<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>my favourite film of all time is 'Amelie' (<span lang="fr">Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></span>Absolutely nothing to do with futurism, AI, transhumanism, or
anything else this list normally deals with, but my favourite film
of all time is 'Amelie' (<span lang="fr">Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie
Poulain, </span>Jean-Pierre Jeunet et Guillaume
Laurant), with Audrey Tatou. It's not even the kind of thing I
normally watch, but it's so well done, quirky, mischievous and
funny, that it's become one of the few films I'll watch again
and again.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Thanks, I'll check it out.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> I think the best movie of the 21st-century, so far, is Christopher Nolan's 2006 film "The Prestige". I don't want to give away too much but at the beginning you may think it has nothing to do with the sort of things we talk about on this list, but if you keep watching I'm certain you'll see a connection. </span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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