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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Political Movies</title>
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		<title>KIMJONGILIA, Documentary About North Korean Refugees, to Open in New York</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/kimjongilia-documentary-north-korean-refugees-181818/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/kimjongilia-documentary-north-korean-refugees-181818/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimjongilia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[N.C. Heikin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>

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Kimjongilia,  N.C. Heikin&#8217;s documentary about the experiences of North Korean refugees and of those who managed to escape from Kim Jong Il&#8217;s concentration camps, has its New York theatrical premiere at Cinema Village on March 19.
The text below is from the fim&#8217;s press release:

Lorber Films is pleased to present the New York theatrical premiere of KIMJONGILIA, N.C. Heikin&#8217;s unblinking indictment of life in North Korea under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Il.  This searing examination of the communist dictatorship established by Kim Il-sung and continued today by his son Kim Jong-il dispels the illusion of a Worker&#8217;s Paradise peddled by the North Korean government and exposes the injustice, tragedy and famine that has prevailed over the past forty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Box Office: Roman Polanski Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/roman-polanski-box-office-716265/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/roman-polanski-box-office-716265/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Box Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ewan McGregor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Turan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Cattrall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Bradshaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Rainer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierce Brosnan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Polanski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ghost Writer]]></category>

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Controversy sells. At least sometimes it does. 
Roman Polanski (above, lower photo), under house arrest in Switzerland while fighting extradition to the United States on charges of having had sexual intercourse with a minor in the late 1970s, was named Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for  The Ghost Writer, starring Ewan McGregor (above, top photo), Pierce Brosnan, and Kim Cattrall. This weekend, the political thriller had the highest per screen average by far at the US box office: $45,752 at four theaters in New York and Los Angeles, for a total of $183,009 according to Box Office Mojo.
Some, including several commenting on this blog, remarked that those who watched Polanski&#8217;s movies &#8212; be it Chinatown, The Fearless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shahrukh Khan&#8217;s MY NAME IS KHAN Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/bollywood/shahrukh-khan-bollywood-controversy-99911/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/bollywood/shahrukh-khan-bollywood-controversy-99911/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karan Johar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Name is Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shahrukh Khan]]></category>

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According to a Reuters report, the Friday opening of Karan Johar&#8217;s My Name is Khan forced movie theaters in Mumbai to be turned into &#34;fortresses,&#34; with thousands of police in riot gear outside theaters and plainclothesmen inside the halls. Reason for all that protection: flag-waving Hindu fanatics who now have star Shahrukh Khan (above) as their  Enemy No. 1 after the actor remarked that  no Pakistani cricketers had been picked for the Indian Premier League. The radical nationalist  Hindu Shiv Sena party,  which runs the Mumbai municipality, is a fierce opponent of  Muslim Pakistan. 
In My Name is Khan, which is being screened out of competition at the Berlin Film Festival, Khan plays an autistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brigitte Berman&#8217;s HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY, ACTIVIST AND REBEL Sold</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/hugh-hefner-playboy-activist-and-rebel-908/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/hugh-hefner-playboy-activist-and-rebel-908/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brigitte Berman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh Hefner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh Hefner: Plaboy Activist and Rebel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phase 4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[George Lucas, Tony Bennett, Joan Baez, Jim Brown, James Caan,   Jesse Jackson, Jenny McCarthy, and Bill Maher are some of those taking part in Brigitte Berman’s documentary Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, which has been acquired by Phase 4 Films for distribution via various channels in the United States.
More than the Playboy magazine mastermind and the guy who had a nude centerfold of Marilyn Monroe, the Hugh Hefner portrayed in Berman&#8217;s documentary is also a fighter for progressive causes, an ardent movie lover, and a campaigner  &#34;against censorship and for the individual’s right to freedom  of expression on all fronts.&#34;
The 124-minute Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel is scheduled to hit US screens in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAWSON, ISLAND 10: Q&amp;A with Miguel Littin</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/dawson-island-10-miguel-littin-interview-489/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Vicuna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dawson Island 10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miguel Littin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergio Bitar]]></category>

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Veteran Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littin&#8217;s Dawson, Island 10, Chile&#8217;s submission for this year&#8217;s best foreign language film Academy Award, tells the story of several prisoners held at a military concentration camp on Dawson Island, Chile&#8217;s own Guantanamo back in the days of right-wing dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Men who had sided with democratically elected left-wing president Salvador Allende &#8212; overthrown by Pinochet&#8217;s military (with the blessing of the US government) in 1973 &#8212; were sent to desolate Dawson Island at the tip of South America, where they were stripped of both their identities and their civil rights.

Based on Sergio Bitar&#8217;s 1987 autobiographical book Isla 10, Littin&#8217;s film chronicles the stories of various men held at Dawson Island, among them Bitar (Benjamín Vicuña), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Damon in THE INFORMANT Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/matt-damon-the-informant-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/matt-damon-the-informant-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Whitacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Damon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Z. Burns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Informant]]></category>

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Directed by Steven Soderbergh (above, lower photo) and written by Scott Z. Burns (from Kurt Eichenwald&#8217;s  book on the true story of executive-turned-whistleblower Mark Whitacre), The Informant! was recently screened out of the competition at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.
Matt Damon, who gained about 30 lbs. for the role (and who still looks nothing like Whitacre), stars as the high-ranking executive informant (and embezzler) who gets  agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland in big trouble with the U.S. government. 
Also in the Informant! cast: Lucas Carroll, Eddie Jemison, and Rusty Schwimmer.
The Informant! opens in the US on Sept. 18.
Photos: Claudette Barius / ©2008 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Click on the photos to enlarge them.





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		<title>LEBANON Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lebanon-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lebanon-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Itay Tiran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Moshonov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oshri Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Maoz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoav Donat]]></category>

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“I dedicate this award to the thousands of people all over the world  who, like me, come back from war safe and sound,” said Israeli war veteran and (first-time) filmmaker Samuel Maoz (above, lower photo) upon receiving the Golden Lion for his graphically violent war drama Lebanon at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. “Apparently they are fine, they work, get  married, have children. But inside the memory will remain stabbed in  their soul.” (On his notes for the film, Maoz writes: &#34;On June 6, 1982, at 6:15 a.m., I killed a man for the first time in my life.&#34;)

Set during Israel&#8217;s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Lebanon chronicles the  travails of an Israeli  tank crew sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN: Q&amp;A with Oliver Hirschbiegel</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/oliver-hirschbiegel-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/oliver-hirschbiegel-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alistair Little]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Five Minutes of Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Hibbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Nesbitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Griffin]]></category>
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Inspired by  a true incident that occurred in Northern Ireland in the mid-1970s, while placing the real-life participants in a fictitious set-up, Five Minutes of Heaven stars Liam Neeson as Alistair Little, the former leader of an Ulster Volunteer Force cell who, as a teenager, shot in the head a young Catholic man, James Griffin, in front of his 11-year-old brother, Joe Griffin (played by  British Independent Film Award winner, and Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee James Nesbitt).
Written by Guy Hibbert (who wrote Omagh, winner of the Irish Film &#38; Television Academy&#8217;s 2004 best film award) and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (above right, whose Downfall was nominated for a best foreign-language film Oscar), Five Minutes of Heaven explores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MADE IN U.S.A / 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER d: Jean-Luc Godard</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/dvds/made-in-usa-jean-luc-godard-anna-karina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 or 3 Things I Know About Her]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Karina]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Criterion Collection]]></category>
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Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Direction: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard; from Donald E. Westlake&#8217;s novel
Cast: Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marianne Faithfull, Yves Afonso
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais d&#8217;elle / 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
Direction and screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Marina Vlady, Joseph Gehrard, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Lévy, Jean Narboni
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When the young cinephiles who would later  spawn the French New Wave attended screenings of Hollywood films at the  Cinémathèque Française, they often found themselves watching prints lacking  French subtitles.  Not all of these men  understood English, but they stuck it out anyway.  After all, you can still learn from a film  even if you can&#8217;t quite follow the dialogue; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE Controversy at the Melbourne Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/the-10-conditions-of-love-melbourne-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/the-10-conditions-of-love-melbourne-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Young</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melbourne Film Festival]]></category>
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Protesting the planned appearance of Uighur-independence activist Rebiya Kadeer, whom the Chinese government blames for the ethnic violence this month between Uighurs and Han Chinese, a hacker has  posted a Chinese flag on the Web site of the Melbourne International Film Festival, the New York Times has reported, citing the Associated Press. The ethnic riots in the East Turkistan region left nearly 200 people dead.
The hacker, reportedly a Chinese man offended by Kadeer&#8217;s scheduled appearance at the screening of Melbourne-based filmmaker Jeff Daniels&#8216; documentary The 10 Conditions of Love, also left messages in English demanding an apology from festival organizers. The 10 Conditions of Love, which chronicles Kadeer and her family&#8217;s struggles against the Chinese government&#8217;s oppression, premiered at [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/mr-smith-goes-to-washington-capra-stewart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Claude Rains]]></category>
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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>Cannes 2009: Michael Haneke&#8217;s THE WHITE RIBBON</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/michael-haneke-the-white-ribbon-cannes-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/michael-haneke-the-white-ribbon-cannes-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 03:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Dave Calhoun in Time Out London, via David Hudson&#8217;s   The Daily:
&#34;For quite some time at the beginning of Michael Haneke&#8217;s  latest film, which is a two-and-a-half hour parable of political and  social ideas set entirely in a north German village in 1913 and 1914,  you wonder what you&#8217;re watching, how its disparate parts hang together  and what it all might mean. More than ever, the playful, challenging, sometimes shocking director of Hidden, Funny Games and Time of the Wolf  solidly resists answering the &#8216;what&#8217;s it all about?&#8217; question and makes  you work hard to make sense of what you&#8217;re seeing. As in Code Unknown,  he resists focusing on one story or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPERATION HOMECOMING, BODY OF WAR Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/operation-homecoming-body-of-war-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (top photo) and Body of  War (bottom photo) will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; series on Wednesday,  May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission  is free. 
Directed and produced by Richard E. Robbins, the Academy Award-nominated Operation Homecoming: Writing the  Wartime Experience presents letters written by  US military personnel and their families who have  been involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
Directed and produced by Ellen Spiro and former talk-show host Phil Donahue, Body  of War tells the story of 22-year-old Tomas Young, who volunteered to fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEMON TREE: Q&amp;A with Eran Riklis</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/lemon-tree-eran-riklis-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Based on actual events, Eran Riklis&#8216; Lemon Tree (no connection to Sandy Tolan&#8217;s novel The Lemon Tree), which opens today in the Los Angeles area, chronicles a Palestinian widow&#8217;s fight to prevent the Israeli army from razing  her lemon grove. The problem is that all those lemon trees are  located right next door to the brand new house &#8212; actually, &#34;fortress&#34; would be a better description &#8212; of the Israeli minister of defense. Security agents have deemed the grove a potential hide-out for terrorists, who could then fire rockets right onto the minister&#8217;s dining table.
Sounds like a political film? Well, sure. Lemon Tree is definitely political. (The real-life case was that of defense minister Shaul Mofaz and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEMON TREE: Q&amp;A with Eran Riklis Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/eran-riklis-interview-lemon-tree-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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LEMON TREE: Q&#038;A with Eran Riklis Part I
Along those lines, the men in charge in Lemon Tree don&#8217;t come  across in a very positive light. A bossy male security agent demands  the destruction of the lemon grove. A bossy Palestinian man threatens  Salma because of her relationship with her lawyer. The defense minister  is obsessed with his career and may be having an affair with an  assistant. The Palestinian lawyer himself seems to be as interested in  advancing his career as in helping Salma, even though he actually cares  for her.
The two women, however, are both admirable characters. Was  that a conscious decision, to make the women &#8220;stronger&#8221; &#8212; in their  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artivist 2009 Call for Entries</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/artivist-2009-call-for-entries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE
&#34;ARTIVIST&#34; is the 1st international film festival dedicated to addressing Human Rights, Children&#8217;s Advocacy, Environmental Preservation, and Animal Advocacy.  Our mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists &#8211; &#34;Artivists&#34; &#8211; while raising public awareness for social global causes. 
The 6th Annual Artivist Film Festival is currently accepting international Film and Video submissions that concern themselves with human rights, social or political issues, children&#8217;s issues/advocacy, animal issues/rights, or environmental issues. Artivist also accepts films that tell inspirational stories or are empowering.  Each year Artivist screens shorts, feature-length films, documentaries, narratives, music videos, experimental and animated shorts directed by established international filmmakers, novice filmmakers and the YouTube community.   Since 2004, Artivist has showcased 350 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PROMISE TO THE DEAD: THE EXILE JOURNEY OF ARIEL DORFMAN, PORTRAITS OF A LADY Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/a-promise-to-the-dead-portraits-of-a-lady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ariel Dofrman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neil Leifer]]></category>
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Neil Leifer&#8217;s Portraits of a Lady and Peter Raymont&#8217;s A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey  of Ariel Dorfman will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture  Arts and Sciences&#8216; 27th annual Contemporary Documentaries series on  Wednesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in  Hollywood. Admission is free. 
Portraits of a Lady takes a look at the work of 25 artists who participated in a painting session   with former US Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor in 2006.  Following the screening, Leifer and co-producer Walter Bernard will  take  questions from the audience.

 A Promise to the Dead: The Exile  Journey of Ariel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagisa Oshima at the American Cinematheque</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/nagisa-oshima-american-cinematheque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#8220;No other director of Oshima&#8217;s generation has made more  vital, inventive and challenging films, or taken more risks. He is a giant in contemporary  cinema.&#8221; &#8211; Tony Rayns
 &#8220;Plainly the greatest living Japanese filmmaker.&#8221; &#8211;  Jonathan Rosenbaum
&#8220;Japan&#8217;s greatest living filmmaker.&#8221; &#8211; J.  Hoberman 
Those in the Los Angeles area can judge for themselves as Nagisa Oshima is the subject of an eight-film series from April 23-26 at the American Cinematheque&#8217;s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The Oshima series is being presented in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (which will have its own Oshima series in May) and is co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation.
&#34;I am not interested in making films that can be understood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luis Buñuel&#8217;s VIRIDIANA Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/viridiana-luis-bunuel-silvia-pinal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Viridiana, Luis Buñuel&#8217;s   provocative 1961 Palme d&#8217;Or-winning classic proving that life is a bitch and then you play cards, will run at New York City&#8217;s Film Forum from Friday, April 24, through Thursday, April 30.
Inspired by a painting of   Saint Viridiana kneeling  on the floor before a crucifix and crown of thorns (and by Benito Pérez Galdós&#8216; novel Halma), co-written by Buñuel and Julio Alejandro, and financed by the lead actress&#8217; rich husband, Viridiana  stars Silvia Pinal (recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Ariel Award), as a  pious young nun who, before entering a cloister, goes visit her strange and reclusive uncle (Fernando Rey). There, while trying to do Good, she befriends the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams in STATE OF PLAY Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/ben-affleck-helen-mirren-state-of-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Ben Affleck

Helen Mirren

Rachel McAdams

Ben Affleck

Robin Wright Penn, Ben Affleck
Photos: &#169; Universal Pictures
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Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe in STATE OF PLAY Photos
Sylvia Miles, John Barry at MIDNIGHT COWBOY Screening
Oscar 2009: Robert Pattinson, Sophia Loren, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon
Oscar 2009: Jennifer Aniston, Penélope Cruz, Zac Efron, Daniel Craig
Oscar 2009: Penélope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey
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		<title>Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe in STATE OF PLAY Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/ben-affleck-russell-crowe-state-of-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe

Directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, and Billy Ray from Paul Abbott&#8217;s television series, the thriller State of Play stars Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Jeff Daniels, Justin Bateman, and Michael Berresse.
State of Play opens in the US on April 19.
Official site
Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams in STATE OF PLAY
Photos: &#169; Universal Pictures
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Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams, Russell Crowe

Helen Mirren, Russell Crowe

Jeff Daniels, Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck

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Sylvia Miles, John Barry at MIDNIGHT COWBOY Screening
Oscar 2009: Robert Pattinson, Sophia Loren, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon
Oscar 2009: Jennifer Aniston, Penélope Cruz, Zac Efron, Daniel Craig
Oscar 2009: Penélope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, Brad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARFUR NOW, THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Darfur Now and The Devil Came on Horseback, both focusing on the ongoing Darfur crisis, will screen as part  of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual  &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; series on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m.  at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free. 
Darfur Now is a call for people  everywhere to take action against the human tragedies taking place in Darfur,  Sudan. Director Theodore Braun and producer Cathy Schulman will be  present to take questions from the audience following the screening.

Directed  by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, The Devil Came on Horseback  depicts the events in Darfur through the eyes of an American marine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE RAPE OF EUROPA, OCHBERG&#8217;S ORPHANS Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/ochbergs-orphans-the-rape-of-europa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Ochberg’s Orphans (right) and The Rape of Europa will be screened as part of  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual  &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; series on Wednesday, April 1, at 7 p.m. at  the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.  Admission is free. 
Directed  by Jon Blair and produced by Blair, Paul Goldin and Georgina Townsley,  Ochberg’s Orphans tells the story of a South African businessman’s efforts to save 300,000  Jewish Russian children who had been orphaned  in anti-Semitic attacks during the Russian Revolution and ensuing civil war.
Directed  and produced by Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen, The  Rape of Europa depicts the  theft and  destruction &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin 2009: After Winter Comes Spring &#8211; Films Presaging the Fall of the Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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The Dog’s Night Song by Gábor Bódy

Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival will serve as the launching pad for the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Deutsche Kinemathek series “After Winter Comes Spring – Films Presaging the Fall of the Wall.”
As per the festival&#8217;s press release, &#34;in fifteen feature-length blocks, &#8216;After Winter Comes Spring&#8217; will present films made in both Germanys and Eastern Europe during the last decade of the Cold War – films that convey a sense of the radical changes to come. Some of these works were made in the official studios of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. Others were realized more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE: STORIES FROM KOSOVO &#8211; Q&amp;A with John Ealer and Laura Bialis</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/john-ealer-laura-bialis-interview-view-from-the-bridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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 Directed by John Ealer and Laura Bialis (above), View from the Bridge: Stories from Kosovo, described on the film&#8217;s official website as &#34;the first documentary feature about post-war Kosovo,&#34; was recently screened at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
The bridge in question is located in the town of Mitrovica, which has become a flashpoint in the ethno-cultural clashes between Muslim Albanians, Christian Serbs, and Roma (Gypsies). In order to portray the differences &#8212; and similarities &#8212; among those disparate groups, Ealer and Bialis opted for a personal approach to their subject matter. Thus, View from the Bridge relies on first-person accounts &#8212; &#34;sometimes hopeful, sometimes tragic&#34; &#8212; of the lives of those suffering the physical and emotional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ELITE SQUAD: The 2008 Berlin Film Festival&#8217;s Controversial Winner</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The second Brazilian production to win the Berlin Film Festival&#8217;s Golden Bear, José Padilha&#8217;s Tropa de Elite / The Elite Squad, a violent tale about Rio&#8217;s special police unit&#8217;s fight against slum-based druglords, was a controversial choice for the 2008 festival&#8217;s top award. Unlike the previous Brazilian winning entry, the considerably cozier Central Station back in 1998, The Elite Squad was greeted with strong reservations in certain quarters both in Brazil and elsewhere.
 &#34;The Elite Squad is a Hollywood movie spoken in Portuguese,&#34; wrote Plínio Fraga in the daily Folha de São Paulo. &#34;José Padilha&#8217;s effort is Hollywoodian when it comes to both its technical proficiency, and its social and esthetic conservatism. A quick-paced narrative, solid cinematography, impeccable sound, well-directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francesco Rosi to Receive Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/francesco-rosi-golden-bear-lifetime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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This year&#8217;s  Berlin Film Festival will present the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement to the unabashedly political Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi, 85, on February 14, 2008. 
Rosi&#8217;s work includes Salvatore Giuliano (above), which earned him the best director Silver Bear in 1962; Cannes Palme d&#8217;Or winner The Mattei Affair (1972); and the Oscar nominated Three Brothers (1981). In conjunction with the homage, the Berlin Festival is screening 13 of the director&#8217;s films.
A former law student and journalist, Rosi began his film career as a screenwriter and assistant director, often collaborating with Luchino Visconti in the early 1950s. Later on, among Rosi&#8217;s most frequent sociopolitically conscious collaborators were screenwriters Suso Cecchi d&#8217;Amico and Tonino Guerra, and actor Gian Maria Volonté.
I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KING: A FILMED RECORD &#8230; MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Producer Ely Landau and associate producer Richard Kaplan&#8217;s 1970 Martin Luther King Jr. documentary King: A Filmed Record &#8230; Montgomery to Memphis will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; &#8220;Monday Nights with Oscar&#8221; program. King will have a special afternoon presentation on Monday, January 21, at 3 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. Richard Kaplan will be present for a pre-screening discussion.
In its 80-year history, only three Academy Awards ceremonies have been postponed. One of those postponements occurred after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Nearly two years later, on March 24, 1970, King: A Filmed Record &#8230; Montgomery to Memphis premiered as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rotterdam 2008: Lucía Cedrón&#8217;s LAMB OF GOD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which runs between Jan. 23-Feb. 3, has announced the 15 films  vying for the 2008 VPRO Tiger Awards. All entries are first or second efforts. (See Rotterdam 2008 Film Line-Up.)
The Tiger Awards are worth  15,000 euros (US$22,070) for each of three winning features and  3,000 euros (US$4,414) for the short film awards.
The 2008 Rotterdam film festival will open with the world premiere of Lucía Cedrón&#8217;s narrative feature-film debut Cordero de Dios / Lamb of God (photo), about an elderly man kidnapped during Argentina&#8217;s catastrophic economic crisis of 2002. The man&#8217;s predicament forces his exiled daughter to return to Buenos Aires and confront her family&#8217;s past, which also involves a late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WOYZECK d: Werner Herzog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Woyzeck (1979)
Direction: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog; from a play by Georg Büchner
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge, Josef Bierbichler, Paul Burian, Volker Prechtel
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Klaus Kinski in Woyzeck
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
One of the signs of a great artist is that even when not at the top of his game he is still capable of flashes of utter brilliance. Such is the case in Werner Herzog&#8217;s  Woyzeck (1979), starring his friend and bane Klaus Kinski in the third of five films made by the director-actor team. 
Woyzeck is not a great film, but here and there it offers great moments. Part of the reason it fails to reach true greatness is that the story&#8217;s stage roots are too [...]]]></description>
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