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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>Movie #0030 &#8211; Ashes and Diamonds (1958)</title>
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Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski
First Viewing
Synopsis: A couple of resistance fighters try to figure out what to do next after realizing that they&#8217;ve botched an assassination attempt on a communist politician.
Well, that was a pleasant surprise.  Not that I was expecting this to be bad, but I was unfamiliar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/07/29/ashes-and-diamonds/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0029 &#8211; The African Queen (1951)</title>
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Directed by: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
Picture credit: DVD Beaver
First Viewing
Synopsis: A grizzled, normally-solitary steamship captain in WWII-era Africa takes on a passenger who convinces him to help the war effort.
I&#8217;ve been a fan of John Huston&#8217;s for a while now, so the African Queen has definitely been on my to-see list (I&#8217;m also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/07/17/the-african-queen/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0028 &#8211; Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)</title>
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Directed by: Nick Broomfield
Starring: Nick Broomfield, Arlene Pralle, Steve Glazer
First Viewing
Synopsis: A documentary about a filmmaker&#8217;s interactions with Aileen Wuornos&#8217; adoptive mother and her less-than-competent lawyer as he attempts to gain access to Wuornos herself.
Well, this is a bit of a puzzlement.  The list isn&#8217;t exactly doc-heavy (this is the first documentary I&#8217;ve watched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/07/02/aileen-wuornos/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0027 &#8211; 42nd Street (1933)</title>
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Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Starring: Julian Marsh, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers
First Viewing
Synopsis: Behind the scenes as a veteran Broadway director puts on one last show.
This is the second musical I&#8217;ve watched for this blog, with the first one being All That Jazz.  Boy, they could not be more different.  Where Jazz was torpid, dull [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/06/19/42nd-street/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0026 &#8211; 3-Iron (2004)</title>
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Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
Starring: Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon
First Viewing
Synopsis:  A man who lives his life in other people&#8217;s homes falls in love with an equally damaged woman.
It&#8217;s a rare pleasure to go into a movie knowing nothing about what it is about, and then to slowly let the plot unfold.  It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/06/08/3-iron/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0025 &#8211; Amarcord (1973)</title>
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Directed by: Federico Fellini
Starring: Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Bruno Zanin
Second Viewing
Synopsis: A year in the life of a small town in Italy in the 1930s, focusing mainly on one family.
Hmmm&#8230;  I guess I just don&#8217;t like Fellini very much.  Of the handful of his films that I&#8217;ve seen up to this point, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/05/31/amarcord/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0024 &#8211; Amelie (2001)</title>
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Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Clotilde Mollet
Second Viewing
Synopsis: A quirky young girl in Paris interacts with her quirky friends, her quirky neighbours, and her quirky love interest.  Did I mention that the movie is quirky?
This was not a film that I was particularly looking forward to revisiting.  Not that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/05/22/amelie/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0023 &#8211; 8½ (1963)</title>
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Directed by: Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée
Picture credit: DVD Beaver
Second Viewing
Synopsis: A beleaguered director starts pre-production on his latest film while going through a mid-life crisis of sorts.
I&#8217;m about to say something that you&#8217;re probably not going to agree with.  No point in beating around the bush, so here goes: I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/05/17/812/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0022 &#8211; Animal Farm (1954)</title>
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Directed by: John Halas, Joy Bachelor
Starring: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
Second Viewing
Synopsis:  The animals at a farm rise up against their oppressive master, only to see their ideal of a collectively-run farm slowly crumble.
Well, this is the second time that I&#8217;ve seen Animal Farm, and I definitely liked it a bit better this time around. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/05/03/animal-farm/</link>
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		<title>Movie #0021 &#8211; 1900 (1976)</title>
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Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland
Second Viewing 
Synopsis: Following the lives of two men in Italy &#8212; one rich, one poor &#8212; from their childhood in the early years of the 1900s to the fall of the Fascist party at the end of WWII.
I&#8217;m going to admit that I actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://2002.omega-films.ca/2010/04/18/1900/</link>
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