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Victor Khomenko

Many years ago there was a wonderful cartoon. A string quartet is playing some melody, and then a guy with a tuba enters the frame and starts playing two notes.
He gets kicked out. But surely, comes back, and again, and again...
Eventually the strings join him in plying those two notes...
I remember this funny cartoon any time I think of Netflix.
Hell, guys... we used to discuss movies. Now every other thread is about some Netflix D-rated junk.
On our front, it is things German for a few days. After three Fassbinder's we are switching to Sschlondorff, so tonight it will be Coup de Grace. We have seen all these films many years ago, but they are still mostly fresh. Well, maybe Maria Braun looked a bid dated, but still... We once again enjoyed The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Thinking of disconnecting Netflix.

Edits: 10/09/18 10/09/18

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Do it, Do it Victor - violinist3 18:59:29 10/16/18 (1)
Even if I could get it for free,I wouldn't use it unless there was something new I just had to see. I tend to stop getting interested in movies after watching mediocre ones. I've been waiting a long time for something really good at the theaters. Maybe First Man or that new killer submarine movie.
- I did. and... - Victor Khomenko 06:32:53 10/23/18 (0)
  "Netflix dropped 2.3 percent"
I think - Awe-d-o-file 13:56:37 10/13/18 (2)
You'd like their film Private Life. I'd bet on it.

ET

"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
- It is on my list - Victor Khomenko 15:51:18 10/13/18 (1)
  I am willing to give it a shot, but lately anything I watched there has been pure crap. So I went ahead and reduced our account to bare minimum - one foot in the door, if you will.
  - RE: It is on my list - Awe-d-o-file 18:42:06 10/13/18 (0)
    Mines the minimum too.
    I like the Aussie sitcom Kath and Kim they have. I own it on DVD.
    
    ET
    
    "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
    
    Edits: 10/13/18
try Film Threat, they let you browse without joining, despite their terrible name they have lots of vintage - PhilJ 15:05:32 10/09/18 (5)
films to offer.
- Thank you, I will write it down and check it out... but... - Victor Khomenko 15:46:13 10/09/18 (4)
  ...at the moment we are overloaded, with huge queues in both FilmStruck and Netflix DVD's, we have plenty of good material coming.
  
  My post was not about difficulty of finding good stuff, but more about this huge gorilla controlling this forum.
  - my mistake, I meant FilmStruck, glad you have it... - PhilJ 17:32:21 10/09/18 (3)
    ...
    - Yes, great resource. - Victor Khomenko 18:30:24 10/09/18 (2)
      I forgot who recommended it here, but I am totally grateful.
      
      Just finished watching Coup de Grace - I got plenty of hell from my wife, not exactly a woman's film, and she remembered it far better than I did.
      - I did - tunenut 22:57:16 10/09/18 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Yes, great resource. posted by Victor Khomenko on October 09, 2018 at 18:30:24
        
        And I am enjoying it more all the time. I've had it about 9 months now. As I'm sure you know, they have expanded to include some classic hollywood like musicals. But in any case there is always something interesting. I watched taverner's personal survey of French cinema, then started watching some of the movies themselves. I was telling someone that I liked the old bob fosse musical cabaret and I checked and there it was. I rewatched one of my favorite film noirs, out of the past, and also watched again with the commentary. This is an amazing resource.
        
        That was a great find, indeed! - Victor Khomenko 09:05:35 10/10/18 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: I did posted by tunenut on October 09, 2018 at 22:57:16
        
        My wife doesn't want to see anything else now, she insists I drop Netflix altogether. I don't blame her... in the last many months we watched one movie together on Netflix, and it was garbage. So for now it remains my guilty pleasure channel - I watch crap like Norsemen there, when she's asleep. :)
Movies don't have to be olde and b&w to be good . . . - Billy Wonka 14:51:17 10/09/18 (2)
You must learn to accept the here and now and become moe-durn.
- Here and Now is NOT Netflix - Victor Khomenko 15:00:05 10/09/18 (1)
  There is no single good movie in their streaming queue.
  
  OK, OK, there are three or four... the same Cinema Paradiso and a couple others, that have been put there as token gesture - not more than that.
  - RE: Here and Now is NOT Netflix - Wojciech 19:45:26 10/09/18 (0)
    you can always hope that they will include something in their foreign drama catalog. Frequently I catch a French song on FM radio driving along the Canadian border and it feels amazing. Its like my old days in Europe when you could hear Italian , Russian and French songs on any given radio station because they all were public and not commercial...

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