela Lugosi in Zombies on Broadway

Karloff &#038; Lugosi Horror Classics: Boris Karloff Disc
Matters do not improve much over on Bela  Lugosi&#8217;s disc.  Horror enthusiasts will  likely experience a gargantuan case of buyer&#8217;s remorse during the first scenes  of You&#8217;ll Find Out (1940).  What they&#8217;ll find out is that this movie is a  vehicle not for Bela Lugosi, but for comedian/bandleader Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge band,  featuring Ginny Simms, Sully Mason and Ish Kabibble (who appears to have been  the visual inspiration for Jim Carrey&#8217;s Lloyd character in Dumb and Dumber).  
Kyser and  company&#8217;s style of comedy has, shall we say, not aged well, but this is  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karloff &amp; Lugosi Horror Classics DVD</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/boris-karloff-bela-lugosi-horror-dvd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boris Karloff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frankenstein 1970]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Curtiz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Walking Dead]]></category>

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&#34;With a few exceptions,&#34; wrote Andrew Sarris in  You Ain&#8217;t Heard  Nothin&#8217; Yet, &#34;The Bride of  Frankenstein represented the last gasp of the horror film as a serious  genre.  The creeping disease of  facetiousness crippled the genre even more distressingly than it had the  gangster film.  The dilution of  creativity proceeded apace in both genres with anachronistic wise-cracking,  farcical reactions, low-brow skepticism, and &#8216;darky&#8217; caricatures.  Warners even promoted the miscegenation of  genres with gangsters and ghouls, electric chairs, and haunted  graveyards&#8230;&#34; 
 If those lines rouse  your curiosity as to just what those films from the horror genre&#8217;s declining  years might have been like, let me direct your attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAMILIAR STRANGERS on DVD</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/familiar-strangers-on-dvd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Familiar Strangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Bell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikki Reed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phase 4 Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shawn Hatosy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Bower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zackary Adler]]></category>

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Phase 4 Films will be releasing the comedy Familiar Strangers on DVD on  November 10, 2009.
Written by John Bell and directed by Zackary Adler, Familiar Strangers, about changing relationships between parents and their growing children, features  Nikki Reed (Twilight,  Lords of Dog Town), Shawn Hatosy (Public  Enemies), DJ Qualls (All About Steve) and  Cameron Richardson (Alvin and the Chipmunks). The film won  Best  Ensemble Cast at Method Fest 2008. 
Here&#8217;s the synopsis from the press release:
Brian Worthington  (Shawn Hatosy) reluctantly returns home for the Thanksgiving holiday after a  long estrangement, carrying the baggage of unresolved conflict with his father  Frank (Tom Bower).  Frank has replaced his maturing children with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HUMAN CONDITION Review II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/the-human-condition-dvd-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masaki Kobayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tatsuya Nakadai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Criterion Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Condition]]></category>

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THE HUMAN CONDITION Review: Part I
The  Human Condition is often referred to short-handily  as an anti-war or anti-military film.   That&#8217;s a fair characterization as far as it goes, but it doesn&#8217;t go far  enough.  What Kobayashi&#8217;s film does is  deflate any and all of the ideologies bequeathed to us by the modern world,  showing them up as pernicious myths.   Kaji&#8217;s belief that labor can be managed humanely and rationally is swept  away by his time in the work camps; his patriotism, by the conduct of the  Japanese military; his sympathy for socialism, by his encounter with the tender  mercies of the Red Army.  Even his  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HUMAN CONDITION d: Masaki Kobayashi</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-human-condition-masaki-kobayashi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Soldier's Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masaki Kobayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michiyo Aratama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Greater Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tatsuya Nakadai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Criterion Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Condition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Road to Eternity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Movies]]></category>

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The Human Condition Trilogy
No Greater Love (1959), The Road to Eternity (1959), A Soldier&#8217;s Prayer (1961)
Direction: Masaki Kobayashi
Screenplay: Zenzo Matsuyama and Masaki Kobayashi; from Jumpei Gomikawa&#8217;s novel
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama
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Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai in The Human Condition
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Masaki Kobayashi&#8217;s The Human Condition, based on Jumpei Gomikawa&#8217;s novel, is probably as well known for its scope and scale  as for any other reason.  Originally  released as three films &#8212; No Greater Love (1959), The Road to Eternity (1959),  and A Soldier&#8217;s Prayer (1961) &#8212; Criterion has packaged everything together as one massive, nine-and-a-half-hour  opus chronicling the adventures of Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai), a young Japanese  unwillingly participating in the Imperial Army in World War II.  The film&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE SWEET HEREAFTER d: Atom Egoyan</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-sweet-hereafter-atom-egoyan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-sweet-hereafter-atom-egoyan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atom Egoyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Greenwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Holm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russell Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Polley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sweet Hereafter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE SWEET HEREAFTER Review: Part I
Nichole  is also hamhandedly used  as a symbol when she recites Robert Browning&#8217;s  poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The idea of lost children is so obvious in The  Sweet Hereafter  that the reason Egoyan adds this touch is bewildering, save that he &#8212; bizarrely &#8212; felt  the loss wasn&#8217;t evident enough. That   begs the question of just  how confident Egoyan was in Banks&#8217; original work,  for the poem is only one of many  elements in the film that are supposed to be significantly different from the book.
Another side story focuses &#8212; of course &#8212; on the lone man in town, Billy Ansell, who, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MADE IN U.S.A / 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER d: Jean-Luc Godard</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/made-in-usa-jean-luc-godard-anna-karina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 or 3 Things I Know About Her]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Karina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criterion Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Luc Godard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Made in U.S.A.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marina Vlady]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>

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Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Direction: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard; from Donald E. Westlake&#8217;s novel
Cast: Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marianne Faithfull, Yves Afonso
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais d&#8217;elle / 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
Direction and screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Marina Vlady, Joseph Gehrard, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Lévy, Jean Narboni
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When the young cinephiles who would later  spawn the French New Wave attended screenings of Hollywood films at the  Cinémathèque Française, they often found themselves watching prints lacking  French subtitles.  Not all of these men  understood English, but they stuck it out anyway.  After all, you can still learn from a film  even if you can&#8217;t quite follow the dialogue; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MAN FROM LONDON d: Béla Tarr</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-man-from-london-bela-tarr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Béla Tarr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georges Simenon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[László Krasznahorkai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miroslav Krobot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mystery Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Man from London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tilda Swinton]]></category>

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A londoni férfi / The Man from London  (2007)
Direction: Béla Tarr
Screenplay: Béla Tarr	 and László Krasznahorkai; from Georges Simenon&#8217;s novel
Cast: Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, Ági Szirtes, János Derzsi, Erika Bók, István Lénárt
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
 Style over substance.
 That is the plaint of many a critic when they come across a film or book or any work of art they do not like, but which has undeniable merit, at least technically, if not in a few other measures as well. But the fact is that my opening words have little to do with most of the gripes labeled as such. While there are artworks for which the opening plaint is valid, far more often the correct plaint is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MAN FROM LONDON Review II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/the-man-from-london-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Béla Tarr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Kelemen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[László Krasznahorkai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mihály Vig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mystery Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Man from London]]></category>

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THE MAN FROM LONDON: Part I
From Satantango, Tarr does the almost inverse of what he did with the Damnation sequence, taking several great scenes of people at a bar, and invoking a similar scene in a pool hall in The Man from London. But unlike a similar single scene in Werckmeister Harmonies, which illuminates the lead character’s inner self, the sequence in The Man from London plays as a sort of grotesque bit, tossed in just for shock value. 
In Satantango, the bar scenes play out much longer; one scene, in particular, is shown from two different perspectives at two different points in the film. This causes a parallax that is absent in the pool hall scene, which also fails [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MAN FROM LONDON Review III</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/the-man-from-london-tilda-swinton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Eye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Béla Tarr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erika Bok]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mystery Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Man from London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tilda Swinton]]></category>

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THE MAN FROM LONDON: Part I
THE MAN FROM LONDON: Part II
We then follow Maloin to his home, where Tarr offers some great scenes of him trying to sleep and dreaming of the prior night. We also see his protectiveness toward his daughter, Henriette (Erika Bok), and his arguments with his nameless wife (played by Swinton), who comes off as a typical harridan. All of these scenes, no matter how well filmed, feel tired and repetitive. By contrast, in Tarr’s earlier Satantango, Erika Bok plays a small girl who violently wrestles with and kills her cat. Despite the ugly nature of that sequence, it elucidates both Bok&#8217;s character and one of that film&#8217;s major plot points and themes. No such corresponding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE LIMEY d: Steven Soderbergh</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-limey-steven-soderbergh-stamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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The Limey (1999)
Direction: Steven Soderbergh
Screenplay: Lem Dobbs
Cast: Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman, Peter Fonda, Barry Newman, Joe Dallesandro, Nicky Katt, Amelia Heinle, Melissa George

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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Director Steven  Soderbergh’s 1999 so-called crime drama The Limey  is  easily the best  Soderbergh effort I’ve  seen. That&#8217;s partly due  to the innovative narrative structure, which  makes all but the  last  few minutes of this great film a flashback. The rest is due to an excellent  script by  Lem Dobbs, whose other great success came a year  earlier, in Alex Proyas’ sci-fi thriller Dark City. Both films, despite  their apparent differences, are acutely focused on human memory and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE LIMEY II &#8211; Terence Stamp</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-limey-terence-stamp-peter-fonda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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THE LIMEY &#8211; Part I
Aside from memory, there are superbly rendered details that distill the characters: Wilson radiates  affection for Eduardo’s help in tracking down Valentine by fondly calling him  Sancho (as in Panza). All of these things &#8212; along with Eduardo’s and Elaine’s  motivations, and the portrayal of the relationship between the hitmen &#8212; work well. In fact, they work so well  precisely because there are no specifics, but generalities sharply   etched so that the viewer ‘feels,’ as well as understands, the motivations  and relationships. That allows the viewer to feel what goes on inside Wilson, thus creating a stronger identification with him than would be  gotten were all things laid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under Full Sail &#8211; Silent Cinema on the High Seas</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/under-full-sail-silent-cinema-on-the-high-seas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Flicker Alley in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of &#34;Under Full Sail &#8211; Silent Cinema on the High Seas,&#34; a new DVD release featuring, as per its press release, &#34;five breathtaking films that preserve the romance, grandeur and allure of windjammers sailing open waters, exquisitely photographed in the style of the time.&#34;
The following information is from the Flicker Alley release:
The Yankee Clipper (1927), produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian, restored to the most complete version available since the film&#8217;s release, is a feature-length melodrama recreating the real-life race from Foo Chow to Boston for the China tea trade.  The gorgeous production filmed at sea for six weeks aboard the 1856 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY KID COULD PAINT THAT d: Amir Bar-Lev</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/my-kid-could-paint-that-d-amir-bar-lev/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
Direction: Amir Bar-Lev
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
In a real sense,  the 83-minute  documentary  My Kid Could Paint That is one of  the most disgusting films of all time. It disgusts because 

a) it so vividly displays  the utter nonsense and stupidity of the modern art scamming that has gone on  for the last half century or more (especially in Abstract Expressionism) &#8212; and  that’s a good thing; and 
b) it so vividly displays the exploitation of an  innocent child, Marla Olmstead, to  meet the personal and psychological demands and needs of her Mark and Laura &#8212; and that’s a bad thing.

Basically, the  film, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEBAUCHED DESIRES: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/sex/debauched-desires-masaru-konuma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/sex/debauched-desires-masaru-konuma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE
Kino International and KimStim are proud to release the four-DVD set Debauched Desires: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma.
Directed by the master of Japanese erotic cinema Masaru Konuma, CLOISTERED NUN: RUNA&#8217;S CONFESSION (1976), TATTOOED FLOWER VASE (1976), EROTIC DIARY OF AN OFFICE LADY (1977) and a re-mastered version of WIFE TO BE SACRIFICED (1975) are now available in one four-DVD set at the reduced price of $49.95. Previously, each of these films was available at $29.95.
The street date for Debauched Desires: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma is May 19, 2009.
&#34;Stylishly directed and singularly harrowing&#34; (Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia), these four films are classic examples of pink cinema, a style of Japanese, softcore theatrical films which was common in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAYS OF &#8216;36 d: Theo Angelopoulos</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/days-of-36-d-theo-angelopoulos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Meres tou &#8216;36 / Days of &#8216;36 (1972)
Direction: Theo Angelopoulos
Screenplay: Theo Angelopoulos, Petros Markaris,  Thanassis Valtinos and Stratis Karras
Cast: Giorgos Kiritsis, Christoforos  Chimaras, Takis Doukakos,  Kostas Pavlou, Petros Zarkadis,  Christophoros Nezer
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Greek film director  Theo Angelopoulos&#8216; 1972 effort  Meres  Tou &#8216;36 / Days of &#8216;36, winner of the International Film Critics Association award at the  Berlin Film Festival, is the least of  the several films of his that I&#8217;ve seen. It is also, by over a decade and a  half, the earliest  one I&#8217;ve seen so far, and at one hour and 45  minutes it is by a good margin the shortest as well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLADE RUNNER &#8211; Harrison Ford &#8211; d: Ridley Scott</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/blade-runner-harrison-ford-ridley-scott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Blade Runner (1982)
Direction: Ridley Scott
Screenplay: Hampton Fancher and David Peoples; from Philip K. Dick&#8217;s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy, Brion James
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Director Ridley  Scott&#8217;s dystopian 1982 sci-fi drama Blade Runner is one of those  Hollywood productions whose initially mixed reviews were actually closer to the mark than the  decades of hagiography  that followed. That&#8217;s not to say that Blade Runner is a bad film; it&#8217;s  only a  much-ballyhooed mediocrity &#8212; due   mostly to its  sluggish screenplay &#8212; rather than a great film. 
Adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples  [...]]]></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>Griffith Masterworks 2: SALLY OF THE SAWDUST</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/griffith-masterworks-sally-of-the-sawdust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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W. C. Fields, Carol Dempster in Sally of the Sawdust

Griffith Masterworks 2: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE STRUGGLE
The final disc of the set contains Sally of the Sawdust (1925), a rare comedy feature starring Griffith protegee Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields. The Sally of the title (played by Dempster)  performs in the circus with her &#34;pop,&#34; Professor McGargle  (Fields). Little does she know that  McGargle came to be her guardian through an unlikely set of circumstances, and  is not in fact her real father. As Sally  nears adulthood, McGargle decides to bring her to her old hometown so that she  might know the truth about her family; wacky hijinks ensue.
Sally of the Sawdust is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Griffith Masterworks 2: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE STRUGGLE</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/griffith-abraham-lincoln-the-struggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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Walter Huston in Abraham Lincoln

Griffith Masterworks 2: WAY DOWN EAST, THE AVENGING CONSCIENCE
The most anticipated (by me anyway) part of  this set is the twofer disc of Abraham Lincoln  and The Struggle. Long overshadowed by Griffith&#8217;s earlier work, these  have the distinction of being his final two films (from 1930 and 1931,  respectively), and his only attempts at talkies. By this point, Griffith&#8217;s career had been in  decline for several years, as newer and, frankly, greater talents eclipsed his  trailblazing innovations of a decade earlier. These two films were his last shots  at securing a place in the emerging film industry.
  For the son of a Confederate soldier,  Griffith was surprisingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Griffith Masterworks 2: WAY DOWN EAST, THE AVENGING CONSCIENCE</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/griffith-masterworks-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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It may not have been terribly original of  Kino to include in their 2005 Griffith Masterworks boxed set the only four  D. W. Griffith features that most people could name (let alone claim to have seen),  but it would have been downright perverse to pass over The Birth of a Nation,  Intolerance, Broken Blossoms, and Orphans of the Storm (the fifth and sixth discs  were made up of several Biograph shorts).
With their second set, Griffith Masterworks 2, released this month, Kino has selected some  genuine curiosities; each of the five films on offer here has novelty value in  addition to being the work of cinema&#8217;s first genius.
Way Down East (1920), the first film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Friedkin Remembers THE BOYS IN THE BAND</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/william-friedkin-remembers-the-boys-in-the-band/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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In the Chicago Sun-Times, Thomas Conner interviews William Friedkin upon the DVD release of the 1970 drama The Boys in the Band, which was adapted by  Mart Crowley from his own  1968 off-Broadway play about a group of  some very sad and very bitter gay men &#8212; and one token (self-proclaimed) straight guy &#8212; who get together for a birthday celebration. &#34;I knew a lot of people like those people,&#34; Crowley later said of his   whiny characters. &#34;The self-deprecating humor was born out of a low self-esteem,   from a sense of what the times told you about yourself.&#34; 
I saw the film years ago and I actually liked it. Not sure if I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buster Keaton&#8217;s THE GENERAL &#8211; Ultimate 2 Disc Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Considered by many Buster Keaton&#8217;s masterpiece  and one of the greatest movies ever made, the 1927 silent comedy The General &#8212; co-directed by Keaton and Clyde Bruckman &#8212; has received a classy DVD treatment courtesy of Kino International: &#34;The General - Ultimate 2 Disc Edition.&#34; Whether or not you&#8217;re a Keaton admirer &#8212; and I&#8217;m no fan of gag-based  comedies &#8212; I find it impossible not to be thrilled that this cinematic landmark is now available on DVD in a  version newly mastered in HD from a 35mm archive print struck from the original camera negative.
As with just about every Buster Keaton vehicle, The General doesn&#8217;t offer much in terms of plot. After being rejected by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAN BITES DOG d: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;est arrivé près de chez vous / Man Bites Dog aka It Happened in Your Neighborhood (1992)
Direction: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel. Screenplay: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Vincent Tavier. Cast:  Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Jean-Marc Chenut, Alain Oppexxi, Vincent Tavier
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
The 1992 Belgian  mockumentary C&#8217;est arrivé près de chez vous / Man Bites Dog (or, somewhat literally, It  Happened in Your Neighborhood) is one of those films that is neither bad nor  good, and not really its own &#34;thing,&#34; either. By that I mean that it is manifestly  influenced by  works that came before it, so it is nothing original, while also  displaying techniques that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer DVD Set</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/douglas-fairbanks-a-modern-musketeer-dvd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Flicker Alley, described as &#34;a specialty supplier  of fine silent films and classic cinema programming,&#34; in association with the  Blackhawk Film Collection, has announced the December 2, 2008, release of &#34;Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer,&#34; a five-disc DVD  collection featuring eleven early Douglas Fairbanks&#8216; vehicles. Fairbanks, one of the founders of United Artists and at one point the husband of superstar Mary Pickford, was one of the biggest film attractions in the world from the mid-1910s to the late 1920s. 
The Flicker Alley set includes digitally mastered editions from 35mm or  original-negative prints of the following films, most of which were made prior to Fairbanks&#8217; swashbuckling phase: His  Picture in the Papers, Flirting with Fate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIRE d: Deepa Mehta</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/fire-deepa-mehta-azmi-nandita-das/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire (1996)
Direction and screenplay: Deepa Mehta. Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Jaaved Jaaferi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ranjit Chowdhry, Kushal Rekhi, Alice Poon
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I watched the 1996 Canadian film Fire by Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta after having long heard of its taboo nature based mainly on its depiction of lesbianism. And while not a silly film &#8212; such as the softcore When Night Is Falling or the horrid Hollywood &#8216;Hook&#8217;em&#8217; Brokeback Mountain &#8212; Fire is nowhere near a great film, either.
As for the lesbianism, there is very little skin and the &#8216;love story&#8217; is rather demure. On the other hand, there is far too much radical Feminist (capital F) ideology that lowers the intellectual argument of Mehta&#8217;s film &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COBRA &#8211; Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cobra (1925)
Direction: Joseph Henabery. Screenplay: Anthony Coldeway; from Martin Brown&#8217;s play. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Casson Ferguson, Gertrude Olmstead, Eileen Percy, Lillian Langdon, Hector Sarno
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Cobra is my favorite Rudolph Valentino film. Directed by Joseph Henabery, with a screenplay by Anthony Coldewey from a play by Martin Brown, this was Valentino&#8217;s finest moment. He is at the height of his beauty, impeccably shot by J. D. Hennings and Harry Fischbeck &#8212; despite the glare from the gallon of pomade in his hair.
In Cobra, Valentino plays Rodrigo Torriani, a dissolute, debt-ridden playboy living in a mansion inherited from his likewise randy ancestors. Rodrigo&#8217;s problem is that he is an irresistible magnet for women. They stick to him like white on rice, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Batman: Gotham Knight  (2008)
Direction: Shoijiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yasuhiro Aoki, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Jong-Sik Nam. Screenplay: Brian Azzarello, Alan Burnett, Jordan Goldberg, David S. Goyer, Josh Olson, Greg Rucka; based on Bob Kane&#8217;s character. Voices: Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Gary Dourdan, Corey Burton, Jason Marsden, Jim Meskimen, Kevin Michael Richardson, George Newbern
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Batman: Gotham Knight is a direct-to-DVD animated film in six segments, each directed by a different East Asian filmmaker. The animation quality, both in terms of character and environment detail, exceeds that of the animation found in all the Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and all the other Batman animated films. The fore and backgrounds aren&#8217;t after thoughts; they have as much care [...]]]></description>
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