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		<title>Heaven&#8217;s Gate (1980)</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/11/19/heavens-gate-1980/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mauer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in the War Inc. thread, I&#8217;ve been watching several movies that are featured in the excellent documentary Z Channel, which I re-watched and loved. 
So far the most surprisingly good one was Turkish Delight (1973), an early Dutch film by Paul Verhoeven starring Rutger Hauer as a sculptor. Funny, sexy, sad, believable. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cottage&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/11/18/the-cottage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reynolds</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;won&#8217;t win hearts or minds, but it&#8217;s a dandy little nasty entertainment with enough wit and style&#8211;and a kick-drum wonder of a final shot&#8211;and I think it&#8217;s worth a look.  Andy Serkis and Reece Sheersmith (familiar to many of us from &#8220;The League of Gentlemen,&#8221; whose name itself seems a product of said League) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quantum of Solace</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/11/13/quantum-of-solace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[James goes rogue like Sarah Palin
I sat through 100 minutes and man I am a ailin&#8217;
But seriously . . . noisy and incomprehensible, the new Bond film can&#8217;t be recommended. It seems to have something to do with South American water futures and a clandestine shadow organization&#8211;a nefarious agency of evil hitherto unknown to MI6, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elite Squad, with a hat-tip toward some prior debates about Brazilian crime films</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/11/11/elite-squad-with-a-hat-tip-toward-some-prior-debates-about-brazilian-crime-films/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/11/11/elite-squad-with-a-hat-tip-toward-some-prior-debates-about-brazilian-crime-films/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reynolds</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jose Padilha&#8217;s 2007 crime film pivots from the ground traversed in the excellent Bus 174 (see comments 3, 4, &#38; 5), turning away from the criminal trapped and interpellated within a rigid, pervasive system of inequality toward cops, just as trapped.  The film got a lot of love in Brazil, and certain international festivals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War, Inc.</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/11/08/war-inc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/11/08/war-inc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My apologies if someone has already posted on this movie.  War, Inc. is a blast, the most fun I&#8217;ve had watching a movie all year. It is an absurdist take (clearly indebted to Dr. Strangelove) on the corporatization of war and nation-building. A fictional Halliburton (the Tamerlane Corporation) has an exclusive contract to rebuild, privatize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Films</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/11/06/five-films/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/11/06/five-films/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Paranoid Park</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/10/24/paranoid-park/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/10/24/paranoid-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest little gem from Gus Van Sant, consistently my favorite American director. It follows a few days in the life of Alex (Gabe Nevins), suburban teenager in Portland and part of what a cop refers to as “the skateboarding community.” There is a murder mystery that forms the spine of this short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rachel Getting Married</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/10/23/rachel-getting-married/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/10/23/rachel-getting-married/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[overrated]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[HTM!!! Imagine Robert Redford’s Ordinary People–hopped up on steroids—colliding into a three-day “One World” music festival (you know: Peter Gabriel, Amadou and Mariam, Beausoleil, Damon Alburn, Jorge Ben, Clube Do Balanço, Manu Chao, Daft Punk, Toots and the Maytals,  Bassekou Kouyate &#38; Ngoni Ba, and, yes, TV on the Radio). I’ve grown highly suspect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blindness, or: afraid of the dark</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/10/08/blindness-or-afraid-of-the-dark/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/10/08/blindness-or-afraid-of-the-dark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[likey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In one scene from the latest film by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardender), the lead character (played wonderfully&#8211;did you expect anything else?&#8211;by Julianne Moore) descends into darkness in search of the most basic of human needs: food. The darkness is actually the basement storage of a grocery store. The power has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall, Tarsem</title>
		<link>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/10/06/the-fall-tarsem-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highlyirrelevant.com/movies/2008/10/06/the-fall-tarsem-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mauer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an ambitious, enjoyable, visually impressive movie with a great, natural performance by Catinca Untaru. 
The Fall owes a lot to Alejandro Jodorowsky (esp. Holy Mountain), Terry Gilliam&#8217;s Baron Munchausen (almost the definition of &#8220;ambitious failure&#8221;), Cinema Paradiso, and The Princes Bride.
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