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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Phil Hall</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/phil-hall/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 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Barbra Streisand-Jack Nicholson Duet, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES: Phil Hall&#039;s 50 Notable Lost Films Pt.2</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbra-streisand-jack-nicholson-lost-films/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbra-streisand-jack-nicholson-lost-films/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:24:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26888</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand in Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever At Film Threat, Phil Hall comes up with a follow-up to his 2008 article about important lost films. Among the 50 titles on Hall's highly eclectic new list are a version of Carmen (1915) starring Fox vamp Theda Bara; The Life of General Villa (1914), in which Mexican revolutionary Pancho [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbra-streisand-jack-nicholson-lost-films/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>WHAT IF THEY LIVED? Q&amp;A with Phil Hall</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/what-if-they-lived-phil-hall-marilyn-monroe/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/what-if-they-lived-phil-hall-marilyn-monroe/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:27:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26778</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe WHAT IF THEY LIVED? Movie Stars Who Died Too Young How did the idea for What If They Lived come about? The idea for the book was percolating for years. I was always curious about what could have happened if stars like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, John Belushi and Bruce Lee had not died not died so young – could their stellar power [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/what-if-they-lived-phil-hall-marilyn-monroe/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elvis Presley, Heath Ledger: WHAT IF THEY LIVED?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/elvis-presley-heath-ledger-what-if-they-lived/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/elvis-presley-heath-ledger-what-if-they-lived/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:25:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26777</guid> <description><![CDATA[Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Written by Online Film Critics Society members Phil Hall and Rory Leighton Aronsky, What If They Lived? (BearManor Media, 2011) takes a look at the lives and oeuvre of celebrities whose film careers were prematurely curtailed by death. As befitting their book's title, Hall and Aronsky then wonder, &#34;What if they lived?&#34; Encompassing the early days of cinema all the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/elvis-presley-heath-ledger-what-if-they-lived/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Online Film Critics Society&#039;s New Committee Members</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/online-film-critics-societys-phil-hall/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/online-film-critics-societys-phil-hall/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:32:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23879</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Online Film Critics Society, the international association for Internet-based film reviewers and journalists, has elected its new Governing Committee. Readers of film websites will recognize the names: Eric D. Snider was re-elected to a second consecutive term. The Portland, Ore.-based critic writes for Film.com, Cinematical, and EricDSnider.com. Phil Hall, who had previously served on the committee from 2002-2009. Hall is the New York-based contributing [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/online-film-critics-societys-phil-hall/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>MONSIEUR VINCENT, BLACK NARCISSUS, DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST: Best Religion Films</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/monsieur-vincent-black-narcissus-religion-film-894/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/monsieur-vincent-black-narcissus-religion-film-894/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:50:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20452</guid> <description><![CDATA[Parvez Sharma's A Jihad for Love THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: Most Important Religion Films of All Time The first film on the Film Snobbery list not featuring Judeo-Christian issues is, at #14, Satyajit Ray's Devi (1960), which deals with &#34;the tragic implications of religious obsession in this dark drama of a man who believes his young daughter is an incarnation of a Hindu goddess.&#34; Among the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/monsieur-vincent-black-narcissus-religion-film-894/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Phil Hall&#039;s 25 Most Important Corporate-Sponsored Films</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/phil-hall-corporate-sponsored-films-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/phil-hall-corporate-sponsored-films-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:37:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18820</guid> <description><![CDATA[At Film Threat: Phil Hall has posted an excerpt from his book The History of Independent Cinema, listing the 25 most important corporate-sponsored films of all time. Among those listed are: The Yanks Are Coming (1918). &#34;The Dayton-Wright Airplane Co. produced this feature-length film about its de Haviland DH-4 aircraft, which was used by the U.S. Army Air Service in World War I. &#8230; [A [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/phil-hall-corporate-sponsored-films-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Phill Hall on THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA III</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/phill-hall-independent-cinema/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/phill-hall-independent-cinema/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:27:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15714</guid> <description><![CDATA[Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Phil Hall Interview: Part I Phil Hall Interview: Part II What have been the top foreign influences on American independent filmmaking? The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the European avant-garde films of the 1920s were a huge influence on U.S. underground filmmakers. The Italian neo-realism in the post-World War II era had a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/phill-hall-independent-cinema/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Phil Hall Interview II</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/phil-hall-interview/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/phil-hall-interview/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:26:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15713</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mary Pickford, one of the first major independent producers, and screenwriter Frances Marion Phil Hall Interview: Part I The History of Independent Cinema. I'm assuming that refers to US-made films. Even so, that's a lot of ground to cover. What sort of parameters did you have to use in order to condense that very long and very diverse history into one volume? Clearly, I could [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/phil-hall-interview/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA: Q&amp;A with Phil Hall</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/the-history-of-independent-cinema-phil-hall/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/the-history-of-independent-cinema-phil-hall/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:25:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=12602</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;Independent film is a vast and varied territory, and Phil Hall's remarkable book explores every inch of it with wit, intelligence, a sympathetic spirit, and a wide-open mind. Fresh discoveries and surprising revelations abound on every topic from Edison to Aronofsky, Anger to Warhol, the silent era to the Internet age. It's hard to imagine a study more keenly in tune with one of cinema's [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/the-history-of-independent-cinema-phil-hall/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Phil Hall on Eleonora Duse</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/phil-hall-on-eleonora-duse/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/phil-hall-on-eleonora-duse/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:21:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=13294</guid> <description><![CDATA[[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngFM1l0P5J8[/youtube] Phil Hall reviews the 1916 melodrama Cenere, starring diva Eleonora Duse, at Film Threat (the clip above was posted by stallano): &#34;If you say the name 'Eleonora Duse' today, there’s an excellent chance that you will be greeted with a blank stare. But a century ago, that name was recognized throughout the world. The great Duse was one of the most beloved and innovative [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/phil-hall-on-eleonora-duse/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Phil Hall&#039;s Top 50 Lost Films of All Time</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/top-50-lost-films-film-threat/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/top-50-lost-films-film-threat/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:14:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/top-50-lost-films-film-threat/</guid> <description><![CDATA[At Film Threat, Phil Hall lists the &#34;Top 50 Lost Films of All Time.&#34; According to Hall, &#34;among the missing movies are the world's first feature film [The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), right], the first Technicolor feature [The Gulf Between (1917)], the first animated feature in both the silent and sound eras [El Apastol (1917) and Peludópolis (1931), respectively], the first werewolf movie [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/top-50-lost-films-film-threat/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
