[AGL] [GH2] movies again

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I donT know if NetFlix has foreign films but if it does I suggest 
Antonia's Line.  Amazing.






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I've been using netflix free streaming on my laptop while laid up, and am very happy with it. Not necessarily watching hibrow film-saw "The Badge" last night with  
Billy Bob Thornton as small town Louisiana sheriff investigating the murder of a transexual stripper. 


From: Connie Clark <connie_3c at yahoo.com>
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signed up for Netflix streaming, instead of cable tv in Austin house.  The internet based service allows me to download movies to my blu-ray player queued ready to play when I'm ready. I rate the movies occasionally, as well as give Netflix my 'preferences' so they suggest accordingly. Very slick process.


This week, I watched a couple of interesting dark, suspense flicks. The Machinist (2004) staring Christian Bale (a Batman). For this role he lost 60 pounds, looking deathly and always anguished...kept me puzzled 'til the satisfactory end.


The other was a well-acted sci-fi story Moon (recent).  Sam Rockwell is the only actor seen in the film, and I won't give it away, but there are more Sams, he plays them all. Directors' father is David Bowie, btw. Roger Ebert says:



"Moon" is a superior example of that threatened genre, hard science-fiction, which is often about the interface between humans and alien intelligence of one kind of or other, including digital. John W. Campbell Jr., the godfather of this genre, would have approved. The movie is really all about ideas. It only seems to be about emotions. How real are our emotions, anyway? How real are we? 




turned out to be fairly good suggestions from Netflix' AI program. Will also take suggestions from discerning movie buffs, as Netflix seems to have a very big library available.


the south Austin house on Williamson Creek faired just fine this week of heavy rain.  Rising water did not get very close at all.


Connie




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