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Some of you may have noticed that there has been no Movies for Democrats since the weekend.
When I lived in Portland, the TV cable listings came out every week, so I just went through them and listed the times that each interesting movie would be shown.
Here in Minneapolis the cable guide comes out monthly, so the Portland technique would be totally confusing and laborious. I therefore switched to the method of listing the movies chronologically. However, even that is too laborious when I have work, settling-in stuff to deal with, an ailing computer to deal with, and a delightful but time-consuming new activity, singing in a top-notch church choir that rehearses and performs on a heavy schedule that necessitates studying the week's music at home.
For that reason, I will no longer be putting up weekly editions of Movies for Democrats. Instead, I will give you about 12-48 hours advance notice about special events or rarely seen or especially fine films and programs that are showing up on the schedule. This means that I will not be mentioning each showing of The Manchurian Candidate. ;-)
Watch for the PBS series Wide Angle on Thursday night at 9PM Central. I forget what this week's feature is about, but the series has been consistently fine in reporting on places such as North Korea, Chechnya, and China.
Also on PBS, those of you have enjoyed the 1900 House and Pioneer Quest might be intrigued by Surviving the Iron Age, which makes me very glad that I wasn't born back in the B.C.'s.
Friday's rarely seen film is The Garden of the Finzi-Contini, the story of wealthy Italian Jews living under fascism and trying to pretend that everything's fine. I haven't seen it since it first came out in the 1970s, so I'm looking forward to this opportunity. It premiers on the Independent Film Channel at 11:40AM Central time and will be repeated a couple of times this month.
That's all for now. Give this a kick if you read it.
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