Funny you should say Nanook - it was that Flaherty film that first stimulated my interest in documentary films. We had a small 16mm viewing theatre at the Film School and access to a lot of movies (especially short films, which then or now are rarely seen in tradmed). It enabled us to go through virtually the entire catalogue of the National Film Board of Canada, which at that time had the best documentary film community. The French were busy with the Nouvelle Vague at the time...

Sad that both these strands ended up merged, as Reality TV. But not all TV is bad - even if hypnagogic. My b-in-law, who you've met, gave me a rip of the recent Reggie Perrin (Clunes) and said forget the original - we all know it was great - look at this is a stand alone. And he was right.

You can't be me, I'm taken