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Well, I have some other ideas, but any action will have to wait until late April when I get back from the U.S. Hopefully the airlines will still be able to pay for the fuel on April 21.
And I agree with you that, given the interests of this blog, films with political plots may be the way to go.

I told Bush; don't play chess with the freakin' Russians.
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sat Mar 15th, 2008 at 08:44:55 AM EST
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LEP it was partly my fault for not putting up some provocative thoughts to kick the thing off, part clash with the photography blog and part forum obsession with other topics.

The idea is a good one, though I remain to be convinced that comparing 2 movies in the best way to go.

I think everybody appreciates the sharing of interesting resources/entertainments - whether books, youtubes, links, reviews or whatever. Movies are part of our media landscape too. I'm not sure we need coverage of current mainstream movies because they are covered quite well in the msm - unless they really get up our noses! But there are lots of other movies that are not widely publicized - it is worth getting recommendations from others in order to seek them out.

My latest TV series project is actually a movie (cinema/TV/DVD) review program with a new format that includes a comedy back story. We are in discussions this coming week with the channel.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 at 08:37:32 AM EST
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Sven. I think the idea of a film discussion blog is a good one for a blog of retired people and housewives; people who have the time to sit down and watch the films. It's not the diary you wrote yesterday. You notice there was only one person, me, who had prepared  and had watched the films for yesterday's blog; the two other commenters were speaking from memory. Even for the first blog which I wrote there were only a handful who prepared for it in spite of there being many comments. I suspected  then that the film blog was not going to fly.
So this diary is only my bizarre method of saying: "let's put it out of its misery and bury it with honours" before it gets sick and all shriveled up.

I told Bush; don't play chess with the freakin' Russians.
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 at 10:33:15 AM EST
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It will maybe re-emerge in a new format ;-)

Who would have thought that the Photoblog would be so fascinating and successful in terms of active contributions? We have try things and see how they resonate.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 at 11:51:46 AM EST
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Darn, and I finally got a chance to see The Serpent's Egg!  But it would have been a difficult review anyway, so maybe this is sort of like school being closed for a snow day the day you had to turn in an assignment that wasn't quite finished.

I'll keep an eye on the tribune for the rebirth of the film blog.  One hopes it will be suitably dramatic :}

Karen in Austin

Thence comes our true nobility by grace, It was not willed us with our rank and place. Chaucer

by Wife of Bath (bakerswife13@yahoo.com) on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 at 09:55:43 PM EST
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You can still add your comment to the Film Blog #1 regarding The Serpent's Egg. I'd be interested to see it.
http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2008/2/7/18553/46814

I told Bush; don't play chess with the freakin' Russians.
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Mon Mar 17th, 2008 at 03:03:19 AM EST
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Sorry. I guess you can't post any more in that diary. Never mind!

I told Bush; don't play chess with the freakin' Russians.
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Mon Mar 17th, 2008 at 07:31:24 AM EST
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