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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #18</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-18</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=22166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week wasn&#039;t as slow as it looks when it comes to movie watching as much as I saw a lot in theaters including Everybody&#039;s Fine, Me and Orson Welles, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Ninja Assassin. I also watched John Woo&#039;s Red Cliff a second time before reviewing it as well as watched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Besson, Reno, Portman, Oldman: &#039;The Professional&#039; 15 Years Later</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/besson-reno-portman-oldman-the-professional-15-years-later</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/besson-reno-portman-oldman-the-professional-15-years-later#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Professional]]></category>

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Jean Reno and Natalie Portman in The Professional
Photo: Columbia Pictures


Is Luc Besson an overrated filmmaker? I think he&#039;s a fine director but reviewing his resume he&#039;s usually a pretty average writer and his movies are kind of hit-or-miss. But every once in while he sneaks in an effort that surprises you, makes you take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #17</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-17</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-17#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A.I.: Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[About A Boy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#039;m on time and have more than just one movie to discuss as I finally finished watching both Terrence Malick and Paul Weitz&#039;s filmography, caught another Christmas film I had not seen and refreshed my memory on a Spielberg sci-fi.

As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #16</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-16</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-16#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#039;m a day late with this, but it&#039;s for good reason. The problem this week wasn&#039;t that I didn&#039;t watch any movies, it was simply that I watched too many that I couldn&#039;t cover with this Sunday column for one reason or another. As a result, I waited one day so I could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Things We&#039;d Push &#039;The Box&#039;s Button For</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/ten-things-wed-push-the-boxs-button-for</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/ten-things-wed-push-the-boxs-button-for#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just for Kicks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Box]]></category>

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A cool ass box with a shiny red button!
Photo: Warner Bros.


The picture you see above comes from this week&#039;s upcoming release of The Box and could it be any more enticing? Look at that button unit. I mean, who doesn&#039;t want to push the plunger on that bad boy to see what will happen?

Now imagine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #15</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-15</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-15#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thin Red Line]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On top of the titles listed below I also watch the Criterion Blu-ray for Howards End and the Blu-ray for Warner Home Video&#039;s North By Northwest, both of which will be reviewed on Tuesday along with the Criterion Blu-ray for Wings of Desire. On top of that I watched the Blu-ray for Disney/Pixar&#039;s Up, which [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#039;Transformers 3&#039; 30-Second Sneak Peek</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/transformers-3-30-second-sneak-peek</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/transformers-3-30-second-sneak-peek#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sad Panda Speaks]]></category>

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Photo: Comedy Central / Photo manipulation by Brad Brevet


REMOVED: Okay, I am removing the video and closing the comments as some people are getting offended, which is then going to result in other people calling out other people and telling them they are stupid for being offended and the wheel will continue to turn. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #14</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-14</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-14#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Girl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw quite a bit this week, but some of it I have already detailed such as my reviews for Trucker and Tormented. I also watched the Blu-ray for Love, Actually (a personal favorite and a review is forth-coming) as well as the following three films.

The second two (The Sniper and 5 Against the House) [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>In My Opinion: The Best and Worst Movies of 2009 So Far</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/in-my-opinion-the-best-and-worst-movies-of-2009-so-far</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/in-my-opinion-the-best-and-worst-movies-of-2009-so-far#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rank and File]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently someone asked in the comments if Paranormal Activity was my #1 film of the year so far and while it is definitely a favorite as evidenced by my A+ review, it won&#039;t end up my #1. However, with some time to go in the year I decided to piece together a couple of alphabetical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #13</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-13</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-13#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team America: World Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The House of the Devil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Killing Room]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched a lot this week, but most of it was in theaters and not all at home. On Monday I saw The Road and Where the Wild Things Are (review); Tuesday was Astro Boy; Wednesday was Law Abiding Citizen (review); and Thursday was Good Hair (review) and my second time seeing An Education (review). [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy Belated 15th Anniversary &#039;Pulp Fiction&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/happy-belated-15th-anniversary-pulp-fiction</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/happy-belated-15th-anniversary-pulp-fiction#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pulp Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

(from left to right) Cast of Pulp Fiction with Bruce Willis, Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta


Pulp Fiction was released 15 years ago today (minus two days) and slowly but surely we have started to reconsider how we view the film. When it first came out, it was as close to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Despite the Rules We&#039;re Talking &#039;Fight Club&#039; Ten Years Later</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/despite-the-rules-were-talking-fight-club-ten-years-later</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/despite-the-rules-were-talking-fight-club-ten-years-later#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fight Club]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


I know the whole &#034;I was into it before everyone else was&#034; attitude is a hipster-douche move, but I don&#039;t care. I saw Fight Club opening night, because I anticipated it more than any other film of 1999 other than The Phantom Menace. After Seven and The Game, director David Fincher was pure gold in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #12</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-12</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-12#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21028</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I didn&#039;t watch only these two movies, but I have a few movies I am saving for actual reviews including the new Natural Born Killers Blu-ray and Mira Nair&#039;s Monsoon Wedding which hits Criterion Blu-ray on October 20. While Monsoon Wedding will be a traditional review, I hope to encourage some conversation when [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Top Ten Working American Directors</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-ten-working-american-directors</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-ten-working-american-directors#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Tens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darren Aronofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Fincher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Coen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Coen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Thomas Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spike Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Spielberg]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=20901</guid>
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Top Ten Working American Directors
 A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I&#039;m going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There&#039;s a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #11</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-11</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-11#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barton Fink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Coen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hudsucker Proxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Coen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Newman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=20807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, after reading over Laremy&#039;s list of Top Ten Coen Bros. Films I figured it was about time to watch the four remaining films of theirs I had not yet seen. On top of that I continued my viewing of the new 13 film Paul Newman DVD Collection with a film I loved that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crowning &#039;Three Kings&#039; Ten Years Later</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/crowning-three-kings-ten-years-later</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/crowning-three-kings-ten-years-later#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Three Kings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=20701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


Ten years have passed since David O. Russell delivered his brazen, wildly kinetic Gulf War Part 1 film Three Kings. There was a great many war movies before Three Kings and a great many since, but no war film has ever quite captured the energetic vibrancy of Three Kings and I&#039;m doubtful another ever will. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In My Opinion: The Top Ten Coen Bros. Films</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/in-my-opinion-the-top-ten-coen-bros-films</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/in-my-opinion-the-top-ten-coen-bros-films#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laremy Legel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rank and File]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Tens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barton Fink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood Simple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burn After Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Coen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fargo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hudsucker Proxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intolerable Cruelty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Coen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miller's Crossing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Country for Old Men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raising Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Big Lebowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ladykillers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Man Who Wasn't There]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Ethan and Joel Coen circa 1990 while promoting Miller&#039;s Crossing


Top Ten Coen Bros. Films

With the upcoming release of A Serious Man, the brand new film from the Coen brothers, I decided to put together my personal top ten list of their films. A task that proved much harder than I would have originally imagined.

I agonized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #10</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-10</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-10#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierrot le fou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Towering Inferno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toy Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toy Story 2]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two Paul Newman titles from the recently released Paul Newman Tribute Collection (pictured right) I mentioned on Tuesday, a look at a film I watched in preparation for one of last week&#039;s screenings and a reminder of a Blu-ray I recently reviewed make up this week&#039;s list.

On top of everything below, on Saturday I went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Finding Love in &#039;The Shawshank Redemption&#039; 15 Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shawshank Redemption]]></category>

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Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption
Photo: Warner Bros.





It&#039;s odd to say, but when I think about The Shawshank Redemption I think about love. It&#039;s a dark tale to be sure; of wrongly convicted men (according to the inmates, the prison is chockfull of them), some nasty prison guards, an even nastier warden, institutionalization, prison rape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #9</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-9</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-9#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, this week on top of seeing Jennifer&#039;s Body, Michael Moore&#039;s Capitalism: A Love Story and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which I already reviewed right here, I didn&#039;t exactly watch an overwhelming amount of movies at home. As a matter of fact, it boils down to the following three movies and one TV show.

As always, remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who are the Greatest All-Time Scream Queens?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/who-are-the-greatest-all-time-scream-queens</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Lists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fay Wray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Donahue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Lee Curtis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Leigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathy Bates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Kong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mia Farrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psycho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosemary's Baby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelley Duvall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sissy Spacek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Blair Witch Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Exorcist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tippi Hedren]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With this week&#039;s release of Jennifer&#039;s Body it is inevitable the topic of scream queens will come up, and even if it doesn&#039;t&#8230; I&#039;m bringing it up, but not in the form of a top ten. I really don&#039;t see how you can rank these ladies, or what purpose it would serve as several could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #8</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-8</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-8#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bronson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like I had a slow week since six of these choices are grouped into two spots, but there&#039;s a reason for all that as I will detail below.

As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. Now, here&#039;s the recap of my week in movies&#8230;



Shocker (1989), Serpent and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are the 25 Best Book to Film Adaptations?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-are-the-25-best-book-to-film-adaptations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-are-the-25-best-book-to-film-adaptations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Page Turner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All Quiet on the Western Front]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apocalypse Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dangerous Liaisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doctor Zhivago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dracula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Country for Old Men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schindler's List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silence of the Lambs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Big Sleep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heiress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To Kill a Mockingbird]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trainspotting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wuthering Heights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph has posted a nice little list of what they consider to be the 25 best book to film adaptations and while most of the titles will likely not surprise you, perhaps the order in which they are placed will.

Considering this is the Internet, the most discussed placement is sure to be The Lord [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would the Real Truman Capote Please Stand Up?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/would-the-real-truman-capote-please-stand-up</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/would-the-real-truman-capote-please-stand-up#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cinematic Revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infamous]]></category>

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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener in Capote
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics


As I said in my What I Watched column on Sunday, I finally got around to watching the 2005 and 2006 Truman Capote films, Capote and Infamous. The first earned five Oscar nominations and one win for Phillip Seymour Hoffman who played the eccentric author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #7</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-7</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-7#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Narcissus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bowling for Columbine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gremlins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infamous]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#039;t watch a whole lot this week outside of the films I saw at the theater, thanks in large part due to the start of the U.S. Open. Speaking of which, anyone else watch that match between Maria Sharapova and Melanie Oudin (or who I like to call the American Justine Henin)? And then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten Steps to Erotic Possession</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-ten-steps-to-erotic-possession</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-ten-steps-to-erotic-possession#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cinematic Revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Narcissus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Photo: Criterion Collection





Last night I watched Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger&#039;s 1947 Oscar-winning Black Narcissus telling the story of a group of nuns who set out to establish a school in the desolate Himalayas. Of course, that short description does nothing to describe what actually happens in this film. There are hints along the way, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Movie Lists? Here are Four to Scrutinize</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/like-movie-lists-here-are-four-to-scrutinize</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/like-movie-lists-here-are-four-to-scrutinize#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you like lists? Well, how about these options?

Wired&#039;s Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks of All Time &#8211; Pre-Star Wars


A Trip to the Moon (1902)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
Them! (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #6</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-6</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-6#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Man and a Woman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=19666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Outside of seeing three films in theaters this week I also took in nine titles at home including films from Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Claude Lelouch and two from Chan-wook Park. It&#039;s a mixed bag going from a movie about a girl with a machine gun arm to a film from the French New Wave.

As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Great Movie Deaths</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-10-great-movie-deaths</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-10-great-movie-deaths#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Tens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apocalypse Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonnie and Clyde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Strangelove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How the West Was Won]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kill Bill: Volume Two]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Kong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psycho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Princess Bride]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wizard of Oz]]></category>

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Photo: Universal Studios Home Entertainment


Top 10 Great Movie Deaths

Movies love to kill people, and actors love to die (preferably slowly and with a great close-up). Yet, more often than not, film fatalities are an accountant&#039;s errand. Just another tally mark in the body count. This isn&#039;t a list celebrating the art of ludicrous squibs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie History: Journey Back To 1984</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/movie-history-journey-back-to-1984</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/movie-history-journey-back-to-1984#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cinematic Revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghostbusters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gremlins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purple Rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risky Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following Aaron Aradillas and Matt Zoller Seitz&#039;s video features detailing what they refer to as &#034;A Tale of Two Summers,&#034; which re-examines summer movies released in 1984 and 1989 and putting them in context of the politics and popular culture that surrounded their release and tries to show how they eventually led [...]]]></description>
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