Where Do You Get Your Movies?

used to have a netflix subscription, ditched it recently because school interferes somewhat with watching movies and not being currently employed, i don't exactly have $18/month to fritter away now. in its absence, the NYU library is proving to be a more than valuable replacement (watching richard kern films in the avery fisher center = classic).

oh, and i download stuff occasionally, but usually only stuff that's hard to find and when my computer space allows it (baby doll, russ meyer films, all that asian cinema that's hard to come by in the states, etc.)

NYU library....you lucky little bastard :)

The thing I miss most about college is having access to good experimental works. No matter how great my love of avant-garde cinema is, I still find it difficult to shell out $30 for a VHS copy of a 3-minute film from the Video Data Bank.

I've been contemplating joining Netflix for awhile--those of you using it, do you think it's worth it? Can you get hard-to-find stuff through them?

Scarecrow Video. If you aren't drooling immediately after walking in the store... Their rental stock is searchable via internet, and that should give you an excellent idea of how, uh, excellent it is. They just published the Scarecrow Video Movie Guide last month - huge-ass review book.

There is a Netflixesque service for hard-to-find stuff, appropriately called Nicheflix. Haven't tried them, so...

I checked out the Scarecrow Video website.
Did a search for experimental films.
It pulled up several hundred.

**sporting major film chubb**

Several of my friends use Netflix. I hear mixed things about it. Most of them think the selection's pretty good. Of course, they were previously used to blockbuster, so take this with a grain of salt? Anyway, when I was looking into it, the biggest problems seemed to be an abundance of stratched DVD's (pertaining to newer releases, mostly) and scattered complaints about older customers getting shafted to please newer ones. They have a free trial, so you could always try it out if you wanted to.

Anything, I'm in the same boat as joseph. Unemployed, in school, little money. The library here has a pretty good collection and it's free, so I mostly use that. I rented "The Bank Dick" from there yesterday. It's no NYU library, though..

I download some occasionally. Unfortunately, since the RIAA lawsuits, the school here has become serious about cracking down on uploaders; since I used a variant of bittorrent, which necessitates uploading, I don't do it as much.

Every now and then I'll e-bay it. Today, actually, I bought four Kino edition Keaton DVD's for $35. Luckily, I've got a scholarship that pays for most of the expenses here, so I usually have a bit of money to do something with each month.

I don't know of any good video places around here, so nothing along those lines.

Netflix mainly. I hate returning movies. There are some pretty good video stores here in town, Speciality Video and Odd Obsession, but I don't make it to them very often.