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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Period Movies</title>
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		<title>Cannes 2009: Heath Ledger in THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/heath-ledger-the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 21:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian:
&#34;Heath Ledger takes a poignant final bow in Terry Gilliam&#8217;s loopy, sweet-natured but madly self-indulgent fantasia The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, showing here  at the Cannes film festival out of competition. Halfway through shooting, Ledger had made a  desperately sad early exit, so the director ingeniously re-invented his  character as a series of personae. Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp gamely stepped into the breach.
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&#34;When Gilliam shoots off into his surreal wonderland, his film has a  kind of helium-filled jollity and spectacle. &#8230;  But the film&#8217;s convoluted curlicues  are tiring, insisting too loudly on how &#8216;imaginative&#8217; everything is.  And when it descends into the real world – Lucy [...]]]></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>Michelle Pfeiffer in CHERI Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colette]]></category>
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Directed by Stephen Frears and adapted by Christopher Hampton from Colette&#8217;s novel, Chéri  stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a 1920s French courtesan who teaches a young man (Rupert Friend) the ways of love and sex.
 Also in the Chéri cast: Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Anita Pallenberg, Frances Tomelty.
Chéri opens in the US on June 26.
Official site. 
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Sacha Baron Cohen in BRUNO Trailer
Carmen Miranda Does &#34;Cai, Cai&#34; in THAT NIGHT IN RIO
Best Actress Oscar Winners &#8211; 1927/28-2007
Hattie McDaniel&#8217;s Oscar Acceptance Speech
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		<title>AMARCORD d: Federico Fellini</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/amarcord-federico-fellini/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Amarcord (1973)
Direction: Federico Fellini
Screenplay: Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
Cast: Bruno Zanin, Magali Noël, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi, Gianfilippo Carcano, Josiane Tanzilli, 	Maria Antonietta Beluzzi	, Giuseppe Ianigro, Ferruccio Brembilla
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Federico Fellini&#8217;s  Amarcord  has often been linked with Ingmar Bergman&#8217;s   Fanny &#38; Alexander as films made by old men looking back on their youth. While this is true,  Amarcord has a loose narrative structure in which the lives of many characters are detailed in comic vignettes whereas Fanny &#38; Alexander is a straight drama. 
In fact, Amarcord shares a deeper affinity with another work that was obviously influenced by it: Woody Allen&#8217;s grossly underrated Radio Days. Which of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA &#8211; Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/memoirs-of-a-geisha-rob-marshall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dion Beebe]]></category>
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Direction: Rob Marshall
Screenplay: Robin Swicord; from Arthur Golden&#8217;s novel
Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Mako, Tsai Chin
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There are some movies that are released before their time. Only years or decades later, do they come to be appreciated. In the case Rob Marshall&#8217;s  Memoirs of a Geisha, based on Arthur Golden&#8217;s bestseller about the life and love of a young geisha in pre-World War II Japan, it&#8217;s the other way around. It is a movie released after &#8211; way after &#8212; its time.
As long as its makers chopped off about a third of its 145-minute running time, Memoirs of a Geisha would have worked beautifully as a silent film, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STAGE BEAUTY d: Richard Eyre</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/stage-beauty-eyre-crudup-danes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Cinema]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ned Kynaston]]></category>
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Stage Beauty (2004)
Director: Richard Eyre
Screenplay: Jeffrey Hatcher; from his own play Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Cast: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Zoe Tapper, Ben Chaplin, Richard Griffiths, Edward Fox, Hugh Bonneville
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SHAKESPEARE IN CONFUSION
Despite touches from A Star Is Born, All About Eve, Farewell, My Concubine, and the many versions of Viktor und Viktoria, Stage Beauty&#8217;s raison d&#8217;être is the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love. Like its predecessor, this romantic comedy about gender impersonations in old-time British theater  may even succeed in becoming a critical and box-office hit  in spite of itself. For Stage Beauty, directed by Richard Eyre and adapted for the screen by Jeffrey Hatcher (from his own play), is as much of a calculated crowd-pleaser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GRANDFATHER d: José Luis Garci</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/el-abuelo-jose-luis-garci/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2004 05:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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