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Well, nobody made you become Nanook of the North, you could always have moved south :-))

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:32:02 AM EST
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This is true. The problem is that I chose Finland after experiencing several wonderful summers there. I didn't think it through.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:34:43 AM EST
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Can't you migrate ? I'm sure you could pick up a cheap property somewhere sunny down near the Med where you could over-winter. Morocco's nice.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:37:53 AM EST
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Well the man who coined my award-winning phrase 'Hei, I speak Finnish like an Estonian horse' did just that. His name was Kasper and he was a journalist of the old school. He went south every year, in his own words, to 'crawl like a beach snake'. Mind you he was relatively sober during the Finnish summers.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:49:45 AM EST
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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

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:46:26 AM EST
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Ah, the National Film Board of Canada



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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:58:27 AM EST
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If I'm recalling my Film History correctly, Nanook of the North was a very popular, very influential, film; defining the Documentary for several decades afterwards.

Also a source for all those horrible propaganda films made in the 30s.  

I'm not too sure what Nouvelle Vague was all about, remind me?

;-)

by ATinNM on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 12:38:57 PM EST
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Oh, so you were out of it too then?

Henri Decaë is the guy to look up. My hero.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 12:59:29 PM EST
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