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Just finished watching Channel 4's 50 Films To See Before You Die, which might have been better off titled 50 Films Most of Which Film Four Will Be Showing Shortly.

Supposedly a list of essential movies voted for by 'film experts' and there's no Kurosawa? No film noir at all? (I'm assuming neither Touch of Evil or Chinatown really count...)

The sole representatives of the entire Far East movie industries were Princess Mononoke and Hero - I'd have expected to see maybe The Killer or one of Zhang Yimou's other movies get in there (with my personal vote being for Farewell My Concubine or Raise the Red Lantern).

The Coen Brothers got Raising Arizona as their sole representative, Powell & Pressburger got Black Narcissus and the token Hitchcock movie was North by Northwest. Hmmm. Lots to disagree with there... ;)

E.T.A. a link to the entire list.

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Sitting there performing the regular chore of cutting weasel toenails, I find myself watching the people over the road. On Friday, I left home to find removals vans filling up as they prepare to move out - rumour has it they've sold the land the bungalow they live in is built on, which goes back towards the fields for almost a mile, and it's going to have houses built on it.

This morning, he's unscrewing the house sign from one of the posts at the entrance to their property. Let's just say this: their house is number 514. What are the chances of them ever moving into a property that happens to have that number? And it's not as if it's a sign that's likely to have sentimental value (along the 'my child made this' kind of thing) since it's a cast-iron generic order-from-any-hardware-store thing that couldn't have cost more than £25.

But then I guess this comes in the league of the people who move house and take the lightbulbs and bath plugs with them because, of course, lightbulbs are in such short supply nationally! ;)

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So now, after the saga of 'BT doesn't know what Livejournal is', we have 'BT's mail system is shot to buggery'. No mail for me, not all day and who knows when it will be fixed...

Just wondering if it's messed up outgoing as well: moonlettuce, did you get the email I sent you about the hotel? ;)