Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

doomsday book (2012)
first off, jee-woon kim is supreme chief of modern korean directors (kim>park>bong)
this movie as larry david would say is 'eh'
kim's short film about the buddha robot was the only of the three that was well-written. i liked the other two (especially the visual effects and cinematography) but they were either too long or too short.

examined life (2008)
cornel west, slavoj zizek & other smart people talking about deep concepts i have already forgotten. watched this at 3am in the morning so i was kind of wandering into slumber but something i would def re-watch again.

fallen angels (1995)
without doyle, wong's films would look so sophomoric. wong's unabashed whimsicality is admirable putting him up above idiosyncratic directors like korine, tarr and other self-masturbatory ass clowns. but upon reflection he is one of those 'style over substance' dudes i that will never get. perhaps it's my obtuseness but i find his over-reliant use on inner monologues to be lazy and contrite (his failed attempts to romanticize alienation verbally is laughably bad). what was the point of having a contract killer in this movie? he could've been a nebbish librarian, a garbageman aka any other profession where you don't make many decisions.
i understand that his films are extremely mood based but COME ON.
in conclusion, i thought this was better than chungking express because the music was soothing, fitting and the characters for the most part were likable.

beyond the black rainbow (2010)
this is a cool looking piece of shit.

bela tarr is a self-masturbatory ass-clown, huh

beyond the black rainbow (2010)
this is a cool looking piece of shit

OTM

Great music, great visuals, terrible movie.

to be fair, there wasn't much movie there!

is the master on instant? could not find it!!

no.

sorry earlier, I was riffing off of the dude who dupes a bunch of people into thinking hes some kind of guru

I don't think so? But I am watching it on disc ATM and it is pretty crazy

wrong thread, but I liked joaquin phoenix's routine in most of that film

THANKS FOR TRICKING ME, MH

do you have dvd, blu-ray, or some sort of video service? ilx message me, I will send you a copy of this film. unfortunately, if you need physical media there will be delay.

lol, don't worry about it!! i have plenty to watch. and i will watch it when it is available on teh netflix, if that happens

brb faxing u 'the master'

yeah just base64 encode it, print it out, fax it, scan and OCR it back in, save as mp4 or whatever.

i tried and it just came out as a grainy picture of PSH with a really elongated face

*SPOILER* That's actually what the movie is

Annika Bengtzon: Crime Detective.

WATCH THIS! Doughty crime reporter for a Stockholm newspaper Annika Bengtzon is a great character. If u liked Wallander, you'll love etc, only this is done with way fewer shots of seas of waving grain and more grit and winter.

SORRY, IT'S CRIME REPORTER. She's a journalist, not a detective.

Also I just watched the hell out of Venus Boyz, which is about drag kings. I don't know what to say about it yet but I was rapt.

i tried watching beyond the black rainbow like 3 times and finally got through it the 4th time on a bus trip. glad i stuck with.

I loved black rainbow, did not think it was a shit film. Admittedly I was half asleep when I watched it so it felt like a weird dream.

It's more of a rumination on an aesthetic than a narrative really

Black Rainbow should be the poster child for the concept of horror films having shitty endings tho

kinda weird considering horror. i mean i see it but then i don't.

i'm still watching jericho series and i feel like kind of an idiot for watching it but what the hell i'm almost done. i guess it ends in the middle though! only 7 episodes in the 2nd season. watched first firefly with maria and she dug it (had never seen it) so probably watch another truncated series next. and i still haven't watched firefly movie so save that for last. in other words i am not watching fancy movies. or even horror movies. you guys should still watch HELL though. that movie was cool.

last night; a beginner's guide to endings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHGGOYr1xLo

annnnd the other night "the giant mechanical man" with a cameo (or just guest appearance, w/e) by saul goodman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5D8JMsPk3o

keep the lights on, ira sachs's autobiographical film about his relationship w/ drug-addicted literary agent bill clegg. not sure what to say about this movie yet, other than that the soundtrack almost completely made up of arthur russell perfectly suits the tone and style of the film, which is kind of, uh, i'll just toss out a tag cloud here: intimate yet detached, mysterious/melancholy/sparse/disjointed

Black Rainbow should be the poster child for the concept of horror films having shitty endings tho

this was kind of ~the point~ imo

i started watching Shameless last night. pretty entertaining even when it sounds like everyone is speaking hungarian. i swear that brit patois can sound like some eastern european language to me. pretty remarkable. don't know if i will make it through all 150+ episodes though. that's a lot of episodes for a britcom!

'the comedy' and 'holy motors' up today apparently - i highly recommend the former and am excited to watch the latter

Oort, the Comedy.

'the comedy' and 'holy motors' up today apparently - i highly recommend the former and am excited to watch the latter

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vice versa

cosmopolis just added too

Annika Bengtzon: Crime Detective.

this is great! I gave up on the pretty but relentlessly grim and unshaven Wallander, and this will be my midseason replacement.

I especially liked how her boyfriend was livid that she blew him and his family off on Walpurgis Night to solve crimes.

Two-Minute Warning
An assassin lies in wait for the president at a football game, and when he goes on a killing spree, it's up to two cops to catch the madman.

this sounds so hilarious, is it?
omg not only is john cassavetes in this movie, gena rowlands is as well

I feel like if Cassavettes were alive and in his prime today he'd be funding his directing career with every role currently occupied by Nic Cage.

Could he really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1-oquwoL8

I can see him screaming NOT THE BEES and everything

god sometime you're like 'ok enough w/ the nicolas cage, we get it everybody' and then you're confronted w/ the actual article itself and you remember there is no such thing as 'enough w/ the nicolas cage'.

well said

This tatsumi thing sounds fascinating

really enjoying the british crime drama CRACKER, starring Hagrid from the harry potter films.

(early nineties)

I'm glad someone else is enjoying Annika Bengtzon! And Ian, Cracker is on my list, I'll get there one of these days.

OooooOOOOooh young Eccleston.

"Due to the film's explicit violence and uncomfortable detail of a homicidal sniper acting alone and without apparent motivation, NBC negotiated with Universal Studios to film additional scenes for its television premiere in 1978. The new scenes would detail an art theft, with the sniper serving as a decoy so robbers could escape without detection. The additional scenes, totaling 40 minutes in length, were added for the film's TV showing while 45 minutes of the original version were removed. Director Larry Peerce disowned the TV version, which credits the pseudonymous "Gene Palmer" as director and Francesca Turner (who also helped doctor David Lynch's Dune for TV) for the "teleplay". When shown on network television, this version of Two-Minute Warning is often shown rather than the original theatrical release The television version was not included when the film was released to video and DVD."

probably have only seen the tv version, want to see the theatrical now

x-post After I watched Cracker a few years ago I couldn't get Robert Carlyle's Liverpool FC chant out of my head for months.

Cracker is amazing