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Waiting for the 3000 New Netflix Movies

  I do not see the 3000 new Netflix movies yet.  Today, September 1, should be the day. 
  They did release a Press Release on August 26 but I do not think it has anything to do with the new 3000 movies.

"Netflix App Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

Free App Enables Netflix Members to Instantly Watch TV Episodes and Movies Streamed from Netflix to iPhone and iPod touch

LOS GATOS, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) today announced the availability of its free Netflix App for iPhone and iPod touch, allowing Netflix members on plans starting at just $8.99 a month to instantly watch a vast selection of TV episodes and movies streamedto their iPhone or iPod touch at no additional cost.

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The Netflix App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or atwww.itunes.com/appstore/.

"Apple has changed the game for mobile devices," said Reed Hastings, Netflix co-founder and chief executive officer. "We're excited that our members can now carry Netflix around in their pockets and instantly watch movies and TV shows streamed from Netflix right to their iPhone or iPod touch."

The Netflix App delivers a high-quality viewing experience, a broad array of movie and TV choices and a clean, intuitive interface. It is available via both Wi-Fi and 3G networks. TV episodes and movies are conveniently organized into a variety of categories based on members' personal preferences, popular genres, new arrivals and members' individual instant Queues. Members can choose a movie or TV episode from any of the lists and just tap the innovative Multi-Touch user interface to watch instantly or to save the title for viewing later.

Additionally, users have the option of fast-forwarding and rewinding the video stream, and stopping at any time. When users want to start watching again, the video stream starts exactly where it was stopped, even on a different device capable of streaming from Netflix. 

The Netflix App supports any iPhone or iPod touch device running iOS version 3.13 or later…"

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Boys on the Side

  I just watched a great movie "Boys on the Side." 

"Boys on the Side is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross (his last film before his death six years later). It stars Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Mary-Louise Parker as three friends on a cross-country road trip. The screenplay was written by Don Roos.

Three unique women embark on a cross-country road trip: Jane (Whoopi Goldberg), a lesbian lounge singer in search of a new life after breaking up with her girlfriend; Holly (Drew Barrymore), a pregnant girl who just wants to escape her brutal boyfriend; and Robin (Mary-Louise Parker), an uptight real estate agent who has her own secrets (namely being infected with HIV). Robin puts an ad in the newspaper that she is looking for a traveling companion to drive across country to California with. Jane answers the ad and agrees to join Robin after her car gets towed during their meeting. Jane and Robin leave New York and travel through Pittsburgh to take Jane's friend Holly to lunch. They stumble across a knock out fight between Holly and her abusive boyfriend, Nick, over some missing drugs. They leave him there bound to a chair with tape after Holly hits him in the head with a bat to stop him from attacking Jane. Unbeknownst to the women, without medical attention, the blow Nick received to his head turns out to be fatal, as he stumbles across the floor and dies.

The three unlikely travelers then form a special friendship on their journey which sees them through ultimately tragic times…"

 

  I recommend the movie.  It was great. 

Netflix movies tomorrow?

  It is odd that the Netflix site and blog does not have information about the new streaming videos.  I been thinking we could watch them starting tomorrow (September 1, 2010) but I see no announcement about it.  Man their blog sucks.

OK, I found their press release on the Netflix site: 
(The press release is not dated! Smile)

"NEW YORK & BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--EPIX™ and Netflix, Inc. [Nasdaq: NFLX] today announced an agreement through which Netflix members can instantly watch an array of new releases and library titles from EPIX streamed over the Internet from Netflix. Movies from the multi-year deal will begin streaming from Netflix on September 1 and include movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM.

EPIX has subscription pay TV rights to new releases and movies from the libraries of its partners and will make these movies available to Netflix 90 days after their premium pay TV and subscription on demand debuts. Historically, the rights to distribute these films are pre-sold to pay TV for as long as nine years after their theatrical release…" 

  I think tomorrow I may have the ability to watch 3000 streaming movies.  It will be interesting to see if I can find anything to watch now.

  If you are like me and not wait to see what new videos you can see tomorrow then go to Epix and you can find the list. 

Life as a House

  I just watched a great movie "Life as a House."  I do not want to ruin the movie for you.  So I am not going to tell you anything about the movie but I recommend you watch it.  I watched it live streaming from Netflix.
  The link above to the IMDB data on the movie gives to much information in the synopsis so you may want to skip it or at least the synopsis. 
  Kevin Kline does an excellent job in the movie.  All the cast are excellent in the movie.
  It is a tear jerker movie so you may want to not watch it if you are in a sad mood. 

  Trivia: "The featured house had to be removed after filming, but costume designer Molly Maginnisled a group of parents that had it dismantled, reconstructed, and enlarged to become a library for the Kenter Canyon school in Brentwood, California. The new library opened in April 2004."
           "The video of George and young Sam playing in the surf was shot by Kevin Kline's wife, Phoebe Cates. She videotaped Kevin and their son Owen on the beach in Bermuda."

 

More Netflix Movies Starting September 1st - v2

  I posted about Netflix More videos to Stream Starting September 1st on August 10th.  That will be in about two weeks.  I am looking forward to a lot of movies that I can watch now.
  I checked the list of movies that Lionsgate owns and I am not excited. 
  I checked for a list of Paramount Pictures films and it is a bit confusing because they own so many and their are different rights with some of the films. 
  Here is a List of Paramount Pictures films. Now if that is the list of films that I can watch streaming on Netflix starting September 1st I will be a happy man.  Here are just a few that I would watch first;  Going My Way (1944), Shane (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), Becket (1964), In Harm's Way (1965), The Naked Pray (1966), Barbarella (1968), The Godfather (1972), The Bad News Bears (1976), Flashdance (1983), Terms of Endearment (1983), Witness (1985), Sliver Bullet (1985) and many more.  Yes, I have seen all of the films I listed many times.
  Here is a list of MGM films.  Here are some films that I would start watching; The Shop Around the Corner, Young Tom Edison, Comrade X, Meet Me in St. Louis, National Velvet, Angles in the Outfield, Ben-Hur, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Logan's Run and many many more.  Yes, I have seen all of the movies that I listed many times. 

  I think at last there will be some films to watch streaming from Netflix.  I hope they all come online at the same time.  I hope they do not just roll out a few each month.  I would be dead before they got out very many of their videos.

Netflix More Videos to Stream Starting September 1st

  I am a Netflix user.  Right now I only get one DVD at a time.  I try and watch streaming video from Netflix but I have a hard time finding anything to watch. That may change on September 1st.

 

"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Shares of Netflix surged more than 6% Tuesday, after the company announced an agreement with pay-cable movie channel Epix to stream films from three major movie studios online.

The deal gives Netflix (NFLX) exclusive rights to stream both new releases and older films from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM on its site 90 days after Epix first debuts the films to its premium pay and on-demand TV subscribers. Netflix members will get access to the films starting Sept. 1…"  

  Sounds good.  I will let you know if I see an improvement starting in September.

Beautiful Girls

  The DVD I got had a crack in it.  "Whip It" would not play.  I informed Netflix online.  If I had said I wanted it replaced I think they would have sent another one without waiting to get the broken one back.  But I told them not to send that one but the next one my list.  So they are not going to send it until they get back Whip It.  If I was running their business I would send a replacement right away for a bad DVD.

  Today is the first day that "Beautiful Girls" can be watched online from Netflix.  It is 0336 and I am getting ready to watch it now.  I love that movie.

Whip It

  I am going to watch "Whip It" and then go to bed.  I have to wake Russell at 0310 so he can go to work.  The preview of Whip It looked pretty good.

Julie & Julia

  I just watched a very good movie "Julie & Julia" (2009). 

"Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.Written by Columbia Pictures

In 1949, Julia Child is in Paris, the wife of a diplomat, wondering how to spend her days. She tries hat making, bridge, and then cooking lessons at Cordon Bleu. There she discovers her passion. In 2002, Julie Powell, about to turn 30 and underemployed with an unpublished novel, decides to cook her way through "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in a year and to blog about it. We go back and forth between these stories of two women learning to cook and finding success. Sympathetic, loving husbands support them both, and friendships, too, add zest. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>"

 

  It is not just that the movie has a great deal of blogging in it.  I have found recently that I am a fan of movies about food.  There are a lot of movies that food plays a big part in the story.  I watched a good movie the other day and pies was a big part of the movie.
  Julie & Julia is an excellent movie and it is a true story well it is two true stories.

I Like Killing Flies

  I like documentary films.  (I am in a documentary film. I was in "BBS: The Documentary.") 
I just watched "I Like Killing Flies."  It was excellent.  I like seeing real people and seeing how they live and learning about them.

"I Like Killing Flies is a 2004 documentary film produced, directed, filmed, and edited by Matt Mahurin. It documents Shopsin's restaurant in New York City's Greenwich Village and its quirky owner and head cook Kenny Shopsin. In 2002 and 2003, Mahurin followed Shopsin in his final year at the location he ran for over 30 years. Shopsin offers what he calls "half-baked" philosophy throughout the film, and his speech is liberally peppered with profanities.

In the first half, Shopsin opens his eatery for the day and talks about his kitchen, his business, his employees, and his customers. We meet the regulars and friends who eat some of the 900 eclectic dishes he prepares, and we learn the rules of the restaurant: all customers must eat, parties of five or more are unwelcome, and anyone who irritates the owner will be swiftly shown the door. Shopsin's wife and children, all of whom work at the restaurant, weigh in on what it's like to work for this eccentric and occasionally hot-tempered man.

In the film's second half, Shopsin loses his lease and is forced to move his establishment to a larger location in the nearby Lower East Side. Family, friends, and customers all pitch in to help with the move. Everything must go, from hundreds of knick-knacks and supplies to an alarmingly rickety stove. The reopening is a resounding success. The epilogue grants the audience one last glimpse of Shopsin's life the following year, and it is revealed that Shopsin's wife has died, but he seems not to have changed at all.

Shopsin, who has been profiled in The New Yorker by Calvin Trillin, wrote a 2008 book with Carolynn Carreño entitled Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin."   Wikipedia