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	<title>Joe&#039;s View &#187; Joe Meyers</title>
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		<title>Turning 9/11 into a high gloss Hollywood soap opera</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/22/giving-a-high-hollywood-gloss-to-historical-tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['King Kong']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Pearl Harbor']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['United 93']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CGI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godzilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Foer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Greengrass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Bullock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Horn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Hanks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Trade Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t think I would ever be subjected to a Hollywood special effect more tasteless than that notorious POV shot of the bomb hitting the battleship in Michael Bay’s 2001 “Pearl Harbor.” Yes, anyone who has spent much of his or her life going to the movies grows used to callous violence — people graphically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best reporting on OWS and other goodies in the new n + 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/21/the-best-reporting-on-ows-and-other-goodies-in-the-new-n-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['A Left Populism']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issue 13]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[n + 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zucotti Park]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the space of just 13 issues, the Brooklyn-based, three-times-a-year journal n + 1 has become one of the most reliable sources of reporting on the things that really matter in contemporary America. In a front section called The Intellectual Situation, anonymous journalists and commentators look at politics, sexual relations, the job market, technology and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rent it now: the power of a vulnerable Sigourney Weaver</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/20/%e2%80%98bobby%e2%80%99-the-power-of-a-vulnerable-sigourney-weaver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Alien']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Aliens']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Beyond Therapy']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Gorillas in the Mist']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Prayers for Bobby']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Working Girl']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Durang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dian Fossey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leroy Aarons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifetime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Griffith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sigourney Weaver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sigourney Weaver has stood apart from other film actressses — literally and figuratively — since she broke through with her sensational performance in the first “Alien” picture in 1979. Weaver’s sheer size and implied physical force made her one of the great modern movie action heroes (a position she solidified with her Oscar-nominated work in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Client 9’: Eliot Spitzer tries to explain himself (sort of)</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/19/%e2%80%98client-9%e2%80%99-eliot-spitzer-tries-to-explain-himself-sort-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Client 9']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Inside Job']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Gibney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monicagate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/?p=13050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alex Gibney’s 2010 documentary, “Client 9,” covers some of the same territory as another  non-fiction film from the same year “Inside Job” — the strange personal behavior of the super-rich men on Wall Street who led us to the edge of the abyss two years ago — but the Gibney film is much more personal. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rent it now: ‘Pretty Poison’ starring the elusive Tuesday Weld</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/18/rent-it-now-%e2%80%98pretty-poison%e2%80%99-starring-the-elusive-tuesday-weld/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/18/rent-it-now-%e2%80%98pretty-poison%e2%80%99-starring-the-elusive-tuesday-weld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Bonnie and Clyde']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Chelsea Walls']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Lolita']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Looking for Mr Goodbar']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Mother and Daughter: The Loving War']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Play It As It Lays']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Pretty Poison']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Rosemary's Baby']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['She Let Him Continue']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Something in Common']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Targets']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Perkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Keaton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Burstyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Hawke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Didion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kris Kristofferson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorenzo Semple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noel Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Cassidy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Bogdanovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Geller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuesday Weld]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/?p=8494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood got very nervous about movie violence in 1968 as a result of the terrible events of that year. In 1967, “Bonnie and Clyde” was condemned in some quarters for glamorizing violence, so when Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were both killed in the spring of 1968 — and riots erupted in cities all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Heartless’: Jim Sturgess as a 21st century Travis Bickle</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/17/%e2%80%98heartless%e2%80%99-jim-sturgess-as-a-21st-century-travis-bickle/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/17/%e2%80%98heartless%e2%80%99-jim-sturgess-as-a-21st-century-travis-bickle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['21']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Across the Universe']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Heartless']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Taxi Driver']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFC On Demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Morgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Sturgess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Ridley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert De Niro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Sheen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travis Bickle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/?p=12732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[British writer-director Philip Ridley’s “Heartless” opened in 2010 to reviews that were not nearly as good as this beautiful and unsettling film deserved. The movie did not receive national theatrical distribution but is available on cable from IFC On Demand and is must viewing for fans of offbeat horror. Ridley is a major visual stylist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rent it now: Danny Meyer facing his first failure</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/16/15731/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/16/15731/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The Restaurateur']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Meyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eleven Madison Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Run Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gramercy Park Hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gramercy Tavern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maialino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Sherman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shake Shack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tabla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Modern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Union Square Cafe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you harbor the common fantasy of one day running your own restaurant, you should first check out Roger Sherman’s DVD documentary, “The Restaurateur” (First Run Features). Sherman started following one of Manhattan’s most successful restaurant operators, Danny Meyer, as he prepared to double his small empire in 1998 with the opening of two new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘The 400 Blows’: the film that launched a cinematic revolution</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/15/%e2%80%98the-400-blows%e2%80%99-the-film-that-launched-a-cinematic-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/15/%e2%80%98the-400-blows%e2%80%99-the-film-that-launched-a-cinematic-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Bonnie and Clyde']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Breathless']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Elevator to the Gallows']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The 400 Blows']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The Lovers']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthur Penn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridgeport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claude Chabrol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francois Truffaut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Pierre Leaud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Luc Godard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Paul Belmondo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeanne Moreau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Malle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Benton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bijou Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was an honor to be asked to host the first “Critic’s Choice” night at the beautiful Bijou Theatre in downtown Bridgeport tonight at 6:30. After looking through the new venue’s impressive catalog of digital prints of a wide variety of classics, I zeroed in on one of my all-time favorites, Francois Truffaut’s “The 400 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! &#8211; &#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217;-style</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/14/happy-valentines-day-downton-abbey-style/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/14/happy-valentines-day-downton-abbey-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Downton Abbey']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For printable versions of Chad Thomas&#8217; &#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217; Valentine&#8217;s Day cards, go to http://chad-thomas.com/?p=553#more-553]]></description>
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		<title>A fantastic overview of movie, TV history for $10</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/13/a-fantastic-overview-of-movie-tv-history-for-10/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/13/a-fantastic-overview-of-movie-tv-history-for-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['2001: A Space Odyssey']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Alexander']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Annie Hall']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Gone With the Wind']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum of the Moving Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t get to the Museum of the Moving Image until last year. Like lots of other people, I’m sure, I&#8217;ve always meant to go, but it’s in Queens, and the cultural delights of Manhattan (and Brooklyn) have kept me busy and kept MOMI on my list of New York [...]]]></description>
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