INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1932, 'The artists&#039; artist: Animators', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/28/artists-artist-animators', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/19140?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=The+artists%27+artist%3A+Animators%3AArticle%3A1640111&amp;ch=Culture&amp;c3=Guardian&amp;c4=Animation+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CAnimation+%28TV+genre%29%2CTelevision+%28Culture%29%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CTelevision+Media%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Emine+Saner&amp;c7=11-Sep-30&amp;c8=1640111&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=&amp;c11=Culture&amp;c13=The+artists+artist+%28series%29&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FCulture%2FAnimation&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Five animators nominate their favourite living artist in their field&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Five animators nominate their favourite living artist in their field  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sharoncolman.com/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sharon Colman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; on &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/21/television?INTCMP=SRCH&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick Park&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick Park is a four-time Academy award-winning animation director and, of course, the creator of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/user/aardman&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Wallace and Gromit&lt;/a&gt;. His characters are brought to life with sincere emotions and charm. It&#039;s all in the subtleties: the blink of an eye, the raising of an eyebrow. He lets his characters breathe and think, without relying purely on dialogue to carry the story. In some ways, Gromit says a lot more than Wallace.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sharon Colman&#039;s Badgered was Oscar-nominated in 2006. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berylproductions.co.uk/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joanna Quinn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; on &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaelapavlatova.com/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michaela Pavl&aacute;tov&aacute;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Czech animator Michaela Pavl&aacute;tov&aacute;&#039;s first film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx4MR2QCWyk&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Words, Words, Words&lt;/a&gt; is a beautiful, funny piece about communication &ndash; without any dialogue. What struck me was how inventive she was. I was inspired by&amp;nbsp;her bold sense of design, which continues the strong Czech graphic poster tradition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her work is honest, funny and uninhibited; it is very un-British, particularly in the way she deals with relationships and sex. Her latest film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVJpowNuSXMk&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Carnival of Animals&lt;/a&gt;, is bursting with wit, colour and vitality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being the same age, I&amp;nbsp;feel our lives have followed parallel paths. This year, we finally met at a film festival in the Czech republic and interviewed each other on stage. She was as mischievous and charismatic as I thought she would&amp;nbsp;be, with a delightfully wicked sense of humour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joanna Quinn was Oscar-nominated in 1998 for Famous Fred.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mikey Please on &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitterfilms.com/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don Hertzfeldt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;I first came across Hertzfeldt&#039;s work a couple of years back with the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/user/t1i1b?blend=21&amp;ob=5#p/search/0/2Q_DOroGG8A&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;I Am So Proud of You&lt;/a&gt;, the second of three shorts about the life of Bill. Bill, like all of Hertzfeldt&#039;s protagonists, is a&amp;nbsp;stick figure. He is engaging and emotionally subtle, while the story is ambitious, poignant and very funny. (&quot;Not much happened at work. Bill made a pyramid out of three staplers and the new guy swallowed a paperclip.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While the idea of an animated stick-man might seem crude or naive, it is realised with a masterful knowledge of&amp;nbsp;movement, timing and attention to detail. His stubbornness &ndash; he refuses to use anything other than a 35mm rostrum camera (as opposed to a computer) &ndash; reminds me that everything we see has been physically worked on and each frame is unique.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is doing the simplest thing in the hardest way, which in my opinion is the best and only way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mikey Please&#039;s The Eagleman Stag won&amp;nbsp;a Bafta this year. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tomm Moore on &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://adrienmerigeau.com/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adrien&amp;nbsp;Merigeau&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;My favourite animator is a young Frenchman living and working in Ireland: Adrien Merigeau. I first met Adrien when he applied to be an intern in our studio. His graduation short film, Le Carnet de Chloe, was an eye-opener: a bold mix of techniques, yet it held together as a narrative and managed to be emotionally engaging even though no two scenes were in the same style.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His follow-up, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG9XTiDiuUE&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Old Fangs&lt;/a&gt;, about a young wolf trying to reconnect with his father, is beautiful, personal, enigmatic and melancholy. His use of colour and design is atmospheric and, at times, expressionistic and daring. Having observed his directing style on this film firsthand, I was even more impressed: he touches every aspect of the production and keeps his crew motivated. Though it involves long hours and hard work, Adrien&#039;s approach reminded me that animation production need not be an industrial process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR-Kox34wgk&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;latest piece&lt;/a&gt;, a music video for Irish band Villagers, is a dreamlike work of exceptional design and draughtsmanship, meticulously crafted with subtle use of the computer to enhance, rather than hide, his handmade style.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tomm Moore&#039;s The Secret of Kells was Oscar-nominated in 2010.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.runwrake.com/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Run Wrake&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; on &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/jul/10/dvdreviews.worldcinema?INTCMP=SRCH&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jan Svankmajer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;I went to see Svankmajer&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdfCOCIv_DU&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Dimensions of Dialogue&lt;/a&gt;, possibly his best-known short, when I was still at college, and it blew me away. It still does. It presents questions about what it is to be a human in relation to other people in a&amp;nbsp;very interesting way. I come from a time before computers and still love the flickery nature of frame-by-frame animation, which is what Svankmajer does so beautifully. You can see the thumbmarks in the clay; it&#039;s all very tactile with a real handmade feel. His adaptation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd03-wm6DDM&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Alice&lt;/a&gt; in Wonderland is fantastic: it has a gritty, visceral, from-the-earth feel. He is from Czechoslovakia and has that kind of communist-era grit. It just adds to the&amp;nbsp;sense of &quot;other&quot; all his films&amp;nbsp;have.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Run Wrake has created visuals for U2.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/animation&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/animation&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/television&quot;&gt;Television&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/eminesaner&quot;&gt;Emine Saner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:39+02:00', 'Animation', 'artists artist animators ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1933, 'Roald Dahl&#039;s BFG catches a big-screen dream', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/sep/27/roald-dahl-bfg-adaptation', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/93301?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Roald+Dahl%27s+BFG+catches+a+big-screen+dream%3AArticle%3A1639204&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Film%2CCulture%2CRoald+Dahl%2CFilm+adaptations+%28Books%29%2CAnimation+%28Film+genre%29&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Ben+Child&amp;c7=11-Sep-27&amp;c8=1639204&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=News&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2Fblog%2FFilm+blog&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;DreamWorks and ET writer, Melissa Mathison, set to adapt the author&#039;s much-loved tale, making it into a live action film&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The BFG, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/author/roald-dahl&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Roald Dahl&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s fantastical tale of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/unclassified/9780224064521/the-bfg&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Big Friendly Giant&lt;/a&gt; who befriends a young orphan girl, is to get a live action update, courtesy of ET writer Melissa Mathison and studio DreamWorks, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/dreamworks-picks-roald-dahl-movie-plows-ahead-39-clues-31284&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;reports The Wrap&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The project marks the second time Dahl&#039;s story has been adapted for film following the 1989 made-for-TV version from the late-lamented British animation studio Cosgrove Hall, which featured David Jason as the voice of the lofty hero. With Indiana Jones producer Frank Marshall on board, and the backing of the powerful DreamWorks studio, the new version looks likely to be a bigger budget affair. No director has yet been announced for the project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A large number of Dahl&#039;s children&#039;s stories have been adapted by Hollywood, with hugely varying results. Both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/107336/charlie.and.the.chocolate.factory&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Tim Burton&#039;s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&lt;/a&gt; (from 2004) and the 1971 Mel Stuart version, renamed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, were popular with critics, though Dahl himself &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/trivia?tr=tr0732093&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;detested the latter&lt;/a&gt;. Nicolas Roeg&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100944/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Witches&lt;/a&gt;, from 1990, and Henry Selick&#039;s stop-motion animated &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ax6ZrcUx4&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;James and the Giant Peach&lt;/a&gt; were also popular with reviewers, but failed to take off at the box office. Danny DeVito&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujc71mev9qc&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Matilda&lt;/a&gt;, from 1996, was both a critical smash and a financial success, though it received criticism in some quarters for Americanising Dahl&#039;s story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the most successful of all Dahl adaptations is the most recent, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2igjYFojUo&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Fantastic Mr Fox&lt;/a&gt;, which, while it diverted from the author&#039;s original story, proved perfect material for Wes Anderson&#039;s shift into stop-motion territory in 2009. There is also a 1989 made-for-TV adaptation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097152/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Danny the Champion of the World&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DreamWorks, the studio founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen in 1994, has had a tough year at the box office, following the failure of wannabe blockbusters such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cowboys_and_aliens/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Cowboys and Aliens&lt;/a&gt; to achieve traction. The Wrap reports that it is to scale back plans for new productions, despite the unexpected recent success of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/sep/05/the-help-worthy-oscar?INTCMP=SRCH&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Oscars hopeful The Help&lt;/a&gt; in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/roalddahl&quot;&gt;Roald Dahl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/filmadaptations&quot;&gt;Film adaptations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/animation&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/benchild&quot;&gt;Ben Child&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:40+02:00', 'Film', 'roald dahls bfg catches big screen dream ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1934, 'Cinema and the Arab spring: the revolution starts here', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/19/cinema-and-arab-spring-ica', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/64665?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Cinema+and+the+Arab+spring%3A+the+revolution+starts+here%3AArticle%3A1635509&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Guardian&amp;c4=Documentary+%28Film+genre%29%2CAnimation+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CCulture%2CICA+%28Institute+of+contemporary+art%29%2CArab+and+Middle+East+unrest+%28News%29%2CFestivals+%28Culture%29&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Sukhdev+Sandhu&amp;c7=11-Sep-20&amp;c8=1635509&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Interview%2CFeature&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FDocumentary&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;A revealing new season of films at the ICA looks at the links between religion and revolt&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do the roots of the Arab spring lie in cinema? The question seems absurd: surely kleptocratic dictatorship, youth unemployment and grain prices all played a more important part. Iranian film scholar Hamid Dabashi disagrees: &quot;If you want to understand the emotive universe from which the Arab spring arose, cinema is a good place to start. Look at a film like Elia Suleiman&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2003/jan/17/artsfeatures7&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Divine Intervention&lt;/a&gt;: there the director spits out an apricot pit at an Israeli tank and blows it up. The scene is both fantasy and prophecy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dabashi will be speaking this month at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ica.org.uk/29968/Seasons/Winds-of-Change-Cinema-from-Muslim-Societies.html&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Winds of Change&lt;/a&gt;, a series of talks and screenings at the ICA in London showcasing films from across the Muslim world; it hopes to explore the rich, sometimes fraught relationship between religion and civic society. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=29980&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&Ouml;zer Kiziltan&#039;s Takva&lt;/a&gt; (2006) is a powerful psychodrama in which a devout Turkish man, given a rent-collecting job, has a crisis of faith after meeting people outside his spiritual circle. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1556046/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Hatem Ali&#039;s The Long Night&lt;/a&gt; (2009), a study of the transformed and alienating Syria into which four political prisoners return, has not yet screened in that country. Moufida Tlatli&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111055/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Les Silences du Palais&lt;/a&gt; (1994) is set at the end of French colonial rule in Tunisia, and examines independence through the lens of feminism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These films are striking for their national and thematic diversity. Others include Palestinian-American &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBbPUxbjiuc&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Annemarie Jacir&#039;s Salt of This Sea&lt;/a&gt; (2008) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EPMDDZa6hQ&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Ceddo&lt;/a&gt; (1977), a groundbreaking work by Sengalese director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2005/jun/05/features&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Ousmane Sembene&lt;/a&gt;, often hailed as the grandfather of African cinema. But, with the exception of Takva, which makes artful use of grids and geometric shapes, the films don&#039;t draw on any aesthetic techniques that might be thought of as Islamic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the idea of an Islamic cinema problematic, I ask Ali Nobil Ahmad, co-curator of the series. &quot;Sure, but what if we call it Middle Eastern cinema? That&#039;s also quite a patronising, eurocentric term. Actually, I don&#039;t think the idea of Islamic cinema even exists in the west. Islam is presumed not to have a modern culture. I&#039;d argue it&#039;s important that these films don&#039;t insist on any kind of stylistic unity &ndash; and that in nearly all of them Islam is portrayed as quite marginal. They argue against religiosity as a determining force. They&#039;re all about change, too, about modernity, which neocons like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/23/francis-fukuyama-americans-not-good-nation-building&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Francis Fukuyama&lt;/a&gt; say the Islamic world is incapable of.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are already many critically feted Muslim directors who don&#039;t get labelled as such &ndash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/06/nuri-bilge-ceylan-interview-transcript&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Nuri Bilge Ceylan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jun/13/abbas-kiarostami-film&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Abbas Kiarostami&lt;/a&gt; among them. The film world prefers to use narrower categories, such as Iranian cinema or Turkish cinema. &quot;If you want to be thought of as an auteur, you don&#039;t want to be categorised according to ethnicity or religion,&quot; Ahmad says. &quot;By calling someone &#039;Islamic&#039;, you&#039;re meant to be taking away from their universal appeal.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Winds of Change may be effective at drawing attention to the various liberation struggles within the Islamic world; it is less successful when it comes to highlighting the flourishing range of film-making styles. Some of the most provocative films owe more to pulp and lo-fi subcultures than to mainstream cinema: look at Omar Ali Khan&#039;s anti-yuppie, anti-fundamentalist horror flick &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887973/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Hell&#039;s Ground&lt;/a&gt; (2007), Halil Uysal&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OKhT7kNwcA&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Tirej&lt;/a&gt; (2002), a mesmerising film about &ndash; and made by &ndash; Kurdish guerrilla soldiers, and Omar Majeed&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/04/islamic-punk-muslim-taqwacores&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Taqwacore&lt;/a&gt; (2009), about a bunch of dope-smoking Muslim punks in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Experimental and avant-garde film is well-placed to ask difficult questions and to fashion oblique, suggestive stories about modern-day Islam. An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubu.com/bidoun/index.html&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;alternative canon, curated by the Middle Eastern art magazine Bidoun&lt;/a&gt;, points to gems such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXBaW9BrkuQ&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Peggy Ahwesh&#039;s Beirut Outtakes&lt;/a&gt; (2007), made up of film scraps from an abandoned cinema in the Lebanese capital; its combination of colour and decay, Hollywood and local celluloid, high and low culture captures the city&#039;s vivid history with panache. Winds of Change would have profited from programming left-field works like this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because the Arab spring was a revolution spread (if not created) by digital media such as mobile phones, Twitter and amateur video, it could be argued that more Muslims than ever before now associate political freedom with the moving image &ndash; rather than the printed word. What&#039;s more, the speed and sophistication of image-production by canny campaigners may also help to dispel some of the orientalist stereotypes that still circulate in the west. The generational impetus propelling the uprisings is the subject of the two most topical films in the festival: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ahmadabdalla.net/wordpress/?p=334&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Ahmad Abdalla&#039;s Microphone&lt;/a&gt; (2010), a portrait of the skateboarders, graffiti artists and hip-hop prodigies struggling to express themselves on the streets of Alexandria in pre-revolution Egypt; and Ali Samadi Ahadi&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegreenwave-film.com/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Green Wave&lt;/a&gt; (2010), an often heartbreaking combination of animation and archive footage, in which Iranian activists reflect on the promises and disappointments of 2009&#039;s populist insurgency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For Ahmad, the kinds of youthful resistance depicted in these films may have a special resonance for one particular constituency. &quot;A lot of British Muslim kids are very keen to see themselves represented,&quot; he says. &quot;They want to see they have a great culture. But often they go back to a glorious, nostalgic version of Islam that offers them only a narrative of cultural degeneration since the middle ages. Winds of Change should remind us that we have powerful and well-established critiques of religion from within our societies.&quot; It&#039;s a reminder that would benefit non-Muslims, too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/documentary&quot;&gt;Documentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/animation&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/ica&quot;&gt;ICA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/arab-and-middle-east-protests&quot;&gt;Arab and Middle East unrest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/festivals&quot;&gt;Festivals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:41+02:00', 'Documentary', 'cinema arab spring revolution starts a revealing new season films ica looks religion revoltdo roots arab spring lie cinema question absurd surely kleptocratic dictatorship youth unemployment grain prices played iranian film scholar hamid dabashi disagrees want understand emotive universe arab spring arose cinema good place start look film like elia suleimans divine intervention director spits apricot pit israeli tank blows scene fantasy speaking month winds change series talks screenings ica london showcasing films muslim world hopes explore rich fraught relationship religion civic society ozer kiziltans takva 2006 powerful psychodrama devout turkish given rent collecting job crisis faith meeting people outside spiritual circle hatem alis long night 2009 study transformed alienating syria political prisoners return screened country moufida tlatlis les silences palais 1994 set end french colonial rule tunisia examines independence lens films striking national thematic diversity include palestinian american annemarie jacirs salt sea 2008 ceddo 1977 groundbreaking work sengalese director ousmane sembene hailed grandfather african cinema exception takva makes artful use grids geometric shapes films draw aesthetic techniques thought islamicis idea islamic cinema problematic i ask ali nobil ahmad curator series sure middle eastern cinema thats quite patronising eurocentric term actually i think idea islamic cinema exists west islam presumed modern culture id argue films insist kind stylistic unity – nearly islam portrayed quite marginal argue religiosity determining force theyre change modernity neocons like francis fukuyama say islamic world incapable ofof course critically feted muslim directors labelled – nuri bilge ceylan abbas kiarostami film world prefers use narrower categories iranian cinema turkish cinema want thought auteur want categorised according ethnicity religion ahmad says calling islamic youre meant taking away universal appealwinds change effective drawing attention various liberation struggles islamic world successful comes highlighting flourishing range film making styles provocative films owe pulp fi subcultures mainstream cinema look omar ali khans anti yuppie anti fundamentalist horror flick hells ground 2007 halil uysals tirej 2002 mesmerising film – – kurdish guerrilla soldiers omar majeeds ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1935, 'The Lion King 3D rules the US charts, with Drive in hot pursuit', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/sep/19/lion-king-3d-rules-drive', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/94276?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=The+Lion+King+3D+rules+the+US+charts%2C+with+Drive+in+hot+pursuit%3AArticle%3A1635215&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Film%2C3D+%28technology%29%2CAnimation+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm+industry+%28business%29%2CRyan+Gosling%2CBrad+Pitt+%28Film%29%2CTilda+Swinton+%28Film%29%2CGeorge+Clooney+%28Film%29&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CFilm+Awards%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CTechnology+Gadgets%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Jeremy+Kay&amp;c7=11-Sep-19&amp;c8=1635215&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=Hollywood+report+%28series%29%2CBox+office+analysis%3A+US&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2F3D&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Disney milks its cash cow animation sensation with a retrofit 3D release, but who are the contenders for the award season?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disney&#039;s reformatted Lion King release is a canny piece of marketing, albeit one that speaks to the lack of inventiveness that is rife in contemporary Hollywood. The original became an animation sensation when it opened in 1994, going on to gross more than $825m (&pound;525m) around the globe (equivalent to roughly $1.2bn today, considering inflation), spewing box office records for hand-drawn animation and spawning a Broadway spin-off three years later.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now comes the inevitable retrofitted 3D version, an attraction that large numbers of viewers deemed sufficiently compelling to send the old warhorse back to the top of the North American charts with a respectable sum. Disney wanted to introduce the property to a new generation of young fans and 3D serves as a legitimate excuse to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m not convinced 3D will stick around. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/11/3d-avatar-hollywood&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Mark Kermode has written convincingly&lt;/a&gt; on this site that the studios have used it to revive interest in the theatrical experience at times when the traditional mode of seeing movies has been under threat. I&#039;m inclined to agree. First it was the advent of the television, then the video age and now the studios fear video on demand and video games.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is the inherent point of turning a delightful and superbly executed example of 2D animation into 3D &ndash; apart from making more money? If there were an original 3D animation title on release now it would knock The Lion King off its perch without much trouble. As there is no rival movie, Disney can crow about another number one launch and make extra cash off the property that keeps on giving. It has been a canny move, but it is also cynical and exploitative in a lazy way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good to see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/142036/drive&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Drive&lt;/a&gt; open in the top five. The violent crime drama with a killer score and soundtrack comes from Dane Nicolas Winding Refn, who earned the best director prize for it in Cannes. It stars Ryan Gosling as a quietly barmy stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver by night &ndash; someone you definitely don&#039;t want to mess with. I hope it sticks around for a while, and will finally turn Gosling into a household name.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Drive screened at the Toronto international film festival, which ended on Sunday and shed a little light on some of the potential awards season contenders. Alexander Payne&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/142799/descendants&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Descendants&lt;/a&gt;, starring George Clooney, is sweet and well observed and already seems to be emerging as a critical favourite. Michael Fassbender&#039;s committed performance as a lonely sex addict in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/142860/shame&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Shame&lt;/a&gt;, which won him a best actor prize at the Venice film festival, is an early runner alongside Jean Dujardin in the silent movie homage &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/142801/artist&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Artist&lt;/a&gt;. It&#039;s hard to say what the feeling is on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/142852/moneyball&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Moneyball&lt;/a&gt;, starring Brad Pitt. My sense is Americans have found it engaging while British critics are less patient with the story elements (basketball, statistics, real events).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Glenn Close did herself no harm playing a woman who disguises herself as a man in the period drama &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/142804/albert-nobbs&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Albert Nobbs&lt;/a&gt;, while Tilda Swinton has rightly won admirers for taking the lead in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/141828/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;We Need to Talk About Kevin&lt;/a&gt;. There are plenty more, as-yet-unseen contenders to come and, as always, it will be fascinating if a little disturbing to watch Hollywood&#039;s shock-and-awe publicity machine spring into action.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;North American top 10, 16-18 September 2011&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; The Lion King 3D $29.3m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; Contagion, $14.5m. Total: $44.2m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; Drive, $11m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. &lt;/strong&gt;The Help, $6.4m. Total: $147.4m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; Straw Dogs, $5m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6.&lt;/strong&gt; I Don&#039;t Know How She Does It, $4.5m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7.&lt;/strong&gt; The Debt, $2.9m. Total: $26.5m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8.&lt;/strong&gt; Warrior, $2.8m. Total: $9.9m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9.&lt;/strong&gt; Rise of the Planet of the Apes, $2.6m. Total: $171.6m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10.&lt;/strong&gt; Colombiana, $2.3m. Total: $33.3m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/3d&quot;&gt;3D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/animation&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/film-industry&quot;&gt;Film industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/ryan-gosling&quot;&gt;Ryan Gosling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/bradpitt&quot;&gt;Brad Pitt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/tilda-swinton&quot;&gt;Tilda Swinton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/georgeclooney&quot;&gt;George Clooney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jeremykay&quot;&gt;Jeremy Kay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:41+02:00', 'Film', 'lion king 3d rules charts drive hot pursuit ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1936, 'Postman Pat is 30 years old - in pictures', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/gallery/2011/sep/16/childrens-tv-television', '&lt;p&gt;Postman Pat is celebrating his 30th birthday by appearing in a movie. Here&#039;s how the children&#039;s animation favourite has looked over the years&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:42+02:00', 'Children&#039;s TV', 'postman pat 30 years old pictures postman pat celebrating 30th birthday appearing movie heres childrens animation favourite looked years');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1937, 'Stephen Mangan bags title role in Postman Pat movie', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/16/stephen-mangan-postman-pat-movie', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/64568?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Stephen+Mangan+bags+title+role+in+Postman+Pat+the+movie%3AArticle%3A1634269&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Animation+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CFilm+adaptations+%28Books%29%2CBooks%2CChildren%27s+TV+%28TV+genre%29%2CTelevision+%28Culture%29%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CTelevision+Media%2CFilm+Reviews%2CChildren+Society&amp;c6=Henry+Barnes&amp;c7=11-Sep-16&amp;c8=1634269&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=News&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FAnimation&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Rupert Grint, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent also set to deliver first-class performances in big-screen 3D animation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Special delivery! New details for the Postman Pat movie dropped into our mailbox today. British comic Stephen Mangan will play Pat, with Rupert Grint, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent joining the Green Wing star on his rounds in Pat&#039;s first animated feature outing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I&#039;m absolutely thrilled to be playing the world&#039;s best-known postman in his big-screen debut,&quot; said Mangan. &quot;However, when I excitedly told my 3-year-old son that I was going to be Postman Pat, he said: &#039;No you&#039;re not, dad, don&#039;t be silly.&#039;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Postman Pat: You Know You&#039;re the One will be shot in 3D and sees Pat swap Greendale village for the big city after he enters an X Factor-style talent contest. Will the bright lights dazzle Pat into a new lifestyle of fast-living and late-rising? Can he court celebrity AND meet Greendale&#039;s logistical needs? We&#039;ll have to wait until Spring 2013 to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, there&#039;s no news yet on who&#039;s to voice Jess &ndash; Pat&#039;s ever-faithful black-and-white cat. Knock, ring: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serkis.com/lord-of-the-rings-movie.htm&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Serkis through our door&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/animation&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/filmadaptations&quot;&gt;Film adaptations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/childrens-tv&quot;&gt;Children&#039;s TV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/television&quot;&gt;Television&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/henrybarnes&quot;&gt;Henry Barnes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:43+02:00', 'Animation', 'stephen mangan bags title role postman pat movie ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1938, 'Postman Pat: still delivering, 30 years on', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/sep/16/postman-pat-30-years-on', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/77562?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Postman+Pat%3A+still+delivering%2C+30+years+on%3AArticle%3A1634267&amp;ch=Television+%26amp%3B+radio&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Children%27s+TV+%28TV+genre%29%2CTelevision+%28Culture%29%2CTelevision+and+radio+TV%2CCulture%2CFilm%2CAnimation+%28TV+genre%29%2CAnimation+%28Film+genre%29&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews%2CTelevision+Media%2CChildren+Society&amp;c6=Sophie+Robehmed&amp;c7=11-Sep-16&amp;c8=1634267&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Television+%26amp%3B+radio&amp;c13=&amp;c25=TV+and+radio+blog+%28television%29&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FTelevision+%26amp%3B+radio%2FChildren%27s+TV&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;As Postman Pat turns 30, he and Jess are making a move to the big screen. But what explains the television postman&#039;s enduring appeal?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s 30 years today since Postman Pat delivered his first letter &ndash; and now the animated children&#039;s television show is graduating to the big screen as Pat and his black and white cat Jess star in their own animated film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pat will be voiced by Episodes and Green Wing actor Stephen Mangan, while the cast also includes Jim Broadbent, Rupert Grint and David Tennant. Rather than just several hours of letter delivery, the storyline will focus on what happens when Pat enters a TV talent show that threatens to tear him away from village life in Greendale.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Postman Pat: The Movie &ndash; You Know You&#039;re the One begins production this month and is due for release in spring 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pat, Jess, postmistress Mrs Goggins and friends have captivated children across three decades &ndash; seeing off competition from more exotic and exciting children shows. According to Postman Pat creator John Cunliffe, who wrote the original two 13-episode series and several TV specials, the show&#039;s familiarity to everyday life plays a big part in its success.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Children associate birthday presents, cards and nice things with a postman. They&#039;ve all seen a red van going by. I think it&#039;s also something to do with the movement in the story, familiar characters and community spirit. It&#039;s a bit like a soap,&quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is truth in that: the characters, storylines and day-to-day life events surrounding those in Greendale feel as real and identifiable as those in any rural village found up and down the country. What&#039;s more, the characters and setting are so believable because they are inspired by Cunliffe&#039;s life: the people he met when he worked as a mobile librarian and lived in the valley of Longsleddale, where he began writing Postman Pat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But while its appeal is largely ingrained in its familiarity and idyllic rural living, Postman Pat has also kept up with the times, with Pat&#039;s promotion to head of Special Delivery &ndash; on his CBeebies show he now has a whole fleet of vehicles including a motorbike, complete with sidecar for Jess and even a helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pat shares his enduring popularity with contemporaries such as Thomas the Tank Engine, Noddy and three of Cunliffe&#039;s favourites &ndash; The Magic Roundabout, Clangers and The Wombles. All made comebacks in one form or another since their original runs &ndash; although none of them have been on our screens for as long as Postman Pat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A familiar, friendly and loveable character better than any real postman thanks to his feline sidekick, Postman Pat still seems as enjoyable, identifiable and relevant in 2011 as it was in 1981. So happy 30th birthday Pat &ndash; there&#039;s no denying that you&#039;re a first-class act.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/childrens-tv&quot;&gt;Children&#039;s TV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/television&quot;&gt;Television&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/animation&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/animation&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sophie-robehmed&quot;&gt;Sophie Robehmed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:43+02:00', 'Children&#039;s TV', 'postman pat delivering 30 years as postman pat turns 30 jess making big screen explains television postmans enduring appealits 30 years today postman pat delivered letter – animated childrens television graduating big screen pat black white cat jess star animated filmpat voiced episodes green wing actor stephen mangan cast includes jim broadbent rupert grint david tennant just hours letter delivery storyline focus happens pat enters tv talent threatens tear away village life pat movie – know youre begins production month release spring 2013pat jess postmistress mrs goggins friends captivated children decades – seeing competition exotic exciting children shows according postman pat creator john cunliffe wrote original 13 episode series tv specials shows familiarity everyday life plays big associate birthday presents cards nice things postman theyve seen red going i think movement story familiar characters community spirit bit like soap saidthere truth characters storylines day day life events surrounding greendale feel real identifiable rural village country whats characters setting believable inspired cunliffes life people met worked mobile librarian lived valley longsleddale began writing postman patbut appeal largely ingrained familiarity idyllic rural living postman pat kept times pats promotion head special delivery – cbeebies fleet vehicles including motorbike complete sidecar jess shares enduring popularity contemporaries thomas tank engine noddy cunliffes favourites – magic roundabout clangers wombles comebacks form original runs – screens long postman pata familiar friendly loveable character better real postman thanks feline sidekick postman pat enjoyable identifiable relevant 2011 1981 happy 30th birthday pat – theres denying youre class actchildrens tvsophie class=terms>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1939, 'Mark Kermode&#039;s DVD round-up', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/28/mark-kermode-dvd-round-up', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/76343?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Mark+Kermode%27s+DVD+round-up%3AArticle%3A1624323&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Obs&amp;c4=Joe+Wright+%28Film%29%2CCate+Blanchett%2CTom+Hollander%2COlivia+Williams%2CClive+Owen%2CBono%2CU2%2CRussell+Brand%2CAction+and+adventure+%28Film+genre%29%2CComedy+%28Film+genre%29%2CDrama+%28Film+genre%29%2CAnimation+%28Film+genre%29%2CDVD+and+video+reviews%2CFilm%2CCulture%2CComedy+%28culture%29&amp;c5=Pop+Music%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CComedy%2CFilm+Reviews%2CTV&amp;c6=Mark+Kermode&amp;c7=11-Aug-28&amp;c8=1624323&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Review&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=Mark+Kermode%27s+DVD+round-up+%28series%29&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FJoe+Wright&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Hanna; Trust; Killing Bono; Hop&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;British director Joe Wright first made his mark with two acclaimed but (for my money) unsatisfying literary adaptations: &lt;em&gt;Pride &amp; Prejudice&lt;/em&gt;, with its overly picturesque mud and straw, and &lt;em&gt;Atonement&lt;/em&gt;, which merely confirmed the unfilmable quality of Ian McEwan&#039;s source novel. His latest marks a radical and surprisingly exciting departure, venturing recklessly into the world of kinetic action-adventure replete with a&amp;nbsp;pumping techno score (courtesy of the Chemical Brothers) and &lt;em&gt;Kick-Ass&lt;/em&gt;-style outre action.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Owing a clear debt to both &lt;em&gt;L&eacute;on&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Nikita&lt;/em&gt; (with a hint of Bourne&#039;s search for identity), &lt;strong&gt;Hanna &lt;/strong&gt;(2011, Universal, 12) casts rising star Saoirse Ronan as a mysterious young girl raised in the wilds of Finland by her father (Eric Bana) who has taught her to live, breathe and even sleep in combat mode. All this training, it transpires, is preparing her for an inevitable confrontation with Cate Blanchett&#039;s sneering nemesis who, like the Terminator, will stop at nothing until she is dead. After a brisk character-establishing first act, the dramatic flare goes up and the chase is on &ndash; and it pretty much stays on for the rest of the movie&#039;s entertainingly frenetic running time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like all Wright&#039;s work (with the possible exception of &lt;em&gt;The Soloist&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;em&gt;Hanna&lt;/em&gt; is characterised by an uneven tone, lurching from violence to comedy, from pathos to punches. Both Blanchett and Bana experiment with outrageous accents, while Tom Hollander delivers a supporting performance of quite breathtakingly villainous high camp, sporting tracksuits that make him look like the pervy uncle of the killers from &lt;em&gt;Funny Games&lt;/em&gt;. Jason Flemyng and Olivia Williams, meanwhile, have fun as a pair of old-hippie parents who have no idea just how lethally &quot;free spirted&quot; the cherubic Hanna can be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Behind it all there&#039;s a twisted fairytale motif that leads inexorably to the house of the Brothers Grimm, recalling the cranked-up symbolism of Neil Jordan. It could all be a terrible mess were it not for Ronan&#039;s hefty emotional anchor, her barnstorming central performance somehow drawing together all the disparate elements and making sense of the surrounding chaos. She is a remarkable screen presence, who here adds running, jumping, punching, shooting and kicking to her already expansive dramatic repertoire with the ease of a seasoned professional. It all adds up to a thrillingly visceral experience; ill-disciplined, unruly, uneven and enjoyably overcooked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Judging by his work on the generally unfunny Simon Pegg comedy &lt;em&gt;Run, Fatboy, Run&lt;/em&gt;, there seemed precious little to commend actor David Schwimmer&#039;s directorial skills. Not so with &lt;strong&gt;Trust &lt;/strong&gt;(2010, Lionsgate, 15), an intelligent (if televisual) tale of internet grooming which avoids both exploitation and mawkishness in its depiction of a young girl&#039;s &quot;relationship&quot; with a predatory middle-aged man.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Liana Liberato is excellent as the teenager who thinks she&#039;s found a soulmate online and whose emotional turmoil and sense of personal uncertainty are used by her abuser for horribly plausible ends. Plaudits, too, to Catherine Keener and Clive Owen who are both utterly believable as the traumatised parents whose reactions to their daughter&#039;s plight range from heartbroken sympathy to blind anger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the script overreaches itself in the depiction of Owen&#039;s character as an advertising man whose latest campaign shamelessly sexualises adolescence, but he manages to keep his feet on the ground even as events move toward dramatic overstatement. Understandably little seen in cinemas, &lt;em&gt;Trust&lt;/em&gt; deserves to find a wider audience on DVD, where it may well provoke constructive discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the basis of its title, I expected the worst of &lt;strong&gt;Killing Bono&lt;/strong&gt; (2011, Paramount, 15), Nick Hamm&#039;s adaptation of a memoir by Neil McCormick via a romping screenplay by Clement and La Frenais. In fact there&#039;s much to like about this low-budget, homegrown production, not least its depiction of life in a never-quite-made-it rock band. The problem lies in the tension between the material, which is grounded in down-to-earth reality (the internecine rivalries between schoolyard brothers and bands), and the more ill-fitting OTT elements (notably the titular &quot;killing&quot;) which descend into daft caper and undercut the otherwise low-key comedy. It doesn&#039;t help that Bono is&amp;nbsp;portrayed in saintly terms throughout, giving the impression that the film-makers craved his approval above all things. The movie is actually at its best when U2 are&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;absentia. As for Pete Postlethwaite, he brings his usual vigour, vim and wit to a comparatively small role which reminds us just what a treasure he was, and how much he will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And so to &lt;strong&gt;Hop&lt;/strong&gt; (2011, Universal, U), a&amp;nbsp;grisly seasonal comedy that was about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit when it shipped up in cinemas at Easter, and now as a late-summer DVD release has the added drawback of being both awful and out of date. Russell Brand, whose choice of movie projects is best described as erratic (did anyone find &lt;em&gt;Arthur&lt;/em&gt; remotely funny?) provides the voice of a rebellious bunny who runs away from his inherited commitment to delivering chocolate eggs in order to follow his dreams of becoming a rock drummer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Director Tim Hill attempts to cross the surprisingly saleable charms of his previous hit &lt;em&gt;Alvin and the Chipmunks&lt;/em&gt; with the convoluted plot mechanics of &lt;em&gt;The Santa Clause&lt;/em&gt;, and in doing so comes up with a thuddingly cynical dirge of a movie that will bore children and adults alike.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1315219/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;According to IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, Hill is currently &quot;in development&quot; with a project called &lt;em&gt;Walter the Farting Dog&lt;/em&gt;, about &quot;a family learning to live with an extremely flatulent dog&quot;. Can&#039;t wait.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/joe-wright&quot;&gt;Joe Wright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/cate-blanchett&quot;&gt;Cate Blanchett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tom-hollander&quot;&gt;Tom Hollander&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/olivia-williams&quot;&gt;Olivia Williams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/clive-owen&quot;&gt;Clive Owen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/bono&quot;&gt;Bono&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/u2&quot;&gt;U2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/russell-brand&quot;&gt;Russell Brand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/actionandadventure&quot;&gt;Action and adventure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/comedy&quot;&gt;Comedy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/drama&quot;&gt;Drama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/animation&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/dvdreviews&quot;&gt;DVD and video reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/comedy&quot;&gt;Comedy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/markkermode&quot;&gt;Mark Kermode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:44+02:00', 'Joe Wright', 'mark kermodes dvd round cate radio/tom hollander>tom williams>olivia owen>clive owenrussell video class=author>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1940, 'Real Steel &ndash; review', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/13/real-steel-film-review', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/57417?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Real+Steel+*+review%3AArticle%3A1646841&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Guardian&amp;c4=Hugh+Jackman+%28Film%29%2CAction+and+adventure+%28Film+genre%29%2CThriller+%28Film+genre%29%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Peter+Bradshaw&amp;c7=11-Oct-13&amp;c8=1646841&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Review&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FHugh+Jackman&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;There&#039;s too much schmaltz and not enough smashes in this cyborg slugfest&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sentimental sci-fi really is a very worrying genre. And like a horrendous combination of Joe Bugner and WALL-E, the star of this film is a great big boxing robot, a tin man with a lot of heart. He&#039;s called Atom, and as Harry Carpenter might have put it: what a gutsy, unassuming automaton Atom is. He&#039;s been discovered in a junkyard by Charlie Kenton, played by Hugh Jackman, a washed-up robot trainer and ex-fighter who in this bland futureworld coaches souped-up &#039;bots to bash the jeepers out of each other. You can tell he&#039;s supposed to be washed up, incidentally, because in the first scene he drinks half-finished bottles of warm beer on tumbling out of bed &ndash; and after that, of course, never touches another drop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A quirk of fate means he has to look after his adorable tousle-haired kid Max (Dakota Goyo) from a previous relationship. What happened to mom you ask? She&#039;s dead. How? Who cares? Certainly not Max &ndash; who never shows the smallest interest in the subject of his mother. He believes in his dad. And he believes in this feisty battling robot they&#039;re putting together. It&#039;s a boy&#039;s-own-men&#039;s-own fantasy and together, these all-American underdog guys take their robot all the way to the robot-boxing final where they take on a slick &uuml;ber-bot invented and managed by Tak Mashido and Ferra Lemkova: a suspect Japanese-type foreigner and an unappealing thin-faced witch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But look, what on earth is the point of a specially-trained robot that doesn&#039;t get a mind of its own and turn, chillingly, on its human masters? Atom is just a little creep and suckup, a Vichyite collaborator, a disgrace to the dystopian tradition. It&#039;s as if HAL in 2001 had been reprogrammed with the audiobook of Dale Carnegie&#039;s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Director Shawn Levy risks a few lingering shots on Atom, alone, but we cut quickly away, as if to reassure the audience that Atom isn&#039;t going to go off message in any way at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What we really needed was a robot-on-human sparring session which ended with Atom getting overexcited and ripping off Hugh Jackman&#039;s left leg and beating him over the head with it. And then he could drink the rest of Hugh&#039;s untouched lagers and drive off to a motel with a female robot to smoke crack and clankingly disobey the no-sex-before-a-fight rule.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s an incredibly cynical movie, written and acted by robots, and boasting the most flagrant piece of product-placement for a certain soft drink. It needs hardly to be said that the real robot is the kid himself: the little boy who is stubborn one minute and sweetly vulnerable the next. Oh, how beseechingly he looks at his dad. &quot;Are you kidding me with those eyes?&quot; asks Charlie. Yes. They come out on spikes, attached to beeping diodes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rating&quot;&gt;Rating: 1/5&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/hugh-jackman&quot;&gt;Hugh Jackman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/actionandadventure&quot;&gt;Action and adventure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/thriller&quot;&gt;Thriller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/peterbradshaw&quot;&gt;Peter Bradshaw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:46+02:00', 'Hugh Jackman', 'real steel – review ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1941, 'The Avengers trailer: are some superheroes more equal than others?', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/13/avengers-trailer-superheroes-iron-man', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/15106?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=The+Avengers+trailer%3A+are+some+superheroes+more+equal+than+others%3F%3AArticle%3A1647083&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Film%2CCulture%2CRobert+Downey+Jr+%28Film%29%2CComics+and+graphic+novels+%28Books+genre%29%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CAction+and+adventure+%28Film+genre%29%2CJoss+Whedon%2CMark+Ruffalo&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews%2CTV&amp;c6=Ben+Child&amp;c7=11-Oct-13&amp;c8=1647083&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=Week+in+geek+%28Film+series%29&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FRobert+Downey+Jr&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;At least seven saviours will compete for screen time in Marvel&#039;s movie, but will, and should, it all hinge on the special sardonic powers of one Iron Man?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regular readers of this blog might recall that I&#039;ve tended to vacillate between wide-eyed anticipation and benevolent concern when it comes to the subject of Marvel. The budding film studio&#039;s ongoing effort to revolutionise the comic book movie by successfully realising multiple superhero storylines on the big screen for the first time has always come across as a hugely admirable endeavour, which is unlikely to deliver an entirely satisfactory outcome. The vast majority of bad superhero movies are those which attempt to focus on too many characters, be they heroes or villains: I&#039;m thinking &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/118084/spider-man.3&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Spider-Man 3&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/106876/fantastic.four&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/a&gt; for starters. Most of the really watchable films (Spider-Man, Superman, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/106557/batman.begins&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/a&gt;) tend to keep the focus tight and avoid introducing too many protagonists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The honourable exception is, of course, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/122806/dark.knight&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;, but even Christopher Nolan&#039;s sprawling, brooding tour de force wisely kept its main spotlight on the battle between Batman and The Joker. The Avengers, Marvel&#039;s forthcoming attempt to unite several of its comic book mainstays in a single movie, has at least seven heroes competing for screen time with each other and main villain Loki. Unless director Joss Whedon is planning to present a three-hour epic, someone&#039;s going to get squeezed out of the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the looks of the debut full-length trailer for the film, which hit the web this week, it&#039;s not likely to be Robert Downey Jr&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/123770/iron.man&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Iron Man&lt;/a&gt;. The great thing about Downey Jr&#039;s Tony Stark is that he&#039;s at his best when bouncing off other people, so there&#039;s no reason to think an ensemble setup should be to his detriment. While the action sequences in Iron Man and its sequel were spectacular, the films flourished due to the interplay between Stark and Gwyneth Paltrow&#039;s Pepper Potts, and &hellip; well, just about anyone else who entered his target zone. Everyone in sight was fair game for a flash of sardonic Stark humour, and it seems Iron Man&#039;s Avenger amigos are to be no exception. It&#039;s always hard to tell much from a trailer, but the snatches of dialogue here hint at a pretty polished script. Props, too, to the film-makers for avoiding giving away too much about the storyline (yet).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/downey-disappointed-by-iron-man-2-20111011-1lj73.html&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Downey Jr said this week that he was disappointed by Iron Man 2&lt;/a&gt; following the outstanding, career-altering success of the original film. I have to say I thought it was a pretty decent followup, but there&#039;s certainly a need for Stark to shine in The Avengers if the planned Iron Man 3 is to have any hope of building hype. The trailer hints that the film will be built around the man in the metal suit, which might just be an intelligent way to go. Marvel has done a great job of building origins stories for Thor and Captain America this year, but Downey Jr remains the studio&#039;s trump card.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My main concern over The Avengers is that it will end up being a bit like one of those big screen transfers for a long-running successful TV show: the fans love it because they have an investment in the characters, but nobody else watching has got a clue why they should be remotely interested. Whedon and his team should have enough about them to avoid that outcome (the director, after all, shot a bravura standalone effort in the form of his excellent space opera Serenity, while also delighting fans of its source show, Firefly) and one has to give the benefit of the doubt to a studio that has produced at least three (four if you count Iron Man 2) good movies out of five since launching five years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of which, the hardest job in The Avengers must certainly belong to Mark Ruffalo, aka the new Hulk. Neither Ang Lee&#039;s Hulk from 2003 or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/124582/incredible.hulk&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Louis Leterrier&#039;s The Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt; in 2008 managed to capture the majesty of the comic books &ndash; both are even compared unfavourably to the hokey 1970s TV show starring Lou Ferrigno &ndash; so what hope does Ruffalo have of doing in limited screen time what neither Eric Bana nor Ed Norton could do in the previous films? Might he end up being little more than a target for Stark to fire wisecracks at? There are less demanding jobs in superhero moviedom, but not many since Cillian Murphy&#039;s Scarecrow managed all of a minute&#039;s worth of screen-time in The Dark Knight. And this is a character who will doubtless be in CGI mode as the not-so jolly green giant for much of The Avengers. Still, the film really ought to be all &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; taking one for the team. I wonder if anyone has told Downey Jr.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/robertdowneyjr&quot;&gt;Robert Downey Jr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/comics&quot;&gt;Comics and graphic novels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/actionandadventure&quot;&gt;Action and adventure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/joss-whedon&quot;&gt;Joss Whedon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/mark-ruffalo&quot;&gt;Mark Ruffalo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/benchild&quot;&gt;Ben Child&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:47+02:00', 'Film', 'avengers trailer superheroes equal at seven saviours compete screen time marvels movie hinge special sardonic powers iron manregular readers blog recall ive tended vacillate wide eyed anticipation benevolent concern comes subject marvel budding film studios ongoing effort revolutionise comic book movie successfully realising multiple superhero storylines big screen time come hugely admirable endeavour unlikely deliver entirely satisfactory outcome vast majority bad superhero movies attempt focus characters heroes villains thinking spider 3 fantastic four starters really watchable films spider superman batman begins tend focus tight avoid introducing honourable exception course the dark knight christopher nolans sprawling brooding tour force wisely kept main spotlight battle batman joker avengers marvels forthcoming attempt unite comic book mainstays single movie seven heroes competing screen time main villain loki unless director joss whedon planning present hour epic someones going squeezed pictureby looks debut length trailer film hit web week likely robert downey jrs iron man great thing downey jrs tony stark hes best bouncing people theres reason think ensemble setup detriment action sequences iron sequel spectacular films flourished interplay stark gwyneth paltrows pepper potts … just entered target zone sight fair game flash sardonic stark humour iron mans avenger amigos exception hard tell trailer snatches dialogue hint pretty polished script props film makers avoiding giving away storyline yetdowney jr said week disappointed iron 2 following outstanding career altering success original film i say i thought pretty decent followup theres certainly need stark shine avengers planned iron 3 hope building hype trailer hints film built metal suit just intelligent way marvel great job building origins stories thor captain america year downey jr remains studios trump cardmy main concern avengers end bit like big screen transfers long running successful tv fans love investment characters watching got clue remotely interested whedon team avoid outcome director shot bravura standalone effort form excellent space opera serenity delighting fans source firefly benefit doubt studio produced count iron 2 good movies launching years agospeaking hardest job avengers certainly belong mark ruffalo aka new hulk ang lees hulk 2003 louis leterriers incredible hulk 2008 managed capture majesty comic books – compared unfavourably hokey 1970s tv starring lou ferrigno – hope does ruffalo doing limited screen time eric bana ed norton previous films end little target stark wisecracks demanding jobs superhero moviedom cillian murphys scarecrow managed minutes worth screen time dark knight character doubtless cgi mode jolly green giant avengers film really ought about taking team i wonder told downey jrmark class=author>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1942, 'Harry Potter actor charged with violent disorder in wake of London riots', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/12/harry-potter-actor-charged-london-riots', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/38901?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Harry+Potter+actor+charged+with+violent+disorder+in+wake+of+London+riots%3AArticle%3A1646576&amp;ch=UK+news&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=UK+riots%2CLondon+%28News%29%2CUK+news%2CHarry+Potter+%28Film%29%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Press+Association&amp;c7=11-Oct-12&amp;c8=1646576&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=News&amp;c11=UK+news&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FUK+news%2FUK+riots&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Jamie Waylett, 22, who was Hogwarts schoolboy Vincent Crabbe, bailed after being accused of four offences&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An actor who has appeared in the Harry Potter films has been charged with violent disorder in the wake of the London riots, and possession of cannabis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jamie Waylett of Camden, north London, was arrested on 20 September following rioting across the capital in August.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Metropolitan police spokesman said: &quot;He was charged with violent disorder, having an article with intent to destroy or damage property, receiving stolen goods and also cultivating cannabis plants.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 22-year-old, who played Hogwarts schoolboy Vincent Crabbe in six films, appeared before Highbury magistrates on 29 September and was released on conditional bail, a court spokeswoman said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/london-riots&quot;&gt;UK riots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/harrypotter&quot;&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:48+02:00', 'UK riots', 'harry potter actor charged violent disorder wake london riots ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1943, 'Real Steel must prove its mettle at the US box office', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/10/real-steel-us-box-office', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/23716?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Real+Steel+must+prove+its+mettle+at+the+US+box+office%3AArticle%3A1645308&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Action+and+adventure+%28Film+genre%29%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CHugh+Jackman+%28Film%29%2CFilm%2CCulture%2CFilm+industry+%28business%29&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Jeremy+Kay&amp;c7=11-Oct-10&amp;c8=1645308&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=Hollywood+report+%28series%29&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FAction+and+adventure&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;It put up a brave fight during its opening weekend, but is DreamWorks&#039; film about robot boxing punching above its weight?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DreamWorks needed a hit after Cowboys &amp; Aliens and Fright Night stumbled in the summer, and it didn&#039;t necessarily get it over the weekend despite the No 1 launch of Real Steel. The $27.3m estimate was good enough to rule but this was another frail weekend and considering how much the movie must have cost (Hugh Jackman and all those robots don&#039;t come cheap), nobody at DreamWorks will breathe easily until we see how the movie fares in the coming weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to Deadline Hollywood, Real Steel needs to make at least $125m in North America &quot;to keep Reliance&#039;s funding on track&quot;. This refers to the Indian corporate giant that stumped up half the capital to finance the reconstituted DreamWorks a couple of years ago. As Deadline and other outlets have recently reported, CEO Stacy Snider has said the partnership with Reliance is strong, but they must be wondering what&#039;s happened. Only The Help has been a bona fide hit from DreamWorks&#039; initial slate, earning more than $162m so far in North America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;George Clooney&#039;s political thriller The Ides of March debuted in second place on an underwhelming $10.4m. The movie received mixed reviews after opening in Venice and screening in Toronto last month and Sony is positioning it as an Oscar contender. It was financed by Cross Creek Pictures run by Brian Oliver, whose money comes from a consortium of wealthy oil and gas magnates, and is looking to replicate the success of the first movie it backed, Black Swan. It won&#039;t get close to the Swan, but Cross Creek has plenty of other movies in the pipeline, including Rush, the Formula 1 drama charting the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda based on a script by Peter Morgan. Universal holds US rights and is eyeing a 2012 release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Warner Bros&#039; Dolphin Tale fell from No 1 to No 3 but on $49m it&#039;s already well in profit and can expect a strong life on ancillary platforms such as DVD, cable and VoD. Good to see Moneyball sticking around, which is proof at least that the cream rises (close) to the top. It reportedly cost around $50m to make and has grossed $49.3m after three weekends in release. Sony will push it for awards so we can expect that figure to go up in the coming months.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abduction, starring Twilight&#039;s Taylor Lautner, is fading fast and ranks 10th on $23m after three weekends. Not bad for a movie that reportedly cost $35m to make, but Lionsgate would have liked to make more of a splash with the kid, as would most of Hollywood. Lautner has projects set up all over town but let&#039;s reserve judgment on his leading man credentials until another one comes out. Critics didn&#039;t like Abduction much and clearly it hasn&#039;t set the box office alight, so the movie&#039;s lacklustre performance shouldn&#039;t fall solely on Lautner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two indie movies worth tracking are experiencing differing fortunes. Nicolas Winding Refn&#039;s memorable Drive earned rave reviews and after four weekends has grossed around $30m through FilmDistrict, roughly double what it cost. Killer Elite, the action flick with Jason Statham and Clive Owen, is about to stall after the second weekend. It added a little more than $2m for a $22m running total and cost around $70m to make.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While that&#039;s not such good news for Open Road Films, the new US distributor made up of indie veteran Tom Ortenberg and cinema chains Regal and AMC, Killer Elite&#039;s Australian financier Omnilab Media should be OK. It mitigated its exposure by cutting deals with international distributors through LA-based sales agent Inferno Entertainment, before the movie even got made. Pre-sales are a critical part of the indie financing mechanism that helps offset the risk. That&#039;s why the movie premiered in Toronto last month. People were scratching their heads to work out why the festival&#039;s programmers let it in: I suspect they did so partly because they were hoping for a fun action thriller with big names and partly to let international buyers see for the first time what they&#039;d bought.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next weekend&#039;s new releases are Paramount&#039;s remake of Footloose, Universal&#039;s remake of The Thing and Fox&#039;s Jack Black/Steve Martin/Owen Wilson comedy The Big Year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;North American top 10, 7-9 October 2011&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 Real Steel, $27.3m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 The Ides of March, $10.4m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3 Dolphin Tale, $9.2m. Total: $49.1m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4 Moneyball, $7.5m. Total: $49.3m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;5 50/50, $5.5m. Total: $17.3m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;6 Courageous, $4.6m. Total: $15.9m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;7 The Lion King (in 3D), $4.6m. Total: $85.9m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;8 Dream House, $4.5m. Total: $14.5m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;9 What&#039;s Your Number? $3.1m. Total: $10.3m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;10 Abduction, $2.9m. Total: $23.4m&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/actionandadventure&quot;&gt;Action and adventure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/hugh-jackman&quot;&gt;Hugh Jackman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/film-industry&quot;&gt;Film industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jeremykay&quot;&gt;Jeremy Kay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:48+02:00', 'Action and adventure', 'real steel prove mettle box office it brave fight opening weekend dreamworks film robot boxing punching needed hit cowboys & aliens fright night stumbled summer didnt necessarily weekend despite 1 launch real steel $273m estimate good rule frail weekend considering movie cost hugh jackman robots come cheap dreamworks breathe easily movie fares coming deadline hollywood real steel needs make $125m north america reliances funding track refers indian corporate giant stumped half capital finance reconstituted dreamworks couple years ago deadline outlets recently reported ceo stacy snider said partnership reliance strong wondering whats happened help bona fide hit dreamworks initial slate earning $162m far north clooneys political thriller ides march debuted second place underwhelming $104m movie received mixed reviews opening venice screening toronto month sony positioning oscar contender financed cross creek pictures run brian oliver money comes consortium wealthy oil gas magnates looking replicate success movie backed black swan wont close swan cross creek plenty movies pipeline including rush formula 1 drama charting rivalry james hunt niki lauda based script peter morgan universal holds rights eyeing 2012 bros dolphin tale fell 1 3 $49m profit expect strong life ancillary platforms dvd cable vod good moneyball sticking proof cream rises close reportedly cost $50m make grossed $493m weekends release sony push awards expect figure coming starring twilights taylor lautner fading ranks 10th $23m weekends bad movie reportedly cost $35m make lionsgate liked make splash kid hollywood lautner projects set town lets reserve judgment leading credentials comes critics didnt like abduction clearly set box office alight movies lacklustre performance shouldnt solely indie movies worth tracking experiencing differing fortunes nicolas winding refns memorable drive earned rave reviews weekends grossed $30m filmdistrict roughly double cost killer elite action flick jason statham clive owen stall second weekend added little $2m $22m running cost $70m thats good news open road films new distributor indie veteran tom ortenberg cinema chains regal amc killer elites australian financier omnilab media ok mitigated exposure cutting deals international distributors based sales agent inferno entertainment movie got pre sales critical indie financing mechanism helps offset risk thats movie premiered toronto month people scratching heads work festivals programmers let i suspect did partly hoping fun action thriller big names partly let international buyers time theyd weekends new releases paramounts remake footloose universals remake thing foxs jack black/steve martin/owen wilson comedy big american 10 7 9 october 20111 real steel ides march dolphin tale $92m moneyball $75m 50/50 $55m courageous $46m lion king 3d $46m dream house $45m whats number $31m abduction $29m $234mhugh industry>film class=author>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1944, 'Perfect Sense &ndash; review', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/09/perfect-sense-ewan-mcgregor-review', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/3491?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Perfect+Sense+*+review%3AArticle%3A1643865&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Obs&amp;c4=Ewan+McGregor+%28Film%29%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CThriller+%28Film+genre%29%2CDrama+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Philip+French&amp;c7=11-Oct-09&amp;c8=1643865&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Review&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FEwan+McGregor&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;This apocalyptic sci-fi thriller is set in Glasgow where, as in the rest of the world, a series of mysterious plagues is successively depriving people of their senses &ndash; first smell, then taste and so on. The events are experienced by a chef (Ewan McGregor) and an epidemiologist (Eva Green) who find love among the ruins. Each loss is followed by despair and chaos, before society recovers its composure and goes on. Is it due to environment? Or terrorism? Who knows? One thinks inevitably of Camus&#039;s &lt;em&gt;La peste&lt;/em&gt;. It&#039;s a haunting picture, atmospherically photographed by Giles Nuttgens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/ewanmcgregor&quot;&gt;Ewan McGregor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/thriller&quot;&gt;Thriller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/drama&quot;&gt;Drama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/philipfrench&quot;&gt;Philip French&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:49+02:00', 'Ewan McGregor', 'perfect sense – review this apocalyptic sci fi thriller set glasgow rest world series mysterious plagues successively depriving people senses – smell taste events experienced chef ewan mcgregor epidemiologist eva green love ruins loss followed despair chaos society recovers composure goes environment terrorism knows thinks inevitably camuss la peste haunting picture atmospherically photographed giles nuttgens');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1945, 'Midnight in Paris &ndash; review', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/06/midnight-in-paris-film-review', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/21108?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Midnight+in+Paris+*+review%3AArticle%3A1643539&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Guardian&amp;c4=Woody+Allen+%28Film%29%2COwen+Wilson+%28Film%29%2CTom+Hiddleston%2CMarion+Cotillard%2CCarla+Bruni-Sarkozy+%28news%29%2CComedy+%28Film+genre%29%2CRomance+%28Film+genre%29%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CCulture&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CComedy%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Peter+Bradshaw&amp;c7=11-Oct-06&amp;c8=1643539&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Review&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FWoody+Allen&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Woody Allen is back on form &ndash; just about &ndash; with this light-as-a-feather fantasy about 20s bohemian Paris&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The souffle rises as it has not done for many years in Woody Allen&#039;s new film Midnight in Paris, which (incredibly) is already the most commercially successful of his career. It&#039;s a funny, slight comedy whose time-travel conceit is managed effortlessly; there&#039;s something of Allen&#039;s 1985 movie The Purple Rose of Cairo as well as his 1977 short story The Kugelmass Episode, about the guy who enters the world of Madame Bovary. Allen is famously a film-maker who has outlived his heyday, and whose continuing output seems uneasy and dated in the 21st century. So perhaps it&#039;s the fantasy-nostalgist theme of this movie, the retreat from the present day, that has restored his mojo. In the present, the film clunks a bit. But in the past, it zips along.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The modern setting is luxury-tourist Paris, five-star hotel Paris, the Paris routinely available to wealthy and middle-aged visitors, and the film begins with a montage tribute of picture-postcard images to Allen&#039;s trad-jazz score; it&#039;s weirdly like the one that began Manhattan, though without the voiceover and it&#039;s unmistakably the work of an outsider. (It&#039;s possible that Allen has seen the brisker, shrewder Paris streetscape montage that begins Mia Hansen-L&oslash;ve&#039;s movie Father of My Children. Perhaps someone will now do a YouTube mashup of &lt;em&gt;banlieue&lt;/em&gt; scenes from La Haine to Allen&#039;s clarinet.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Owen Wilson takes the proxy-Woody role as Gil, a disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter who comes on a tense trip to Paris with his gorgeous fiancee Inez (Rachel McAdams) and her parents. Idolising the bohemian Paris of the 1920s, Gil finds that the city has revived his dormant longing to be a serious novelist. One night, while strolling alone in the city, Gil sees a mysterious antique vehicle roll up and its champagne-swilling occupants urge him to jump in. He travels back in time with them to a party where he encounters F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Cole Porter &ndash; and falls in love with Picasso&#039;s mistress, played by Marion Cotillard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wilson plays it exactly right: bemused, excited, throwaway, and Cotillard has delicacy and charm. There are real laughs, witty touches galore, beguiling cameos &ndash; and the film is actually about something. When the action returns to the present, the fizz declines, and I have to say the final, crucial confrontation between Gil and Inez doesn&#039;t work. But for simple pleasure, the sort of reliably stimulating pleasure Allen used to deliver all the time, that confectionery of sophisticated wit &hellip; Midnight in Paris does well. This may not be a return to the glory days, but it&#039;s a vivid reminder of them. That&#039;s almost as good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rating&quot;&gt;Rating: 3/5&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/woodyallen&quot;&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/owenwilson&quot;&gt;Owen Wilson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tom-hiddleston&quot;&gt;Tom Hiddleston&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/marion-cotillard&quot;&gt;Marion Cotillard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/carla-bruni-sarkozy&quot;&gt;Carla Bruni-Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/comedy&quot;&gt;Comedy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/romance&quot;&gt;Romance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/peterbradshaw&quot;&gt;Peter Bradshaw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:51+02:00', 'Woody Allen', 'midnight paris – review marion bruni sarkozy>carla bruni fiction class=author>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1946, 'Harry Potter tour hopes to cast spell on UK Muggles', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/04/harry-potter-tour-uk', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/95776?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Harry+Potter+tour+hopes+to+cast+spell+on+UK+Muggles%3AArticle%3A1642775&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Harry+Potter+%28Film%29%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CHarry+Potter+%28Books%29%2CChildren%27s+and+teenager%27s+books+%28Children%27s+books+genre%29%2CExhibitions%2CUK+news%2CCulture&amp;c5=Art%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Ben+Child&amp;c7=11-Oct-04&amp;c8=1642775&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=News&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FHarry+Potter&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;A giant spider, a Hippogriff and a flying car will be some of the attractions on show at Leavesden studios next year, but Harry Potter fans will have to pay up to &pound;28 for three hours of magic&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As all good students of the Harry Potter saga know well, Muggles are not usually allowed at Hogwarts school of witchcraft of wizardry. However, a new exhibition will soon give those not gifted with magical powers the chance to see some of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/02/film-harrypotter-tour-idUSL5E7KU1K820111002&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;famous Potter film sets, such as the Great Hall and Dumbledore&#039;s office, for themselves&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Harry Potter tour is opening in spring 2012 at Leavesden studios near Watford, where the film series was shot between 2000 and last year. Over the course of three hours, visitors will view original sets, costumes, props and effects that were used in all eight movies, from 2001&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/84983/harry.potter.and.the.philosopher.s.stone&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#039;s Stone&lt;/a&gt; to this year&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/141606/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Highlights include a recreation of the giant spider Aragog suspended from the ceiling, and the opportunity to pose for photographs in one of the &quot;flying&quot; Ford Anglia cars used in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/92198/harry.potter.and.the.chamber.of.secrets&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Buckbeak&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Buckbeak the Hippogriff&lt;/a&gt; is also said to be making an appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Potter fans in the US have been able to visit Universal Studios&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.universalorlando.com/harrypotter/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Wizarding World of Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt; theme park since June last year in Orlando, Florida, but the new tour offers the chance for British Muggles to take a look inside &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/author/jk-rowling&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;JK Rowling&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s world for the first time without getting on a plane.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leavesden remains a working studio &ndash; in fact it will be one of Europe&#039;s largest production centres for film when it reopens as Warner Bros Studios, Leavesden next year. &quot;We have an amazing resource in this country which is tens of thousands of incredibly talented film technicians, film-makers, writers and actors,&quot; Josh Berger, the head of Warner Brothers UK, told the BBC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The studio announced its decision to buy the facility, which sits on the site of the former Rolls-Royce factory at Leavesden Aerodrome, last year. It will make Warner Bros the only Hollywood film studio with a permanent base in the UK, and the company&#039;s &pound;100m investment will create a facility that is larger than Warner&#039;s lot in Burbank, California.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The new Potter tour has received the enthusiastic backing of some of Hogwarts&#039; former pupils. &quot;It was such a magical place to grow up,&quot; said Daniel Radcliffe, who played Potter in all eight films. &quot;People will be amazed to see the incredible sets that we&#039;ve worked in all these years.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I had the time of my life making these films at Leavesden studios,&quot; said Emma Watson, who played Hermione. &quot;It&#039;s so wonderful that it&#039;s still going to be around for years to come.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tickets for the new tour must be ordered in advance and will go on sale on 13 October at the price of &pound;21 per child, &pound;28 per adult and &pound;83 for a family of four. Warner says around 5,000 visitors will be able to visit the facility on any given day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/harrypotter&quot;&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/harrypotter&quot;&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksforchildrenandteenagers&quot;&gt;Children and teenagers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/exhibition&quot;&gt;Exhibitions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/benchild&quot;&gt;Ben Child&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:51+02:00', 'Harry Potter', 'harry potter tour hopes cast spell uk muggles a giant spider hippogriff flying attractions leavesden studios year harry potter fans pay â£28 hours magicas good students harry potter saga know muggles usually allowed hogwarts school witchcraft wizardry new exhibition soon gifted magical powers chance famous potter film sets great hall dumbledores office harry potter tour opening spring 2012 leavesden studios near watford film series shot 2000 year course hours visitors view original sets costumes props effects used movies 2001s harry potter philosophers stone years harry potter deathly hallows include recreation giant spider aragog suspended ceiling opportunity pose photographs flying ford anglia cars used harry potter chamber secrets buckbeak hippogriff said making fans able visit universal studios the wizarding world harry potter theme park june year orlando florida new tour offers chance british muggles look inside jk rowlings world time getting remains working studio – fact europes largest production centres film reopens warner bros studios leavesden year amazing resource country tens thousands incredibly talented film technicians film makers writers actors josh berger head warner brothers uk told studio announced decision buy facility sits site rolls royce factory leavesden aerodrome year make warner bros hollywood film studio permanent base uk companys â£100m investment create facility larger warners lot burbank new potter tour received enthusiastic backing hogwarts pupils magical place grow said daniel radcliffe played potter films people amazed incredible sets weve worked time life making films leavesden studios said emma watson played hermione wonderful going years new tour ordered advance sale 13 october price â£21 child â£28 adult â£83 family warner says 5000 visitors able visit facility given day');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1947, 'Christopher Nolan to bring Twilight Zone to Hollywood?', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/03/christopher-nolan-twilight-zone-hollywood', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/10286?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Christopher+Nolan+to+bring+Twilight+Zone+to+Hollywood%3F%3AArticle%3A1641936&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Science+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CScience+fiction+%28TV+genre%29%2CChristopher+Nolan%2CAlfonso+Cuar%C3%B3n+%28Film%29%2CMichael+Bay%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews%2CTV&amp;c6=Ben+Child&amp;c7=11-Oct-03&amp;c8=1641936&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=News&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FScience+fiction+and+fantasy&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises director is in the running for a feature-length remake of the Twilight Zone TV series, alongside Michael Bay and Alfonso Cuar&oacute;n, according to reports&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christopher Nolan is being tapped to direct a new feature length Twilight Zone film following the final outing in his Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118043715?refcatid=13&amp;printerfriendly=true&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;according to Variety&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nolan is said to be one of several directors being considered by studio Warner Bros. Michael Bay and Alfonso Cuar&oacute;n are also high up the list, with Harry Potter&#039;s David Yates and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/142809/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Rise of the Planet of the Apes&lt;/a&gt;&#039; Rupert Wyatt both believed to be in the running. Nolan is, however, the frontrunner, and has built up a close relationship with the studio through three Batman films and his brainteaser blockbuster &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/135706/inception&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Inception&lt;/a&gt;: one obstacle is said to be the new Twilight Zone script&#039;s similarities to the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Twilight Zone: The Movie hit cinemas in 1983, but it was an ensemble affair split into four segments which were directed by Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, John Landis and George Miller. The new movie would attempt to shift from the original TV series&#039; short format to feature length for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael Bay is said to be the director most intrigued by the screenplay for the new take, athough his involvement may depend on timing. The Transformers director is hoping to begin work soon on passion project Pain and Gain, a black comedy set in the world of competitive bodybuilding.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A tantalising prospect for all five directors is the possible involvement of Leonardo DiCaprio, who is involved through his Appian Way production company, though the actor only occasionally stars in the films he produces.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The original Twilight Zone series was created by Rod Serling and ran from 1959 to 1964. Each episode told a bizarre story and often featured a macabre or unexpected twist. The series was revived in 1985 in the wake of the earlier film and ran until 1989. It was revived again in 2002 with narration from Forest Whitaker, but ran for only one season.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/science-fiction&quot;&gt;Science fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/christopher-nolan&quot;&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/alfonso-cuaron&quot;&gt;Alfonso Cuar&oacute;n&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/michael-bay&quot;&gt;Michael Bay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/benchild&quot;&gt;Ben Child&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:52+02:00', 'Science fiction and fantasy', 'christopher nolan bring twilight zone hollywood alfonso bay>michael class=author>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1948, 'Prometheus: what on Earth has Ridley Scott created?', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/30/prometheus-ridley-scott-clues-alien', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/91569?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Prometheus%3A+what+on+Earth+has+Ridley+Scott+created%3F%3AArticle%3A1640973&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Ridley+Scott+%28Film%29%2CFilm%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Ben+Child&amp;c7=11-Sep-30&amp;c8=1640973&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=Week+in+geek+%28Film+series%29&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FRidley+Scott&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;The origins of mankind, space jockeys, androids ... the clues are out there for Scott&#039;s next sci-fi film. But how far will it reach beyond Alien?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m still not quite sure what to make of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jul/22/ridley-scott-comic-con-prometheus&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;, Ridley Scott&#039;s forthcoming film &quot;set in the universe&quot; of Alien, but in no way a prequel &ndash; no, no, no. Everyone from Scott to writer Damon Lindelof and star Charlize Theron have been claiming that this is going to be a revolutionary experience. The prospect of an origins story for the sci-fi/slasher series is a tantalising one, but a small child-like voice deep inside me can&#039;t seem to stop crying: &quot;They mostly come at night. Mostly.&quot; Oops. Sorry. I meant: &quot;Where are the xenomorphs?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the labelling of the film an attempt to lower our expectations, and is that a positive thing? Will it give the film-makers more room to craft a new universe that&#039;s not glued to the old one? Or will we emerge spitting and swearing from our first viewing, declaring that we&#039;ll never again be fooled by studio hype or watch another movie purely on the basis that it is &quot;set in the universe&quot; of something we really once loved?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first proper official synopsis for the film, released to the public earlier this week, offers few clues, though it does confirm some of the plot rumours that have been flying around the web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Blade Runner, returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion that mankind&#039;s origins are somehow tied to the events of the series is intriguing, while at the same time utterly outlandish. Scott has long hinted that the new film will shed light on the dead &quot;space jockey&quot; from the scene in the first movie in which the crew of the Nostromo land at the doomed planetoid after receiving a distress signal. Are these creatures somehow our creators? Because &hellip; you know &hellip; I remember reading something in the school library about monkeys. It&#039;s been suggested that the space jockeys may have created the xenomorphs for terraforming purposes &ndash; they certainly seem like a utilitarian choice if your aim is to wipe out all intelligent life in a given area in quick-sharp time. Does Prometheus revolve around some sort of three-way encounter between the space jockey race, humans and a nascent form of xenomorph?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are more hints about the film this week in the form of an &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/09/28/prometheus-damon-lindelof/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;MTV blog interview&lt;/a&gt; with Lindelof from Comic-Con back in July. I&#039;m not sure quite why the site decided to publish it three months down the line, but it gives us a little more insight into some of the crew members on board the new ship.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We already knew Michael Fassbender plays an android (a &quot;robot&quot;, according to Lindelof), but what kind of android will he be? The benevolent Lance Henriksen type? Or the devious Ian Holm model? And why is Lindelof referencing Blade Runner, beyond the obvious fact that that&#039;s Scott&#039;s only other venture into sci-fi to date?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;He plays a robot,&quot; says Lindelof. &quot;One of the things that evokes the idea of Blade Runner is, &#039;What does the movie look like from the robot&#039;s point of view?&#039; If you were to ask him, &#039;What do you think about all of this? What&#039;s going on? What do you think about these humans who are around you?,&#039; wouldn&#039;t it be cool if we found a way for that robot to answer those questions. When you cast a guy like Fassbender, who&#039;s going to bring a lot more to it than [makes cliched robot movements].&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And Theron? We know she plays a corporate figure named Meredith Vickers, but there may be a twist on the series&#039; usual attitude towards such types.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;That&#039;s another one of the familiar things from the Alien movies &ndash; that there are corporate interests in play,&quot; says Lindelof. &quot;I feel like Charlize brought a new spin on that old variation. It&#039;s a remix &hellip; I don&#039;t think she&#039;s slimy [like Paul Reiser&#039;s character in Aliens]. She&#039;s not the fast-talking, snake-oil face of the company. By the way, &quot;What company is she a face of? I think is a big part of the fun. As we were developing the script, she had some really cool ideas that made [the character] not the suit you&#039;re used to.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So far, so Alien prequel, so why the &quot;same universe&quot; fuss? My money&#039;s on xenomorphs being around, on the crewmembers all being killed off one by one until (this time) it&#039;s only the android left standing, and on plenty of icky body horror in amongst the scares and screams. More of the same, in other words. I&#039;m hoping to be proved at least partly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/ridley-scott&quot;&gt;Ridley Scott&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/benchild&quot;&gt;Ben Child&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:52+02:00', 'Ridley Scott', 'prometheus earth ridley scott created ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1949, 'Melancholia &ndash; review', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/29/melancholia-film-review', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/44895?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Melancholia+*+review%3AArticle%3A1639891&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Guardian&amp;c4=Lars+von+Trier%2CCharlotte+Gainsbourg%2CWorld+cinema+%28Film+genre%29%2CDrama+%28Film+genre%29%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CCulture&amp;c5=Film+Awards%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Peter+Bradshaw&amp;c7=11-Sep-29&amp;c8=1639891&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Review&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FLars+von+Trier&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Windup merchant Lars von Trier is back with a film about the end of the world &ndash; but it&#039;s not to be taken entirely seriously&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lars von Trier, that great maestro of facetious event cinema, is back with another instrument of torture. It&#039;s a disaster movie about an enormous blue&amp;nbsp;planet called Melancholia &ndash; 20 times the size of Earth, but only half as big as the grain of salt you&#039;re going to need &ndash; which crashes into planet Earth. The film is entirely ridiculous, often quite boring, with a script showing worrying signs of being cobbled together. But even as a longtime Von Trier doubter, I now have to admit it grows on you; there&#039;s a mawkish fascination and some flashes of real visual brilliance, especially in the mysterious series of dream-tableaux that begin the film, which take something from both Millais&#039;s Ophelia and Resnais&#039;s Last Year at Marienbad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can never sit down to a new Von Trier movie without thinking of Czech Dream, a cheeky work from 2004, which was a factual record of two young Czech film-makers&#039; anti-capitalist stunt. They took out ads for a non-existent new supermarket, and set up a phoney and completely flat storefront in the middle of an empty meadow. On the supposed &quot;day of opening&quot;, thousands of bargain-hunters galloped across the field towards it and the directors filmed their reactions as these poor dupes realised there was nothing behind the piece of painted plywood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every time, millions of arthouse film-fans run frantically towards the latest new idea that Von Trier has set up. A movie about slavery, perhaps, or a movie about a girl getting hanged or one about people pretending to have cerebral palsy. And when we get up close, we find &hellip; well, what? For me, the&amp;nbsp;contents are somehow less important than the windup, and I do really think Von Trier has something approaching a situationist genius for making the audience&#039;s discomfiture part of the show itself. In a way, the inevitable baffling let-down is an important final swoop in the Von Trier rollercoaster ride.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Melancholia is billed as a &quot;beautiful film about the end of the world&quot;: both the description and the film itself are as intriguing and exasperating as anything he has ever done. In his Cannes press conference, in response to a question about German Romanticism and the use of Wagner in the film, twinkle-eyed Von Trier said he sympathised with Hitler, then retracted the remark and has now retracted the retraction: none of these comments are any more serious or unserious than the action of the film itself. The anarchic publicity is part of the effect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kirsten Dunst plays Justine, a troubled young woman who is getting married, and Charlotte Gainsbourg is her sister Claire, whose millionaire blowhard husband, played by Kiefer Sutherland, has paid for a grand and expensive wedding reception at a fancy country-house hotel. There is a nice cameo from Udo Kier as the queeny wedding planner. But Dunst&#039;s perfect day is marred by emotional tensions, not least between her estranged parents, formidably but all-too-briefly played by Charlotte Rampling and John Hurt, and these tensions catastrophically unlock Justine&#039;s own tendency towards depression or indeed melancholia. Perhaps the marriage was, in Shakespearian terms, &quot;ill-starred&quot;, and they, like the rest of humanity, are affected by the gigantic planet supposedly on a course for imminent collision with Earth. It is Claire, supposedly the calm one, who succumbs to hyperventilating panic; for depressive Justine, the apocalypse is an ecstatic relief.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The entire wedding scene, effectively&amp;nbsp;the film&#039;s second act, looks suspiciously like something Von Trier might well have sketched out ages ago, inspired by Thomas Vinterberg&#039;s Festen, and crammed in here to bulk out the film. The third act is the world&#039;s end itself: a woozy, dreamy, freaky event which is brilliant in its preposterous way, though it is odd that no one considers it&amp;nbsp;necessary to turn on the TV news. The&amp;nbsp;best of the film is the brief opening act: a weird, hallucinatory montage of moonlit or Melancholia-lit images, which are an exposition of themes and distorted premonition of narrative: they are an echo of some of the most disquieting images in Von Trier&#039;s Antichrist.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dunst&#039;s performance has been much admired and was indeed a prizewinner at Cannes. Her descent into an almost zombie-like catatonic depression is forceful and very sincere, but it is impossible not to remember that the stunned, glassy-eyed look is something Von Trier has elicited from other leading ladies, including Bj&ouml;rk and Nicole Kidman: a Meg-Ryan-on-Parky look. For my money, Gainsbourg gives a far more interesting performance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Melancholia is an absurd film in many&amp;nbsp;ways, and yet it would be obtuse not to acknowledge those lightning bolts of visual inspiration. When Justine&amp;nbsp;goes out into the fields to look at the awesome blue planet, and then takes her clothes off to bathe in its light &ndash; that really is powerfully erotic and strange. In some ways, for all its silliness and self-consciousness, this is the happiest experience I&#039;ve had with Von Trier for some time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rating&quot;&gt;Rating: 3/5&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/lars-von-trier&quot;&gt;Lars von Trier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlotte-gainsbourg&quot;&gt;Charlotte Gainsbourg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/world-cinema&quot;&gt;World cinema&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/drama&quot;&gt;Drama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/peterbradshaw&quot;&gt;Peter Bradshaw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:53+02:00', 'Lars von Trier', 'melancholia – review world fiction class=author>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1950, 'Jaime Winstone: &#039;The thought of working with my dad was quite scary&#039;', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/25/jaime-winstone-elfie-hopkins-interview', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/76079?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Jaime+Winstone%3A+%27The+thought+of+working+with+my+dad+was+quite+scary%27%3AArticle%3A1635568&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Obs&amp;c4=Jaime+Winstone%2CRay+Winstone%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CHorror+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CArt+%28visual+arts+only%29%2CCulture%2CRestaurants+%28Life+and+style%29%2CLife+and+style%2CUK+news&amp;c5=Art%2CUnclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews%2CFood+and+Drink&amp;c6=Tim+Lewis&amp;c7=11-Sep-27&amp;c8=1635568&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Interview%2CFeature&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FJaime+Winstone&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;The actress on playing opposite father Ray and her lead role in dark fantasy drama Elfie Hopkins&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tan may be Ibiza, but the accent, and particularly the machine-gun laugh, are unmistakably London. Jaime Winstone, the 26-year-old actress, is talking about her hair, which is currently Gwen Stefani blond and swishy, but which she changes dramatically at least four times a year. &quot;I need to get it back to dark for a role,&quot; she says. &quot;But I&#039;ve been told I can&#039;t put any more colour in it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What, ever again? &quot;Nah,&quot; she cackles. &quot;This month.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are in the Wagamama noodle bar on London&#039;s South Bank, where Winstone is promoting Art and Eat, an art-and-dining initiative that will put the work of 10 up-and-coming artists on the walls and placemats of the restaurant chain from next week. The canvas of inner-city artist Holly Thoburn, however, is somewhat overshadowed by the petite figure &quot;vogueing&quot; for the photographer in front of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Winstone is wearing Chlo&euml; Sevigny heels, a Horace skirt and a vintage silk top with a tiger motif on the reverse that &ndash; though obviously I don&#039;t say it &ndash; calls to mind Rocky Balboa&#039;s leather jacket. Her lips are metallic purple and she wears a pendant made from a protective crystal, a gift from her sister who was worried that Jaime&#039;s social life was becoming too wild.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is my art canvas,&quot; she says, gesturing from quiff to toes. &quot;As an actress you have to keep yourself fresh and new. I get bored pretty easily too.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was little danger of boredom on her most recent project, &lt;em&gt;Elfie Hopkins&lt;/em&gt;, where Winstone plays her first title role; she also helped devise the characters with director Ryan Andrews and guided the film into production over four years. Elfie is an aspiring detective in a deep, dark place that might be Wales who is convinced that a family of cannibals have moved into the village. &quot;It&#039;s heightened fantasy in very real surroundings,&quot; she explains, &quot;like a Tim Walker shoot come to life.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is also the first time that Winstone &ndash; who made her name with spiky performances in &lt;em&gt;Kidulthood&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Made in Dagenham&lt;/em&gt; &ndash; has shared the screen with her dad, Ray. &quot;The thought of it was quite scary,&quot; she says, &quot;but, when it came to it, it was the most natural thing I&#039;d ever done.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Winstone is instinctively drawn to dark materials, and admits that &lt;em&gt;Elfie Hopkins&lt;/em&gt; might not be to everyone&#039;s tastes. &quot;It&#039;s our first project so our next ones are going to be darker, more fantastical, much bigger &ndash; we hope,&quot; she says with a mini-cackle. &quot;We&#039;ve already got one in the pipeline that&#039;s really insane. There&#039;s a gap in the British film market that needs filling and Ryan and I are happy to do that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wagamama.com/artandeat&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Art and Eat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; launches on Thursday 29 September.  Elfie Hopkins is out in October&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This article was edited on 27/9/11 to correct the name of the featured artist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/jaime-winstone&quot;&gt;Jaime Winstone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/ray-winstone&quot;&gt;Ray Winstone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/horror&quot;&gt;Horror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/art&quot;&gt;Art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/restaurants&quot;&gt;Restaurants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/timlewis&quot;&gt;Tim Lewis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:54+02:00', 'Jaime Winstone', 'jaime winstone thought working dad quite scary ray fiction class=author>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1951, 'Daddy issues: why movies such as Real Steel need to man up and ditch the dads', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/13/daddy-issues-movies-real-steel', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/66535?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Daddy+issues%3A+why+movies+such+as+Real+Steel+need+to+man+up+and+ditch+the%3AArticle%3A1647080&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Family+%28Film+genre%29%2CAction+and+adventure+%28Film+genre%29%2CHugh+Jackman+%28Film%29%2CSylvester+Stallone%2CFilm%2CCulture%2CParents+and+parenting%2CFamily+%28Life+and+style%29%2CLife+and+style&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews%2CFamily+and+Relationships&amp;c6=Phelim+O%27Neill&amp;c7=11-Oct-13&amp;c8=1647080&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2Fblog%2FFilm+blog&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;I was expecting Rocky with robots. I got Hugh Jackman hugging a kid. Enough of the cheap emotional manipulation, Hollywood&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the preface to his essential &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_the_screen_trade&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Adventures in the Screen Trade&lt;/a&gt; book, William Goldman describes a childhood trip to the cinema to see 1939&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031493/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Invitation to Happiness&lt;/a&gt;. He excitedly sat down to view what he was led to believe was a movie about prizefighters &ndash; only to look on with increasing horror as the pugilism was sidelined for a more enjoyable contact sport: &quot;It wasn&#039;t a prizefight movie. It was a kissing movie.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last week at Waterloo&#039;s Imax cinema, I had a similarly unwanted epiphany while watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433035/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Real Steel&lt;/a&gt;, because what I had been led to believe was a robot boxing movie turned out to be a movie about dads. There is a fair amount of robo-boxing, but I soon realised it isn&#039;t the central theme &ndash; Hugh Jackman&#039;s character spends most of the film arguing then hugging and learning with his newly discovered son. What looked like Rocky with robots turned into another Sylvester Stallone movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB5iDUnx0iY&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Over the Top&lt;/a&gt;, but without the arm-wrestling. (Let&#039;s pause for a moment to digest the fact we live in a time where you can make a hit movie by stitching two old Stallone movies together and sprinkling it with robots.) Jackman even compliments Evangeline Lilly with the immortal line &quot;You sound just like a dad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei5l3r1dV4I&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;trailers for the film&lt;/a&gt; don&#039;t even feature the kid &ndash; apart from a couple of shots in which he&#039;s lost among a crowd &ndash; I really shouldn&#039;t have been surprised. Most movies coming out of Hollywood these days are dad movies. Daddy issues are the new shorthand for emotional depth. Now I&#039;ve nothing against films that do this in a smart way, such as ET where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2008/05/22/e-t-the-extra-terrestrial-advent-of-the-absent-father/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;absence of the father is acutely felt throughout&lt;/a&gt;, or The Empire Strikes Back where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sj89xgnl4&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;revelation of Darth Vader&#039;s identity&lt;/a&gt; gives the story more impact. There are plenty of films that make daddy issues the entire point, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319061/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Tim Burton&#039;s Big Fish&lt;/a&gt;. Again, no problem with those. What does rankle is how father-child relationships are used to finangle a film unearned emotional impact.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example, take &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/apr/21/star-trek&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;JJ Abrams&#039;s 2009 film Star Trek&lt;/a&gt;: Captain Kirk has a massive chip on his shoulder thanks to the shadow his father&#039;s selfless death. But that&#039;s only true for the Abrams version; while &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/may/22/television-television1&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;William Shatner&#039;s Kirk&lt;/a&gt; was a second-generation starship captain, barely a word about his pa was uttered in all the episodes and movies that followed. Yet there they are in the flashy new Star Trek &ndash; daddy issues &ndash; showing us the film isn&#039;t all empty calories. Or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/123770/iron.man&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Iron Man&lt;/a&gt; &ndash; that&#039;s the drunk arms dealer who flies around in a metal suit, right? Yes, but he&#039;s also a guy who feels pressure to live up to his dad&#039;s legacy of being a slightly nicer arms dealer, something Iron Man 2 placed front and centre. It&#039;s rife in the superhero genre. Most of these films are origins stories, where the lead spends most of the time either not being superhero enough or being it badly only to get the hang of it for the climactic battle. You&#039;re going to need some padding for that, and daddy issues more than fit the bill.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While fatherhood crops up in several superhero stories, it&#039;s only really explored in later issues of the comics where writers are trying something new, or bored. It&#039;s in Superman, Batman, Green Hornet/Lantern, Spider-Man (with Uncle Ben as dad substitute), Hulk, etc &ndash; but they&#039;re certainly not what the early adventures are all about. Look at Thor, son of Odin. Sure, having a god as a dad is worth exploring, but he&#039;s in the movie a lot more than he was ever in the comics. Also, in the comics he&#039;s been dead for a decade or so, meaning that younger fans will have no idea why there&#039;s some old Welsh guy ruining their movie. With the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800320/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Clash of the Titans remake&lt;/a&gt; we endure plenty of scenes of Sam Worthington shouting at the sky, bemoaning his godly bloodline &ndash; where, again, in the original movie it&#039;s mentioned a few times then moved on from.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But what&#039;s even worse is when daddy issues appear in films where they have no place at all. Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jul/15/inception-review&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Inception&lt;/a&gt;, a film inexplicably regarded by many as original and thought-provoking: it, too, sticks a hoary old dad into the mix, making the plot depend on a billionaire believing that his dad loved him. Or how about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/142809/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Rise of the Planet of the Apes&lt;/a&gt;? There&#039;s no troubled father-son dynamic in the other films or the original novel, but again fatherhood takes centre stage as we are asked to believe James Franco is a caring and cultured professor and not the gormless stoner our eyes tell us he is. Then there&#039;s Tim Burton&#039;s videogamey remake of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/131099/alice-in-wonderland&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/a&gt;, bookended with Alice at first mourning her recently deceased father then finding a substitute in Lord Ascot. What does any of this have to do with anything?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this proliferation of daddy issues in Hollywood a result of too much focus-group feedback? Is it a statistician&#039;s idea of what gives a movie instant heart? Or was the entire district simply not hugged enough during childhood?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/family&quot;&gt;Family&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/actionandadventure&quot;&gt;Action and adventure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/hugh-jackman&quot;&gt;Hugh Jackman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sylvester-stallone&quot;&gt;Sylvester Stallone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/parents-and-parenting&quot;&gt;Parents and parenting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/family&quot;&gt;Family&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/phelimoneill&quot;&gt;Phelim O&#039;Neill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:58+02:00', 'Family', 'daddy issues movies real steel need ditch dads i expecting rocky robots i got hugh jackman hugging kid cheap emotional manipulation hollywoodin preface essential adventures screen trade book william goldman describes childhood trip cinema 1939s invitation happiness excitedly sat view led believe movie prizefighters – look increasing horror pugilism sidelined enjoyable contact sport wasnt prizefight movie kissing week waterloos imax cinema i similarly unwanted epiphany watching real steel i led believe robot boxing movie turned movie dads fair robo boxing i soon realised isnt central theme – hugh jackmans character spends film arguing hugging learning newly discovered looked like rocky robots turned sylvester stallone movie over top arm wrestling lets pause moment digest fact live time make hit movie stitching old stallone movies sprinkling robots jackman compliments evangeline lilly immortal line sound just like trailers film feature kid – apart couple shots hes lost crowd – i really shouldnt surprised movies coming hollywood days dad movies daddy issues new shorthand emotional depth ive films smart way absence father acutely felt throughout empire strikes revelation darth vaders identity gives story impact plenty films make daddy issues entire point tim burtons big fish problem does rankle father child relationships used finangle film unearned emotional example jj abramss 2009 film star trek captain kirk massive chip shoulder thanks shadow fathers selfless death thats true abrams william shatners kirk second generation starship captain barely word pa uttered episodes movies followed flashy new star trek – daddy issues – showing film isnt calories iron man – thats drunk arms dealer flies metal suit right yes hes guy feels pressure live dads legacy slightly nicer arms dealer iron 2 placed centre rife superhero genre films origins stories lead spends time superhero badly hang climactic battle youre going need padding daddy issues fatherhood crops superhero stories really explored later issues comics writers trying new bored superman batman green hornet/lantern spider uncle ben dad substitute hulk – theyre certainly early adventures look thor odin sure having god dad worth exploring hes movie lot comics comics hes dead decade meaning younger fans idea theres old welsh guy ruining movie clash titans remake endure plenty scenes sam worthington shouting sky bemoaning godly bloodline – original movie mentioned times moved whats worse daddy issues appear films place sylvester parenting>parents class=author>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1952, 'Clip joint: hat throwing', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/12/clip-joint-hat-throwing', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/62100?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Clip+joint%3A+hat+throwing%3AArticle%3A1646667&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Film%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful&amp;c6=John+Carvill&amp;c7=11-Oct-12&amp;c8=1646667&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=Clip+joint+%28series%29&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2F&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;You could leave your hat on but we don&#039;t want you to, as Clip joint moves up a headgear to find the best hat action scenes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, as Freud pointed out, a cigar is just a cigar. But a hat is rarely just that &ndash; at least not in the movies. The artistic use of everyday objects as signifiers goes back at least as far as Homer, and probably to cave paintings. And the humble hat, due to its inevitable association with the human head, comes with immense symbolic potency. Classic Hollywood was brim-full of them &ndash; Humphrey Bogart was presumably born in a fedora &ndash; but let&#039;s not forget the more recent fashions. Arguably the most headgear-centric film of all time is Miller&#039;s Crossing: a movie with more metaphorically significant hats than you could shake a schtick at.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hat can be used as a shorthand for good or evil. It can crown the hero or conceal the villain. And yet movies &ndash; which &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be art, but in any case &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be entertaining &ndash; should shy away from any egregiously portentous treatment of headwear. Movies oughtn&#039;t be over-serious, dour, pretentious, or po-faced. They should, in short, be fun. So instead of pondering the significance of the hat, why not throw it in the air instead?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Throwing a hat is seldom a solemn gesture; almost always it&#039;s a liberating, joyous act, expressive of an emotional state roughly equivalent to actually &lt;em&gt;being &lt;/em&gt;an early Beatles song. Yes, a thrown hat can be a weapon &ndash; we&#039;ll get to that &ndash; but even then it&#039;s generally accompanied by a gleeful evil laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So don&#039;t get a bee in your bonnet; instead, doff your cap to Clip Joint&#039;s top five tremendous hat-throwing scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1) Unlikely Harvard graduate Reese Witherspoon &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FKP-rjhh4&quot;&gt;leads a gloriously exuberant version of the classic mortarboards aloft scene in Legally Blonde&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2) You&#039;re Jimmy Stewart, you&#039;re standing on top of the Flatiron building and Kim Novak is falling in love with you. Great tossing in Bell Book and Candle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3) Miss Moneypenny could have warned Oddjob that Bond can skim a mean bowler: Goldfinger&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4) Joseph Cotten tempts fate by nonchalantly ignoring dire warnings not to put a hat on a bed in Shadow of a Doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;5) A rare piece of non-metaphorical mad hattery in Miller&#039;s Crossing: an athletically stylish chuck from the late Al Mancini.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last week on Clip joint, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/06/clip-joint-thieves-steal-hearts&quot;&gt;we ransacked the treasure chest of clips featuring thieves who steal hearts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a motley gang of rogues this week&#039;s Clip joint has uncovered. Some are smoother than others, but each is irresistible to at least one character. From least to most alluring, here are this week&#039;s most charming thieves (selected by steenbeck from your suggestions): &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1) The scene &lt;strong&gt;bobnessuk&lt;/strong&gt; nominated from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FezBxUfWWXo&quot;&gt;Brighton Rock&lt;/a&gt;, though beautifully filmed and scripted, is so sad. Pinky&#039;s not worth crying over, Rose! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eechBAzEQeo#t=2m10s&quot;&gt;The Maltese Falcon&lt;/a&gt; is such an odd little film. Mary Astor&#039;s character is not naturally charming; charm is one of many tricks in her set of thieves&#039; tools, as &lt;strong&gt;Nilpferd&lt;/strong&gt; reminds us. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3) What does Ed see in Hi? It&#039;s hard to say. It&#039;s easy to understand the appeal of this scene from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVesAXZPzA&quot;&gt;Raising Arizona&lt;/a&gt;, however, as &lt;strong&gt;mald2&lt;/strong&gt; says, &quot;a near-perfect short film in its own right&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY0lwOhFwLY&amp;feature=youtu.be&quot;&gt;Raffles&lt;/a&gt; serves up a sophisticated cocktail of suspense, and Niven becomes the unlikely hero &ndash; smooth, kind, impossible to dislike. Thanks to &lt;strong&gt;Secretcinema&lt;/strong&gt; for the clip.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;5) As silky and cool as a cube of melting ice! In this nearly wordless scene, Andy Lau shows us how it&#039;s done. &lt;strong&gt;AJBee&lt;/strong&gt; provides us with a clip from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8188hAnvNK4&quot;&gt;Running Out of Time&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:59+02:00', 'Film', 'clip joint throwing ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1953, 'Franzen&#039;s Freedom revives legend of The Dragon', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/12/jonathan-franzen-freedom-the-dragon', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/38665?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Franzen%27s+Freedom+revives+legend+of+The+Dragon%3AArticle%3A1646592&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Action+and+adventure+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CCulture%2CFreedom+%28Jonathan+Franzen+novel%29%2CJonathan+Franzen&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Peter+Bradshaw&amp;c7=11-Oct-12&amp;c8=1646592&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FAction+and+adventure&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;A fictional date to see a 1950s Greek movie might yet restore the reputation of film-maker Nikos Koundouros and his dark, satirical masterpiece, O Drakos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recently I became what almost felt like the last person in the English-speaking world to read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/fiction/9780007269754/freedom&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Jonathan Franzen&#039;s latest novel Freedom&lt;/a&gt; originally published last summer and now out in paperback. This terrifically ambitious saga stretches forwards and backwards from the central, fraught relationship of Walter Berglund and Patty Emerson, a liberal couple who first meet at college in the late 1970s. From this starting point, Franzen manages to create a colossal picture of 21st-century America: its history, its popular art, its corporate culture, its homeland insecurity and its endangered natural world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, there can hardly be anything left to say about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/author/jonathan-franzen&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Jonathan Franzen&lt;/a&gt; and his place in literary history. But I think it might be possible to note the way he could be changing the course of film history. Single-handedly, Franzen might yet restore the reputation of the Greek film-maker, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468002/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Nikos Koundouros&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lovers of this novel will know that for their very first date, Walter takes Patty to a movie. Somewhat heartsinkingly for the unpretentious and sporty Patty, it&#039;s a black-and-white film from the 50s, being screened free of charge at the University&#039;s Art Department auditorium, a grim indication that it is not going to be much fun. Its English title is The Fiend of Athens and as she remembers it (the event is actually recounted by Patty in the therapeutic journal she is writing later) the film is about a mousy, timid, bespectacled guy in Athens who sees a newspaper photo of a fugitive criminal mastermind called &quot;The Fiend&quot;. It&#039;s the spitting image of the harmless nerd.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A gang of starstruck crooks sees our hapless hero, mistakes him for the Fiend, rescues him from imminent arrest and more or less forces him to lead a desperate criminal scheme they&#039;ve got going. And finally, the poor little man becomes enamoured of the idea, decides for once in his sad life to be a tough guy and a hero. He surrenders to his bizarre destiny, to be The Fiend of Athens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later, the couple argue about what the film means. Walter sees it as a political parable for the fightback against right-wing oppression. Patty sees it as a purely personal story about masculinity and taking action. Later in the book, there is a chapter called The Fiend of Washington. Walter, like the film&#039;s protagonist, has decided to flex his muscles a little and throw in his lot with some corporate alpha-males.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Originally entitled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124437/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;O Drakos&lt;/a&gt;, or The Dragon, the film was made by Koundouros in 1956 and played at the Venicefilm festival; it earned Koundouros a reputation as the &quot;Orson Welles of Greece&quot; and was accounted one of the most important films in Greek cinema. Nonetheless, sadly, many official histories of world cinema pass over Koundouros in silence. That could all change. Since the publication of Franzen&#039;s Freedom, interest in this movie has been steadily growing. People are keen to see it. But finding a subtitled print or DVD is far from easy. Christos Prossylis, the director of the forthcoming London Greek film festival, tells me he has recently paid a personal visit to Koundouros, now a vigorous 85 years old, asking for permission to show a subtitled print at the festival. He reports that Koundouros is delighted at the resurgence of interest in his masterpiece, but he has no English subtitled copy, and there are other rights issues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, the Greek film writer John Stylianou has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz21RUTD_Iw&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;posted the film in its entirety on YouTube&lt;/a&gt; and put on English subtitles himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is a massive labour of love, and we should all be grateful to him, because O Drakos is brilliant: a dark, satirical noir masterpiece. Patty&#039;s description doesn&#039;t do it justice. Yet that could be the point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Dragon is like a French New Wave picture crossed with a British Ealing comedy, with something of Fellini in its zinging energy, and Carol Reed&#039;s Odd Man Out and The Third Man. The stark, dramatic key-lighting in the &quot;arrest&quot; scene gives the imagery a Weegee-type crime-scene aesthetic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And it actually turns out to be interestingly different from the film that Franzen&#039;s Patty remembers. The differences provide a telling slant on the action of his novel. Could it be that Franzen intended readers of his book to go out and watch the film, and notice the difference &hellip; a time-bomb of added meaning, buried deep in the text?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Patty says that the mousy anti-hero (whose name is Thomas, played by the actor Dinos Iliopoulos) finally makes a dramatic decision to go along with the illusion, and she gives the impression that the crooks are fooled by his resemblance to the fabled master-criminal. In fact, if you watch the film, you&#039;ll see that isn&#039;t the case. His decision isn&#039;t quite as clear cut as that, and at least some of the crooks know well that he is not &quot;The Dragon&quot;. But they need The Dragon&#039;s prestige and street-cred to bolster their dodgy scheme &ndash; to steal Greek antiquities and sell them to shady American collectors. In fact, they may well be nervous about Thomas spilling the beans and this could account, partly, for the bizarre violence at the weird pre-crime party at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The criminal brotherhood has an ambiguous relationship with poor Thomas, to say the least, which mirrors Walter&#039;s calamitous association with a rightwing mining corporation. Was Patty aware, from the very beginning, of how her earnest beau might some day wish to assert himself, and how that might turn out? Did she suppress the film&#039;s meaning?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not you have read Freedom, The Dragon is a tremendous film, and Koundouros fully deserves the upswing of interest. Perhaps Criteron can be persuaded to bring out a definitive DVD edition. Meanwhile, Prossylis says that the London Greek film festival is scheduling a showing of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241230/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Koundouros&#039;s 1992 film Byron&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.londongreekfilmfestival.com/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&bull; More information on the London Greek film festival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/actionandadventure&quot;&gt;Action and adventure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/freedom&quot;&gt;Freedom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/jonathan-franzen&quot;&gt;Jonathan Franzen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/peterbradshaw&quot;&gt;Peter Bradshaw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:46:59+02:00', 'Action and adventure', 'franzens freedom revives legend dragon a fictional date 1950s greek movie restore reputation film maker nikos koundouros dark satirical masterpiece drakosrecently i felt like person english speaking world read jonathan franzens latest novel freedom originally published summer paperback terrifically ambitious saga stretches forwards backwards central fraught relationship walter berglund patty emerson liberal couple meet college late 1970s starting point franzen manages create colossal picture 21st century america history popular art corporate culture homeland insecurity endangered natural hardly left say jonathan franzen place literary history i think possible note way changing course film history single handedly franzen restore reputation greek film maker nikos novel know date walter takes patty movie somewhat heartsinkingly unpretentious sporty patty black white film 50s screened free charge universitys art department auditorium grim indication going fun english title fiend athens remembers event actually recounted patty therapeutic journal writing later film mousy timid bespectacled guy athens sees newspaper photo fugitive criminal mastermind called fiend spitting image harmless nerda gang starstruck crooks sees hapless hero mistakes fiend rescues imminent arrest forces lead desperate criminal scheme theyve got going finally poor little enamoured idea decides sad life tough guy hero surrenders bizarre destiny fiend couple argue film means walter sees political parable fightback right wing oppression patty sees purely personal story masculinity taking action later book chapter called fiend washington walter like films protagonist decided flex muscles little throw lot corporate alpha entitled o drakos dragon film koundouros 1956 played venicefilm festival earned koundouros reputation orson welles greece accounted films greek cinema nonetheless sadly official histories world cinema pass koundouros silence change publication franzens freedom movie steadily growing people keen finding subtitled print dvd far easy christos prossylis director forthcoming london greek film festival tells recently paid personal visit koundouros vigorous 85 years old asking permission subtitled print festival reports koundouros delighted resurgence masterpiece english subtitled copy rights greek film writer john stylianou posted film entirety youtube english subtitles himselfit massive labour love grateful drakos brilliant dark satirical noir masterpiece pattys description doesnt justice dragon like french new wave picture crossed british ealing comedy fellini zinging energy carol reeds odd stark dramatic key lighting arrest scene gives imagery weegee type crime scene actually turns interestingly different film franzens patty remembers differences provide telling slant action novel franzen intended readers book watch film notice difference … time bomb added meaning buried deep says mousy anti hero thomas played actor dinos iliopoulos finally makes dramatic decision illusion gives impression crooks fooled resemblance fabled master criminal fact watch film youll isnt case decision isnt quite clear cut crooks know dragon need dragons prestige street cred bolster dodgy scheme – steal greek antiquities sell shady american collectors fact nervous thomas spilling beans account partly bizarre violence weird pre crime party end criminal brotherhood ambiguous relationship poor thomas say mirrors walters calamitous association rightwing mining corporation patty aware beginning earnest beau day wish assert turn did suppress films read freedom dragon tremendous film koundouros fully deserves upswing criteron persuaded bring definitive dvd edition prossylis says london greek film festival scheduling showing koundouross 1992 film title=>• information london greek film class=related style=float left right 10px 10px>jonathan class=author>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1954, 'Will New Year&#039;s Eve&#039;s auld acquaintance be forgot?', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/12/new-years-eve', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/5885?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Will+New+Year%27s+Eve%27s+auld+acquaintance+be+forgot%3F%3AArticle%3A1642733&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Film%2CSarah+Jessica+Parker%2CComedy+%28culture%29%2CZac+Efron%2CRomance+%28Film+genre%29%2CComedy+%28Film+genre%29%2CHilary+Swank+%28Film%29%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CComedy%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Stuart+Heritage&amp;c7=11-Oct-12&amp;c8=1642733&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=Flick+teaser+%28series%29&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FSarah+Jessica+Parker&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;The forthcoming sequel to Valentine&#039;s Day promises to banish memories of its dire predecessor. But the confusing trailer suggests it will break its resolutions &hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem with last year&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/11/valentines-day-film-review&quot;&gt;Valentine&#039;s Day&lt;/a&gt; was the lack of an overriding narrative. In place of momentum, we were handed a series of syrupy vignettes designed to lure women into watching it with their resentful partners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s a problem that plagues the trailer to the forthcoming Valentine&#039;s Day sequel, New Year&#039;s Eve. Like its predecessor, New Year&#039;s Eve is a portmanteau set around a significant date, but the trailer contains so many famous people in disparate situations it&#039;s hard to know what&#039;s going on. To help unpack this muddle, I&#039;ve decided to isolate the many plot strands &hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 1: Hilary Swank plays the put-upon organiser of New York&#039;s new year&#039;s festivities, while Ludacris dresses up as a policeman and looks for pop songs he can rap to. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: Swank learns that happiness and family are more important than her career. Ludacris instructs his agents to contact Rebecca Black.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 2: Churlish new year hater Ashton Kutcher gets trapped in a lift with that woman from Glee. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: Kutcher learns that happiness and family are more important than being stuck in a lift with that woman from Glee. Woman from Glee ignores pleas to the contrary and sings at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 3: In an act of teenage rebellion, Abigail Breslin shows her bra in public. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: Breslin learns that happiness and family are more important than making the audience feel quite uncomfortable by showing your bra in public.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 4: Pregnant Jessica Biel discovers that the first baby born on New Year&#039;s Day receives $25,000, and desperately tries to win the prize. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: Biel learns that happiness and family are more important than $25,000, and resolves to try and love her baby regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 5: Michelle Pfeiffer and Zac Efron drink some coffee together. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: Pfeiffer and Efron finish their coffee and head off in different directions, having learned absolutely nothing about their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 6: Katherine Heigl slaps Jon Bon Jovi in the face. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: Heigl learns that slapping Jon Bon Jovi in the face is more important than happiness and family, and continues to slap him in the face as often as possible to the obvious delight of planet Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 7: Sofia Vergara and Russell Peters roam around reacting to situations as cartoonishly as possible, because they look like they might be immigrants or something. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: Vergara watches a YouTube video of a monkey peeing into its own mouth, and her resulting expression is so exaggerated that a tendon in her neck snaps and takes out one of Peters&#039; eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 8: Sarah Jessica Parker cups her hands around her mouth, goes &quot;Doo doo doo&quot; and nothing else. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: Parker realises that happiness and family are exactly as important as cupping your hands around your mouth and going &quot;Doo doo doo&quot; and nothing else, before making a film based on her experiences entitled I Don&#039;t Know How She Juggles Happiness And Family With Cupping Her Hands Around Her Mouth and Going &quot;Doo Doo Doo&quot; and Nothing Else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 9: Halle Berry puts on a dress and shows it to some nurses. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: Berry continues to show outfits to people of different professions until she finds herself jigging about in some waders for a group of digital marketing executives and realises she&#039;s wasted her life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot 10: Robert De Niro squints and mumbles something about New York. POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: De Niro realises this is money for old rope and repeats this scene exactly in all of New Year&#039;s Eve&#039;s sequels, including Christmas Day, Independence Day, Good Friday, Pancake Day, Black History Month and National Badger Day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sarah-jessica-parker&quot;&gt;Sarah Jessica Parker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/comedy&quot;&gt;Comedy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/zac-efron&quot;&gt;Zac Efron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/romance&quot;&gt;Romance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/comedy&quot;&gt;Comedy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/hilaryswank&quot;&gt;Hilary Swank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/stuart-heritage&quot;&gt;Stuart Heritage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:00+02:00', 'Film', 'new years eves auld acquaintance forgot zac class=author>stuart class=terms>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1955, 'A shocking connection: film-maker uncovers Blood in the Mobile', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/10/blood-in-the-mobile-congo', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/16160?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=A+shocking+connection%3A+film-maker+uncovers+Blood+in+the+Mobile%3AArticle%3A1645594&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Documentary+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CCulture%2CCongo+Democratic+Republic+of+%28News%29%2CMining+industry+%28Business+sector%29%2CMobile+phones+%28Technology%29%2CAfrica+%28News%29&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CBusiness+Markets%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CTechnology+Gadgets&amp;c6=Stephen+Applebaum&amp;c7=11-Oct-10&amp;c8=1645594&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FDocumentary&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Frank Poulsen&#039;s eye-opening new documentary exposes a link between the war in DR Congo and our mobile phones&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We all love our mobile phones, and the smarter they get, the more we want them. There is, though, a dark side to this affair. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, our demand for phones has been helping to finance a civil war which has killed more than 5m people. There is, according to the title of Danish director Frank Poulsen&#039;s eye-opening documentary, blood in the mobile. Minerals from mines under the control of warring factions have been making their way into our mobiles for years. The UN raised the issue a decade ago. But even though it involves more of us than, say, blood diamonds, how many of us know about it? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I knew there was a war in Congo, but I didn&#039;t know it had anything to do with my phone,&quot; says Poulsen. &quot;I think we often forget, or maybe don&#039;t know, how closely connected we are. Things that go on in Africa seem to be very far away and have very little to do with us, but it has a lot to do with us. My mission, as a film-maker, is to make these connections.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Poulsen arranged a research trip to Congo and successfully secured entry to the Bisie mine, located deep in the jungles of Walikale, where thousands of people, many of them children, were living and working in hellish conditions. &quot;I have never seen anything like this,&quot; says Poulsen. &quot;This was really terrible.&quot; Guards on a makeshift gate levied &quot;taxes&quot; on people going in and coming out. &quot;And that&#039;s how simple it is,&quot; he says. &quot;These armed groups are really stealing money from the poorest and most miserable people in the world.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inside the gate, conditions are &quot;medieval&quot;. &quot;There&#039;s no clean water anywhere. There&#039;s thousands of people, and you think: &#039;How do they survive here? How can they do this? How is it possible?&#039;&quot; Children as young as 12 work as deep as 100 metres below ground, and Poulsen tried seeing for himself what conditions were like inside the mine, but he didn&#039;t get far. &quot;I was simply too big and I had a camera that made it hard for me to get an everyday life atmosphere. People would just sit and look at me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second &ndash; and final &ndash; time he visited Bisie, he gave a small camera to a young boy. The haunting images he captured, of men and children chiselling at rocks, grimly hark back to an age that seemed long gone, when Leopold II of Belgium ran the Congo as a private slave colony.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In an attempt to connect the dots between the mine and the phone industry, Poulson approached Nokia &ndash; as well-known advocates of corporate social responsibility, he thought they would be keen to show him what they were doing to improve the situation. They told him by email that they didn&#039;t have the &quot;resources&quot; to help him. He says he rang them once a week for almost a year, trying to arrange an interview with someone in power, but found himself fobbed off at every turn. When he did eventually get access, it was to mid-level people whose apparently sincere desire to do the right thing was not matched by their ability to make actual changes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Nokia had the chance of being the hero of this film, if they had opened up to me. It is a mystery why they didn&#039;t. But it also shows why this issue isn&#039;t being solved: people are turning a blind eye.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blood in the Mobile arrives in the UK at a time when recent legislation passed by Congress in the US requiring more transparency in the extractive industry seems to already be making an impact in Africa, even before its implementation. Similar legislation is now being sought at an EU level. &quot;We can&#039;t leave it up to the companies themselves to solve,&quot; says Poulsen, &quot;because they have had a fair chance at it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The casualties of war in the DR Congo have been, he says, like a &quot;Haiti earthquake every third month for the last 15 years. This is an extraordinary problem, a catastrophe that we have to address right now. There are too many people dying.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&bull; Blood in the Mobile is released on 21 October&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/documentary&quot;&gt;Documentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/congo&quot;&gt;Democratic Republic of the Congo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/mining&quot;&gt;Mining&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/mobilephones&quot;&gt;Mobile phones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/africa&quot;&gt;Africa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:02+02:00', 'Documentary', 'shocking connection film maker uncovers blood mobile ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1956, 'Actors who turn director: what drives on-screen talent behind the camera?', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/10/actors-who-turn-director', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/50935?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Actors+who+turn+director%3A+what+drives+on-screen+talent+behind+the+camera%3AArticle%3A1645441&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Paddy+Considine%2CCharlie+Chaplin+%28Film%29%2COrson+Welles+%28Film%29%2CKevin+Costner%2CMel+Gibson+%28Film%29%2CJohn+Cassavetes+%28Film%29%2CFilm%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=Matt+Thomas&amp;c7=11-Oct-10&amp;c8=1645441&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2Fblog%2FFilm+blog&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Paddy Considine is the latest actor to turn film-maker, with his highly acclaimed Tyrannosaur. Who else has made the switch?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Best known for his performances in Shane Meadows-helmed films such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202559/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;A Room for Romeo Brass&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419677/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Dead Man&#039;s Shoes&lt;/a&gt;, Paddy Considine is swapping his acting career &ndash; which includes stints in Hollywood in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/aug/17/actionandadventure.mattdamon&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Bourne Ultimatum&lt;/a&gt; and Cinderella Man &ndash; for the director&#039;s chair. His film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/09/tyrannosaur-paddy-considine-review?newsfeed=true&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Tyrannosaur&lt;/a&gt;, which he wrote and directed, was released on 7 October. But Considine isn&#039;t the first actor to sign up for a spell behind the camera. What drives other performers to make the switch?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;The egoists&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;The need to take absolute control can be a powerful motivator. Charlie Chaplin began his film career working under the tutelage of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784407/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Mack Sennett&lt;/a&gt;, who laid down the essentials of slapstick comedy, and directors such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Normand&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Mabel Normand&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0499883/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Henry Lehrman&lt;/a&gt;. But pretty soon he was writing scripts, directing and even composing the music for his own productions. David Thomson&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8176321/The-New-Biographical-Dictionary-of-Film-by-David-Thomson-review.html&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The New Biographical Dictionary of Film&lt;/a&gt; suggests Chaplin possessed &quot;an instinct [that] lacked artistic intelligence, real human sympathy and even humour. Chaplin&#039;s isolation barred him from working with anyone else.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s not hard to detect similar traits in Orson Welles&#039;s directorial persona. Troubled by his own perfectionism, he left behind a long list of unrealised works and an infamous blooper clip in which he combusts while trying to complete a voiceover for a poorly written and directed advert for frozen peas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;The moguls&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the 1980s, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kevincostner.com/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Kevin Costner&lt;/a&gt; could do no wrong. As one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood, thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094812/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Bull Durham&lt;/a&gt; and The Untouchables, it must have seemed natural for him to work that magic behind the camera as well. When his directorial debut &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63rd_Academy_Awards&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Dances With Wolves scooped seven Oscars&lt;/a&gt;, including a best director gong, he seemed set. Sadly, the following $175m flop Waterworld and $80m turkey The Postman rather scotched that idea.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Propelled by a similar belief in his own genius, leavened with a scoop or two of unhinged ranting, fellow 80s icon &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/melgibson&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Mel Gibson&lt;/a&gt; managed to pull off a number of coups in his rather more successful directing career. Although he&#039;s probably quite chuffed with the five Oscars awarded to Braveheart, he&#039;s probably prouder he completed feature films in Aramaic (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/96587/passion.of.the.christ&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Passion of the Christ&lt;/a&gt;) and Yucatec Maya (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/116577/apocalypto&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Apocalypto&lt;/a&gt;). Presumably he&#039;s nursing the desire to try classical Hebrew for a projected film about the Maccabee uprising. Good luck with that one, Mel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;The independents&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, mainstream films are not enough to satisfy the creative visions of their talent. Unfailingly iconoclastic in his own films, John Cassavetes acted in at least two iconic &ndash; for very different reasons &ndash; movies: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/22/rosemarys-baby-polanksi-horror&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Rosemary&#039;s Baby&lt;/a&gt; and The Dirty Dozen. Some people say Cassavetes only took on studio roles to finance his own directorial excursions. Either way, his reputation as America&#039;s first real indie film-maker is hard to ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/feb/09/crispin-glover-interview&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Crispin Glover&lt;/a&gt; must have been inspired by Cassavetes&#039; work. The Charlie&#039;s Angels and Back to the Future star has ploughed an equally (if not even more) wayward furrow in his own career, writing and directing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118141/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;What Is It?&lt;/a&gt;, a heady brew of nudity and racism, soundtracked by &lt;a href=&quot;http://mansonmusic.blogspot.com/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Charles Manson songs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;The game changers&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Playing Monica&#039;s schlubby multimillionaire suitor in Friends brought &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0269463/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Jon Favreau&lt;/a&gt; a certain amount of mainstream recognition after writing and starring in the cult retro film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117802/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Swingers&lt;/a&gt;, but it was his directorial debut Made which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/apr/29/jon-favreau-iron-man-2&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;really set him on the path to fame and fortune&lt;/a&gt;. A spiritual successor to Swingers, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227005/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Vince Vaughn-starring gangster movie&lt;/a&gt; allowed Favreau to lever his way into the big time. He&#039;s since &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/may/10/iron-man-2&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;turned a handsome profit with the Iron Man franchise&lt;/a&gt; &ndash; and reinvigorated Robert Downey Jr&#039;s career for the fourth or fifth time in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, it&#039;s possible to argue that Sling Blade saved &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000671/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Billy Bob Thornton&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s career. Before the Arkansas-set drama was released, Thornton was slogging through roles in flicks such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103959/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Chopper Chicks in Zombietown&lt;/a&gt;. After his writing and directing debut he became &ndash; in the words of Robert Duvall &ndash; &quot;the hillbilly Orson Welles&quot;. Thanks to some adroit manoeuvring, Miramax was persuaded to pay $10m for the film&#039;s distribution rights, thereby changing the shape of the movie industry, as American indies became an extension of the studio system in both budgetary and aesthetic terms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;The oddballs&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there&#039;s no discernible reason for an actor to get behind the camera. Always a watchable actor, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/dennis-hopper&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Dennis Hopper&lt;/a&gt; overextended the freewheeling directorial style displayed in Easy Rider when he made &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2010/jan/07/dennis-hopper-life-in-pictures?intcmp=239#/?picture=357776532&amp;index=7&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Last Movie&lt;/a&gt;. Given $1m by studio heads baffled by the success of Easy Rider, Hopper turned in a film fuelled by copious amounts of cocaine and beer. It bombed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Slightly less dramatic, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_May&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Elaine May&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s film-directing career came about via the stage and screenwriting. While directing Cassavetes and Peter Falk in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074901/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Mikey and Nicky&lt;/a&gt;, she annoyed her crew by shooting 1.4m feet of film &ndash; three times as much as Gone With the Wind. One scene ended with Falk and Cassavetes running off in different directions down an alleyway &ndash; May insisted that the cameras keep rolling, even after they left the set, since &quot;they might come back&quot;. She didn&#039;t direct for 12 years after that. Unfortunately her 1987 comeback film turned out to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093278/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Ishtar&lt;/a&gt;, a film so execrable it wasn&#039;t given an American DVD release until January this year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/paddy-considine&quot;&gt;Paddy Considine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/charliechaplin&quot;&gt;Charlie Chaplin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/orsonwelles&quot;&gt;Orson Welles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/kevin-costner&quot;&gt;Kevin Costner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/melgibson&quot;&gt;Mel Gibson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/johncassavetes&quot;&gt;John Cassavetes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/matt-thomas&quot;&gt;Matt Thomas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:03+02:00', 'Paddy Considine', 'actors turn director drives screen talent camera matt class=terms>');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1957, 'Schlock and awe: Woody Allen routs the US with Midnight in Paris', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/10/woody-allen-midnight-in-paris', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/17850?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Schlock+and+awe%3A+Woody+Allen+routs+the+US+with+Midnight+in+Paris%3AArticle%3A1645350&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Woody+Allen+%28Film%29%2COwen+Wilson+%28Film%29%2CDrama+%28Film+genre%29%2CRomance+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CF+Scott+Fitzgerald+%28Author%29%2CErnest+Hemingway%2CBooks%2CCulture%2CParis+%28Travel%29%2CTravel&amp;c5=France+Travel%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews&amp;c6=David+Cox&amp;c7=11-Oct-10&amp;c8=1645350&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=Between+the+lines+%28film+series%29&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2Fblog%2FFilm+blog&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Only the city of light could dazzle American audiences into worshipping Allen&#039;s latest film. Do I smell &lt;em&gt;merde de taureau&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So Woody Allen has at last &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/30/woody-allen-midnight-in-paris&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;restored his fortunes&lt;/a&gt; in the America that so cruelly forgot him. Yet it&#039;s not a fresh helping of his trademark insights into the inner life of his homeland that have brought this about: instead he has taken a short cut to his countrymen&#039;s hearts by treating them to a bucketload of schlock.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This bucket is labelled &quot;nostalgia&quot;, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/141834/midnight-in-paris&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Midnight in Paris&lt;/a&gt; depends for its effect on transporting the wishful to a mystical place that might still exist, rather than to a &lt;em&gt;temps perdu&lt;/em&gt; that&#039;s doomed to be unreachable. Allen has been looking to glossy travel pages for his films&#039; go-faster stripes for most of the past decade. London didn&#039;t do the business; a side trip to Barcelona was a touch too &lt;em&gt;exc&egrave;ntric&lt;/em&gt; (Catalan for &quot;recherche&quot;). Only now has he hit on the blindingly obvious: for Americans, there&#039;s just one setting that can validate almost any artistic affectation. The city of light.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since their earliest days, Americans have believed Paris to be the repository of a kind of cultural magic that eluded their bold but brash republic. Hence the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2006/americans-in-paris&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;remarkable tide of artists who&#039;ve crossed the pond&lt;/a&gt; in search of it: Fitzgerald, James, Hemingway, Irving, Mailer, Miller, Nin, Pound, Stein, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler#Art_study_in_France&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Whistler&lt;/a&gt;, Eakins, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/06autumn/fraserjenkins.htm&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Hopper&lt;/a&gt;, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Buchwald, Twain &hellip; come to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gil, the time-travelling would-be novelist hero of Midnight in Paris, gets to meet a few of the above, but can really only scratch the surface. He is, of course, just the latest in a long line of fictional Americans seduced by the city&#039;s transatlantic charms. (Perhaps the first of these to hit the big screen was Charles Ray&#039;s Jerry back in 1926, in the Edmund Goulding silent film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/413822/Paris/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Paris&lt;/a&gt;. The most memorable is Gene Kelly&#039;s more familiar Jerry, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvzGT1Ta2w&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;An American in Paris&lt;/a&gt;, which is shortly to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/extended_runs/an_american_in_paris&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;re-released in all its digitally restored glory&lt;/a&gt; for its 60th anniversary.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet the veneration accorded to Paris by Americans is puzzling. Like other grand cities, this one certainly has an aura &ndash; yet its cultural credentials are hardly the world&#039;s most impressive. If anything, its most enduring characteristic is a distinct whiff of &lt;em&gt;merde de taureau&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It wasn&#039;t Paris that delivered Bach, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Leonardo, Marx, Michelangelo or the Beatles. Instead, the city has given us the likes of bohemianism, deconstructionism, symbolism and the nouvelle vague. All of these were quite fun at the time, but in retrospect seem somewhat less than the real deal. The city&#039;s aesthetic soul appears to have more to do with Gitanes, cafe society and elegant posturing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From 3,000 miles away, this may be less obvious, but even Americans know deep down that it&#039;s true. Is Midnight in Paris therefore a satire on the US&#039;s thraldom to Pseudsville-on-Seine? Gil is gently mocked for doting on his surroundings; his fiancee&#039;s know-all friend Paul is derided for his obsession with Parisian lore. Nonetheless, this is one of those parodies that becomes a prime example of what it pretends to parody.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, France is happy to indulge this infatuation with its capital. But while French cinema is a source of pride, artistic appreciation goes both ways: some American film-makers &ndash; like some American writers &ndash; are bigger in Paris than they are in LA. David Lynch, Samuel Fuller, John Cassavetes &ndash; and Woody Allen, to name but a few.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The English, too, have a penchant for Paris (with Ken Loach standing in for Allen). Yet the Anglo-Saxon version seems somehow more knowing and reticent &ndash; even a little patronising. Something of the difference can be picked up in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/06/midnight-in-paris-film-review&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;cautiously positive British reviews of Midnight in Paris&lt;/a&gt;, compared with their &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/20/entertainment/la-et-midnight-paris-20110520&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;fulsome American equivalents&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allen&#039;s devotion to the city seems to be total. &quot;If I didn&#039;t live in New York, Paris is the place I would live,&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sonyclassics.com/midnightinparis/production.html&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;he says&lt;/a&gt;. How pleased the hoteliers of his second home must be at the forthcoming wave of tourism, at the director&#039;s fuelling of a Parisian delusion they clearly value. Allen has waited a long time to recover his standing in his native land. It&#039;s a bit sad that this is how he did it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/woodyallen&quot;&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/owenwilson&quot;&gt;Owen Wilson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/drama&quot;&gt;Drama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/romance&quot;&gt;Romance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/fscottfitzgerald&quot;&gt;F Scott Fitzgerald&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/ernesthemingway&quot;&gt;Ernest Hemingway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/paris&quot;&gt;Paris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/davidcox&quot;&gt;David Cox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:04+02:00', 'Woody Allen', 'schlock awe woody routs midnight paris ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1958, 'Open thread: Misleading film trailers', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/10/misleading-film-trailers', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/54235?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Open+thread%3A+Misleading+film+trailers%3AArticle%3A1645348&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Film%2CRyan+Gosling&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful&amp;c6=&amp;c7=11-Oct-10&amp;c8=1645348&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=Open+thread+%28series%29&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FRyan+Gosling&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;On the day in which our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/09/rights-wrongs-putting-spoilers-reviews&quot;&gt;Readers Editor grapples with spoilers&lt;/a&gt;, we&#039;re asking which trailers you feel have served the opposite purpose, suggesting a movie that was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/10/woman-sues-drive-traile&quot;&gt;nothing like the one you paid to see&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/feb/05/theblackartofthetrailer&quot;&gt;Shocked by the singing in Sweeney Todd? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/apr/14/lars-von-trier-antichrist-trailer&quot;&gt;Gob-smacked by the genital mutilation in Antichrist?&lt;/a&gt; As a Michigan moviegoer takes action against the distributors of Drive &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/10/woman-sues-drive-trailer&quot;&gt;for what she felt was an insufficiently representative trailer&lt;/a&gt;, we&#039;d like to know which movie trailers have you felt misled by? Feel free to extend your reach to posters and general promotional bumf, too. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/ryan-gosling&quot;&gt;Ryan Gosling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:04+02:00', 'Film', 'open thread misleading film trailers on day readers editor grapples spoilers asking trailers feel served opposite purpose suggesting movie nothing like paid see');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1959, 'This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn&#039;t buckle my swash', 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/oct/08/three-musketeers-john-patterson', '&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/40411?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=This+steampunk+take+on+The+Three+Musketeers+doesn%27t+buckle+my+swash%3AArticle%3A1643432&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Guardian&amp;c4=Film%2CCulture&amp;c5=Not+commercially+useful&amp;c6=John+Patterson&amp;c7=11-Oct-08&amp;c8=1643432&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Feature&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=Film+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2F&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;And there&#039;s more bastardisation of the classics to come: Pride And Prejudice And Zombies anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;From the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas,&quot; read the credits for the umpteenth version of &lt;strong&gt;The Three Musketeers&lt;/strong&gt;. What they really mean is &quot;about a million miles from the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This time around &ndash; and I think we&#039;re on the 22nd remake now &ndash; they&#039;ve steampunked it, gussying it up with much retro-futuristic silliness and cheap-looking CGI, anachronistic weaponry and ordnance, by-the-numbers action-heroics, and a sky teeming with armadas of heavily armoured hot-air balloons reminiscent of Zeppelins. And all this, mind, a century before the Montgolfier brothers ever hoisted themselves aloft, so expect your time frames and tenses to be concertinaed as your credulity is stretched to its breaking point. Fans of the still effervescent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/1999/nov/08/guardianinterviewsatbfisouthbank3&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Dick Lester&lt;/a&gt;/George MacDonald Fraser adaptations of the early-70s will be forgiven for looking at the cast of the remake and going, &quot;Oooh, this guy was Oliver Reed back in the good movie, and that was Faye Dunaway &hellip;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I shouldn&#039;t complain. Steampunk is a legitimate genre, even if it does bore me. But where does this compulsion come from, to adorn to the point of suffocation a story that seems to have pleased an awful lot of people in a hundred languages in the century and a half since its original serialisation? Is it because kids can&#039;t sit still for five minutes any more and enjoy the buckling of old-fashioned swash? Or is it because the suits in the front office don&#039;t believe they can sit still, and must therefore be appeased with ever more spectacular and ridiculous embellishments?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I foresee now the next wave of literary adaptations and, reader, it isn&#039;t pretty. I think we&#039;d all agree that any future adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby could really use the addition of a Glee Club and a Wizardry Department. (Oh wait, they filmed it absolutely straight a few years ago and, by common consent, it was one of the best Dickens movies in decades.) Must we really hand a plasma-gun to Prince Hamlet, just so he can keep up in the bloodbath stakes as Shakespeare&#039;s corpse mound rises ever skywards in Act V? Will Tess Durbeyfield be reincarnated as Ms .45 of 1890, poppin&#039; caps in Alec D&#039;Urberville and Angel Clare&#039;s chauvinistic lily-white asses as retribution for their crimes against her purity and maidenhood? Might Framley Parsonage and Barchester Towers be more interesting places all round if they were thronging with werewolves, werebears and were-whatevers?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If that sounds ridiculous, consider the current boomlet of zombie-inflected, public-domain classics that has flourished in the wake of Seth Grahame-Smith&#039;s bestselling &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/09/austen-zombie-pride-prejudice&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Pride And Prejudice And Zombies&lt;/a&gt; &ndash; the movie&#039;s due next year, with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2011/jan/02/observer-profile-natalie-portman&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;Natalie Portman&lt;/a&gt;, reportedly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone out there is having fun with all of this. I just know  it isn&#039;t me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnpatterson&quot;&gt;John Patterson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:05+02:00', 'Film', 'steampunk musketeers doesnt buckle swash ');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1960, 'The great grape swap', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/10/14/the-great-grape-swap/', 'Ray Isle (@islewine on Twitter) is Food &amp;#38; Wine&amp;#039;s executive wine editor. We trust his every cork pop and decant...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eatocracy.cnn.com&amp;amp;blog=13732914&amp;amp;post=51504&amp;amp;subd=cnneatocracy&amp;amp;ref=&amp;amp;feed=1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:08+02:00', 'Content Partner', 'great grape swap ray isle @islewine twitter food &#38 wine&#039s executive wine editor trust cork pop decant');
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INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1962, 'Box lunch: Chewing on words and disastrous decadence', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/10/14/box-lunch-chewing-on-words-and-disastrous-decadence/', 'Sink your teeth into today&amp;#039;s top stories from around the globe. With more pressing national matters like the debt and...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eatocracy.cnn.com&amp;amp;blog=13732914&amp;amp;post=51464&amp;amp;subd=cnneatocracy&amp;amp;ref=&amp;amp;feed=1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:09+02:00', 'Box Lunch', 'box lunch chewing words disastrous decadence sink teeth today&#039s stories globe pressing national matters like debt and');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1963, 'Semi-truck driver rolls out big rig cuisine', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/10/14/a-big-rig-kitchen-on-wheels/', 'Imagine, if you will, Paula Deen with a couple of tattoos. Now, imagine her behind the wheel of a semi,...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eatocracy.cnn.com&amp;amp;blog=13732914&amp;amp;post=51439&amp;amp;subd=cnneatocracy&amp;amp;ref=&amp;amp;feed=1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:09+02:00', 'Chefs', 'semi truck driver rolls big rig cuisine imagine paula deen couple tattoos imagine wheel semi');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1964, 'Breakfast buffet: National apple month', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/10/14/breakfast-buffet-national-apple-month/', 'While you&amp;#039;re frying up some eggs and bacon, we&amp;#039;re cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today&amp;#039;s food holiday....&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eatocracy.cnn.com&amp;amp;blog=13732914&amp;amp;post=51382&amp;amp;subd=cnneatocracy&amp;amp;ref=&amp;amp;feed=1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:10+02:00', 'Breakfast Buffet', 'breakfast buffet national apple month you&#039re frying eggs bacon we&#039re cooking way celebrate today&#039s food holiday');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1965, 'Coffee klatsch', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/10/14/coffee-klatsch-216/', 'Pssst! Got a sec to chat? We are utterly thrilled when readers want to hang out and talk &ndash; whether...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eatocracy.cnn.com&amp;amp;blog=13732914&amp;amp;post=50666&amp;amp;subd=cnneatocracy&amp;amp;ref=&amp;amp;feed=1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:10+02:00', 'Buzz', 'coffee klatsch pssst got sec chat utterly thrilled readers want hang talk – whether');
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INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1967, 'Out of the fryer and into the salsa bowl', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/10/13/out-of-the-fryer-into-the-salsa-bowl/', 'You didn&amp;#039;t think we&amp;#039;d leave those piping hot homemade tortilla chips out in the cold with nowhere to go, did...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eatocracy.cnn.com&amp;amp;blog=13732914&amp;amp;post=51348&amp;amp;subd=cnneatocracy&amp;amp;ref=&amp;amp;feed=1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:12+02:00', 'Cuisines', 'fryer salsa bowl didn&#039t think we&#039d leave piping hot homemade tortilla chips cold did');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1968, 'Box lunch: Beer heaven and Japanese artisanal cheese', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/10/13/box-lunch-beer-heaven-and-japanese-artisanal-cheese/', 'Sink your teeth into today&amp;#039;s top stories from around the globe. If you stumble upon a beer trailer and get...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eatocracy.cnn.com&amp;amp;blog=13732914&amp;amp;post=51367&amp;amp;subd=cnneatocracy&amp;amp;ref=&amp;amp;feed=1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:12+02:00', 'Box Lunch', 'box lunch beer heaven japanese artisanal cheese sink teeth today&#039s stories globe stumble beer trailer get');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1969, 'The inside scoop on homemade tortilla chips', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/10/13/the-inside-scoop-on-homemade-tortilla-chips/', 'Football season has officially kicked off, and no game-day menu would be complete without making a touchdown spike into the...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eatocracy.cnn.com&amp;amp;blog=13732914&amp;amp;post=51344&amp;amp;subd=cnneatocracy&amp;amp;ref=&amp;amp;feed=1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:13+02:00', 'Bite', 'inside scoop homemade tortilla chips football season officially kicked game day menu complete making touchdown spike the');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1970, 'By: AJS', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/27/55-all-about-absinthe/#comment-174012', 'I&amp;#039;ve seen some people refer to your brand here. They say it&amp;#039;s good! Any chance of getting some free samples!!!!', '2011-10-15T22:47:14+02:00', '', 'ajs i&#039ve seen people refer brand say it&#039s good chance getting free samples');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1971, 'By: malhomme', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/27/55-all-about-absinthe/#comment-173460', 'Isn&amp;#039;t this a daiquiri bar now?  Drank HG in the corner where Aleister Crowley penned his essay on NOLA.  Was a great place!', '2011-10-15T22:47:15+02:00', '', 'malhomme isn&#039t daiquiri bar drank hg corner aleister crowley penned essay nola great place');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1972, 'By: Ash', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/27/55-all-about-absinthe/#comment-173166', '&amp;quot;This absnithe is bullshit!&amp;quot; LOVE THAT MOVIE!', '2011-10-15T22:47:16+02:00', '', 'ash absnithe bullshit love movie');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1973, 'By: Rickie Luke', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/27/55-all-about-absinthe/#comment-172966', 'The only place I ever had absinthe was at the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans, frequented by Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain.  The place is a dive, but has a quaint historical and fun spirit to it.  The city also has the Absinthe Museum, a great place to learn everything you want to know about this mis-understood drink.', '2011-10-15T22:47:16+02:00', '', 'rickie luke place i absinthe old absinthe house new orleans frequented oscar wilde mark twain place dive quaint historical fun spirit city absinthe museum great place learn want know understood drink');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1974, 'By: Lushrimfire', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/27/55-all-about-absinthe/#comment-172962', 'I have been facinated by the stories I&amp;#039;ve heard about this libation, hope I get to experience in my lifetime.', '2011-10-15T22:47:17+02:00', '', 'lushrimfire i facinated stories i&#039ve heard libation hope i experience lifetime');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1975, 'By: WOBH', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/27/55-all-about-absinthe/#comment-172809', 'Sounds like a hit of LSD and a shot of Jack would do as a substitute... not for me thanks', '2011-10-15T22:47:17+02:00', '', 'wobh sounds like hit lsd shot jack substitute thanks');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1976, 'By: Wayne', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/27/55-all-about-absinthe/#comment-172806', 'Bought some absenthe at a drug store in Japan and lost five hours of my life. But I liked the flavor.', '2011-10-15T22:47:18+02:00', '', 'wayne bought absenthe drug store japan lost hours life i liked flavor');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1977, 'By: The Witty One', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/27/55-all-about-absinthe/#comment-172805', 'I figure you would know more about that you evil german monkey you! \n\nBarnfires are all the rage nowadays.', '2011-10-15T22:47:18+02:00', '', 'witty i figure know evil german monkey \n\nbarnfires rage nowadays');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (1978, 'By: driranek', 'http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/27/55-all-about-absinthe/#comment-172799', 'I purchased the real european stuff in Mexico.  Between the powerful licorice taste and the extreme bitterness of the wormwood, very small quantities are a radical taste experience. While it might be me, I can&amp;#039;t imagine how anyone could drink enough to hallucinate.  The US stuff is just a pale imitation by comparison.', '2011-10-15T22:47:19+02:00', '', 'driranek i purchased real european stuff mexico powerful licorice taste extreme bitterness wormwood small quantities radical taste experience i can&#039t imagine drink hallucinate stuff just pale imitation comparison');
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INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2003, 'Faces of survival: D&#039;Ann Jenkins', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V82X_EwA41Q&amp;feature=youtube_gdata', '&lt;div style=&quot;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;     font-size:12px; font-size: 12px; width: 555px;&quot;&gt;\n&lt;table cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=&quot;140&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; rowspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border: 1px solid #999999; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V82X_EwA41Q&amp;amp;feature=youtube_gdata&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i.ytimg.com/vi/V82X_EwA41Q/default.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;\n&lt;td width=&quot;256&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;                  font-decoration: none;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V82X_EwA41Q&amp;amp;feature=youtube_gdata&quot;&gt;Faces of survival: D&amp;#39;Ann Jenkins&lt;/a&gt;\n&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 12px; margin: 3px 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;D&amp;#39;Ann Jenkins, a stage two breast cancer survivor, talks about the importance of support during cancer treatment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;\n&lt;td style=&quot;font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; padding-left: 20px;             padding-top: 1px;&quot; width=&quot;146&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666; font-size: 11px;&quot;&gt;From:&lt;/span&gt;\n&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AmarilloGlobeNews&quot;&gt;AmarilloGlobeNews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666; font-size: 11px;&quot;&gt;Views:&lt;/span&gt;\n260&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;div style=&quot;white-space: nowrap;text-align: left&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;                    vertical-align: middle; font-size: 11px;&quot; align=&quot;top&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif&quot;&gt; &lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;                    vertical-align: middle; font-size: 11px;&quot; align=&quot;top&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif&quot;&gt; &lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;                    vertical-align: middle; font-size: 11px;&quot; align=&quot;top&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif&quot;&gt; &lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;                    vertical-align: middle; font-size: 11px;&quot; align=&quot;top&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif&quot;&gt; &lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;                    vertical-align: middle; font-size: 11px;&quot; align=&quot;top&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 11px;&quot;&gt;0\n&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666; font-size: 11px;&quot;&gt;ratings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;\n&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666; font-size: 11px;&quot;&gt;Time:&lt;/span&gt;\n&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;01:41&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;\n&lt;td style=&quot;font-size: 11px; padding-left: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666; font-size: 11px;&quot;&gt;More in&lt;/span&gt;\n&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/videos?c=17&quot;&gt;Sports&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;', '2011-10-15T22:47:45+02:00', 'http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video', 'faces survival jenkins \nd&#39ann jenkins stage breast cancer survivor talks importance support cancer style=font size 11px line height 14em padding left 20px padding 1px width=146 style=color #666666 size 11px>from\n');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2004, 'New Discovery Links Downed Drone Parts to US Firm', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/l9daJEP-wyY/', 'A new discovery Thursday linked an unmanned Azeri drone downed this week by Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army to a US Defense company that manufactures signal distribution products. This raises new questions about potential violations of U.S. arms export laws.', '2011-10-15T22:47:49+02:00', 'Armenia', 'new discovery downed drone parts firm new discovery thursday linked unmanned azeri drone downed week nagorno karabakh republic defense army defense company manufactures signal distribution products raises new questions potential violations arms export laws');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2005, 'Karabakh Army Shoots Down Azeri Drone', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/TziliY1FU_Y/', 'The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Armed forces said on Wednesday that its forces shot down an unmanned drone flying over Karabakh airspace, according to a statement by the Karabakh Army, adding that the Azeri Air Force has significantly increased its activity along the Karabakh-Azerbaijan border', '2011-10-15T22:47:49+02:00', 'Armenia', 'karabakh army shoots azeri drone nagorno karabakh republic armed forces said wednesday forces shot unmanned drone flying karabakh airspace according statement karabakh army adding azeri air force significantly increased activity karabakh azerbaijan border');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2006, 'ANCA Calls for Probe of Potential Arms Export Breach Related to Downed Azeri Drone', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/Y4B-xXmDt1Q/', 'The Armenian National Committee of America Wednesday called on the Department of State to look into whether video of the wreckage of an Azerbaijani  unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which shows a component built by NovAtel, a Canadian firm with offices in the United States, warrants an investigation into potential violations of U.S. arms export laws.', '2011-10-15T22:47:50+02:00', 'Armenia', 'anca calls probe potential arms export breach related downed azeri drone armenian national committee america wednesday called department state look video wreckage azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle uav shows component built novatel canadian firm offices united states warrants investigation potential violations arms export laws');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2007, 'Congress Marks Karabakh Independence 20th Anniversary', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/kguDZLl6aQw/', 'Members of Congress joined with Nagorno Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) Parliament Speaker Ashot Ghulian and Parliament Member Zoya Lazaryan at the Capitol Hill commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Republic&#039;s independence.', '2011-10-15T22:47:50+02:00', 'Armenia', 'congress marks karabakh independence 20th anniversary members congress joined nagorno karabakh republic artsakh parliament speaker ashot ghulian parliament member zoya lazaryan capitol hill commemoration 20th anniversary republics independence');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2008, 'Russia Calls On EU To Halt Talks on Nabucco Pipeline', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/KQB4NnenSKk/', 'Moscow said the European Union should halt talks on a proposed Caspian Sea pipeline to carry natural gas to Europe, characterising the bloc&#039;s involvement in the project that would by-pass Russia as &quot;meddling&quot; that could add to tensions in the region.\n', '2011-10-15T22:47:51+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'russia calls halt talks nabucco pipeline moscow said european union halt talks proposed caspian sea pipeline carry natural gas europe characterising blocs involvement project pass russia meddling add tensions region\n');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2009, 'Wendy Greuel to Headline ANCA-WR Meet and Greet Series', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/NAE3J-YZlTo/', 'On Thursday, September 29, the Armenian National Committee of America&ndash;Western Region invites the community to meet with 2013 Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel, who has served for the last two years as Los Angeles City Controller.', '2011-10-15T22:47:51+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'wendy greuel headline anca wr meet greet series thursday september 29 armenian national committee america–western region invites community meet 2013 angeles mayoral candidate wendy greuel served years angeles city controller');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2010, 'Crescenta Valley Armenians Honor 9/11 Victims', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/HTPVC2wTd70/', 'Early Sunday morning on September 11, 2011, representatives of the Crescenta Valley Armenian Community and Youth Center participated in a commemorative event held at the local Glendale Fire Station 29 on Honolulu Avenue to honor the fire fighters, rescuers and police officers on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11.', '2011-10-15T22:47:52+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'crescenta valley armenians honor 9/11 victims early sunday morning september 11 2011 representatives crescenta valley armenian community youth center participated commemorative event held local glendale station 29 honolulu avenue honor fighters rescuers police officers 10th anniversary 9/11');
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INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2012, 'Senate Panel Approves Ricciardone in Divided Vote', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/p22eETXf3Jg/', 'The nomination of President Obama&#039;s controversial choice to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, was approved in a devided vote within the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over whether he should serve as America&#039;s top envoy to Ankara, reported the Armenian National Committee of America', '2011-10-15T22:47:53+02:00', 'Armenia', 'senate panel approves ricciardone divided vote nomination president obamas controversial choice serve ambassador turkey francis ricciardone approved devided vote senate foreign relations committee serve americas envoy ankara reported armenian national committee america');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2013, 'Pallone Congratulates Karabakh on 20th Anniversary', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/5i6VLey7HqU/', 'Representative Frank Pallone (D-NJ) sent a congratulatory letter to Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) President Bako Sahakian marking the 20th anniversary of Karabakh&rsquo;s independence', '2011-10-15T22:47:53+02:00', 'Armenia', 'pallone congratulates karabakh 20th anniversary representative frank pallone nj sent congratulatory letter nagorno karabakh republic artsakh president bako sahakian marking 20th anniversary karabakh’s independence');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2014, 'OSCE Official Concerned About Karabakh Border', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/RvKavyOAkvw/', '&ldquo;We are concerned about the situation at the line of contact [the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic-Azerbaijan border],&rdquo; said Adam Kobieracki, Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre', '2011-10-15T22:47:54+02:00', 'Armenia', 'osce official concerned karabakh border “we concerned situation line contact nagorno karabakh republic azerbaijan borderâ€ said adam kobieracki director osce conflict prevention centre');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2015, 'Book on Armenia-Turkey Protocols Warns Arabs not to Trust Turkish Friendship', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/CLpNEzV0oCg/', 'I was privileged to attend a special program in Beirut last Friday, sponsored by the Armenian National Committee of Lebanon, dedicated to the publication of my new book in Arabic: &ldquo;Armenia-Turkey Protocols: Truth or Deception?&rdquo; The book is the compilation of 43 columns I had written in The California Courier in the last three years on the controversial Protocols.', '2011-10-15T22:47:54+02:00', 'Columns', 'book armenia turkey protocols warns arabs trust turkish friendship i privileged attend special program beirut friday sponsored armenian national committee lebanon dedicated publication new book arabic “armenia turkey protocols truth deceptionâ€ book compilation 43 columns i written california courier years controversial protocols');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2016, 'Calif. Superintendent Appoints Murad Minasian Liaison to Armenian Community', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/x0Y0MRvE_P8/', 'This August, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson appointed Murad &quot;Mo&quot; Minasian to serve as the office&#039;s liaison to the Armenian American community', '2011-10-15T22:47:55+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'calif superintendent appoints murad minasian liaison armenian community august california state superintendent public instruction tom torlakson appointed murad mo minasian serve offices liaison armenian american community');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2017, 'Garboushian Gallery Exhibit to Highlight Defining Role of Armenian Artists in Contemporary Art', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/b-oNX7JehQc/', '&ldquo;California Armenian Pacific Standard Time&rdquo; exhibition will include works by John Altoon, Charles Garabedian, Leo Krikorian, Paul Sarkisian, William Saroyan and Sam Tchakalian', '2011-10-15T22:47:55+02:00', 'Arts &amp; Culture', 'garboushian gallery exhibit highlight defining role armenian artists contemporary art “california armenian pacific standard timeâ€ exhibition include works john altoon charles garabedian leo krikorian paul sarkisian william saroyan sam tchakalian');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2018, 'Arpa International Film Festival Announces 2011 Jury, Nominated and Distinguished Films', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/3Ir5XH_IiuY/', 'The 14th Arpa International Film Festival announced this year&#039;s jury and the nominated and distinguished films for 2011.', '2011-10-15T22:47:56+02:00', 'Arts &amp; Culture', 'arpa international film festival announces 2011 jury nominated distinguished films 14th arpa international film festival announced years jury nominated distinguished films 2011');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2019, 'Uruguay May Recognize Nagorno-Karabakh Republic', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/j0voep8k-Vs/', 'In an unprecedented announcement Friday, the Foreign Minister of Uruguay Luis Almagro said that his government has begun the process to make an official announcement regarding the status of Nagorno-Karabakh', '2011-10-15T22:47:56+02:00', 'Armenia', 'uruguay recognize nagorno karabakh republic unprecedented announcement friday foreign minister uruguay luis almagro said government begun process make official announcement regarding status nagorno karabakh');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2020, 'WikiLeaks: Ottoman Archives &lsquo;Purged&rsquo; to Hide Genocide', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/w20v0q74Lko/', 'A Turkish Professor told US Consul General in Istanbul that there were efforts to &ldquo;purge&rdquo; the Ottoman Archives of incriminating documents on the Armenian Genocide, according to a cable recently released by the whistleblower site WikiLeaks.', '2011-10-15T22:47:57+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'wikileaks ottoman archives ‘purged’ hide genocide turkish professor told consul general istanbul efforts “purgeâ€ ottoman archives incriminating documents armenian genocide according cable recently released whistleblower site wikileaks');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2021, 'Israel Wants to Exact a Price From Turkey', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/nEvBUJyY0AY/', 'Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has decided to adopt a series of reciprocal measures in response to Turkey&rsquo;s latest anti-Israeli moves.', '2011-10-15T22:47:57+02:00', 'Armenia', 'israel wants exact price turkey foreign minister avigdor lieberman decided adopt series reciprocal measures response turkey’s latest anti israeli moves');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2022, 'US State Department and Javakhk: The WikiLeaks Cables Part I', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/m3VNqKPJZgQ/', 'With the publication of all WikiLeaks cables from the US State Department and its diplomatic missions worldwide, interesting information has become available regarding many issues of concern to Armenia and Armenians. One of these issues is the situation in Javakhk, the Samtskhe-Javakheti administrative region in southern Georgia, bordering the Republic of Armenia.', '2011-10-15T22:47:58+02:00', 'Armenia', 'state department javakhk wikileaks cables i publication wikileaks cables state department diplomatic missions worldwide interesting information available regarding issues concern armenia armenians issues situation javakhk samtskhe javakheti administrative region southern georgia bordering republic armenia');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2023, 'Upholding Justice: Catholicos Aram I Sends Letter to Erdogan', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/zvxSr7ez83A/', 'By way of the press we were made aware of your government&rsquo;s decision to return properties confiscated after 1936 from Turkey&rsquo;s religious minorities', '2011-10-15T22:47:58+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'upholding justice catholicos aram i sends letter erdogan way press aware government’s decision return properties confiscated 1936 turkey’s religious minorities');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2024, 'Lost Relatives', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/GM0WnuUkTow/', 'This was one of those weeks when, seemingly, there were simultaneously lots of topics to write about, but also, nothing to write about. I considered a community involvement phenomenon I&rsquo;ve noticed, RoA&rsquo;s upcoming 20th re-independence anniversary, Erdogan&rsquo;s (portentous?) fall from his (high) horse, the Arab world&rsquo;s rumblings/developments and their relevance to us, and on and on. But Wikileaks came to the rescue.', '2011-10-15T22:47:59+02:00', 'By Any Means', 'lost relatives weeks seemingly simultaneously lots topics write write i considered community involvement phenomenon i’ve noticed roa’s upcoming 20th independence anniversary erdogan’s portentous high horse arab world’s relevance wikileaks came rescue');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2025, 'The New Mesrobian School: A Promise For Change, Transformation And Excellence', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/097mnQnHV8M/', 'The Armenian Mesrobian Elementary and High School of Pico Rivera opened its school year last Thursday, September 1, 2011, under the auspices of Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Present at the Opening Day ceremony were the students, parents, benefactors, the school faculty and staff, guests, as well as representatives of community organizations', '2011-10-15T22:48:00+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'new mesrobian school promise change transformation excellence armenian mesrobian elementary high school pico rivera opened school year thursday september 1 2011 auspices archbishop moushegh mardirossian prelate western prelacy armenian apostolic church present opening day ceremony students parents benefactors school faculty staff guests representatives community organizations');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2026, '&lsquo;Once An AYF Member, Always An AYF Member&rsquo;', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/IoVNpSrJGd0/', 'More than 60 alumni from the Armenian Youth Federation joined with 25 current members of the organization to reflect on the past and plan for the future during the AYF&rsquo;s inaugural Alumni Weekend at AYF Camp.', '2011-10-15T22:48:00+02:00', 'Featured Story', '‘once ayf member ayf member’ 60 alumni armenian youth federation joined 25 current members organization reflect past plan future ayf’s inaugural alumni weekend ayf camp');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2027, 'EU Wants to Assist in Karabakh Resolution', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/_BAYpeCqO7M/', 'The European Union is ready to help in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process, said the newly appointed European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus Tuesday during a visit to Armenia.', '2011-10-15T22:48:01+02:00', 'Armenia', 'wants assist karabakh resolution european union ready help nagorno karabakh conflict resolution process said newly appointed european union special representative south caucasus tuesday visit armenia');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2028, 'Fans Take to Streets to Celebrate Armenia Soccer Win', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/LDUMD-CCT2E/', 'Hundreds of people poured into Yerevan&rsquo;s main Republic Square on Tuesday night to celebrate yet another impressive victory of Armenia&rsquo;s national soccer team that gave it a real chance of qualifying for the 2012 European Football Championship.', '2011-10-15T22:48:01+02:00', 'Armenia', 'fans streets celebrate armenia soccer win hundreds people poured yerevan’s main republic square tuesday night celebrate impressive victory armenia’s national soccer team gave real chance qualifying 2012 european football championship');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2029, 'Turkey Can Run but Can&rsquo;t Hide from Long Arm of US Law', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/ZMGV4ljGNGE/', 'World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis once warned one of his opponents: &ldquo;You can run, but you can&rsquo;t hide.&rdquo; This same warning now applies to the Turkish government and two of its major banks.', '2011-10-15T22:48:02+02:00', 'Columns', 'turkey run can’t hide long arm law world heavyweight boxing champion joe louis warned opponents “you run can’t hideâ€ warning applies turkish government major banks');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2030, 'Director, Lead Actor Join ANC-Hollywood for Inaugural &lsquo;Movie Night&rsquo;', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/dAa5lOZipOo/', 'The Armenian National Committee--Hollywood Chapter hosted its inaugural &ldquo;Movie Night&rdquo; on Friday, September 1, in the recently opened Armenian Youth Center in Hollywood', '2011-10-15T22:48:02+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'director lead actor join anc hollywood inaugural ‘movie night’ armenian national committee hollywood chapter hosted inaugural “movie nightâ€ friday september 1 recently opened armenian youth center hollywood');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2031, 'Chalian Commits to Berkeley in NCAA Division 1', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/HwNPv6lD5RM/', 'La Habra, Calif.&rsquo;s Sonora High School graduate Raffi Chalian has committed to attend and play basketball for UC Berkeley in the National College Athletics Association&rsquo;s &ldquo;Pac 12, Division 1&rdquo; as a guaranteed walk on', '2011-10-15T22:48:03+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'chalian commits berkeley ncaa division 1 habra calif’s sonora high school graduate raffi chalian committed attend play basketball uc berkeley national college athletics association’s “pac 12 division 1â€ guaranteed walk');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2032, 'Gulugian Helps UCLA Win Third NCAA Women&rsquo;s Golf Championship', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/cpj1xN9z-2g/', 'Irvine-native Ani Gulugian, a freshman at UCLA, helped her No. 2 ranked UCLA women&#039;s golf team battle through tough weather conditions and bring home UCLA&#039;s third NCAA title in women&#039;s golf.', '2011-10-15T22:48:03+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'gulugian helps ucla win ncaa women’s golf championship irvine native ani gulugian freshman ucla helped 2 ranked ucla womens golf team battle tough weather conditions bring home uclas ncaa title womens golf');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2033, 'Armenia Beats Slovakia 4-0 in Euro 2012 Qualifying Match', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/M6D70SsFvU4/', 'Armenia beat Slovakia 4-0 in the crucial Euro 2012 Group B qualifier match on Tuesday', '2011-10-15T22:48:04+02:00', 'Armenia', 'armenia beats slovakia 4 0 euro 2012 qualifying match armenia beat slovakia 4 0 crucial euro 2012 group b qualifier match tuesday');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2034, 'Darchinyan Wins Yerevan Match', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/rqaATmNKX9k/', 'Vic &ldquo;The Raging Bull&rdquo; Darchinyan retained his IBO title with a 119:107, 120:107, 120:107 score in an impressive fight against Evans Mbamba of South Africa that took place in Yerevan&rsquo;s Karen Demirchian Sports Complex on September 3.', '2011-10-15T22:48:04+02:00', 'Armenia', 'darchinyan wins yerevan match vic “the raging bullâ€ darchinyan retained ibo title 119107 120107 120107 score impressive fight evans mbamba south africa took place yerevan’s karen demirchian sports complex september 3');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2035, 'Press Watchdog &lsquo;Appalled&rsquo; at Expulsion of Azeri Reporter from Nakhichevan', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/aVTkwq_5Hx4/', 'The press watchdog group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issued an announcement Tuesday decrying the recent abduction and expulsion of Azeri reported, Yafez Hasanov from Nakhichevan', '2011-10-15T22:48:05+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'press watchdog ‘appalled’ expulsion azeri reporter nakhichevan press watchdog group reporters borders rsf issued announcement tuesday decrying recent abduction expulsion azeri reported yafez hasanov nakhichevan');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2036, 'Turkey Vows Military Sanctions as Turkey-Israel Relations Fray', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/3n2RBOl153U/', 'After an United Nations report on last year&rsquo;s Turkey&rsquo;s flotilla incident in the Gaza Strip, relations between long-time allies Turkey and Israel became more tense as Turkey vowed military sanctions.', '2011-10-15T22:48:05+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'turkey vows military sanctions turkey israel relations fray united nations report year’s turkey’s flotilla incident gaza strip relations long time allies turkey israel tense turkey vowed military sanctions');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2037, 'Return of Ottomans&hellip; To LA', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/2jYvKr7eZoY/', 'Who knew that the Ottoman Military Marching Band, &ldquo;Mehter Takimi&rdquo;, still existed?  Further, it seems its core was comprised of the janissaries (yeneecheree, and more on this later).', '2011-10-15T22:48:06+02:00', 'By Any Means', 'return ottomans… knew ottoman military marching band “mehter takimiâ€ existed core comprised janissaries yeneecheree later');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2038, 'Honoring A Long Life: Lucy Mirigian Turns 105', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/-eKvu1EaDBQ/', 'The children and many friends of Mrs. Lucy Mirigian, lovingly referred to as Aunt Lu, celebrated her 105th Birthday at the home of Dr. Garo and Aida Mirigian, in Fremont, California, on August 6. ', '2011-10-15T22:48:06+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'honoring long life lucy mirigian turns 105 children friends mrs lucy mirigian lovingly referred aunt lu celebrated 105th birthday home dr garo aida mirigian fremont california august 6');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2039, 'Armenian Bar Association Hosts &lsquo;Rising Stars&rsquo; Awards Ceremony', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/d2t45YbHgeY/', 'The Armenian Bar Association held its inaugural &ldquo;20 Rising Stars under 40&rdquo; awards ceremony on July 28 at the Pandora on Green restaurant in Old Town Pasadena', '2011-10-15T22:48:07+02:00', 'Armenia', 'armenian bar association hosts ‘rising stars’ awards ceremony armenian bar association held inaugural “20 rising stars 40â€ awards ceremony july 28 pandora green restaurant old town pasadena');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2040, 'CITF and ADAA Host US Premiere From MIHR Theatre of Armenia', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/4r28pR2Z6vA/', 'The California International Theatre Festival (CITF) is pleased to present the U.S. Premiere of Komitas&rsquo; 10 Commandments &amp;#38; Colors by MIHR Theatre from Armenia, co-presented with the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance of Los Angeles', '2011-10-15T22:48:07+02:00', 'Arts &amp; Culture', 'citf adaa host premiere mihr theatre armenia california international theatre festival citf pleased present premiere komitas’ 10 commandments &#38 colors mihr theatre armenia presented armenian dramatic arts alliance angeles');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2041, 'EDITORIAL: Artsakh&rsquo;s Independence', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/-ZrhIobYMyU/', 'The people of Artsakh, on September 2, 1991, declared independence from the Soviet Union and became the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.', '2011-10-15T22:48:08+02:00', 'Armenia', 'editorial artsakh’s independence people artsakh september 2 1991 declared independence soviet union nagorno karabakh republic');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2042, 'Karabakh Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Independence', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/sai3jO-uyE0/', 'Festivities to mark the 20th anniversary of the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Artsakh, kicked off Thursday with an official ceremony led by the country&rsquo;s President Bako Sahakian and attended by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian.', '2011-10-15T22:48:08+02:00', 'Armenia', 'karabakh celebrates 20th anniversary independence festivities mark 20th anniversary independence nagorno karabakh republic artsakh kicked thursday official ceremony led country’s president bako sahakian attended armenian president serzh sarkisian');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2043, 'Karabakh Ready for Direct Talks with Azerbaijan, Says Sahakian', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/v7Lzil5qkzE/', 'The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Artsakh, is ready for direct talks with Azerbaijan, on all levels, as a side to the conflict, Karabakh President Bako Sahakian said in an interview with Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Artsakh&rsquo;s independence.', '2011-10-15T22:48:09+02:00', 'Armenia', 'karabakh ready direct talks azerbaijan says sahakian nagorno karabakh republic artsakh ready direct talks azerbaijan levels conflict karabakh president bako sahakian said interview nezavisimaya gazeta occasion 20th anniversary artsakh’s independence');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2044, 'Special Report: What is Turkey Returning to Armenians?', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/qaa0LitBxlM/', 'The Turkish government recently announced that real estate assets confiscated by the State, which once belonged to Armenian, Greek, and Jewish charitable foundations, would be returned to the rightful owners, and that the government would pay compensation for any confiscated property that has since been sold to third parties', '2011-10-15T22:48:09+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'special report turkey returning armenians turkish government recently announced real estate assets confiscated state belonged armenian greek jewish charitable foundations returned rightful owners government pay compensation confiscated property sold parties');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2045, 'Armenia May Acquire More Sophisticated Russian Missiles', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/0njS8TFUfI4/', 'Armenia is adequately protected by S-300 air-defense systems but may have even more sophisticated Russian surface-to-air missiles deployed on its territory in the near future, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said late on Tuesday', '2011-10-15T22:48:10+02:00', 'Armenia', 'armenia acquire sophisticated russian missiles armenia adequately protected 300 air defense systems sophisticated russian surface air missiles deployed territory near future defense minister seyran ohanian said late tuesday');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2046, 'Karabakh Independence Will be Recognized, Says Kocharian', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/zEKn0gp7L1A/', 'Time favors the Armenians in the unresolved conflict with Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh&rsquo;s independence will eventually be recognized by the international community, according to former President Robert Kocharian.', '2011-10-15T22:48:11+02:00', 'Armenia', 'karabakh independence recognized says kocharian time favors armenians unresolved conflict azerbaijan nagorno karabakh’s independence eventually recognized international community according president robert kocharian');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2047, '&lsquo;Grandma&rsquo;s Tattoos&rsquo;: A Riveting Film About the Forgotten Women of Genocide', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/P5NRk0uTwrI/', '&quot;Grandma Khanoum was not like every one else. As a child I remember her as a wicked woman. She despised physical contact. This was a grandma who never hugged, gave no kisses. And she wore those gloves, which hid her hands and the tattoos. They hid her secret.&rdquo;', '2011-10-15T22:48:11+02:00', 'Arts &amp; Culture', '‘grandma’s tattoos’ riveting film forgotten women genocide grandma khanoum like child i remember wicked woman despised physical contact grandma hugged gave kisses wore gloves hid hands tattoos hid secretâ€');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2048, 'Armenian Community Leaders, Activists Meet With Berman', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/E3XwQu3hA38/', 'A number of Armenian community leaders and activists met with Congressman Howard Berman (CA-28-D-Van Nuys) on Wednesday, August 17, to discuss a broad range of issues that are of concern to the Armenian American community', '2011-10-15T22:48:12+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'armenian community leaders activists meet berman number armenian community leaders activists met congressman howard berman 28 nuys wednesday august 17 discuss broad range issues concern armenian american community');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2049, 'ANCA-WR Extends Internship Program Deadline to Sept. 8', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/0FFQL-pBmdo/', 'The Armenian National Committee of America &ndash; Western Region has extended the deadline to apply for its Executive Internship Program to Wednesday, September 8.', '2011-10-15T22:48:12+02:00', 'Community', 'anca wr extends internship program deadline sept 8 armenian national committee america – western region extended deadline apply executive internship program wednesday september 8');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2050, 'Sarkisian Chides Baku, Ankara on Karabakh and Protocols', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/cP_WegEJDaM/', 'President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday scolded both Baku and Ankara for their respective uncooperative position on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and prolonging the Turkey-Armenia protocol process.', '2011-10-15T22:48:13+02:00', 'Armenia', 'sarkisian chides baku ankara karabakh protocols president serzh sarkisian tuesday scolded baku ankara respective uncooperative position resolution nagorno karabakh conflict prolonging turkey armenia protocol process');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2051, 'Group Reports Discrimination Against Armenians in Tbilisi School', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/IpZfZ5dCGeE/', 'Facts about cases of discrimination against Armenians in a local public school were reported to Georgia&rsquo;s Human Rights Ombudsman by the Armenian Community of Georgia, a non-governmental organization operating in Tbilisi.', '2011-10-15T22:48:13+02:00', 'Armenia', 'group reports discrimination armenians tbilisi school facts cases discrimination armenians local public school reported georgia’s human rights ombudsman armenian community georgia governmental organization operating tbilisi');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2052, 'General Amnesty in Karabakh Ahead of Independence Anniversary', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/3iwKfgDw04g/', 'Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh declared on Tuesday a general amnesty which they said will lead to the early release of about 20 percent of the prison population.', '2011-10-15T22:48:14+02:00', 'Armenia', 'general amnesty karabakh ahead independence anniversary authorities nagorno karabakh declared tuesday general amnesty said lead early release 20 percent prison population');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2053, 'ARS, INC. Joins Dorcas Aid to Help Africa Famine Victims', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/EvKNWowO8-c/', 'The Armenian Relief Society, Inc., joined Dorcas Aid in an effort to assist the victims of the famine in the Horn of Africa.', '2011-10-15T22:48:14+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'ars joins dorcas aid help africa famine victims armenian relief society joined dorcas aid effort assist victims famine horn africa');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2054, 'First Day Back At Alex Pilibos School', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/wXG2T3vsBkA/', 'A wave of anticipation shimmered through the students, faculty, administration, parents, and guests as Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School officially opened the 2011-2012 school year on Monday, August 22, 2011. Members of the Prelacy Board of Regents, the Pilibos School Board, and many alumni were present to mark the opening of the new academic year.', '2011-10-15T22:48:15+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'day alex pilibos school wave anticipation shimmered students faculty administration parents guests rose alex pilibos armenian school officially opened 2011 2012 school year monday august 22 2011 members prelacy board regents pilibos school board alumni present mark opening new academic year');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2055, 'Same old Turkish Trick: Make Promises, Get Praised, but Deliver Nothing', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/270cdOsp1vI/', 'Turkish leaders came up with a new ploy last week to impress world public opinion with fake magnanimity toward the country&rsquo;s long-oppressed minorities.', '2011-10-15T22:48:15+02:00', 'Columns', 'old turkish trick make promises praised deliver turkish leaders came new ploy week impress world public opinion fake magnanimity country’s long oppressed minorities');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2056, 'Congressional Elections Held At AYF Camp', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/JeBBKCxwRM4/', 'The energy, ideas, intrigue and hardball politics of a congressional election have been taking center stage every week this summer at AYF Camp Big Pines in Wrightwood, California.', '2011-10-15T22:48:16+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'congressional elections held ayf camp energy ideas intrigue hardball politics congressional election taking center stage week summer ayf camp big pines wrightwood california');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2057, 'Catholicos Warned Obama About Georgia&rsquo;s Abuse of Minorities', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/eDEm8IjHWX4/', 'His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, in December 2009, wrote a letter to President Barack Obama alerting him to the continued abuses of religious and ethnic minorities in Georgia, a cable released Friday by the whistleblower site WikiLeaks revealed.', '2011-10-15T22:48:16+02:00', 'Armenia', 'catholicos warned obama georgia’s abuse minorities holiness karekin ii catholicos armenians december 2009 wrote letter president barack obama alerting continued abuses religious ethnic minorities georgia cable released friday whistleblower site wikileaks revealed');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2058, 'Karabakh Tourism Jumps 50 Percent', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/8tYmV7Bn9Dg/', 'The number of foreign tourists visiting Nagorno-Karabakh jumped by almost 50 percent in the first half of this year following a similarly sharp rise recorded in 2010, Karabakh authorities said Monday.', '2011-10-15T22:48:17+02:00', 'Armenia', 'karabakh tourism jumps 50 percent number foreign tourists visiting nagorno karabakh jumped 50 percent half year following similarly sharp rise recorded 2010 karabakh authorities said monday');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2059, 'Necessary but Insufficient', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/YmSp_gt46AQ/', 'Ankara&rsquo;s initiative looks more like damage control than anything else, and must be followed by broader, meaningful steps.', '2011-10-15T22:48:17+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'necessary insufficient ankara’s initiative looks like damage control followed broader meaningful steps');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2060, 'Sahakian Congratulates Abkhaz President on Election', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/EgTuQ9N5IFE/', 'Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Bako Sahakian sent a letter congratulating the new president-elect of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab, the presidential press office reported Monday.', '2011-10-15T22:48:18+02:00', 'Armenia', 'sahakian congratulates abkhaz president election nagorno karabakh republic president bako sahakian sent letter congratulating new president elect abkhazia alexander ankvab presidential press office reported monday');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2061, 'Turkish Group Appeals Court Ruling over &lsquo;Unreliable Web Sites&rsquo;', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/M1B_QLJ0rkk/', 'The Turkish Coalition of America has appealed a Federal Court&rsquo;s March 30 decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought forth by the TCA against the University of Minnesota, its President, and another professor, for having included the TCA&rsquo;s website on a list of &ldquo;unreliable websites&rdquo; due to the latter&rsquo;s denial of the Armenian Genocide.', '2011-10-15T22:48:18+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'turkish group appeals court ruling ‘unreliable web sites’ turkish coalition america appealed federal court’s march 30 decision dismiss lawsuit brought forth tca university minnesota president professor having included tca’s website list “unreliable websitesâ€ latter’s denial armenian genocide');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2062, 'ANCA-WR Leads Successful Initiative to Ensure Fair Redistricting in California', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/094DqFV1Q3Q/', 'Throughout the months of April, May, June, and July, the Armenian National Committee of America &ndash; Western Region (ANCA-WR) led a coordinated effort with activists throughout California to ensure fair Congressional redistricting. ', '2011-10-15T22:48:19+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'anca wr leads successful initiative ensure fair redistricting california months april june july armenian national committee america – western region anca wr led coordinated effort activists california ensure fair congressional redistricting');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2063, 'ANCA Hollywood to Host Movie Screening', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/4WGYW9LzOfs/', 'The Armenian National Committee of America Hollywood Chapter is hosting its first ever &quot;Movie Night&quot; on Friday, September 2 at 6:30 p.m.in the recently opened Armenian Youth Center in Hollywood (1559 North Kenmore Street).', '2011-10-15T22:48:19+02:00', 'Community', 'anca hollywood host movie screening armenian national committee america hollywood chapter hosting movie night friday september 2 630 pmin recently opened armenian youth center hollywood 1559 north kenmore street');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2064, 'ANCA-WR to Host Meet and Greet with Wendy Greuel', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/rU9iwxvh19o/', 'On Thursday, September 29, the Armenian National Committee of America &ndash; Western Region invites the community to meet with current Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel, who has announced her candidacy for the 2013 Los Angeles mayoral election. ', '2011-10-15T22:48:20+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'anca wr host meet greet wendy greuel thursday september 29 armenian national committee america – western region invites community meet current angeles city controller wendy greuel announced candidacy 2013 angeles mayoral election');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2065, 'Let&rsquo;s Talk Story', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/YPy4E_BJdLc/', 'A massive jetliner approaches Honolulu International. It is the size of a feathered crane from six miles away, wings spread, neck sticking out as it passes above a miniature Coast Guard Cutter that&rsquo;s gliding across the sun-drenched, orange and blue harbor', '2011-10-15T22:48:20+02:00', 'Columns', 'let’s talk story massive jetliner approaches honolulu international size feathered crane miles away wings spread neck sticking passes miniature coast guard cutter that’s gliding sun drenched orange blue harbor');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2066, 'Turkey Pledges to Return Some Confiscated Christian Properties', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/S43L1f43cpA/', 'Fearing mounting losses at the European Court of Human Rights and recent adoption of Congressional legislation calling attention to its repression of Christian communities, the Turkish Government issued a decree this weekend which would return Christian and Jewish religious properties confiscated after 1936, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.\n', '2011-10-15T22:48:21+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'turkey pledges return confiscated christian properties fearing mounting losses european court human rights recent adoption congressional legislation calling attention repression christian communities turkish government issued decree weekend return christian jewish religious properties confiscated 1936 reported armenian national committee america\n');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2067, 'WITH THE PEOPLE: A CELEBRATION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIA&rsquo;S INDEPENDENCE', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/bojKWOBtrsk/', 'A public celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of Armenia&rsquo;s Independence will take place on Wednesday, September 21 at 7 p.m. at St. Mary&rsquo;s Armenian Church courtyard. The public is invited to attend and celebrate this momentous occasion.\n', '2011-10-15T22:48:22+02:00', 'Armenia', 'people celebration 20th anniversary armenia’s independence public celebration mark 20th anniversary establishment armenia’s independence place wednesday september 21 7 pm st mary’s armenian church courtyard public invited attend celebrate momentous occasion\n');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2068, 'State Department&rsquo;s Panic over Genocide Bill Shortsighted', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/YYiNxVTxjjc/', '&ldquo;Any U.S. determination of the events of 1915 as &lsquo;genocide&rsquo; would set off a political firestorm in Turkey, and the effect on our bilateral relationship - including political, military, and commercial aspects - would be devastating,&rdquo; a cable recently released by the whistleblower site WikiLeaks quotes the US Ambassador to Turkey as saying in 2010.', '2011-10-15T22:48:22+02:00', 'Armenia', 'state department’s panic genocide shortsighted “any determination events 1915 ‘genocide’ set political firestorm turkey effect bilateral relationship including political military commercial aspects devastatingâ€ cable recently released whistleblower site wikileaks quotes ambassador turkey saying 2010');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2069, 'Sarkisian Denies Support for Historical Commission', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/AzQntLpriV8/', 'President Serzh Sarkisian flatly denied on Thursday his critics&rsquo; persistent assertions that unlike his predecessor Robert Kocharian, he embraced Ankara&rsquo;s idea of a joint Turkish-Armenian study of the Armenian Genocide.', '2011-10-15T22:48:23+02:00', 'Armenia', 'sarkisian denies support historical commission president serzh sarkisian flatly denied thursday critics’ persistent assertions unlike predecessor robert kocharian embraced ankara’s idea joint turkish armenian study armenian genocide');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2070, 'SAVE THE DATE: &lsquo;ANC Grassroots&rsquo; Conference, ANCA-WR Annual Banquet Slated for Thanksgiving Weekend', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/5WuvLnIZZuY/', 'The Armenian National Committee &ndash; Western Region will host the inaugural conference in the ANC Grassroots: Leadership Development Series from Friday, November 25 to Sunday, November 27, 2011.', '2011-10-15T22:48:23+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'save date ‘anc grassroots’ conference anca wr annual banquet slated thanksgiving weekend armenian national committee – western region host inaugural conference anc grassroots leadership development series friday november 25 sunday november 27 2011');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2071, 'Congressional Candidate Brad Avakian Meets with Southland Community', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/8DgxZvPMey8/', 'Some 100 Armenian community leaders and activists met with Oregon Labor Commissioner and Congressional candidate Brad Avakian on Thursday, August 4, to discuss a broad range of issues that are of concern to the Armenian American community. ', '2011-10-15T22:48:24+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'congressional candidate brad avakian meets southland community 100 armenian community leaders activists met oregon labor commissioner congressional candidate brad avakian thursday august 4 discuss broad range issues concern armenian american community');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2072, 'Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Director Joins Genocide Education Project', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/_kisn48E9FE/', 'The Genocide Education Project (GenEd) added a new member to its advisory board - Dr. Hayk Demoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Armenia.', '2011-10-15T22:48:24+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'armenian genocide museum institute director joins genocide education project genocide education project gened added new member advisory board dr hayk demoyan director armenian genocide museum institute armenia');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2073, 'France Responds to Baku Protest', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/efWp4MQKC6o/', 'Nagorno-Karabakh&rsquo;s &ldquo;international legal status can only be determined within the framework of a peaceful and equitable solution agreed upon by all parties concerned,&rdquo; said a French foreign ministry spokesperson in response to Azerbaijan&rsquo;s protest regarding the &ldquo;solidarity&rdquo; visit of French Parliament members to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.', '2011-10-15T22:48:25+02:00', 'Armenia', 'france responds baku protest nagorno karabakh’s “international legal status determined framework peaceful equitable solution agreed parties concernedâ€ said french foreign ministry spokesperson response azerbaijan’s protest regarding “solidarityâ€ visit french parliament members nagorno karabakh republic');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2074, 'Local Elections in Karabakh Slated for September', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/4-wXLi1QgV0/', 'Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh will go to the polls on September 18 to elect local self-government bodies of the capital Stepanakert and more than 200 other mostly rural communities.', '2011-10-15T22:48:25+02:00', 'Armenia', 'local elections karabakh slated september voters nagorno karabakh polls september 18 elect local self government bodies capital stepanakert 200 rural communities');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2075, 'Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation: Social Democracy In Practice', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/xVuucYB93Q0/', 'The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation (HMF), a social democratic think tank founded in 2009 in the Republic of Armenia is a non-profit Armenian foundation committed to the development and advancement of public policy issues that espouse the basic values of social democracy through education, training, research, and regional and international cooperation.', '2011-10-15T22:48:26+02:00', 'Armenia', 'hrayr maroukhian foundation social democracy practice hrayr maroukhian foundation hmf social democratic think tank founded 2009 republic armenia profit armenian foundation committed development advancement public policy issues espouse basic values social democracy education training research regional international cooperation');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2076, 'New Armenian Silver Coin Commemorates Noah&rsquo;s Ark', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/vBvtF7gPN5Y/', 'A new one-ounce silver coin commemorating Noah&rsquo;s Ark and Mt. Ararat, issued by the Republic of Armenia, was announced on July 4 by the London coin marketing firm CoinInvestDirect.', '2011-10-15T22:48:26+02:00', 'Armenia', 'new armenian silver coin commemorates noah’s ark new ounce silver coin commemorating noah’s ark mt ararat issued republic armenia announced july 4 london coin marketing firm coininvestdirect');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2077, 'Fiscal Sanity Check', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/yf5ykd8-Hdg/', 'Now that the House of Representatives&rsquo; shenanigans over the U.S. government&rsquo;s debt ceiling increase are a &ldquo;distant&rdquo; two week memory, the &ldquo;Tea Party downgrade&rdquo; has hit the United States&rsquo; credit rating, and the stock market is hollering its disapproval, let&rsquo;s take a very brief look at reality', '2011-10-15T22:48:27+02:00', 'By Any Means', 'fiscal sanity check house representatives’ shenanigans government’s debt ceiling increase “distantâ€ week memory “tea party downgradeâ€ hit united states’ credit rating stock market hollering disapproval let’s brief look reality');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2078, 'ARS Shelter Fundraiser Brings Domestic Violence Issue to the Forefront', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/hCERIQGxusk/', 'The Armenian Relief Society of Western USA held its first fundraising event for an outreach program addressing domestic violence on Sunday, August 14, 2011 at its Regional Headquarters in Glendale, California.  The well-attended and successful event helped raise over $15,000', '2011-10-15T22:48:27+02:00', 'Community', 'ars shelter fundraiser brings domestic violence issue forefront armenian relief society western held fundraising event outreach program addressing domestic violence sunday august 14 2011 regional headquarters glendale california attended successful event helped raise $15000');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2079, 'Community Celebrates ABMDR&rsquo;s Life-Saving Mission', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/rfD9NHAd_xo/', 'The Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry held its annual banquet, Match for Life 2011, on the evening of Sunday, July 31. The jubilant community event, which was attended by more than 400 supporters, took place at the Glendale Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Glendale.', '2011-10-15T22:48:28+02:00', 'Community', 'community celebrates abmdr’s life saving mission armenian bone marrow donor registry held annual banquet match life 2011 evening sunday july 31 jubilant community event attended 400 supporters took place glendale ballroom hilton hotel glendale');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2080, 'Armenia, Israel Discuss Ties', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/lkq31ymvPwc/', 'Senior Armenian and Israeli diplomats discussed the sometimes uneasy relationship between their countries during two days of consultations that ended in Yerevan on Tuesday.', '2011-10-15T22:48:28+02:00', 'Armenia', 'armenia israel discuss ties senior armenian israeli diplomats discussed uneasy relationship countries days consultations ended yerevan tuesday');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2081, 'Azerbaijan Protests French Legislators&rsquo; Visit to Karabakh', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/BMlzSZbJEfg/', 'The Azeri Embassy in Paris presented a protest note to the French Foreign Ministry in connection to a &ldquo;solidarity&rdquo; visit by a French parliamentary delegation to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic this week, said Elman Abdullayev, an Azeri foreign ministry spokesman, reported Trend news agency.', '2011-10-15T22:48:29+02:00', 'Armenia', 'azerbaijan protests french legislators’ visit karabakh azeri embassy paris presented protest note french foreign ministry connection “solidarityâ€ visit french parliamentary delegation nagorno karabakh republic week said elman abdullayev azeri foreign ministry spokesman reported trend news agency');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2082, 'Sarkisian Says Baku Repeating Same Rhetoric of 90s', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/gFfh3Lf1D2Q/', 'President Serzh Sarkisian on Sunday said that official Baku is still repeating the same rhetoric that was being used by Azeri leaders in the 1990s, when Armenia was being deemed weak against a &ldquo;strong&rdquo; Azerbaijan. Sarkisian pointed out that Armenians emerged as the victors despite the Azeri propaganda.', '2011-10-15T22:48:29+02:00', 'Armenia', 'sarkisian says baku repeating rhetoric 90s president serzh sarkisian sunday said official baku repeating rhetoric used azeri leaders 1990s armenia deemed weak “strongâ€ azerbaijan sarkisian pointed armenians emerged victors despite azeri propaganda');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2083, 'Setting the Record Straight: List of Churches in Turkey', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/V-nzC4QxqQc/', 'The recently appointed Ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, responding to questions submitted by Senator Robert Menendez, has made incorrect claims about churches in Turkey. We would like to provide some facts for the Ambassador&rsquo;s attention.', '2011-10-15T22:48:30+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'setting record straight list churches turkey recently appointed ambassador turkey francis ricciardone responding questions submitted senator robert menendez incorrect claims churches turkey like provide facts ambassador’s attention');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2084, 'Searching for Lost Armenian Churches and Schools in Turkey', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/hUI3ISfHHRs/', 'On July 21, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee overwhelmingly adopted the Berman-Cicilline Amendment based upon the Return of Churches resolution spearheaded by Representatives Ed Royce and Howard Berman, with a vote of 43 to 1, calling on Turkey to return stolen Armenian and other Christian churches, and to end the repression of its Christian minorities.', '2011-10-15T22:48:30+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'searching lost armenian churches schools turkey july 21 house foreign affairs committee overwhelmingly adopted berman cicilline amendment based return churches resolution spearheaded representatives ed royce howard berman vote 43 1 calling turkey return stolen armenian christian churches end repression christian minorities');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2085, 'ARS Western US Announces New Regional Executive Board', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/Bz_54VYHOdI/', 'During its most recent plenary session, the Armenian Relief Society of Western USA&rsquo;s 2011-2012 9-member Regional Executive Board elected its officers.', '2011-10-15T22:48:31+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'ars western announces new regional executive board recent plenary session armenian relief society western usa’s 2011 2012 9 member regional executive board elected officers');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2086, 'Community Journalism, Online: Changes, Challenges, Opportunities', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/dnMZv3BsCjw/', 'Zanku Armenian and I connected via Facebook more than a year before we met. I &ldquo;liked&rdquo; his Think Again page, which features his monthly column in the Glendale News-Press. ', '2011-10-15T22:48:31+02:00', 'Columns', 'community journalism online changes challenges opportunities zanku armenian i connected facebook year met i “likedâ€ think page features monthly column glendale news press');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2087, 'ARPA International Film Festival Announces 2011 Program', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/qKluz7hXnig/', 'The 14th annual Arpa International Film Festival, presented by AT&amp;#38;T YP.com, (September 22-24 at the Egyptian Theatre located in the heart of Hollywood, CA) announced this year&#039;s festival program and events. The 3-day fest offers 30 films including 6 feature films, 11 short films, 9 documentaries, 3 music videos, 1 animated film and World, North American, and West Coast premieres', '2011-10-15T22:48:32+02:00', 'Arts &amp; Culture', 'arpa international film festival announces 2011 program 14th annual arpa international film festival presented at&#38t ypcom september 22 24 egyptian theatre located heart hollywood announced years festival program events 3 day fest offers 30 films including 6 feature films 11 short films 9 documentaries 3 music videos 1 animated film world north american west coast premieres');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2088, 'Protocols &lsquo;Expire&rsquo; in Turkish Parliament', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/4iSdO2kizyk/', 'The term of the Armenia-Turkey protocols in the Turkish parliament has expired, reported the Turkish Merhaba Gazetesi.', '2011-10-15T22:48:33+02:00', 'Armenia', 'protocols ‘expire’ turkish parliament term armenia turkey protocols turkish parliament expired reported turkish merhaba gazetesi');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2089, 'Another Armenian Church Vandalized in Georgia', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/ynH6Et7kNzY/', 'Another Armenian church was vandalized in Georgia. This time it was St. Etchmiadzin church in Georgia&rsquo;s capital, Tbilisi, which was consecrated by Catholicos Karekin II during his pontifical visit there.', '2011-10-15T22:48:33+02:00', 'Armenia', 'armenian church vandalized georgia armenian church vandalized georgia time st etchmiadzin church georgia’s capital tbilisi consecrated catholicos karekin ii pontifical visit');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2090, 'Ricciardone Again Misrepresents Turkey&rsquo;s Destruction of Churches', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/o5_9iFLv_r8/', 'U.S. Ambassador to Turkey responds to community outrage by finally conceding that most pre-1915 churches are &quot;no longer operating&quot;', '2011-10-15T22:48:34+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'ricciardone misrepresents turkey’s destruction churches ambassador turkey responds community outrage finally conceding pre 1915 churches longer operating');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2091, 'French Legislators in &lsquo;Solidarity&rsquo; Visit To Karabakh', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/8qbUKrmbS0Y/', 'Four members of France&rsquo;s parliament visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday in a show of support for Karabakh&rsquo;s pursuit of international recognition of its independence.', '2011-10-15T22:48:34+02:00', 'Armenia', 'french legislators ‘solidarity’ visit karabakh members france’s parliament visited nagorno karabakh monday support karabakh’s pursuit international recognition independence');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2092, 'Pontifical Banquet Kick-Off A Great Success As Pledges Exceed $1.2 Million', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/iiHokyIEYLM/', 'A capacity crowd of Western Prelacy sponsors and friends gathered at Carousel Restaurant on August 11 to pledge their support at the Kick-off to the Pontifical Banquet which will be held on October 16 in honor of His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia.', '2011-10-15T22:48:35+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'pontifical banquet kick great success pledges exceed $12 million capacity crowd western prelacy sponsors friends gathered carousel restaurant august 11 pledge support kick pontifical banquet held october 16 honor holiness aram i catholicos great house cilicia');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2093, 'Villaraigosa Appoints Armoudian to Taxicab Commission Board', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/HSXcFgr9r7g/', 'Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the appointment of Maria Armoudian to the Board of Taxicab Commissioners Wednesday.', '2011-10-15T22:48:36+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'villaraigosa appoints armoudian taxicab commission board mayor antonio villaraigosa announced appointment maria armoudian board taxicab commissioners wednesday');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2094, 'World Bank Increases Lending To Armenia', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/n9EXfmZZhgM/', 'The World Bank will disburse up to $100 million in additional loans to Armenia next year to finance more infrastructure upgrades and public service and tax reforms, officials said on Thursday.', '2011-10-15T22:48:36+02:00', 'Armenia', 'world bank increases lending armenia world bank disburse $100 million additional loans armenia year finance infrastructure upgrades public service tax reforms officials said thursday');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2095, '43-1: Safeguarding Christian Heritage in Modern Day Turkey', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/wzqZDWhi7YY/', 'Although Turkey is a secular state, there have been continued reports of discrimination and abuse based on religious belief or practice, as well as routine confiscation of Christian properties through discriminatory laws. ', '2011-10-15T22:48:37+02:00', 'Featured Story', '43 1 safeguarding christian heritage modern day turkey turkey secular state continued reports discrimination abuse based religious belief practice routine confiscation christian properties discriminatory laws');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2096, 'ANCA-WR Intern Spotlight: Anush Petrosyan', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/A82VWSKV0dI/', 'Anush Petrosyan recently began her summer internship at the Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region. The program will last ten weeks, during which interns will gain an understanding of the ANCA-WR&#039;s affairs concerning advocacy and the political process.', '2011-10-15T22:48:37+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'anca wr intern spotlight anush petrosyan anush petrosyan recently began summer internship armenian national committee america western region program weeks interns gain understanding anca wrs affairs concerning advocacy political process');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2097, 'Senators Should Reject Obama&rsquo;s Appointee as Ambassador to Turkey', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/SspwV2fNyvU/', 'President Obama has an endless number of problems these days. Late last year, when Senators blocked several of his ambassadorial nominees, including the one to Turkey, the president resorted to the rarely used tactic of appointing Ambassadors without Senate approval, while Congress is in recess.', '2011-10-15T22:48:38+02:00', 'Columns', 'senators reject obama’s appointee ambassador turkey president obama endless number problems days late year senators blocked ambassadorial nominees including turkey president resorted rarely used tactic appointing ambassadors senate approval congress recess');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2098, '&lsquo;Computer to Every Child&rsquo; Program Kicks Off in Karabakh', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/vRbQ2bkKkXs/', 'In September 161 teachers and 3,600 first-graders in Stepanakert and Shushi in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will receive laptops within the framework of a new educational program called &ldquo;Computer to Every Child.&rdquo;', '2011-10-15T22:48:38+02:00', 'Armenia', '‘computer child’ program kicks karabakh september 161 teachers 3600 graders stepanakert shushi nagorno karabakh republic receive laptops framework new educational program called “computer childâ€');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2099, 'Election Official Vows Transparency in Upcoming Polls', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/-bj1snIojag/', 'Armenia&rsquo;s next parliamentary and presidential elections will be &ldquo;unprecedented&rdquo; in terms of their transparency, Garegin Azarian, the chairman of the Central Election Commission, said on Tuesday.', '2011-10-15T22:48:39+02:00', 'Armenia', 'election official vows transparency upcoming polls armenia’s parliamentary presidential elections “unprecedentedâ€ terms transparency garegin azarian chairman central election commission said tuesday');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2100, 'Karabakh Resolution Must Speed Up, Says EU', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/ZdiN-74QJFs/', 'The process of resolving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict must be accelerated, head of the EU representative office in Azerbaijan Roland Kobia told media.', '2011-10-15T22:48:39+02:00', 'Armenia', 'karabakh resolution speed says process resolving nagorno karabakh conflict accelerated head representative office azerbaijan roland kobia told media');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2101, 'ANCA-WR Intern Spotlight: Joseph Kazazian', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/vnGeGt9xrSU/', 'The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region Summer Internship Program gives students an opportunity to immerse themselves in grassroots political advocacy. Joseph Kazazian, a recent college graduate, was chosen for his work in the community and dedication to the importance of Armenian-American advocacy.', '2011-10-15T22:48:40+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'anca wr intern spotlight joseph kazazian armenian national committee america western region summer internship program gives students opportunity immerse grassroots political advocacy joseph kazazian recent college graduate chosen work community dedication importance armenian american advocacy');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2102, 'Bloody Thoughts', 'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asbarez/~3/EP6OcNkEHF8/', 'For someone who loves to yell and give punishments to misbehaving kids, I needed to be very gentle and calm while dealing with the Orange group in Shushi who is made up of the most quiet and well-behaved young kids. Having a discussion with them about how Artsakh War affected them and their families was kind of a difficult topic.', '2011-10-15T22:48:40+02:00', 'Blogs', 'bloody thoughts loves yell punishments misbehaving kids i needed gentle calm dealing orange group shushi quiet behaved young kids having discussion artsakh affected families kind difficult topic');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2103, 'Haaretz Article Urges Turkey to Acknowledge Genocide', 'http://asbarez.com/98679/haaretz-article-urges-turkey-to-acknowledge-genocide/', 'In response to Turkey&rsquo;s continued calls on Israel to apologize for last year&rsquo;s flotilla incident, Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in a piece posted on the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz Web site on Friday, says that Turkey should acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.', '2011-10-15T22:48:46+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'haaretz article urges turkey acknowledge genocide response turkey’s continued calls israel apologize year’s flotilla incident emanuele ottolenghi senior fellow foundation defense democracies piece posted leading israeli newspaper haaretz web site friday says turkey acknowledge armenian genocide');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2104, 'BREAKING NEWS: Zaruhi&rsquo;s Husband Receives 10-Year Sentence', 'http://asbarez.com/98674/breaking-news-zaruhi%e2%80%99s-husband-receives-10-year-sentence/', 'Yanis Sarkisov, accused of beating to death his 20-year-old wife Zaruhi Petrosyan, received a ten-year prison term on Oct. 14.', '2011-10-15T22:48:46+02:00', 'Armenia', 'breaking news zaruhi’s husband receives 10 year sentence yanis sarkisov accused beating death 20 year old wife zaruhi petrosyan received year prison term oct 14');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2105, 'Tankian to Speak on &lsquo;ANC Grassroots&rsquo; Panel On Activism Through Arts', 'http://asbarez.com/98670/tankian-to-speak-on-%e2%80%98anc-grassroots%e2%80%99-panel-on-activism-through-arts/', 'The Armenian National Committee&ndash;Western Region announced Friday that world-renowned performing artist Serj Tankian will serve as a panelist in &ldquo;Lights, Camera, Activate,&rdquo; which will cover the ways in which film, music and the arts can be used to promote grassroots activism', '2011-10-15T22:48:47+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'tankian speak ‘anc grassroots’ panel activism arts armenian national committee–western region announced friday world renowned performing artist serj tankian serve panelist “lights camera activateâ€ cover ways film music arts used promote grassroots activism');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2106, 'ANCA Welcomes New U.S. Pressure On Turkey to Return Stolen Religious Properties', 'http://asbarez.com/98637/anca-welcomes-new-u-s-pressure-on-turkey-to-return-stolen-religious-properties/', 'The Armenian National Committee of America has welcomed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#039;s first-ever public assertion that the U.S. government is actively pressing the highest levels of the Turkish government to restore confiscated properties to religious communities.', '2011-10-15T22:48:47+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'anca welcomes new pressure turkey return stolen religious properties armenian national committee america welcomed secretary state hillary clintons public assertion government actively pressing highest levels turkish government restore confiscated properties religious communities');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2107, 'Armenian Consulate Hosts Catholicos Aram I', 'http://asbarez.com/98656/armenian-consulate-hosts-catholicos-aram-i/', '&quot;This Consulate is our home, just as the Church and Armenia are our homes,&quot; stated His Holiness Catholicos Aram I during a visit to the new headquarters of the Armenian Consulate General on Wednesday, October 12.', '2011-10-15T22:48:48+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'armenian consulate hosts catholicos aram i consulate home just church armenia homes stated holiness catholicos aram i visit new headquarters armenian consulate general wednesday october 12');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2108, '&lsquo;If You Want Peace, Prepare For War,&rsquo; Says Turkish Defense Chief', 'http://asbarez.com/98652/%e2%80%98if-you-want-peace-prepare-for-war%e2%80%99-says-turkish-defense-chief/', 'Citing the Turkish proverb, &ldquo;if you want peace, prepare for war,&rdquo; Turkey&rsquo;s Defense Minister on Thursday underscored the importance of military cooperation between Turkey and Azerbaijan as he kicked off talks in Baku.', '2011-10-15T22:48:48+02:00', 'Armenia', '‘if want peace prepare war’ says turkish defense chief citing turkish proverb “if want peace prepare warâ€ turkey’s defense minister thursday underscored importance military cooperation turkey azerbaijan kicked talks baku');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2109, 'Former Glendale Mayor Larry Zarian Passes Away', 'http://asbarez.com/98641/former-glendale-mayor-larry-zarian-passes-away/', 'Glendale&rsquo;s first Armenian-American mayor Larry Zarian passed away Thursday at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, friends and former colleagues told the Glendale News Press', '2011-10-15T22:48:49+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'glendale mayor larry zarian passes away glendale’s armenian american mayor larry zarian passed away thursday glendale adventist medical center friends colleagues told glendale news press');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2110, 'Armenia Files Protest Over Soccer Match', 'http://asbarez.com/98624/armenia-files-protest-over-soccer-match/', 'The Football Federation of Armenia said Thursday that it has filed an official protest to UEFA, European soccer&rsquo;s governing body, over wrong decisions by the referee in Armenia&rsquo;s Euro 2012 qualifying defeat by Ireland in Dublin.', '2011-10-15T22:48:49+02:00', 'Armenia', 'armenia files protest soccer match football federation armenia said thursday filed official protest uefa european soccer’s governing body wrong decisions referee armenia’s euro 2012 qualifying defeat ireland dublin');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2111, 'Baku Wants to Build Wall at Karabakh-Azeri Border', 'http://asbarez.com/98649/baku-wants-to-build-wall-at-karabakh-azeri-border/', 'Azerbaijan wants to launch a construction project in the Ota Gerbend village in Aghdam to build a 700-metes-long wall along the border with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from Karavand to Tartar region.', '2011-10-15T22:48:50+02:00', 'Armenia', 'baku wants build wall karabakh azeri border azerbaijan wants launch construction project ota gerbend village aghdam build 700 metes long wall border nagorno karabakh republic karavand tartar region');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2112, 'ANCA-WR and VIZA Team Up on Human Rights, Voter Registration Drive', 'http://asbarez.com/98645/anca-wr-and-viza-team-up-on-human-rights-voter-registration-drive/', 'Socially-conscious rock band Viza will team up with the Armenian National Committee of America &ndash; Western Region for its Saturday, October 22 show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.', '2011-10-15T22:48:50+02:00', 'Arts &amp; Culture', 'anca wr viza team human rights voter registration drive socially conscious rock band viza team armenian national committee america – western region saturday october 22 troubadour west hollywood');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2113, 'Sarkissian, Senekeremian to Speak at &lsquo;ANC Grassroots&rsquo; on Advocacy through Politics', 'http://asbarez.com/98660/sarkissian-senekeremian-to-speak-at-%e2%80%98anc-grassroots%e2%80%99-on-advocacy-through-politics/', 'The Armenian National Committee &ndash; Western Region announced that longtime political strategists Rostom Sarkissian and Matt Senekeremian will serve as panelists in &ldquo;Grassroots: Empower and Lead,&rdquo; a workshop on activism through politics.', '2011-10-15T22:48:51+02:00', 'Featured Story', 'sarkissian senekeremian speak ‘anc grassroots’ advocacy politics armenian national committee – western region announced longtime political strategists rostom sarkissian matt senekeremian serve panelists “grassroots empower leadâ€ workshop activism politics');
INSERT INTO `items1` VALUES (2114, 'Fresno Community Welcomes Aram I', 'http://asbarez.com/98534/fresno-community-welcomes-aram-i/', '&ldquo;The Fresno Armenian Community is one of the oldest Armenian communities established in the United States and has been extremely instrumental in keeping age old Armenian traditions, connections to the Christian faith, and deep rooted ties to the Great House of Cilicia&quot;', '2011-10-15T22:48:51+02:00', 'Catholicos Aram I Visit', 'fresno community welcomes aram i “the fresno armenian community oldest armenian communities established united states extremely instrumental keeping age old armenian traditions connections christian faith deep rooted ties great house cilicia');
