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      <title><![CDATA[Between the Folds ]]></title>
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Japanese school children have folded boxy paper cranes and animals
for centuries. Akira Yoshizawa (1911-2005), considered the father of
modern origami, opened up a whole new world, bringing gestural
qualities and emotion to his creations. And he ushered in revolutionary
levels of complexit...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[New Orleans Middle East Film Festival ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The New Orleans Middle East Film Festival screens a wide range of
feature and short films and documentaries on subjects such as Afghan
bodybuilders (Afghan Muscles), Palestinian rap
(Slingshot Hip Hop), architecture (Learning From
Light: The Vision of I.M. Pei), the lives of Middle Eastern
immigrant...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Vampire Film Fest ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Vampire Film Festival has resurrected itself in New Orleans. Two
previous events were held in Los Angeles, but organizers decided the
Big Easy is the rightful home for the slate of events, which include an
international array of short and feature films, a vampire ballet, a
costume ball (at Ye Ol...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Karmen Gei: The Mississippi River 9th Ward Film Festival ]]></title>
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It's hard to imagine a more vivacious Carmen than the one played by
Dje&iuml;naba Diop Ga&iuml; in Joseph Gai Ramaka's Karmen
Ge&iuml;. The Senegalese filmmaker, who now lives in New Orleans,
adapted Bizet's opera to the coastal capital Dakar, and blended
traditional African drumming and...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Easier With Practice ]]></title>
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First time feature film writer/director Kyle Patrick Alvarez's
Easier With Practice is equal parts dirty joke and slacker love
story. Davy is an aspiring young writer taking a break from temp work
to pursue a DIY book tour of dingy bookstores and college campuses in
New Mexico. He reads f...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ]]></title>
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Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
screens at the New Orleans Film Festival in advance of its national
release. There are many similarities to Abel Ferrara's original (1992),
which became a cult favorite largely because of Harvey Keitel's
inspired performance as the...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Crude ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Only a filmmaker could look at the David and Goliath story and
decide a bigger Goliath would make the story more dramatic. That begins
to get at the scope of the conflict in Crude by Ben
Berlinger (Metallica: Some Kind of Monster). The film
follows a class-action lawsuit on behalf of several small,...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Handmade Nation ]]></title>
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When the revolution comes, the capitalists probably won't have their
backs to the wall at needlepoint, but the many do-it-yourself toilers
in the craft movement exude a similar rebellious spirit as they combine
business savvy and art skills to confront the generic offerings of
Target and W...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[D Tour ]]></title>
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Drummer Pat Spurgeon's rock 'n' roll odyssey has been an odd mix of
no-surrender chutzpah and rigorous medical vigil. While in college, he
literally was days from death's door after he fell ill, ignored the
symptoms and tried to sleep it off. His mother intervened, and doctors
quickly dis...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[In The Loop ]]></title>
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Fans of either the British or American version of The Office
will appreciate the petty politics and preening endemic to the
corridors of power at 10 Downing Street in London (the Prime Minister's
address) and the State Department in Washington D.C. in Armando
Iannucci's In The Loop. The vi...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary ]]></title>
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Too much professional introspection can be a bad thing. Medical
students are prone to hypochondria as they learn about new illnesses.
Poetry about writing poetry is dreadful. So making a documentary about
making documentaries may seem like a suspect endeavor. Pepita Ferrari's
Capturing Re...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Weather Girl ]]></title>
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Weather Girl is Friends meets
Network, the 1976 classic in which newsman Howard Beale
exhorts viewers to go to their windows and yell to the world, "I'm as
mad as hell, and I am not going to take this anymore!" In this case,
"sassy weather girl" Sylvia's (Tricia O'Kelley) predicament is a...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Departures ]]></title>
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Being Japanese means always having to say you're sorry, from
outright apologies to subtly disguised greetings. Not all of them are
subtitled as such in Departures, which gobbled up
Japanese Academy Awards including best picture, director, screenplay,
actor and others and won the Oscar for...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Valentino: The Last Emperor ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Legendary Italian designer Valentino Garavani celebrated the 45th
anniversary of his dominant fashion house with a 40 million euro,
three-day extravaganza staged at Rome's Colosseum, which is captured in
Vanity Fair correspondent Matt Tyrnauer's
Valentino: The Last Emperor.

&ensp;&ensp;Tyrnauer was...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Last Lullaby | Executioner&#39;s Song]]></title>
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First-time feature filmmaker Jeff Goodman's The Last Lullaby
is a dark crime story about a career assassin who seems to take offense
to everyone's violence but his own. Perhaps it's merely shoddy
workmanship that bothers him, because the film starts with Price (Tom
Sizemore) intervening i...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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