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	<title>Quick talk film talks on Pierced to the Heart	</title>

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		<title>Inception (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/inception-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/inception-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you remember? Or, was it in a dream? Do you have reality straight in your mind? In your subconscious? The confluence of such questions is the space Inception perceptively explores. Part of the genius of Christopher Nolan&#8217;s writing and directing is

 that, in its exploration of the subconscious, the film is constructed to [...] (released: 2010) ]]></description>
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		<title>Bullets Over Broadway (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/bullets-over-broadway-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/bullets-over-broadway-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Smart, funny, satirical, and engaging in its exploration of art and artists, Bullets Over Broadway is an excellent piece of work by director Woody Allen. Centering around the funding, preparation, and staging of a Broadway play, the film

 puts us on the side of a writer-director as he brings his creation to fruition. Or is [...] (released: 1994) ]]></description>
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		<title>Grace is Gone (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/grace-is-gone-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/grace-is-gone-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 10:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is superficial to say that it&#8217;s heart-wrenching to lose a loved one in war &#8212; that is, unless you can say it the way that Grace is Gone says it. In the film, we live through a father&#8217;s shock at the death of Grace, his wife and the mother of his two preteen daughters. [...] (released: 2007) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Doorpost Film Project (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/doorpost-film-project-2010-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/doorpost-film-project-2010-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Short films]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Doorpost Film Project runs an annual short film competition. For 2010, it&#8217;s in three rounds. Based on their first round submissions, 21 filmmakers were selected to compete in the second round. Each of the 21 submits a script, five of which are chosen to

 receive a $40,000 budget to use in filming their script [...] (released: 2010) ]]></description>
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		<title>Still Walking (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/still-walking-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/still-walking-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[City of the Angels Film Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Still Walking, we are treated to an excellent, deliberately paced, progressively revealed journey through a day with a Japanese family. The characters, through their own words and through the things said about them, bring out a complex web of relational expectations, love, flaws, disappointments, and hopes.

 Mixing good food, fun conversation, apprehensive anticipation, sudden [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Good Bye Solo (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/good-bye-solo-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/good-bye-solo-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A momentary acquaintance is most times just that: momentary. The beauty in Good Bye Solo arises from a quick, sharp moment of insight leads one character, driven by his depth of concern for other people, to relentlessly pursue keeping the relationship alive.

 How shall we know and respect and love others within good relational boundaries? [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Best Picture Roundup (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/oscar-2010-best-picture-noms</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/oscar-2010-best-picture-noms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1063</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[All ten of the 2010 Oscar Best Picture nominees are worth seeing, but for some, I recommend watching them only for specific reasons or under certain conditions. Three rise above the lot as particularly excellent films &#8212;An Education, Precious, and The Hurt Locker.

 All three have profound insights, strong emotional connection, rich questions, and top [...] ]]></description>
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		<title>A Serious Man (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/serious-man-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/serious-man-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1054</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Have you had those times when nothing in life seems to fit? Times that you want the formula for how things work so you can try to fix them? A Serious Man is about that. But there&#8217;s more: watching the film puts you in that position in relation to the film itself. It works. By [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Blind Side (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/blind-side-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/blind-side-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1049</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[As a true story, the strength of The Blind Side is that it could have been embellished oh so much, but it was not. I suspect that no film adaptation of a true story is ever 100% factual, and I expect that&#8217;s the case with The Blind Side. Whatever its actual degree of embellishment, there [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Up (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/up-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/up-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Charming, fun, and rich, Up takes us on an eventful animated ride watching the late-in-life transformation of Carl Fredricksen. Although the questions explored by the film are not particularly deep, Up&#8217;s creative coup is that it&#8217;s story and dialog are intricate, nuanced, and entertaining enough to engage us as it reconnects us to the familiar.

 [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Inglourious Basterds (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/inglourious-basterds-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/inglourious-basterds-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1037</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[If you take pleasure in revenge and you choose to go on taking pleasure in it, Inglourious Basterds will give you plenty to feed your pleasure. I don&#8217;t want that to be me, yet there is truth in what the film portrays: War time aggressors, like the Nazis, should be stopped. But it stung me [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>District 9 (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/district-9-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/district-9-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1033</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[District&#160;9 finds a compassionate &#8212; and violent &#8212; angle from which to explore shallow and ugly prejudice. As it pits the supposed goodness and wisdom of &#8220;the authorities&#8221; against the supposed brainlessness and vulgarity of a suppressed race, it looks into the possibility that, for some, racism may be born more of naïveté than prideful [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Up in the Air (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/up-in-the-air-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/up-in-the-air-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1026</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[What if your job had you on the road 322 days a year&#8230;traveling alone? What if you spent most of those days firing people? Starting with this bleak relational backdrop, Up in the Air explores hope, stability, integrity, connection, and commitment. Will we find stability where we look for it? 

 What type of connection [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Hurt Locker (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/hurt-locker-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/hurt-locker-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1021</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Three quite different men; three different experiences of war. The Hurt Locker takes us inside a fictional Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team &#8212; a bomb squad &#8212; in Iraq. I can understand complaints from veterans of the Iraq war that the film has numerous military inaccuracies, yet I can forgive such failings. 

 Not because [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Precious (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/precious-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/precious-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1012</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Engaging, heart-wrenching, real, and strong, Precious delves deeply into dark places where our need for love collides with poverty &#8212; poverty of money, of spirit, of love, and of character. In the midst of the collision what chance has a child to see any goodness, truth, or beauty? 

 The darkness will destroy some children [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>An Education (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/an-education-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/an-education-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1003</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Funny, clever, poignant, painful, and redemptive, An Education puts us in the position of a teenage British school girl finding direction in life. If being serious about life is important, where is the place

 for loving fine things in life like gourmet food, wonderful music, beautiful paintings, and the glories of a cosmopolitan city? How [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Road (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/road-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/road-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Set in a bleak and barren post-apocalyptic world, The Road intensely and insightfully explores the nature of goodness, hope, and love. How dark can your world get before you lose hope? At what point

 do you lose the human qualities of goodness and morality and descend to the state of an animal surviving? How small [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Lovely Bones (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/lovely-bones-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/lovely-bones-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lovely Bones is a murder non-mystery. By telling us at the start that Susie Salmon was murdered and near the start who did it, the film turns the focus to the lives and relationships

 of those left behind. To be sure, it is useful to explore such a loss, even though it&#8217;s been done [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/avatar-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/avatar-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To a large degree, the environmental morality play contained in Avatar is painted in broad and simple strokes. Still, there is something compelling in the film&#8217;s embodiment of connection to and respect for the land.

 In Avatar, common stereotypes are served-up fully baked: The capitalist is money-hungry, goal-oriented, and uncaring, the military general sees little [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel Rwanda (Quick talk)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/hotel-rwanda-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/hotel-rwanda-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hotel Rwanda asks whether we will do what we can to address the darkness around us. For 100 days in 1994, the world watched the horror of the Rwandan genocide and took no action. Through the eyes of a hotel manager

 in Rwanda, the film explores a personal transition from self-centered isolation to selfless, risky [...] (released: 2004) ]]></description>
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