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		<title>Cannes Preview 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Stafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cannes started today and the media frenzy that surrounds the festival seems to get greater each year. The Guardian&#8216;s film editor Catherine Shoard has written a piece which perhaps reflect a mood amongst mainstream newspapers – focusing on celebrities, glamour and whether Cannes can predict Oscar contenders or offer sneak previews of Hollywood product to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8743&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Nakba (Qatar/Palestine 2008)</title>
		<link>http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/al-nakba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith1942</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Films by women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a documentary film about ‘the catastrophe’ that befell the Palestinian people in 1948. It traces the history of the colonial policies and actions that led to their expulsion from their homeland. It was made by Palestinian filmmaker and journalist Rawan Damen in 2008 and transmitted on the Al Jazeera Arabic network. Now an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8789&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Introduction to Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977)</title>
		<link>http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/an-introduction-to-roberto-rossellini-1906-1977/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Stafford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian cinema]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[neo-realism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roberto Rossellini]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The British Film Institute has just released a digital restored print of Roberto Rossellini&#8217;s important film Viaggio in Italia (Italy 1953). I&#8217;m preparing an introduction to the film and I realised that there is nothing on the blog directly about Rossellini, one of the most important directors in the history of global film. I&#8217;ve dug [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8777&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agantuk (The Stranger, India 1991)</title>
		<link>http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/agantuk-the-stranger-india-1991/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Stafford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bengali Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satyajit Ray]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Channel 4 celebrated the 100th Birthday of Indian Cinema with five late night/early morning screenings of Satyajit Ray films. Perhaps we should question this strategy – why not five different directors? But this is what we got and at least Channel 4 (a pale shadow of its former self these days) still shows Indian films. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8761&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keighley Picture House is 100 today!</title>
		<link>http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/keighley-picture-house-is-100-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Stafford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus for film scholarship should be global – and local. I&#8217;m delighted then to celebrate the 100th birthday of my local cinema. The Picture House in Keighley opened its doors to the public for the first time on Saturday 10th May 1913 and it&#8217;s still showing current releases today on its two screens. Unfortunately [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8745&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV crime fiction as period drama</title>
		<link>http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/tv-crime-fiction-as-period-drama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 14:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Stafford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspector Morse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just caught an episode of Endeavour, ITV&#8217;s Inspector Morse prequel series. It&#8217;s a very impressive production with an excellent leading pair of Shaun Evans as the young Morse and Roger Allam as DI Thursday. Tonight&#8217;s episode was set in January 1966 with generally very good production design but thankfully not a soundtrack packed with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8750&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIFF 2013 #24: Final Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/biff-2013-24-final-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Stafford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals and Conferences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s five days since BIFF ended and today is the opening of the National Media Museum&#8217;s Widescreen Weekend – four-day extravaganza of films screened in their original formats, something the museum is able to do across the whole range and matched only by a couple of other venues in the world. 2013 is the 60th birthday [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8736&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Waiting for the YFA screenings at Bradford Cathedral to start.</media:title>
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		<title>The Place Beyond the Pines (US 2012)</title>
		<link>http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/the-place-beyond-the-pines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith1942</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Independents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[USA 2012. In colour and anarmorphic. Director Derek Cianfrance. This film has received good reviews and appears to be doing well at the box office. A younger, savvy friend of mine suggested this to be mainly down to one of its stars, Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling also starred in Cianfrance’s earlier film Blue Valentine (2010) [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8728&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIFF 2013 #23: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (US/UK/Qatar 2012)</title>
		<link>http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/biff-2013-23-the-reluctant-fundamentalist-usukqatar-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Stafford</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mira Nair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riz Ahmed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transnational film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You have to admire the chutzpah of BIFF programmers Tom Vincent and Neil Young in starting their festival with Michael Winterbottom and finishing it with Mira Nair. They are two of my favourite directors but both are almost guaranteed to cause controversy or to produce films that critics write about negatively (which is important for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8700&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIFF 2013 #22: Kill Me (Töte mich, Ger/Fra/Switz 2012)</title>
		<link>http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/biff-2013-22-kill-me-tote-mich-gerfraswitz-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Stafford</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[German Cinema]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the winning film in the European Features competition at BIFF. I saw it in two parts, having to see the opening after I&#8217;d seen the rest of the film. I don&#8217;t think that this spoiled my enjoyment. The plot is relatively straightforward. Adele is a teenager living on a farm in a remote [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itpworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3802717&#038;post=8712&#038;subd=itpworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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