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Oscar Flashback: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

review: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Thursday 11. March 2010, 06:07

From August 28, 2009: Next on my Netflix queue was Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (instantly viewed), for which Ellen Burstyn won the Best Actress Oscar; Diane Ladd was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar; and Robert Getchell was ...

Revisiting Vertigo for the AFI Project

review: Vertigo, Thursday 11. March 2010, 06:03

From August 23, 2009: What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx Vertigo is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#61) 100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies (#18) ...

Reviews of the Past: Mean Streets is Real, Raw, But Somehow Empty

review: Mean Streets, Thursday 11. March 2010, 05:58

From August 22, 2009: This film represents the second of five Martin Scorsese films topping my Netflix queue, just in case you were keeping track. Mean Streets is Marty's highly touted review of the life of gangsters in New York ...

Revisiting Raiders of the Lost Ark for the AFI Project

review: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Thursday 11. March 2010, 05:53

From August 21, 2009: What's the AFI project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx Raiders of the Lost Ark is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#60) ...

Viewing GoodFellas for the AFI Project

review: Goodfellas, Tuesday 09. March 2010, 21:01

From August 15, 2009: What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx GoodFellas is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#94) The Revised Top 100 (#92) ...

Viewing Rebel Without a Cause for the AFI Project

review: Rebel Without a Cause, Tuesday 09. March 2010, 20:57

From August 12, 2009: What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx Rebel Without a Cause is on the following AFI list: The Original Top 100 (#59) What I ...

Reviews of the Past: Public Enemies Tries Hard But Is Ultimately Its Own Worst Enemy

review: Public Enemies, Tuesday 09. March 2010, 05:08

From August 9, 2009: In a surprisingly spur-of-the-moment decision to spend a cloudy afternoon in my local Cineplex, a friend of mine and I decided to catch Michael Mann’s latest effort, Public Enemies. Honestly, the appeal of this movie for ...

Reviews of the Past: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is More of the Same with a Slightly Higher Entertainment Quotient

review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Tuesday 09. March 2010, 05:05

From August 6, 2009: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince represents the first Harry Potter I did not wait in line to see at midnight. After my disappointment over the last film, Order of the Phoenix (my concerns of ...

Oscar Flashback: Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)

review: Y tu mamá también, Tuesday 09. March 2010, 04:58

From July 26, 2009: Next on my Netflix queue was Y Tu Mama Tambien, which was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar (film year, 2002; awarding year, 2003). The other nominees in this category were: Talk to Her (Winner) ...

Revisiting Fantasia for the AFI Project

review: Fantasia, Tuesday 09. March 2010, 04:53

From July 25, 2009: What's the AFI project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx Fantasia is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#58) 10 Top 10's (#5 Animated) ...

E-mail notifications and better filtering of Planet Filmaster

We spent the last month implementing a couple of major features, that may not look that major but are so ...

Half a million film ratings at Filmaster.com!

We’ll be celebrating 1st birthday of Filmaster (at least the Polish version) soon, but we already have great news. We’ve ...

Lots of minor features and bug fixes

Over the last few weeks we’ve been constantly updating Filmaster with new features and bug fixes. This post is a ...

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