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Netflix Instant; Gently down the stream...
Topic Started: Oct 8 2012, 11:46 AM (1,815 Views)
YancySkancy
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I can understand not keeping Netflix Instant for catalog titles. As we have found when doing our Ripe and Round lists, it has very few options once you go back a few years. But I currently have about 130 films in my queue, and I've binge-watched lots of series in the last several months, including House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, The Killing, The Rockford Files, The Fall, Spiral, etc., and I recently started Bojack Horseman. So I can't say I'm not getting my money's worth, even if my viewing is lighter in some months than others.

We also have Amazon Prime, but can only view it on our Smart TV, which IL uses for video games and whatnot, so I rarely get to access that. I may eventually get a Roku box for the other TV for that purpose.
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I really enjoyed Netflix Instant when it first launched - they weren't spending much money on the catalog so it only had the really old, really cheap, mostly forgotten titles. The kind of stuff that probably isn't on DVD and if it was it would be stuck in the $2 bin somewhere. It was wonderful.
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I really enjoyed Netflix Instant when it first launched - they weren't spending much money on the catalog so it only had the really old, really cheap, mostly forgotten titles.  The kind of stuff that probably isn't on DVD and if it was it would be stuck in the $2 bin somewhere.  It was wonderful.

I'm currently going through Netflix's back catalogue of Edward L Cahn movies and - God help me - I love them. Real z-movie stuff, but his efficiency is terrific - within ten minutes you absolutely need to know what happens (even if its obvious!) and all the really blatant deficiencies, like his insistence on framing dialogue scenes like they're happening on an ultra-narrow stage, just melt away and I'm hooked.
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Here's a link to a list of Instant titles going away on Nov. 1st:

http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/these-are-t...om-netflix.html

Only a few are in my queue, mostly ones I've seen. But I may try to squeeze in another look at Breezy and The Conqueror Worm. I'm glad I caught For a Few Dollars More for the '65 Ripe and Round a couple of weeks back. Looks like several Francis Ford Coppola related titles are getting the boot (Apocolypse Now [also Redux], One from the Heart, Tetro and two he produced, The Escape Artist and Hammett).

I'd suggest checking out George Armitage's Vigilante Force (1976) before it goes, if you dig small town crime dramas like I do. I've referred to it as "hick town Phenix City Story," so if you watched that one for the '55 Ripe and Round, you might find this one of interest, too.
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Los Angeles Plays Itself has just been added!
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Titles expiring tomorrow, Dec. 1, as well as a bunch that are being added in Dec.:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/are-...december-752465

I've worked in re-watches of Five Easy Pieces and Double Indemnity, may squeeze in a first look at Event Horizon, maybe a re-watch of Minnie and Moskowitz.
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Coming in December:

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Stoked for that one! He chatted about it on Letterman (I'm such a broken record this week) recently, apparently Paul Shaffer is a part of it.
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Who was it that accused me of being the Wachowski's biggest fanboy recently? (was that you, kid c? ...or maybe Conty?)

Irregardless..

Their new Netflix original series, Sense8 is exactly like their films (but with a twist): too many story-lines, some really bad dialogue, a mish-mash of para-psychic mystery, but gosh-darn if it isn't the most perfect blend of tacky trash and fucking * HELL YEAH * entertainment to come down the pike in many a moon.

Part of the fun is seeing just how epic a scope they try to attain with this material (and believe me, it's ginormous), and then watching how it is visualized on-screen (The first episode may not impress, but all the rest should have you hooked and coming back for more. Not in any kind of an intellectual way, mind you, but in a distinctively Wachowskian way, and believe me, they have thrown any perceived studio shackles far, far to the wind. This is the gayest, transgenderist, poly-sexualist, trans-racialist series to ever rear its pretty little head on cable tv.

And it stars LOST's Naveen Andrews as someone on the run from shadowy government forces who serves (thus far) as the series' source of narrative exposition.

I won't say that there aren't problems with it. But I will say that there is absolutely NOTHING like it on television, and for that you should be eternally grateful.

Truly a global affair: per the amazing cross-continental narrative - each week's on-location shooting feature London, Nairobi, Berlin, Chicago, Iceland, Mexico City, Mumbai, San Francisco, and Seoul.

A great guilty pleasure, this one.
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HARD TO BE A GOD and LI'L QUINQUIN have both made it to Netflix Instant.

In case people haven't heard about it, LI'L QUINQUIN is Bruno Dumont's four part TV series about a series of mysterious (and gross) murders that happen in a small provincial town. I've only seen the first episode (on Netflix it's how it was screened theatrically in one long film, but there are intertitles with the episode names, so you can watch it like a series), and I'm not quite sure about it yet. It's comic in tone, which is fine in light doses, but there's a long scene played for laughs which is so fucking painfully unfunny it made me incredibly embarrassed to be watching something of such poor quality. I can't remember the last time that happened!
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OMG OMG OMG

Mr. Show is back!
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Animation alert:

In addition to Masaaki Yuasa's recent masterpiece, Mind Game, Netflix also added both of Studio 4°C's Genius Party films, and they are both highly recommended.

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Thanks, Russ! Love those images
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So, when I was browsing through Netflix's New Release section, about the last thing I expected to come across was Rivette's Out 1, in eight installments. But there it was.
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The latest wrinkle in the veritable shar pei that is Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind:

http://www.wellesnet.com/netflix-in-talks-...de-of-the-wind/

As always with such efforts, we'll believe it when we see it. But it does sound at least a tad promising.
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