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		<title>Dusting off the Cobwebs (Is there Anybody Out There?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime around August life got very busy for me personally.  Since the holidays are now past and the immediate concerns at home have abated, I feel the time has come to resume this project.  
I have neglected this site for too long.  I&#8217;m setting a goal for myself to finish the 2009 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1553</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finally updating the past Friday Updates, so at least the website is up to date.  So far so good.  I have no way of getting to the theater anytime soon, but I hope to be caught up sometime next month.  Wish me luck!

Cold Souls
The Marc Pease Experience
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1545</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whoa!  I am so behind no there&#8217;s absolutely no way I&#8217;ll catch up by the end of the calendar year.  Still, that&#8217;s okay.  I&#8217;m going to get back to the Ritz when I can, and make up the remainder on video.

Lorna&#8217;s Silence
Ponyo
Spread
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

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		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1542</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a bit of trouble this week at home, and didn&#8217;t get to see any of the new films.  That means I have to add three more to the unavailable list, and keep going with the ones I can still see.  This week there are four new ones to add to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1531</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The easy times have officially passed.  This week the Ritz is trying to give me extra stress by releasing six movies at once.  They are:

$9.99
Humpday
In the Loop
Shrink
Soul Power
Somers Town

I&#8217;ve seen trailers for $9.99, Humpday and Soul Power, but the others I&#8217;m largely in the dark about.  The ones I know about all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1514</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week is very simple.  Only one movie is leaving, and I&#8217;m only seeing it:
Afghan Star, 9:30p, Ritz at the Bourse
My mom is still visiting from Chicago and so we&#8217;ll probably just spend some extra time together.  We&#8217;re planning to attend a daytime showing of the new Ice Age movie for the whole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1509</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only one new film this week:

(500) Days of Summer
Afghan Star
The Answer Man

Afghan Star is about a show like American Idon but set in Afghanistan.  I don&#8217;t know anything, really, about the other two movies as I have assiduously avoided watching the trailers.  Moon spoiled far too much for me and now I&#8217;m trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1402</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As there are no screenings I&#8217;m aware of for Wednesday, it&#8217;s going to be a simple night.  There are only two movies I still need to see and they are:
The Hurt Locker, 7:00p, Ritz Five
Séraphine, 9:50p, Ritz Five
Movie times are pretty simple, though there&#8217;s a pretty large gap in between.  My mother is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1491</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only one new film this week:

Séraphine

I haven&#8217;t watched the trailer when it has shown, as I don&#8217;t want to learn anything about it.  
This week just past I got to see five movies and most of what was out.  Even with this release, there are only two films that I haven&#8217;t seen which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1398</link>
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		<title>Cheri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a believer in the idealized romantic notion that everyone has one perfect love.  People (and characters in films) that believe this to be true are simply selling themselves short.  It&#8217;s a kind of emotional laziness that isn&#8217;t backed by everyday, real world evidence.  Plenty of people love and love again, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1458</link>
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		<title>Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moon is a better than average science-fiction film that works fairly well despite not being able to explain away the logical holes in the story.  Sam Bell (played by Sam Rockwell) is just finishing up a three-year contract maintaining a mining facility on the dark side of the moon.  He&#8217;s ready to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1442</link>
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		<title>The Stoning of Soraya M.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I consider myself a bit of a philosopher.  I I enjoy learning about fascinating ideas, overarching concepts and the big picture.  One topic that often comes up is morality.  Morality is a complicated subject that is still studied frequently today.  Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at the University of Virginia defines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1439</link>
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		<title>Movie Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to an unforeseen and fortuitous event, I&#8217;m going to get to see a film tonight with my wife Linda.  It&#8217;s probably just one film, but it&#8217;s one that&#8217;s leaving this week so it&#8217;s a good plan.
The Stoning of Soraya M., 7:15p, Ritz Five
The Hurt Locker, 9:45p, Ritz Five
Linda&#8217;s not planning to stay for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1432</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the Philadelphia QFest Film Festival is going to slow things down for a couple of weeks.  That&#8217;s fine, because I have over a dozen reviews still to write.  There are two new films opening up:

The Hurt Locker
Tetro

I already saw Tetro at a screening function last week, so only one new film [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1393</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Movie night is back to Wednesday this week.  I&#8217;ve got a chance to see a screening of Julie &#038; Julia, and I don&#8217;t like to turn down free movies.
Cheri, 4:30p, Ritz Five
Julie &#038; Julia, 7:30p, Ritz Five
The Girl from Monaco, 9:50p, Ritz Five
The times don&#8217;t line up well.  I&#8217;ll need to leave work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1423</link>
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		<title>Philadelphia Qfest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new film festival starting today.  The 15th Annual International Gay &#038; Lesbian Film Festival (known as Qfest) runs through July 20 at the Ritz East theater.  There will be dozens of new full-length and short films, highlighting lesbian, African-American, Latina/Latino, Youth and Philadelphia filmmakers.  Some films are being shown in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1377</link>
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		<title>Movie Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;m moving the movie night to Tuesday, to accommodate a friend who cannot go on Wednesday.  I&#8217;m planning to see three movies, but I&#8217;m not sure which the third will be yet:
The End of the Line, 5:15p, Ritz at the Bourse
Little Ashes, 7:00p, Ritz at the Bourse
Cheri/The Girl from Monaco, 10:00p, Ritz [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1381</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another pretty normal week for the summer.  There are three new films opening up:

The End of the Line *
The Girl from Monaco
Moon

Moon is the movie that stands out for me this week.  The trailers for it started a long time ago, and I&#8217;ve looked forward to it from the first time. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1371</link>
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		<title>Whatever Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever Works is the story of a writer-director who pumps out three or four movies a year that always seem to have an attractive 18-year old woman who&#8217;s somehow attracted to the neurotic megalomaniacal septuagenarian who uncannily resembles the writer-director.  Or maybe I&#8217;m mixing the plot of the movie with real life?  I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1363</link>
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		<title>Herb &amp; Dorothy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On some level Herb &#038; Dorothy Vogel are a typical New York couple.  He sorted mail for the post office and she was a librarian.  Together they shared a tiny rent-controlled apartment in New York City.  They liked pets, shopping, and spending time together.  But there the similarities begin to diverge. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1350</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I missed a movie for the first time since March.  Departures has left the theater.  I didn&#8217;t know it was leaving, otherwise I would have certainly seen it.  It&#8217;s unfortunate, but I&#8217;ll make it up on DVD when it comes out.  So far, Amazon doesn&#8217;t have a release date. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1333</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week offers up four new films:

Cheri
Little Ashes *
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Whatever Works

I haven&#8217;t seen a whole lot for Cheri, but the other three have had a bunch of trailers.  I&#8217;m not especially excited about anything, but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be great films.
* One Week Only
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		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1289</link>
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		<title>Pressure Cooker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All over the country children are struggling to make the best of their lives.  They aspire to live and be happy and possibly stretch a little further than their parents got.  In some of the poorer areas, like in the inner city, the options available to kids are often slim.  In many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1308</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week is going to be very difficult to predict.  I don&#8217;t know yet which movies are going to be leaving the Ritz except for the early indication that Herb &#038; Dorothy is a one-week only run.  There are four movies starting Friday, but two movies that are currently taking two screens each. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1255</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s two new films appear to be set.  They are:

Food, Inc.
Herb &#038; Dorothy *

Food, Inc. looks like a terrific documentary, something I&#8217;m excited to see but that frightens me a little as well.  I worry that this movie could materially change the way I think about food, my most guilty pleasure.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1284</link>
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		<title>Easy Virtue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Easy Virtue is a surprisingly fitting title for this film.  Instead of exerting effort to establish any real story or invest in characters we can care about, we&#8217;re spoon-fed a pretentious milieux and a trite assumption of how the blanks should be filled in&#8212;an aloof father figure, a socially adept mother with rigid sensibilities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1243</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE:  The movie times have changed due to Linda&#8217;s request that I don&#8217;t see Pressure Cooker without her.  Because the potential third movie will be in a different theater, I&#8217;m changing the order.
This week I&#8217;m only planning two movies for sure, but I&#8217;m putting a third one on the list just in case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1219</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s five films have been set.  They are:

Away We Go
Departures
The Merry Gentleman
O&#8217;Horten *
Pressure Cooker

Away We Go is a Sam Mendes film.  Departures is the Academy Award winner for best foreign film.  The Merry Gentlemen is the directorial debut of Michael Keaton, who also appears in the film.  O&#8217;Horten is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1107</link>
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		<title>Tennessee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Carter (Adan Rothenberg) is the kind of son that every reasonable dad wants to have.  He&#8217;s popular, talented, and has a strong sense of responsibility.  He looks after his younger brother, he treats his girlfriend well, and you just know he&#8217;s the kind of kid that&#8217;s going to turn out all right. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1194</link>
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		<title>Summer Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of weeks I&#8217;ve hit a slow patch.  I&#8217;m not going to the movies as much, and I think the largest part of that is that the summer is getting going.  Graduation has come and gone, and even though I&#8217;m not a student, it dramatically changes the way my office [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1187</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s three films are:

Easy Virtue
Ii Divo *
Tennessee

I only saw two movies this week, but fortunately I managed to see the one that left, Englighten Up!  The trailers for this week&#8217;s three films have been shown extensively, so I feel like I know what I&#8217;m in for.  Tennessee, a film starring Mariah Carey, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1081</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t post a Movie Wednesday last week because I went out on a date with my wife Linda for her birthday.  We had a nice dinner and saw Enlighten Up! which was quite enjoyable.  This week&#8217;s movie night is June 10, and I&#8217;m planning to see these films:
Tennessee, 5:20p, Ritz at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1157</link>
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		<title>Enlighten Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yoga in the United States is a thriving industry.  Thousands of people from all walks of life practice on a regular basis.  There are endless varieties, differentiated by principles, poses, and spiritual components, so abundant that anyone should be able to find a style of yoga that works for him.  At least [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1149</link>
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		<title>Summer Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most movies, for better or for worse, feel like movies.  The characters can be more beautiful or  intelligent than anyone you&#8217;ve met.  When unexpectedly unfortunate events happen, you reflexively begin anticipating how they&#8217;re going to overcome a particular obstacle.  But sometimes, no matter how interesting the story or adorable the characters, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1147</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A slower week for the Ritz.  The summer has been pretty active, so I&#8217;m ready for a little break.  This week&#8217;s two films are:

Enlighten Up! *
Rudo y Cursi

I&#8217;ve seen trailers for both of them, and I&#8217;m not expecting anything Earth-shattering.  Tonight, there are two special showings of Enlighten Up! with filmmaker Kate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=947</link>
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		<title>Adoration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simon (Devon Bostick) takes on an interesting assignment in class.  His teacher Sabine (Arsinée Khanjian) has asked their class to translate a story read aloud in French.  It is a newspaper article about a failed plan to blow up a jet headed from Canada to Israel, motivated apparently by religious bigotry.  Simon, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1116</link>
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		<title>Tulpan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kazakh Steppe is one of the most desolate places I&#8217;ve ever seen on film.  The world there is a flat, unadorned landscape stretching as far as you can see.  Nothing obstructs your view: no hills, trees, shrubs taller than a few inches or man made structures except the small one-room huts the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1114</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Four movies last week, five movies this week.  They are:

Adoration
The Brothers Bloom
The Girlfriend Experience
Summer Hours
Tulpan *

I&#8217;ve seen something for all of these except The Brothers Bloom.  On the last few trips to the theater I&#8217;ve been trying to not pay attention to the trailers.  It&#8217;s difficult to not see or hear without leaving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=883</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My regular Wednesday is going to be full this week.  Luckily for me the three films showing at the Ritz at the Bourse are lined up well and I can get to them all.
The Girlfriend Experience, 5:20p, Ritz at the Bourse
Tulpan, 7:15p, Ritz at the Bourse
Adoration, 9:35p, Ritz at the Bourse
This plan should remain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1067</link>
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		<title>Movie Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Linda and I are going to take a break from doing some home renovations to catch a couple of films on Saturday.  I&#8217;m not sure this is the lineup or the timing, but this is a tentative plan that can work.
Summer Hours, Ritz Five, 2:35p
The Brothers Bloom, Ritz East, 4:30p
Check with me if you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1061</link>
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		<title>The Song of Sparrows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is undeniable that human beings have spread to all corners of the globe.  We inhabit almost any environment, speak all sorts of language, and have many different cultural beliefs that make us all distinct from each other.  But despite those dissimilarities, people everywhere do develop some common perspectives.  Karim (Mohammad Amir [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1058</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Linda and the kids spent Friday night in New York with her parents, so I got a head-start on this week&#8217;s movies. Also, I watched a DVD version of Monsier Verdoux (1947) yesterday.  I&#8217;ve watched 52 of the 60 movies that make up the challenge.  If you haven&#8217;t spotted it yet at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1012</link>
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		<title>Monsieur Verdoux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it difficult to review most movies that are 60 years old.  There are so many contextual elements that are foreign to me.  My understanding of history in general is sketchy and follows the arcs of wars and enormously significant events like The Great Depression.  What can I say?  Growing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=1000</link>
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		<title>Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kingman Motor Inn is a typical roadside Motel.  It&#8217;s not flashy and it&#8217;s somewhat clean.  Mike (Steve Zahn) works at the Kingman for his parents, who are also the owners.  His life is clogged toilets and skimming the pool until Sue (Jennifer Aniston) comes for a two-night stay.  She&#8217;s atypical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=976</link>
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		<title>The Limits of Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Limits of Control is not your typical movie.  Sure, it has most of the elements that comprise a film: actors, a plot, dialog, suspense, and a conclusion.  But what&#8217;s missing from the film speaks more about it than everything that&#8217;s there.  The film is lacking any true foundational context.  This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=975</link>
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		<title>Every Little Step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1974 a group of dancers gathered at a workshop to share their personal stories.  Those conversations were recorded on a tape-to-tape machine. All were different, but a few common elements became clear.  Collectively they encompassed a journey of struggle, passion and perseverance.  Michael Bennett, one of the members of the group, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=974</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have had some really interesting and somewhat serious pieces.  Landmark Theaters is firing out four more films this week.  They are:

Every Little Step
The Limits of Control
Management
The Song of Sparrows *

This was originally slated to be five, but Rudo y Cursi is being moved back two weeks.  The genre of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=823</link>
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		<title>Movie Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this is extremely unusual, but there&#8217;s a chance for me to get away on Friday for some films.  Linda and the girls are preparing to spend a day with her family in NYC so I&#8217;ll be left all by myself.  Seems like a good time for some movies.  I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=954</link>
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		<title>Is Anybody There?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edward (Bill Milner) has some problems.  He&#8217;s an aloof kid of 11 years growing up in England.  His parents, after struggling with more traditional work, have started a home-business providing care for the elderly and infirm.  Edward resents all his own sacrifices, but losing his bedroom to a paying customet most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=927</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to a surprise unencumbered Saturday afternoon, I saw a couple of films I was planning to see on Wednesday.  As a result, I&#8217;ve got a much simplified Wednesday plan.  I&#8217;m seeing one film now.
Is Anybody There?, Ritz Five at 5:30p or 7:50p or 9:55p
I can probably do any of those times.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=894</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Solo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lost of people have a friend like Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane).  Everyone who doesn&#8217;t should want one.  Sure, he&#8217;s not the guy you want to hang with every night.  Solo talks all the time, he butts in when he feels like it, and he doesn&#8217;t really understand the word &#8220;no&#8221;.  But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=903</link>
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		<title>Lemon Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Palestinan woman Salma Zidane (Hiam Abbass) owns a Lemon Orchard situated on the Israli border.  The new Defense Minister Israel Navon (Doron Tavory) moves in right across the road from the grove and concludes the trees represeant a security problem.  He orders the Lemon Trees uprooted, but Salma fights back in court. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=901</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The plan for this coming week is very simple.  There are three movies showing I haven&#8217;t seen, and there is no overlap for any of them.  I&#8217;m going to start at the Bourse for one film and then head to the Ritz Five for the final two.  
Goodbye Solo, Ritz at the Bourse at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=888</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last, a respite.  There are two new films this week, and by a stroke of good fortune, I&#8217;ve seen one already.  They are:

Outrage
Goodbye Solo *

Outrage was a pretty good film on a very important topic.  Goodbye Solo looks like it might be truly awesome.  I am looking forward to this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=694</link>
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		<title>Trailers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I watched three movies at the Ritz, and in the process watched a lot of trailers.  In the past few months the trailers have overlapped quite a bit movie-to-movie, and I never saw too many distinct ones.  Last night was a curious exception.  I watched a total of 15 different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=871</link>
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		<title>Tokyo Sonata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our lives move inexorably forward, the cumulative outcome of thousands of choices intersecting thousands of random events.  Mostly we forget a decision as soon as it&#8217;s made, like what we eat for lunch, or which road to take to the store.  Our minds become freed up to begin deliberating the next option.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=860</link>
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		<title>Lymelife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up is difficult in the best of times.  As teens, we&#8217;re bombarded by conflicting messages and social pressures.  We haven&#8217;t had a chance to truly understand ourselves or how we fit into the larger world.  All this occurs while we have an over-abundance of brain-addling hormones coursing through our bodies.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=858</link>
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		<title>American Violet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie) woke up on a day no different than any other.  She roused her four kids, made breakfast, got them out to her mom Alma (Alfre Woodard), and headed off to work waiting tables.  People spoke freely about their days, conversing over breakfast in the diner.  All was ordinary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=856</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because of a malfunctioning refrigerator my family and I spent busy weekend shopping for a new appliance instead of seeing any movies.   To make it up, I&#8217;m attempting to see three of the five films released Friday and three again next Wednesday.  If I succeed I will be completely caught up.
American Violet, Ritz Five at 5:05p
Lymelife, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=832</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could almost be releved there are not four new movies being released this week, as was true the previous three.  Instead, this week we get five new movies.  They are:

American Violet
Is Anybody There?
Lemon Tree
Lymelife
Tokyo Sonata *

I have seen the trailers for all five of the films, and I&#8217;m excited for each one.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=692</link>
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		<title>Wrapping Up April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a tremendous month for the challenge.  Landmark Theaters delivered an abundance of movies this month and I was fortunate to find time to see so many of them.  I watched 17 movies for my project this month, and even a few more that I cannot count on top of that. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=811</link>
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		<title>Outrage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sexual orientation plays an important role in our politics.  Some of these have been hotly debated very recently, like gay rights and gay marriage. But because of religious and closed-minded opinions, there are few openly gay politicians working in Washington DC.  Only Barney Frank, a congressman from Massachusetts, comes to mind (and yes, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=800</link>
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		<title>Should I Include These?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Ritz Theaters is running a special Saturday evening summer promotion starting May 2.  These are single showings only, not the regular weekly run.  They&#8217;re also only playing at midnight, when nothing else in the theater is likely to be showing.  They&#8217;re classic movies instead of new releases.  The schedule for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=742</link>
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		<title>Cell Phones in the Theater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday in the theater something happened that has never happened to me at a Ritz Theater before.  About 30 minutes into Sugar, someone&#8217;s cell phone rang and a ridiculously loud volume.  It rang a couple of times.  Then to the dismay of everyone else in the theater, a woman answered the phone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=732</link>
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		<title>Movies Movies Movies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past four days I&#8217;ve watched seven really great movies.  I&#8217;m having a terrific time with my movie challenge.  I have been thinking about these films, and I realize that almost every movie I watch was entered in a film festival somewhere.  I&#8217;ve seen contestants and winners in the Cannes film [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=729</link>
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		<title>Sugar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people don&#8217;t realize how difficult it is to reach the top echelon of anything.  In partcular, professional sports are full of young athletes talented enough to take a shot at their dream, at being a pro.  It&#8217;s impossible for everyone to make it, and most fail to make it for very long. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=720</link>
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		<title>Shall We Kiss?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do we risk with a kiss?  Is it just an innocent moment between two people?  Or can it alter the lives of those who share what is perhaps the ultimate intimacy?  If the experience moves you so completely that afterward you question everything in a new light, then maybe you should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=718</link>
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		<title>The Mysteries of Pittsburgh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art Bechstein (Jon Foster) just graduated, with honors, from College.  His father Joe (Nick Nolte), a very connected man, arranged a job for him in Baltimore.  Everything is in its proper place for Art to lead a proper life.  Except, of course, Art.  
To ease off himself a little bit, Art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=690</link>
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		<title>Anvil! The Story of Anvil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The coincidences that relate the Anvil! The Story of Anvil to This is Spinal Tap are so abundant that I cannot completely shed my skepticism.  Robb Reiner (the Drummer) has the same name as the director of Spinal Tap.  The bands are nearly mirror images of each other, both releasing a string of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=687</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the third week in a row with four new movie releases.  They are:

Anvil
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Shall We Kiss?
Sugar

Anvil is the first movie I can recall that I really am not looking forward to seeing.  It looks too much like This is Spinal Tap.   Sugar looks like a pretty enjoyable baseball movie. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=556</link>
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		<title>Hunger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hunger doesn&#8217;t really do very much conventially.  The first one-third of the film introduces us to the utterly inhumane and unbearable conditions for prisoners in Northern Ireland in 1981.  And how awful they are.  A new  prisoner is shown to his cell to find no bed, feces smeared over every wall, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=654</link>
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		<title>Amarcord</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting change of pace to all the new releases at the Ritz this week was Amarcord.  This classic film from 1973 is one of Federico Fellini&#8217;s most beloved films.  A semi-biographical film, it speaks lovingly of Fellini&#8217;s hometown of Rimini in Northern Italy.  The title Amarcord translates to &#8220;I remember&#8221;.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=652</link>
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		<title>In a Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a Dream is the documentary of the artist Isaiah Zagar and his life as an artist in Philadelphia.  He creates mosaic pattens on walls, ceiling, doors, and just about every surface of houses, both inside and out.  His art is seen by thousands every year.  In addition to mirrors, myriad tiles, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=650</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s another triple feature attempt this Wednesday.  Since I cannot conceivably see four movies in one night, I needed to make up one movie another day this week.  That turned out to be Sunday, when I saw Paris 36 with my wife.  We both had a great time.  We wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=642</link>
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		<title>The Wild Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime around 1800 a naked boy was observed roaming a forest in the French countryside.  His eventual captors realized he was essentially feral, having somehow existed outside the boundaries of other men.  He was around 12 years old, and his story was published around France.  Eventually a young medical doctor, Jean Marc [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=626</link>
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		<title>Paris 36</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The trailer for this movie concerned me.  If a trailer gives a fundamentally different feel or vibe than the actual movie presents, then I feel tricked and it can be annoying.  In this case, however, I worried the film would be too similar to so many other movies that are like it.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=624</link>
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		<title>All Movies Reviewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Sunday morning, and for the first time since starting this project I am caught up.  I&#8217;ve officially written reviews for all 32 movies that I&#8217;ve seen so far.  I&#8217;m watching other movies, too, but I&#8217;m only writing up an review for the ones that meet the challenge.  I just don&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=618</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second of at least three weeks in a row with four new movie releases.  The four for this week are:

Amarcord
Hunger
In a Dream
Paris 36

Amarcord is a restored 1973 Federico Fellini movie that I&#8217;ve never seen.  I don&#8217;t know much about the films Hunger or In a Dream.   I have seen a couple of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=549</link>
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		<title>Tokyo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo!  is not really a movie in the traditional sense.  It&#8217;s a collection of three short films from three different directors.  And all three of the stories are incredible.  
The opening short in this film was called &#8220;Interior Design&#8221; by Michel Gondry.  I&#8217;m already a huge fan of his for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=571</link>
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		<title>Everlasting Moments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had two daughters sometime just over two years ago.  That colossal addition to my life has caused me to make numerous adjustments and sacrifices.  That&#8217;s just a statement of fact.  I love them both so much already, and I certainly don&#8217;t regret them for a second.   But mine is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=569</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two more movies this week I&#8217;m going to try to see.
Everlasting Moments, Ritz Five, 7:05p
Tokyo!, Ritz at the Bourse, 9:45p
As always it&#8217;s short notice, but if anyone out there wants to join me, come on down to the Ritz Wednesday.
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		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=533</link>
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		<title>12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of the story of 12 Angry Men.  I&#8217;ve seen it performed as a play, seen the 1957 Sidney Lumet movie, and even read the original text.  It&#8217;s a fantastic story about a jury of 12 unnamed men who deliberate on the murder case presented to them in court.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=518</link>
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		<title>Extra Movie Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work let out a couple of hours early yesterday, which freed me up for a couple of hours.  I immediately considered a film, and was able to catch the 3:15p showing of Sin Nombre at the Ritz East.  And I made it home by about the same time as I would have had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=508</link>
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		<title>Sin Nombre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us take for granted the chance we have to live our lives, pursue honest work, and generally behave on what principles we value.  Reality is not so fortunate to many, especially those living in squalid conditions worldwide.  There are places where extreme poverty and few opportunities result in drug trafficking, brutal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=504</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Film Festival has ended.  I didn&#8217;t get to see any, but there&#8217;s always next year.
Opening up this week are these films:

12
Everlasting Moments
Sin Nombre
Tokyo!

12 is an updated version of 12 Angry Men which I think looks intense.  I&#8217;ve seen previews for Sin Nombre and Everlasting Moments and both would appear to be challenging films. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=461</link>
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		<title>Sunshine Cleaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something feels wrong with the Lorkowski family from the very beginning of the film.  Rose (Amy Adams) is a single mother who constantly enlists the help of her screw-up sister Norah (Emily Blunt).  Rose is just holding it together until one day on the job as a house cleaner she runs into a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=478</link>
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		<title>Alien Trespass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alien Trespass is a movie 50 years out of time.  It has the sensibilities of a monster or alien-invasion film made in the 1950s.  In fact the film even half-heartedly asserts it was originally made then, preserved unseen due to an unfortunate legal battle.  
The story itself takes place in a quiet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=476</link>
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		<title>The Great Buck Howard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Great Buck Howard shows us the waning career of &#8220;Mentalist&#8221; Buck Howard (John Malkovich) and his road assistant Troy Gable (Colin Hanks).  We meet Troy as he drops out of Law School.  His misery there forces him to evaluate where he wants to spend the rest of his life, but reality forces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=474</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beware, everyone!  There&#8217;s only one new movie this week, and it is:

Alien Trespass

It looks like a fun 50s spoof film about Aliens coming to take over the Earth.
The Philadelphia Film Festival continues, so I&#8217;m okay even though I didn&#8217;t see any films this week.
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		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=450</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Film Festival is taking place this week.  While there will be many, many interesting films playing at the Ritz over the next couple of weeks, they do not count toward my goal.  So I have a short pause to possibly try to catch up.  
The Ritz East appears to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=434</link>
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		<title>The Edge of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of the many kinds of titles for movies, The Edge of Love is one of my favorite types.  The most basic is just the name of a main character, like Rocky or Edward Scissorhands.   Other movies try to generalize a main theme or plot, like A League of Their Own or Snakes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=425</link>
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		<title>Moscow, Belgium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many days do we spend in a daze, blindly going through the motions of our lives without any thought to what we&#8217;re doing?  Too many, probably.  Matty (Barbara Sarafian), a separated mother of three children, was doing just that.  Until she accidentally backed her car into an unseen truck in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=423</link>
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		<title>Wednesday Movie Night Returns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Personal and family reasons have kept me from going to the movies for very much in the past month, but I&#8217;m happy to announce that I&#8217;m going back to the Ritz for a movie marathon again Wednesday night.  Life can really hit you hard sometimes, and when it does, movies have to take a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=413</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four new movies this week.  They are:

The Edge of Love
The Great Buck Howard
Moscow, Belgium
Sunshine Cleaning

I&#8217;ve seen reviews for all of these except The Edge of Love.  Those three all look like fine movies.
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		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=384</link>
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		<title>Azur and Asmar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder why someone decides to make an animated film instead of a live action one.  Is it cheaper to make one or the other?  Does the filmmaker have a talent for animation?  Does the animated world that is created have more or less freedom than the filmed real-world one.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=308</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the third week in a row, there are three new movies to add to my list.  

Crossing Over
Explicit Ills
Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux is a Charlie Chaplin black comedy.    
Making this harder is the fact that two of the new movies from last week are already leaving the Ritz Theaters, so I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=335</link>
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		<title>The Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the first time I saw the preview for this film, I eagerly anticipated attending a screening.  When I finally watched the full-length film, I left drained but very satisfied.  Much earlier in my life I was actually a teacher for a year in a relatively poor inner-city neighborhood.  I began as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=351</link>
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		<title>Two Lovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens to us when we meet someone special?  Something inside us switches on as we engage life.  We become happier, we live each moment more fully, and we become a brighter, more lively version of ourselves.  This happens to Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) in the movie Two Lovers.
Leonard is troubled most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=356</link>
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		<title>Gomorrah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gomorrah is the dark story of a poor town infected with organized crime and drugs.  It&#8217;s set someplace in Italy, and gives those of us unfamiliar with such brutal conditions an opportunity to experience how inhumanely some people live.  
The story itself involved a few distinct branches of the crime family operations.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=354</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today introduces three new films into my challenge:

Absurdistan
Eleven Minutes
Phoebe in Wonderland

I&#8217;ve seen previews for Absurdistan which looks quite cute, but not the other two.
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		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=328</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week has three new movies for me to see.  I&#8217;m really falling behind now!

Cherry Blossoms
Gomorrah
Two Lovers

I&#8217;ve seen reviews for Cherry Blossoms and Two Lovers, both of which look like they could go either way.  I think I&#8217;m going to be a bigger fan of Cherry Blossoms, but I&#8217;m open to liking both.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=322</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m falling a little bit behind now as my personal life catches up to my movie going experience.  I&#8217;m going to miss a few movies in the upcoming weeks that I won&#8217;t be able to make up until the eventual DVD releases.  It has taken a few weeks for me to accept that.
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=316</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Friday has a couple of new movies coming out.  

Azur and Asmar
The Class

I have seen previews for the latter, and I&#8217;m very interested in it.  The former is another of the one-week variety.  I have a short window of opportunity in which to see this film, so it&#8217;s very likely to be my first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=279</link>
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		<title>Donkey Punch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bad things happen to nice people who act irresponsibly.  At the core, that&#8217;s the message I took away from Donkey Punch.  The experience, though, was a challenge of its own.  How can you put into words this tragic spiral of bad decisions, double-crosses, gruesome murders, blame and recrimination, and just plain stupidity? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=287</link>
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		<title>Yonkers Joe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yonkers Joe is a con man.  He&#8217;s they guy who&#8217;s always one step ahead of everyone else, trying to find and exploit the obscure possibility that nobody else has even considered yet.   But he&#8217;s getting old, and hasn&#8217;t hit his big break yet.  It&#8217;s a fairly common story, but to this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=285</link>
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		<title>Fanboys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fanboys is the hilarious story of four twenty-somethings who have always been &#8220;Fanboys&#8221; of the Star Wars series.  The movie is set right before The Phanom Menace movie debuted in theaters.  The four guys, and eventually one &#8220;Fangirl&#8221;, trek cross-country to try to break into George Lucas&#8217;s Skywalker Ranch and get a sneak [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=283</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week has made up for a few weeks of slowness.  Depending on how I count them, there are either three or five new showings.  Here are the feature films:

Donkey Punch
Fanboys
Yonkers Joe

And here are some movies that I hope to see but I don&#8217;t think are going to count toward my goal of seeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=272</link>
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		<title>Ciao</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw the trailer for Ciao a half dozen times over the past few weeks.  Despite the fact I try to ignore trailers, I saw enough of this one to get a sense of what Ciao was trying to accomplish. I suppose it mostly did.  It wasn&#8217;t an especially ambitious movie.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=259</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Friday seems to be a slow one at the Ritz:

Ciao

As of Wednesday I&#8217;ve now seen all the movies playing, so I can relax a little bit.  I&#8217;ve seen the trailer for this film about 6 or 7 times, and I hope that doesn&#8217;t ruin anything.  I&#8217;ve checked showtimes, though, and it appears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=255</link>
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		<title>Waltz With Bashir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean when to forget the most tragic thing in your past?  Does your conscience allow this?  What happens when the nightmares you&#8217;ve forgotten start haunting your dreams, and you can&#8217;t remember what they&#8217;re about?  That&#8217;s how Waltz With Bashir begins.    
The main character in the movie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=238</link>
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		<title>Wendy and Lucy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wendy and Lucy is a touching buddy movie between a girl Wendy (Michelle Williams) and her dog Lucy.  Wendy is traveling roughly north and west in an attempt to find some lucrative work in the Alaskan fish market.  Unfortunately for her, though, she&#8217;s a bit low on cash.  Her car is breaking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Movie Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My plan this week is to see the only two movies at the Ritz I haven&#8217;t yet seen.  Those movies are:
Waltz With Bashir
Wendy and Lucy

The schedule is going to be Wendy and Lucy at 7:20p and Waltz with Bashir at 9:45p. Conveniently for me, they&#8217;re both showing at the Ritz at the Bourse, so I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=222</link>
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		<title>Revolutionary Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Revolutionary Road is not really about Revolution. The very large, spectacular Che was that movie. This film is about compromises and the choices we make, about our ideals and real happiness, and how sometimes the things we want actually cause us anxiety and harm.  
Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) are the special [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=170</link>
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		<title>Last Chance Harvey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize it is Oscar nomination and Award time, and a great time to see movies. I&#8217;m certain about one thing after seeing all these movies at the Ritz. Nearly everything showing right now is tremendous.  I haven&#8217;t seen a movie I have given a rating less than 6, and many are 8 or higher.  I suppose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Friday a couple of new movies open up at the Ritz:

Waltz With Bashir
Wendy and Lucy

I have seen all but two of the movies out before today, so I&#8217;m in good shape to take in these films in the next couple of weeks.  Wendy and Lucy is a one-week only event, so that will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=150</link>
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		<title>Academy Award Nominations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The list for the 2009 Academy Awards has been published.  While I don&#8217;t believe that this particular list is a great one, it&#8217;s a useful starting point for the movies that are either vastly popular or pretty good.   I only pay attention to the following five categories:

Best Picture
Best Actor in a Lead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=154</link>
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		<title>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed this movie.  It&#8217;s funny.  It has interesting characters.  The backdrop of Spain is downright breathtaking.  I could relate to a few characters, and found the dialog cute.  But I don&#8217;t really know what the movie about.  It was like the dream you have when you first wake up in the morning, kind of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=147</link>
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		<title>Frost/Nixon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I think of sympathetic characters in history, Nixon has to be one of the lowest guys on the list.  He is the only person to resign as Presidenent of the United States.  The entire Watergate story and cover-up, complete with confidential informant Deep Throat, is the most recognized political scandal in America.
But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Che</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw Che during something advertised as a &#8220;Special Roadshow Edition.&#8221;   It&#8217;s a type of  limited release that shows what is actually two distinct films back to back with a planned intermission.  There were no credits preceeding or trailing either feature.  Instead, the information for the credits was handed out in a printed book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=142</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new movies this week have been announced, and it&#8217;s a big week.

Che
Last Chance Harvey
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Three movies, but possibly four considering Che has 2 full-length parts.  I&#8217;m a big fan of Benicio Del Toro and I am very excited about that film.  Vicky Christina Barcelona is being re-released on the heels of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=69</link>
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		<title>The Reader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen quite a few movies in the past few weeks, and this one has gotten my brain working more immediately after than any of the others.  There&#8217;s something about this film that has me on edge, has me thinking I&#8217;m missing something, which is entirely possible.  It is a sad film in many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Gran Torino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m almost afraid of writing a review of this film.  It&#8217;s not that I think the movie was bad, because I don&#8217;t think that.  Actually it&#8217;s a good movie.  Ask me if you should see it, and I&#8217;m very likely to say, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;  There&#8217;s probably only one person I&#8217;d advise against seeing this film, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=61</link>
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		<title>Friday Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday marks the start of the new week of movies, but it&#8217;s a slow week.  The only new movie at The Ritz this week is:
The Wrestler
And as it happens, I have already seen it.  There was a special preview showing on Wednesday that I will be writing about later, but that means I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Doubt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman were making a movie together, I became excited. It was to be a powerful he-said/she-said thriller with the two stars pitted against each other.  Later I learn he was to play a peiest and she a nun.  She would accuse him of impropriety [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=37</link>
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		<title>Slumdog Millionaire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slumdog Millionaire is an uplifting movie about a young man, Jamal, and his quest to find the love of his life despite the awful things happening around him.  
One one level, it&#8217;s a movie full of cliche.  Jamal is confronted at every turn with malevolent people, rotten luck, and awful timing.  He&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=39</link>
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		<title>The Wrestler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had heard plenty of things about this film, almost all of them positive.  Whenever possible I tune out most of this, or ignore it, because high expectations can ruin a movie that&#8217;s merely better than average.  I was fortunate in being able to see it with a mostly full theater at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Thoughts about the First Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m planning my first week of movie watching.  This is probably the most exciting time of the whole process for a few reasons.  First, this is Oscar season.  Many of the movies out right now are Academy Award hopefuls, and I think that&#8217;s reflected in the quality. Second, I have only seen three of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Initial Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The movie challenge begins!  The Ritz is currently showing NINE films. They are:

Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Gran Tornio
I&#8217;ve Love You So Long
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

I have already seen three of these films, Doubt, I&#8217;ve Loved You So Long and Rachel Getting Married.  This is as spectacular a list of films you could hope to have.  There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=783</link>
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		<title>Milk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In real life Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) was a San Francisco politician.  He was the first openly gay official in the US, elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 when he was 45.  He wasn&#8217;t a life-long politician who longed to serve the public; he became involved out of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=244</link>
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		<title>Rachel Getting Married</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rachel and Sidney are getting married.  They&#8217;re in love, they&#8217;re best friends, and their families are full of support and love.  On the outside everything is beautiful.  Despite all this, a tragic past pulls on all the family members, but most heavily on Rachel&#8217;s younger sister Kym (Anne Hathaway).  Kym is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=242</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Loved You So Long</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can you forgive someone who commits a terrible crime?  Is there anything that person can do to make amends?  And what if that person you need to absolve is yourself?  These questions and more are explored in I&#8217;ve Loved You So Long.  
The movie opens with the reunion of two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=240</link>
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		<title>The Beginning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On one of my most recent trips to the movies, I sat back in my chair as the credits rolled and thought to myself, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you do this more often?&#8221;  My mind jumped from one thought to another as my consciousness slowly emerged from the imagined realm of the film.  Why did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.duke.schnolis.com/MovieWalk/?p=3</link>
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