Just got Netflix------need some good movies to watch

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Well thanks you all. I do have a lot to go with now.

Thought I’d give one back to you that I just rented from Netflix.

“Duel”-----a made for TV movie from 1972. With Dennis Weaver.

I saw it originally in 72 on TV. Blew me away at the time. (Back then made for TV movies really, really sucked)

Anyway I rented it to see if it was still as good as I remember, and it was. And SURPRISE -----it was directed by Steven Spielberg—his first movie. No wonder it was so good.

Part of the add-ons to the DVD was an interview with Spielberg. He was limited to a shooting schedule of less than 2 weeks, and a budget of $150,000.—Amazing what he managed to do with such constraints.

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J.T. (1969)
Night Gallery (1969)
My Sweet Charlie (1970)
A Storm in Summer (1970)
Tribes (1970)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
All the Way Home (1971)
The Snow Goose (1971)
Brian’s Song (1971)
The Night Stalker (1972)
Gargoyles (1972)
That Certain Summer (1972)
The Glass House (1972)
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
A Case of Rape (1974)
The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
Born Innocent (1974)

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  • Mulholland Drive
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Buffalo '66
  • Short Cuts
  • Box of Moon Light
  • Sweet and Lowdown
  • Welcome to the Dollhouse
  • The Ice Storm
  • Midnight Cowboy
  • Barton Fink
  • Midnight Express
  • Adaptation
  • Maria, full of grace
  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
  • Sideways
  • Pieces of April
  • What Alice Found
  • Swimming Pool
  • The Kid Stays in the Picture
  • Sex and Lucia
  • My Own Private Idaho
  • The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover
  • Flirting with Disaster
  • Ghost World
  • Muriel’s Wedding
  • Another Day in Paradise
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I see nobody has suggestd Iris yet. I thought it was really good. I’d also recommend The Pianist.

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Anyone else ever seen The Duelists? First feature film Ridley Scott directed, with a couple of Napoleonic army officers (one of them, Harvey Keitel’s character, being a bit of a nut.) fighting a reoccuring duel over the course of a couple of decades.