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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Kaori Shoji</title>
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		<title>&#8216;Trashed&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to associate the uber-groomed, aquiline-profiled Jeremy Irons (“Damage,” “Die Hard: With a Vengeance”) with garbage. But in the documentary “Trashed,” which focuses on the problem of global waste, Irons wallows in it.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Frozen Ground&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on a serial-killer spree in Anchorage, Alaska, in the late 1970s/early &#8217;80s, &#8220;The Frozen Ground&#8221; draws solid performances from an A-list cast but somehow falls short on terror. Writer/director Scott Walker is careful to maintain a dark, understated mood that blends in quite effectively with the bleak, wintry setting, but the story seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farinelli (Castrato)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Gerard Corbiau Language: French, Italian (subtitled in Japanese) A golden oldie from 1994, &#8220;Farinelli&#8221; traces the life and times of 18th-century Italian singer Carlo Broschi (Stefano Dionisi), who was castrated in childhood to preserve his angelic voice and went on to a brilliant career. Carlo&#8217;s complex relationship with his less talented older brother Ricardo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding forgiveness: Japan reworks a Western classic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Academy Award winner “Unforgiven” has undergone a Japanese remake. “Yurusarezaru Mono” is loyal to Eastwood’s classic Western but adds a pulsating core of Japanese-ness. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Chronicle&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The found-footage thing: It can be addictive. Though as a movie ploy, it always stumps me how the characters would actually go into a dark woods in the middle of the night (&#8220;The Blair Witch Project&#8221;) or move their family into a house where a gruesome murder had taken place (&#8220;Sinister&#8221;). So much of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Despicable Me 2&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two things stand out about 2010 animated comedy &#8220;Despicable Me&#8221;: The hero, Gru (Steve Carell), is a villain (a philosophical oxymoron in itself), and he&#8217;s not that despicable. Sure, he freeze-dries people in front of him in line at Starbucks and tries to grab the coveted Star Villain slot on cable TV &#8212; but come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Blood (Japan title: Land&#8217;s End: Yami no Koto)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Nick Murphy Language: English Chilling British crime thriller &#8220;Blood&#8221; stars Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham as cop brothers investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl in a coastal town. Under the glare of public outrage, Joe (Bettany) tries to nail the most likely suspect ASAP, and winds up committing a crime of his own. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nadeshiko — adorable till they die</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;France for food, Japan for wives.&#8221; That was basically the conclusion made by French journalist/novelist Pierre Loti, who dropped by our shores in 1885 and wrote a book about his stay called &#8220;Madame Chrysantheme.&#8221; Loti hadn&#8217;t exactly caught the Japan bug &#8212; he was critical of many facets of Japanese society, weather and men. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hyde Park on Hudson&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For all intents and purposes, &#8220;Hyde Park on Hudson&#8221; should have you on hello. Instead, it may leave you feeling the tiniest bit revolted. Focusing on the events of a weekend in the life of 32nd U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, arguably the best-loved commander-in-chief of the 20th century after JFK, &#8220;Hyde Park on Hudson&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Les Saveurs du Palais&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In France, female chefs rarely get to the top &#8212; and when they do, gender issues are rife. One way to deal with it is simply to ignore it, and in this story of chef Hortense Laborie (based on the real-life Daniele Delpeuch) it works. &#8220;Haute Cuisine&#8221; is the story of how she was hand-picked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Suits&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: English &#8220;Suits,&#8221; the 2011 TV series, is now available for rental. Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) is a brilliant but feckless young college dropout who runs from the scene of a botched drug deal and is miraculously picked up by New York hot-shot criminal lawyer Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht). They become an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballet prodigy gets a big lift from mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen-year old ballerina Miko Fogarty may be an American teen prodigy, but despite hailing from that land steeped in stardom culture, she seems to have none of the usual celebrity trappings — or to be particularly interested in them. When we met recently on a steaming August afternoon in Tokyo, she had on a well-laundered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miko Fogarty tells what it takes to be a teenage dance star</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike the stereotype of your average American teen, Miko Fogarty (16) is not talkative or exuberant. In this way she seems somewhat shy and reserved, almost as if she leans toward the Japanese part of her lineage despite being brought up in the United States. Or perhaps she&#8217;s just sure of herself as a ballerina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Upside Down&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is: the movie equivalent of a crazy, distracting, impossibly attractive lover. Everything about &#8220;Upside Down&#8221; is nutso preposterous but it draws you in and locks you in a warm embrace, declaring undying love and promising mystery and eternal longing forever more. If there was a way I could go on a date with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Laurence Anyways&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s better to know the director before going in to see &#8220;Laurence Anyways&#8221;: Xavier Dolan is all of 23 years old, yet this is already the Quebecois filmmaker&#8217;s fourth feature. In other words, be prepared to cut the prolific (and many say brilliant) lad some slack. Bushels of it. Clocking in at nearly three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Arrow&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: English The Dark Knight isn&#8217;t the only DC Comics hero with abs to die for &#8212; get ready to swoon over the 2012 TV series &#8220;Arrow&#8221; starring smokin&#8217; Hollywood stud Stephen Amell. He plays a billionaire who returns from five years stranded on a desert island as Arrow, a shirtless superdude whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snyder ponders Superman&#8217;s ultimate dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening on the heels of that other summer blockbuster &#8220;Star Trek Into Darkness,&#8221; &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; is no smaller in scale but feels much more personal. That&#8217;s probably because director Zack Snyder (&#8220;300,&#8221; &#8220;Sucker Punch&#8221;) is a hands-on kind of filmmaker, who secretly feels that if he can&#8217;t stamp his personality on his movies, there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Man of Steel&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overwrought and overlong but thoroughly engrossing, &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; is an experience akin to finding yourself standing next to an enormous turbo fan while trying to listen to a friend talk about his arduous Mount Everest expedition. On the one hand, you want to get out of the wind. It would be impolite to interrupt. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Addams Family&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Language: English The Addams Family really were a &#8220;scre-am,&#8221; and we can now relive the joy of seeing the happy/scary family assembled under one creaky roof: Barry Sonnenfeld&#8217;s 1991 classic starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd is out as a revival DVD and Blu-ray. This was the 11-year-old Christina Ricci&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British actress Eve makes her mark on &#8216;Star Trek&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/22/films/british-actress-eve-makes-her-mark-on-star-trek/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=british-actress-eve-makes-her-mark-on-star-trek</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alice Eve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Pine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damon Lindelof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Roddenberry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There must be a Union Jack stowed somewhere aboard the Starship Enterprise: The British influence on &#8220;Star Trek Into Darkness&#8221; is pretty thick. There is of course hot new man about town Benedict Cumberbatch (or &#8220;Batchi-san&#8221; to his Japanese fans) as genetically engineered evildoer John Harrison. Simon Pegg is back as chief engineer Scotty, stealing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Star Trek Into Darkness&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the biggest blockbuster this summer, &#8220;Star Trek Into Darkness&#8221; nonetheless throws more than a few curve balls: It is pensive, frosty and often curt, and comes elegantly and aptly dressed in several shades of black. Though there are many moments of humor and thrilling adventure, the story seems enshrouded in a dark cloud of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Trois Mondes&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Trois Mondes&#8221; was the only film by a female directorshown at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Among the testosterone-fueled macho films that got all the attention (&#8220;Killing Them Softly,&#8221; &#8220;Lawless&#8221;) &#8220;Trois Mondes&#8221; was striking in its approach to death and bodies &#8212; the characters convene and agonize over the demise of a single migrant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Transporter: The Series&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: English The courier-for-hire role perfected by Jason Statham has passed into the capable hands of Chris Vance as &#8220;The Transporter&#8221; series moves to TV. Vance makes for a classier, sexier and more amenable transporter who knows how to chat up the ladies and buy them drinks. Not an act that Statham is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese women and the summer chill — a love story</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/18/language/japanese-women-and-the-summer-chill-a-love-story/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japanese-women-and-the-summer-chill-a-love-story</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Matt, a software engineer in Silicon Valley, California, who recently married his college girlfriend from the University of Southern California. Her name is Miho. The pair are both in their late 30s and there was a 10-year period after university when he didn&#8217;t lay eyes on Miho or feel any interest in Japanese women, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Populaire&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/15/films/populaire/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=populaire</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s &#8220;My Fair Lady&#8221; meets &#8220;Flashdance&#8221; meets the sweet, earnest rom-coms of the 1950s. &#8220;Populaire&#8221; is the feature debut by French filmmaker Régis Roinsard (most famed for Jane Birkin&#8217;s promotional videos) but the film has the look and feel of a veteran artisan: &#8220;Some Like it Hot&#8221; director Billy Wilder, to be exact. Roinsard was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Playing For Keeps&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerard Butler, most famed for his muscled marauder performance in &#8220;300,&#8221; always seems on the verge of burning rage or spontaneous combustion &#8212; which is why he was a disaster in rom-coms such as &#8220;The Bounty Hunter&#8221; and &#8220;The Ugly Truth.&#8221; For all his handsome-guy demeanor, he just doesn&#8217;t seem nice to be around; personally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Flight&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/15/films/flight-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=flight-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Robert Zemeckis Language: English National hero or drunken loser? Denzel Washington stars as a smooth operator in the cockpit as well as with his hottie cabin attendants. One morning in a rainstorm, he takes the plane too high, too fast, and when the engines malfunction he pulls off a feat of heroic maneuvering. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;To the Wonder&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An intensely personal film by Terrence Malick (&#8220;The Tree of Life,&#8221; &#8220;The Thin Red Line&#8221;), &#8220;To the Wonder&#8221; explores the lives and loves of four people, to the near complete exclusion of everyone else. The films revels in solitude and celebrates seclusion with what seems like voluptuous ardor. France and Oklahoma are the primary seclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;In the Land of Blood and Honey&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think about Angelina Jolie in 2013, the term &#8220;preventive double mastectomy&#8221; may leap to mind. Which is probably why now is a good time to release her 2011 directorial debut, &#8220;In the Land of Blood and Honey.&#8221; Jolie, who visited Bosnia and Herzegovina as a U.N. goodwill ambassador, has made a film about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;First Position&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Bess Kargman Language: English &#8220;First Position&#8221; is director Bess Kargman&#8217;s understated but powerful depiction of children aged 9 to 15 who have trained for most of their lives to compete in the famed Youth America Grand Prix, hoping to launch their professional dancing careers. Don&#8217;t miss Michaela DePrince, adopted from a West African orphanage [...]]]></description>
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