Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Best show.

that is where I am watching it!

Trading Places

17 Jean Rollin films up right now. An enlightened age!

btw, since it could use linking every once in awhile: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/visual

The American Astronaut, certainly the best Western space musical I've ever seen.

I was wondering about that.

American astronaut is fucking fantastic

Man, American Astronaut. I think I saw that when they were touring with it back in Ann Arbor like 10 years ago. Plenty of neat ideas.

If like me you weren't digging Parks & Rec. that much, give it another shot. Been watching it on Netflix all month. Good shit.

Until upside down triangle head man invades the show.

Hippie Masala! love that thing. i highly recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vxuQMlGl4E

night tide, a weird noirish thing from the early 60s about a sailor who fails in love with a murderous mermaid, dennis hopper's first starring role iirc

always reminds me of vhs dollar movies. cuz it was public domain or something. like night of the living dead.

its cool though.

and i am definitely a curtis harrington fan. all the way to his devil dog movie.

this is great, by the way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JPHHWeVtmI

devil dog, best opening scene in cinema history. Three Satanists walk into a dog shelter...

after checking IMDB I realize I've seen almost half of harrington's filmography without realizing it. how awful about allan, who slew auntie roo, I even watched the awful bayou possession flick ruby a couple of months ago, which features this classic moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWjz5lczRRw

doomsday book is up, a south korean anthology of dystopian sci-fi tales

and the 1924 hands of orlac, kind of slow going but worth it for conrad veidt's tormented performance

i saw submarine last night.

pretty pretty good but moss's sensibilities were too close to wes anderson methinks.

doomsday book looks cool! will watch. looks way better than melancholia anyway. you guys don't want to know how many bad kirsten dunst movies i have watched cuzza my crush on kirsten dunst...so sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GGfa0EybCI

and yet i keep stopping myself from watching mona lisa smile on netflix. my love for the dunst has limits, i guess.

and yet i recently watched the horrible elizabethtown so i know that there are no limits...

i have a shameful crush on her too. I don't usually go in for the starlets. It's those lazy eyes.

and that smile...

still need to see wimbledon. i have luckytown and the cat's meow on vhs but i haven't been bored enough to watch them yet.

sounds like a terrible affliction

there are very few hollywood cuties that turn my head. these days anyway. i usually can't remember who they are half the time.

it kinda is cuz most of her movies are terrible!

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she's unconventional looking and funny, plus she grew up in the jersey town my dad lived in and if anything good can come of brick NJ it is truly a miracle

she's also fluent in German ...

<3 <3 <3

wached lubitsch's the wildcat. that is one awesome flick.

and yet i keep stopping myself from watching mona lisa smile on netflix. my love for the dunst has limits, i guess.

what's not watchable about beautiful elite co-eds who look at ART

i love how pola negri in The Wildcat reminded me of both siouxsie sioux AND pat benatar in the love is a battlefield video. she was so ahead of her time. and so alive! i can't remember the last time i saw a modern actress display that kind of punk ferocity. badass. how come they can't make cool movies like that anymore?

bag of hammers w/ john ritter's son was surprisingly good

Che pts I & II just returned after disappearing for a month or two

our UK netflix briefly had loads more movies and tv than it usually does! but none of them would load or start showing! and then they all disappeared! any other uk netflix users experience similar?

"Strange Circus" if you are down with insane deep sleazy Japanese horror.

burning through all the miss marples at an alarming pace

get yourself tested

marples is forever

Really enjoying "Side By Side," which is a great chaser to the "Sound City" doc. It's awesome to have Keanu leading a discussion about digital approximation of film, for all sorts of "Matrix" reasons. Also great to see all the interviews with DPs, which makes this almost a sequel to "Visions of Light." (It's also hilarious to hear a really astute observation from, say, the DP of "The Smurfs"). Plus, funny to see Keanu interview so many great directors who will likely never hire him.

OMG, awesome David Fincher Robert Downey, Jr. anecdote! They're talking about how with no reel changes and cuts, shooting digital can make actors work harder and longer, throwing them off. On "Zodiac," RDJ complained to Fincher that he never had a chance to go back to the trailer and get his shit together, and that it was exhausting spending 14 hours on set with no breaks. So he started to protest by leaving mason jars of urine around the set!

yeah i super enjoyed that. i also finally learned a lot of stuff about film and color correcting that i'd been wanting to learn about for a while!

Plus, funny to see Keanu interview so many great directors who will likely never hire him.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 22, 2013 1:26 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah he'll be stuck working with clowns like bernardo bertolucci and gus van sant for the rest of his career

I heartily second anyone praising "The Long Goodbye." I only saw it once but it made a strong impact. There are remarkably many Altman movies on Netflix, thank heavens. I just saw "Thieves Like Us" and I was surprised at how sad it was when certain characters met misfortune, considering the fact that I forecast everything way, way early and they were kind of icky characters in any case. Altman is good at manipulating your emotions in a sneaky, underhanded way.

For the horror fans: I enjoyed watched "Phase 7," a fairly low-budget Argentinian plague-themed SF/Horror/Dark Comedy. The premise is kind of basic and unexciting: after an alarming epidemic breaks out, a middle-class schlub and his pregnant wife get quarantined in their nice, new apartment building. As the days go by, the couples' cooped-up neighbors start acting weirder and weirder, until.... Based on the hype, I was expecting a decent escapist flick but I wasn't expecting to come away with a new entry on my cinematic shortlist. Great, funny dialogue, utterly convincing performances and unforgettable pacing/editing to place the director with greats like Hitchcock, Truffaut and Peckinpah.

Don't watch it if you can't take graphic violence; the overall "kill count" for the movie is low but there are a few gut-wrenching shots. At the same time, there was nothing exploitative or cheap about the film. If any of that sounds interesting to you, watch the movie--don't read the reviews first, a lot of them tell way more about the story than I just did and FAR more than they should. it's one of those movies where the "shocks" really are shocking, so the less you know the better.

xpost, um, bernardo bertolucci and gus van sant are not in the movie. But Lynch, Scorsese, Fincher, et al. are, and no, they will not be hiring Keanu any time soon.

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no way scorsese works w/ some middling pretty boy like keanu! can you imagine???

I can, would be awesome!

Pretty boy or no, Leo can at least act, on occasion. Marty would have to build the film around Keanu's persona. I'd suggest something involving ... virtual reality.