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	<title>Looking Closer</title>
	
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		<title>Iron Man 3 (2013): An All-Thumbs Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a review of Iron Man 3 &#8230; in fiction. It&#8217;s the second installment in the new series I&#8217;m calling All Thumbs Video. The first installment featured a small cast of characters arguing about Terrence Malick&#8217;s To the Wonder. Now, some of them have returned, and a few new characters have stepped in. They&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes There’s a Man: Who’s the World’s Most Masculine Guy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Action heroes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/?p=91659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Close your eyes. If I say the word "masculine," who is the first familiar face that you see? Who's the man?]]></description>
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		<title>Scorsese’s Interest: “What About the Soul and the Heart?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Yancey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shusaku Endo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/?p=91647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese is soul searching as he prepares (again) to film Shusaku Endo's masterpiece — "Silence."]]></description>
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		<title>“Upstream Color” – Don’t Miss It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shane Carruth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/?p=91629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll write a full review of "Upstream Color" in time. But it will take time. Consider this just a first-impression burst of enthusiasm. Believe me, you don’t want reviews to explain this movie to you before you see it. So, here are a few fumbling attempts to describe it without spoiling it…]]></description>
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		<title>Look! An April Shower of Distractions – Six Intriguing Links</title>
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		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/2013/04/look-an-april-shower-of-distractions-six-intriguing-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babette's Feast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Like Jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edie Brickell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Look!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moonrise Kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Coppola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Martin]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/?p=91620</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you missed them, here's a list of six distractions from the past few days. It's a parade of bizarre attractions starring... Quentin Tarantino, Steve Taylor, Donald Miller, Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson, Andrew Sullivan, Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, and a feast served by somebody named Babette. If you have work to do, avoid the following links at all costs...]]></description>
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		<title>To The Wonder (2012): An All-Thumbs Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All Thumbs Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrence Malick]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/?p=91548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been dreaming of trying out a new venture in long-form film criticism — reviews as fiction. I plan to write them as speed-writing exercises, fiction published in first-draft form. And I’m dedicating this first episode to… well, you’ll see when you read it.]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Ebert and Todd Rendleman: An Unexpected Friendship, A Remarkable Memoir</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/2013/04/roger-ebert-and-todd-rendleman-an-unexpected-friendship-a-remarkable-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/?p=91337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“We started up an email friendship,” says Todd Rendleman, who teaches film history and aesthetics at Seattle Pacific University. He’s talking about his new book "Rule of Thumb: Ebert at the Movies," and how the book’s subject — legendary film critic Roger Ebert — came to write the forward.]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You, Roger Ebert. Now, Rest in Peace. [Updated April 6th.]</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/2013/04/thank-you-roger-ebert-now-rest-in-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obituaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Ebert]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/?p=91304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.&#8221; - Roger Ebert, 1942-2013 Perhaps we should remember more than Martin Luther King on April 4 from here on out. King&#8217;s birthday is already a national holiday. Perhaps this could also be Cinema Day. It&#8217;s the birthday of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Coen Brothers Easter</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/2013/03/a-coen-brothers-easte/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coen Brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Zoller Seitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press Play]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/?p=91155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does God believe in the Coen Brothers? Join me and legendary film reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz as we wrestle with this question in an Easter Sunday special event. ]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Jesse and Celine’s Holy Moments “Before Sunrise”</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/2013/03/revisiting-jesse-and-celines-holy-moments-before-sunrise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/2013/03/revisiting-jesse-and-celines-holy-moments-before-sunrise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 05:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Overstreet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Before Sunrise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Linklater]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/?p=91144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" in preparation for the trilogy's upcoming conclusion, I found a reason to love this movie that I'd never thought about before.]]></description>
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