Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

otm

great film, great art and one of the all time best punchline endings i can remember.

Weirdly enough, The Way Things Go is not the film you get when you try to watch it. (That wasn't a sentence.)

Hahaha, what the shit is going on with that!

craaaaazy, man

Watched Marwencol last night. Really really great. That one will stick with me for a while.

right? the punchline is just awesome.

Yeah, I want to know more about this guy now. Curious as to how the film and his exposure to NY might have changed him.

there was a piece in the times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/garden/07marwencol.html

also: new photos regularly!
http://www.marwencol.com/gallery/

awesome - thanks!

http://www.marwencol.com/storage/post-images/26_hitlerSuicide014_web.jpg

Marwencol is the first new movie to pop up on my Movies You'll Love page since forever

u guys

http://filmstripcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/The-Wizard.jpg

I saw that in the theater and held hands with a boy for the first time while doing so. It was awesome.

Is that Jenny Lewis?

Yep, it is.

26 Criterion titles expire on May 26

totally just watched Reality Bites
w my co-ladies of the 90s

but we are not actually gen x-ers. i think that as teens when this movie came out, it was like fantastical adulthood. but i was still like, troy dyer, get a grip.

still hot tho

watched a pretty good 60's girl groups doc from 1982 called, well, Girl Groups. interesting interviews with Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector and lots of live performances I hadn't seen before.

dear zachary... jesus fucking christ

like a hallmark card with a springloaded boxing glove inside

Just added that Girl Groups doc and was recommended another "instant only" title--Tom Waits' Big Time.

i disagree and thing the gg doc is largely worthless but ymmv

xp to robyn - omg that was our fave film of all time when me and my best girls were teenagers! and for exactly the same reason! but we loved troy and hated ben stiller's character. then i rewatched it last year for the first time since then and troy completely repulsed me. he's such a douche! like in every way! ugh

It's probably just the free aspect, but, in the way I streamed a bunch of Tony Scott action movies a few months ago, I just really enjoyed Salt.

yeah Salt was surprisingly watchable, my first Jolie flick! Big fan except when she looked like a bloated Ralph Macchio.

dear zachary... jesus fucking christ

like a hallmark card with a springloaded boxing glove inside

OTM – a big boxing glove that makes me cry & yell at the computer.

there was a lot of crying and yelling @ the television when we watched it last night

have gun will travel!

need more old tv westerns thanks.

i'm not a huge samurai/kurosawa fan but most of his stuff is expiring next tuesday, may try to take a stab at 7 samurai/rashomon this weekend.

Have you never seen Seven Samurai? It's a real important movie for me.

I tried once a few years ago, I'll give it another shot.

i tried viewing Rashomon on it the other day but the connection was crazy bad.

<3 <3 <3 Seven Samurai but already have the Criterion collection dvd /braggin

picked up that criterion blu ray a few weeks ago /HDbraggin

I recall really enjoying Yojimbo.

I too enjoyed Yojimbo. I think it's better than 7 Samurai.

Watched "The Parallax View" the other night. Don't know if it's as good as its recent reputation, but it's got good performances, great Gordon Willis cinematography and is weirdly loopy in places. But the "training film" in the movie is as amazing a piece of short filmmaking as I've ever seen.

Suspect Zero - pretty good mindless romp with Kingsley and Aaron Eckhart and the ever-boring Carrie Ann Moss squaring off. Commendable representation of concept of 'remote viewing' psyops - otherwise 'eh ...

Just saw how many Criterion are now missing. Netflix is basically turning into the equivalent of Starz - whu happpennndd?

Criterions are mostly on Hulu now.

Holy cow, that "Parallax View" thing is on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNMi8fXi5Os

i watched jacques audiard 'un prophète' on netflix instant not long ago - very good i thought

i've probably watched about twentyfive Kurosawa films and I think Ikiru and Seven Samurai are tops for me. Rashomon, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Hidden Fortress, all the genre flicks are great but Seven Samurai was the first ART movie I ever saw to leave a heavy imprint on my mind. I catch it about once every two years.

enjoying this right now. really interesting look inside maximum security prisons in the US.

My Beautiful Launderette, guys. so good.

It's Star Trek day.

letters from iwo jima
paper moon

is 200 motels worth watching

its a complete mess of a movie iirc but has its moments. your mileage will depend on how much you dig Zappa and OTT experimental/psychedelic film effects.