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GreenCine's Oscar Live Blog! March 7, 2010.

It's the wonderful time of year again, when people of all ages gather together to watch the Academy Award ceremony, alternating between wishing they were there on the red carpet, and feeling aggravated by the show and the awards themselves. But it's a favorite tradition and we wouldn't miss it for the world. 

On March 7, 2010, during the Oscar ceremony, GreenCine will be hosting a live chat featuring some of our favorite film bloggers from around the US, and the world, chiming in with live commentary on the proceedings.  Using the terrific Cover It Live interface, our panelists will chat throughout the evening and take your questions on the awards.  Join host Craig Phillips, editor at GreenCine, as well as Aaron Hillis, editor of GreenCine Daily, as they keep the conversation flowing with our esteemed guests and you, the moviegoing public.  We hope you'll join us and bring your friends, for a party on the virtual red carpet.  CLICK ON FOR MORE AND FOR THE LIVE BLOG:

Blog entry 02/17/2010 - 1:43pm
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GreenCine Best of the Bay 2009 Winner: San Francisco Magazine

Well we're just both surprised (since this happened over the summer, but better late than never!) and tickled to death that San Francisco Magazine has kindly chosen us for their Best of the Bay list.

Stay-at-home film school
In the five years since we first picked GreenCine, this San Francisco online-rental company has gone from good idea to local institution. Think of it as Netflix mashed up with your local independent video store. It offers the wide selection of obscure genres and art films that cinephiles crave, along with the helpful advice you’d normally get from the person behind the counter. Intrigued by film noir but embarrassed because you don’t really know what that means? GreenCine explains the genre and recommends its favorites. Instead of a list of popular rom-coms, the site offers the Top 10 Environmental Documentaries That Don’t Rhyme with a Schminconvenient Schmuth, plus interviews with hot new indie filmmakers and discussions about the best cult vampire films. greencine.com

Blog entry 10/15/2009 - 4:10pm
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GreenCine's Oscar Live Blog! February 22, 4:30pm PST.

Come join us for an evening full of punditry, commentary, jokes, trivia, predictions, and general head-shaking as we host a live blog during Sunday's Oscar ceremony. The chat will be moderated by host GreenCine editor/writer Craig Phillips who will be joined throughout the evening by GreenCine Daily editor, film distributor and writer Aaron Hillis, plus a bounty of other film bloggers from around the country. Guest panelists jumping in will include Erin Donovan, Kathy Fennessy (SIFF blog), film blogger and US magazine and Flavorpill contributor Lisa Rosman, Edward Copeland (Eddie on Film) and Eric Dienstfrey (Filmbo) -- with quite a few more dropping by. We hope you'll join us, too. Alone, surviving this year's Oscars might be a rather difficult chore, but together we can do it. [Full list of nominees.]

Blog entry 02/22/2009 - 10:29am
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81st Academy Awards: Nominations (Updated! 3/22)

The 2009 Oscar nominations were announced and as always some of the films are still in theaters now while others came out long ago enough to now be on DVD (or to appear on DVD soon). So consider this a running list that we'll update as more titles are added on DVD. 

The 81st Academy Award ceremony took place on February 22nd, 2009.

Blog entry 02/18/2009 - 10:06am
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Cannes Palme d'Or Winners

Back in the 1930s, when Venice was the international film festival, an odd thing started happening when it came to the awards. German and Italian films were nabbing them and, when Mussolini's son took Venice's Grand Prize in 1938, beating out Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, non-fascist countries realized they'd better come up with an alternative festival. They chose a lovely spot on the French Riviera and the first festival was held in Cannes in 1939.

Then the war blew all that out of the water. The next festival wouldn't be held in the sleepy coastal town until 1946. Throughout the 50s and 60s, as Hollywood sent its best and brightest and Europeans sent their maestros and avant filmmakers, Cannes quickly became what it is today: one of the oddest confluences of art and commerce, glamour and politics anywhere.

Herewith, all the past winners of the festival's most prestigious award, the Palme d'Or.

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2008 Oscars! The Nominees on DVD (Updated for Winners!)

This is the entire list of 2008 Academy Award nominees (for 2007 season), with links provided for any film now available on DVD (or announced on DVD). We'll update this list as more films arrive!

This is the entire list of 2008 Academy Award nominees (for 2007 season), with links provided for any film now available on DVD (or announced on DVD). We'll update this list as more films arrive!

Best motion picture of the year
"Atonement" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production
"Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production) A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production
Winner "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production

CLICK BELOW FOR THE WHOLE LIST!

 

Blog entry 02/20/2008 - 12:47pm
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All 2007 Oscar Winners on DVD: Now and Later


When are all the Oscar-nominated films coming out on DVD, you ask? One step ahead of ya. Here's a list of all the films nominated for Oscars for 2006, both winners and runners-up at the 2007 Academy Awards. Each film that is available on DVD now, or that has an definitive announced date, links to GreenCine's catalog. Keep checking back, too; we'll update any remaining films as they are announced.

Updated! Late 2007.

Blog entry 02/15/2008 - 6:25pm
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Poll: Biggest Surprise Among Oscar Nominations?
Poll 01/22/2008 - 3:16pm
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GreenCine Member of the Month Award
Blog entry 01/17/2008 - 6:33pm
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Film Independent's Spirit Award Winners (through 2007)

 

The Film Independent's Spirit Awards likes to call itself "the yin to the Oscars' yang." In case you miss the juxtapostion, the ceremony is held every year on the Saturday directly preceding Oscar night. Even so, as you scan the list, you can see that the films honored during the early years of the indie boom in the mid to late 80s were truly independent. As time scoots by, you begin to see more overlapping between the movie industry's yin and yang. The Awards were founded in 1984 and the first round was given out two years later. Quite a remarkable growth curve after that: In March 2002, the ceremony was hosted by John Waters and attended by 1300 guests, 350 journalists and loads and loads of stars. The fact that the Awards are sponsored by the Independent Film Channel and Entertainment Weekly, among others, surely helps attract those as anxious to be seen as to see. IFP alone reaches 33 million households; it is then broadcast on Bravo to reach another 53 million. Little indie film is all grown up now.

 

Here's our running list of Spirit Award Winners, updated every year. Enjoy!

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