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Film Club or Goggle box? - votes please!

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The second week of my new film club was Enigma (2001 film) and it got more interest than the first week but still no reviews of the film yet - I think only one person apart from me watched it?

A suggestion has been put forward that maybe we should have a vote on what to watch. If you want to vote on a movie, I have 3 to choose from which are all available for free on the channel 4 app. They are:

Team America - World Police (2004) - A South Park style homage to Thunderbirds (Warning - bad language)

Dr Who and the Daleks (1965) - Nostalgic Dr Who in black & white

The Land That Time Forgot (1974) - Dinosaurs!

If you are interested in watching and discussing one of the films above, please let me have your vote. But if people aren't interested in a Film Club like this, the other option is to have a "Goggle Box" thread where people post  a review of what they watched each week. So if you prefer that, let me know.

 In the words of Janine when answering the Ghostbusters reception phone: "Whad'a'ya want?"

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  • (As I couldn't find anything on Goggle Box this week which I wanted to watch).

    BBC Radio 4

    Language City by Ross Perlin

    www.bbc.co.uk/.../m0029zfl

    Book of the Week.

    Linguist Ross Perlin is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history - contemporary New York.

    Ross Perlin is a linguist who teaches at Columbia University in New York and co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance.

    Each episode is broadcast twice on BBC Radio 4 and available on iPlayer after broadcast.

    Episodes (each episode is of duration: 14 minutes):

    1) Rasmina - From highland Nepal, who speaks Seke.

    Rasmina, a nurse who is one of the youngest people in the world who can speak Seke - a language from five villages in highland Nepal, near Tibet. It has 700 speakers, and over 100 of them have moved to a single building in Brooklyn.

    2) Husniya - From Tajikstan, who speaks Wakhi.

    Husniya, who comes from a remote high-mountain region of Tajikistan. Her language is Wakhi, and at times she’s been the only person in New York who can speak it. She keeps her language alive by talking to her mother on the phone.

    3) Boris - Yiddish writer Boris Sandler.

    Boris grew up in Soviet Moldova and made a living as a professional violinist before coming to New York in 1991.

    4) Irwin - Mexican chef Irwin, who speaks Nahuatl.

    Nahautl was spoken by the Aztecs, and it remains the most widely-spoken of Mexico’s 282 indigenous languages.

    5) Karen - One of the last speakers of Lenape.

    Karen, who grew up on the Munsee Reserve in Canada and moved to New York, where she became one of the last speakers of Lenape.

    Background:

    29/08/2024 - Languages are disappearing. SOAS alum Ross Perlin is part of the fight to preserve them - SOAS Blog / Interview (plus a photograph of the book front cover):

    www.soas.ac.uk/.../languages-are-disappearing-soas-alum-ross-perlin-part-fight-preserve-them

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  • (As I couldn't find anything on Goggle Box this week which I wanted to watch).

    BBC Radio 4

    Language City by Ross Perlin

    www.bbc.co.uk/.../m0029zfl

    Book of the Week.

    Linguist Ross Perlin is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history - contemporary New York.

    Ross Perlin is a linguist who teaches at Columbia University in New York and co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance.

    Each episode is broadcast twice on BBC Radio 4 and available on iPlayer after broadcast.

    Episodes (each episode is of duration: 14 minutes):

    1) Rasmina - From highland Nepal, who speaks Seke.

    Rasmina, a nurse who is one of the youngest people in the world who can speak Seke - a language from five villages in highland Nepal, near Tibet. It has 700 speakers, and over 100 of them have moved to a single building in Brooklyn.

    2) Husniya - From Tajikstan, who speaks Wakhi.

    Husniya, who comes from a remote high-mountain region of Tajikistan. Her language is Wakhi, and at times she’s been the only person in New York who can speak it. She keeps her language alive by talking to her mother on the phone.

    3) Boris - Yiddish writer Boris Sandler.

    Boris grew up in Soviet Moldova and made a living as a professional violinist before coming to New York in 1991.

    4) Irwin - Mexican chef Irwin, who speaks Nahuatl.

    Nahautl was spoken by the Aztecs, and it remains the most widely-spoken of Mexico’s 282 indigenous languages.

    5) Karen - One of the last speakers of Lenape.

    Karen, who grew up on the Munsee Reserve in Canada and moved to New York, where she became one of the last speakers of Lenape.

    Background:

    29/08/2024 - Languages are disappearing. SOAS alum Ross Perlin is part of the fight to preserve them - SOAS Blog / Interview (plus a photograph of the book front cover):

    www.soas.ac.uk/.../languages-are-disappearing-soas-alum-ross-perlin-part-fight-preserve-them

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