Citizen Kane is almost universally regarded as the greatest movie ever made. Film students are taught to try to capture some of its artistry. Orson Wells invented several cinematic techniques, such as showing a character’s greatness by filming the actor from a low angle, that are univers...]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=415 I saw this job posting and thought of Ingles. Sicotte, not so much.

Here's the link:
http://www.cpb.org/jobline/index.php?mode=print_listing&listing_id=4740

I hope they find someone who...]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=413 SEGMENT ONE

(opening credits, end with studio shot of JOE RUSSELL and DEXTER KYLE)

JR:  Welcome to the beginning of yet another season of exciting FFF action!  I'm Joe Russell, along with my co-host Dexter Kyle.  It all begins with...]]> Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=412 For a few of these Oscar winners, I go in with absolutely no preconceived notions. In most cases, this is because over the years the movie has faded into obscurity. That is certainly the case with 1980’s Ordinary People.

Timothy Hutton makes his film debut as Conrad Jarrett, a high...]]> Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=411 PODCAST EXCLUSIVE!

OPENING TEASER

(cue instrumental - 50 Cent, "In Da Club")

TJ:  This is the Deezies Afterparty!  Ty Jackson here, the host of the...]]> Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=410 Three people have won an acting Oscar in one of the lead categories for playing a professional athlete. Robert de Niro in Raging Bull, Wallace Beers in The Champ, and Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby. Only one of those movies won best picture. It was the fourth sports movi...]]> Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=409 2007 season outlook
Outlook based on projections, schedule, and rosters as of 9/1/07

Pos., name, record, over/under

1. Bye 12-1 (+/- 2)
2. 18 and life 11.5-1.5 (+/- 1.5)
3. Tin Indians 9.5-3.5 (+/- 1.5)
4. Deezies fa Sheezies 8.5-4.5 (+/- 1.5...]]> Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=408 In light of certain events Saturday, I’m sure some people could use a stiff drink. In ho...]]> Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=407 The best writer of the 20th century wasn’t Earnest Hemmingway or John Steinbeck or Kurt Vonnegut. It was Billy Wilder. When Oscar nominations came out, nearly every year Wilder’s name was on the list, and his name was in the envelope on Oscar night several times as well, for best screenplay, best...]]> Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=406 DEEZIES FA SHEEZIES COMPLETE SUCCESSFUL DRAFT
Team welcomes back Westbrook, Smith, Holt, & Foster; signs Romo to 1-year deal

August 29, 2007--The recently-completed 2007 Fantasy Football Fever draft is being hailed as a success by the Deezies fa Sheezies. The team wel...]]> Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=404 QUÉBEC DEEZIES SEASON ENDS WITH SEMIFINAL LOSS
Deezies finish first season with 3-5 record

August 26, 2007--The Québec Deezies' inaugural season ended yesterday (8/25/07) with a 77-73 semifinal loss to its cross-province rival, the Montreal Francofolies.

"It has...]]> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=405 SEGMENT ONE

(slowly rotating wide shot of empty football stadium. background music is generic "sturm und drang" style)

ANNOUNCER (voice-over): Seasons change...

(quick shot from championship game of LaDainian Tomlinson leaping into Philip Rivers' arms, the...]]> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=403 In 1997 the Academy decided to try something new and different when they allowed only 13 year old girls to vote in the best picture category. That is the only explanation I can come up with for Titanic, staring that dreamboat Leonardo DiCaprio winning. This isn’t DiCaprio’s best work, and ...]]> Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=402 We here at My Year with Oscar seem to be hitting the bio-pics a lot lately, but then there are a lot to choose from. Today we go with one more, the movie that inspired the one Falco song you’ve heard of, Amadeus. Tom Hulce never did ...]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=401 This week marks the 60th anniversary of Indian independence. It is also the 60th anniversary of the division of India into two rival states, India and Pakistan. The first was the life’s struggle of Mohandas K. Gandhi. The second he despised and argued against. Both are the subject of the best pic...]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=400
DK: With just three weeks to go before the official start of the Fantasy Football Fever season, fans across the nation have been paying close attention to the comings and goings of the various teams. You can...]]> Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=399 So how about we just get all the Russell Crowe movies out of the way in one shot. In 1999, Crowe made a wonderful movie called The Insider, in which he played a former tobacco company scientist who went on 60 Minutes to testify that the industry knew about the health risks of smokin...]]> Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=398 Brilliant mathematicians must all be nuts. Or at least filmmakers think so. How else can you explain Darren Aronofsky’s Pi or David Auburn’s Proof or Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Good Will Hunting. The ultimate nutty math professor movie happens to be a true story however, an...]]> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=397 I’m sure you’ll understand that Hollywood in 1942 was a bit preoccupied by the war. World War II was still in the beginning stages and things weren’t going all that well for the Allies. About the only bright spot was the resilience of England during the blitz.

Celebrating the resilience o...]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=396 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=395 Read about it here....]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=394 Marlon Brando starred in two best picture winners involving organized crime. And no, Godfather II isn’t the other one. Robert de Niro played Vito Corleone in that one. Brando was in 1954’s best picture On the Waterfront.

Then just at the start of his film career, Brando play...]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=393 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=392 As we celebrate the 4th of July, I thought we could take a little time to examine some American history. Of course the most American Oscar winner of all time would have to be Godfather II, but I’m saving that one for near the end, so instead we take a look at a movie about one of the most ...]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=390 I hate 60’s musicals. I also hate Charles Dickens. So things aren’t looking good for me enjoying 1968’s best picture winner, Oliver! based on the Dickens classic Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield. I list all of them, beca...]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=391 Crashnet:

Sorry... that I keep missing my deadline to post photos. I've been helping Sara redo her bathroom and haven't had the time. I will try and be better about it.

Is that "re...]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=389 Oscar is notorious for hating comedies, but that hasn’t always been the way. One of the first (if not the first) romantic comedies not only won Best Picture, it won the grand slam (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), the first time a movie turned that tric...]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=388
DK: While many of us here in the states look forward to the start of the football season in late August, our neighbors to the north will get their fix beginning next week. The Canadian Fantasy Football Queen...]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=387 Next up in our tour through Oscar winners we have the Best Picture of 1977, Annie Hall, also known as "not Star Wars." Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this movie. He plays Alvy, a neurotic Jewish New Yorker (I know, I know, what a stretch for him) who manages to wind up in...]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=386 There was something magical about 1994. Take a look at some of the movies released that year that weren’t even considered for the best picture Oscar. Hoop Dreams, which somehow wasn’t even nominated for best documentary, Leon (sometimes called The Professional) which marked N...]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=385 In Quiz Show, the question Herb gets wrong on purpose is "what movie won the Oscar for best picture in 1955?" He gives the answer he was told to give, On the Waterfront, which won in 1954. The correct answer, the answer Herb spends the rest of the movie trying to prove that he knows...]]> Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=384 KEVIN

Well, keep your head high, sometimes they give out Oscars to movies that suck.

CW

Yeah, like Titanic.

Or Gladiator,...]]> Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=383

Birth of a Nation is perhaps the most racist movie ever made. Of course it was released 12 years before the first Oscar ceremony, so it could not be the most racist Oscar winner. That distinction goes to 1931’s winner Cimarron.

The opening scene is wonderful. Thousands of ...]]> Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=382 Robert Penn Warren was the first Poet Laureate of the US, and though mostly known for his poetry, he did write one novel of some note, which shortly afterwards was turned into an Oscar winning movie, All the King’s Men.

The 1949 Best Picture winner follows the career of populist po...]]> Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=381 With it being Memorial Day and all, I thought we might go with a war movie. Of course I’ve already done All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone With the Wind, and Platoon and From Here to Eternity aren’t all that favorable to the US military, and Braveheart isn’...]]> Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=380 Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=379 Since the early 60’s women have been throwing their panties at Welsh crooner Tom Jones. With hits like "It’s Not Unusual," "She’s a Lady," "What’s New Pussycat," and his really tight leather pants, the chicks just dig this guy. You might be surprised to learn that not only did Tom Jones win the G...]]> Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=378 Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=377 1971 was a good year to be a bad ass cop. That was the year that gave us Dirty Harry and Shaft, and Oscar got the memo by giving the best picture statue to The French Connection.

Gene Hackman plays Detective Jimmy Doyle and Roy Scheider as Detective Buddy Russo, two o...]]> Wed, 16 May 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=376 For about 400 years after Christopher Columbus bumped into the Caribbean and undeservedly got credit for discovering the place, we honkies set about slowly committing genocide against the folks who made the mistake of living here beforehand. Then we started running out of natives to kill so we sp...]]> Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=375 In 1964 there was Becket. In 1968 there was Lion in Winter. Both were wonderful British historical dramas that were nominated for best picture, but lost to a shitty musical. Wedged in between is the one British historical drama from the era that actually won, and is the worst of the...]]> Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=373 I got an early birthday gift from work Monday. I was asigned to cover the second game of the Pistons-Magic series. Here are some random thoughts and observations.

Pregame press meal- BBQ bourbon chicken with steamed potatoes. The VIP lounge at Wrestlemania can suck it.

You know ho...]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=370 It is natural that the most prolific screenwriter in movie history should have a couple of Oscar winners to his name. And sure, he did die 311 years before the first Oscar ceremony, but his work is still so influential that as of his 443rd birthday today, imdb lists 677 movies to William Shakespe...]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=371 It is the greatest work of literature in history. In the decade after it was written in 1603, printed versions of Hamlet outsold every other author’s complete works. Want to see a film version of Hamlet? You have more than 65 to choose from. Only one took home the big prize of cours...]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=369 Some people are very afraid of clowns, which I guess would make 1952’s The Greatest Show on Earth the only horror movie to ever win best picture. Cecil B. DeMille actually went on tour with the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus in order to get every detail right for this story of lif...]]> Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=368 Oscar traditionally has a thing for sweeping historical epics, and one of the early great ones is the best picture winner from 1935, Mutiny on the Bounty. If you don’t know the story of the HMS Bounty, you need to sue your high school’s his...]]> Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=367 So here's what you do. go to google, hit maps, hit directions, ask for directions I was thinking about waiting to do this one until after I get the DVD so I can see the show again, but what the hell...it's slow at work and everyone who'll probably read this was at the damn show too so it doesn't have to be some in-depth study o...]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=365 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=363 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=364 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=362 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=361 Our road to Wrestlemania stops here for now with last year's installment.  Over the past year we saw the return of ECW in the form of the "One Night Stand" PPV (which was very good, by the way), Monday Night Raw's big move back over to the US...]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=360 We're into the home stretch now, with only two more shows to go through (plus the upcoming one which I'll probably write about unless I'm too drunk to remember any of it.)  We turn now to the 21st edition of the big show, with nothing of note happening over the last year, besides Benoit and ...]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=359 Nothing really interesting happened over the past year (that I can think of anyway) so let's get on with the 20th Wrestlemania, the one "where it all begins again."  Doesn't that sound like the title of a James Bond movie?

Wrestlemania XIV Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=348 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=349 "You screwed me, everybody screwed me, and no one's doing a goddamn thing about it!  No one in the building cares, no one in the dressing room cares, so much goddamn injustice around here...everybody in that goddamn dressing room knows that I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the ...]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=346 So I ran across something called ChooseYourOwnTube.com tonight while trying to relax at home. It looks like it was created "Down Under" by two brothers (Regis and Remi). Anyhow it's not really a new idea but I think it's wor...]]> Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.lifewithjustin.com/view.php?tbl_id=347 Earlier today I had a dentist's appointment for a cleaning...first one in like five years.  If anything can compare with the pain of watching this show it's going to the dentist after not going for five years.