Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees -- Film Noir

Celebrate film noir!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be screening 15 film noir classics from the 1940s, all of which were nominated in the writing categories. The screenings run May - August in Los Angeles. No plans to travel to LA -- check them out in Butler.

Title List:

The Maltese Falcon
Shadow of a Doubt
Laura
Double Indemnity
Mildred Pierce
The Killers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Dark Mirror
The Blue Dahlia
The Stranger
Body and Soul
Crossfire
A Double Life
The Kiss of Death
White heat

Featured DVD of the Week

Watching the detective.

American Gangster
DVD10708

Bad Lieutenant
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Black Dahlia
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In the Valley of Elah
DVD6617

Maltese Falcon
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Missing
DVD7558

Mr. Moto in Danger Island
DVD5415

Monsieur Hire
DVD6254

Vertigo
DVD3909

Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone)
DVD1927

Thin Man
DVD1421
The Wire -- Series 1
DVD11137

Lynn Redgrave Dies at 67

The New York Times obituary.

Featured Resource

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• ABI Inform is an authoritative resource for business research including information on the business of film and the performing arts. Indexes major scholarly journals, popular magazines and news publications.

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• Proquest all-purpose article database with full-text.
  

It's Baseball Season!

People will come. Baseball is a part of our past. It is the one constant. Baseball.

Go Yankees! Home opener -- 108th -- April 13th -- I love NY!

Featured Resource

Useful sites for identifying blogs or weblogs.

• Globe of Blogs

• Technorati

• The Weblogreview

Featured DVD of the Week

The Devil Wears Prada
Butler Media Res
DVD5243

Meryl Streep is The Master.

Featured DVD of the Week

Los Angeles in film.

Born in East L.A.
Butler Media Res
DVD1749

Chinatown
Butler Media (Circulating)
DVD9502

Escape from L.A.
Butler Media (Circulating)
DVD8488

L.A. Confidential
Butler Media Res
DVD7654

Laurel Canyon
Butler Media Res
DVD1707

Mulholland Drive
Butler Media (Circulating)
DVD10174

Sunset Boulevard
Butler Media (Circulating)
DVD10408

To Live and Die in L.A.
Butler Media (Circulating)
DVD8766

Featured DVD of the Week

Silence of the Lambs
Butler Media (Circulating)
DVD9020

See clip.

Oscar Night!

The Hurt Locker gets my vote!