Talk:By the Bluest of Seas

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Rosenbaum review

For some reason, the url for Rosenbaum's review of the film (from several years ago) died the same week that I started updating this article. Hopefully Rosenbaum doesn't have a problem with us using his review. Although the page isn't available on the Way Back Machine, I was able to find a cached version of the page and have added it. I'm not particularly technical and have no idea whether cached pages are permanent, or if this link could potentially die at some point in the future as well. However, I've taken the precaution of copying the entire review into a Microsoft Word file, which I believe is legal, so long as I don't disseminate it. Providing that Rosenbaum does not object to us using his review, then please do not hesitate to get in touch with me, if at any point in the future, the cached url link becomes inaccessible. I will try to hold on to the file containing his review, so even if there's an issue several years down the road, then please, just leave a comment on my talk page. That way I'll get an e-mail notification, and even if I've stopped watching this page, I can try to help out.

Sources don't have to be available online after all. But future editors might need context as to what this review said. --Jpcase (talk) 15:49, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, the cached url has gone dead, but even more fortunately, the original webpage is back up, and apparently, updated! I haven't actually noticed any changes; perhaps Rosenbaum simply made a few subtle changes to his phrasing or made an addition pertaining to Okraina (which is a second Barnet film reviewed in the same article). Anyway, it's great to have the reference available for public viewing again! I also see that it was archived on the Way Back Machine in September, so everything is set. --Jpcase (talk) 17:27, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dating the DVD releases

Unfortunately, the dates for the film's two (as of this posting) DVD releases are not made immediately apparent by any of the sources that I've yet seen. However, I feel that the dates can still be sufficiently determined. Jonathan Rosenbaum's article, The Mosaic Approach [1], originally written in August 2010, carries a postscript from 2012, stating that By the Bluest of Seas had then recently been released on DVD. The 2012 date is corroborated and more specifically placed toward the beginning of the year, by Anthony Nield's February 2012 Digital Fix review [2] of the Ruscico release.

We can date the Mr. Bongo Films release to November 2012, as Ben Nicholson's Cine-Vue review of this version [3] carries that date in its url address, and Nicholson specifically states that the release was occurring in the same week as his review's publication. --Jpcase (talk) 17:26, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nicole Brenez source

I've included as a source, a YouTube video called Nicole Brenez on By the Bluest of Seas (link [4]). Since Brenez is a published author and a "professor of cinema studies", she is clearly an "expert in her field" and the meets the criteria for self-published sources. I've included the "Prof." suffix in front of her name, in the hopes of keeping any hasty editors from mistaking this as an unreliable source. But I'll also leave this comment here on the talk page, just in case the source is accidentally removed by someone at a later date. If that ever happens, then please reincorporate the source into the article. --Jpcase (talk) 18:03, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]