My Cambridge

Watched Guy Maddin's noir-documentary about Winnipeg aptly titled "My Winnipeg". It's a great gritty local-boy approach to an average city, his enthusiasm for the details playing out as a sinister tale of a sleepy snowed-in people steeped in mysticism. He talks about stores and buildings with love and hate and speaks of things that really matter, not just the history but the *real* history. It's a post-noir shot to make it look old (I don't know the name of film type) but with lots of actual historic footage you start not to know which is reconstruction and which is stock!
It's inspired me to tell my story of Cambridge as an eventually accepted outsider, the local people who have amazed me, the local legends, the local secrets, the places only locals know and the uni students don't even see, the local characters whose names and sayings are immortalised on the walls of pubs and in the hearts of the people who live here, the tales of village halls and village schools, of city six forms and bridges...