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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Film Reviews</title>
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		<title>HOLLOW REED &#8211; Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/hollow-reed-martin-donovan-joely-richardson-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angela Pope]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollow Reed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Hart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Flemyng]]></category>
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Hollow Reed   (1996)
Direction: Angela Pope
Screenplay: Paula Milne
Cast: Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Sam Bould, Ian Hart, Jason Flemyng, Annette Badland, Roger Lloyd-Pack
&#160;

 Hollow Reed, the tale of a little boy loved by his gay father and abused by his hetero stepfather, was the winner of the Audience Award at the 1996 Dinard British Film Festival. That shouldn&#8217;t be surprising. After all, director Angela Pope and screenwriter Paula Milne squeeze every possible dramatic element the story could offer, from relentless closeups of young actor Sam Bould&#8217;s soulful face to a climactic bloody fight between the film&#8217;s warring dads. Most audiences love that.
Personally, I believe that approach is perfectly fine as long as  the filmmakers don&#8217;t take themselves too seriously [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[John Lund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitchell Leisen]]></category>
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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
&#160;

Olivia de Havilland, John Lund in To Each His Own
&#160;

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>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hold-back-the-dawn-charles-boyer-olivia-de-havilland-123/</link>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Boyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Brackett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></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
&#160;

Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard in Hold Back the Dawn
&#160;

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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cromwell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]></category>
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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
&#160;

Kim Stanley in The Goddess
&#160;

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>JCVD &#8211; Jean-Claude Van Damme</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/jcvd-jean-claude-van-damme-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JCVD]]></category>
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JCVD (2008)
Direction: Mabrouk El Mechri
Screenplay: Mabrouk El Mechri and Frédéric Benudis; from an idea by Frédéric Taddeï and Vincent Ravalec
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Liliane Becker
&#160;

Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD
&#160;

Mabrouk El Mechri’s JCVD is one of the best films Jean-Claude  Van Damme has starred in for some years, equal to his more recent efforts in Wake of Death and Replicant. Van Damme really puts on his  acting cap in all three  films, though out of the three, Replicant is still the best, followed by JCVD and then Wake of Death. JCVD, however, is  the most inventive of the trio; it is also  the first film where Van Damme gets real  with his audience.
JCVD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE WAR GAME Review II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-war-game-review-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Tynan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Watkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The War Game]]></category>

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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>
		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Aspel]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rich-mans-folly-george-bancroft-frances-dee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-pony-express-betty-compson-ricardo-cortez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ernest Torrence]]></category>
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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
&#160;

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>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-apartment-above-eugeniusz-bodo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emanuel Schlechter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eugeniusz Bodo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helena Grossówna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Józef Orwid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Trystan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ludwik Starski]]></category>
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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
&#160;

&#160;

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>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-raven-henry-b-walthall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Brabin]]></category>
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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
&#160;

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>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/mliss-mary-pickford-thomas-meighan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frances Marion]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/her-night-of-romance-constance-talmadge-ronald-colman/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-marines-are-coming-william-haines-esther-ralston/</link>
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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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		<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>
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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>CROOKED STREETS &#8211; Ethel Clayton</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/crooked-streets-ethel-clayton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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Crooked Streets (1920)
Direction: Paul Powell
Screenplay: Edith M. Kennedy; from a story by  Samuel Merwin
Cast: Ethel Clayton, Jack Holt, Clyde Fillmore, Josephine Crowell
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Beautiful Ethel Clayton, a major star in the 1910s, plays a young woman who takes a job as secretary to a Professor of antiquities about to embark upon a trip to China. Clayton, however, has a secret motive for wanting to get to China. 
Crooked Streets is an excellent  action-packed drama with a particularly impressive lengthy  chase sequence in which Clayton rides alone to a dangerous part of town and is attacked by a massive crowd of Chinese locals. The film also offers a  great fight sequence between Jack Holt and a Chinese thug who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA d: Stacy Peralta</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/crips-and-bloods-made-in-america-d-stacy-peralta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008)
Direction: Stacy Peralta
Screenplay: Stacy Peralta and Sam George
Narration: Forest Whitaker
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In the 1980s and into the first half of the 1990s, gang violence in American urban centers grabbed nightly news headlines with a distant sensationalism that appears almost quaint in the era of the 24-hour news cycle.  Perhaps because threats emerging beyond the borders of the United States appear more prevalent or maybe because superficial aspects of the thug life entered the pop culture vernacular, gang warfare in cities such as Los Angeles has bled into the background of media chatter in the last fifteen years.  
Crips and Bloods: Made in America reintroduces the conversation into the mainstream.  Director Stacy Peralta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O MIMI SAN &#8211; Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/o-mimi-san-sessue-hayakawa-mildred-harris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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O Mimi San (1914)
Direction: Charles Miller
Screenplay: Thomas H. Ince (unconfirmed)
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris, Tsuru Aoki
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O Mimi San is historically important as Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa&#8217;s first film. In it, Hayakawa plays a prince who goes to a retreat after an attempt on his life is made; once there he falls in love with a young woman (Mildred Harris,  future wife of Charles Chaplin) but then finds himself torn between love and  duty as a leader of his nation. Compounding matters, an arranged marriage (with Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa&#8217;s own future wife) awaits him. 
Directed by Charles Miller and allegedly written by Thomas H. Ince (a studio head best remembered for his &#34;mysterious&#34; death in 1924), O Mimi San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DEVIL&#8217;S CLAIM &#8211; Sessue Hayakawa</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-devils-claim-sessue-hayakawa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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The Devil&#8217;s Claim (1920)
Direction: Charles Swickard
Screenplay: J. Grubb Alexander
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Rhea Mitchell, Colleen Moore, William Buckley
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In The Devil&#8217;s Claim, Sessue Hayakawa plays an Indian (!) novelist who uses his experiences with women as inspiration for his novels. Next, he encounters a young American woman (Rhea Mitchell) who tells him a story about Satan-worshipping societies and evil talismans. Her real motive, however, is to reunite the novelist with Indora (future 1920s superstar Colleen Moore), a young Persian girl whom he had abandoned. 
Directed by Charles Swickard from a screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander, The Devil&#8217;s Claim is an excellent drama &#8212; and so is  Hayakawa&#8217;s performance. Much of the plot is told in the &#34;story within a story&#34; mode, [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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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>THE TIGER&#8217;S TAIL &#8211; Brendan Gleeson &#8211; d: John Boorman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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The Tiger&#8217;s Tail  (2007)
Direction and Screenplay: John Boorman
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack, Briain Gleeson, Sean McGinley
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Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall in The Tiger&#8217;s Tail
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One might initially be surprised to find that John Boorman&#8217;s latest film, The Tiger&#8217;s Tail, has all but gone straight to DVD in the United States. Surely the director of Point Blank, Deliverance, and Hope and Glory deserves at least the benefit of the doubt of a significant theatrical release? (Especially since his 21st-century output, particularly the 2005 drama In My Country, has been among his best work.)
But the film industry being what it is these days, The Tiger&#8217;s Tail probably has a better shot at an audience on home video than it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MADE IN U.S.A / 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER d: Jean-Luc Godard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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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>SITTING PRETTY &#8211; Clifton Webb, Maureen O&#8217;Hara</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
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Sitting Pretty (1948)
Direction: Walter Lang
Screenplay: F. Hugh Herbert; from Gwen Davenport&#8217;s novel Belvedere
Cast: Clifton Webb, Maureen O&#8217;Hara, Robert Young, Richard Haydn, Louise Allbritton, Randy Stuart, Ed Begley
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In the late 1940s, the bucolic suburb of Hummingbird Hill is shaken in its tranquil complacency by the scandalous actions of two middle-aged, unmarried men. Each of these elitist, academic bachelors threaten the norm of twin beds, parlor games, and ladies who lunch. One escapes his overbearing mother in persistent eavesdropping and snooping; the other inserts himself as a platonic wedge between a husband and wife, usurping household authority with conceited pleasure.
The couple eventually separates under the strain, while the community itself is exposed for its flaws and hypocrisy. The convention of the two-parent, heterosexual family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE KILLING KIND &#8211; Ann Sothern &#8211; d: Curtis Harrington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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The Killing Kind (1973)
Direction: Curtis Harrington
Screenplay: Tony Crechales and George Edwards
Cast: Ann Sothern, John Savage, Ruth Roman, Cindy Williams, Luana Anders, Sue Bernard, Marjorie Eaton, Peter Brocco
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When I read that The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film described Curtis Harrington&#8217;s The Killing Kind as &#34;a seldom-seen sickie&#34; I just knew I had to see it.  And it was well worth my time.
After a young man, Terry Lambert (John Savage), is released from prison for a rape he was &#34;forced&#34; to commit, strange things begin to happen.  He returns home to live in his mother&#8217;s boarding-house and spies on one of her tenants (Cindy Williams).  But spying is not the only perversion on Terry&#8217;s mind.  He strives to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MAN FROM LONDON d: Béla Tarr</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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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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