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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/12/2025 11:36, John Clark wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Dec
2, 2025 at 4:22 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a
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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>
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<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>
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<div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span
class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark </span> </b></font></div>
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Yes, I saw that one, but didn't rate it too highly, mainly because
it's based on a silly argument that people keep coming up with in
connection with that sort of thing. Avoiding spoilers for other
people means I can't say more. It's a well-made film, but for me,
very disappointing. It could have been much, much better (at the
cost of the original storyline).<br>
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