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We have a Dragon Tattoo winner

Congratulations to Brenda P. for winning the hardback copy of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Thanks to everyone who entered either via Twitter or email.
Don’t forget the film version opens in limited release tomorrow.
The story follows a disgraced journalist as he investigates the 40-year-old disappearance of a young girl from a wealthy Swedish [...]

One more day to win: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I’ll be wrapping up the contest to win a hardback copy of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sometime tomorrow so if you’re a US resident, remember to drop me a line at:
win [at] livingincinema.com
That’s it. It couldn’t be much easier.
Dragon Tattoo is the first of a series known as The Millenium [...]

Win a hardback copy of ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’

If you followed Living in Cinema on Twitter, you’d already know how to win a hardback copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millenium Trilogy. All three mysteries (including The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) have been adapted into films [...]

And the LiC Oscar nomination contest winner is…

Faithful LiC reader/commenter Sartre correctly identified all but four of Tuesday’s Oscar nominees in the nine contest categories and he wins the Criterion DVD of his choice or another DVD in the same price category.
His only misses:

Invictus for Best Picture instead of District 9.
Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) for Supporting Actress instead of Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy [...]

Pick the Oscar nominees, win a Criterion DVD!

The Oscar nominations will be announced bright and early Tuesday morning (2/2/10) so that means it’s time for the annual LiC Pick the Nominees contest.
Last year, LiC reader Pierre de Plume won himself a fantastic movie t-shirt from the fine folks at Muze. If memory serves, he chose the “Oh, stewardess. I speak jive” shirt [...]

Name Those Nominees: Contest Results

Ok, this contest thing didn’t go as smoothly as I’d planned.
In order to avoid confusion over multiple performances, the fine print of the original contest rules states that nominations for individuals have to specify a film. A number of entries came in that broke that rule. With no time to get everyone who did it [...]

Name Those Nominees – Win That T-Shirt!

The Oscar nominations are finally upon us…or they will be on Thursday the 22nd at whatever ungodly hour of the morning they decide to announce them. Among other things, that means it’s time for the
Living in Cinema 2nd Annual ‘Name Those Nominees’ Contest.
A year ago Nick Plowman was the smartest guy in town by [...]

Win a Ticket to See ‘Che’ at AFI Fest on 11/1

Benicio Del Toro in Che
Hey there LA area LiC readers. How’d you like to see the sold out Gala presentation of Steven Soderbergh’s Che at the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood at 6pm on Saturday, November 1, 2008?
I’ll make it easy on you. Send an email with “Che Ticket” in the subject line to: craig@livingincinema.com [...]