Comments on: Belle de Jour (no 10)

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05/19/09--04:27: By: Allan Fish (chan 1562843)

Well, Tony, I'm no technological genius and wouldn't know where to begin. And it's the time involved...takes long enough writing them. I've written just shy of 1,200 reviews in 5½ years, plus intros, deciations, indices, intro, etc. It's an average of one every other day for 5½ years. It's not much when one considers only 30-45 minutes maximum per review, but even so. And I'm still going...they should just lock me up. As for things going off the bottom, well, c'est la vie, it doesn't really bother me. This book was never really intended to go online, it certainly wasn't written to go online, it's just sort of happened in the last six months or so. I don't really have any belief in my abilities as a writer and am realistic enough to know the chances of a non-pro getting anything published are anorexic at best. Once you're resigned to it never being published, you can just do it for the pleasure. And honestly, once all the decade polls are done (by Easter 2010), except for odd sprinkling, there will be no more daily reviews from me on the site, just the occasional special piece here and there (maybe one every week or something like that). Time for others to step up to the plate then. I won't have time from the summer of next year onwards anyway once I go back to Uni.


05/19/09--05:59: By: Sam Juliano (chan 1562843)

So now it is out in the open for all here to see---the reason why Allan Fish is the most doggedly "prolific" writer of film reviews on the net (only Ed Howard matches him in this sense) but it's a testament to an undying sense of commitment that is only matched by a daily regimentation of film viewing that is frankly peerless. In any case, Easter of 2010 is light years into the future--I guess we have to count our blessings just to be alive by then--so we have a long road ahead. Still, Allan's back catalogue, apart from his poll countdown is still formidable, so we'll see.........


05/19/09--06:00: By: Sam Juliano (chan 1562843)

Needless to say, Tony's suggestion is still most tempting, and it again demonstrates his interest in and respect for Allan's work.


05/19/09--06:02: By: Tony D'Ambra (chan 1562843)

Fair enough Allan. It just seems a shame. And listen here, I have a possessory lien on the 'I don't think much of my writing' excuse. Your work is better than a lot of the stuff I have read in books and in the press. For the record, this is what I would do: 1. In the Wordpress Dashboard, use the Export tool to download all WitD posts to an XML file on your PC. 2. Open the XML file in MS Excel or MS Access, or in OpenOffice, and filter all your articles into a query. 3. Design and print a simple report based on the query that outputs an article on each page, with a TOC and a Title page. 4. Print the report to a PDF document. 5. Viola eBook!


05/19/09--06:06: By: Sam Juliano (chan 1562843)

Tony: A most perceptive and interesting consideration there of eroticism, THE BLUE ANGEL, Ms. Deneuve and soft-core erotica there. Dennis: Even in those fewfilms you mention there, Deneuve is hardly the effervescent soul. Her career throughout is dominated by the "cool" characters, and her acting demeanor is perfectly attuned. Others here brought out this fact and I simply expressed agreement. She is NOT the most emotionally generous performer out there, and has never been. Again, thanks for the insights.


05/19/09--06:08: By: Sam Juliano (chan 1562843)

Tony: Perhaps that five-step procedure can be negotiated!!!


05/19/09--09:09: By: Allan Fish (chan 1562843)

Tony, I have all the reviews in MS Word format anyway, one page at a time per review, so I'd be as well adding them all to one massive word document as going through that rigmarole, but the size would be prohibitive...


05/19/09--17:42: By: Tony D'Ambra (chan 1562843)

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05/19/09--19:27: By: Sam Juliano (chan 1562843)

Tony: Your contributions on this thread in discussion Allan's reviews and ways to get them published, Catherine Denueve, and the film that's the subject here, are again superlative, and have fueled yet another banner discourse. Jon: Your listing of the famous Michael Sragow's statement is deserving of effusive compliment, as is your astute observations of this film within the Bunuel pantheon. Dennis: Again, thanks much for your passionate and insightful comments.


05/21/09--20:01: By: MovieMan0283 (chan 1562843)

Tony, if it's any consolation, Sam and I have discussed putting up an archive of Allan's "best of the decade" reviews on my blog, which he will then link to on this site. The post is prepared and ready to go, and will probably be entered at the end of this weekend, the most fortuitous time for all.