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		<title>the sadder but wiser girl</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/09/13/the-sadder-but-wiser-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carine tarazi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gossip Girl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet tells me that Fashion Week has been happening in New York since 1943. I had never heard of it until two years ago. This is how unfashionable I was: I would go to New England coffee shops, order hot apple cider, look at the leaves, and read languid Victorian poetry. I am sick of the Hall and the hill, I am sick of the moor and the main. It had a certain charm. Then, one day, at a friend’s apartment, I was made to watch an episode of Gossip Girl featuring Fashion Week. At first, I inwardly resisted GG, believing it was a slut show that made thirteen-year-old girls think it was awesome to be slutty. I’m still aware of that – this show is not for thirteen-year-olds, because they can’t understand it – but it is filled with great music, great fashion, and sharp literary references that fill me with glee. The show’s setting is The Upper East Side, and its characters are rich high school and college kids who never have any parental supervision. They have their own maids, limousines, helicopters – practically their own penthouse apartments. They’ve been drinking at bars for years, even though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>machete \/\/ too much/not enough</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/09/07/machete-too-muchnot-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[danny trejo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[machete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new beginnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert rodriguez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As our intrepid author heads off to Seattle for a spell, he checks in briefly about Robert Rodriguez's newest cinematic effort, Machete.]]></description>
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		<title>outer space, inner space</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/09/06/outer-space-inner-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carine tarazi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battlestar Galactica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BSG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caprica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Stoltz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theavantguardian.org/?p=13416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I express enthusiasm for a book or movie in the science fiction genre, I get a conscientious objection from one or other of my friends. These challenges to my sci-fi credibility usually come in the form of one of three arguments. 1. “That’s actually speculative fiction.” 2. “That’s just politics playing dress-up.” The one I’ve heard most often, however, has to be: 3. “That’s mythology. It doesn’t contain any science at all!” Maybe some people are just fond of mythology set on spaceships, okay? But of course science fiction is going to be built from Jungian materials: it concerns the unknown, the final frontier, both within and without. Going where no one has gone before is a terrifying venture. Battlestar Galactica is no different – the upside being that it doesn’t have any corny Star Trek aliens. The bad guys are robots that look like humans, created by humans. It was a show about 9/11 and terrorism and the destruction of the human race; about the military and religion and how right and wrong are difficult to distinguish from each other. “All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again”: it was mythology and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how to succeed in crazy without really trying</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/26/how-to-succeed-in-crazy-without-really-trying/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/26/how-to-succeed-in-crazy-without-really-trying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carine tarazi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollock]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theavantguardian.org/?p=12800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write on Waking Life, to counterbalance Tyler’s review of Inception, but Inception is fun and Waking Life is not and I just couldn’t sit through it again. Elitist Professor recommended it to me years ago; I sat through it with diligence and focus and boredom and nausea. I formed a resolution in my heart never to learn the how-to’s of lucid dreaming. Then, that night, I dreamt that I woke up and went to the bathroom three times before I actually woke up and went to the bathroom. Or did I? Yeah, I’m pretty sure I did. I heart reality. I’m an accountant that way: ever since I was a kid, I’ve liked having one interpretation of the world. It doesn’t hold up, of course, especially after courses in literary theory, but I’m such a square that I’ve been remarkably good at ignoring all I’ve read. Jacob’s Ladder is even worse than my most horrible nightmares. Pollock is about on a level with them. Because I feel very strongly about rock-solid reality, I approve of representational art and am much less fond of modern art. The vagueness bothers me. “Well, this can be titled ‘Ode to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the avantguardian&#8217;s summer movie marathon!</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/11/the-avantguardian-summer-movie-marathon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a room with a view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aguirre the wrath of god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign correspondent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northfork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romantico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the man with a movie camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the matrix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's summer. That means vacations. So carve out about 20 hours of quality viewing time to soak in these AvantGuardian-approved flicks. From the blockbuster to the obscure, auteurs and class actors get the nod in our Summer Movie Marathon.]]></description>
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		<title>out of australia</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/02/out-of-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/02/out-of-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carine tarazi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baz Luhrmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[code]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theavantguardian.org/?p=11527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gattaca would have been a great idea for Code Week, non? But since you’ve seen it at least once, and I’m in the mood for lighter fare, you get Hugh Jackman instead of Ethan Hawke. Questions like “Where is our world headed and why am I sad all the time?” are replaced by questions like “Where does Hugh Jackman’s chin go when he shaves his beard?” Hang on, kids, we’re going to Australia – but before we take off, there is some important safety information you should know. I watched it in three installments. I recommend you do too, because let’s face it: no matter how engaging a movie is, ain’t no one can watch a three-hour movie in one sitting these days. Also, I watched the second and third installments right after the best yoga nidra of my life so far, so my blissed-out state might have affected my perception. And despite the WWII element, I’m pretty sure that it’s a girl movie. Not a chick flick, by any means, but: (a) it’s a brightly-colored period film (b) directed by Baz Luhrmann (c) with a rugged Hugh Jackman as hero, so… We might as well call things by their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a very american south africa</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/26/a-very-american-south-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/26/a-very-american-south-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carine tarazi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invictus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theavantguardian.org/?p=11097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m scared of bridges. A couple of years ago, I made a wrong turn and accidentally ended up on the Mystic River Bridge. It must have been under construction, because I got the nauseating impression that it was going to spit me out in midair every ten feet. I just wanted to stop my car, call the fire station, and ask them to get me down now. Fear of Bostonian drivers, however, overwhelmed my fear of bridges, and is probably the reason I’m not stranded on the Tobin Bridge to this day. In honor of Bridge Week, and my experience of not falling in to Mystic River, I’m covering another Clint Eastwood title: Invictus. Before I saw it, by the way, I kept confusing the titles Invictus and Inception. I have no special fondness for Leonardo or his shape-shifting head, but Inception looks impressive. Anyway, in Invictus, the only date we get is in the beginning of the movie: February 11, 1990, the day Nelson Mandela was released from prison. In case, like me, you were in middle school and don’t remember, Mandela became President in 1994; in case, like me, you are indifferent to sports and don’t care, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>summer sounds\/\/bark bark bark</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/14/summer-sounds-bark-bark-bark/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/14/summer-sounds-bark-bark-bark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[to listen with one ear to each summer sound]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First, let’s exercise our vocabulary muscle, the third most important muscle of all*. &#8220;Noisome&#8221; is a booby-trapped word. It doesn’t mean &#8220;noisy&#8221; for that’s how it ensnares the amateur wordsmiths who would deign to misuse it. Much like &#8220;crapulence&#8221; has nothing to do with actual crap. And much like crapulence**, the definition is much more satisfying. Noisome = noxious, offensive, most often pertaining to smell. Of course, noisy and noisome can be intertwined. Think greasy farts ricocheting off a hard plastic surface.  I call those &#8220;crowd-pleasers.&#8221; Anyway, now that I’ve covered my fart quota, let’s get down to business: dogs in film.  There’s a better segue somewhere*** but we must charge ahead onward forward, like a shark that hunts other sharks. Bulb-nosed early screen actor W.C. Fields once opined: &#8220;Never work with animals or children.&#8221; Sage advice because both are furry, short-legged scene-stealers. They’re shortcuts to the audience’s empathy, there to generate the “ha-ha” or the “aww” moment without any real work. Lazy lazy. But effective. Ignoring starring roles, cinema canines typically fill two roles: joke-fodder and heartstring-tugger.  In I Love You, Man, Jason Segel’s pooch pops up to generate two weak chuckles: his resemblance to his namesake, Anwar Sadat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>monk vs. thoreau</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/12/monk-vs-thoreau/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/12/monk-vs-thoreau/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carine tarazi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ki-duk Kim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring Summer Fall Winter...and Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoreau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have to state from the beginning of Thoreau week that I have a prejudice against Henry D. Said prejudice has its roots in a coffee shop, where a frightening man with no short-term memory – because of drugs, you understand, and not any Memento-like head injury – repeatedly and on several occasions insisted that I take a day trip with him to see Walden. Walden, man, Walden is amazing! And Thoreau, man, he knows. I don’t go to that coffee shop anymore. As for Walden: I’m sure it will keep getting pushed down my to-read list until I’m fifty-seven and say to myself: “You’ve come this far without it!” and finally cross it off. I hope to be ferrying people across a river by then anyway. But since it’s Thoreau week, and the specific theme is “To listen with one ear to each summer sound,” I am going to be an unapologetic naturalist and choose Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring, which I wanted to bring to you in any case, because you&#8217;re lovely and you deserve it. Written and directed by Ki-duk Kim, made in South Korea, it&#8217;s a film about an ancient Buddhist monk (played by Oh Young-Soo) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>girls on film\/\/world cup edition</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/05/women-and-the-world-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/05/women-and-the-world-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carine tarazi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bend it like beckham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blockbuster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's soccer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s World Cup week, and since I know nothing about professional soccer, I’m cheering for the teams with the best-looking players. I’m also thinking about my own experiences as a goalie, which mostly involved racing towards people and diving at their feet. I’m not tall, so scaring the opposing team&#8217;s offense was my only hope of being useful. It totally worked for the first year. (Take heed, goalies of average height!) I also occasionally wonder at the professional players acting more like little girls than we used to when we actually were little girls. And I wonder where the women&#8217;s teams are. I worry about the choices Jess and Jules made. When Bend It Like Beckham came out in 2003, I loved it. We all loved it. Remember our first sighting of Keira Knightley? We thought she was remarkably pretty then, but by the time Pirates of the Caribbean rolled around, something was missing and we couldn&#8217;t tell what it was. Remember Parminder Nagra? After her soccer stint, she was in 129 episodes of ER, which I have never seen, but you probably have. And Jonathan Rhys Meyers! My friends who had seen him in Velvet Goldmine found him unconvincing [...]]]></description>
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