i just signed up for netflix. now what do i do? any suggestions?

i guess criterion is a good place start
- bill 7-31-2009 1:24 am

some of their top tens are fun.
- dave 7-31-2009 1:51 am [add a comment]


1000 best movies
- dave 7-31-2009 1:54 am [add a comment]


1000 best movies
- dave 7-31-2009 1:56 am [add a comment]


ordered both floating weeds.
- bill 7-31-2009 4:27 am [add a comment]


Go to the "Watch Instantly" button and download a small file so you can watch all the free streaming stuff, ton's of crappy stuff but if you work at it you can satisfy a jones.
- jimlouis 7-31-2009 4:52 am [add a comment]


ok. i got thwarted on my first try with streaming.


- bill 7-31-2009 4:56 am [add a comment]


Criterion's box set LATE OZU. Also Tokyo Story.

I've also been enjoying the criterion set JENJI MIZOGUCHI'S FALLEN WOMEN.

When it comes to netfix I pretty much only stream these days.
- steve 7-31-2009 5:51 am [add a comment]


  • "enjoying" is probably the wrong word.
    - steve 11-11-2009 3:54 am [add a comment]



You should do what I did. Order a bunch of movies that are too ambitious for your actual watching habits. Then never watch them, never send them back, and just be done with it.
- jim 7-31-2009 2:26 pm [add a comment]



my computer wont support the streaming deal. i hope to get into a one film a night routine. i could see what happened to jim happening. there are some directors and genres that i really need to explore though.
- bill 7-31-2009 3:02 pm [add a comment]


im moving this back here.

Sleeping Beauty (1959) was last one watch, it was great!!
- Skinny 9-28-2009 6:12 pm
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noted!
- bill 9-28-2009 6:19 pm
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How's that Ozu coming along?
- steve 9-28-2009 10:27 pm
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My last was The Shooting. Really good. Available in the watch instantly section.
- steve 9-28-2009 10:29 pm
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i screwed up and sent it back w/o watching. in the wrong envelope. now im afraid to re order it cause of the mislabeling. they acknowledged the return of the envelope. now i make sure the barcode reads through the envelope.
- bill 9-29-2009 5:16 am
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I think they look at the dvd and not the envelope. They say if you lose an envelope just double up the dvd with another and return it.

Seen Tokyo Story yet?
- steve 9-29-2009 8:20 am
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ill add tokyo story, thx


que:

Primo Levi's Journey

Rockets Redglare


The Last Waltz


Performance

Avant-Garde: Vol. 1: Disc 1

Avant-Garde: Vol. 1: Disc 2

Avant-Garde: Vol. 2: Disc 1

Avant-Garde: Vol. 2: Disc 2

American Avant Garde Film: Disc 1

American Avant Garde Film: Disc 2
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The Films of Kenneth Anger: Vol. 2

Films of Kenneth Anger: Vol. 1

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Magnificent Obsession

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

Ballad of a Soldier

Hobson's Choice

Slumdog Millionaire

Last Year at Marienbad


Breathless

Children of Paradise

Masculin Feminin

The Last Metro

La Pointe Courte

Les Bonnes Femmes

Burden of Dreams

La Dolce Vita

Alphaville
Harlan County, U.S.A.

The Rules of the Game
Day for Night

The Sorrow and the Pity

saved:

Floating Weeds

Tampopo

The Funeral

The Wrecking Crew

watched since joining:





Nick Drake: Under Review



Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel


Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus


Be Here to Love Me (townes van vandt)

The River

Brief Encounter

Grand Illusion

A Story of Floating Weeds

Walkabout

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Brazil

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Dazed and Confused


Dogtown and Z-Boys

Bob Le Flambeur

im on the two at a time plan. el cheep-o!!!
- bill 9-29-2009 8:38 am
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loved it

The Rules of the Game

- Skinny 9-29-2009 8:57 am
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River's Edge, mannnn! Princess Bride (with Robin)
- ken 9-29-2009 7:52 pm
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good ones. thanks ken. never seen PB and time to see RE again.
- bill 9-29-2009 8:05 pm
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I see brazil on your list. why not do the trilogy. Time Bandits, Brazil, Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- ken 9-29-2009 8:14 pm
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new
Das Boot. Can't watch it too often.
- L.M. 9-29-2009 8:45 pm
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- dave 9-30-2009 1:50 am [add a comment]


id go for

* the lives of others
* Fallen Angels - wong kar-wai
* some eric rohmer
* the princess and the warrior - tom twyker
* the draughtsmen's contract - peter greenaway * kind hearts and coronets - alec guiness
- dave 9-30-2009 2:12 am [add a comment]


Save The Tiger
Interiors
The Last Detail
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
Safe
The Spirit Of The Beehive
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Annie Hall
American Graffiti
The Passenger
- steve 9-30-2009 2:25 am [add a comment]


and whats up tiger lily. at a film a year there are a lot of blank areas in my WA history.
- bill 9-30-2009 2:36 am [add a comment]


Yeah quite the output Tiger Lily didn't hold up for me on my last vewing, but that was in '88.

- steve 9-30-2009 2:52 am [add a comment]


woodywise, could never get through tiger lily. kind of like stardust memories which is sort of an homage to fellinis 8 1/2. for early silliness theres whats new, pussycat? which he wrote.
- dave 9-30-2009 3:05 am [add a comment]


carnal knowledge is a good fall film
- bill 9-30-2009 3:10 am [add a comment]


  • I like the scenes where Nicholson and Garfunkel address the camera directly.
    - steve 9-30-2009 2:46 pm [add a comment]



saw this nice film on cable recently and thought of jim louis for some reason:

The story follows a young teacher (Jon Voight) in 1969 assigned to an isolated Yamacraw Island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds out that the children as well as the adults have been isolated from the rest of the world and speak a dialect called Gullah and "Conrack" is their way of saying his name "Conroy." The school is a two room school with the Principal (Madge Sinclair) teaching grades one through four and Conrack teaching the higher grades. He discovers that they know very little. He tries to teach them about the outside world and comes in conflict both with the principal and Mr. Skeffington (Hume Cronyn), the superintendent. This comes to a head when he takes them to Beaufort on the mainland to go trick or treating, which the superintendent has forbidden. He also must overcome parental fears of "the river." As a result, he's fired. As he leaves the island for the last time, the children come out to see him leave, bringing along a record player on which they play the beginning movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as he leaves.
starz stream
- bill 10-27-2009 6:43 pm [add a comment]


I only ever tried to teach the kids not to say motherf**king n**ger in public and I never got me no damn record player. I've seen the film though and read the book. It is nice.
- jimlouis 10-27-2009 7:42 pm [add a comment]


In The Mood For Love
- steve 10-28-2009 2:12 am [add a comment]


  • available on netflix stream
    - steve 10-28-2009 2:13 am [add a comment]



ed likes this thread for their movie viewing ideas. also if any one wants to join a netflix group where you share your reviews and cues w/ me and ed lemme know.
- bill 11-09-2009 5:14 pm [add a comment]


Who's ed?
- steve 11-09-2009 5:35 pm [add a comment]


a friend of mine. hes house sitting for adman this week.
- bill 11-09-2009 5:39 pm [add a comment]


i very much enjoyed hobsons choice and ballad of a soldier. HC was a great period piece. both were great BW tones / film stock and camera angles with sweet stories. highly recommended.
- bill 11-11-2009 2:58 pm [add a comment]


hobsons choice links to a hawkwind vid.
- steve 11-11-2009 3:33 pm [add a comment]


fixed and this is what a hobsons choice is.
- bill 11-11-2009 3:41 pm [add a comment]


Sometimes it seems that male chauvinism can most simply be explained as compensation for an undeniable female superiority in all things (save perhaps football). Thus we have Alice Guy Blanché (1873-1968), a cosmopolitan young woman who went to work for film pioneer Léon Gaumont in Paris at age 21, made her own first film in 1896 and proceeded to write scripts, direct and produce films over a 20-year career. After her start in France, she got married (adopting her husband’s surname) and moved to the U.S., where she founded her own film studio, Solax, in Fort Lee, N.J. in 1910.

Not only is she obscure, but she is also that good, the legendary equation, as is proven by the film retrospective now unspooling at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A five-year labor-of-love by curator-at-large Joan Simon, the show presents about 80 films in five hour-long programs that repeat throughout the day, from 11 am to 5 pm.

imdb
- bill 11-17-2009 1:19 pm [add a comment]


If Bill Schwarz only queues up one movie this week, let it be--Anvil: the Story of Anvil
- jimlouis 1-22-2010 5:51 pm [add a comment]


that folding table mb bought appeared in steiner's apartment in la dolce vita. i was like wow!
- bill 1-22-2010 8:39 pm [add a comment]


that folding table mb bought appeared in steiner's apartment in la dolce vita. i was like wow!
- bill 1-22-2010 8:39 pm [add a comment]


that folding table mb bought appeared in steiner's apartment in la dolce vita. i was like wow!
- bill 1-22-2010 8:39 pm [add a comment]


uh oh.
- bill 1-22-2010 8:39 pm [add a comment]


You're supposed to wait until I say--what?
- jimlouis 1-23-2010 2:00 am [add a comment]


be here to love me. townes van zandt doc on hulu (i saw it on netflix too). gut wrenching. recommended if you can stand it.
- bill 3-11-2010 9:48 pm [add a comment]


Distant
- steve 3-12-2010 8:13 am [add a comment]


hollywood madam (doc '95) turned out pretty interesting. on hulu.
- bill 3-23-2010 9:39 pm [add a comment]


hollywood madam (doc '95) turned out pretty interesting. on hulu.
- bill 3-23-2010 9:39 pm [add a comment]


port of shadows **** french noir ca 1939. really fun!
- bill 8-06-2010 4:17 pm [add a comment]


Heya Guys

Are there any Blu-Ray/dvd

combo players?
I understand you can get dvd/vcr players. Are there any players which play both of those dvds and blu-rays that I can purchase rather than shopping two individual players?

All the best !

- Red Movie DVD (guest) 2-01-2011 12:10 am [add a comment]


In The Mood For Love
- steve 2-01-2011 1:44 am [add a comment]


Thank you very much for that magnificent article
- kran mostovoy (guest) 7-30-2011 1:50 pm [add a comment]


Had forgotten the name of Distant and the director, been wanting to watch it again.
Bill, any recommendations from the que?
- steve 7-30-2011 4:26 pm [add a comment]


providing you saw anvil already, off the top of my head i just saw some of two-gun man from harlem and josephine baker in princess tam tam on tcm.
- bill 7-30-2011 8:45 pm [add a comment]


unfortunately hulu outbid netflix for the rights to stream the criterion collection films.

the fighter and now winters bone are streaming on netflix. all four seasons of madmen just went up.

youve probably seen it but silvia was new to me.

other than streaming just watched submarine which is a bittersweet british indie coming of age comedy.
- dave 7-30-2011 9:53 pm [add a comment]


  • Haven't seen silvia. Yeah, hulu's streaming seems sucky compared to netflix and some criterion stuff on hulu has commercials. Complaints to their blog get them removed but it's pretty outrageous that they're there at all.
    - steve 7-31-2011 3:04 am [add a comment]



la dolce vita is only left streaming through the weekend.
- dave 7-31-2011 3:47 am [add a comment]


  • The character of Paparazzo, the news photographer (played by Walter Santesso) who works with Marcello, is the origin of the word paparazzi used in many languages to describe intrusive photographers.[32]The character of 'Paparazzo' is inspired by photojournalists Tazio Secchiaroli and Marcello Geppetti.[33]. As to the origin of the character's name itself, Fellini scholar Peter Bondanella argues that although "it is indeed an Italian family name, the word is probably a corruption of the word papataceo, a large and bothersome mosquito. Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, reports that he took the name from a character in a novel by George Gissing."[34] Gissing's character, Signor Paparazzo, is found in his travel book, By the Ionian Sea (1901).[6]
    - dave 8-01-2011 4:24 am [add a comment]


  • i found this pretty informative. though not universally well thought of.
    - bill 8-01-2011 1:19 pm [add a comment]



kind of an interesting movie, not great by any stretch but certainly a time capsule of california surburbia in 1975. in a way it reminded me of nashville which i believe was also 75 but it certainly was lacking the altman touch for better or worse. oh, its called smile and stars bruce dern and barbara felton. it satirizes the whirl surrounding a competition to become miss teen california. curious if anyone remembers it. i dont.

also, i happen to watch jj abrams super 8 yesterday which is set in 1979. the teens in that movie were nearly dead ringers for a trio in this one. i wonder if there are just archetypal characters for 70s teens. super 8, btw, is an imperfect movie but better than most summer dreck though i just may be a sucker for the nostalgia.
- dave 8-10-2011 7:01 am [add a comment]


kind of an interesting movie, not great by any stretch but certainly a time capsule of california surburbia in 1975. in a way it reminded me of nashville which i believe was also 75 but it certainly was lacking the altman touch for better or worse. oh, its called smile and stars bruce dern and barbara felton. it satirizes the whirl surrounding a competition to become miss teen california. curious if anyone remembers it. i dont.

also, i happen to watch jj abrams super 8 yesterday which is set in 1979. the teens in that movie were nearly dead ringers for a trio in this one. i wonder if there are just archetypal characters for 70s teens. super 8, btw, is an imperfect movie but better than most summer dreck though i just may be a sucker for the nostalgia.
- dave 8-10-2011 7:01 am [add a comment]


watching night moves possibly for the first time since my american new wave cinema class in college. stars gene hackman and directed by arthur penn who made bonnie and clyde which is often cited as the movie which broke through the deadwood of the hollywood studio system ushering in the era of new era of filmmaking before the blockbuster era washed it away. this movie is more conventional than b&c stylistically, and is saddled with a regrettable 70s score, but still holds up story-wise over time. i also happen to watch robert altman's the long goodbye which is a noirish detective story from the 50s. elliot gould is phillip marlowe. this movie though thoroughly set in the swinging 70s has gould very much playing a 50s style noir detective whereas hackman acts as a version of himself as he does in most roles but always well. i have a hard time taking gould seriously as hardboiled but sterling hayden, a veteran of 50s noir films, is great as a drunken washed up hemingwayesque figure. and both movies have some great location shots in southern california and the florida keys, two very noirish backdrops. neither movie was commercially successful.

both now streaming on netflix.
- dave 9-07-2011 3:42 am [add a comment]


  • the last third of night moves really distinguishes it. while its been coyly self aware of noirish behaviors throughout, it violently nods at bogart's key largo in its final act though with a more ambiguous resolution for the protagonist. but penn also finds time to comment on an era of voyeuristic gratuitous movie violence which he somewhat initiated perhaps with some regrets in bonnie and clyde. here we see a seen very similar to ones in b&c but stripped of its glamour. very cool, indeed.
    - dave 9-07-2011 5:25 am [add a comment]



Gerhard Richter Painting, good doc streaming on netflix
- steve 2-22-2013 10:09 am [add a comment]


Saw a couple of films written and directed by Tom Noonan, who is maybe best known as an actor, The Wife and What Happened Was. Pretty good movies with character driven scripts, the dark and moody sets and lighting served the pictures well. Kind of pushy writing though, the drama in The Wife felt particularly forced at times but both movies stuck with me for a few days. Both are streaming on netflix now.
- steve 2-22-2013 10:26 am [add a comment]


Netflix : From a NY Times review by A.O. Scott: "The rigors of life can grind you down. The rigor of art can have the opposite effect, and “The Turin Horse” is an example — an exceedingly rare one in contemporary cinema — of how a work that seems built on the denial of pleasure can, through formal discipline, passionate integrity and terrifying seriousness, produce an experience of exaltation. The movie is too beautiful to be described as an ordeal, but it is sufficiently intense and unyielding that when it is over, you may feel, along with awe, a measure of relief. Which may sound like a reason to stay away, but is exactly the opposite."

trailer
- bill 1-26-2014 5:52 pm [add a comment]


Went to see the great beauty on the big screen at the local art house. Recommended. Also watched Chico and Rita on Netflix. Feature length animation set in Pre revolution Havana also recommended.
- bill 2-19-2014 6:40 pm [add a comment]


  • im waiting on your review of the lego movie. if these outtakes are any indication, i think its really gonna click with the kids.


    - dave 2-19-2014 6:49 pm [add a comment]



25 Netflix documentaries
- bill 2-19-2014 10:18 pm [add a comment]