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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Ken Loach</title>
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		<title>Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Arrested</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/jafar-panahi-arrested-81760/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jafar Panahi&#8217;s Offside

Jafar Panahi, 49, the Iranian director of the Venice Film Festival winner The Circle, was arrested on Monday night along with his wife and daughter and 15 house guests following a raid at his home in Teheran, according to The Times of London. Panahi had supported opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi  in Iran&#8217;s disputed parliamentary elections last year. The report adds that &#34;artists from around the world yesterday called for the release of the Iranian film-maker.&#34;
“It is a very shocking development and further demonstration of the intolerance of the regime,” said British filmmaker Ken Loach, well-known for his liberal political views. “I hope all people working in films will call for his release, and speak out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Tahar Rahim, Kate Winslet, Ken Loach, Isabelle Huppert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Best actor European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim was present at the Dec. 12 ceremony in Bochum, Germany, to receive his trophy for his performance as a prison inmate at odds with the local Corsican mafia in Jacques Audiard&#8217;s A Prophet.  However, much like last year&#8217;s best actress winner Helen Mirren (for The Queen),  Kate Winslet was nowhere to be found in the auditorium.
Winslet won for Stephen Daldry&#8217;s The Reader, in which she plays a former Nazi guard who has an affair with a teenager (best actor nominee David Kross) half her age. That was in 2008. She won an Oscar and a Golden Globe back in early 2009. She was present at both ceremonies. But we&#8217;re now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Presenters and Guests</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scheduled presenters at the 2009 European Film Awards, to be held later this evening in Bochum, Germany, are: 
Actresses Victoria Abril (Spain), Caterina Murino (Italy), Johanna ter Steege (the Netherlands),  María Valverde (Spain), and actors Detlev Buck (Germany), Jesper Christensen (Denmark), Ben Kingsley (UK), Maciej Stuhr (Poland), and Anatole Taubman (Switzerland).
Also,  documentary director Nino Kirtadzé (France/Georgia), actor/director Aksel Hennie (Norway),  and director/actor Branko Djuric (Bosnia &#38; Herzegovina).
And finally,  Gottfried Langenstein, President of ARTE, Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information, Society and Media, and EFA President Wim Wenders.
Among the expected guests are actresses Hannelore Elsner (Germany), Krystyna Janda (Poland), and Julia Jentsch (Germany), and directors Roland Emmerich and Sönke Wortmann. Plus award winners  Peter Liechti (EFA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: A SINGLE MAN, TRANSCENDENT MAN</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/a-single-man-transcendent-man-afi-fest-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man (top); Steve Evets, Eric Cantona in Looking for Eric (bottom)

AFI FEST 2009 highlights on Thursday, Nov. 5:

Robert Barry Ptolemy&#8217;s Transcendent Man sounds fascinating: Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses the just-around-the-corner impact of human technology, which has been growing exponentially. Imagine a world without death, hunger, disease. (Well, I&#8217;m assuming all those great things will happen if humans don&#8217;t self-destruct first. After all, all lab studies indicate that human imbecility is growing even faster than the species&#8217; technological advances &#8212; talk about a scientific paradox; someone should come up with a documentary about that.)
Directed by Tom Ford, A Single Man stars Venice 2009 winner Colin Firth, who&#8217;ll quite likely receive an Oscar nod come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannes 2009: Best Screenplay Favorites</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/cannes-2009-best-screenplay-favorites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 05:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marco Bellocchio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Laverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vincere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xavier Giannoli]]></category>

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Best Screenplay
Any of those listed for best film, in addition to:
Marco Bellocchio&#8217;s Vincere (co-written by Bellocchio and Daniela Ceselli), about how Benito Mussolini mistreated his first wife (Giovanna Mezzogiorno, top photo) and son while millions of Italians thought he was just the greatest guy around.
Ken Loach&#8217;s Looking for Eric (written by Paul Laverty), about a postman who gets soccer player Eric Cantona (middle photo) to become his life coach.
Writer-director Xavier Giannoli&#8217;s In the Beginning (bottom photo), in which a con man gets a small town to build a highway.
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Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
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		<title>Cannes 2009: Ken Loach, Ang Lee, Andrea Arnold, Jacques Audiard</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/ken-loach-ang-lee-arnold-audiard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 01:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Derek Elley on Looking for Eric (above, Ken Loach and Eric Cantona) in Variety:
&#34;&#8230; helmer Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty&#8217;s ninth feature together is  a curious hybrid: Three movies &#8212; boilerplate, socially aware Loach;  personal fantasy; romantic comedy &#8212; wrap around a central core of a  hopeless soccer fanatic who&#8217;s given a second chance to sort out his  life. As in many of Laverty&#8217;s scripts, problems of overall tone and  character development aren&#8217;t solved by Loach&#8217;s easygoing direction,  though when it works, Eric has many incidental pleasures.&#34;
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Anthony Kaufman on A Prophet at indieWIRE:
&#34;If James Toback’s petty-criminal tale Fingers inspired Jacques  Audiard’s previous The Beat That My Heart Skipped, it’s Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Film Awards 2007 Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/irish-film-awards-2007-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Even though it failed to get nominated in the best director (Ken Loach) and best screenplay (Paul Haverty) categories, 2006 Cannes  winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley was chosen best Irish film at the 2007  Irish Film &#38; Television Academy Awards ceremony held in Dublin.
Starring Cillian Murphy (above, left), The Wind That Shakes the Barley follows members of the Irish Republican Army as they fight the British in the early 20th century. Liam Cunningham, as a train driver who becomes an activist, was chosen best supporting actor. 

Cillian Murphy, for his part, was the winner of the best actor award for his role as a transvestite cabaret singer in Neil Jordan&#8217;s sociopolitical comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto (above). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Film Awards 2007: Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/irish-film-awards-2006-nominations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The nominees for the 2007 Irish Film &#38; Television Academy Awards have been announced.
Neil Jordan&#8217;s Breakfast on Pluto, the tale of an Irish transvestite cabaret singer in the London of the 1960s and 1970s, dominated the list with a total of 10 nominations, including best film, best director, best actor (Cillian Murphy, above, with Gavin Friday) and best screenplay (Jordan and Pat McCabe). 

Other top nominees were Brian Kirk&#8217;s Middletown, about a borderline-fanatical Catholic priest who believes it&#8217;s his mission to save the souls of a small Irish town (9 nods); veteran John Boorman&#8217;s The Tiger&#8217;s Tail, about a businessman (best actor nominee Brendan Gleeson, above, with Kim Cattrall)  stalked by his down-and-out twin (7 nods); and Ken Loach&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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