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		<title>Review: John Carter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Pride</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johnny Reb finds he belongs on Planet Red. Andrew Stanton&#8217;s most peculiar &#8220;John Carter,&#8221; which was produced as &#8220;John Carter of Mars,&#8221; and appears as the film&#8217;s end title, is a boy&#8217;s dream story come true, if you&#8217;re Andrew Stanton grown tall. Adapted from a novel in an Edgar Rice Burroughs&#8217; series about a Confederate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Transformers Dark Of The Moon</title>
		<link>http://newcityfilm.com/2011/06/28/review-transformers-dark-of-the-moon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Pride</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Michael Bay&#8217;s &#8220;Transformers&#8221; in 3D is missing is a 40. (Take a 40, please.) Robustly cynical, &#8220;Transformers: Dark Of The Moon,&#8221; credited to screenwriter Ehren Kruger (&#8220;Scream 3,&#8221; &#8220;The Ring Two,&#8221; &#8220;Transformers 2&#8243;), serves up generous lashings of counterfactual pulp, including an Autobot-Decepticons-NASA-JFK-Nixon conspiracy with a soupcon of Chernobyl for spice. It&#8217;s like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You, Valentine: Tangling with young women in the movies</title>
		<link>http://newcityfilm.com/2011/02/09/you-valentine-tangling-with-young-women-in-the-movies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Pride</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ray Pride What&#8217;s in a title? While Oscar contenders linger in the theaters, &#8220;Rapunzel&#8221; is only a couple of weeks away from grossing over $200,000,000 in the U.S. and Canada. Oh, wait. It&#8217;s &#8220;Tangled&#8221;—not &#8220;Rapunzel.&#8221; The studio made a mid-course correction in the content and title of its movie, fearing the all-powerful Boy. An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something to Do: The undulating poetry of Godard&#8217;s &#8220;Every Man&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://newcityfilm.com/2011/01/19/something-to-do-the-undulating-poetry-of-godards-every-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Pride</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ray Pride Contrails crosshatch and feather a deep blue sky to the sound of planes. A camera pointed upward, soon to come to earth to trace how the lives of three adults&#8217; lives criss-cross. Shocking and shockingly beautiful, Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s &#8220;Every Man For Himself&#8221; [Sauve qui peut (la vie)] is as brutish as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Western: Fill those seats at &#8220;True Grit,&#8221; you S.O.B.</title>
		<link>http://newcityfilm.com/2010/12/27/go-western-fill-those-seats-at-true-grit-you-s-o-b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Martin Northway Western movies were once as common as today’s Bourne-type thrillers and as ubiquitous on television as modern reality programming. In my youth they were part of my generation’s universe of discourse. If you’re younger than I, and there’s a good chance you are, we had it better. This is not simple nostalgia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth Be Told: The fractures in fact and fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Pride</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ray Pride George Hickenlooper&#8217;s death Saturday at the age of 47 ended a career that more and more typifies how curious, ambitious filmmakers are keeping their line of business alive in a moment of seismic upheaval in the film industry: alternating features and documentaries. Hickenlooper has a final film arriving around Christmas, the Kevin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Chicago International Film Festival, Week Two</title>
		<link>http://newcityfilm.com/2010/10/13/preview-chicago-intl-film-festival-week-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Pride</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second week of the 46th Chicago International Film Festival includes Chicago premieres of movies opening in the coming weeks, including Danny Boyle&#8217;s &#8220;127 Hours,&#8221; Doug Liman&#8217;s Valerie Plame Wilson drama &#8220;Fair Game&#8221; and the latest Brit variation on &#8220;The Full Monty,&#8221; &#8220;Made in Dagenham.&#8221; Chicago titles of possible note include Ruth Leitman&#8217;s immigration doc [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Hitler: A Film From Germany</title>
		<link>http://newcityfilm.com/2010/09/22/review-hitler-a-film-from-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Pride</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED When Francis Coppola &#8220;presented&#8221; Hans-Jürgen Syberberg&#8217;s mammoth, 442-minute 1977 &#8220;Hitler: A Film From Germany,&#8221; roadshow-like limited runs were the rule, and Coppola retitled the film &#8220;Our Hitler.&#8221; Syberberg&#8217;s musings on the use of abuse of perceptions of the meaning of Hitler are more German than universal and more Syberbergian than something that gained footing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming of Age: In &#8220;Flipped,&#8221; Rob Reiner makes a movie out of time</title>
		<link>http://newcityfilm.com/2010/08/25/coming-of-age-in-flipped-rob-reiner-makes-a-movie-out-of-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Pride</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED By Ray Pride I went into Rob Reiner&#8217;s &#8220;Flipped&#8221; fearing a coming-of-age romantic comedy that would live up to Roger Ebert&#8217;s notorious pan of the director&#8217;s &#8220;North&#8221;: &#8220;I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it.&#8221; I love being wrong when foolish expectations get stamped out, and there are moments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives On The Alberta Tar Sands</title>
		<link>http://newcityfilm.com/2010/08/10/review-petropolis-aerial-perspectives-on-the-alberta-tar-sands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Pride</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Chills, baby, chills. In &#8220;Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands,&#8221; Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler, whose visionary work includes &#8220;Gambling, Gods and LSD&#8221; (2002) takes to the skies above that province to explore the vast industrial forces being assembled to draw out the 200-million-year-old fossil fuels in the world&#8217;s second-largest reserve. Shooting in [...]]]></description>
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