It’s brilliant. It’s also the most bizarre, most depressing, and least accessible of Kaufman’s movies, and that’s saying something. But if you’re a Kaufman fan, it’s a must. It’s the first one he’s directed, and when you see it you’ll know why he had to make this one himself.
Written by the same author who wrote the episode “Requiem for Methuselah” for the original Star Trek series, IIRC. Indeed, it’s basically the same premise.
Casablanca is available for instant viewing. I can’t say how often I’ve watched it without sounding like a shill. 
So is Groundhog Day, one of the better comedy movies to come along in the last 20 years.
There are lots of gems available by instant view, and more to come with the new Netflix/Warner Bros deal. 
*Slingblade *and Brokeback Mountain are both available on Instant View.
Haha! I was wondering. Not that I don’t doubt you could find some cinematic appreciation for either Jason Goes to Hell or for Ferngully, but that list seemed a bit unedited.
Didn’t see this mentioned anywhere yet. Here is a fantastic site. -
Much better at finding netflix on demand material to watch than the netflix site itself.
The whole series of *Cosmos *is available. I haven’t watched it yet, but I’ve always heard it’s phenomenal.
Four Minutes(Vier Minuten) in German with English subtitles.
It’s about a female German prisoner with prodigious piano skills and her contentious relationship with the prison’s piano teacher. The teacher’s back story is particularly interesting as she was a nurse in the German army during WWII.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that!
Great idea for a thread! Some of my favorites…
Movies I thought would be good, and were:
Treeless Mountain
Man on Wire
Movies that surprised me:
The King of Kong
Happy-Go-Lucky
Bolt
Let the Right One In
I mostly watch TV shows. 30 Rock, Weeds, and Heroes dominate my history list.
I am speechless. That is incredibly useful!
If you are a fan of This American Life (either radio or podcast), they have seasons 1 and 2 of their Showtime series on there.
I watched A Bridge Too Far on Netflix last night (via the ol’ PS3) … and I’ve got at least 15 MST3K’s in the queue to get through as well.
Here’s another site for streaming info. This one is for movies that will start playing in the future - http://streamingsoon.com/
I’ve been mostly using the streaming to watch films I haven’t seen in awhile. The last few were Gloria (the original), All the President’s Men, Birdy, and The China Syndrome. I also watch a lot of documentaries. They have the “Up” series available (Seven Up, 7 Plus Seven, 21 Up…) and I thought Helvetica and The Ritchie Boys were interesting. And I “discovered” 30 Rock. I’d never watched it and got hooked.
Slightly off topic, but… Has anyone else had a problem watching foreign films? All the ones I’ve tried to watch have had their subtitles cut off at the bottom of the screen. Only the top 2/3rds of the letters will show unless there’s more than one line, then the first line gets pushed up higher on the screen, so I can see it all, but the line under it is completely unreadable. I’ve watched a few films, but it takes more effort than I want to give to try to work out what’s being said. I have about 75 foreign films in my queue and I have a feeling that I’m never going to watch them because of this issue.
I only watched one foreign film via the instant feature (Let the Right One In) but I didn’t have trouble with the subtitles. One minor annoyance is that I have slight hearing loss and like to turn on captioning for some films (heavy dialects mostly) and I haven’t found a way to do that with the instant feature. Is that available?
Primer! Great movie but holly moses, I had to watch that movie four times before I figured out what was going on.
Watched Pan’s Labyrinth the other day, no subtitle issues.
I don’t know if it’s a must see, but I watched Neverwas via on demand netflix the other day, pretty good.
I just took a look at both Let the Right One In and Pan’s Labyrinth and got the same results as you guys = readable subtitles. They were both in HD though, so I’m wondering is that makes a difference, and Let the Right One in has a 2.35 aspect ratio, which I’m sure does make a difference. That gives me hope that there will be at least a few more I’ll be able to watch. And it’s nice that Let the Right One In actually has subtitles. The DVD is defaulted to the English dub for some reason; I’m glad they didn’t do the same with the streaming version.
You MUST SEE Oldboy, a magnificent Korean movie.
King of California and Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man. Both were spectacular, King of California is a Sundance with Michael Douglas at his best (IMHO). I never knew much about Nader’s Raiders, but it really gives you an overall portrait of the man himself, especially pre-2000.