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  • MOTM Reminder: Bande à part

    by Dylan · Sep 21, 2011 at 18:30 CDT · MOTM · 1 Comment
    MOTM Reminder: Bande à part


    Reminder: The LAMBcast/MOTM blog-a-thon extravaganza for Bande a part happens Saturday! Send your links for posts/reviews to [email protected] by 6:00 AM Pacific on Saturday the 24th.

    Thanks!

    ...

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  • The next Movie of the Month will be…

    by Dylan · Aug 27, 2011 at 13:00 CDT · LAMBcast, MOTM · 9 Comments
    The next Movie of the Month will be…



    The poll results are in – thank you to the 80 voters (tying the record high) who took part. The next MOTM will be Bande à parte. Here’s what needs to go down from here:

    * The first thing you need to know is that September 24th is the big day.

    * You have four weeks to watch the flick (if you haven’t already) and to write up something, then send me the link (dylan at manilovefilms.com) to either...

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  • Movie of the Month/LAMBcast #80: The Long Kiss Goodnight

    by Dylan · Aug 20, 2011 at 19:40 CDT · LAMBcast, MOTM, Podcasts · 8 Comments
    Movie of the Month/LAMBcast #80: The Long Kiss Goodnight

    Renny Harlin’s 1996 film The Long Kiss Goodnight was, for better or worse, mostly left behind by audiences. With a $65 million budget and close to $100 million in worldwide receipts, it undoubtedly made money, but its $33 million gross in the United States stamped the film as a failure in spite of overall positive reviews. More to the point, since its release, it seems to have been largely forgotten by film fans, wedged somewhere in...

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  • MOTM Reminder: The Long Kiss Goodnight

    by Dylan · Aug 19, 2011 at 16:22 CDT · MOTM · No Comments
    MOTM Reminder: The Long Kiss Goodnight



    Reminder: The LAMBcast/MOTM blog-a-thon extravaganza for The Long Kiss Goodnight happens tomorrow! Send your links for posts/reviews to [email protected] by 6:00 AM Pacific on Saturday the 20th.

    Also – if you have any suggestions for movies that you want to get on the poll for future MOTMs, get them in now.

    Thanks!

    ...

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  • The next Movie of the Month will be…

    by Dylan · Jul 24, 2011 at 20:27 CDT · MOTM · No Comments
    The next Movie of the Month will be…


    The poll results are in – thank you to the 54 voters who have made The Long Kiss Goodnight the next MOTM. Here’s what needs to go down from here:

    * The first thing you need to know is that August 20th is the big day.

    * You have just about four weeks to watch the flick if you haven’t already, and to write up something, then send me the link (dylan at manilovefilms.com) to either what you write or something...

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  • Movie of the Month/LAMBcast #76: The Third Man

    by Dylan · Jul 16, 2011 at 15:00 CDT · LAMBcast, MOTM, Podcasts · 2 Comments
    Movie of the Month/LAMBcast #76: The Third Man

    Veteran LAMBcaster James was pushing hard for The Third Man to be the next MOTM for a few months now, and he finally got his way. The 1949 drama starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles is regularly included on lists of the best noir films and was voted in 1999 as the best British film of the 20th century by the BFI.

    For those unfamiliar with it, the plot synopsis from IMDb:

    “An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly...

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  • MOTM Reminder: The Third Man

    by Dylan · Jul 12, 2011 at 21:00 CDT · MOTM · No Comments
    MOTM Reminder: The Third Man


    Reminder: The LAMBcast/MOTM blog-a-thon extravaganza for The Third Man happens this Saturday! Send your links for posts/reviews to [email protected] by 6:00 AM Pacific on Friday the 15th (I need them a bit early as I’ll be on the road this weekend and will have to get it all ready prior to leaving).

    Also – if you have any suggestions for movies that you want to get on the poll for future MOTMs, get them in...

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  • The Next Movie of the Month Will Be….

    by Dylan · Jun 19, 2011 at 3:00 CDT · MOTM · 5 Comments
    The Next Movie of the Month Will Be….


    The poll results are in – thank you to the 78 voters (a new high again!) who have made The Third Man the next MOTM (we’re gonna have a string of movies that start with “The Thi-” going here, if we’re lucky). Here’s what needs to go down from here:

    * The first thing you need to know is that July 16th is the big day.

    * You have four weeks to watch the flick if you haven’t already,...

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  • Movie of the Month/LAMBcast #71: The Thing

    by Dylan · Jun 11, 2011 at 19:15 CDT · LAMBcast, MOTM, Podcasts · 10 Comments
    Movie of the Month/LAMBcast #71: The Thing

    It seemed inevitable that The Thing would finally become the MOTM, after a couple progressively better showings in the polls (just as it seems inevitable that The Third Man will win one of these months). Good thing, too (no pun intended), as it’s a hell of a film. Interestingly enough, it wasn’t deemed a classic (and wasn’t commercially successful, either) upon its release, where it barely earned its budget back and arrived...

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  • MOTM Reminder: The Thing

    by Dylan · Jun 9, 2011 at 15:19 CDT · MOTM · No Comments
    MOTM Reminder: The Thing


    Reminder: The LAMBcast/MOTM blog-a-thon extravaganza for The Thing happens this Saturday! Send your links for posts/reviews to [email protected] (or new email address, [email protected]) by 6:00 AM Pacific on the 11th.

    Also – if you have any suggestions for movies that you want to get on the poll for future MOTMs, get them in now.

    Thanks!

    ...

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  • The next Movie of the Month will be…

    by Dylan · May 24, 2011 at 11:00 CDT · MOTM · 7 Comments
    The next Movie of the Month will be…


    The poll results are in – thank you to the 67 voters (a new high!) who have made The Thing the next MOTM. Here’s what needs to go down from here:

    * The first thing you need to know is that June 11th is the big day.

    * You have just under three weeks to watch the flick if you haven’t already, and to write up something, then send me the link ([email protected]) to either what you write or something...

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  • Movie of the Month/LAMBcast #68: Oldboy

    by Dylan · May 16, 2011 at 11:00 CDT · LAMBcast, MOTM, Podcasts · 10 Comments
    Movie of the Month/LAMBcast #68: Oldboy

    The voters in our last MOTM poll overwhelmingly selected Oldboy as this month’s film, and it’s not hard to see why. Chan-wook Park’s genre-spanning 2003 film shockingly was not an instant classic, but has become more than a cult icon in the eight years since its release, climbing the IMDb Top 250 (it currently sits at #97) and, more importantly, becoming more and more known as one of the quintessential Asian films of the new...

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