while I do not know exactly what the formula is for finding these high outliers peculiar to my town, I think this list is just prosaic, boring and predictable enough that it merits a question on ILE followed by 400+ posts
1. K Street: The Complete Series 2. The War Room 3. The Syrian Bride 4. Lumumba 5. The West Wing: Season 2 6. L'Auberge EspagnoleThe Spanish Apartment / Euro Pudding 7. The West Wing: Season 7 8. The Corner 9. The Page Turner - La Tourneuse de Pages 10. Good Bye, Lenin! 11. All the President's Men 12. The West Wing: Season 4 13. The Battle of AlgiersLa Battaglia di Algeri 14. Advise and Consent 15. The Fog of WarEleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara 16. The West Wing: Season 5 17. Bedrooms and Hallways 18. Sophie Scholl: The Final DaysSophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage 19. Croupier 20. The Boys of Baraka 21. Russian Dolls 22. The Wire: Season 3 23. Smiley's People 24. Paradise Now 25. The West Wing: Season 3
― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 February 2008 00:24 (seventeen years ago)
22. The Wire: Season 3
multiple people apparently on the same schedule as myself
― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 February 2008 00:25 (seventeen years ago)
Motherfuckers need some comedy in the National Swamp. Damn!
― B.L.A.M., Friday, 8 February 2008 00:58 (seventeen years ago)
Boston, MA
1. Southie 2. Return to Paradise 3. Black Irish 4. Next Stop Wonderland 5. Before Sunrise 6. Out of Africa 7. Nip/Tuck: Season 2 8. The Jazz Singer 9. Gangs of New York 10. Kids
― jessie monster, Friday, 8 February 2008 01:06 (seventeen years ago)
I think comedy is less likely to show up in these since there's very little comedy that has a particular geographic or professionally specific bent
― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 February 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)
if something is rented by everybody all over the place, netflix doesn't show it as a "local" favorite
hence little documentaries and weird artsy/foreign stuff showing up
― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 February 2008 01:09 (seventeen years ago)
Brooklyn New York 1. A Life Apart: Hasidism in America 2. Crooklyn 3. Downtown 81 4. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 5. A Woman Is a Woman 6. Weekend 7. The Five Obstructions 8. Masculin Feminin 9. Hannah and Her Sisters 10. Le Petit Soldat 11. New York (the Ken Burns one) 12. Dave Chapelle's Block Party 13. Panic in Needle Park 14. Brooklyn Lobster 15. The Passenger
― dmr, Friday, 8 February 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)
that brooklyn list makes me feel better about the DC list
― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 February 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)
Honolulu, HI
1. Samoan Wedding 2. Shanghai Kiss 3. Shinobi 4. Ping Pong 5. Train Man: Densha No Otoko 6. American Pastime 7. The Hidden Blade 8. Journey from the Fall 9, The Twilight Samurai 10. UFC 74: Respect
― Super Cub, Friday, 8 February 2008 01:33 (seventeen years ago)
if someone made a film about a self-obsessed politically active gay drug addict it would own this town.
1. Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock 2. Romantico 3. Sucker Free City 4. Following Sean 5. Colma: The Musical 6. 24 Hours on Craigslist 7. The Bridge 8. World's Most Dangerous Drug 9. I Am a Sex Addict 10. The Times of Harvey Milk 11. Manufacturing Dissent 12. The House on Telegraph Hill 13. The Great Happiness Space 14.Eternal Summer 15. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 16. The Vice Guide to Travel 17. Time 18. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 3 19. Dark Blue Almost Black 20. Le Petit Lieutenant 21. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill 22. The Streets of S.F.: Season 1: Vol. 1 23. Film Noir Collection: D.O.A. 24. Small Town Gay Bar 25. Jonestown: The Life.... of Peoples Temple
― Cosmo Vitelli, Friday, 8 February 2008 03:16 (seventeen years ago)
Madison, WI:
1. Wisconsin Death Trip 2.Chalk 3.Hannibal 4.The Best of the Colbert Report 5.Boys Don't Cry 6.Veronica Mars: Season 1 7.Everything's Cool 8.The Real Dirt on Farmer John 9. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 10.Good Bye, Lenin!
― Jordan, Friday, 8 February 2008 03:23 (seventeen years ago)
24. Small Town Gay Bar
I saw this the other night on IFC. Pretty interesting doc.
Hey - Run South Pasadena, CA
― B.L.A.M., Friday, 8 February 2008 03:25 (seventeen years ago)
Local Favorites 1. Outing Riley 2. The Lair 3. East Side Story 4. Eating Out 5. That Touch of Mink 6. 200 American 7. Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds 8. West Side Story 9. A Room with a View: Special Edition 10. Dante's Cove: Season 2 11. Glengarry Glen Ross 12. Damages: Season 1 13. Life Support 14. 24: Season 3 15. Another Gay Movie
― milo z, Friday, 8 February 2008 03:34 (seventeen years ago)
top four are gay indies, fifth is a Doris Day/Cary Grant joint
Dallas: way way way gayer than I thought
― milo z, Friday, 8 February 2008 03:36 (seventeen years ago)
gotta find someone who's there, you just get your own local based on the zip code
― dmr, Friday, 8 February 2008 03:38 (seventeen years ago)