Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Thought it might be fun/useful to devote a thread that flagged semi-obscure or off the radar films & tv shows on Netflix's Watch Instantly service.

A few recent discoveries:

Burnt Offerings
MST3K: The Wild World of Batwoman
American Grindhouse
Vampyr
Who Is Harry Nilsson?
Shock Waves
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Man with the Movie Camera
World's Greatest Dad
Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile

There are so many MST3K movies available, it is awesome.

My roommate and I watched about three quarters of the Doors doc that Tom DiCillo made. Johnny Depp narrates.
It's pretty ridiculous and awesome.

xpost -- between that, the DVD sets and YouTube it's a golden time.

yeah, I think I've gone through about a dozen MST3K's this month already

x-post - I'm not a Doors fan, but that I've heard good things about that doc

Between checking a few months ago and checking a few days ago, a bunch of Criterion Collection films have been added. I don't remember so much from the Essential Art House boxes being available before, and it looks like almost all of them are there now.

Unfortunately, I found this out after I added the Bergman box set to my Criterion order the other day. Hopefully they'll let me return it unopened so I can get the Cassavetes box instead.

you can stream a woman under the influence now so... maybe rethink that, too

oh shiiiit, Killing of a Chinese Bookie is streamable now too!

Recently I've watched and enjoyed the following: The Watermelon Woman, Suspiria, Rockers, She, The Last Picture Show, and Le Jetee (inspiration for 12 Monkeys).

Oh and a lot of old Nickelodeon cartoons from the 90s have been added but y'all probably already know that.

The White Ribbon is available!

Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum

I think all of the Paul Morrissey Warhol-produced films are on there.

Louie season 1, one of the most fascinating shows in a long time.

Dogs Decoded: Nova is an awesome doc about recent canine research. Highly recommended for any dog owners.

Loved Louie as well.

Also streaming:
The Girlfriend Experience
Slings and Arrows
Blue Thunder

And HAVOC!

i watched the happy hooker goes hollywood on streaming netflix tonight. "recommendation" is a strong word, but i had fun.

"American Grindhouse"

Haha so amusing who co-produced this (it's okay btw as talking head features like this go).

if you liked "The Wild World of Batwoman", make sure to check out "Eegah!"

Louie season 1, one of the most fascinating shows in a long time.

Yeah, I never got a chance to check this out until it was on Netflix - it's great.

"I Am Love" is pretty fascinating

if you liked "The Wild World of Batwoman", make sure to check out "Eegah!"

I did and it was great!

barking dogs never bite - korean black comedy about eating the dogs
we jam econo - awesome minutemen doc

if i start posting on this thread i will be participating in 3 different netflix streaming threads which seems excessive

There's two other streaming threads? Did I miss something?

dont feel bad, one of them is my own self-indulgent fault and the other is on I Love Games.

JJJUSTEN MAKES ONE SENTENCIRIFIC REVIEWS OF ALL THE CRAP THAT HE WATCHES LATE AT NIGHT ON NETFLIX STREAMING XBOX SOMETHING WHY BECAUSE HE BORED ALSO BECAUSE
Netflix Streaming Film Recommendations: Because You Can't Always Play With Yourself

one is jjjusten's personal joint and the other has a tmi title

xp

Sorry jjjusten! I totally missed your thread. Thought I did a search first. Look forward to reading those threads.

Tales from the Script has interviews with everyone from Richard Rush to Paul Schraeder to Shane Black about big-studio screenwriting. Lots of guys I'd never heard speak before. Good documentary.

the documentary about milton glaser (hugely important graphic designer) is on instant netflix. can't wait to see it.

Exit Through the Gift Shop (aka "The Banksy documentary") is an unexpected mindfuck, and surprisingly isn't really about Banksy at all. I recommend!

yeah that looks good

^Had me all fucked up over art, commerce, life in general, for a couple days.

Recent watches:

Soul Kitchen
Vengeance
Valhalla Rising
Centurion
Rewatched first five eps of Party Down Season 2
Planet B-Boy

Another thumbs up for Exit Through the Gift Shop. Just watched the Joan Rivers doc this weekend, too.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a good doc, not sure if it's on Netflix instant.

Rewatched first five eps of Party Down Season 2

when are they going to put up the final 5 is my question

they took mall cops away :(

i only got to see, like, 4 episodes.

you could write, like, ten doctoral thesiseseses just watching that show and never leaving your couch. amerikkka writ sad.

Just watched Black Narcissus -- so good.

when are they going to put up the final 5 is my question

up now

Milton Glaser doc is good btw.

Just watched Black Narcissus -- so good.

― pixel farmer, Thursday, December 23, 2010 12:38 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Beautiful stuff like these seems worth waiting for the disc to show up, no?

I just watch Hoarders and old SNLs

Exit through the gift shop is so awesome

I know the disc would be better quality than streaming, but streaming is definitely better quality than regular tv -- there are far fewer compression artifacts than I get on cable. Maybe Netflix can tell I have decent downstream bandwidth (10 Mbps), I dunno. Turn off the lights in my office, watch fullscreen on the larger monitor, in with the earbuds, ask the family not to mess with me for two hours (or watch in the morning before they get up), a nice near-cinema experience.

"Beautiful stuff like these seems worth waiting for the disc to show up, no?"

Not with my TV, no.

ah good point

i'm a little of worried that Netflix is gonna phase out discs before the internet connections get good enough for streams to be disc-quality

I'M STILL HERE, one of the greatest and most underrated films of the year, is now on instant. Time will be very kind to it.

Just watched Moon, pretty good.
Now starting the Red Riding Trilogy.

Just watched "I Think We're Alone Now" about two disturbed dudes obsessed with Tiffany. Pretty interesting, if a bit depressing.

Come to think of it, both of the dudes are probably ILM regulars.

"probably"

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work was great, I really enjoyed it.

nova eps on dogs and dreams were both p tite, origami doc 'independent lens: between the folds' had some peak moments

did they just add an HD feature/button today or did i just get it/notice it today?

No, they've been offering some stuff in HD for a while now.

aight, maybe it was just 'no reservations' then

2 bad no Life of Brian

they had it for awhile

Rockers the other night.

they took mall cops away :(

i only got to see, like, 4 episodes.

― scott seward, Thursday, December 23, 2010 11:00 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark

ive been watching this too. I had no idea it was gone :(

Watched Cool Hand Luke - they're taking it away Jan 1st. Never seen it before and it was AWESOME.

so i watched the joan rivers, my god this lady

Yeah that Joan Rivers doc is pretty great. She's kind of simultaneously terrifying and amazing at the same time.

a profoundly confused person

"ive been watching this too. I had no idea it was gone :("

i goofed or something. i watched the first couple episodes and then couldn't find it on the netflix menu on my t.v. and then i found it on the "recently watched" menu. so i got to watch the whole first season. such a sad show in a weird way. i don't know why it wasn't on the regular t.v. menu anymore. they just add and remove things randomly i guess.

the black/white thing is pretty stark on mall cops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUlB9yQZKPo

They Took My Show Away

yeh, we were 5 episodes into Archer (so great) and it's gone

the whole taking things away angle of netflix is no cool

need to concentrate on building

I'm Still Here is up. That seems like a perfect NetFlix! streaming movie.

I kind of hate this because I always go looking with something in mind and it's never available.

I am snowed in and need something to watch. Would I like the Joan Rivers thing? Tiffany one also strangely appealing. Any other suggestions for a lazy, snowy afternoon?

x-post - oooh that might be ok!

Love that Tiffany doc.

ENBB the Joan Rivers doc is worth a look. It adds some more layers to her, so that she's not just scary-plastic-surgery lady (but she absolutely is that too, lol)

streaming netflix isnt really abt looking, its abt finding

I get fed up too easily I think. Gonna try the Tiffany one but welcome more ideas.

I watched about 20 minutes of this terrible movie called Gypsy '83 the other night. It was about a chubby goth chick who works in a photo hut in a parking lot, and she has a fey little goth buddy, and they terrorize the straights together. Sort of hilarious in a so-bad-its sort of way but definitely not for everyone.

oh man what were the names of those little drive thru parking lot photo huts? There was a chain I remember going to all the time as a kid.

Fotomat!

i watched 10 episodes of avatar yesterday. gonna watch ten more later.

Avatar is so good! Just started the third season/book/whatever you want to call it.

hope they put up season 2 and 3 eventually on the netflix.

they won't phase out regular discs until they massively upgrade their content for instant streaming, which is still paltry, in my experience.

quality wise: well I have really awful badwidth, ATT dsl which is supposed to be 3 mpbs but it more like 2 at best. MOST things look pretty bad to me (but the vast majority of things I wind up streaming are kids cartoons for my son and he doesn't care). Louis looks great though for some reason, guess because it's HD; but Parks and Rec is supposed to be HD also and it doesn't look nearly as good. I stream everything via AppleTV. Hopefully, when I move, I can get back on a decent internet line.

anyone who hasnt seen veronica mars yet all 3 seasons are on instant watch

i watched a film called 'teenage dirtbag' last month that was pretty bad (production quality wise) but was weirdly affecting. I recommend it if you are bored and want to bum yourself out.

streaming netflix isnt really abt looking, its abt finding

otm

also: polyphonic, you live in the berkeley area right? we're in el c and have been bemoaning the shitty slow att dsl we have, and wondering why the hell the faster speed isn't available in our area... on the cusp of getting cable, we called att and the higher speed IS now available, for NO extra cost, so you should give them a call and get them to switch you over.

I use Comcast and haven't noticed any significant issues with it.

I'M STILL HERE, one of the greatest and most underrated films of the year

still lol'ing about this, btw.

that letterman clip is AMAZING

uh, the one upthread

I live on the cusp of berkeley and albany right now, I'm not sure what the problem with ATT DSL is over in that area but yeah, you can't get anything faster. Get comcast, it's way better (I'm subletting someone's house right now and didn't want to reconfigure everything for six months, otherwise I would have dumped it. I did call ATT and make them change the rate to $20 though because I said $45 a month was unconscionable for such shitty service and they agreed).

That was nice of them.

justin, did you have to convert over to uverse to do that?

carl sagans cosmos
devil in a blue dress

duh my post was directed at akm, not polyphonic - i am a retard obv.

we didn't have to do anything to switch to the faster dsl - tbh i don't know if it is in fact any faster as we haven't reset our modem yet (we're not staying at our place right now).

Two greats from the 00ss:
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin). This really turned me around on him.
Julia - with Tilda Swinton at her most mesmerizing. Feels almost like a condensed season of Breaking Bad with all the escalating, crazy plot turns and terrible decisions. There is really no reason this shouldn't be a mainstream hit.

i have like 50 something in my instant queue. half of them ive seen before and i cant bring myself watch the rest

Is Julia the remake of Gloria?

I've never seen Gloria so I'm not sure if it can be considered a straight remake, but the film acknowledges it as source material in one scene.

Exit Through the Gift Shop (aka "The Banksy documentary") is an unexpected mindfuck, and surprisingly isn't really about Banksy at all. I recommend!

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this was good

Altman's oop on DVD California Split is up and recommended.

Bonnie and Clyde added today.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-SBpd1KTL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

for fellow trash fans

We watched UP for SIX HOURS today. Damn instant Netflix!!!!!!!

lol i watched up today too *hi5 beeps*

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin). This really turned me around on him.

I tried to watch this and the girl vetoed it after like 5 minutes. it felt like a crappy student film. does it get significantly better?

ONLY IF U DO

lol at that letterman clip, i was a pretty big voyagers fan at the time and was actually shocked when it was canceled. i also loved manimal. and then they cancelled that too.

We watched UP for SIX HOURS today. Damn instant Netflix!!!!!!!

You watched it four times?

i got five minutes into "I'm Still Here" and was like, "yeah I can't fucking watch this" and started watching Damages instead.

I watched it last night. I liked it up 'til the Letterman stuff. Then it tried to make me care...

Finally saw The 400 Blows last night and really enjoyed it. Looking forward to ABBA: The Movie tonight!

watched exit through the gift shop (awesome) and cronos yesterday. cronos was wackier than i expected, almost reminded me of:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AQX7Y69JL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

the frame rate seemed oddly low though, the whole movie has a weird choppiness. anyone know if that's how it was filmed, or if there's something off about the streaming version?

may i direct your attention to pages 23-34 of my dissertation

if you are a big fan of Val Kilmer, this is your month (week?):

http://www.netflix.com/WiRoleDisplay?personid=49542

had no idea dude has been so active in the past 6 years.

We watched UP for SIX HOURS today. Damn instant Netflix!!!!!!!

You watched it four times?

― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Saturday, January 1, 2011 9:57 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

It was more like 3 1/2 times and i wasnt sitting there watching it but our entire first floor is open plan so youre pretty much watching even when youre not watching. PP finally took control of the PS3 when beeps wasnt looking and fired up red dead redemption.

Blood Games is on youtube, but it cuts off at the gratuitous shower scene, which kind of negates the purpose of watching that movie.

really blood games should be a bluray experience but until then I'll make do.

the Mythos serieses and the other joseph campbell docs are pretty amazing. never really knew about that guy before

i'm sure it's been mentioned above but worth repeating: every season of kid in the hall now streaming

This is truly a golden age.

MY WINNIPEG IS STREAMING? HOLEEEE SHIIT

The Vicious Kind, watched it last night. Good.

Lots of Christopher Guest stuff on Watch Instantly

http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Prodigal-Sons/70119915?strackid=167c9913bc31cb76_0_srl&strkid=2069003090_0_0&trkid=222336#height2539

really interesting but incredibly sad

Should I watch My Winnipeg, Black Narcissus, or The Bicycle Thief tonight? (trying to take a break from trashy horror and tv shows)

I loved My Winnipeg. I also love the other two. Can't go wrong.

Watched Goodfellas: Special Edition (not sure what makes it special).

Greedo shot first.

Guido shot first morelike

Had a hard time getting into My Winnipeg, but man, Black Narcissus blew me away. I think I need to re-watch that on blue ray.

Just added Enter The Void to my instant queue. Not sure if it will be any good though....

Collapse documentary. Really good.

Dogtooth is up.

This TV movie where Cloris Leachman gets a venereal disease is on WI:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073729/

Exam - kind of the perfect B movie for streaming netflix imo. Quasi twilight zone, 8 strangers in a room together must figure out the mystery, etc.

yeah i really dug exam actually - another great example of the how the best possible solution to no budget = film in one room dummy

that idea also gave the world the genius club however

Whoa, the genius club looks amazing.

Julia - with Tilda Swinton at her most mesmerizing. Feels almost like a condensed season of Breaking Bad with all the escalating, crazy plot turns and terrible decisions. There is really no reason this shouldn't be a mainstream hit.

― Chris L, Monday, December 27, 2010 11:50 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok i am watching this and it is quite disturbing - what r u doing 2 me

watched 'following sean' docu earlier - follow up to that famous one where the 4 y/o claimed to smoke weed on the haight in the 60s - theres some lame baby boom self interest operating but its p touching re the passage of time irl etc

I started watching "Trash" but was not prepared for the seemingly interminable shots of Dallesandro's flaccid dong. It is amazing I can watch this shit on my 360 though.

lots of horror movies on instant

had a double featch of hellraiser and hellraiser 2 the other night.

92 In The Shade (never on DVD, oop on VHS since the 80s) is up!

The surreal Hungarian film Taxidermia is recommended for fans of the grotesque. Something like Jeunet & Caro doing body-horror, or conversely Cronenberg played for laughs.

or conversely Cronenberg played for laughs.

so like eXistenZ?

In parts Taxidermia has the clinical eye of Shivers or Videodrome, but there's a bit of "Middle Age" from Monty Python's Meaning of Life in there too.

I watched Genius Club, and it is definitely my favorite so-bad-its movie in quite awhile. Highly recommended to fellow trashophiles.

Exam was :-/ ugh, don't get me started.

Watched the Mad Max trilogy. I'd rank them in chrono order, however Tina T. is freaking hot in MMBT, dayumn.

watching some frontlines over here, taliban behind enemy lines is excellent, for profit higher ed is just like ugh def captures something abt the current moment

looking forward to still bill

Just watched Straight Time - entertaining, gritty 70's heist flick. Awesome cast - Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates.

*adds to queue*

i fell asleep watching enter the void last night. surprisingly did not have psychedelic dreams.

gonna watch dogtooth tonight or tomorrow in honor of dr. morbz!

queued up both of those recently

Paycheck is a c-grade Bourne/Inception-esque Affleck/Uma vehicle... Uma has never looked worse.

Bottle Shock was not horrible. Rickman is awesome.

new mitchell and webb... and what is pulling and men behaving badly?
UK types? anybody know?

paycheck is ott ridic woo/dick fiasco, i will watch basically any movie in the convoluted paranoid dystopian scifi sphere

yes, Minority Report meets Bourne meets Inception but really awful version thereof.

haha yes it is so bad

not seen pulling but Men behaving badly is a pretty awful Bloke sitcom.

Been catching up on Saxondale. As an American who's met loads of Anglophiles, it's especially amusing that he's an Americanphile (is there a word for it?), with the Mach 1 'Stang and "U.S.A." t-shirts and all.

UHF is streaming, so that's always a good time.

Saxondale is fucking awesome

Recommendation for geeky romantics:

Thomas in Love (2001). Belgian sci-fi about an agoraphobe seeking love on-line, presented entirely from his screen.

does Saxondale look terrible for anybody else? I watched about ten minutes of it - almost seemed like it was going to be a British Eastbound & Down or something. I can't get past the poor quality, though.

plays fine for me.

watched 'last embrace' dir. jonathan demme - apes hitchcock in abt a dozen diff ways, is still decent - roy scheiders a pretty captivating leading man

"Just watched Straight Time - entertaining, gritty 70's heist flick. Awesome cast - Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates."

One of my favorite movies.

At the risk of spamming the board about this movie, of you like smart horror movies " black Christmas" from 1974 is totally amazing.

Directed by the guy who did a A Christmas Story!

...and Porky's!

and this one

poll

also wtf at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382028/

check out the wind journeys if you are a fan of cinematography or latin american magical realism

about a teenager accompanying an accordion player across colombia to return his devil-possessed accordion to his former teacher

story kind of meandering but it looks fantastic

Straight Time contains my favorite Dustin Hoffman performance.

Full version of Oliver Assayas' Carlos posted today.

Useful: Twitter account listing movies that are about to stop streaming:

http://twitter.com/queuenoodle

straight time was great!

kinda not surprised the wiki sez this:

Michael Mann also contributed to the screenplay but was uncredited upon the film's release. The novel later served as a source of reference for the character Neil McCauley in Mann's 1995 film Heat[citation needed].

That content includes “Medium,” which was recently canceled; “Flashpoint,” which is shared with CTV in Canada; and a raft of old shows like “Frasier,” “Family Ties” and “Cheers.” (Some of the shows included in the package are associated with other networks, but were distributed by CBS’s studio.)

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/in-deal-with-netflix-new-revenue-for-cbs/

All star trek series too!!!!!!

sweet!

all star tkre!!!!@!@!#WQ wow.
been watching x-files lately.

watching half of triumph of the will and then the tommy chong documentary the other night was, um, different...

new in Canada: Barbarella and Pootie Tang

dunno if anyone's mentioned it yet, but Brick City is pretty great

^

This movie directed by Larry David is an odd artifact:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLXYgzWzLlk

all star tkre!!!!@!@!#WQ wow.

OTM

pretty sure my so-called life wasn't on this a little while ago, but it is now.

anyone else find the instant browsing very cludgey? I mainly browse this via appletv so that might be part of it, but even on the site, I rarely run across some of these things when I'm browsing categories; but if I hunt it down by name there it is.

They don't let you see everything if you're just browsing, unfortunately.

I think I've linked to this before, but I find this site much easier to browse for titles than the Netflix site: www.instantwatcher.com

polyphonic, what is that movie called?

Sour Grapes

It isn't great but it is VERY Larry David.

canada got GOOD BURGER today

Watch Chloe last night, check the Atom Egoyan thread for my patchy thoughts.

Watched both Fish Tank and Please Give this weekend. They were both sort of OK.

Julia - with Tilda Swinton at her most mesmerizing. Feels almost like a condensed season of Breaking Bad with all the escalating, crazy plot turns and terrible decisions. There is really no reason this shouldn't be a mainstream hit.

Watched this, too. Really good!

It isn't great but it is VERY Larry David.

watching those clips, Sour Grapes seems to make a lot more sense now w/ the benefit of Curb than it did when it was released.

Oof. It's ridiculous that I've never seen Brother's Keeper til now, especially with how important the Paradise Lost docu was to me. Just finished BK, and am weeping like a girlyman.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

Agreed its great

I finally watched bright leaves & loved it

I'm about to watch this. It was recommended to me by Netflix for my interest in Annie Hall and Taxi Driver. That's such a weird function.

Yeah, that was really good.

a. and i were *so sure* they had altman's popeye streaming, but no. they did have athens, ga: inside/out, so we watched that.

popeye used to be in the rotation. i do hate when they push a movie on you for awhile and then when you're finally in the mood of course then it's gone. watched karate kid yesterday, the paper chase before bed last night, i'm not sure why i did in either case (somehow suspect watching the social network again recently is at the root of both viewings). why did you watch athens ga inside/out and what did you think? also do ppl outside of athens die laughing when dreams so real pop up?

why did you watch athens ga inside/out and what did you think?

it was in my bf's queue and he hadn't seen it before. i think it's sweet. my impression of dreams so real is that people don't take them very seriously, but i like the one song they have in the movie. we were laughing at the kilkenny cats cuz they seemed like out of anyone, they were really determined to MAKE IT.

My DVD player broke down, which is wonderful because I recently learned that some Blu Ray players have Netflix Watch Instantly! This is what I've been waiting for for years.

yea I have a panasonic model that does its p phenomenal

ENBB if you haven't seen it, there is a later well-known docu by the same guys called Paradise Lost which broke my heart and brain for a good long while; it also deals with false confessions but goes into much more depth abt the subject and... well, see it if you haven't.

Also I want to pimp the hell out of My Winnipeg on this thread-- soooo great. I was meh on Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs and Saddest Music in the World but My Winnipeg kicked my ass, best thing Guy Maddin has done since Careful imo.

My PS3 broke last night. Do any of the Blu-ray Netflix players support 1080?

Thank Jon. Watched the PL trailer and it looks pretty intense but unfortunately it's not on available instantly. If it was I would have watched it last night. Will add to reg q now.

I just looked up stuff on Ward brothers: Delbert Ward died at age 66 at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown on August 6, 1998. Roscoe Ward died at age 88 on June 23, 2007. Lyman Ward died at age 85 in Utica, NY on 15 August 2007. Also, I totally had a dream about Delbert and still can't get the image of Lyman shaking on the stand out of my head. Man.

Yes. The way the mic was picking up his breathing, holy shit.

Right? I thought I was going to have an axniety attack just watching the poor guy. :/

Streaming Four Lions right now

top gear seasons 1 - 13 (vietnam episode was awesome)

LEAN ON ME

Been rewatching X-Files. Last night settled in for a couple and found that Netflix had stopped splitting them up by season. Now it's just one big block of 202 episodes. Don't know if I like this development. Or maybe it's more convenient.

woah. hey, that's like 8888 minutes, no? WEIRD

they're doing that to all the series gradually, i think. they just did it with buffy and i've seen it elsewhere as well

xp: I've been very pleased with my Panasonic DMP-BD85 (now replaced by the $170 DMP-BDT210) which streams Netflix over wi-fi. Menu speed on the BD85 is slow on bootup, and Netflix image quality is supposedly limited by my wireless bandwidth, but plays with no hiccups or compression artifacts on a 40" screen. Purchased when I thought my Oppo DVD tray had developed a taste for eating discs.

i guess that this would be the thread for this -- i recommend this crazy-ass East German 1970s sci-fi film called in the dust of the stars (im Straub der Sterne). first Youtube video is direct from the film, the second has some techno over original footage -- if you're intrigued, you have until Wednesday to watch it online (it expires on the 21st).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azC6QYlbZn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3y9H4SWJu8

a review of in the dust of the stars

Hey, Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) is streaming.

The Way Things Go!!!

Wild in the Streets, you guys!

The Way Things Go!!!

HELL YES

Guys, go watch Marwencol, like now.

otm

great film, great art and one of the all time best punchline endings i can remember.

Weirdly enough, The Way Things Go is not the film you get when you try to watch it. (That wasn't a sentence.)

Hahaha, what the shit is going on with that!

craaaaazy, man

Watched Marwencol last night. Really really great. That one will stick with me for a while.

right? the punchline is just awesome.

Yeah, I want to know more about this guy now. Curious as to how the film and his exposure to NY might have changed him.

there was a piece in the times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/garden/07marwencol.html

also: new photos regularly!
http://www.marwencol.com/gallery/

awesome - thanks!

http://www.marwencol.com/storage/post-images/26_hitlerSuicide014_web.jpg

Marwencol is the first new movie to pop up on my Movies You'll Love page since forever

u guys

http://filmstripcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/The-Wizard.jpg

I saw that in the theater and held hands with a boy for the first time while doing so. It was awesome.

Is that Jenny Lewis?

Yep, it is.

26 Criterion titles expire on May 26

totally just watched Reality Bites
w my co-ladies of the 90s

but we are not actually gen x-ers. i think that as teens when this movie came out, it was like fantastical adulthood. but i was still like, troy dyer, get a grip.

still hot tho

watched a pretty good 60's girl groups doc from 1982 called, well, Girl Groups. interesting interviews with Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector and lots of live performances I hadn't seen before.

dear zachary... jesus fucking christ

like a hallmark card with a springloaded boxing glove inside

Just added that Girl Groups doc and was recommended another "instant only" title--Tom Waits' Big Time.

i disagree and thing the gg doc is largely worthless but ymmv

xp to robyn - omg that was our fave film of all time when me and my best girls were teenagers! and for exactly the same reason! but we loved troy and hated ben stiller's character. then i rewatched it last year for the first time since then and troy completely repulsed me. he's such a douche! like in every way! ugh

It's probably just the free aspect, but, in the way I streamed a bunch of Tony Scott action movies a few months ago, I just really enjoyed Salt.

yeah Salt was surprisingly watchable, my first Jolie flick! Big fan except when she looked like a bloated Ralph Macchio.

dear zachary... jesus fucking christ

like a hallmark card with a springloaded boxing glove inside

OTM – a big boxing glove that makes me cry & yell at the computer.

there was a lot of crying and yelling @ the television when we watched it last night

have gun will travel!

need more old tv westerns thanks.

i'm not a huge samurai/kurosawa fan but most of his stuff is expiring next tuesday, may try to take a stab at 7 samurai/rashomon this weekend.

Have you never seen Seven Samurai? It's a real important movie for me.

I tried once a few years ago, I'll give it another shot.

i tried viewing Rashomon on it the other day but the connection was crazy bad.

<3 <3 <3 Seven Samurai but already have the Criterion collection dvd /braggin

picked up that criterion blu ray a few weeks ago /HDbraggin

I recall really enjoying Yojimbo.

I too enjoyed Yojimbo. I think it's better than 7 Samurai.

Watched "The Parallax View" the other night. Don't know if it's as good as its recent reputation, but it's got good performances, great Gordon Willis cinematography and is weirdly loopy in places. But the "training film" in the movie is as amazing a piece of short filmmaking as I've ever seen.

Suspect Zero - pretty good mindless romp with Kingsley and Aaron Eckhart and the ever-boring Carrie Ann Moss squaring off. Commendable representation of concept of 'remote viewing' psyops - otherwise 'eh ...

Just saw how many Criterion are now missing. Netflix is basically turning into the equivalent of Starz - whu happpennndd?

Criterions are mostly on Hulu now.

Holy cow, that "Parallax View" thing is on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNMi8fXi5Os

i watched jacques audiard 'un prophète' on netflix instant not long ago - very good i thought

i've probably watched about twentyfive Kurosawa films and I think Ikiru and Seven Samurai are tops for me. Rashomon, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Hidden Fortress, all the genre flicks are great but Seven Samurai was the first ART movie I ever saw to leave a heavy imprint on my mind. I catch it about once every two years.

enjoying this right now. really interesting look inside maximum security prisons in the US.

My Beautiful Launderette, guys. so good.

It's Star Trek day.

letters from iwo jima
paper moon

is 200 motels worth watching

its a complete mess of a movie iirc but has its moments. your mileage will depend on how much you dig Zappa and OTT experimental/psychedelic film effects.

abt what i thought, ty

That new Bill Hicks doc is now streaming.

more like now steaming (pile of crap) amirite

so many columbo episodes are up. leonard nimoy one is great, ruth gordon one is great, and the dick van dyke one is even better

All the tv shows in my queue have gone wonky (watching on roku). can only hit play to watch s1e1, no other episodes show up. anyone else having similar troubles?

Dear Netflix,
Thanks for pulling Louie Season 1 from streaming when I was only 2 eps in. How about putting expire dates on these things? Huh? HUH??
Sincerely Fuck You,
Love Me

http://instantwatcher.com/

I had a jones to watch it and was bummed when it was pulled. Wound up buying it today, so I guess their ploy worked.

they just released Louie on DVD so not surprising that they pulled it

why does instant watch suck so much more than hulu

watched Billion Dollar Brain the other night, pretty stupid but awfully fun. Also just learned that there is a twilight parody streaming, called (wait for it) Taintlight.

watching more older ozon -- Water Drops on Burning Rocks is a pretty fun/dark fassbinder homage (& based on a short story by him); Ludivine Sagnier (same girl from Swimming Pool) is just crazily gorgeous

Watched Night Moves last night. Good stuff. Pros: 70s Hackman in troubled gumshoe, self-aware noir mode ("Who do you think you are, Sam Spade?"), great pacing, slew of great/weird scenes, great dialogue, hyper James Woods as comically suspicious mechanic, and more. Cons: the actual mystery kind of dud, but arguably that's the idea.

Small Town Gay Bar and Before Stonewall both so, so good! And both on instant! WATCH THEM, WATCH THEM NOW!

I watched a fairly good documentary this weekend about Bernie Worrell called Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth. Lots of synth freakouts to enjoy.

R.O.T.O.R.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098156/

Best cheesy movie I've seen in a long time.

patrice o'neal - elephant in the room

so so so so funny. evil funny. don rickles uncomfortable type shit.

Cop Land. This sat on my to-see list for over a decade, finally NFWId it last weekend. Love love LOVED it. Seems like the world was meh about this film? Maybe the ridiculously starry cast was too distracting? This was James Mangold's 2nd film and it has the feel of a big-ass second novel where a young writer just fuckin' GOES FOR IT.

yeah i always really dug that movie. stallone just kills it.

I think general consensus was that there was a lot of scenery chewing. Honestly I can't remember anything about the movie at this point.

Definitely the best James Mangold movie. Ick Identity.

yeah i always really dug that movie. stallone just kills it.

― max, Monday, August 8, 2011 1:49 PM

^^

The 'deaf shootout' climax fucking ruled.

Yeah Cop Land is great. Good 'latter Stallone' movie.

all i remember about cop land is that summer me and my friends imitating deniro in this scene way way past any point i can feel anything but shame about now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGuVTw01vrM&NR=1

cop land absolutely ace, glad to hear people are finding it and liking it. deaf shootout, holy crap. also janeane garofalo is good in this as i recall

uncle boonme, y'all

the kingdom and django are set to expire in a week ... if anyone cares.

django!

The Kingdom... I was so excited when it went on WI but after two episodes I just kinda... lost momentum.

I remember liking Copland when it came out, but remember nothing about it now except that Ray Liotta had some role in it.

And he looked like he'd been living on saltlick for a year...so puffy!

Hey, Mad Men seasons 1-4 are up

Cameraman: The Life and Works of Jack Cardiff is up. I was dead excited about watching it tonight, only to find that the narration track is missing. :(

Gor!

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn!

Cannot believe u guys are stanning for Cop Land, it is surely one of the worst movies I have ever seen

RONG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B09MlQANOlY

"Cannot believe u guys are stanning for Cop Land, it is surely one of the worst movies I have ever seen"

Elliot Gould in the lead would have improved it immensely amirite?

That can be said about almost any movie

I remember thinking that while watching On The Waterfront.

Hobo with a Shotgun is up if anyone cares

*cares*

AWESOME

ditto.

also copland is terrible guys wtf.

hobo with a shotgun is

quite a thing

haha THANK YOU

xp

Copland rules, I could sing "In The Beginning" every day for the rest of my life

wait which thread is this

Elliot Gould in the lead would have improved it immensely amirite?

YOU in the lead role would have improved it immensely

seriously guys, what a shitty movie. you should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves, encouraging others to waste their time in such a manner

i remember not really liking copland. kind of inert as a mystery.

sub-scorsese were the accusations at the time of release. i remember enjoying it but not finding much to disagree with that.

yeah iirc it was one of the big offenders in the "grab a bunch of scorsese regulars and a serious mood and your hack-y crime movie can also be a masterpiece" mid-to-late '90s thing.

janeane garofalo is in copland isn't she?
i think i hated it, don't remember much about it other than the deniro you bleeeeeew it scene. which was good for some laughs.

"yeah iirc it was one of the big offenders in the "grab a bunch of scorsese regulars and a serious mood and your hack-y crime movie can also be a masterpiece" mid-to-late '90s thing."

We should have a poll!

So there was this, Sleepers, and...

It was anything with someone who had been in a tarantino or scorsese film plus have some blood on the poster

or a gun

http://img.abrakaba.com/00128C28-0/Little-Odessa.jpg

Featuring Tim Roth as a RUSSIAN!

This one's awful:
http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/11/1150/43TM000Z.jpg

Tarantino rip-offs are a whole different breed than Scorsese rip-offs though.

was gonna say. that's unleashing a whole new world of pain. we should stick to the Donnie Brasco's.

well there was a certain venn diagram thing happening between the two camps

What about De Palma rip-offs?

Well Tarantino was ripping off Scorsese to some extent so some intersection makes sense.

he was also ripping of de palma! may the circle be unbroken.

They Planned The Perfect Crime...Until It All Went Perfectly Wrong!

Intense!

thats like the best worst tagline ever

It's a film by Kevin Spacey.

are people still making these kinds of movies? they seemed to stop dead around 2000.

i guess the massive success of, and critical acclaim for, the boondock saints kinda shamed anyone else from even trying.

btw the documentary on the boondock saints guy, overnight, isn't on WI anymore, but i recommend it anyway. incredibly pathetic but hilarious viewing. and a pretty good, if slanted and silly and kinda sad, look at the shift miramax had made between pulp fiction and the matrix.

ah crap that was on my queue and i never got to it

For a horrible recent Scorsese ripoff look no further than "Kill The Irishman"...the WORST. Seriously, every 20 minutes = slow motion montage of beating people with bats set to random 70's AM radio track.

sounds like Pixar is finally out of ideas

For a horrible recent Scorsese ripoff look no further than "Kill The Irishman"...the WORST. Seriously, every 20 minutes = slow motion montage of beating people with bats set to random 70's AM radio track.

Former coworker who LOVE Boondock Saints excitedly came up to me to say that he wandered into an art cinema and saw this and thought it was the BEST film he had seen in YEARS.

i find people who love boondock saints to be v v untrustworthy wrt to movies in general

haha my deeply irish-identifying extended family LOVES the boondock saints w/o any sense that is in fact a terrible, campy movie. i wonder if they've seen this.

Someone should poll all of those shitty 90's ponytail thrillers like Killing Zoe and Things to do in Denver When You're Dead.

Cannot believe u guys are stanning for Cop Land, it is surely one of the worst movies I have ever seen

so you haven't seen armageddon yet

oh wait, i read that wrong.. one of the worst, not the worst

actually i just remembered that i saw this movie from 2009 not too long ago on cable, and it was like the terrible mid '90s crime/lowlife movie reborn, right down to the labored "clever" dialogue and wacky cast of oddballs. even though i don't really like boardwalk empire, i kinda hope buscemi never has to make another movie like this ever again.

the vector-graphics poster and cast are very 00s. but otherwise, wow.

Box Office
Budget: $3,800,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $21,666 (USA) (31 January 2010) (2 Screens)
Gross: $102,645 (USA)

the appeal of boondock saints also escapes me. i'll rep for cop land, though.

ok boondock saints added to queue, u guys twisted my arm

also added: don't torture a duckling

the appeal of Boondock Saints is gritty bad ass dudes gettin' fuckin violent and being awesome and shit

in slow motion with catholic guilt

amon if you go into boondock saints expecting mostly unintentional lols, it's very entertaining

if you go into it expecting a GRITTY CRIME EPIC after a lot of nudniks have talked it up to you over the years, it's 0_o

also if you watch that overnight doc on boondock auteur troy duffy, you'll understand why harvey w was rethinking his "throw money at anything with lowlifes and guns" approach by 1999.

I will admit I caught Copland because of this thread (and also adamrl is seldom relevant on film threads).

While I am partly drawn to the slow reveal (SPOILERS: Superboy doesn't jump, guys Superboy shot didn't have a gun but a club, circumstances on how Freddy lost his hearing saved that woman's life, etc.), it was pretty flat and predictable in the 2nd half. The whole Ray Liotta arc ended up pretty awful (the arson/insurance scam, the bomb squad connection, capt. save a deafman). Stallone was surprisingly OUT OF CHARACTER (and pretty good as the bumbling towny sheriff!) until he turned into Deaf Rambo at the end there. And zero laugh ops for Janeane was pretty wasteful.

It was no Yakuza Papers.

Steve Shasta is seldom relevant

He's no Yakuza Papers.

Also this isn't a "film" thread, it's a streaming video thread

haaaa

Oh pardon me, Mr. Elderflower Gimcrax Flores.

Ms. Elderflower if you're nasty

Oh shit Winter's Bone! I know what I'm watching tonight.

hobo w/a shotgun ruled obv

The Hired Hand

Cold Weather is on Instant. I recommend it.

13 Assassins is up - really good movie although the final battle scene kinda wore me out.

Watched it yesterday. It was good fun. Also watched Rubber and, er, no.

looks like a bunch of new stuff just popped up? not sure when this was added but it was as good as i'd heard.

Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary and Other Tales(The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary and Other Tales)

the ossuary has been on instant for a while now. i know, i've had it in my instant queue for a very long time.

witch hunt, about the kern county child abuse cases of the 80s, is pretty good - pretty devastating to see more than a decade of these people's lives taken from them, and amazing to see how not-bitter they are about it.

Notting Hill kept coming up as a recommendation - like my watching Remains of the Day and some old Jane Austen movies is somehow related to this film?? bleh - and so i watched 20 minutes of it this morning - so bad! i remember it being bad but not THIS BAD. also weird how *everyone else* in the film is way more interesting than the two main characters.

(in instant watch obv)

Poetry is up, which I hope to watch later this week.

a whole shit-ton of old Paul Morrissey (read: Andy Warhol) films are set to expire on 9/1/11. so if yer curious about stuff like trash, heat, blood for dracula and flesh for frankenstein and/or you have a thing for joe dallesandro or udo kier, now's the time to check 'em out.

Murder Loves Killers Too is up for bleak horror fans

criterion movie i'd never heard of: "the hit" with old terrence stamp, middle-aged john hurt and young tim roth

Roy Orbison: Black & White Night is a good one-hour concert. All-star band: Waits on organ, Springsteen et al.

whoa

Apocalypto!

I've been thinking I needed to RESCREEN this one again. (NB: I didn't mind The Passion, thought it was way better than the critical pannings).

Also need James Bond recommendations.

OHMSS

never saw potc but i dig apocalypto

curious abt tony manero

anyone seen it?

the spy who loved me and for your eyes only are the best of the Roger Moore Bond films available via streaming.

i'm also rather fond of you only live twice.

Tony Manero's was okay IIRC.

DUMPLINGS! is available to watch instantly (this is the Bai Ling eats fetuses to stay young movie.)

Even though it sounds like it should be, it's not a documentary.

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff is currently blowing my mind.

i am really excited to watch that

watched straight time w/ dustin hoffman, theresa russell, gary busey, harry dean stanton etc. maybe not a masterpiece, but the cast is great, some good 70s socal locations. a young kathy bates, which was weird. never seen anything with her pre-Misery, I think and this is at least a decade before that.

That one's worth it alone for the highway scene w/M. Emmet Walsh

yeahhh, that guy! so good in everything. that scene really took me by surprise, the film had been such a low key character study up til that point.
harry dean stanton is amazing in this. theresa russell looking pretty cute, though her interest in hoffman's character is pretty unbelievable.

First 3 seasons of Breaking Bad are up.

Blackmail is My Life! So much fun.

I'm on a Japanese exploitation tear. About to watch STRAY CAT ROCK: SEX HUNTER.

the arbor is worth checkin out imo

So is conans tour dvd streaming on NFX or am going to have to pony up 7.99 to watch it on demand?

watchin cypher, p good loosely futuristic corporate espionage thing.

Tons of Discovery channel stuff today.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends! Watch them fight Video Man! Watch their dog save them from the clutches of the Chameleon! Revel in the poor animation of 1981!

Mentioned this in the movie's own thread, but Bill Cunningham New York is streaming; good doc.

Barcelona is streaming. Watched it last night for first time in a decade and it's still great and Chris Eigeman is still funny as hell. They may as well stream all Whit Stillman.

I watched most of "Conan the Barbarian" the other day, and the entire time I kept thinking, man, you could never get away with anything this slow and dull today. And then I remembered there was a totally not slow and dull remake that came out, like, mere weeks ago that flopped hard with a vengeance. So basically I revised my thoughts and figured, you know, they probably just shouldn't make "Conan the Barbarian" movies.

I've had Netflix for a week, btw, and boy does it piss me off that the aspect ratios are often wrong. "2001" isn't even in 'Scope! (!?!?!)

didn't much like barcelona back in the day ... the travails of 90s yuppies in Barcelona didn't have much appeal to me then. perhaps i'll watch it again though.

i may check out hank and mike ... potty-mouthed unemployed Canadians in rabbit suits, yo!

Twin Peaks
Carlos: Mini Series
Zardoz
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

a show that maybe only i like called Wicked Attraction; it's a true crime thing & really heavy & twisted sometimes but theres something abt the budget editing, etc. that lightens it enough that i find it wildly entertaining

Watched Zardoz recently, although not on netflix instant. Supremely bad-good.

Hank & Mike is A+...feels sorta like "It's Always Sunny".

Eisbaer, you're waaaaaaay off. They're 80s yuppies.

i liked Hank and Mike way more than I expected to, its pretty great

sunny, the conan thing is up on netflix now

Adjust Your Color isnt showing up for me which is ;_;

watching sports night, lovin it

Oh, is it on there? That's great.

Hey, season one of Louie is back on, too.

watched this over the weekend
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCHkHffSqS8/TD9VqmRjndI/AAAAAAAABFM/7Y2gmXTn-b4/s1600/KL_BustingCov72.png
ummm, worth it if you like 70s elliot gould (and who doesn't) but not exactly a lost classic.

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adjust your color is gone. it was up only a few weeks ago. my apologies.

great doc, and some excellent chuck brown soundbites to go with it.

sports night is great

The other night I wanted a movie to have on while I did some work in the living room. I picked one called Four Lions, and it turned out to be surprisingly good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions
A group of young Muslim men living in Sheffield have become radicalised and aspire to become suicide bombers; Omar (played by Riz Ahmed), the leading member who is deeply critical of Western society; his dim-witted friend Waj (Kayvan Novak); Barry (Nigel Lindsay), a bad-tempered White convert to Islam, and naive Faisal (Adeel Akhtar), who tries to train crows to be used as bombers.

Sports Night and Two and a Half Men are my most hated television shows of all time.

Four Lions is by Chris Morris of Brass Eye/The Day Today fame.

four lions is great but how can u put sports night on equal footing with two and a half men

Well, it's obviously a far better show in objective ways, but really I would much rather watch Two and a Half Men (either Charlie or Ashton) than Sports Night.

When I was out of town, I got hooked on the Mt. Everest trek reality show...

I think it's called Everest: Beyond The Limit or something.

that is pretty good. think it saw that when it was first on.

trollhunter is a lot of fun

this is not:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Johnny/70142639?trkid=4375098

Chuck Lorre presents: Four and a Half Lions.

i will also vouch for trollhunter!

Watched Bunny and the Bull last night. It was decent, probably better if you are a fan of The Mighty Boosh, definitely had some humorous moments, but overall I had a tough time making sense of it.

Also watched a David Bowie: Spiders From Mars Interviews, which was horrendous. It was a completely random assortment of very low quality interviews taken from throughout Bowie's career with little rhyme or reason. I ended up skipping through most of the 30 minute long Outside press conference that ended the video.

I really wish there were a better assortment of music films and videos on Watch Instantly. I feel like that isn't too much to hope for.

Betty Blue (aka "37°2 le matin") showed up today... Saw this in an arthouse theater overseas and was pretty crazy. Also it is interminably long.

Haha, what a recommendation!

ummm, worth it if you like 70s elliot gould (and who doesn't) but not exactly a lost classic.

also features an insanely young Michael Lerner! agree it's not a good movie but the whole premise of it is so stupid/ridiculous I lol'd for all the wrong reasons at it ("yeah Elliot, show that runaway junkie prostitute who'e boss! uh... waitaminit")

Somehow my 11th-grade French class went to see that one in the theater. Uncomfortable opening shot.

Hahahaha, wow. Was it NC-17?

Trollhunter was tons of fun.

I think it was "Not Rated."

Betty Blue is long enough. Never felt the need to watch the 45 year long version.

wow, trollhunter was great!

The Bill Cunningham movie was something special.

Death Wish II !!!
One of the greatest soundtracks of all time

adding to the trollhunter praise. good fun.

Found "Athens. GA: Inside/Out." Great mid-80s doc of the Athens music scene.

David Byrne Flick - True Stores, Why have I never heard of this before?

best part in true stories is DB driving the car down the interstate, talking about how they will appear like roman ruins in the future

wait, i lied. this is the best part, especially from 1:20 on.

Best part is the end credits that Tibor Kalman designed.

Best part is the couple walking hand in hand through plowed fields, ending with the girl asking if the boy farted.

Who are we kidding. Its the Spalding Grey dinner table scene.

Anyone seen Born To Win? Also Panic At Needle Park is available. Really good early Al Pacino movie.

if you're nostalgic for baby-boomer nostalgia, The Wonder Years is now up.

'the man from nowhere' - exceptionally entertaining, extremely violent, OTT sentimental korean action thriller that is often pretty moving

Gimme a good horror movie that is on instantview. I wanna get in the witchy spirit.

alice

oh, witchay woman

Hey, Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, with Mike Nichols's only acting gig in decades, is streaming.

ERNIE KOVACS COLLECTION

woah been wanting to see that

I watched an anime called "Dead Leaves" the other night. 70% of it was the best, most psychedelic shit ever, and 30% was awful bullshit. But watch it for the good parts.

Been watching Raising Hope. Sort of over the top and ridiculous sitcom but i've really enjoyed it.

ERNIE KOVACS COLLECTION
― American Horror Sorry (jjjusten)
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doc i have heard very favorable things about called "Machete Maidens Unleashed!" about 70's/80's exploitation films filmed in the philippines just showed up and i am stoked.

ummmmm.....

should we be concerned?

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"Machete Maidens Unleashed!" btw was pretty so-so. It pretty much ends up just another doc about '70s exploitation, albeit focused on the cheap monster/slasher/women in prison movies made in the Philippines. By the usual suspects (Jack Hill, Roger Corman). With the usual talking heads (John Landis, Joe Dante).

Tried to watch Midnight Cowboy streaming through the Blu-ray and the audio was about 2 seconds out of synch w/ the video and when I tried to report the problem I couldn't b/c the title wouldn't show up in my Recently Viewed list (I had watched 12 minutes of it, which should have been enough). If you look at the reviews you can see that people are reporting the same problem there. And giving low star ratings b/c of it....

Fortunately it worked OK on my computer, but I would really like to see it on a bigger screen.

same with day of the triffids and probably a bunch of other titles they will never fix

If you eventually report a problem, they'll credit a small amount of money back to you. They've done it every time I'd done it.

There was one movie, I can't remember which one, but every time I would play it, it would reboot my tv. It was bizarre.

Breaking Bad is available on Canadian Netflix now.

WOW. All but the most recent series of Peep Show is available in the US as of today. This is huge! They've still only released series 1 on DVD in the states.

o shit that is amazing

THE NET

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ crucial 4 u life

peep show's been on hulu for a while

peep show WAS on netflix for awhile, did it get pulled?

Re: out of sync stuff, had the same problem with Charade. Very frustrating.

idgi either. But yes, still funny.

If you eventually report a problem, they'll credit a small amount of money back to you. They've done it every time I'd done it.

I never noticed. I've reported several problems, and I go out of my way to do so. Good to know.

WOW. All but the most recent series of /Peep Show/ is available in the US as of today. This is huge! They've still only released series 1 on DVD in the states.

Oh good! I was looking for it last week and it wasn't available.

13 Assassins p. good

peep show is on Hulu Plus.

more importantly, downfall is now on Netflix Instant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpKGHOvqsFc

"dark days", a doc about a group of homeless people, is up - highly recommend

^^^great movie apapted from the dubious book The Mole People

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_people

A telling sign that this thread is fading?

there's really just too fucking much to watch honestly. I consistently have 3 to 4 hundred things in my queue

Meek's Cutoff is up.

Oh thanks for the heads up. That was at the top of my DVD queue.

has anyone mentioned Manufactured Landscapes yet?

Oooh--I didn't know it was streaming.

Rock-a-Fire Explosion doc

Winnebago Man

Just noticed "Into the Void" was in there. Wish I was able to see this on the big screen before it vanished,

ROCK A FIRE EXPLOSION!!!!!

Sorry, "Enter the Void."

Limitless today. Not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination but I found it entertaining. Feel free to mock me.

manufactured landscapes is dope

winnebago man is not

Rockafire is definitely worth watching, reminded me of King of Kong.

Winnebago Man is a decent profile of an all-American crank, was way overpraised in some quarters.

In the Loop is a terrifically funny "Yes Minister"/"The Office" styled imagining/reenactment of the internal clusterfuck at the U.K. Foreign Ministry and U.S. State Department leading up to the Iraq war.

Er, I meant "The Thick of It" rather than "Yes Minister". Anyway, a gloriously witty, profane, satire which doesn't stray far from the account gleaned from Seymour Hersh et al at the time.