Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

My instant queue is rather modest, but because of the mgm purge, I've caught up with Lemon Popsicle (aka The Last Israeli Virgin), The Music Lovers and That Sinking Feeling over the past few days. I think I'll check out Big Time, the Tom Waits concert doc tonite.

Every single studio and network should just start charging to stream their content exclusively. Because better to just get it over with and push everyone to illegal downloading all at once.

about 60 titles that were in my queue at the beginning of the month were set to expire tomorrow. luckily, i had advance notice through Instantwatcher (and way too much free time on my hands this month), so i got to watch some of the must-sees -- like the Bergman, Loach, Rohmer and Aldrich titles that are going bye-bye. the rest, it looks like i'll either have to settle for DVDs or Amazon Prime Instant (if not this Warner Archive Instant thing).

dunwich horror (1970) is so great

Eight movies leaving my queue tonight that aren't available through Netflix on DVD - Golden Needles, The Visitors, Crawlspace, Beer, Gypsy Girl, Last Embrace, Theater Of Blood and The Landlord. Watching Golden Needles now, it's basically Mitchell In Hong Kong, with Joe Don Baker galumphing, smirking and gutpunching Chinese mobsters. Shame to have to ffwd through so much of it but like INXS said, there's not enough time.

oh shit peace out Cutter's Way and American Heart, good pair of Bridges joints

The Apple too

dunwich horror is gone off the net because of UA

Oh no crawlspace! I'll never be able to get my wife to watch that tonight.

Instantwatcher's servers seem to be getting hammered right now. Slooooow loading and frequent timeout errors.

I'm going with a _Cult of the Damned_/_Golden Needles_ double-bill.

Here's what's going missing from my list for future reference:
The Decameron
Elvira Madigan
Hidden Fear
The Passionate Friends
Cul-De-Sac
The White Bus
Blithe Spirit
Passion of Anna
Navajo Joe
Mulholland Dr.
Countryman
The Lady Vanishes
The Stranger
A Tale of Springtime
Hour of the Wolf
Young and Innocent

Highly recommend the last, a British Hitchcock with all the elements leading to a perfect denouement.

Honestly, there are so many movies in my queue at this point that I have no idea how many will vanish. Over time I've sort of learned to appreciate the erratic Netflix catalog, since it keeps me focuses on fewer films (I still won't get to watch for month) at a time.

Elvira Madigan is suppsedly amongst a group Bo Widerberg films coming soon from Olive films (who, btw, don't supply netflix w/discs).

Thanks, will keep an eye out.

Feel better now that I made that tiny list, given the disproportionate amount of effort spent wresting with the clunky interface to find stuff worth watching.

Sure your all too busy watching to post. I'm not going to go crazy like on The Weekend of the Streaming Criterions, just watched some bits and pieces of stuff soon going to crash.

Wound up passing on The Landlord, The Visitors and Last Embrace as "obscure works from big directors" will probably be available again someday. Watched bits of the rest and all I could really recommend is Golden Needles for MST3k fans and Theater Of Blood for Vincent Price fans.

by "available again someday" i mean i'll have other chances to see them, not that netflix will necessarily bring it back

Yeah Golden Needles was the shit. Recommended for West Coasters, you still have two hours.

i don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but godard's "a woman is a woman" is on netflix instant. i love that film.

Yeah, that's on my list but I've seen it before and it ain't going away but thanks. And now I can hear some of the tunes from it in my head.

We on East Coast get the hours too, I think, but maybe that's only if we've already started watching. Please some of us gotsa sleep.

Woke up and my queue was still there. The White Bus is 47 minutes long, So far so good.

Which is expiring but is not part of the MGM/UA package.

But is streaming on Amazon. Too confusing.

OK, this movie is pretty awesome. Not sure why I waited thirty years to see it.

And it's on youtube as well.

A young Anthony Hopkins sings a song by Brecht, in German!

Manny Farber would have liked it, Shelagh Delaney script without Rita Tushingham.

thanks for the tip on the dunwich horror! lovecraft unfilmability is still fun to see in the attempt

Tried to hit instantwatcher to see what films were still left and about to expire but server was swamped and was denied.

The Passionate Friends and Passion of Anna somehow survived the purge.

Passion is no ordinary word.

I have heard that mgm has let the rights lapse on some if not all of their Bergmans.

For b movie weirdness that is way weirder than one would expect, "dead end" with ray wise is pretty awesome

had to read that like four times before i realized you weren't talking about "wrong turn", which did not star ray wise and was not awesome. dead end looks really fun tho.

"Zapped!" is streaming. So is "Nude for Satan" and "Remo Williams." And if you haven't seen it, the Fishbone doc (that expires soon) is great.

anybody seen gomorrah? i've wanted to see that. maybe i will.

yah, it's great

when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's

dont worry abt expiring mgm/ua stuff, theyve added http://cdn-7.nflximg.com/us/boxshots/large/70022337.jpg

theres some actual decent & cool shit i can rep for that has come back actually

the apple
bad timing
a forest for the trees
harry + tonto

there also a film by nic winding refns father

Flying Devils(De Flyvende Djævle)
1985NR1hr 50m
In this offbeat melodrama from accomplished Danish director Anders Refn, a family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a next-to-impossible trapeze maneuver. However, personal dramas and financial difficulties soon threaten to overtake the flyers' pursuit of the elusive quadruple somersault. The film received a Robert Award as the best Danish film of 1985.

as a refn film, i did not expect 'trapeze maneuver' to follow 'execute' there.

Hey alt horror comedy types - cabin in the woods and John dies at the end are both up now

cabin in the woods is A+ would rewatch

every time I watch it I end up rewatching it

hell of a lot of catalogue stuff

seriously. and most of it hella obscure
is anybody doing hemlock grove? is there even a thread?

So did nobody watch the Netflix series HEMLOCK GROVE except me?

ha, appropriate title. i suppose i'll give it a go at some point.