Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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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.

i have no idea what you are joking about at this point

Untitled Martin Scorsese/Keanu Reeves project.

sad keanu jokes.

watched 'the imposter' last night. p good. there was a nyer story abt this a few yrs ago but it's prob best if you go in cold. also, it's a lil too much of an errol morris imposter in style, too glossy, needs some rough edges imo

Reel Injun is a really interesting look at the portrayal of native americans throughout the history of cinema.

snow on tha bluff

up there w/ catfish in the v impressively staged/editing/managed verite thing that is prob more fun 2 deconstruct than engage w/
― johnny crunch, Sunday, July 22, 2012 3:19 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kinda agree with this w/r/t the verite feel-- can't remember the last movie that did it better. Even though there's barely a narrative / has such a blah ending, I'm really surprised Snow on Tha Bluff doesn't get talked up more.

IN THE DARK HALF

ruled, so foreboding

...i still have no idea what it was about

this movie is pretty far out. good movie to watch on acid if you have any. people still do acid, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zf63U1Rk0w

I don't have any acid but that looks awesome

when you posted it on FB I was wondering why you were digging a doc about kiefer sutherland

Cool.

I watched "Reel Injun" last night, really interesting. I want to see some of the aboriginal films they showed at the end. And "The Silent Enemy".

Also, it's on youtube.

Ha! about 10 seconds into that trailer I started thinking this is looking like some heavy Anselm Keifer vibes...looks good.

it's intense. i was kinda stoned when i watched it. but not on acid. it moves slowly and malevolently in a weird way. horror movie strings at the beginning make you think you are gonna see crazy murders or something. its worth it just to watch his process if you are a fan of his work. and they let him build his own crazy underground city in france!

These things really come and go:
About to expire unwatched from my list tonight:
Bedazzled
The Woman in the Window
The Black Pirate
Que Viva Mexico

Expiring in two days:
Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth

you have watchlists? they tell you when movies are gonna expire?

netflixUS is so much better a service than netflix UK...

Their explanation of why watchlists don't work liked to upthread neglects this watch-it-before-it-expires motivation.

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/expiring

Yea, I use that too. Does that apply to the UK, are the rights the same?

I doubt it. The rights seemed to be completely different between the US and Canada, even.

they show expiring canuck stuff too though.

i should really watch that bernie worrell doc that is going away...

Yup. You should also watch the Robert Moog doc that he is in.

Refn film "Bronson" is apparently expiring, go watch that

Popeye! Anaconda! Pretty In Pink! Manhunter!

i do not recommend popeye! assuming it's the altman popeye!

fyi the octopus scene gave me nighmares when I was a kid

consider yrself warned :)

The Howling 3: The Marsupial

(No, not kidding)

That movie is bad even by bad movie standards.

No way you are all crazy. Harry Nilsson soundtrack.

Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl come on.

Talking about Howling 3, not Popeye, which has its charms (the latter).

cmon, i love popeye!

also recently added (to netflix and queue): THE SINFUL NUNS OF ST VALENTINE.

popeye is altman's best movie

i'm really hip so my faves are the late 70's weird string of 3 women/a wedding/quintet/a perfect couple. if i were younger and hipper it would be o.c. and stiggs. i like popeye though. its fun.

Aleksandr Medvedkin's Happiness!

xxpost

I can't in good consciousness rank Popeye above, say, 3 Women or Nashville, but I find it heartwarming how this film has been reclaimed from the heap of "Notorious Flops that Killed The Last Golden Age of American Movies" in the years since its release.

Fwiw, both my wife and I enjoyed it as kids when it came out. I'm pretty sure I owned the soundtrack.

one of my favorite pictures http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7239/7367592488_45e8c510f0_n.jpg
i
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popeye

that's awesome. I can totally picture you wandering around the house singing "He Needs Me".

haha
it's a great soundtrack and i liked the movie too
shelley duvall rules forever and ever

ive ignored that story of the odyssey of film semicolon the miniseries thing but thats prob good rite