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		<title>Five Great Films I Saw in the Month of May 2013, in alphabetical order</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Total seen: 14 Behind the Candelabra (Soderbergh, 2013) Looking for Richard (Pacino, 1996) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Meyer, 1982) Strange Days (Bigelow, 1995) Zardoz (Boorman, 1974) Hon. mentions: Samsara (Fricke, 2011), Star Trek Into Darkness (Abrams, 2013)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3800&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[REC]³ Génesis (Paco Plaza, 2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[REC] is probably one of my favorite horror films of all time (even if its demonic-possession-blood-disease premise is absurd even by zombie movie standards) and one of the few entries in the increasingly maddening found footage sub-genre that I can actually stand.  Its slow build-up of something being very wrong in this quarantined apartment building [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3781&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Great Films I Saw in the Month of April 2013, in alphabetical order</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 23:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Total seen: 17 Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson, 2009) Kes (Loach, 1969) Manon of the Spring (Berri, 1986) Theatre of Blood (Hickox, 1973) Young Adult (Reitman, 2011)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3770&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price), a famed Shakespearean (and only Shakespearean) stage actor, is unexpectedly (to him, at least) passed over for his coveted Critic&#8217;s Circle Award by unanimous vote from a fraternity of London&#8217;s finest theater critics. Following a failed suicide attempt and subsequent faking of his death, Lionheart strives to put on his greatest performance [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3756&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri, 1986)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A surprisingly deep and poignant, and even more surprisingly brisk-feeling, 2-film, 4-hour epic about&#8230;carnation-farming and water displacement. Two farmers, Cesar (Yves Montand) and his ne&#8217;er-do-well nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) (names borrowed for similar characters in the Simpsons episode &#8220;The Crepes of Wrath&#8221;), fresh off of Ugolin&#8217;s idea to grow and sell carnations and in need [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3741&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Before Sunrise&#8221; was an incredible exercise in on-screen chemistry and depiction of youthful romanticism as Julie Delpy&#8217;s Celine and Ethan Hawke&#8217;s Jesse, two twentysomethings traveling across Europe, meet on a train, decide on a whim to explore Vienna between trains, and personify all that is good about mutual attraction and falling in love without a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3723&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Great Films I Saw in the Month of March 2013, in alphabetical order</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Total seen: 16 Amour (Haneke, 2012) Collateral (Mann, 2004) A Late Quartet (Zilberman, 2012) Magic (Attenborough, 1978) The Master (Anderson, 2012) Hon. mentions: Affliction (Schrader, 1997), Fantastic Planet (Laloux, 1973), Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3714&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Late Quartet (Yaron Zilberman, 2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was, curiously, a line by Liam Neeson in &#8220;The Grey,&#8221; of all films, that came to mind as I watched the emotional unravelling of &#8220;A Late Quartet&#8221;&#8216;s world-famous string quartet when he describes &#8220;men unfit for mankind.&#8221; Of course, Neeson&#8217;s character in that film was describing &#8220;Ex-cons, fugitives, drifters, assholes,&#8221; while the men (and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3697&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1997)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon M.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1990s]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the scenes that comprise this incredible performance by Nick Nolte, the ones that affected me the most and burrowed the deepest under my skin to give me chills were those between his small-town cop Wade Whitehouse and his young, quasi-estranged daughter. We meet them in the car as he has her for a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3679&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon M.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1940s]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really starting to dig the meek, outwardly-sheepish Edward G. Robinson of &#8220;Scarlet Street&#8221; and &#8220;The Woman in the Window&#8221; and &#8220;The Whole Town&#8217;s Talking&#8221; over the confident and bombastic Robinson of of &#8220;Double Indemnity,&#8221; &#8220;Key Largo,&#8221; and, well, &#8220;The Whole Town&#8217;s Talking&#8221; (even if his performance in &#8220;Double Indemnity&#8221; remains one of my all-time [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rantsandmusings.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3655201&#038;post=3669&#038;subd=rantsandmusings&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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