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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; religion</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/religion/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>Jafar Panahi: A Threat to Iran&#039;s Islamic Fanatics</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jafar-panahi-iran-islamic-fanatics/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jafar-panahi-iran-islamic-fanatics/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:31:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25834</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jafar Panahi, condemned by the powers-that-be in Iran's theocracy for “assembly and colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security” and “propaganda against the Islamic Republic,” has been sentenced to six years in prison. Additionally, Panahi has been banned from making movies, writing screenplays, leaving the country, or talking to the media for the next 20 years. (As if Iran's power-hungry [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jafar-panahi-iran-islamic-fanatics/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Margerethe von Trotta-Barbara Sukowa&#039;s VISION: Life of Hildegard von Bingen to Open in Los Angeles</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/margerethe-von-trotta-barbara-sukowa-vision-hildegard-von-bingen/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/margerethe-von-trotta-barbara-sukowa-vision-hildegard-von-bingen/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:21:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25378</guid> <description><![CDATA[Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard von Bingen in Vision Margarethe von Trotta's Vision, Official Selection at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, will open (via Zeitgeist Films) in Los Angeles at the Laemmle theaters on November 12. A national release will follow. In Vision, two-time European Film Award nominee Barbara Sukowa plays Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine nun who was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/margerethe-von-trotta-barbara-sukowa-vision-hildegard-von-bingen/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>EYES WIDE OPEN: Another Week at New York&#039;s Cinema Village</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/eyes-wide-open-gay-love-story-49549/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/eyes-wide-open-gay-love-story-49549/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:58:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21792</guid> <description><![CDATA[Distributed by New American Vision, Eyes Wide Open will stay one more week at New York City's Cinema Village. Directed by Haim Tabakman and written by Merav Doster, the forbidden gay love story set among Israel's ultra-orthodox Jewish community &#8212; where homosexuality isn't exactly welcome &#8212; stars Zohar Shtrauss and Ran Danker. The information below is from the film's press release. Aaron, a respectable butcher [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/eyes-wide-open-gay-love-story-49549/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>EYES WIDE OPEN: Gay Love Story Set in Israel&#039;s Orthodox Community</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/eyes-wide-open-gay-orthodox-jewish-7194/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/eyes-wide-open-gay-orthodox-jewish-7194/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:59:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21749</guid> <description><![CDATA[Directed by Haim Tabakman and written by Merav Doster, Eyes Wide Open is a gay love story set in Jerusalem's &#34;ultra-orthodox&#34; Jewish community &#8212; in other words, in a society in which homosexuality is anything but acceptable. Here's the synopsis from the Eyes Wide Open press release: &#34;Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem's ultra-orthodox Jewish community is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/eyes-wide-open-gay-orthodox-jewish-7194/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION Premiere: Sundance 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/8-the-mormon-proposition-sundance-556/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/8-the-mormon-proposition-sundance-556/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:54:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21277</guid> <description><![CDATA[Reed Cowan's 8: The Mormon Proposition received two &#34;sustained standing ovations&#34; at its Sundance Film Festival screening on Sunday, reports Sean P. Means in The Salt Lake Tribune. A rumored protest against the film failed to materialize. Narrated by Milk's Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black &#8212; who happens to be gay and to have been raised Mormon &#8212; 8: The Mormon Proposition accuses the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/8-the-mormon-proposition-sundance-556/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION Sells Out at Sundance</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/8-the-mormon-proposition-sundance-989/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/8-the-mormon-proposition-sundance-989/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:41:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alessandro Moretti</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20808</guid> <description><![CDATA[8: The Mormon Proposition, Reed Cowan's (photo) controversial documentary on the connection between the Latter-day Saints Church and the passage of the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 in California in fall 2008, has sold out five screenings at the Sundance Film Festival, according to a report in Cache Valley's Herald Journal. (That's in northern Utah.) The report adds that tickets for 8: The Mormon Proposition &#34;were [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/8-the-mormon-proposition-sundance-989/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR, the Vatican, and Neo-Paganism</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/avatar-pagan-pope-vatican-controversy-456/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/avatar-pagan-pope-vatican-controversy-456/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:45:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alessandro Moretti</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20694</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sam Worthington, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Joel David Moore in Avatar (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox) Right-wingers criticize it for its anti-militaristic and anti-imperialism stance. The politically correct accuse it of being racist. Anti-smokers cry foul because of a chain-smoking character. And now comes the Vatican media accusing it of promoting paganism and nature worship. Really, you can't please everyone, but this? In addition [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/avatar-pagan-pope-vatican-controversy-456/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>16</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>THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: Most Important Religion Films of All Time</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/religion/the-ten-commandments-religion-movies-489/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/religion/the-ten-commandments-religion-movies-489/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:49:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20449</guid> <description><![CDATA[A list of the 50 Most Important Religion Films of All Time is now online at Film Snobbery, which is paying tribute to &#34;the union of the sacred and cinematic&#34; in celebration of Epiphany (Jan. 6), the final day of the Christmas holiday season. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is not the #1 film on the list. Instead, that position belongs to Cecil [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/religion/the-ten-commandments-religion-movies-489/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sarab Singh Neelam&#039;s OCEAN OF PEARLS Release</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/sarab-singh-neelam-ocean-of-pearls-483/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/sarab-singh-neelam-ocean-of-pearls-483/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:03:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19222</guid> <description><![CDATA[Omid Abtahi in Ocean of Pearls Sarab Singh Neelam's Ocean of Pearls, a drama about traditional (Sikh) values coming into conflict with life in 21st-century North America, opens exclusively in the Los Angeles area on Friday, December 18, at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood. Director Neelam will take part in a q&#38;a following the 7pm shows on Friday, December 18, and Saturday, December [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/sarab-singh-neelam-ocean-of-pearls-483/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Luis Buñuel&#039;s VIRIDIANA Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/viridiana-luis-bunuel-silvia-pinal/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/viridiana-luis-bunuel-silvia-pinal/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:58:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10124</guid> <description><![CDATA[Viridiana, Luis Buñuel's provocative 1961 Palme d'Or-winning classic proving that life is a bitch and then you play cards, will run at New York City'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' novel Halma), co-written by Buñuel and Julio [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/viridiana-luis-bunuel-silvia-pinal/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DOSTANA, THROUGH THE EYES OF PAINTER: Censorship</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/dostana-through-the-eyes-of-painter-censorship/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/dostana-through-the-eyes-of-painter-censorship/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:31:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=5183</guid> <description><![CDATA[Agence France-Presse reports that the radical nationalist Hindu groups Sanatan Sanstha and Hindu Jananagruti have succeeded in getting the International Film Festival of India, held in the old Portuguese territory of Goa, to withdraw Maqbool Fida Husain's 1967 documentary short Through the Eyes of Painter. Husain, 93, who has been called India's Picasso, became enmeshed in the mid-1990s in an ugly uproar over his paintings [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/dostana-through-the-eyes-of-painter-censorship/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>LATTER DAYS Clip: Mormons Vs. Gays</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/latter-days-clip-mormons-vs-gays/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/latter-days-clip-mormons-vs-gays/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:37:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=5011</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Californians will be voting on Proposition 8 this coming Tuesday. Considering how religious beliefs are the engine behind the anti-gay marriage proposition, and that according to numerous reports the Mormon Church has been fighting the fight to make sure that gays and lesbians never have their unions recognized by the state, I thought it only appropriate to post a clip from the 2003 romantic [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/latter-days-clip-mormons-vs-gays/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SAVE ME: Q&amp;A with Robert Cary</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/save-me-robert-cary-interview/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/save-me-robert-cary-interview/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:33:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4532</guid> <description><![CDATA[A few days ago, when I read an Associated Press report stating that US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's church &#34;is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer,&#34; I immediately thought of Save Me. Directed by Robert Cary (right) from a screenplay by Robert Desiderio, Save Me, which opens in Los Angeles on Friday, September 19, chronicles the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/save-me-robert-cary-interview/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SAVE ME Trailer</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/save-me-chad-allen-trailer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/save-me-chad-allen-trailer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:07:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4115</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Directed by Robert Cary from a screenplay by Robert Desiderio, with &#34;story&#34; credit going to Craig Chester and Alan Hines, Save Me stars Robert Gant, Chad Allen, Judith Light, and Stephen Lang. On its website, Save Me is described as &#34;a deft exploration of the controversial ex-gay movement. The story follows Mark (Chad Allen), a drug-addicted young man who overdoses and finds himself at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/save-me-chad-allen-trailer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2009: WORLDS APART Is Denmark&#039;s Submission</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/worlds-apart-oscar-2009-submission/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/worlds-apart-oscar-2009-submission/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:57:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3694</guid> <description><![CDATA[Via European-Films.net: &#34;The Danes are the first Europeans out of the gate this year with their announcement of their 2009 Foreign Language Oscar submission. The country will submit Niels Arden Oplev's religious drama To verdener (Worlds Apart), which was a big hit in Denmark with over 300,000 tickets sold. Based on a true story, To verdener follows young Sara (Rosalinde Mynster), who comes from a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/worlds-apart-oscar-2009-submission/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film at UCLA</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/visualizing-the-sacred-islam-on-film-at-ucla/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/visualizing-the-sacred-islam-on-film-at-ucla/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 22:48:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2628</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;What we wanted to say is, if these people [Iranians, Muslims] scare you, look closer: They have parents, they have lovers, they have hope, they have stories.&#34; That's filmmaker and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, referring to Persepolis, at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. (Top photo: Brick Lane by Sarah Gavron. Right photo: Of Love and Eggs by Garin Nugroho.) Whether or not following on Satrapi's lead, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/visualizing-the-sacred-islam-on-film-at-ucla/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brigitte Bardot vs. Muslims</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/brigitte-bardot-vs-muslims/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/brigitte-bardot-vs-muslims/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:54:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2553</guid> <description><![CDATA[Next round of Brigitte Bardot vs. Muslims. No, Bardot's animosity has nothing to do with, say, a planned Algerian-made sex melodrama called And Allah Created Woman. Bardot, like millions of others in France and elsewhere, apparently just doesn't like Muslims, period. She's now on trial for the fifth time since the mid-1990s for &#34;inciting racial hatred&#34; due to recent controversial remarks she made about Islam [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/brigitte-bardot-vs-muslims/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Four Documentaries Banned from 2008 Singapore Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/four-documentaries-banned-singapore-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/four-documentaries-banned-singapore-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:51:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/four-documentaries-banned-singapore-film-festival/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Screendaily reports that four documentaries scheduled for the 21st Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), which kicked off on April 4, have been banned by local censors. According to the report, two of the documentaries &#8212; Arab-American director Bassam Haddad's Arabs and Terrorism, about opposing views on political terror, and Mano Khalil's David the Tolhildan, which follows the son of a former Swiss Federal Supreme Court [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/four-documentaries-banned-singapore-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Arthur C. Clarke and God</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/religion/arthur-c-clarke-and-god/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/religion/arthur-c-clarke-and-god/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:22:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/online-news/arthur-c-clarke-and-god/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ed Park's &#34;Arthur C. Clarke's down-to-earth legacy&#34; in the Los Angeles Times: &#34;. . . [Arthur C. Clarke] left explicit instructions that no religious ceremony accompany his death. (For good measure: In what was possibly his last interview, in BBC Focus magazine last December, he said the greatest danger humanity faced was 'Organised religion polluting our minds as it pretends to deliver morality and spiritual [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/religion/arthur-c-clarke-and-god/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE GOLDEN COMPASS and Catholic Censors</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/the-golden-compass-and-catholic-censors/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/the-golden-compass-and-catholic-censors/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:36:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/the-golden-compass-and-catholic-censors/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter in The Golden Compass Via Tim Drake's &#34;U.S. Bishops Withdraw Controversial Movie Review&#34; in the National Catholic Register: &#34;'The aggressively anti-religious, anti-Christian undercurrent in The Golden Compass is unmistakable and at times undisguised,' [Denver Archbishop Charles] Chaput wrote in a column in the Dec. 12 issue of the Denver Catholic Register. 'The wicked Mrs. Coulter alludes approvingly to a fictional [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/the-golden-compass-and-catholic-censors/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>INCORRECT ENTERTAINMENT: Q&amp;A with Author Anthony Slide</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/incorrect-entertainment-anthony-slide/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/incorrect-entertainment-anthony-slide/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:59:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/books/incorrect-entertainment-anthony-slide/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Veteran author Anthony Slide has another book out, Incorrect Entertainment or Trash from the Past: A history of political incorrectness and bad taste in 20th century American popular culture (BearManor, 2007, paperback, US$19.95). Lengthy title for a highly controversial subject matter. Chapters range from &#34;This Race Business&#34; and &#34;Sex&#34; to &#34;Bodily Functions and Dysfunctions&#34; and &#34;Hollywood's Fascist Follies.&#34; There's surely something in the book to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/incorrect-entertainment-anthony-slide/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>JONESTOWN: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE PEOPLES TEMPLE, JESUS CAMP: Contemporary Documentaries</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/jesus-camp-jonestown/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/jesus-camp-jonestown/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:21:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/jesus-camp-jonestown/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Stanley Nelson's Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple and Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's Jesus Camp (above) will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 26th annual Contemporary Documentaries series on Wednesday, October 3, at 7 p.m. at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free. Religion is the nominal topic of both documentaries, but [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/jesus-camp-jonestown/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME at the 2007 San Sebastian Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/buddha-collapsed-out-of-shame-san-sebastian/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/buddha-collapsed-out-of-shame-san-sebastian/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/buddha-collapsed-out-of-shame-san-sebastian/</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;As an 18-year-old girl who lives in Iran today and who faces very specific ideological, political and social pressures, I have a lot to say &#8230; Even though my film was not made in Iran, it shows my desire to speak of collective suffering, in Iran as well as in Afghanistan.&#34; That's director Hana Makhmalbaf, whose feature-film debut, Buda as sharm foru rikht / Buddha [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/buddha-collapsed-out-of-shame-san-sebastian/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jewish Film Festivals in Brazil</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/jewish-film-festivals-in-brazil/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/jewish-film-festivals-in-brazil/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:21:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/jewish-film-festivals-in-brazil/</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; August is the month for Jewish film festivals in Brazil. The 11th São Paulo Jewish Film Festival is currently taking place in Brazil's largest city. It'll be followed by the 3rd Rio de Janeiro Jewish Film Festival (Aug 16-23) and by another Jewish film event in Porto Alegre. Among the São Paulo screenings are Dror Shaul's Adama Meshuga'at / Sweet Mud, a kibbutz-set drama [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/jewish-film-festivals-in-brazil/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2007 and Religion</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cannes-2007-and-religion/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cannes-2007-and-religion/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 23:33:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cannes-2007-and-religion/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Via 7 Days: &#34;Iran has protested to France over the screening at Cannes of an animated film about a woman growing up in revolutionary Iran, slamming the movie as a 'political act,' local media reported. Persepolis, which stems from a best-selling comic book series by Iranian emigre Marjane Satrapi [right], shows its heroine struggling with the authorities in the early days of the Islamic revolution. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cannes-2007-and-religion/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Saverio Costanzo Discusses IN MEMORIA DI ME</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/saverio-costanzo-discusses-in-memoria-di-me/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/saverio-costanzo-discusses-in-memoria-di-me/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:30:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/03/15/saverio-costanzo-discusses-in-memoria-di-me/</guid> <description><![CDATA[At european-films.net: Boyd van Hoeij interviews director Saverio Costanzo, whose Private was Italy's submission for the 2005 Academy Awards. (The ever finicky Academy, however, sent the film back because it was not spoken in Italian. Italy submitted another film, La Bestia nel cuore / Don't Tell, which did get a nomination. Last year, the Academy changed its rules for foreign-language films. In other words, had [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/saverio-costanzo-discusses-in-memoria-di-me/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>An Evening with Sarah Kernochan: MARJOE, THOTH Screenings</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/marjoe-thoth-sarah-kernochan/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/marjoe-thoth-sarah-kernochan/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:09:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/12/28/oscar-documentaries-marjoe-and-thoth-in-new-york-city/</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;Oscar's Docs: An Evening with Sarah Kernochan&#34; will kick off the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's 2007 "Monday Nights with Oscar" series, with screenings of Kernochan's two Academy Award-winning documentaries, the feature Marjoe (above) and the short Thoth, on Monday, January 8, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. Hosted by historian and journalist Perry L. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/marjoe-thoth-sarah-kernochan/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Passion of the Jews &#8211; Christian-Style</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-passion-of-the-jews-christian-style/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-passion-of-the-jews-christian-style/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:51:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/10/19/the-passion-of-the-jews-christian-style/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Recommended Reading: At Alternet, Sarah Posner offers a revealing look behind the making of the Biblical epic One Night with the King, released by the 20th Century-Fox subsidiary FoxFaith: "Although the movie, a lavish production filmed on location in India and starring such well-known Hollywood entities as Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole, may seem on the surface a tale of political intrigue and romance, on [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-passion-of-the-jews-christian-style/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2006: Deepa Mehta&#039;s WATER Submitted</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/deepa-mehtas-water-is-canadas-entry-for-the-oscars/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/deepa-mehtas-water-is-canadas-entry-for-the-oscars/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:32:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/09/23/deepa-mehtas-water-is-canadas-entry-for-the-oscars/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Deepa Mehta's Water, starring Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, and John Abraham, has been chosen as Canada's entry for the 2006 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Set in the Indian holy city of Varanasi, the Hindi-language Water is now eligible as a Canadian entry for the foreign-language Oscar because of recent regulation changes enacted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences earlier this [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/deepa-mehtas-water-is-canadas-entry-for-the-oscars/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE DA VINCI CODE Banned in China, Pakistan</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/chinese-government-bans-the-da-vinci-code/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/chinese-government-bans-the-da-vinci-code/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:23:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/06/09/chinese-government-bans-the-da-vinci-code/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Via The [London] Independent: The Chinese government has ordered theater owners to stop showing Ron Howard's adaptation of The Da Vinci Code. The Hollywood thriller has been in wide release in China for three weeks. As per the official story, the ban is supposed to make space for Chinese films &#8211; except that another Hollywood blockbuster, Ice Age: The Meltdown, is opening in China today. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/chinese-government-bans-the-da-vinci-code/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE DA VINCI CODE Review: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou d: Ron Howard</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/da-vinci-code-ron-howard-tom-hanks/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/da-vinci-code-ron-howard-tom-hanks/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 21:42:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/05/23/review-the-da-vinci-code/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code (2006) Direction: Ron Howard. Screenplay: Akiva Goldsman; from Dan Brown's novel. Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean-Yves Berteloot &#160; Paris, middle of the night. An old man is walking alone in a darkened gallery in the Louvre. He approaches a painting. Another man &#8212; the evil twin of Rutger Hauer's Blade [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/da-vinci-code-ron-howard-tom-hanks/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>No REQUIEM OF SNOW in Copenhagen</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/no-requiem-of-snow-in-copenhagen/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/no-requiem-of-snow-in-copenhagen/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:27:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=430</guid> <description><![CDATA[Iranian director Jamil Rostami, whose Iranian-Iraqi Requiem of Snow recently became Iraq's first film to be submitted for a best foreign-language film Academy Award, has withdrawn his coming-of-age drama from the Danish capital's Buster-Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth as a protest against the publication of cartoons portraying Islam's prophet Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. &#34;I planned to participate in the festival [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/no-requiem-of-snow-in-copenhagen/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ayaan Hirsi Ali and SUBMISSION PART II &#8211; Gays and Islam</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/ayaan-hirsi-ali-submission-part-ii/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/ayaan-hirsi-ali-submission-part-ii/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:50:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=177</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to numerous reports, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who has become a Dutch Member of Parliament for the conservative Liberal Party*, has announced plans to produce a film about gays and Islam. According to Hirsi Ali, she and director Theo van Gogh co-wrote the screenplay of the upcoming film, to be called Submission Part II, in the summer of 2004. On November 2 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/ayaan-hirsi-ali-submission-part-ii/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>TWIST OF FAITH: Q&amp;A with Kirby Dick</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/twist-of-faith-director-kirby-dick-audio-interview/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/twist-of-faith-director-kirby-dick-audio-interview/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:43:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=14</guid> <description><![CDATA[Audio interview with director Kirby Dick, whose Twist of Faith was nominated for a Best Documentary Feature Academy Award in 2005. Twist of Faith tells the story of a man who claims he was molested by a Catholic priest. Dick's film tries to show how the Catholic Church does its best to refute the man's accusations.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/twist-of-faith-director-kirby-dick-audio-interview/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <enclosure
url="http://www.altfg.com/MP3/200507-cinemaminima.MP3" length="10245024" type="audio/mpeg" /> </item> <item><title>LE GRAND VOYAGE d: Ismaël Ferroukhi</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/grand-voyage-ismael-ferroukhi/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/grand-voyage-ismael-ferroukhi/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:08:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/grand-voyage-ismael-ferroukhi/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Le Grand voyage (2004) Direction and screenplay: Ismaël Ferroukhi. Cast: Nicolas Cazalé, Mohamed Majd, Jacky Nercessian, Ghina Ognianova &#160; The French-Moroccan Le Grand voyage, winner of the best first film award at the Venice Film Festival, is a well-intentioned, well-directed, and extremely well-acted road movie that is less satisfying that it should be because writer-director Ismaël Ferroukhi's screenplay fails to strike a balance between the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/grand-voyage-ismael-ferroukhi/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jane Fonda, John Mills, Kay Walsh, MEET THE FOCKERS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/spring-film-news/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/spring-film-news/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:09:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=8</guid> <description><![CDATA[Spring 2005 Film News, including Kingdom of Heaven at the box office, brief John Mills obit, Jane Fonda and her book My Life So Far, Tango Charlie's controversy in India, Gandhi screened to Palestinians, Huntley Film Archives unearths 1910 live-action Snow White, David di Donatello 2005 winners, Jo Bole so nihaal bombings in Delhi]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/spring-film-news/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SUBMISSION on Italian TV</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/submission-on-italian-tv/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/submission-on-italian-tv/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 21:40:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/submission-on-italian-tv/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Italy's state-run Rai Due channel will be showing in its Thursday night news magazine four to five minutes of murdered director Theo van Gogh's 11-minute film Submission: Part 1, a highly critical statement against the treatment of women under Islam. Submission, which consists of a series of images of a woman wearing a see-through burka, her body covered with words from the Koran, was shown [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/submission-on-italian-tv/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and Anti-Semitism</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-passion-of-the-christ-and-anti-semitism/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-passion-of-the-christ-and-anti-semitism/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:44:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/world-cinema/american-cinema-hollywood/the-passion-of-the-christ-and-anti-semitism/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Via the Toronto Globe and Mail According to a new report from B'nai Brith Canada, the number of anti-Semitic incidents with direct religious connotations in February of 2004 &#8212; the month Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ opened in Canada &#8212; matches the figure for all of 2003. The spike continued into the spring. The actual number of reported religious-motivated incidents is small &#8212; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-passion-of-the-christ-and-anti-semitism/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meera&#039;s Kissing Scandal</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/meera-fined-for-kissing/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/meera-fined-for-kissing/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:15:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/meera-fined-for-kissing/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meera, Ashmit Patel in Nazar OutlookIndia.com reports that Pakistan's Ministry of Culturehas imposed a &#34;heavy fine&#34; on Pakistani actress Meera. The reason for the Ministry of Culture's stern ruling? Meera kisses her Indian co-star Ashmit Patel in Mahesh Bhatt's supernatural Bollywood thriller Nazar; the kissing scene was deemed against &#34;Islamic ethics and moral values.&#34; The government, which is apparently afraid that Pakistanis will emulate Meera's [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/meera-fined-for-kissing/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
