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	<title>Comments on: Disc Drive</title>
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	<description>The wilfully eccentric film blog of David Cairns</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: dcairns</title>
		<link>http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/disc-drive/#comment-946</link>
		<dc:creator>dcairns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The argument against is presumably that once you have downloaded something, you're unlikely to fork out for a legit version once it becomes available. But as Alex Cox says, these days people are basically paying for the packaging, because people like having a nice DVD collection they can array on their shelves. The digital content is just a lot of ones and zeros.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The argument against is presumably that once you have downloaded something, you&#8217;re unlikely to fork out for a legit version once it becomes available. But as Alex Cox says, these days people are basically paying for the packaging, because people like having a nice DVD collection they can array on their shelves. The digital content is just a lot of ones and zeros.</p>
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		<title>By: Simon</title>
		<link>http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/disc-drive/#comment-939</link>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My own personal ethical code on this is that if the film/tv show is not available in my country of residence by any other legitimate means then it's perfectly ok to get it by Bittorrent.
I got copies of Dziga Vertov's 'Man With a Movie Camera' that way and also Chris Marker's 'La Jetée'.

Neither were available in downtown Nairobi where I was living at the time :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My own personal ethical code on this is that if the film/tv show is not available in my country of residence by any other legitimate means then it&#8217;s perfectly ok to get it by Bittorrent.<br />
I got copies of Dziga Vertov&#8217;s &#8216;Man With a Movie Camera&#8217; that way and also Chris Marker&#8217;s &#8216;La Jetée&#8217;.</p>
<p>Neither were available in downtown Nairobi where I was living at the time :)</p>
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		<title>By: dcairns</title>
		<link>http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/disc-drive/#comment-904</link>
		<dc:creator>dcairns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Kieslowski said you could watch his trilogy in any order, but he was just trying to be clever. Obviously White goes in the middle because it's a bit crap, and Red at the end because it finishes the stories and is the best.

I'm not terribly technical myself but I forced myself to master disc-ripping.

IT IS TIME for you to nominate some Euphoric Cinema. Don't worry about taking it too literally, just suggest some scenes you LIKE. I'd much rather have it be a puzzle "How is THAT euphoric?" than have something obvious and dull.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Kieslowski said you could watch his trilogy in any order, but he was just trying to be clever. Obviously White goes in the middle because it&#8217;s a bit crap, and Red at the end because it finishes the stories and is the best.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not terribly technical myself but I forced myself to master disc-ripping.</p>
<p>IT IS TIME for you to nominate some Euphoric Cinema. Don&#8217;t worry about taking it too literally, just suggest some scenes you LIKE. I&#8217;d much rather have it be a puzzle &#8220;How is THAT euphoric?&#8221; than have something obvious and dull.</p>
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		<title>By: Jenny</title>
		<link>http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/disc-drive/#comment-903</link>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for addressing that Mr Cairns.  Lots of very good points there and I'll look into some of your ideas.  I'm not that technical and a bit of a wuss so I may be buying from international Amazon sites and selling on Ebay.

I remembered what lovefilm's first response was, even though I explained the issue pretty clearly, "We do have foreign films, including French ones, for rental.  Just click on foreign films on the home page."  A quick glance at my order history would show that I'm quite familiar with the concept of foreign films.  Another time I was sent Three Colours Red, before Blue or White and when I watched the final scene I realised I was missing something.  Lovefilm says it will send TV series and film series (trilogies and so on) in order without you having to put them in order of preference.  So I emailed and told them what order Three Colours should be sent in and they replied "We always send trilogies in order.  I can confirm that Three Colours is a trilogy."  I just get the impression that their customer service staff are not at all interested in cinema and if they were they would do a much better job, and that they don't have much training. 

Ps. Jeffrey Katzenberg, yes.  Bruce Willis, no.  My Dad and brother would kill me, I would quite literally not be living with myself.  Same with Steven Segal, but you didn't mention him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for addressing that Mr Cairns.  Lots of very good points there and I&#8217;ll look into some of your ideas.  I&#8217;m not that technical and a bit of a wuss so I may be buying from international Amazon sites and selling on Ebay.</p>
<p>I remembered what lovefilm&#8217;s first response was, even though I explained the issue pretty clearly, &#8220;We do have foreign films, including French ones, for rental.  Just click on foreign films on the home page.&#8221;  A quick glance at my order history would show that I&#8217;m quite familiar with the concept of foreign films.  Another time I was sent Three Colours Red, before Blue or White and when I watched the final scene I realised I was missing something.  Lovefilm says it will send TV series and film series (trilogies and so on) in order without you having to put them in order of preference.  So I emailed and told them what order Three Colours should be sent in and they replied &#8220;We always send trilogies in order.  I can confirm that Three Colours is a trilogy.&#8221;  I just get the impression that their customer service staff are not at all interested in cinema and if they were they would do a much better job, and that they don&#8217;t have much training. </p>
<p>Ps. Jeffrey Katzenberg, yes.  Bruce Willis, no.  My Dad and brother would kill me, I would quite literally not be living with myself.  Same with Steven Segal, but you didn&#8217;t mention him.</p>
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		<title>By: dcairns</title>
		<link>http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/disc-drive/#comment-876</link>
		<dc:creator>dcairns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He's good in Desert of the Tartars too, though it's not such a great role.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He&#8217;s good in Desert of the Tartars too, though it&#8217;s not such a great role.</p>
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		<title>By: David Ehrenstein</title>
		<link>http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/disc-drive/#comment-873</link>
		<dc:creator>David Ehrenstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like him as the half-man/half-horse in Pasolini's &lt;i&gt;Medea&lt;/i&gt;, and in various early Garrels.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like him as the half-man/half-horse in Pasolini&#8217;s <i>Medea</i>, and in various early Garrels.</p>
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		<title>By: dcairns</title>
		<link>http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/disc-drive/#comment-867</link>
		<dc:creator>dcairns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It sure is. LA PRISONNIERE gives him his biggest and best role as a sympathetic sadist.

The honey-haired, strong-jawed lass is Elizabeth Wiener, whose dad plays piano in Duelle. She turns up in Duelle briefly, but LP seems to be her only big role.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It sure is. LA PRISONNIERE gives him his biggest and best role as a sympathetic sadist.</p>
<p>The honey-haired, strong-jawed lass is Elizabeth Wiener, whose dad plays piano in Duelle. She turns up in Duelle briefly, but LP seems to be her only big role.</p>
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		<title>By: David Ehrenstein</title>
		<link>http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/disc-drive/#comment-865</link>
		<dc:creator>David Ehrenstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is that Laurent Terzieff?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is that Laurent Terzieff?</p>
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