Last Ten Films I've Added to My Netflix Que: Vintage '70s Films, etc.

Well, actually, a lot of these films are from the late 1960s........so, I guess the headline is a tad bit misleading.............oh well!

Here are the last ten films I've added to my Netflix que:

1) "Brimstone and Treacle" (1982. w/Sting dir-Richard Loncraine)

2) "Downhill Racer"(pict. top; 1969. w/ Robert Redford dir-Michael Ritchie)

3) "Barbara" (Germany. 2012. dir-Christian Petzold)

4) "Frances Ha (2013. dir-Noah Baumbach)

5) "Computer Chess" (2013. dir-Andrew Bujaki)

6) "The Conjurling" (2013 dir-James Wan)

7) "Soylent Green" (1973. w/Charlton Heston dir-Richard Fleischer)

8) "Badlands" ( pict. middle; 1973 w/Sissy Spacek dir-Terence Malick)

9) "Head" (pict. bottom- poster by Daniel Clowes; 1968 w/The Monkees, dir-Bob Rafaelson)

10) "California Suite" (1978 dir-Herbert Ross)

http://www.netflix.com

Quote of the Day/Week- Sonia Braga

Perhaps it is a sign of the times, but the very attractive Brazilian actress Sonia
Braga, best-known in the USA for her role in the film "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
(2005), who is now 61 years old, has seen a shift in the the roles she is offered.

Braga was a sex goddess and she was romantically linked to Robert Redford. She was
also known for being in some of the most erotic movie scenes in the 1970s.

Here is her quote:

"And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers."

SIDEBAR: The answer to our Rabbit Ears Quiz on the animated version of "Godzilla" is A.

PSA- Go Out and Vote! (well, this applies to NC residents only)

Even though the rest of America voted for their respective party's political candidates last week, those of us who reside in North Carolina will decide which Democrats and Republicans are on the ballot on Tuesday.

As a Democrat who is just slightly less partian than Terry McAuliffe (I actually met him in person in Roanoke, Va., at a Democrat Party event---of course!), I am looking forward to seeing who we pit against unpopular incumbent Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC).

There are two major Democratic candidates running for the party's candidate. They include Elaine Marshall, the current North Carolina secretary of state, and former state senator Cal Cunnigham, who I plan to vote for.

According to his campaign web site (calfornc.com), Cunnigham was campaigning today in the cities of Hickory, Boone, Statesville and Salisbury. Tomorrow, he stumps in the eastern part of the state as he ventures to Greenville, Kinston and Wilmington before traveling to Charlotte late in the day.

As a state senator elected in 2000, Cunnigham, who is only 36, represented the Salisbury area, which is almost exactly between Greensboro and Charlotte geographically.

The Democratic state convention will be held in Fayetville on the weekend of July 31-Aug. 1.

We presume that both Pat Warren, who is the county Democrat Party chair in tiny Caswell County (the hamlet of Yanceyville with a population of less than 1,000 people is the county seat), and Joel Ford, the county chair of Mecklenberg County (North Carolina's largest county which includes the metropolis of Charlotte) will be both be very busy on Tuesday.

Oh, it should be pointed out that Robert Redford, who lives (at last report) in Park City, Utah, is not a candidate for North Carolina's U.S. Senate seat though he did play a politician in the under-appreciate early '70s cinematic gem "The Candidate" (pictured above).