Hey DU - help me fill my NetFlix queue!

[Wickerman]

For Valentines Day my wonderful wife gave me a subscription to NetFlix! Its been a three year break and I got a lotta movie watching to make up for. I need some suggestions for film I might have missed.

I love indie film, some foreign, off-beat stuff. Not much into horror or action-adventure.

Oh, we watched Goodbye, Lenin this weekend, great stuff. Mom falls into a coma before the fall of the Berlin wall, awakens a decade after. Dr warns son that a shock of this sort could send her back into coma or worse. Son recreates a small compartment of pre-capitalistic Germany - to a pretty hilarious end. A must see.

Here is what is in my queue so far, suggest similar or expand my horizons:

While You Were Sleeping

Fitzcarraldo

Northfork

Lovely and Amazing

Elephant

All the Real Girls

Before Sunrise

Before Sunset

Coffee and Cigarettes

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Under the Sun

Tell me some other stuff!

[LoZoccolo]

1. /Style Wars/

It's an early-80s documentary about hip-hop culture, especially grafitti.

http://www.stylewars.com

[Wickerman]

5. That sounded great

and worth watching. Then I realized it was an old PBS piece that I saw in '83. It was great and I think I will watch again with a historical perspective. Good suggestion -thanks!

[Badger1]

2. Train Spotting

[Wickerman]

7. Might be worth watching again

Wonder if there is a directors cut? Don't know if I can watch the toilet scene again...

[ClassWarrior]

3. Bollywood Hollywood. A charming, funny love story done in the style...

...of Indian "Bollywood" films. The musical sequences are wonderful!

NGU.

[Wickerman]

8. Good one

I've heard good stuff about that one.

:thumbsup:

[GCP]

4. "Shallow Grave"

"The Wicker Man"

"Croupier"

"Sexy Beast"

"The Fog of war"

"The War Room"

"Pi"

I'm sure I could think of more, but my brain's frozen!

[PassingFair]

9. Can you get Croupier?

I haven't been able to get it at blockbuster.

[GCP]

31. Netflix has it, I just checked

:)

[Wickerman]

11. Croupier sounds cool

That's on the list - thanks!

Oddly, I own Wickerman. :)

Pi is worth another watch. The political movies have to be added soon.

:thumbsup:

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Red. Blue. White.

Those are three different movies, but done by the same director whose name escapes me.

Eat Drink Man Woman.
Chocolat.
The Road Home.

[Wickerman]

14. I love the RWB series.

and my first experience with Juliette Binoche. Loved Chocolat, and Road Home sounds wonderful. We have interest in Chinese culture in our family so great suggestion - I added it to the list!

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. Juliette is so wonderful!

I just saw her in something else recently - was she in Hotel Rwanda, perhaps? Or Finding Neverland? I can't remember.

I have a number of other great Chinese movies, and for the life of me, I can't remember the name of any of them.

Oh, wait - Tampopo! Though that is Japanese.

I like movies about food.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Farewell My Concubine is another great one

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Pillow Talk - another good one

[Wickerman]

26. Some great ideas

Rbrrr. And Juliette's eyes slay me - plus, she can act. :thumbsup:

[Don Claybrook]

10. The Station Agent, In America, A Home at the End of the World

I liked all three of these, and they seem to fit your criteria.

Oh, and if you like Jim Jarmusch, try Stranger Than Paradise. Or Fishing With John (Lurie), which features a Jim Jarmusch segment.

Have you seen Lost in Translation?

[Wickerman]

15. Don, you have some great taste in movies

I loved the Station Agent, Stranger than Paradise was fantastic. Haven't seen Fishing with John, sounds good. And yeah, Lost in Translation - I'm one of those who loved it.

When I looked up A Home at the End of the World I thought I had seen it before, but realised that Robin Wright Penn's husband wasn't in this - I was thinking of She's so Lovely. This one, same theme, sounds better. Thanks!

[bettyellen]

12. have fun, i love netflix!

tha cameraman's revenge and other tales

in the mood for love

chungking express

all abot my mother

tie me up, tie me down

talk to her

l'atalante

amarcord

rules of the game

the lady vanishes

american:

the lady eve

ball of fire

sullivan's travels

all that heaven allows

apocolypse now redux

[Wickerman]

16. Thanks Bettyellen

you've given me a bunch to look up, I've seen chungking express, , and tie me up, tie me down, and talk to her.

The description of all about my mother sounds wild. I love pregnant nun stories!

Is all that Heaven allows the Wyman film? I think I saw that years ago.

[bettyellen]

32. you're welcome.... believe it or not "all about my mother is one of his

most sentimental films. that's my fave aldomovar. live flesh is teriffic to.. javier bardem is awsome in that.

all that heaven allows is by the director that inspired ummm, that great julianne moore/ dennis quid movie where her life unravels because her husband is gay. seeing it in that context is pretty interesting. i'm not sure actress or directors names though. he has done a couple of other films that are sort of lurid technicolor moralizing 50's vibe that speaks to the american puritan mindset and the hipocracy involved.
cameraman's revenge, or any starewisz really are amazing old stop motion animations dealing with lust, greed, demons, gambling, false idoltry... not for kids. his gorgeous imagery has been ripped off by cocteau, welles, tim burton and speilberg.
camerman is about an adulturous love triangle of insects. you have to see the dragonfly do her sexy dance to believe it. and not just becasue yes, he used real insects. take a look.

http://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/STARE/stare1.htm

[tanyev]

13. Saving Grace--hilarious

The Castle
The Dish
The Road Home

Netflix is great. I too love indie and foreign films but if they even make it to my town they are only in the theater for a few days and I don't get out to the movies often enough to catch them all.

[Wickerman]

17. wow

those were all excellent suggestions. I am going to check out each. Saving Grace sounds like a blast!

[arwalden]

20. Sordid Lives

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204640/

FROM IMDB:

A black comedy about white trash.

They're all connected... whether they like it or not!

We become intimate with the "Sordid Lives" of a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette, the sister and her best friend (who live in delightfully kitschy homes), and the two daughters (one strait-laced and one quite a bit looser).

[Wickerman]

23. Sounds right up my alley, Allen

can't belive I've never seen it.

[arwalden]

28. I Discovered It FOUR Years After Its Release...

... it was a successful play, and most of the original stage cast returned for the movie. The storyline is hysterical... the cast is amazing.

The actor who plays Earl (the Tammy Wynette impersonator) is also well known for his role of Bevery Leslie (Karen's Southern-drawled nemisis) on Will & Grace.

What I also found amuzing is that for each character, there's SOMEBODY in my family (or a close family friend) that the character could have been based on.

-- Allen

Olivia Newton-John .... Bitsy Mae Harling
Kirk Geiger .... Ty Williamson
Sarah Hunley .... Juanita Barlett
Newell Alexander .... Wardell 'Bubba' Owens
Beau Bridges .... G.W. Nethercott
Earl Houston Bullock .... Odell Owens (as Earl H. Bullock)
Beth Grant .... Sissy Hickey
Delta Burke .... Noleta Nethercott
Leslie Jordan .... Earl 'Brother Boy' Ingram
Mitch Carter .... Bumper
Bonnie Bedelia .... Latrelle Williamson
Sharron Alexis .... Sara Kaufman
Ann Walker .... LaVonda DuPree
Mary Margaret Lewis .... Ethel
Rosemary Alexander .... Dr. Eve Bolinger

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

22. Academy Award winners

About this time last year, I decided to watch every "Best Picture" winner (that I hadn't already seen).

Which begs the question, What were they smoking when they gave "Best Picture" to "The English Patient?" Christ, what a stinker!

[Wickerman]

24. yep

never made it all the way thru it.

and the best picture idea is good. Starting with Wings, which is a good film.

[LynneSin]

25. Here's my Queue

But don't go by the order. I know these are the movies I want to see but the top 3 usually change for whatever mood I happen to be in

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Way We Were

Metropolis

Super Size Me

Like Water for Chocolate

Boogie Nights

Rabbit-Proof Fence

The Station Agent

Collateral

Vanilla Sky

Cinema Paradiso: Director's Cut

Antonia's Line

Luther

To Kill a Mockingbird

Hearts and Minds

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Killing Fields

The Insider

Chocolat

The Last Emperor

Iris

Trainspotting: Collector's Edition

Max

Dark Days

Belle Epoque

Maria Full of Grace

Dirty Pretty Things

Rashomon

Ran: Masterworks Edition

Seven

I, Robot

The Chronicles of Riddick

Ray

M

Battleship Potemkin

The Bicycle Thief

Deliverance

Ran

The Door in the Floor

The Human Stain

Wild Strawberries

The Passion of Joan of Arc

[Wickerman]

27. Some great suff on that list

Let me know how Wild Strawberries is - I will getting that eventually. Sounds a bit more "real" that I want for now.

You will love Robbit Proof Fence and the Human Stain. Watch the comentary on the Door in the Floor. An interesting take on Widow for a year.

Gave me a lot to consider - great taste!

M
Bicycle Thief
Rashomon
- classics!

[LynneSin]

29. Wild Strawberries may be getting bumped along with Rashomon

That list is the order I have on my Queue, but the current 3 movies I have, Devil's Playground (Documentary about Amish Teens gone wild), The Mission and Amadeus were just last minute choices of what I wanted to see for my next batch.

Usually when I ship in my 3 DVDs, I check my queue out and decide what movies I want to see next and order them as such.

Netflix RULES!!!

[Adams Wulff]

30. I loved these...

Amelie
Henry and June
Waking Ned Divine
Anything from MST3K
Frida
Calendar Girls
Billy Elliot

Have Fun!