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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; The Letter</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/the-letter/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>THE LETTER (1929) Review: Jeanne Eagels Sole Extant Talking Performance</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-letter-1929-review-jeanne-eagels-academy-award/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-letter-1929-review-jeanne-eagels-academy-award/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:33:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36947</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE LETTER (1929) Review Pt.1. [Photo: Jeanne Eagels as jealous murderess Leslie Crosbie.] Low-key, however, is hardly the appropriate manner to describe Jeanne Eagels' bombastic talkie début in a role played in London by Gladys Cooper and on Broadway by Katharine Cornell. Eagels, a sensation on stage as Sadie Thompson in W. Somerset Maugham's Rain and the star of a handful of silent films (e.g., [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-letter-1929-review-jeanne-eagels-academy-award/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE LETTER (1929) Review: Jeanne Eagels d: Jean de Limur</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE LETTER (1929) Direction: Jean de Limur Cast: Jeanne Eagels, O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne, Lady Tsen Mei, Tamaki Yoshiwara Screenplay: Garrett Fort; from W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play, itself based on a Maugham story found in the 1924 collection The Casuarina Tree Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Movies Jeanne Eagels, Herbert Marshall, The Letter Having watched William Wyler's masterful 1940 film adaptation of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis on TCM: THE OLD MAID; NOW, VOYAGER; THE WORKING MAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-the-old-maid-jezebel-the-working-man/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-the-old-maid-jezebel-the-working-man/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:18:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27505</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins, Bette Davis, The Old Maid Bette Davis, Warner Bros.' top female box-office attraction from the mid-'30s to the late '40s, is Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; performer-of-the-day this Wednesday, August 3. TCM will be presenting 12 Bette Davis movies, in addition to the 2005 documentary Stardust: The Bette Davis Story. [Bette Davis Movie Schedule.] Unfortunately, none of TCM's Bette Davis movies [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-the-old-maid-jezebel-the-working-man/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cinéfondation Awards: Cannes 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cinefondation-awards-cannes-2011-der-brief/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cinefondation-awards-cannes-2011-der-brief/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 03:10:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27111</guid> <description><![CDATA[Doroteya Droumeva's The Letter Doroteya Droumeva's Der Brief / The Letter (Germany), about a pregnant woman's mysterious letter, was chosen as the winner at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival's Cinéfondation Awards during a ceremony held at the Buñuel Theatre. The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury &#8212; Julie Gayet, Jessica Hausner, Corneliu Porumboiu, João Pedro Rodrigues and President Michel Gondry &#8212; awarded the runner-up prize to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cinefondation-awards-cannes-2011-der-brief/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE LETTER Review – Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson d: William Wyler</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:56:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15030</guid> <description><![CDATA[No rare Bette Davis flicks on her Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day, Saturday, Aug. 8. That's too bad, as TCM now has access to Columbia's film library. They could have unearthed Davis' early Columbia flick The Menace (1931), which isn't very good, but it's rare and it's Bette Davis. Also, there's the little-seen, Columbia-distributed, political drama Storm Center (1956), in which Davis [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-movies-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1941</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1941/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1941/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:57:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4332</guid> <description><![CDATA[Orson Welles in Citizen Kane FILM Cheers for Miss Bishop d: Tay Garnett; scr: Sheridan Gibney, Adelaide Heilbron Citizen Kane d: Orson Welles; scr: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles The Devil and Miss Jones d: Sam Wood; scr: Norman Krasna Dumbo d: Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer and others The Great Lie d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee Here Comes Mr. Jordan [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1941/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1940</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:57:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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