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		<title>LADY WINDERMERE&#8217;S FAN &#8211; Ronald Colman &#8211; d: Ernst Lubitsch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Lady Windermere&#8217;s Fan (1925)
Direction: Ernst Lubitsch
Screenplay: Julien Josephson; titles: Maude Fulton and Erik Yorke; from Oscar Wilde&#8217;s play
Cast: Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Irene Rich, Edward Martindel


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 Bert Lytell is the nice husband, May McAvoy the jealous wife, Ronald Colman the other man, and Irene Rich (above) the scene stealer in Ernst Lubitsch&#8217;s delightful film version of Oscar Wilde&#8217;s play Lady Windermere&#8217;s Fan. 
In the film, Rich plays Mrs. Erlynne, a woman of the world in search of a lordly husband. McAvoy is her clueless daughter, Lady Windermere: she doesn&#8217;t know her mother&#8217;s identity and mistakenly believes that Mrs. Erlynne has set her sights on handsome Lord Windermere (Lytell). 
Petulant child that she is, Lady Windermere goes after eligible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOSSI &amp; JAGGER d: Eytan Fox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Yossi &#38; Jagger   (2002)
Direction: Eytan Fox
Screenplay: Avner Bernheimer
Cast: Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen, Aya Steinovitz, Hani Furstenberg, Sharon Raginiano, Yuval Semo, Yaniv Moyal, Hanan Savyon
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Yossi &#38; Jagger is a tragic love story set in a most unlikely  place: an Israeli army camp. Directed by Eytan Fox from a screenplay by Avner Bernheimer, Yossi &#38; Jagger is what the much more publicized, more elaborate, more expensive, and ultimately inferior Brokeback Mountain is supposed to be: A subversive film (not surprisingly, the Israeli army refused to give any assistance to the filmmakers) that shows soldiers, whether male or female, who seem as eager to fight a war as they are to, say, kneel over and vomit, and gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GANGS OF NEW YORK &#8211; Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Direction: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay: Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, from a story by Cocks. (Herbert Asbury&#8217;s Gangs of New York treads on some of the same territory shown in the film.)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, Henry Thomas, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, John C. Reilly, Gary Lewis, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, Alec McCowen, David Hemmings
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KEEP AWAY YOUR POOR, YOUR TIRED. . .
 Those who think that gangs and urban violence are a modern phenomenon should take a look at Martin Scorsese&#8217;s ambitious Gangs of New York, a riveting tale of revenge, corruption, and power lust set in mid-1860s New York City. Scorsese had already covered the dangerous streets of his hometown in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HOURS d: Stephen Daldry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Hours (2002)
Direction: Stephen Daldry
Screenplay: David Hare, from Michael Cunningham&#8217;s novel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Eileen Atkins
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Michael Cunningham&#8217;s Pulitzer-winning The Hours uses Virginia Woolf&#8217;s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway (whose working title was &#34;The Hours&#34;) as the link that binds its three leading female characters. Far apart in terms of time and space, those three disturbed, unhappy women have in common both the deadness of a life of self-abnegation and the living reality of death itself. 
Despite gaps in the narrative, Stephen Daldry&#8217;s stabs at melodrama, and one poor central performance, The Hours stands as an intelligent and deeply moving achievement. Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JFK &#8211; Kevin Costner &#8211; d: Oliver Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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JFK (1991)
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenplay: Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar, from Jim Marrs&#8217; book Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy and Jim Garrison&#8217;s book On the Trail of the Assassins
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Laurie Metcalf, Jack Lemmon, Sally Kirkland, Jay O. Sanders, Edward Asner, Walter Matthau, Vincent D&#8217;Onofrio, Michael Rooker, John Candy, Donald Sutherland
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PARANOID? MOI?
 If it&#8217;s an Oliver Stone film, it must be bombastic, sentimental, clunky, and controversial. With the exception of &#34;clunky,&#34; JFK is all of the above. It is also riveting, earnest, dishonest, moving, irritating,  out-of-control paranoid, and, more frequently than one might expect, outright brilliant. In sum, Oliver Stone&#8217;s 1991 political thriller about a determined district attorney&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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