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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Sex</title>
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		<title>CineKink San Francisco 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/sex/cinekink-san-francisco-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A. Benjamin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[At the Porno Shop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belle de Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casey Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CineKink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CineKink San Francisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Westby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kink Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Beatty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Auteur]]></category>

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CineKink San Francisco will take place from November 19-21 at the
  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 
Screening films include James Westby&#8217;s The Auteur, a farcical comedy about has-been Italian erotica filmmaker Arturo Domingo&#8217;s trip  to Portland to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award;  A. Benjamin&#8217;s Kinky (above, lower photo), a 2008 documentary that explores sexuality issues among black Americans; and a couple of dozen shorts, including &#34;Best of CineKink&#34; selections Belle de Nature (above, top photo) by Maria Beatty, Kink, Inc. by Casey Clark, and At the Porno Shop by Michael Rehfield.
Of those, I&#8217;ve only seen The Auteur. Most of the humor eluded me, while the film  promises more risque situations than it delivers. That said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Fetish Film Festival Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-fetish-film-festival-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erik Lamens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fetish Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Bervoets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilton Ariel Ruiz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rogues Rebels and Renegades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SM Judge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veerle Dobbelaere]]></category>

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Flemish filmmaker Erik Lamens&#8216; SM-rechter / SM Judge (above) was chosen  the best narrative feature at the 2009 Fetish Film Festival, held in the northern German city of Kiel from Oct. 29-31.
Inspired by a true story, Lamens&#8217; SM Judge tells the story of Belgian judge Koen Aurousseau, who, as per Flanders Today, &#34;was accused of physical assault and incitement to prostitution&#34; in 1997. Following his conviction, Aurousseau found himself mired in a deep emotional and financial hole; his only source of support was his wife, Magda, the person who&#8217;d initially asked him to get involved in S&#38;M sex practices.
“I heard on TV the other day that this is &#8216;the  most controversial film of the year,&#8217; Lamens is quoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: Phone Sex Gets EASIER WITH PRACTICE</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/easier-with-practice-phone-sex-alvarez/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/easier-with-practice-phone-sex-alvarez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFI FEST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFI FEST 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Geraghty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davy Rothbart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easier with Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kel O'Neill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyle Patrick Alvarez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

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Brian Geraghty in Easier with Practice

Kyle Patrick Alvarez&#8217;s feature-film debut Easier with Practice, CineVegas Grand Jury Award winner and Best International Feature at the Edinburgh Film Festival, will screen at the AFI FEST 2009 on Wed., November 4, at 10 p.m.
Easier with Practice tells the story of a writer (Brian Geraghty of The Hurt Locker) who, in a desperate attempt to promote his still-unpublished novel, hits the road with his younger brother  (Kel O’Neill) on a self-planned book tour.  Things don&#8217;t go very well at first, but when out of the blue a sexy female voice calls the writer at his ordinary motel room &#8212; to ask what he&#8217;s wearing, no less &#8212; everything changes. The phoning couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sasha Grey in THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/sasha-grey-the-girlfriend-experience-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/sasha-grey-the-girlfriend-experience-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Koppelman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Santos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Levien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Eytan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sasha Grey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Girlfriend Experience]]></category>

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Set at the time of the 2008 US presidential elections, The Girlfriend Experience follows Manhattan escort Chelsea (21-year-old Sasha Grey, voted best female performer in XXX films last year), a savvy businesswoman who offers the &#34;girlfriend experience&#34; to her clients: dinner and movie dates, chats, sex &#8212; and even that most indecent of habits, kissing. 
Sounds like fun? Perhaps it is, but then there&#8217;s both the boyfriend (Chris Santos) and a special writer (Philip Eytan) from Los Angeles. 
Sounds decadent? Well, that&#8217;s nothing compared to the free fall of the global economy thanks to the (truly) obscene behavior of bankers and their politician-whores. 
While the world financial markets crumble, Chelsea gets laid &#8212; and ponders about how to best invest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CineKink NYC Calls for Entries</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/sex/cinekink-nyc-calls-for-entries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CineKink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CineKink NYC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filmmakers' Interest]]></category>

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PRESS RELEASE
 Scheduled for  its seventh annual appearance February 16-21, 2010, CineKink NYC  is seeking films and videos, of any length and genre, that explore and celebrate the wide diversity of sexuality.  Billing itself as &#34;the kinky film festival,&#34; organizers are looking to blur some boundaries and will be considering offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, with works ranging from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn, mildly spicy to quite explicit&#8211;and everything in between. 
Presented by CineKink, an organization dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, the specially-curated festival will also feature a short film competition, audience choice awards, an adult entertainment showcase, presentations, parties and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penélope Cruz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gael García Bernal Sign Polanski Petition</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/penelope-cruz-bertolucci-bernal-polanski-petition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/penelope-cruz-bertolucci-bernal-polanski-petition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernardo Bertolucci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Chaplin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gael Garcia Bernal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actor Gael García Bernal, Academy Award-winning actress Penélope Cruz,  veteran  director Mario Monicelli, veteran screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr, and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Ethan Coen are a few of the latest additions to the list of signatories demanding freedom for filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently being held by Swiss authorities.
Among the other new signatories of the petition organized by France’s Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD) are: 
Author Ariel Dorfman; actor-screenwriter Buck Henry; composer Vangelis; actors Sylvia Kristel and  Anne Consigny; filmmakers Fatih Akin, Juan Antonio Bayona, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Alain Berliner, Guillermo del Toro, Michel Deville, Sam Gabarski, Diane Kurys, Tonie Marshall, Brett Ratner, and  Jerry Schatzberg; World Cinema Foundation director Kent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch Sign Roman Polanski Petition</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/allen-lynch-scorsese-roman-polanski-petition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/allen-lynch-scorsese-roman-polanski-petition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Lynch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luc Besson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woody Allen, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, and Terry Gilliam have added their names to the petition, organized by France&#8217;s Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD), demanding the release of Palme d&#8217;Or and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently in the custody of Swiss authorities. 
In 1978, Polanski pleaded guilty to a charge of statutory rape (sex with a minor) of  13-year-old Samantha Gailey (now Geimer), whom he allegedly drugged before having sex with her against her will. Polanski, who at the time claimed that the sex was consensual and that he was led to believe that the 13-year-old was 18, reportedly fled the United States upon learning, after spending 42 days in prison, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roman Polanski Arrested</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/roman-polanski-arrested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emmanuelle Seigner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marina Zenovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Harris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roman Polanski, who won a best director Oscar for the Holocaust drama The Pianist in 2003, was arrested at the Zurich airport last night. According to reports, the 76-year-old filmmaker could face extradition to the United States for charges of having sex with a minor in the late 1970s.
Polanski, who was in Switzerland to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival, was apparently arrested at the behest of the U.S. Justice  Department, following a lead from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. He would be held until a decision was made regarding his extradition to the US.
In 1977, Polanski was accused of using champagne and a Quaalude tablet to have sex with  a 13-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fetish Film Festival 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/fetish-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bondage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fetish Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fetishes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank-Peter Lenze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Love is Automatic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Broomfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Pawn Layman]]></category>
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  Modern Love Is Automatic by Zach Clark (top); The Pawn Layman by Frank-Peter Lenze (bottom)

Kiel&#8217;s Fetish Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 29-31 at the Traum-Kino in the northern German city, prides itself in presenting &#34;the best in Fetish and BDSM&#34; cinema.
Among the 2009 festival&#8217;s screening films are Zach Clark&#8217;s Modern Love Is Automatic, which follows a nurse (Melodie Sisk) working on the side as  a professional dominatrix while facing some serious issues with her mattress-selling, supermodel-wannabe roommate (Maggie Ross); Frank-Peter Lenze&#8217;s short comedy The Pawn Layman, in which Katharina Wackernagel plays a professional Mistress who makes good (or bad?) use of a young man in desperate need of money; and Nick Broomfield&#8217;s 1996 documentary Fetishes, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRÜNO in THE GUARDIAN</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/bruno-sacha-baron-cohen-the-guardian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brüno]]></category>
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Steve Rose reviews Brüno in The Guardian:
&#34;Brüno is funniest, though, when it&#8217;s at its most politically incorrect, especially when it comes to homosexuality. There&#8217;s an eye-popping montage of extreme gay sex practices (imaginary, one hopes), a surfeit of waving penises, dildos, fetish gear, anal bleaching, and an excruciating mime in which Brüno fellates the ghost of a deceased member of Milli Vanilli in front of a psychic.
&#34;Much of it is unavoidably hilarious, but is he lampooning homophobia or perpetuating it?
&#34;Either way, he gets away with a great deal simply by being a brilliant physical comedian. That should stand him in good stead.&#34;
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The Guardian editorial:
&#34;Everyone apart from fans of Germanic diacritical marks will find something to deplore in Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dustin Lance Black and Role Models</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/dustin-lance-black-sex-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay]]></category>
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The fact that Dustin Lance Black will &#8212; at least for the time being &#8212; be better known for his sexual activities than for his Milk screenplay says more about our society (or societies, since the thing has gone global) than about Black himself, whose sex life &#8212; with or without condoms; with or without a camera &#8212; should be his business and nobody else&#8217;s.
Some have tried to turn the online leak of Black&#8217;s sex photos into something of momentous importance for gay rights, the spread of HIV, etc. In truth, except for Black and his sex partner those photos are irrelevant. Really, will anyone now decide to fight against marriage equality simply because of Black&#8217;s sexual life? Will gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannes 2009: Lars von Trier&#8217;s ANTICHRIST</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/lars-von-trier-antichrist-cannes-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/lars-von-trier-antichrist-cannes-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 08:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Antichrist: Filmmaker Lars von Trier (top); Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe (bottom).
In this pyshcological horror-drama, a married couple struggles to come to terms with the accidental death of their son.

Wendy Ide in The [London] Times:
&#34;Von Trier has moved away from the sparse, rough and ready work of the Dogme   era and embraced a stylised and visually sumptuous look for Antichrist.   The movie is packed with arresting and atmospheric images, some of which   you’ll wish you could permanently erase from your memory.
&#34;If von Trier’s issues with female sexuality have been evident in previous   films, particularly Breaking the Waves and Dogville, in Antichrist he ups the ante, constructing a gender war of nuclear intensity between [...]]]></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>Marilyn Chambers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Marilyn Chambers, known for her erotic films of the 1970s, died Sunday at her  home in the Los Angeles suburb of Canyon Country. She would have turned 57 on April 22. The cause of death is still unknown; Chambers was found by her daughter. 
Born Marilyn Ann Taylor  (or Marilyn Ann Briggs) in Westport, Connecticut, in 1952, former Ivory Snow soap-box girl Chambers became an adult-film superstar after appearing in the 1972 production Behind the Green Door, which became a sensation of sorts because the actress was seen having sex with a black man, Johnny Keyes. Directed by Artie and Jim Mitchell, Behind the Green Door became one of the first sexually explicit films to be widely released [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle Pfeiffer in CHERI Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Directed by Stephen Frears and adapted by Christopher Hampton from Colette&#8217;s novel, Chéri  stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a 1920s French courtesan who teaches a young man (Rupert Friend) the ways of love and sex.
 Also in the Chéri cast: Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Anita Pallenberg, Frances Tomelty.
Chéri opens in the US on June 26.
Official site. 
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Sacha Baron Cohen in BRUNO Trailer
Carmen Miranda Does &#34;Cai, Cai&#34; in THAT NIGHT IN RIO
Best Actress Oscar Winners &#8211; 1927/28-2007
Hattie McDaniel&#8217;s Oscar Acceptance Speech
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		<title>SHALL WE KISS? &#8211; Q&amp;A with Emmanuel Mouret</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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In Emmanuel Mouret&#8217;s quietly observant Un baiser s&#8217;il vous plaît / Shall We Kiss? (literally, &#34;A Kiss, If You Please&#34;), which opens today in Los Angeles, a young, good-looking couple, Émilie and Gabriel  (Julie Gayet and Michaël Cohen),  meet accidentally and are just about ready to go for some physical intimacy when Judith  decides to tell Gabriel a story. See, she&#8217;s in a relationship. But then again, so is he. 
Well, the story in question is about another young, good-looking couple,  Judith and Nicolas (Virginie Ledoyen,  Mouret, top photo) who broke the barriers of social conventions and personal trust &#8212; Judith was married  &#8212; by kissing one another. But it was all for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Wrangler</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jack  Wrangler, the blond,  handsome 1970s sex star &#8212; and a lifelong smoker &#8212; has died from complications of lung disease in Manhattan. He was 62.
Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, a documentary chronicling Wrangler&#8217;s life and career &#8212; including his marriage to big-band singer Margaret Whiting &#8212; was released last fall. Earlier this week, Wrangler was screened at the London Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival.
“Jack Wrangler knew  the power of image-making and inspired an entire generation to be  comfortable in their own skin and to become the man of their dreams,”  said the film’s director, Jeffrey Schwarz.
According to Schwarz, Wrangler wasn&#8217;t sure about being the subject of a documentary. 
&#34;Are you sure people will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMERICAN SWING: Q&amp;A with Co-Director Jon Hart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jon Hart and Mathew Kaufman&#8217;s entertaining documentary American Swing  chronicles the rise and fall of Larry Levenson, whose nightclub &#38; sex club Plato&#8217;s Retreat became, along with Studio 54, one of the top New York City hangouts of the late 1970s.
Jon Hart (right) has kindly answered (via e-mail) a few brief questions about American Swing. See below.
American Swing is currently playing at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood.
Photos: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
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How difficult (or easy) was it to get all those people who had worked at or gone to Plato&#8217;s Retreat to be so candid about their experiences at the club? Did you run into many who refused to discuss the past?
Almost everyone was extremely apprehensive about being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacha Baron Cohen in BRÜNO Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Young</dc:creator>
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Written by Sacha Baron Cohen  and directed by Dan Mazer, Brüno stars Cohen as a flamboyant Austrian fashionista who, in his desire to become &#34;the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler,&#34; decides to launch himself in the United States, adopting an African baby (à la Madonna) in the process while trying to pass for straight.
As a result of several sex scenes, Brüno has been slapped with a NC-17 rating in the US. I don&#8217;t believe anyone was surprised. Its distributor, Universal, will now have to trim the sex bits in order to get the mockumentary an R rating. Apparently, one sequence involves anal intercourse, the sort of stuff that drives the MPAA censors wild. That and  the other soon-to-be-cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMERICAN SWING d: Mathew Kaufman and Jon Hart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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American Swing  (2009)
Direction: Mathew Kaufman and Jon Hart
Screenplay: Keith Reamer
Interviewees: Buck Henry, Annie Sprinkle, Melvin van Peebles, Ron Jeremy, Jamie Gillis, Helen Gurley Brown, and others
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By way of interviews, photos, and home movies, Mathew Kaufman and journalist Jon Hart&#8217;s American Swing humorously chronicles the rise and fall of all-American entrepreneur Larry Levenson, free-sex advocate and self-proclaimed &#34;King of Swing,&#34;  while painting  a nostalgic &#8212; though hardly all-flattering &#8212; portrait of the heyday of Plato&#8217;s Retreat, New York City&#8217;s foremost sex club-disco of the late 1970s.
Earlier in the decade, wholesale  meat purveyor Larry Levenson had decided to reinvent himself as a Sexual Liberation Messiah. Even so, it&#8217;s debatable whether Levenson actually saw himself as a Man with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEBAUCHED DESIRES: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/sex/debauched-desires-masaru-konuma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE
Kino International and KimStim are proud to release the four-DVD set Debauched Desires: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma.
Directed by the master of Japanese erotic cinema Masaru Konuma, CLOISTERED NUN: RUNA&#8217;S CONFESSION (1976), TATTOOED FLOWER VASE (1976), EROTIC DIARY OF AN OFFICE LADY (1977) and a re-mastered version of WIFE TO BE SACRIFICED (1975) are now available in one four-DVD set at the reduced price of $49.95. Previously, each of these films was available at $29.95.
The street date for Debauched Desires: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma is May 19, 2009.
&#34;Stylishly directed and singularly harrowing&#34; (Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia), these four films are classic examples of pink cinema, a style of Japanese, softcore theatrical films which was common in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: Fred Halsted, THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-fred-halsted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Friday, March 27, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
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The Naked Civil Servant



Directed by:
Jack Gold


Cast:
John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge


Country:
UK


Year:
1975


Running time:
85min



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This dramatization of Quentin [Crisp]&#8217;s first volume of autobiography won  BAFTAs for its director Jack Gold and its star. John Hurt gives a  dazzling performance as the young Quentin, a flame-haired flamboyant  homosexual when such things were not permitted. It contains much of the  wit and wisdom of Quentin and celebrates a life lived in a refusal to  conform. The highlight is Quentin&#8217;s impassioned speech from the dock  when charged with soliciting for an immoral purpose. 
Plus an interview with Bernard Braden filmed in 1967. Previously  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE, THE LARAMIE PROJECT Offend</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/otto-or-up-with-dead-people-the-laramie-project-offend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tina O&#8217;Grady, a member of the Ohio Department of Public Safety&#8217;s  &#34;cultural competency initiative&#34; was scolded by her boss after co-workers complained about an e-mail she  had forwarded  promoting the gay-themed Out@Wex Film Festival in Columbus.
As per the Columbus Dispatch, O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s co-workers seemed to be particularly offended by the festival&#8217;s  description of Bruce LaBruce&#8217;s Otto; or, Up With Dead People in its release. Otto is summed up as an &#34;art-porn provocation [that] depicts an explosion of cannibalistic, sodomy-seeking zombies in Berlin.&#34;
What exactly in that sentence &#8212; art, porn, provocation, explosion, cannibalism, sodomy, zombies,  Berlin &#8212; offended some of the Ohio Department of Public Safety workers remains unclear.
The  judges at the Milan International Lesbian and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salvatore Samperi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Director Salvatore Samperi, the maestro dell&#8217;erotismo all&#8217;italiana best known for the 1973 social/sex comedy Malizia / Malicious (above), died on March 4 in Bracciano, near Rome. He was 64.
Invariably pushing the boundaries of the socially &#8212; and erotically &#8212; acceptable by the hypocritical, image-conscious bourgeoisie in Italy and elsewhere, the Padua-born (July 26, 1944), former left-wing militant  tackled subjects that  American movies, with rare exceptions, wouldn&#8217;t dare get close to then or now. 

For instance, Grazie, Zia / Thank You, Aunt (above, 1968), his feature-film debut (inspired by mentor Marco Bellocchio&#8217;s I Pugni in tasca / Fist in His Pocket), tells the story of a wealthy young man (Fist in His Pocket leading man Lou Castel)  who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CineKink NYC 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cinekink-nyc-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a film festival&#8217;s  community sponsors have names such as  DDevious Delights, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Gay Male S/M Activists, Leather Invasion, Lesbian Sex Mafia, the film festival in question must be  CineKink NYC, currently taking place at the Anthology Film Archives, at 32 Second Avenue &#38; 2nd St. in New York City.
Among the screening films are Daryl Wein&#8217;s  documentary Sex Positive, about an early AIDS activist; Robert Pratten&#8217;s  horror thriller Mindflesh; a shorts program called &#8212; I kid you not &#8212; &#34;Whips &#38; Restraint&#34;; the documentary Graphic Sexual Horror; and the sex-film industry parody The Auteur, which happens to be the only film among those listed that I&#8217;ve seen. (The best thing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin 2009: Joe Dallesandro to Receive Honorary Teddy Award</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joe-dallesandro-teddy-award-berlin-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Joe Dallesandro, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey&#8217;s muse in films such as Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and Heat (1972),  and whose crotch adorned the Rolling Stones&#8216; album &#34;Sticky Fingers,&#34;  will be the recipient of the 2009 honorary Teddy Award, given to those who have contributed to gay/lesbian/etc. cinema, at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, which runs Feb. 5-15.
Two films featuring Dallesandro, who&#8217;s now 60 years old, will be screened at the 2009 Berlinale: Little Joe, Nicole Haeusser&#8217;s new documentary on  the actor, and Catherine Breillat&#8217;s Tapage Nocturne (1979), winner of the Berlin Film Festival&#8217;s Panorama Audience Award.
In addition to the Warhol Factory films, which also include titles such as the revisionist Western Lonesome Cowboys (1968), The Loves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Censored on Italian TV</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/brokeback-mountain-censored-on-italian-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Following a censored broadcast of the multiple-award winning Brokeback Mountain &#8212; minus the gay lovemaking scenes &#8212; on one of Italy&#8217;s public TV channels, Rai Due, Italian gay rights&#8217; groups have demanded that the network&#8217;s director, Antonio Marano, explain the channel&#8217;s decision to censor the film. 
Adding insult to injury, the cuts came days after the Vatican attacked an EU proposal for the UN to formally condemn anti-gay discrimination. (Now, when does the Catholic Boycott begin? Which film festivals will be affected in Catholic states and/or countries?)
&#34;Who had the presumption to think that an adult public could not handle the sight of kissing and intimacy between two men?&#34; inquired Aurelio Mancuso, president of the gay advocacy group Arcigay, which has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce LaBruce Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/bruce-labruce-retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Bruce Demara on Bruce LaBruce at the Toronto Star:
&#34;With his sixth feature film playing the international  indy/alt/queer/fantasy festival circuit, Bruce LaBruce is ready for a  close-up – a three-day &#8216;retrospective&#8217; starting tonight at the Royal  Cinema.
&#34;The Toronto filmmaker, known for his porn-meet-politics, not-for-the-faint-of-heart cult offerings, is basking in the relative  acclaim of his latest work, Otto; Or, Up With Dead People, about a lonely gay zombie roaming the streets of  Berlin.&#34;
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Here is the intro to Toronto&#8217;s  The Royal cinema&#8217;s Bruce LaBruce Restrospective (in addition to Otto, the retrospective will screen Hustler White, Super 8 1/2, The Raspberry Reich, and No Skin Off My Ass):
&#34;In our era of commercialism, Bruce LaBruce’s films remain committed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOUNG PEOPLE FUCKING d: Martin Gero</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/young-people-fucking-d-martin-gero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young People Fucking  (2008)
Direction: Martin Gero. Screenplay: Martin Gero and Aaron Abrams. Cast: Aaron Abrams, Diora Baird, Sonja Bennett, Callum Blue, Kristin Booth, Josh Cooke, Josh Dean, Ennis Esmer, Natalie Lisinska, Peter Oldring, Carly Pope
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Directed by Martin Gero and written by Gero and Aaron Abrams, Young People Fucking is a film about, you guessed it, young adults engaging  in sexual intercourse,  the situations  surrounding the acts, and the lives of  the participants. The situations are: The Friends, The Couple, The First Date,  The Roommates, and The Exes. The sexual acts involved are Prelude, Foreplay,  Sex, Interlude, Orgasm, and Afterglow. 
The ballsy title alone draws one&#8217;s  attention to this romantic comedy, while  [...]]]></description>
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