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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Oscar Movies</title>
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		<title>TO EACH HIS OWN &#8211; Olivia de Havilland, John Lund</title>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Olivia de Havilland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 1946]]></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
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Olivia de Havilland, John Lund in To Each His Own
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Brackett]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hold Back the Dawn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Olivia de Havilland]]></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
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Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard in Hold Back the Dawn
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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[Classic Movies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Cromwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Stanley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lloyd Bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 1958]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paddy Chayefsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Goddess]]></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
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Kim Stanley in The Goddess
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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>Grace Kelly on TCM: REAR WINDOW, THE COUNTRY GIRL</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-rear-window-the-country-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dial M for Murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Seaton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 1954]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Milland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rear Window]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Country Girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thelma Ritter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turner Classic Movies]]></category>

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James Stewart, Grace Kelly in Rear Window

Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Grace Kelly series continues this Thursday, Nov. 12, with  three of Kelly&#8217;s biggest hits, all from 1954: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and The Country Girl. Kelly, who died in 1982 following a car accident in Monaco, would have turned 80 on Nov. 12.
Some consider Dial M for Murder a minor Alfred Hitchcock effort. Personally, I find it more enjoyable than Hitchcock&#8217;s revered Rear Window. Part of the reason is a pair of deadly scissors found in the former but not in the latter;  yet, I&#8217;d say that the chief reason is that neither one of Kelly&#8217;s leading men in Dial M for Murder is James Stewart. Instead, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/burt-lancaster-deborah-kerr-from-here-to-eternity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burt Lancaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Taradash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Kerr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donna Reed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernest Borgnine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Sinatra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Zinnemann]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joan Crawford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
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Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love in From Here to Eternity(top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film (bottom)

Fred Zinnemann&#8217;s 1953 Academy Award-winning drama From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift,  Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra, will be screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on  Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in  Beverly Hills. The presentation will feature the premiere of a new digital  restoration, as well as an onstage discussion with Ernest  Borgnine, who has a supporting role in the film.
Adapted by Daniel Taradash from  James Jones&#8216; bestselling [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Aspel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 1966]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Watkins]]></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>ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/encounters-at-the-end-of-the-world-flow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encounters at the End of the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flow: For Love of Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irena Salina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
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Werner Herzog&#8217;s Academy Award-nominated Encounters at the End of the World (above, lower photo) and Irena Salina’s Flow: For Love of Water will be screened as part  of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual  “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 21, at 7 p.m.  at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Directed by Herzog and produced by Henry Kaiser, Encounters at the End of the World looks at human beings interacting with the harsh environment of   Antarctica.    Werner Herzog will be present to take  questions from the audience following the screening.
Flow: For Love of Water  deals with the dire consequences of increased privatization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linwood Dunn: Celebrating a Visual Effects Pioneer &#8211; CITIZEN KANE Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/linwood-dunn-celebrating-a-visual-effects-pioneer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizen Kane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig Barron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orson Welles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 1941]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Warrick]]></category>
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&#34;Linwood Dunn: Celebrating a Visual Effects Pioneer,&#34; will explore the work of special effects artist Linwood Dunn  (above, lower photo), including the techniques he used  in creating optical effects for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, on  Friday, October 9, at 8 p.m. at the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8217; appropriately named Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.  A  newly struck print of Citizen Kane from the Academy Film Archive will be screened. This event is sold out,  but standby tickets may become available.
Presented by  the Academy’s Science and Technology Council, &#34;Linwood Dunn&#34; will be  hosted by Oscar-winning visual effects artist and Academy governor  Craig Barron. The evening will also  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA, THE GARDEN Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/crips-and-blood-made-in-america-the-garden-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scott Hamilton Kennedy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stacy Peralta]]></category>
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Set in Los Angeles&#8217; impoverished inner city areas, the documentaries The Garden (above, lower photo) and Crips and Bloods: Made in America will be screened as  part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual  “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m.  at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
In Scott Hamilton  Kennedy&#8217;s  The Garden,  the organization South Central Farmers fight a wealthy  developer in order to preserve the community garden they created after  the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Garden earned an Academy Award nomination for  Documentary Feature. Kennedy will be present to take questions from the  audience following the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark: NO WAY OUT Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/no-way-out-ruby-dee-linda-darnell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lesser Samuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Darnell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[No Way Out]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Widmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby Dee]]></category>
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Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark in No Way Out

Ruby Dee will be the special guest at a screening of No  Way Out (1950), part of the Academy of Motion  Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on  September 21 at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater in  New York City. 
Film historian and scholar Foster Hirsch will host this celebration of the centennial of director Joseph L.  Mankiewicz’s birth and the recent gift of  Mankiewicz&#8217; papers to the Academy’s Margaret Herrick  Library.
In the socially conscious No  Way Out, Richard Widmark plays a racist  patient &#8212; and petty criminal &#8212; who, following his brother&#8217;s death, becomes intent on destroying the life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE SWEET HEREAFTER &#8211; Ian Holm, Sarah Polley</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-sweet-hereafter-ian-holm-sarah-polley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atom Egoyan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 1997]]></category>
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Direction: Atom Egoyan
Screenplay: Atom Egoyan; from Russell Banks&#8217; novel
Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson, Caerthan Banks, Maury Chaykin
&#160;

Ian Holm, Sarah Polley in The Sweet Hereafter
&#160;

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Some films are well  crafted but lifeless. Others err by believing they can too readily make an  audience care for a character just by having a traumatic situation beset him  early on. The Sweet Hereafter, a 1997 drama by Canadian director and  screenwriter Atom Egoyan, suffers from both maladies. It’s not a bad film, but  it certainly is not a great film, either &#8212; much less ‘the best film of the year’ as  Los Angeles Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Motion Picture Canvas: MANHATTAN, THE BLACK STALLION Screenings</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/manhattan-behind-the-motion-picture-canvas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/manhattan-behind-the-motion-picture-canvas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Woody Allen, Diane Keaton in Manhattan

Newly struck prints of Woody Allen&#8217;s Manhattan (1979) and Carroll Ballard&#8217;s The Black Stallion (1979) will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8217; presentation “Behind the Motion Picture Canvas: Film Formats through the 21st Century,” which will trace the history and evolution of motion picture formats from the silent era through the current digital age. 
&#34;Behind the Motion Picture Canvas&#34; will kick off  on Wednesday, September 9, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. It will  continue with screenings of Manhattan  on Thursday, September 10, and The Black Stallion  on Friday, September 11. Both screenings will begin at 8 p.m. Academy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bette Midler at THE ROSE Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-midler-the-rose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Mark Rydell will  take part in an onstage discussion following the 30th anniversary screening of The Rose on  Friday, September 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion  Picture Arts and Sciences’   Samuel Goldwyn Theater in  Beverly Hills. (Bette Midler was scheduled to attend, but has had to cancel her appearance at the screening.)
Inspired by the wild life and  times of Janis Joplin, The Rose chronicles the  rise and  fall of late &#8217;60s rock star  Mary Rose Foster (Midler), who is used by her self-serving manager (Alan Bates at his slimiest); loved by a just-folksy, Starred-and-Striped limo driver (Frederic Forrest); and who  eventually comes to the realization that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SITTING PRETTY &#8211; Clifton Webb, Maureen O&#8217;Hara</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/clifton-webb-sitting-pretty-maureen-ohara/</link>
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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
&#160;

&#160;

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>ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT at Film Forum</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-lew-ayres/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim in All Quiet on the Western Front

The silent version of the best picture Academy Award winner All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), in my view the greatest war movie ever made, will be screened at New York City&#8217;s Film Forum on Monday, August 3. Showtimes are at 3:20, 6:50, and 9:20. 
Having been restored and preserved by the Library of Congress, and featuring two reels cut from the original talkie print following the film&#8217;s East and West Coast premieres, this silent version &#8212; edited from the foreign negative &#8212; comes  with musical accompaniment intended for foreign markets where theaters  hadn&#8217;t yet been equipped to sound. (I should add that in the silent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOUNDER &#8211; Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/sounder-cicely-tyson-martin-ritt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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Sounder (1972)
Direction: Martin Ritt
Screenplay: Lonne Elder III; from William H. Armstrong&#8217;s book
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, James Best
&#160;

&#160;

Sounder probably features more extremely  wide shots than any movie besides Lawrence of Arabia &#8212; and Martin Ritt&#8217;s movie is only  half as long.  Time and again, humans become antish dots on the horizon, visually overwhelmed by the vast  wilderness around them.  It&#8217;s Ritt&#8217;s way  of establishing the world of David (Kevin Hooks), a young boy living in the Louisiana woods  with his sharecropper family and the titular dog.  That world completely envelops   him in these shots, which perform  the old pastoral trick of contrasting the human  and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judy Garland in THE WIZARD OF OZ Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/judy-garland-the-wizard-of-oz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/judy-garland-the-wizard-of-oz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Starring Judy Garland and directed by Victor Fleming, the  1939 Best Picture nominee The Wizard of Oz will be screened,  digitally from a new 4K restoration, as the final feature in the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s  Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, August 3,  at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 
Jerry Maren, who  portrayed one of the Lollipop Guild members in Munchkinland, will be  present for a short Q&#38;A before the film.
The evening will  begin at 6:45 p.m., and will include videotaped interviews with  Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger from a 1983 Academy event;  the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OF MICE AND MEN Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/of-mice-and-men-milestone-meredith-chaney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Lon Chaney Jr, Burgess Meredith in Of Mice and Men

A newly restored sepia-tone print of the 1939 Best Picture nominee Of Mice and Men will be screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’  series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939”  on Monday, July 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn  Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will  begin at 7 p.m., with the 11th chapter of the 1939  serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore; the  comedy short Dog Daze, featuring the Our Gang brats;  and Night Descends on  Treasure Island, about  the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair.
Of Mice and Men is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/mr-smith-goes-to-washington-capra-stewart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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A newly restored print of Frank Capra&#8217;s 1939 Best Picture nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart, and Claude Rains, will  be screened tonight, July 20, as part of  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts  and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture  Nominees of 1939.” The screening will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s  Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.  
The evening will begin at 7 p.m., with the tenth chapter of the 1939  serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and  the Columbia animated short Scrappy’s Added Attraction.
By the time  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington came out in 1939, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greta Garbo&#8217;s NINOTCHKA Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/greta-garbo-ninotchka-ernst-lubitsch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Ernst Lubitsch&#8217;s delightful  Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, will be screened as the  next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series  &#34;Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on  Monday, July 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
 The evening will begin at 7 p.m., with the ninth chapter of  the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance  Moore, and the animated short The Autograph Hound, featuring Donald  Duck.

In Ninotchka, Garbo (above, with Lubitsch) plays a Russian agent out to retrieve three other  agents who have been corrupted by the decadent lights of Paris. While in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/goodbye-mr-chips-robert-donat-greer-garson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson, will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’  series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939”  on Monday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn  Theater in Beverly Hills. Juliet Mills, daughter of John Mills, who has a supporting role in the  film, will introduce the program.
The evening will begin at 7 p.m., with a screening of the seventh chapter of the 1939 serial  Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the MGM  Oscar-nominated cartoon Peace on Earth. 

Robert Donat, who could be a truly excellent actor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne in LOVE AFFAIR Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/charles-boyer-irene-dunne-love-affair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Love Affair, one of the  1939 Best Picture nominees, is next in line in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series  “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on  Monday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Prior to the film, beginning  at 7 p.m., the sixth chapter of the 1939  serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and  the Warner Bros. Oscar-nominated cartoon Detouring America, directed  by Tex Avery, will be screened.

Leo McCarey produced, directed and co-wrote  (with Mildred Cram) the story for Love Affair (the actual screenplay was credited to Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart), a romantic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood’s Greatest Year in New York City</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hollywood-greatest-year-1939-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (top); Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (middle); Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom)

Gone with the Wind, the 1939 Best Picture winner, will kick off  the New York presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences’ latest screening series, &#34;Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939,&#34; on Saturday, June 20, at 12:30 p.m. at the  Academy’s Theater in New York City. Turner Classic Movies host and film historian Robert Osborne will host the event.
&#34;Hollywood’s Greatest Year&#34;  will continue through mid-October, showcasing  all 10 Best  Picture nominees from 1939. Screenings will take place on Monday at 7:30 p.m.,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bette Davis&#8217; DARK VICTORY Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Bette Davis vehicle and 1939 Best Picture nominee Dark Victory will be screened as the  next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series  “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on  Monday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Beginning  at 7 p.m., the feature will be preceded by    the fifth chapter of the 1939  serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and  the Warner Bros. cartoon Dangerous Dan McFoo, directed by Tex Avery.
Adapted by Casey Robinson from a  play by George Emerson Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch, Dark Victory is one of Bette Davis&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ABYSS Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-abyss-james-cameron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Abyss, the costly, special-effect-laden, deep-sea adventure drama about underwater aliens and a bickering married couple, will be screened at a special 20th anniversary event by the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, June 23, at  7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. 
This Academy screening will  premiere a newly struck 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive. Considering that The Abyss boasts awesome underwater cinematography and first-rate  visual and sound effects, this is a great chance to catch it on  the big screen. 

Presented  by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council, the evening will be  hosted by film historian and author Eric Lichtenfeld and will feature  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A TALE OF TWO CITIES d: Jack Conway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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A Tale of Two Cities  (1935)
Direction: Jack Conway
Screenplay: W. P. Lipscomb and S. N. Behrman; from Charles Dickens&#8217; novel
Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Donald Woods, Lucille La Verne, Henry B. Walthall, H. B. Warner, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, Isabel Jewell, Tully Marshall, Mitchell Lewis, Robert Warwick
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Although not as widely known as other big Old Hollywood productions, David O. Selznick&#8217;s film adaptation of Charles Dickens&#8217;s A Tale of Two Cities, set during the time of the French Revolution, is far, far better than  most of the other period dramas made during the studio era. 
Starring former silent-screen heartthrob Ronald Colman;  featuring respected supporting players such as Edna May Oliver, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MERRY WIDOW d: Ernst Lubitsch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Merry Widow (1934)
Direction: Ernst Lubitsch
Screenplay: Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson; from Franz Lehár&#8217;s operetta
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway
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The Merry Widow is not one of Ernst Lubitsch&#8217;s most discussed films. Critics generally tend to focus on his early Paramount talkies, such as One Hour with You (co-directed by George Cukor) and Trouble in Paradise, and his later comedies Ninotchka and To Be or Not to Be.
Yet, The Merry Widow is a superior musical, boasting sumptuous sets (production design by Cedric Gibbons), exquisite cinematography (courtesy of Oliver T. Marsh), a magnificently staged ballroom-dancing sequence, witty lines and situations (by Lubitsch collaborators Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from Franz Lehár&#8217;s operetta), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: Animated, Live-Action Shorts Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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New Boy by Steph Green (top); Oktapodi by Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand (bottom)

The 2009 Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action  Short Film categories will be screened as part of the program &#34;Shorts!,&#34; presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences on Tuesday, February 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the  Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The program will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability). Not to be missed&#8230;
The 2009 Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film nominees are:


Animated Short Film
    La Maison en Petits Cubes (above), Kunio Kato, director
    Lavatory-Lovestory, Konstantin Bronzit, director
    Oktapodi, Emud Mokhberi and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLADE RUNNER &#8211; Harrison Ford &#8211; d: Ridley Scott</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Blade Runner (1982)
Direction: Ridley Scott
Screenplay: Hampton Fancher and David Peoples; from Philip K. Dick&#8217;s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy, Brion James
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Director Ridley  Scott&#8217;s dystopian 1982 sci-fi drama Blade Runner is one of those  Hollywood productions whose initially mixed reviews were actually closer to the mark than the  decades of hagiography  that followed. That&#8217;s not to say that Blade Runner is a bad film; it&#8217;s  only a  much-ballyhooed mediocrity &#8212; due   mostly to its  sluggish screenplay &#8212; rather than a great film. 
Adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASABLANCA</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/casablanca-d-michael-curtiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Casablanca (1942)
Direction: Michael Curtiz
Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch; from Murray Burnett and Joan Alison&#8217;s unproduced play &#34;Everybody Comes to Rick&#8217;s&#34;
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, S. Z. Sakall, Dooley Wilson, Joy Page
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Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
About three years  ago, I finally gave in to watch It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life (1946) for the first time.  I had hesitated because of the five- and ten-minute snippets of the film I had  seen, and for its reputation as a hokey Christmas story &#8216;chestnut.&#8217; Well, was I wrong, for It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life  is a truly great film &#8212; arguably the best [...]]]></description>
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