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I've been neglecting you again, my beloved film_flammers. One of my New Years Resolutions will be to be more dilligent with you in 2010. Hopefully I can actually write up a couple new reviews in the next week or so. Until then, a little 2009 In Remembrance post!

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And here's a little list of ( Angie B's Favourite Films of 2009. )

Re: Angie reviewing Some Like it Hot.

This is also one of my favorites. Not favorite favorites, but definitely way up there. Recently - like, three days ago - I rewatched the film with my mother. She was watching it for the very first time. She laughed and laughed and laughed.

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We've all got our lists of favourite movies, those films that we love as a whole. But if you're like me, you also have a list of favourite scenes. To take a break from outright reviews, I decided to put together a few clips -- in no particular order -- that get the Angie seal of approval. Hope you enjoy!

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Kill Bill is one of my favourite films. ( Read more... )

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A dry martini you always shake to waltz time.

The Thin Man
1934
Director: W.S. van Dyke
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan


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Horo, my nut brown maiden
Hiri, my nut brown maiden
Horo, ro maiden
For she's the maid for me.

I Know Where I'm Going!
1945
Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Starring: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey


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Why, I make more money than... than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!!

Singin' in the Rain
1952
Director: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor


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In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

The Third Man
1949
Director: Carol Reed
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What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream.

Picnic At Hanging Rock
1975
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Margaret Nelson


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