Kimberly Lindbergs

Tell us about your blog.

On my blog I announce to visitors that Cinebeats "chronicles one woman's love affair with '60s & '70s era cinema" and that's really encapsulates what my blog is all about. I started writing it purely out of love for the films I enjoy and I wanted to share my enthusiasm and appreciation for many older neglected and forgotten movies with other film fans.

How would you describe your readers? Do you have much contact with the people who read you?

My readers seem to be an extremely diverse bunch. They range in age from 16 to 65 and come from all types of backgrounds. I have a large international readership since I write about foreign films a lot and I really appreciate that. I've heard from readers located in countries as diverse as India, Japan, France, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Britain and from all over the U.S. which has really surprised me. I enjoy chatting with other film fans about movies so I try to respond to every comment I receive at Cinebeats but that's not always possible.

Tell us how and why you started your blog?

I've been a film lover for as long as I can remember. I've also always enjoyed writing and researching topics I'm interested in. When I was a teenager I wrote for my school newspaper and as I got older I started writing for zines and small publications. Blogging seemed like an easy way to combine my love for movies, research and writing. I first began blogging using livejournal in 2001 and I started a horror film community there a year or two later. I met some nice people there but I don't really care for chat boards or livejournal's blogging system so I left livejournal in 2005 and moved over to Blogsome a few years ago after hunting around online for free blogging services that allowed users to customize the look of their blog. Since I'm also interested in graphic design and occasionally dabble in visual arts myself I wanted to be able to give my blog a look that visitors might remember. For someone like myself who sort of grew up writing for and publishing zines, blogging was really the next natural step for me to take and I think the web is a great tool for self-publishing. I love the idea that anyone with a little ingenuity and the urge to write can start a blog.

Describe your blog day — do you work at home? Go to a café? Sit in an office?

I don't really have a regular blog day since I'm currently writing for myself mostly as a hobby so I tend to surf the web and write blog posts whenever I can find some free time. I've suffered from insomnia my entire life so I'm often writing my blog posts at 2am in my pajamas or on weekends and my days off when I like to lounge around my apartment in socks, sweatpants and old t-shirts.

How do you find things to blog about and how do you decide that a entry is worth being in your blog?

I write first and foremost for myself and I hope that potential readers might find my posts interesting. I have readers who only enjoy reading about the horror films I write about and Asian film fans who only enjoy reading about the Japanese films I've covered and I'm sure they find my other blog posts rather boring. My own tastes are rather eclectic and that's reflected in the films I choose to write about at Cinebeats. I never suffer from a lack of ideas. There are hundreds of movies I'd love to write about and directors and actors I'd like to cover but finding the free time and focus needed to write worthwhile posts can be tough.

What is your favorite blog entry?

I'm not sure that I have a favorite single post. I always enjoy writing about films that haven't been covered much and have often gone overlooked or under-appreciated over the years. Recently I wrote about Joseph Losey's much maligned and misunderstood Boom!, which generated some interesting feedback. Since Losey is one of my favorite directors I enjoyed writing about that film a lot.