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	<title>The Essentials Project</title>
	<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca</link>
	<description>- Watching the most essential movies of all time</description>
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		<title>Movies #0048, #0049, #0050, #0051 &#8211; Mad Max, The Thin Red Line, The Red Shoes, E.T., The Thing</title>
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Well, it&#8217;s been a while, hasn&#8217;t it?  I&#8217;ve been a bit busy.  Plus, I&#8217;m lazy.  Okay, it&#8217;s mostly the lazy thing. 
I think it&#8217;s time for me to revisit the Essentials Project.  But before I get started in earnest, here&#8217;s a quick round-up of the movies from The List that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2012/01/23/round-up/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0047 &#8211; Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)</title>
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Directed by: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold
Picture credit: Precious Bodily Fluids
First Viewing
Synopsis:  A year in the life of a group of kids at a California high school.
So&#8230; what happened to Judge Reinhold?  He may not be the most versatile actor ever, but he&#8217;s got a fairly unique screen presence, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2011/05/18/fast-times-at-ridgemont-high/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0046 &#8211; Scream (1996)</title>
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Directed by: Wes Craven
Starring: Neve Campbell, Jamie Kennedy, Skeet Ulrich
Third or Fourth Viewing
Synopsis: A masked killer stalks teenagers in a small town, focusing his energy on one girl in particular.
When Scream came out in the mid-&#8217;90s, it was a shot in the arm to the then-troubled horror genre.  Its sly deconstruction of slasher films, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2011/04/24/scream/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0045 &#8211; Network (1976)</title>
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Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden
Picture credit: DVD Beaver
First Viewing
Synopsis:  In this satire of the TV news industry, an aging anchorman on his way out has a very public breakdown, only to find himself more popular than ever.
Sidney Lumet passed away last week.  Tragic, certainly, though it&#8217;s hard to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2011/04/16/network/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0044 &#8211; Mildred Pierce (1945)</title>
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Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Ann Blyth
Picture credit: True Classics
First Viewing
Synopsis: After getting divorced, a woman builds herself up from nothing, with her spoiled daughter always looming large in her thoughts.
With the HBO miniseries by Todd Haynes starting to air, I figured it was probably a good time to finally watch this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2011/03/28/mildred-pierce/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0043 &#8211; The Thin Man (1934)</title>
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Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O&#8217;Sullivan
Picture credit: Only the Cinema
Second Viewing
Synopsis: A retired detective finds himself in the middle of a murder case while on vacation with his wife.
It&#8217;s kind of amusing to watch this film so soon after The Lost Weekend, given their vastly different takes on alcohol consumption. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2011/03/03/the-thin-man/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0042 &#8211; The Lost Weekend (1945)</title>
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Directed by: Billy Wilder
Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Picture credit: Max 256 Blog
First Viewing
Synopsis: After his brother leaves him alone for the weekend, an alcoholic writer goes on an alcohol-fueled bender.
This is pretty much entirely unrelated to The Lost Weekend, but I wanted to start this post by mentioning how much I love Turner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2011/02/06/the-lost-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0041 &#8211; Down by Law (1986)</title>
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Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
First Viewing
Synopsis:  Three men form a tenuous bond after meeting in jail as cellmates.
I&#8217;ve watched (and re-watched) a lot of great movies for this blog.  This was not one of them.  I won&#8217;t say that I hated this movie, but I will say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2011/01/30/down-by-law/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0040 &#8211; Days of Heaven (1978)</title>
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Directed by: Terrence Malick
Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
First Viewing
Synopsis: A man and his girlfriend take the opportunity to con a rich farmer who they believe is dying.
After being blown away by the amazing, downright beautiful recent trailer for Terrence Malick&#8217;s The Tree of Life (seriously, it&#8217;s my favourite trailer of the last little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2011/01/23/days-of-heaven/</link>
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		<title>Movies #0038, #0039 &#8211; Videodrome (1983) and Naked Lunch (1991)</title>
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Directed by: David Cronenberg
Starring: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits (Videodrome).  Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm (Naked Lunch).
First Viewings
Synopsis: In Videodrome, a TV producer finds himself the victim of strange hallucinations after watching a mysterious, pirated video signal called Videodrome.  In Naked Lunch, a writer finds himself losing his grip on reality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2011/01/17/videodrome-and-naked-lunch/</link>
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