dan have you noticed yet that a bunch of the tom baker dr. who is on there?
another one if you dig docs, The Rape of Europa, which is about people attempting to reclaim their families artwork from museums after it was stolen by the nazis - one of the best docs ive seen in the last few years
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
oh also season one of dexter, killer klowns from outer space, millers crossing
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay so here's the list of Criterion films I know of that are available for instant streaming on netflix; it's awful close to a complete list.Not all of these are great films (some I don't even like) but they're pretty much ALL worth watching. Get through this and you've basically done a year or two at film school.
400 Blows49th Parallel8 1/2A Nos AmoursA Nous La LiberteA Woman Is a WomanAlexander NevskyAmarcordAu Revoir Les EnfantsBallad of a SoldierBeauty and the Beast (Cocteau)Bed and BoardBlack NarcissusBlack OrpheusBlood of Dracula (Warhol)BoudouBranded to KillBrief encounterBurden of DreamsCarnival of SoulsCheChildren of ParadiseCleo from 5 to 7Closely Watched TrainsCria CuervosDiaboliqueDo the Right ThingElevator to the GallowsEuropaEyes Without a FaceFanny and AlexanderFor All MankindGeneral Idi Amin DadaGomorrahGrand IllusionGreat ExpectationsGreen for DangerGrey GardensHarlan County USAHearts and MindsHigh and LowHoop DreamsHopscotchI VitelloniIkiruIn the Mood for LoveIndiscretion of the American WIfeIvan the TerribleJules and JimKnife in the WaterLa Bete HumaineLa JeteeLa StradaLaurence Olivier's HamletLaurence Olivier's Henry VL'AvventuraLe Cercle RougeLe CorbeauLord of the FliesM. Hulot's HolidayMala NocheMan Bites DogMetropolitanMishima: A Life in Four ChaptersMissing.Mon OncleMr. Arkadin: The Confidential ReportMurderous MaidsMy Man GodfreyOliver TwistOnibabaOverlordPandora's BoxPeeping TomPickpocketPicnic at Hanging RockPierrot Le FouPlaytimeRashomonRatcatcherRevancheRichard IIIRome Open CitySamurai RebellionSanjuroSans SoleilShoot the Piano PlayerSistersSlackerSmiles of a Summer NightSolarisSolo Con tu ParejaSummer HoursSummertimeTHe 39 StepsThe Battle of AlgiersThe Bicycle ThiefThe Earrings of Madame de...The Emperor JonesThe Hidden FortrressThe Lady EveThe Lady VanishesThe Last Temptation of ChristThe Life and Death of Colonel BlimpThe Marriage of Maria BraunThe Most Dangerous GameThe Passion of Joan of ArcThe Red BalloonThe Red ShoesThe Rules of the GameThe Ruling ClassThe Seven SamuraiThe Seventh SealThe Spirit of The BeehiveThe Third ManThe VanishingThe Virgin SpringThe Wages of FearThieves' HighwayThis Sporting LifeTokyo DrifterTokyo StoryTout Va BienUgetsuUmberto DUnfaithfully YoursVampyrVeronika VossWalkaboutWhite ManeWild StrawberriesWings of DesireYojimboZ
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
oh and one more and then i'll stop babbling here, all the seasons of Wire In the Blood are up there, and it is by far my most loved tv show that no one else cares about at all (really more of a sequential movie-length thing about a psychologist working on super weird murder cases, its absolutely brilliantly written, acted and shot.)
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I have watched both Cocaine Cowboys documentaries roughly 1243796386987162387465192634 times each since they became streamable. also the IT Crowd is very much not the best show but I've watched every streaming episode at least twice so w/e.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Playtime is an amazing movie but is really one of those movies you should see in the highest quality possible (ie not streaming digitally) - there's so much stuff going on that you really need to be able to see it.
I tried to watch Wire in the Blood and thought it was pretty bad, sorry.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
n/a, i'm able to watch most of my streaming stuff in HD or damned close to it!
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
gonna try wire in the blood
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
its ok, like i said no one else seems to give a shit about it other than me, so idk xpost to n/a
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like even the HD streaming stuff isn't really the same quality as even a regular DVD. I'm not really snobby about this usually, I just think it's important for Playtime. Really though, the theater is the best place to see Playtime, if possible.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I ain't arguing; tati is all about nuance
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
fyi election and triad election are both on instant watch
― max, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
The time windows seem to be getting more prevalent on instant as their library gets bigger.
Louis C.K.: Chewed Up - dude is a funny guy
did the picture cropping seem totally fucked up in this on instant?
I've had a couple instant films get screwed up through xbox live but work fine on the web.
― bnw, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, louis WAS fucked up in aspect; maybe it's fixable?
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
another one i hit like that was blink w/ madeline stowe. she plays a blind woman but the movie has no sound! so confusing.
― bnw, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
will anyone rep for trailer park boys?
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxxxxxpost
one of the best moviegoing experiences I ever had in my life was when I went to go see the 70mm print of Playtime at the Egyptian Theater a couple of years ago. plus it was the English dub, which I would ordinarily find offensively shitty but w/ Playtime it was incredibly liberating being able to let my eyes wander all over all that screen space picking out details. oh, and for some reason there were a bunch of kids in the theater too and it TOTALLY worked; they went into the same shell-shocked awe that all the wine-sipping turtleneck-wearing cineastes as soon as it started. A++++++++++++++++ would see again.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been streaming Spartcus: Blood and Sand. Hilarious.
― Jeff, Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I also watch a lot of Xena.
― Jeff, Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
okay this is like the first time I've encountered ppl in the context of ILX who have said positive things about The IT Crowd
so wrong dan, read the I.T. crowd thread.
― shite new answers (cutty), Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Is spartacus worth watching?
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 11 March 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Uh, it's pretty bad actually. Guilty pleasure that occasionally is almost good.
― Jeff, Thursday, 11 March 2010 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Like a lower budget 300 with more blood and breasts.
But it has Xena in it!
And she shows her boobs!
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 11 March 2010 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I tried the pilot. Appreciated the trashiness, but it was just way too slow. Nudity yay, 300 effects zzz.
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 March 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
A couple of quick things:
YES I've seen Dr Horrible, it's fucking awesome
I started watching Baker's Key to Time season a few weeks ago and it's kind of terrifying how well those stories hold up
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Thursday, 11 March 2010 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
BRITAIN HATES YOU ALL AND SO DO I
― JimD, Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
also wait, Spartacus has Xena boobs?
okay that didn't come out the way I intended
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
from what I've heard about the show, you're better off just finding the clips on Huffington Post or wherever.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, Huffington Post has Xena boobs?
― super hot old dudes (Lamp), Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah pretty sure they had some NSFW clips right after the first boob episode aired.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Newly Available Today Alert:BRONSON
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
also somewhat related: just met with one of my new co-workers for lunch yesterday and she mentioned that she was an actress and suggested that I check her out on IMDB, which I did... turns out she did a large speaking role in a film with Vera Farmiga that is available for streaming, so I think I'll be watching that too.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
― forksclovetofu, Friday, March 12, 2010 4:28 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yep,in the queue as of this morning
― Aerosol, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty much all of Rescue Me is up as well.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 March 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Boot Camp - about a tough love camp for troubled teens. has Mila Kunis. has that russian guy from prison break who's accent changes every scene. has Mila Kunis. pleasantly surprised (expected a 2/10, this is maybe a 4.5/10.) it was smart enough to raise a couple interesting questions about such camps, but nowhere near smart enough to answer them. has Mila Kunis.
― bnw, Saturday, 13 March 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
DEAD SNOW
A group of Norwegian friends get the scariest history lesson of their lives during a weekend getaway to the snowy town of Øksfjord, where the party is interrupted by throngs of Nazi zombies who once occupied the area. Armed with a machine-gun-equipped snowmobile, the gang fights for survival in director Tommy Wirkola's quirky horror, shot on location in the mountains of Norway. The film had its U.S. premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
― shite new answers (cutty), Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
nazombies
ThanksKilling is still available.
― Jeff, Sunday, 14 March 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Gogol Bordello and Dark Funeral concert movies availablePretty much all of Showtime's Weeds.And the new woody allen: whatever works
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
this is not a video game thread and I object to it always being in the top of new answers fwiw
― antexit, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it's here since every this-gen game system has the added bonus of offering netflix streaming and because most folks I know use their systems as movie boxes about 40-60% of the times they use them.Anyone else against this thread being here? We can move it to ILE if there's enough unhappiness about it.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Leave it here.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
antexit's just ornery because us canadians can't have nice things
― Quantic Dream, So Hard To Beat (Will M.), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
the price of socialism is eternally having to rent physical copies of movies
― no chapo (Lamp), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but you fuckers have socialized health care
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but think of how bored they will be with nothing to watch in their hospital rooms while they recuperate for free
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
it's called curling, douchebags. on tv 14 hrs/day
― antexit, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't vouch for it yet, but there's no way I'm not going to watch the newly added Nazis from the Moon Finish production Iron Sky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Iron Sky is brilliant fun, I bought the DVD some time ago. Laibach soundtrack too.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Watching Roy Orbison: Black & White Night before it expires. Lots of musical guest stars in the band that maybe you can take or leave but more importantly he's got Elvis's Vegas-era backing band.
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 April 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Also does some material by the other Elvis, which wasn't too bad actually.
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 April 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Girl_(2016_film)
^1 of the best movies I saw this yr, now streaming
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link