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and that is only after seeing half of it.  Drum-roll please. . .

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There are so many people in this movie.  Dude from Reno 911-  Yeah he is in it.

Granted I haven’t seen a lot of the other choices for the Oscars this year. Why so many? Last year I said, I was going to have an Oscar party.  It didn’t happen.  I am OK with that.

Definitely when I get my ballot in the mail this year, I’m writing in Black Dynamite- fool is a bad ass with the nunchucks-  if you know what is good for you- you will too.

Tarantino alphabetically runs down his list of favorite movies released since he started directing movies (but he notes that Battle Royale is his favorite– I’m about to go and dig up my copy of it).  Glad to see Friday and Shaun of the Dead made the list.

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from The Sac Rag

The 4 goals of the E Stree Film Society from creator DB:

1) See every supposedly “GREAT” movie I have never seen.
2) Create a functioning online film society where people can see and discuss movies with each other.
3) Schedule only films available on Netflix (if you do not subscribe to Netflix, I’ll give you a few minutes to catch up with the rest of us here in November 2008…hey, you’re here…heckuva ride, wasn’t it?)
4) Hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.

Not too ambitious.  First up, one of my favorites, Seven Samurai.

Wasn’t able to make it out to the Sacramento Horror Film Festival  last weekend.  I had planned to check out Mr Lobo’s Public Domain Content and Licensing Workshop, but I ended up watching football and drinking beer at Hanger 17 instead.  It appears that I really am not dedicated enough to my craft (unless my craft is watching football and drinking beer).

Regardless, I found a review of the festival by freelance writer Juliet Farmer.  Maybe it is me, but she didn’t seem too excited about the whole thing, but she does suggest a couple of films to check out.  Enjoy.

Just watched the pawnbroker.  Brock Peters, who plays the businessman (OK. . . I mean gangster) Rodriguez,  also sang back-up on the Harry Belafonte hit- “Day-O.”  He punches an old man in the face– which is something you don’t usually see in movies these days.  Also, Quincy Jones did the music, and one of the songs is Soul Bossa Nova (which is now popular from Austin Powers– you’d recognize it, if you heard it). 

Kind of a slow movie (if you are in that mood)– but I liked it. 

More recent movies that some of the elements reminded me of: Requiem for a Dream and Do the Right Thing.

Cool Shot: 3 hoods enter the pawnshop with an old electric lawn mover. the camera, at the level of the lawnmower dollys back, as the lawnmower, pushed by the hoods, rolls toward the store owner, Sol.

This guy does a better job of reviewing it.

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