LAMB #437 - Cinema Romantico

URL: http://cinemaromantico.blogspot.com/
Site Name: Cinema Romantico
Categories: Reviews, Rants
Rating: PG-13

What is the main focus of your site?
Primarily new movie reviews with many other cinema related rants sprinkled in.

What are your blogging goals, personally and/or professionally? In other words, what, if anything, are you trying to get out your blog?
This blog is just a really good outlet for me. I like to consider myself a writer and I'd go insane and if I couldn't write.

Do you prefer an interactive community for your blog or are you the teacher and your readers the students?
I guess up until now it's like I've been the teacher. A very, very melodramatic teacher. I don't have as much as I'd like to make it moreinteractive.

How long have you been movie blogging for, and how frequent do you post updates to your site?
I've been blogging for 4 1/2 years and typically update 5 times a week.

Name up to three of your favorite movies (and no more).
Last of the Mohicans, Million Dollar Baby, The Myth of Fingerprints.

How did you hear about the LAMB?
A fellow blogger nominated me for a Kreativ Blogger Award and suggested this site.

Any additional comments, or give yourself an interview question that's not listed above.
None.

LAMB #436 - Dollar Bin Horror

URL: http://dollarbinhorror.blogspot.com/
Site Name: Dollar Bin Horror
Categories: Reviews, Horror, Classic Film
Rating: PG-13

What is the main focus of your site?
To show my readers what horror films and books you can find on a budget and to spotlight under ground or unknown horror people.

What are your blogging goals, personally and/or professionally? In other words, what, if anything, are you trying to get out your blog?
I blog simply because I love horror but I would one day like to make short horror films myself.

Do you prefer an interactive community for your blog or are you the teacher and your readers the students?
An interactive community. I love input and ideas from the readers.

How long have you been movie blogging for, and how frequent do you post updates to your site?
Almost 4 months and almost daily.

Name up to three of your favorite movies (and no more).
Saw
Nosferatu
Suspiria

How did you hear about the LAMB?
Through Porkhead's Horror Movie Hole.

Any additional comments, or give yourself an interview question that's not listed above.
I think the LAMB is a great idea and a perfect way to expose blogs and I hope you consider mine :)

Stump the LAMBs Movie Quiz: Fight Club

First things first: the winners from last week's quiz.

In The Prestige Robert Angier's double Gerald Root mumbles a few lines from a speech while rehearsing on stage before his first performance. From which play is Root reciting and which character?

Andy Hart of Fandango Groovers Movie Blog
Mike Mendez of Big Mike's Movie Blog
Travis McCollum of The Movie Encyclopedia

All of them correctly guessed Henry Percy form Shakespeare's Henry IV

Now onto this week's quiz from David Fincher's 1999 classic Fight Club

Marla Singer's (Helena Bonham Carter) phone number is 555-0134. Name the other three other films that used this phone number in their film. Include in your submission:

• The Three Films
• Your Name
• Your Blog

Send your answer to counterculturecinema@hotmail.com by February 13, 2010. Comments will be closed to prevent the posting of the answer.

Stump the LAMBs Leaderboard

t1st Andy

t1st Big Mike

t1st Travis

LAMB Casting: A Streetcar Named Desire Ep. 1 Pt. 2

Andrew here again from Encore’s World of Film & TV. Thanks to all the participants in the first run of LAMB Casting. We now move on to the second portion of the exercise; you LAMBs must now decide which of the casts is best. Because I’m neurotic like that I’m going to omit the names of the participants to make the voting that more fun. So here are the four options, do your voting.

I know, it’s not Brando and Kazan but which of these productions would you be most interested in seeing? Polls close on Friday, then I’ll be here to give my thoughts on the competition. Happy voting.

PLUG: Life of a Cinephile and Bibliophile

Me again. Have another blogathon up. This one's on Christopher Nolan. BTW, be sure to leave comments on the page.

Here's the info (http://movienut14.blogspot.com/2010/01/christopher-nolan-blog-thon.html).

~Anna

Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, well don't get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details - I'll handle the rest.

PRESS RELEASE: Associatesdegree.com's list of "100 Free Classic Films Everyone Should See"

Hi,

I am representing Associatesdegree.com, and I wanted to let you know that we just launched a post that we think you would be interested in reading and hopefully passing along to your readers. “100 Free Classic Films Everyone Should See” can be found by clicking on the following link, which will direct you to our blog at (http://www.associatesdegree.com/2010/01/28/100-free-classic-films-everyone-should-see/).

Thanks so much for your time!
Jesse Young

[Editor's note: I can not vouch for the public domain-ness of these films, but I did a small bit of research and it appears as though they check out. Still, venture at your own risk and the LAMB retains no responsibility and all that legal jazz.]

Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, well don't get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details - I'll handle the rest.

PRESS RELEASE: Academy Awards nominations FYI

Nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards® will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and Oscar-nominated actress and Academy member Anne Hathaway. Sherak and Hathaway will unveil the nominations in 10 of the 24 categories at a 5:30 a.m. news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world will be gathered.

Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, well don't get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details - I'll handle the rest.

Pitch the LAMB: To Infinity and Beyond

They say that there are no good ideas left in Hollywood...so let's give them some! Welcome to Pitch the LAMB a new monthly feature designed to both promote your blog and showcase your creativity at the same time.

Hi I am CS, the small mind behind Big Thoughts From A Small Mind, and I will be overseeing this newly revamped column for The LAMB. Pitch the LAMB allows you, the movie blogger, to create the movies you really want to see on the big screen. Each month I will post three helpful tools to get your creative juices flowing: 1) A movie genre, 2) A selection of movies from that particular genre, and 3) 10 random words usually associated with the genre. All you have to do is come up with an original idea for a movie (include a title and who would star) and post it on your blog.

The "pitch" can be in any form you wish: a brief plot synopsis, a one page script, a movie trailer, a simple paragraph, an outline of the characters involved, a movie poster with brief description, etc. Heck, your pitch can even be in the form of a movie review! Remember it is your film, and your blog, so pitch the movie however you want.

Once you have posted your film idea on your blog, send me an email (with a link to the post) at bigthoughtssmallmind@hotmail.com. At the end of each month, I will post the links to all the submissions on The LAMB.

Keeping with this week's buzz surrounding Avatar's success and the launch of Apple's IPad, it was only fitting that our inaugural Pitch the LAMB be...


Movie Genre: Science Fiction

Examples of Genre: The Matrix, Moon, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Wall-E, Avatar, Solaris, Twelve Monkeys, Back to the Future, Akira

10 Random Words Often Used in the Genre: Clone, Future, Portal, Species, Planet, Religion, Device, Robot, Desolate, Order.

Lets hear your movie pitches!

Remember to email me the blog link to your movie pitch once you have posted it. Deadline for submissions is February 25, 2010.

LAMBScores: A Single Man

The Dark of the Matinee
Bitchin' Film Reviews
Foolish Blatherings
JoelCrary.com
The Movie Encyclopedia
Cut the Crap Movie Reviews
The Ludovico Technique


The Flick Chick


JDBRecords
Blog Cabins


Average LAMBScore out of five, rounded to nearest half-LAMB: (10 sites)


Median LAMBScore:


Submissions for this film are now closed. To submit your rating & review for other new releases, visit the LAMB Forums (must be an existing LAMB to join).

Press Release: Total Film's 600 Film Blogs You Might Have Missed

I was notified earlier this morning by Sam Turner at thistimeitwillbedifferent that UK film magazine Total Film published an article today called 600 Movie Blogs You Might Have Missed, a fairly definitive list of many movie blogs that are active in and around the movie blogging community.

Not surprisingly, members of the LAMB are heavily involved. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to scan more than a couple names on the 10-page list without coming across one; by my totally unofficial count, I'd say that there are at least 300 LAMBs making up the list, some of which are even lucky enough to get their site banners included as part of a gallery.

I got in touch with the author (Dan Goodswen) to thank him for the list and make him aware of the LAMB (if he wasn't already, which he was), and he had this to say:

I had an intern helping with research for the article and she found the LAMB pretty early on - in all our research you were the only site with a comprehensive list of blogs, so we found it extremely useful, and are endebted to you for our 600 blogs feature.

My intention with the list was to create a one stop shop for the cream of movie blogs out there (I was aiming for 1000), but we quickly realised this would be near impossible, with the vast amount of blogs out there and the frequency of blogs closing and opening. Making a 100% accurate list was just too ambitious, so i capped the list at 600, and let my intern of the hook (she was a babbling, incoherent mess by that point). So the feature is something of a success, in drawing attention to all these great blogs, but unfortunately there were many I didn't find - hopefully i can do a follow up feature down the line, 400 More Movie Blogs You Might Have Missed or something.

If you wish to help Dan and TotalFilm out, there's a comments section at the bottom of the post where users are posting their "forgotten" sites; if you don't see yours on the list, go ahead and register and add it to the comments.

Thanks to TotalFilm for spotlighting so many hard-working bloggers out there, and to Sam for alerting me to this quickly.

LAMB #435 - Dave's Film & DVD Reviews

URL: http://davesfilmreviews.blogspot.com/
Site Name: Dave's Film & DVD Reviews
Categories: Reviews, Classic Film, General
Rating: PG-13

What is the main focus of your site?
To review a wide variety of films from the latest releases to classics to trashy action. No stone is left unturned and all films get a fair deal.

What are your blogging goals, personally and/or professionally? In other words, what, if anything, are you trying to get out your blog?
I'm trying to voice and share my opinions on films as well as occasionally introduce people to titles they might not have given a chance before.

Do you prefer an interactive community for your blog or are you the teacher and your readers the students?
I prefer an interactive community, although due to the relative youth of my site I'm yet to establish much of a community. Hopefully things will change.

How long have you been movie blogging for, and how frequent do you post updates to your site?
This blog has been up for just over 4 months and I tend to update it around 5 or 6 times a month. I used to have my own Geocities review site which I started probably about 10 years ago and kept running fairly regularly for about 3 years. I also currently contribute to Row Three. I try and keep posts different between that and my blog - any films I watch that have already been covered by Row Three or I feel don't belong there go up on Dave's Film & DVD Reviews. I also post links to my Row Three articles on my blog to keep it even more active.

Name up to three of your favorite movies (and no more).
Once Upon a Time in the West
This is Spinal Tap
The Godfather

How did you hear about the LAMB?
A link on another blog (sorry forgotten which one!)

Any additional comments, or give yourself an interview question that's not listed above.
As a side note, I'm also a filmmaker, working as a cameraman and editor for a small production company in the UK, so I pretty much live and breath film. I'm also quite heavily into my music too - listening and performing.

Trailer Talk Thursday: It's like a crippled tree reaching for heaven

Hey there everybody and welcome to my second edition of Trailer Talk Thursday. I am Travis McCollum of The Movie Encyclopedia and I'm here to analyze one of the latest trailers.

Sundance Film Festival is a pretty big event for filmmakers and film fans alike. Independent directors get to showcase their talents in hope of getting picked up, famous directors debut their new soon to be smash hit and if nothing else we get a lot of interesting trailers for movies we may or may not end up seeing. This year is no exception and one of the films that has me pretty excited is a small indie comedy called "Cyrus."

Not the head of the Gramercy Riffs and certainly not the spawn of Billy Ray Cyrus, "Cyrus" is the newest film from the Duplass brothers. If you have no idea who these two are, they are famous for making really good indie films like 2008s Baghead and 2005s The Puffy Chair. They have a unique style of making everything look very natural and have a knack for blending serious and seriously funny to make a great movie.

Along with the stylistic expertise of the Duplass brothers you got some great talent in front of the camera. The film follows John, (played by the hilarious John C Reilly) a somewhat socially awkward man who is looking for love after losing the love of his life (Catherine Keener). One day he meets Molly (Marisa Tomei) and falls hard for her. Everything SEEMS to be going okay until John meets the other man in Molly's life...Cyrus (Jonah Hill), her grown son living at home.

Without further ado here is the trailer:

Just from the initial impressions this film gets a good couple of laughs out of me. John C. Reilly has got a knack for playing lovable losers and it really shows in this film. His rendition of "Don't You Want Me" is hilarious and his interactions with Cyrus are pretty funny. Jonah Hill actually seems pretty funny in this movie, downplaying that angry pottymouth that we've seen him have and opting more for a subtlety to get laughs which seems to work a lot better for him. Overall the acting seems pretty solid and storywise it looks pretty interesting.

But that's just my opinion. Tell me what you think. Comment down below and give your opinions on "Cyrus."

Well that'll do it for this weeks edition of Trailer Talk Thursday. I'm Travis McCollum and I'll see you next time.

PS: If you have any suggestions, trailers you want me to look at ect. feel free to email me at tjmac510@hotmail.com

LAMB #434 - Rach on Film

[Editor's note: This site was previously known as Rach's Media Opinions.]















URL: http://rachonfilm.blogspot.com/
Site Name: Rach on Film
Categories: Reviews, Horror, General, Exploitation (or Grindhouse)
Rating: R (not a lot of swearing, but I'd like the option and a lot of movies I review are R)

What is the main focus of your site?
The main focus of my site is to review/discuss movies that I've recently watched. I'm focusing on emptying my "To watch" list, 1001 movies to see before you die, and I review movies for Cool(Shite) (www.coolshite.net) which I also post on my own blog. I also talk about books and music, but not as often as movies.

What are your blogging goals, personally and/or professionally? In other words, what, if anything, are you trying to get out your blog?
I use my blog as an outlet for my opinions on movies and other media. I realised that not many people around me spent as much time thinking about movies as I did and really didn't want to talk about them as often as I did. In order to avoid pissing off everyone around me I decided to start a blog. It's worked for me so far.

Do you prefer an interactive community for your blog or are you the teacher and your readers the students?
I definitely prefer an interactive community for my blog. I definitely think of myself as a peer, not a teacher.

How long have you been movie blogging for, and how frequent do you post updates to your site?
I've been movie blogging for about 3.5 months. I try to update twice a week, though sometimes it's more, sometimes less.

Name up to three of your favorite movies (and no more).
Death Proof
Oldboy
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

How did you hear about the LAMB?
I heard about LAMB by following a link on Chuck Norris Ate My Baby.

Any additional comments, or give yourself an interview question that's not listed above.
Extra Question:
Top 3 favorite movie blogs:

http://chucknorrisatemybaby.blogspot.com/
http://www.igloooftheuncanny.blogspot.com/
http://www.thelightningbugslair.com/

Our Acronym is Better Than Theirs - Picking the LAMB's Top 10 Foreign Films

The results are in, and the LAMB has picked its Top 10 Foreign Films (for background on this, click here). There were a total of 44 voters, with their votes spread out amongst 253 films. What that means is that, with a smaller voting base than usual, and a wide, wide variety of films, that it was difficult for a film to stand out from the crowd, but the few that did (the top seven) were head and shoulders above the rest.

Here are your winners (1st place votes in parentheses):



















10. The Lives of Others - 34 points from 6 voters (1)
9. M - 35 points from 6 voters (0)
8. Rules of the Game - 48 points from 7 voters (3)
7. (of course) Seven Samurai - 61 points from 7 (of course) voters (5)
6. Let the Right One In - 63 points from 12 voters (0)
5. Pan's Labyrinth - 72 points from 8 voters (3)
4. City of God - 73 points from 9 voters (2)
3. Oldboy - 75 points from 9 voters (2)
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - 80 points from 13 voters (1)
1. Amelie - 88 points from 12 voters (3)

So...how many of your Top 10 made the list? If you'd like to see yours and all the other votes, scroll down. A post has been added with all of them, but I have dated it prior to this post so it won't clutter the page.

Others receiving 1st-place votes: 8.5, A Tale of Two Sisters, Amarcord, Children of Men (??), Children of Paradise, Cinema Paradiso, Contempt, Damnation, Delicatessen, Departures, Elevator to the Gallows, Fanny and Alexander (2), Grave of the Fireflies, High and Low, ikiru, Mouchette, Pontypool, Run Lola Run , Still Walking, The Double Life of Veronique, Vincere, Volver, Y Tu Mama Tambien

As for our next topic: it's time to unleash the LIONs! That's right, it's LIONs for LAMBs 2009, in which we take a look back at the last year in film. I'm asking you for your Top 10, Bottom 5, Best Actor and Actress and more. Shouldn't take you but a few minutes to fill out, and the Top 10 is the only required entry should you not wish to participate in the rest of it. This poll will run through February 21st, with the results to be doled out in the final days before the Academy Awards air (on March 7th).

The poll is already up - be sure to read the instructions. Go vote now so I don't have to hassle you later! Thanks as usual - let's get a great turnout for this one!

http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/470776

Your Top 10 Foreign Films votes...all of 'em

Hang on...this is gonna be a bumpy ride. (In other words, this is gonna be a long, ugly post. But it's for posterity.)

Here are the complete results of the LAMB's Top 10 Films of the 2000s votes, in the order and form they were received (please pardon the lack of proper links and italics - I do have to work sometime). Films are listed in the voters' order from 1-10:

Oldboy
Pan's Labyrinth
Amelie
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
The Orphanage
Re-Cycle
Angel-A
The Host
Wasabi
Thirst
Nick
"Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob
http://dementeddoorknob.blogspot.com"

Volver
Amelie
La Haine
City of God
Priceless
The Sea Inside
Run Lola Run
Hidden
Amores Perros
Lilya-4-Ever
filmgeek
Final Cut (http://screenspeak.blogspot.com)

Run Lola Run
Oldboy
Pan’s Labyrinth
City of God
Battle Royale
The City of Lost Children
Amelie
Nikita
La dolce vita
Three Colours: Red
Andy
Fandango Groovers Movie Blog LAMB #359

Seven Samurai
Persona
Rules of the Game
Playtime
Stroszek
Fanny and Alexander
Rules of the Game
Yi Yi
Last Year at Marienbad
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Jake Cole
Not Just Movies

Y Tu Mama Tambien
Farewell My Concubine
Cache
In The Mood For Love
Abre Los Ojos
5X2
Volver
Malestrom
All About My Mother
Breaking the Waves
CS
http://bigthoughtsfromasmallmind.blogspot.com/

Seven Samurai
Pan's Labyrinth
Amélie
City of God
"The Triplets of Belleville
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Central Station
Howl's Moving Castle
The Wedding Banquet
Kirby
Movie Dearest

Fanny and Alexaner
Through a Glass Darkly
A Christmas Tale
The Lives of Others
A Girl Cut in Two
Persona
The Vanishing (Voorloos)
La Dolce Vita
Volver
Cache
Blake
Bitchin' Film Reviews

Seven Samurai
Otto e mezzo
Jules et Jim
Wild Strawberries
Battleship Potemkin
Mon oncle Antoine
The Conformist
Tokyo Story
Sansho Dayu
Pierrot le fou
Michael Parent
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque LAMB #413

Oldboy
Kung-Fu Hustle
In My Skin
Martyrs
Battle Royale
Let The Right One In
Das Experiment
Inside
The Blind Swordsman: Zatôichi
The Twilight Samurai
Goregirl
goregirl.wordpress.com

Still Walking
Munyurangabo
35 Shots of Rum
The White Ribbon
Tokyo Sonata
Revanche
Summer Hours
Captain Abu Raed
The Sun
Three Monkeys
Matthew Lucas
From the Front Row - http://fromthefrontrow.blogspot.com

Delicatessen
Le roi et l'oiseau
Suwarôteiru
Crna macka, beli macor
[REC]
Martyrs
À l'intérieur
Ôdishon
Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur
Maelström
JP (Ghidorah)
http://acheteretentretenirsatronconneuse.com/blog/

Rules of the Game
La belle et la bete (1946)
Jules & Jim
Wages of Fear
Let the Right One In
Amelie
The Bicycle Theif
La Haine
Downfall
Ballad of a Soldier
This Guy Over Here
http://thisguyoverhere.com

pan's labyrinth
city of god
4 months 3 weeks 2 days
cache
diving bell and the butterfly
apocalypto
crouching tiger, hidden dragon
let the right one in
persepolis
gomorrah
Fitz
http://nevermindpopfilm.blogspot.com

Fanny and Alexander
The 400 Blows
Ikiru
Jean De Florette/Manon of the Spring
Das Boot
Seven Beauties
The Exterminating Angel
Playtime
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Oblomov
Dean Treadway
www.filmicability.blogspot.com

Cinema Paradiso
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
House of flying daggers
High Heels
Il Postino
Like Water For Chocolate
Amalie
jean de florette
manon of the springs
Mama theres a man in your bed
Clara Mathews
www.justchickflicks.com

Elevator to the Gallows
Les Diaboliques
8.5
Senso
The Earrings of Madame De...
Wild Strawberries
Orpheus
a Nous la Liberte
The Seventh Seal
Two Women
Kate Gabrielle
http://www.silentsandtalkies.blogspot.com

Amelie
Oldboy
Abre los Ojos
Ichi the Killer
Sex and Lucia
Memories of Matsuko
Strange Circus
Irreversible
Caotica Ana
Valerie and her Week of Wonders
Mark
http://moviecaps.blogspot.com

Grave of the Fireflies
City of God
La Haine
The Science of Sleep
When The Last Sword Is Drawn
Spirited Away
Ghost In The Shell
Battle Royale
Visitor Q
Memories of Murder
Nicola Timmins
http://www.averagefilmreviews.com

MOUCHETTE
THE CRANES ARE FLYING
COME AND SEE
BREATHLESS
SEVEN SAMURAI
M
THE CONFORMIST
THE RULES OF THE GAME
THE WAGES OF FEAR
SALO OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM
Alex DeLarge
http://korovatheatrepresents.blogspot.com/

Vincere
The White Ribbon
A Prophet
Broken Embraces
The Maid
Police, Adjective
Summer Hours
35 Shots of Rum
Flame & Citron
The Headless Woman
Jose Solis
Movies Kick Ass Blog

Damnation
The Bad Sleep Well
The Passion of Anna
The Little Match Girl
Belle du Jour
Vivre Sa Vie
Chungking Express
The Human Beast
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Human Condition Part 3
Joshua Wiebe
http://www.octopuscinema.blogspot.com

Pan's Labyrinth
Amelie
Life is Beautiful
Lust/Caution
Paradise Now
Volver
To Live
Waltz With Bashir
Fresa y Chocolate
Spirited Away
The Movie Mistress
http://themoviemistress.blogspot.com

The Rules of the Game
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Waltz with Bashir
Bread and Tulips
Abre los Ojos
Seven Samurai
La Dolce Vita
Let the Right One In
Vampyr
Battle Royale
Branden Renfro
foolishblatherings.wordpress.com

High and Low
Last Year at Marienbad
Le Samourai
Sawdust and Tinsel
Andrei Rublev
Ikiru
Fitzcarraldo
Jules and Jim
Diary of a Country Priest
The Virgin Spring
Chase Kahn
The Ludovico Technique: A Film Blog

Rules of the Game
City of God
Wild Strawberries
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Class
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
El Mariachi
Day for Night
Apocolypto
King of Hearts
Orrin Konheim
sophomorecritic.blogspot.com

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
M
Fanny & Alexander
The Wages of Fear
Bicycle Thieves
Persona
Nosferatu (1979)
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Three Colors: Blue
The Lives of Others
Davethenovelist
http://davethenovelist.wordpress.com

Seven Samurai
Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise)
Wild Strawberries
Come and See
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Don't Touch the Loot)
M
Yojimbo
Hable Con Ella (Talk to Her)
Drunken Master
Yi Yi
Erik Lundegaard
http://www.eriklundegaard.com/index.php

Contempt
Band of Outsiders
Oldboy
The Escort
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Le Samourai
Come and See
Bob le Flambeur
Double Life of Veronique
La Dolce Vita
Joseph B.
www.itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com

Amarcord
Grand Illusion
8.5
Army of Shadows
The Seventh Seal
M
Nights of Cabiria
Rules of the Game
Open City
Beauty and the Beast
Richard Hourula
http://rikuwrites.blogspot.com/

A Tale of Two Sisters
Spirited Away
Shaun of the Dead
Bandits - German
Black Sheep - New Zealand
Suspira
The Descent
Let the Right One In
Death at a Funeral - UK
Ringu
A. Jane
Http://www.geekjane.com

Children of Paradise
The Grand Illusion
Rashomon
The Seventh Seal
Cries and Whispers
M
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ran
La Belle et la bete
Metropolis
Erik Beck
Nighthawk News

Children of Men
"Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
"
Oldboy
Let the Right One In
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Battle Royal
3-Iron
A Bittersweet Life
Shaun of the Dead
Martyrs
Matt House
"Chuck Norris Ate My Baby

http://chucknorrisatemybaby.blogspot.com/"

Pan's Labyrinth
Let the Right One In
Amelie
Y tu mamá también
Volver
City of God
Amores Perros
Thirst
Audition
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
James Gracey
Behind the Couch

City Of God
Waltz With Bashir
The Orphanage
The Host
The Lives of Others
Let The Right One In
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
OldBoy
Female Agents
Ong-Bak
Sam Turner
http://thistimeitwillbedifferent.blogspot.com

Pontypool
Let the Right One In
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
boylorne
24 Hours to Midnight: The Blog!

ikiru
cries and whispers
life and death of colonel blimp (british films should count)
band of outsiders
port of shadows
tokyo story
the children of paradise
when a woman ascends the stairs
the seventh seal
harakiri
michael hirsch
miseenmeh.blogspot.com

The Double Life of Veronique
La Dolce Vita
Pan's Labyrinth
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Army of Shadows
Decalogue
Vengeance is Mine
The Cranes are Flying
Ashes and Diamonds
Mafioso
hal0000
hal0000.blogspot.com

City of God
Oldboy
Downfall
Man on Wire
Waltz with Bashir
Hero
Run Lola Run
Let The Right One In
Howl's Moving Castle
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Tom Clift
Plus Trailers (http://tomclift.blogspot.com)

Amelie
Oldboy
In the Mood for Love
Spirited Away
M
The Lives of Others
Yojimbo
Let the Right One In
City of Lost Children
Neco z Alenky
Alex
http://filmforager.blogspot.com

The Lives of Others
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Paris, I love you
Life is Beautiful
Goodbye, Children
Nowhere in Africa
Amelie
The Chorus
Babette's Feast
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
Jess
http://www.insightintoentertainment.blogspot.com/

Seven Samurai
Ikiru
Yojimbo
Spirited Away
Grave of the Fireflies
High and Low
Hero (Ying xiong)
Amelie
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Seventh Seal
Univarn
"A Life in Equinox: A Movie Lover's Journal
http://univarn.blogspot.com"

8.5
The Bicyle Thief
Day of Wrath
Farewell My Concubine
Il Postino
The Lives of Others
L' Avventura
Amarcord
Cinema Paradiso
Life is Beautiful
Pat
Doodad Kind of Town

Departures
Hero
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Zatoichi - The Blind Swordsman
Apocalypto
Come Drink With Me
Sonatine
Dirty Ho
La Cage Aux Follies
Curse Of The Golden Flower
TC Kirkham
"http://popcornnroses.com
http://indiefilmspotlight.com"

Amelie
Run Lola Run
Pan's Labyrinth
Let the Right One In
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Persepolis
Waltz with Bashir
The Orphanage
The Science of Sleep
Paris, je t'aime
Dylan Fields
http://blogcabins.blogspot.com

LAMB Chops!

Today's Choice Chops comes from Reel Whore, cinema's bitch (his words, not mine). He's just kicked off his week-long awards event, creating lists of the top seven everything of 2009. He titles them his 'confessions.' The post chosen for Choice Chops is titled '07 of '09: Confessions Part II.' In Part II, Reel Whore selects the sexiest actor of 2009, as well as lists the movies he most regrets not having seen yet. In this quote, he postures his pick for the sexiest man in acting of 2009:

Many of you may be disappointed to know that I did not see Twilight: New Moon in 2009. Therefore, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner were not eligible, so put it back in your pants, ladies and gentlemen. Despite the absence of those strapping lads, I am certain the nominees for sexiest men of 2009 will still make you swoon. Some nominees played dickish characters while others were too-good-to-be-true golden boys. In all cases one thing remains constant; they exuded hotness from every pore without trying.

This post, like all of his, is hilarious, and manages to actually hit the nail on the proverbial head. Check out the full article here.

The rest of the Chops:

Site Name: The Film Reel

Post Title/Link: It's Contest Time Again!

Submitted By: The Film Reel

Site Name: Movie Mobsters

Post Title/Link: Top Ten Smoking Moments in Film

Submitted By: Movie Mobsters

Site Name: Stop The Planet of the Apes... I want to get off

Post Title/Link: Avatar (2009) - James Cameron

Submitted By: Stop The Planet of the Apes... I want to get off

Site Name: The Movie Fanatic

Post Title/Link: Spotlight Review: A Prophet (Un prophète)

Submitted By: Bitchin' Film Reviews

Please, please send more articles to weeklylambchops@gmail.com. I'm all out! Thanks for all the participation!

PLUG: The LAMB...?

Steve Johnston and Brian Dutkewich of The Cynical Blog are more than mere podcasters; they have their own radio show! Airing on Sundays on Victoria, Canada's own C-FAX 1070, the Cynics re-purpose their show as a podcast (minus the air breaks and commercials), and I'm glad they do. Being pros and all, their podcast is one of the slickest you'll hear, and the guys' segments are clearly defined and individually entertaining, going over a featured topic, followed by picks from the vault, some high-tech talk and their DVD picks of the week.

The Cynics joined the LAMB a long, long time ago (#166). Somewhere along the way, though, Steve got the hair-brained idea that I might be a worthy guest on their live radio show.

Well, I did it this past Sunday. Going live to Victoria, BC and beyond (just how far beyond, I couldn't tell you), I did a phoner with the guys as we discussed The LAMB, my own movie site Blog Cabins, and The Book of Eli. Hopefully, I acquitted myself and didn't sound like too much of a jackass despite my proclivity for the word "definitely" (I barely recognize my voice, by the way, so don't be alarmed if you've heard it previously). Lucky for you, you can judge for yourself - the whole show can be heard here, though as you might've guessed, I recommend becoming a regular listener to their podcast (or show, should you happen to live around Victoria, which you likely don't).

Big thanks go out to the Cynics for having me on; it was a lot of fun and quite the honor.

Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, well don't get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details - I'll handle the rest.

LAMB Casting: A Streetcar Named Desire

The other day Fletch made a call for new contributors to LAMB, so here I am with a new feature for you fellow LAMBS. LAMB Casting. I'm Andrew from Encore's World of Film & TV.

      

I know that it’s blasphemous and all, but I'm sure I’m not the only one who imagines re-casting movies, books, TV shows, classics. You can’t help but think, who’d be a good modern day Rhett Butler or Eleanor of Aquitaine? Imagine Titanic without Kate and Leo? It’s always interesting to think what some films would like today with our modern actors, we like to say that the good ones are gone, but I’m sure there are some actors good and able to fill their shoes. So let’s get our own casting session going on right here, let’s do some casting LAMB style. We’ll start of big and easy: A Streetcar Named Desire. I know, I know – no one can touch Brando and Leigh. But we can dream can’t we? Now all we need is four sizzling actors and a damned good director. I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers, so why don’t the interested strangers [fellow LAMBS] do some casting?

Who’s your Blanche? Stanley? Mitch? Stella? And who’s going to direct it? Send your choices to this address. You have until Saturday, then I'll post the choices and let you LAMBS vote. Happpy casting!

Poll results; new poll

Apparently, the day that I set up the last poll was a bad day for me. Let's forget the fact that the entire poll itself was decided long before I made it active - as if something other than Unforgiven wouldn't win in a landslide - I even neglected to include the film that might have finished 2nd (probably received most if not all of the "other" votes): Mystic River. The poll should have just asked what the 2nd-best Eastwood-directed film was - that might have actually been a contest.

The new poll asks not your opinion but tests your prognostication skills. Hot on the heels of its Golden Globes big wins, how many Oscar noms do you see Avatar earning?

Brutally Blunt Blog Blustering #29: Acheter et entretenir sa tronçonneuse

It's Blusterin' Time!

And remember: Blustering should be a two-way street; if you've asked to be blustered, you better be a blusterer.

If you're new to this feature or need a refresher, click the label at the bottom of this post and see the first few posts. Otherwise, here's the basics:

What I'll do is list a site; you're asked to critique it. But here's the catch: to induce the most honest reactions, don't leave the comment using your normal alias/login - instead, go anonymous, and be as brutally honest (or complimentary) as you wish to be. Also, be specific, and naturally, don't be rude. If I deem anything inappropriate, I'll have no problem deleting the comment.

So, go to the site listed below, familiarize yourself with it for a few minutes, then come back and leave some constructive criticism and/or comments that you have.

Site: Acheter et entretenir sa tronçonneuse (nsfw)
LAMB#: 90
URL: http://acheteretentretenirsatronconneuse.com/blog/













If you're up for this treatment for your site (and you're a LAMB), send me an email with the subject "Bluster Me!" If you've already done so, no need to do it again - you're on the list, and these will be going up in order of when I received your email (by the way, it could take a while for your site to be Blustered, since I don't run this more than once a week or so).

LAMB #433 - kaatib's reviews

URL: http://deadletterhouse.blogspot.com/
Site Name: kaatib's reviews
Categories: Reviews
Rating: R

What is the main focus of your site?
The focus of the site is to review movies, irrespective of year and genre from a critical theorist position. The blog will not offer any rating for the movies. Nor will the blog indulge in any complete exposition of the plot. The blog will rather take certain thematic and formal element of a movie and analyse that. Hence it is not a complete review of a movie, but a partial analysis of a partial aspect of a movie.

The reviews will also be a means of reflecting on general concerns and non-concerns of life.

What are your blogging goals, personally and/or professionally? In other words, what, if anything, are you trying to get out your blog?
Kaatib is a graduate student in critical humanities, and maintains the blog to both hone his analytical skills as well as hear from readers their varied opinions, approaches and to have a share of their insight.

Do you prefer an interactive community for your blog or are you the teacher and your readers the students?
Kaatib prefers an interactive community, and do not claim to be anymore knowledgeable than any of the readers.

How long have you been movie blogging for, and how frequent do you post updates to your site?
The blog was initially started as a General one, with movie reviews included. But it has now turned into a full time movie blog. Reader can expect updates once in four days.

Name up to three of your favorite movies (and no more).
1) Der Untergang (The Downfall), for its powerful aural and visual juxtaposition of tragedy, desperation and revelry; and also for its compelling narration; 2) The Underground for its political humour; 3) The Discreet Charms of the Bourgeoisie for its satire.

How did you hear about the LAMB?
I saw LAMB as I was searching for movie blogs on Google. I visited your site and was interested.
Any additional comments, or give yourself an interview question that's not listed above.
None.

Stump the LAMBs Movie Trivia Quiz: The Prestige

Hello fellow LAMBs, I'm Fitz from Nevermind Popular Film and I will be taking over the latest incarnation of Stump the LAMBs.

My first movie trivia quiz question is from Christopher Nolan's 2006 film The Prestige.

In The Prestige Robert Angier's double Gerald Root mumbles a few lines from a speech while rehearsing on stage before his first performance. From which play is Root reciting and which character?

In your submission include the following:

• The Play and the Character
• Your Name
• Your Blog
  

Send your answer to counterculturecinema@hotmail.com by January 30, 2010

Comments will be closed to prevent the posting of the answer.

LAMBScores: Up in the Air & Sherlock Holmes

Big Mike's Movie Blog
Marshall and the Movies
The Critical Critics
The Movie Encyclopedia
Nevermind Popular Film
Pluck You, Too!
Insight Into Entertainment
Lets Go to the Movies


The Dark of the Matinee
JDB Records
Big Thoughts from a Small Mind
Foolish Blatherings
The Film Reel


Film Forager
Cut the Crap Movie Reviews
A Life in Equinox: A Movie Lover's Journal
This Guy Over Here: The Best Films of the 2000s
The Flick Chick
Not Just Movies
Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob
JoelCrary.com


Gatto Reels
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque
Blog Cabins


Phil on Film


Average LAMBScore out of five, rounded to nearest half-LAMB: (25 sites)


Median LAMBScore:


Submissions for this film are now closed. To submit your rating & review for other new releases, visit the LAMB Forums (must be an existing LAMB to join).




Insight Into Entertainment
The Movie Encyclopedia


Anomalous Material
Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob
Film Forager
Rachel's Reel Reviews
gmanReviews
The Film Reel
The Film Cynics
Plus Trailers


Cut Print Review
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque
The Dark of the Matinee
A Life in Equinox: A Movie Lover's Journal


JoelCrary.com


Not Just Movies
Cut the Crap Movie Reviews


Big Thoughts from a Small Mind


Average LAMBScore out of five, rounded to nearest half-LAMB: (18 sites)


Median LAMBScore:


Submissions for this film are now closed. To submit your rating & review for other new releases, visit the LAMB Forums (must be an existing LAMB to join).

LAMB #432 - Minty's Menagarie

URL: http://mintyblonde.wordpress.com/
Site Name: Minty's Menagarie
Categories: Reviews, News, Horror, Classic Film
Rating: R

What is the main focus of your site?
I blog film reviews of all the films I see at the cinema, I go at least once a week and managed 69 visits last year!! I see a variety of films being a regular patron of the National Film Theatre here in London, I cover the London Film Festival and go and see films varying from Avatar to Tokyo Story which were my last two reviews.

What are your blogging goals, personally and/or professionally? In other words, what, if anything, are you trying to get out your blog?
Personally I just love seeing, writing and researching movies and if I can convince one person to see a film that may not have heard about then I've achieved something. Professionally I would like to develop this into a paid activity if I'm honest - I have written for sites like soundonsite.org - but I'm not enormously ambitious in that direction.

Do you prefer an interactive community for your blog or are you the teacher and your readers the students?
Interactive if preferable, although I do hope that my knowledge can 'educate; readers - jeez that sounds a bit arrogant :)

How long have you been movie blogging for, and how frequent do you post updates to your site?
Blogging for three and a half years, post entries roughly every three or four days.

Name up to three of your favorite movies (and no more).
So many - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Assault on Precinct 13, Au Hazard Balthazar....

How did you hear about the LAMB?
A reader was kind enough to leave a comment on my site and he's a member of LAMB.

Any additional comments, or give yourself an interview question that's not listed above.
None.

LAMB Chops!

Today's Choice Chop comes from the website Bargain Bin Review. BBR has started a new section of their website called Bloggin' Bin Revue, where they dare to review the films that no one would ever want to watch probably, let alone spend time writing about it online. In their new feature, Bad Movies, Good Eats, they offer some interesting and, they claim, delicious recipes to go along with some truly awful movies. Check out their post, Bad Movies, Good Eats: Shark In Venice Edition, where you'll learn how to make pasta with anchovy sauce, pan fried raddichio and zaleti to perfectly compliment the film, Shark In Venice.

The rest of the chops!

Site Name: Cold Fusion Video Reviews

Post Title/Link: Review: Mountain of the Cannibal God

Submitted By: Cold Fusion Video Reviews

Site Name: Ross v Ross

Post Title/Link: Top Five...Golden Globe-winning performances that should have got Oscars

Submitted By: Ross v Ross

Site Name: Blog Cabins

Post Title/Link: Fletch's Film Review: Up in the Air

Submitted By: Insight to Entertainment

Site Name: Reel Whore

Post Title/Link: Double Team'd: Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See

Submitted By: Bitchin' Film Reviews

Send more chops to weeklylambchops@gmail.com. Thanks!

LAMBcast #11

The LAMBcast has moved! Due to its previous host no longer accepting new uploads, we've moved to Podomatic. I've transferred over our latest episode, in which we discuss our most anticipated for 2010, along with episode #10, for those that might have missed that one.

Podomatic has some great features, but their embeddable player is not one of them, as it's too wide for the sidebars and can't be narrowed properly. Instead, it will be included in posts such as this, and you can also find the link in the left sidebar in the Podcast Roundup. However, if you'd like to add the player to your site, click the little arrow in the top left corner of the player and copy the code.

This episode featured me as host, along with:

* Nick Jobe of Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob,
* Travis McCollum of The Movie Encyclopedia,
* and Rachel Thuro of Rachel's Reel Reviews.

Join us either as a listener or as a fellow podcaster! For more information on the LAMBcast, check out the topic at the LAMB Forums.

As usual, the music, as provided royalty-free by Kevin MacLeod's Incompetech website, is the bomb. Big thanks to Kevin for providing this service.

Also, you can find us on iTunes; just go to the Podcasts section and search for "LAMBcast." [Note: iTunes has yet to update the feeds per my request, so for this ep, please just go to our Podomatic page and subscribe from there.] And hey - while you're on iTunes, who don't you go ahead and either rate the LAMBcast or write a review of it. Better yet, do both! It'll help us get noticed by the overlords at Apple and earn worldwide fame...or something like that.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, we'd love to hear them.