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		<title>The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director/Screenwriter: Rainer Werner Fassbinder By Roderick Heath Among those in the wave of new German cinema to emerge from the mid-1960s and into the ’70s, the most restless, protean, and tragic figure was Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder’s relentless pace of work between 1970 and his death in 1982 would have been admired by old studio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=6055</link>
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		<title>Darling (1965)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: John Schlesinger By Roderick Heath A few days ago, my blog partner Marilyn posted a link on Facebook to a piece by sportswriter Jason Whitlock discussing the Tiger Woods/Elin Nordegren break-up, speaking with a certain philosophical shame over the way such serious things tend to be trivialised in our age, saturated with reportage and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=6003</link>
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		<title>Every Little Step (2008)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Directors: Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern By Marilyn Ferdinand One of the great mysteries of life is the act of creation. Many people consider the creation of life a miracle, and teasing out the artistic muses is a delicate and clandestine act of faith. The muse Terpsichore has gotten a lot of attention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5950</link>
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		<title>Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Directors: Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck By Marilyn Ferdinand Barbara Kopple has done it again. The preeminent documentarian of the American experience and Cecilia Peck, her codirector (and daughter of Gregory Peck), have turned their compassionate beam on the three gifted and courageous women whose idea of being patriotic created the greatest crisis of their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5922</link>
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		<title>The Mortal Storm (1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Frank Borzage By Marilyn Ferdinand The other afternoon, the hubby and I lunched at The Foundation, a vegetarian restaurant near Vancouver’s Antique Row. In addition to serving up great fare, the proprietors of the restaurant also offer inspiration. Looking like fortunes pulled from giant fortune cookies, quotes decorate the restaurant’s walls, including one from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5889</link>
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		<title>City that Never Sleeps (1953)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: John H. Auer By Marilyn Ferdinand An event that only a lucky few in a handful of cities gets to enjoy is Noir City. Held by the Film Noir Foundation—and a major source of funds for the work they do to restore noir films and make them available in 35mm format—Noir City began life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5857</link>
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		<title>Die Hard (1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: John McTiernan By Roderick Heath For comics and satirists these days, an understanding of the 1980s action movie is as reliable a source of easy gags as the lexicon of Westerns and Tarzan movies were for Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and their generation. The send-ups of ritualised narratives, posturing, and pomposity get laughs because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5795</link>
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		<title>Venus (2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Roger Michell By Marilyn Ferdinand Recently, on the occasion of Peter O’Toole’s birthday, my blog partner Rod announced on Facebook that O’Toole is his favorite living actor. One certainly doesn’t argue with favorites, as they are personal choices, but I think anyone would be hard put to disagree with his choice in any case. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5756</link>
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		<title>Moby Dick (1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director/Coscreenwriter: John Huston By Roderick Heath This is an entry in The John Huston Blogathon hosted by Adam Zanzie of Icebox Movies. Whenever the subject of profoundly underrated movies comes up, John Huston’s adaptation of Herman Melville’s legendary novel is one I think of immediately. Melville’s colossal work, with its multifaceted symbols and thickets of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5701</link>
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		<title>Inception (2010)/American Psycho (2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Christopher Nolan/Mary Harron By Marilyn Ferdinand The big movie of the 2010 summer season, by amount of attention paid, seems to be Inception. This latest outing by the man who set the cinematic world on fire with his mind-bending mystery Memento (2000) and left fanboys panting with devotion in 2008 with The Dark Knight, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5639</link>
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		<title>A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari, 1964)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Sergio Leone By Roderick Heath In the early 1960s, the Hollywood Western genre was beginning its long decline. The genre’s most iconic stars, like John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda, aged, the directors who had fostered in its greatest years were themselves fading, the “adult” westerns of the ’50s had begun an antimythic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5597</link>
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		<title>Ben-Hur (1959)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: William Wyler By Roderick Heath Ben-Hur is still by far the most dramatically nuanced, intricately constructed, and sheerly entertaining of the old-school blockbuster epics. The film’s reputation for at-all-costs size and bludgeoning bluster has always somewhat obscured what a damn well-put-together piece of moviemaking it is. It was a career highlight for William Wyler, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5561</link>
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		<title>Oleanna (1994)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director/Screenwriter: David Mamet By Marilyn Ferdinand Oh to be in Oleanna, That&#8217;s where I&#8217;d like to be Than to be in Norway And bear the chains of slavery. Little roasted piggies Rush around the city streets Inquiring so politely If a slice of ham you&#8217;d like to eat. Beer as sweet as Muncheners Springs from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5529</link>
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		<title>Shock Corridor (1963)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director/Screenwriter: Samuel Fuller By Roderick Heath Shock Corridor was one of the last of the run of aggressively hyped-up, yet genuinely canny flicks that formed Sam Fuller’s gloriously overheated oeuvre at its height, made when he was trying to sustain himself on poverty row budgets as an independent filmmaker. Shock Corridor is supposedly a murder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5490</link>
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		<title>Election (Hak se wui, 2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Johnny To By Roderick Heath Johnny To has emerged in the past few years as a master of Hong Kong genre cinema, filling the void left by the departure and disgrace of John Woo and other industry notables in Hollywood adventures. To and Woo share characteristics, both concentrating on bristling macho dramatics, each analysing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5453</link>
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		<title>Dance with Me (1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Randa Haines By Marilyn Ferdinand For decades, song and dance were well-respected staples in Hollywood films, making legends of Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and many, many other talented performers. As the supply of seasoned musical talent dried up with the extinction of vaudeville and hard times fell on both Hollywood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5404</link>
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		<title>I Live in Fear (1955)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Akira Kurosawa By Marilyn Ferdinand When is a fear irrational? Is there something wrong with the irrational? Two interests collided recently when I saw Akira Kurosawa’s snapshot of Japan in the atomic age, I Live in Fear, and started reading Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols. In both works, the irrational, or unconscious, are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5355</link>
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		<title>Last Holiday (1950)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Henry Cass By Marilyn Ferdinand As some of you know, I decided to celebrate my 55th birthday by throwing a party at which I would show a film from the year of my birth—1955. My friends Mike Phillips and Julian Antos at the Bank of America Cinema opened the theatre to me and offered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5318</link>
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		<title>The Prisoner (TV, 1967-1968)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Directors: Don Chaffey, Pat Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Peter Graham Scott, David Tomblin By Roderick Heath The Prisoner, an epochal surrealist-satiric thriller series, feels as much a commentary on the television show itself as it is on politics or society: the construction of a bogus living space that’s constantly filmed; the random-seeming changes of cast; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5277</link>
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		<title>That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director: Luis Buñuel By Marilyn Ferdinand If ever a great director ended their career on a high, prototypical note, it was Luis Buñuel. I’ve always said that everything Buñuel was about as a filmmaker is in his last film, That Obscure Object of Desire. Among his many dreamscapes—from his early, surrealistic L&#8217;Âge d&#8217;Or to his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=5233</link>
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