Sesquicentenniblog

That's gotta be a term for you -- sesquicentennial, that is. For those that don't know, it defines an anniversary of 150 years. While nobody has stuck around for one of those that long in marriage (nor life), there are still those that exist for other reasons -- California's occurred just 10 years ago, back in 2000, when the state became that old. This blog certainly isn't that old (nor is the internet itself), but my alteration of the term in the title hopefully indicates to you that this is the 150th blog entry!

As such, there's some happy news and some sad news to give out, before celebrating. Starting with the sad news: our entry, Journey of the Mind, unfortunately did not make it into the different from what? film festival. It was good, however, that we were let down easily with an email that still praised the project. It's soon to get entered into yet another festival or two; can't determine if Big Bear or SF Short Fest would work better, or if I should just do both! I'd like to get The Nightmare out, too, but I need to ramp it up if I want to tweak it.

Now, the happy news: through using Withoutabox, I've figured out not only how to upload movies to IMDb, but how to do it for movies that have long existed on IMDb without incorporating Withoutabox at the start! In other words, you can now view The Last Kiss in its entirety from IMDb! I've remastered the sound, and slightly altered the contrast levels of the visuals. I may do this for The Dog of Pompeii in the coming months...

Finally, the celebration of 150! What isn't more celebratory than the choices for #1 movie of the past year by A.O. Scott & Michael Phillips on At the Movies?

BTW, Ebert's #1 choice apparently was The Hurt Locker, but that was only learned through its placement of #2 on his best of the decade list, since his yearly picks now aren't ranked. THL was also high on Scott's & Phillips' lists, at #2 & #4, respectively. Let's go, Bigelow, let's go! (Whoo! Whoo!)