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		<title>SALT OF THIS SEA &#8211; Complicated Roots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Salt of This Sea opens in New York City on Friday, August 13, 2010, at the Quad Cinema. Visit the film&#8217;s official website to learn more.)
Annemarie Jacir&#8217;s Salt of This Sea, which screened in Cannes&#8217; Un Certain Regard a couple of years ago and opens in Manhattan today, is an earnest, handsomely lensed protest movie, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CROPSEY &#8211; Unresolved Mysteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Cropsey opens theatrically in New York City on Friday, June 4, 2010, at the IFC Center, before expanding to more cities in the following weeks and months. It will also be available on VOD through Gravitas Ventures beginning on July 2nd. Visit the film&#8217;s official website to learn more.)
Nine years in the making, Joshua Zeman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OATH, THE &#8211; The Gray Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 14:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Distributed by Zeitgeist Films, The Oath opens at the IFC Center on May 7, 2010. To learn more go here. NOTE: This piece was first posted in connection with The Oath&#8217;s screenings at ND/NF.)
A look inside the troubled heart of an ambivalent jihadist, Laura Poitras’s follow-up to her Oscar-nominated My Country, My Country (to date [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLOODING WITH LOVE FOR THE KID &#8211; One Man War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Flooding With Love For The Kid opens at Anthology Film Archives on Friday, January 8, 2010. Visit the film&#8217;s Facebook page to learn more.)
David Cronenberg once said that as long as you have good sound, movie audiences can be compelled to watch anything. Zachary Oberzan’s Flooding With Love For the Kid, a one man, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SERIOUS MAN, A &#8211; Midlife Krizis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Harris</dc:creator>
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(Distributed by Focus Features, A Serious Man opens on Friday, October 2, 2009. Visit the film&#8217;s official website to learn more.)
While it’s often treacherous to throw around the term personal when discussing work in a medium as collaborative as narrative film, the Coen Brothers&#8217; most recent masterpiece, A Serious Man, does little to dispel the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFTERSCHOOL &#8211; Teenage Angst in the Digital Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(After winning worldwide acclaim,  Afterschool was finally picked up for distribution by IFC Films. While the film opens theatrically on Friday, October 2, 2009, at Cinema Village in New York City, it will be available through IFC&#8217;s OnDemand beginning Wednesday, September 30th. NOTE: This review was first published in the fall of 2008.)
Afterschool is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNMADE BEDS &#8211; Towards A New Youth Film</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Harris</dc:creator>
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(Unmade Beds opens at the IFC Center on Wednesday, September 2, 2009. Visit director Alexis Dos Santos&#8217; MySpace page to learn more.)
Expanding on the clear promise of his 2006 debut feature Glue, Argentine Alexis Dos Santos cements his place as one cinema’s most intriguing new autuers with Unmade Beds, a startlingly energetic film whose HD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STILL WALKING &#8211; A Melancholy Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Still Walking is distributed by IFC Films. It opens in New York City on August 28, 2009, and is also available OnDemand. Visit the film’s official page at IFC Films to learn more.)
According to Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose films are currently playing in a retrospective at BAM accompanying the US theatrical release of Still Walking, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HURT LOCKER, THE &#8211; Once You’re There, You Can Never Leave</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Hurt Locker is being distributed by Summit Entertainment. It is now available on DVD or Blu-ray. Visit the official website for more information.)
The notion that war changes men for the worse is not a new one and it has been explored in cinema more times than any reasonable person should be able to recall. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MISSISSIPPI DAMNED &#8211; A Dash of Negro Miserablism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(After world premiering at Slamdance, Mississippi Damned has been a steady player on the 2009 festival circuit. It just screened at NewFest, and will have its Los Angeles premiere at the Outfest Film Festival on Tuesday, July 14th, at 8pm, before screening at Frameline33 on June 25th at 9:15PM at the Castro Theater. Visit the [...]]]></description>
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