Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.