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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Harvey Weinstein</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/harvey-weinstein/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Best Picture: THE KING&#039;S SPEECH, Best Direction: David Fincher, THE SOCIAL NETWORK &#8211; Oscar 2011 Predictions</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/best-picture-the-kings-speech-best-direction-david-fincher-oscar-predictions/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/best-picture-the-kings-speech-best-direction-david-fincher-oscar-predictions/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:01:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26155</guid> <description><![CDATA[Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech Tom Hooper has won the Directors Guild Award in the Narrative Feature category. Hooper, of course, is the director of The King's Speech, the period British drama that has been doing remarkably well at the North American box office and that was distributed in the United States by Harvey Weinstein's The Weinstein Co. That's the same company [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-hooper-dga-award-winner-the-kings-speech/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Christopher Nolan, THE DARK KNIGHT: Biggest Oscar Snubs #3a</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/christopher-nolan-the-dark-knight-biggest-oscar-snubs/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/christopher-nolan-the-dark-knight-biggest-oscar-snubs/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:38:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26144</guid> <description><![CDATA[Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Matteo Garrone's GOMORRAH: Biggest Oscar Snubs #4e In early 2009, Christopher Nolan's megablockbuster The Dark Knight received nominations from the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, and the Writers Guild (for Nolan, his brother Jonathan Nolan, and David S. Goyer). Additionally, Heath Ledger was nominated for and eventually won the Screen Actors Guild's Best Supporting Actor Award for his [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/christopher-nolan-the-dark-knight-biggest-oscar-snubs/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fernando Meirelles&#039; CITY OF GOD: Biggest Oscar Snubs #4b</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/city-of-god-biggest-oscar-snubs-449/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/city-of-god-biggest-oscar-snubs-449/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:37:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20910</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Foreign Language Films: Biggest Oscar Snubs #4a &#34;City of God is a potent and unexpected mixture of authenticity and flash. It's both the slickly made first feature [sic]* from Brazil's most successful director of commercials and a vigorous piece of social realism that's unmistakably trading on something actual,&#34; wrote Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times. Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review praised City for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/city-of-god-biggest-oscar-snubs-449/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Harvey Weinstein to Challenge BLUE VALENTINE&#039;s NC-17 Rating</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harvey-weinstein-blue-valentine-nc-17-rating/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harvey-weinstein-blue-valentine-nc-17-rating/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:54:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25325</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine As expected, Harvey Weinstein has appealed the MPAA's NC-17 rating slapped on The Weinstein Co.'s Blue Valentine, directed by Derek Cianfrance, and starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling as a couple who go from quirky courtship to disintegrating marriage. “We want to express our deepest gratitude to our colleagues in the industry and in the media for their recent [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harvey-weinstein-blue-valentine-nc-17-rating/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Filmmaker Feng Xiaogang Calls Harvey Weinstein &quot;a Cheater&quot; at Shanghai Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/feng-xiaogang-harvey-weinstein-cheater-shanghai/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/feng-xiaogang-harvey-weinstein-cheater-shanghai/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:57:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24516</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gong Li, John Cusack, Shanghai Golden Horse winner Feng Xiaogang (right), among whose credits are A World Without Thieves, Assembly, and If You Are the One, called US mogul Harvey Weinstein &#34;a cheater in the eyes of many Chinese moviemakers,&#34; according to Jonathan Landreth at The Hollywood Reporter. Feng voiced his criticism at a discussion held at the 2010 Shanghai International Film Festival. Weinstein wasn't [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/feng-xiaogang-harvey-weinstein-cheater-shanghai/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Campaign Scandal: Robert Wise, Miramax &amp; GANGS OF NEW YORK</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-wise-miramax-gangs-of-new-york-43987/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-wise-miramax-gangs-of-new-york-43987/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:34:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22592</guid> <description><![CDATA[Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Nicolas Chartier, one of the four Oscar-nominated producers of The Hurt Locker, has been penalized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because of e-mails he sent out a couple of weeks ago asking various Academy members to vote for his low-budgeted Iraq War drama and not for &#34;a $500M film&#34; &#8212; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-wise-miramax-gangs-of-new-york-43987/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A SINGLE MAN Gets Degayified Posters</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/a-single-man-straight-poster-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/a-single-man-straight-poster-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:43:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18793</guid> <description><![CDATA[Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man, directed by Tom Ford What's a &#34;gay movie&#34;? Brokeback Mountain? Midnight Cowboy? What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Milk? Top Gun? Lukas Licks Lodz? Something directed by a gay man, say, The Philadelphia Story or Midnight or a couple of the biggest action blockbusters made in the last decade or so? Something written for the screen by [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/a-single-man-straight-poster-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE ELITE SQUAD: The 2008 Berlin Film Festival&#039;s Controversial Winner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:11:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The second Brazilian production to win the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear, José Padilha's Tropa de Elite / The Elite Squad, a violent tale about Rio's special police unit's fight against slum-based druglords, was a controversial choice for the 2008 festival's top award. Unlike the previous Brazilian winning entry, the considerably cozier Central Station back in 1998, The Elite Squad was greeted with strong reservations [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>FAHRENHEIT 9/11: Disney vs. Michael Moore</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/fahrenheit-9-11-trivia/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/fahrenheit-9-11-trivia/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:20:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/fahrenheit-9-11-trivia/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 was voted Best Non-Fiction Film by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, New York Film Critics Circle, Online Film Critics Society, Phoenix Film Critics Society, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Southeastern Film [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/fahrenheit-9-11-trivia/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Harvey Weinstein: Drown Venice Festival Director Marco Muller</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/venice-film-festival-2004-wraps-up/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/venice-film-festival-2004-wraps-up/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2004 06:35:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/venice-film-festival-2004-wraps-up/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Princess of Mount Ledang / A Legendary Love The 2004 Venice Film Festival came to a close on September 11, after nearly two weeks of glitz, glamour, and glitches. Besides loads of Hollywood stars and a number of well-received and/or controversial films, the festival also offered frequent overbooking and long delays at the screenings. The culprit, according to festival officials, was an uncooperative computer system. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/venice-film-festival-2004-wraps-up/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
