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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; War Movies</title>
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		<title>THE HURT LOCKER, THE DEER HUNTER, PLATOON, BRAVEHEART: The Oscars &amp; War Movie Controversies</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-deer-hunter-platoon-braveheart-659/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Oscar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Braveheart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mel Gibson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Chartier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Platoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving Private Ryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Deer Hunter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Hasn&#8217;t Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies
Julie Christie in Variety, discussing The Deer Hunter (1978, right, with Robert De Niro): &#34;The film presents the Vietcong as subhuman and sadistic, though they effectively resisted both France and the United States, which possessed enormous means of warfare.&#34;
Jane Fonda, the star of the post-Vietnam-syndrome Coming Home, later took it upon herself to campaign against The Deer Hunter, telling the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, &#34;I haven&#8217;t seen it &#8212; I&#8217;m afraid to. My friends told me about it, though, and I just think it&#8217;s amazing that good people can see the movie and not even consider the racism.&#34; Despite the opposition of liberals and leftists, The Deer Hunter went on to win five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Hasn&#8217;t Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-controversy-oscar-190/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Oscar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[All Quiet on the Western Front]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin J. Schaffner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lewis Milestone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Boal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker]]></category>
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Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce in The Hurt Locker (top); Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front (bottom)

The Hurt Locker, an Iraq War drama that follows a US military bomb disposal unit, has been harshly criticized by some Iraq War veterans. Some have called the movie inaccurate and its depiction of soldiers in a war zone laughable. Others have gone as far as to accuse filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal of &#34;disrespect&#34; towards  the military because The Hurt Locker shows soldiers disobeying orders and acting on their own.
Now, could those accusations and complaints &#8212; whether or not they have merit &#8212; affect The Hurt Locker&#8217;s Oscar chances? Even if they&#8217;d surfaced at an earlier date, that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HURT LOCKER: The Best Picture Oscar&#8217;s War Movies</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-oscar-war-movies-677/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Oscar]]></category>
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If Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker wins the Best Picture Academy Award on Sunday, it&#8217;ll be the eighth out-and-out war movie to win the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8217; top prize. Prior battle-scarred winners were Wings (1927-28), All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Patton (1970), The Deer Hunter (1978), Platoon (1986), and Braveheart (1995). 
If you wish, feel free to add Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The English Patient (1996), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) to that list. Or even Mrs. Miniver (1942), which portrays &#8212; and embellishes &#8212; the British homefront. Or Schindler&#8217;s List (1993), mostly set in a concentration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HUMAN CONDITION d: Masaki Kobayashi</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-human-condition-masaki-kobayashi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-human-condition-masaki-kobayashi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Soldier's Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masaki Kobayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michiyo Aratama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Greater Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tatsuya Nakadai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Criterion Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Condition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Road to Eternity]]></category>
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The Human Condition Trilogy
No Greater Love (1959), The Road to Eternity (1959), A Soldier&#8217;s Prayer (1961)
Direction: Masaki Kobayashi
Screenplay: Zenzo Matsuyama and Masaki Kobayashi; from Jumpei Gomikawa&#8217;s novel
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama
&#160;

Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai in The Human Condition
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Masaki Kobayashi&#8217;s The Human Condition, based on Jumpei Gomikawa&#8217;s novel, is probably as well known for its scope and scale  as for any other reason.  Originally  released as three films &#8212; No Greater Love (1959), The Road to Eternity (1959),  and A Soldier&#8217;s Prayer (1961) &#8212; Criterion has packaged everything together as one massive, nine-and-a-half-hour  opus chronicling the adventures of Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai), a young Japanese  unwillingly participating in the Imperial Army in World War II.  The film&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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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>ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT at Film Forum</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-lew-ayres/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All Quiet on the Western Front]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lew Ayres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lewis Milestone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maxwell Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Screenings]]></category>
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Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim in All Quiet on the Western Front

The silent version of the best picture Academy Award winner All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), in my view the greatest war movie ever made, will be screened at New York City&#8217;s Film Forum on Monday, August 3. Showtimes are at 3:20, 6:50, and 9:20. 
Having been restored and preserved by the Library of Congress, and featuring two reels cut from the original talkie print following the film&#8217;s East and West Coast premieres, this silent version &#8212; edited from the foreign negative &#8212; comes  with musical accompaniment intended for foreign markets where theaters  hadn&#8217;t yet been equipped to sound. (I should add that in the silent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin 2006: Is Dresden Burning?</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/is-dresden-burning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/is-dresden-burning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin 2006]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dresden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roland Suso Richter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;German filmmakers have tackled the touchy subject of whether the Allied firebombing of Dresden at the end of World War Two was a &#8216;war crime&#8217; with a carefully balanced melodrama that got its worldwide premiere on Monday.
&#34;Showing the German point of view of anything in World War Two is always likely to cause a stir &#8212; and that&#8217;s precisely what the makers of Dresden said they want to achieve. 
&#34;Dresden, which premiered at the European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival, quickly reopened old wounds about what many Germans privately call a war crime &#8212; and even act of terror.&#34; Erik Kirschbaum via Reuters. 
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Directed by Roland Suso Richter, the made-for-TV miniseries Dresden stars Marie Bäumer, Susanne Bormann, Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VALLEY OF THE WOLVES &#8211; IRAQ: Anti-American Film a Hit in Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/asian-cinema/valley-of-the-wolves-iraq-anti-american-film/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/asian-cinema/valley-of-the-wolves-iraq-anti-american-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asian Cinema]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Serdar Akar]]></category>
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&#34;It is rabidly anti-American, and it is the biggest draw in town.&#34; That&#8217;s the headline of Sarah Rainsford&#8217;s BBC article on the Turkish blockbuster  Valley of the Wolves &#8211; Iraq, directed by Serdar Akar, and adapted from a successful local TV series by Bahadir Ozdener. 
In Valley of the Wolves, Turks are shining heroes whereas Americans firebomb mosques, execute innocents, and deal in organ trafficking. The film stars Necati Sasmaz, Ghassan Massoud, Billy Zane, Berguzar Korel, and Gary Busey.
Here are a couple more quotes on Valley of the Wolves &#8211; Iraq:
Baha Güngör in the Deutsche Welle: 
&#34;The most expensive Turkish movie of all time, Valley of the Wolves, does nothing to contribute to an inter-cultural dialogue. It can neither [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOLDIERS PAY / UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ Double Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/soldiers-pay-uncovered-double-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/soldiers-pay-uncovered-double-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David O. Russell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Greenwald]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[E! reports that David O. Russell&#8217;s anti-war documentary Soldiers Pay has been picked up by the independent distributor Cinema Libre Studio. O&#8217;Russell, the director of the critically acclaimed Three Kings (1999) and of the upcoming I Heart Huckabees, had wanted Warner Bros. to distribute his 35-minute film in conjunction with the studio&#8217;s rerelease of Three Kings.
But Warners, like Disney earlier this year, balked at the idea of releasing a vociferous political commentary on the Iraq war during an election year. In fact, a Warners representative referred to the project as a &#34;personal political statement&#34; that might, if distributed by the studio, violate U.S. election laws. (Russell&#8217;s documentary will not be found on the Three Kings Special Edition DVD, either, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOWNFALL Accused of Humanizing Hitler</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/downfall-humanizes-hitler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/downfall-humanizes-hitler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2004 00:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruno Ganz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Der Untergang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downfall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joachim Fest]]></category>
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One of history&#8217;s most hated monsters has undergone a humanizing makeover in the German motion picture Der Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des 3. Reiches (Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. 
Based on historian Joachim Fest&#8217;s best-selling Adolf Hitler biography and on the memoirs of the dictator&#8217;s last personal secretary, Traudl Junge, Downfall chronicles the last days of the German Führer, besieged inside his underground bunker while the Soviet Red Army battled the Nazi forces on the ground. 
During that period, Hitler suffers psychotic delusions and goes into mad rages, but also shows courteousness and even warmth toward Junge and his wife-to-be Eva Braun. 
In the film, Hitler is played by Swiss-born actor [...]]]></description>
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