I love this woman! Not only has she helped shaped many of my favorite cinematic moments, but she also seems to know how to love and enjoy life. God bless you, Thelma.

To clarify her point regarding digital storage: the problem is the medium used to hold the data. Hard drives fail, the cheap CDs we use to burn data from our computers have a short shelf life, etc. As long as you have at least one back up and/or use archive quality CDs and DVDs you should be fine.

When oh when will we see the marvelous "Life and Death of Col Blimp"? It's one of my absolute favorites, and I'm generally a Francophile.

This sounds amazing too bad they couldn't get a real theater to show it. My TV is bigger than the screens at Film Forum, and I don't have pillars in the way of the screen or subways shaking the place every 10 minutes.

I was 8 when the film came out -- But I saw it (presumably b/c my mother didn't have enough money for the movie AND a babysitter) and I remember seeing it, but perhaps a few years after original release(?). But what I remember most is that it was "condemned" by the Legion of Decency, the film evaluation arm of the Catholic Church.
I didn't really understand the Legion's "reasoning" then and I don't now, but it had to do with dancing being the most important thing in the world for the ballerina.