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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Mike Nichols</title>
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		<title>Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, Mike Nichols Sign Another &#8220;Free Polanski&#8221; Petition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernard-Henri Lévy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actors Louis Garrel, Isabelle Adjani, Elsa Zylberstein, and Isabelle Huppert; filmmakers Danièle Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, Neil Jordan, Sam Mendes, Taylor Hackford, and Mike Nichols; formerly persecuted writer Salman Rushdie; author  Milan Kundera; and stylist Diane von Furstenberg are among those who have signed another petition demanding freedom for 76-year-old filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently being held at a Swiss prison while awaiting word from local authorities whether he&#8217;ll be extradited to the United States on a charge of having sex with a minor in the late 1970s.
In his journal, La Règle du jeu, writer Bernard-Henri Lévy has asked for signatures supporting Polanski&#8217;s release. Lévy&#8217;s petition reads:

Apprehended like a common terrorist Saturday evening, September 26, as he  came to receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLOSER &#8211; Julia Roberts, Jude Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clive Owen]]></category>
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Closer (2004)
Direction: Mike Nichols
Screenplay: Patrick Marber, from his 1997 play
Cast: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman
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THE PERFECT DYSFUNCTIONAL DATE MOVIE 
Mike Nichols&#8216; first feature film, an adaptation of Edward Albee&#8217;s acclaimed play Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is a harrowing dissection of two married couples whose inner demons are let loose during a night of game playing, drinking, and screaming. That was nearly forty years ago. Fast forward to 2004 and to Nichols&#8217; newest film adaptation of an acclaimed play, Patrick Marber&#8217;s Closer, another look at two dysfunctional heterosexual couples, this time in the age of cyberspace and AIDS. 
On the surface, not much has changed since 1966: although the action has been stretched out from one night [...]]]></description>
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