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Netflix Instant; Gently down the stream...
Topic Started: Oct 8 2012, 11:46 AM (1,817 Views)
Russ
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If loving the new wave of big-budget Tollywood (and Bollywood) productions is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Makkhi (aka Eega) is currently playing on Netflix and is more fun than it has any right to be. It's also mind-blowingly insane.


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So Rach and I are in this new little Bagel restaurant that a friend's son has opened in my hometown, and it's a really cool place with great food, and they also have a few theme nights. The night we're there it's "Vinyl Night" (bring in a vinyl record and they'll play it while you eat). There are a few 20-something guys who appear to be manning the record player, and they start playing this great 60s-sounding soul song, which I presume to be some lost hit, b-side or album cut by somebody like Bobby Womack. Turns out it's Charles Bradley's 2013 album, "Victim of Love." I heard about half the album before the place closed, and it was awesome.

I've never heard of Bradley before, and the only mention I could find of him in our forum was a song he did that placed in the low 40s on Martin's "Best of the Aughts" list in our thread of that name.

One of the guys said there was a documentary about Bradley streaming on Netflix, and indeed there is: Charles Bradley: Soul of America (2012). It played South by Southwest, but I don't know if it had a theatrical release. It's not in the db yet.

Anyway, I bring it up because I'm sure interested in it, and I can't imagine that Russ won't be.
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Russ
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I'm on it. Thanks.
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.
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YancySkancy,Oct 20 2013
02:30 PM
Charles Bradley

My brother-in-law gave me Bradley's 2011 album No Time for Dreaming a few months back. Would reco that one as well.
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Though I continue to be miffed that Netflix is lacking in classics (despite such recent adds as All About Eve, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and, um, The Two Jakes), it still offers some promising stuff. Recent adds to my queue:

To the Wonder
Computer Chess
Bellflower
Blancanieves
L'Iceberg
Let It Rain
Wake in Fright
Pistol Opera
Camp
Colma: The Musical (saw part of this once on TV; it looked really inventive and charming)

Also interested in Company, a recorded staging of Sondheim's musical, starring Raul Esparza (I thought of you, Karim, 'cause you dig him on SVU, right?).

Thought of you again, Karim, while watching episode 1 of a French TV procedural titled Spiral. I enjoyed it, though possibly because the fresh (to me) setting made it feel a little less generic. A couple of oddly over-the-top directorial choices (particularly at the end of the episode) were jarring, and be warned that the crime scene stuff is even more explicit than the CSI shows (the corpse discovered in the opening scene is a fully nude woman who's been mutilated, and the subsequent autopsy scene is even more unflinching). I like the actors and the set-up is interesting, but I'll have to watch another before I decide whether to stick with it.
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YancySkancy,Dec 6 2013
10:30 PM
Also interested in Company, a recorded staging of Sondheim's musical, starring Raul Esparza (I thought of you, Karim, 'cause you dig him on SVU, right?).


I haven't watched SVU in years! In fact, I had no idea that Esparza was a regular.

I LOVE that version of Company. I watch the YouTube clip of "Being Alive" regularly.
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Aaron
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I found this website that is helpful for searching for titles in consensus lists:

http://www.instantwatchdb.com

Although I agree that the classic selections are lacking.
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Karim Amir,Dec 7 2013
08:16 AM
YancySkancy,Dec 6 2013
10:30 PM
Also interested in Company, a recorded staging of Sondheim's musical, starring Raul Esparza (I thought of you, Karim, 'cause you dig him on SVU, right?).


I haven't watched SVU in years! In fact, I had no idea that Esparza was a regular.

I LOVE that version of Company. I watch the YouTube clip of "Being Alive" regularly.

That is so weird -- I would swear you made a comment somewhere about liking Esparza on SVU. Now I'm wondering who it was. It was probably someone else here, but you're always the first person that springs to mind when a procedural is mentioned. :)
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I've definitely talked about Esparza before, here and on FB. He was on a couple episodes of this show called A Gifted Man, but I don't really associate him being a television actor. (Not that there's anything wrong with that...;))

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YancySkancy,Dec 7 2013
01:30 AM
To the Wonder

I've come to the conclusion that I prefer the 2013 Michael Bay film to the 2013 Terrence Malick film - by a rather large margin. Other than a recent rewatch of Badlands (great as ever) - it has been a down Malick year for me - saw Pocket Money last week - the 1972 Paul Newman/Lee Marvin contemporary Western that Malick scripted - and while it's odd and shaggy - it's also very mediocre.

Glad to see you have Wake in Fright on your list - that one's lingered with me so much I ordered the Blu-ray.
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The Gambler (1974) is only around until the first, for anyone interested in catching it before the '74 lists are due shortly down the line
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Continental Op,Dec 30 2013
01:48 AM
The Gambler (1974) is only around until the first, for anyone interested in catching it before the '74 lists are due shortly down the line

I might do that, considering I haven't seen the film since its original release (at a drive-in, at that).
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Aaron
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A lot of titles are expiring.

http://www.avclub.com/article/netflix-to-h...olutions-106678
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dissent,Dec 30 2013
04:49 PM

Amazingly, the only expiring titles in my queue are Vidor's War and Peace, and a couple that I've already seen over the years but wanted to see again (wanted Rachel to see Roman Holiday, for instance).
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Some recent adds to my queue:

Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt
Ji-woon Kim's The Last Stand
David Chase's Not Fade Away
David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche
Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio
Sebastian Silva's Crystal Fairy
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