Video Streaming Recommendations (formerly known as recoomendations)
I recently signed up, and am enjoying the smorgasbord that is Netflix streaming.
I thought it might be good to have a thread where people can throw out recommendations (music or otherwise).
Here's my first two:
A Great Day in harlem - in interesting Jazz Documentary centered around a photo session of many of the Jazz greats which took place on a Harlem street in 1958.
Spectacle Elvis Costello With.... - interesting music/interview program hosted by music's most obsessive music geek.
I thought it might be good to have a thread where people can throw out recommendations (music or otherwise).
Here's my first two:
A Great Day in harlem - in interesting Jazz Documentary centered around a photo session of many of the Jazz greats which took place on a Harlem street in 1958.
Spectacle Elvis Costello With.... - interesting music/interview program hosted by music's most obsessive music geek.
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two music related ones I've loved recently are We Jam Econo (Minutemen) and 30 Century Man (Scott Walker).
Pushing Daisies.
Grey Gardens - doco about eccentric couple of Jackie kennedy relatives on the Bouvier side living in a dilapadated mansion somewhere in New England.
There is a Fela Kuti doco called Music is the Weapon, I have it in my queue but haven't watched.
Cocaine Cowboys is another good doco, highly dramatic story of the coke trade in and through Miami in the 80s.
If you like docos, I could go theyre mostly watch Ive watched on instant streaming.
Watched this last night. I liked it very much.
The Flaming Lips - The Fearless Freaks
Watched this a couple weeks ago. If you're interested in the Flaming Lips you should find it interesting.
Edit: Changed links to point to instantwatcher.com pages for specified movies. www.instantwatcher.com is a much better way to browse whats available to stream from Netflix and add stuff to your instant streaming queue to boot.
This is the order in which they were made, but for some reason "Oldboy" seems to have been the first to be released on DVD in the United States (and presumably Europe).
I recently watched Thirst - also directed by Park Chan-wook - TMT review.
Also really enjoyed Mother:
by Korean director Bong Joon-ho - TMT review.
I will have to check out the trilogy soon.
Please note that Hitchcock fans should stay far, far away from the terrible My Wife and My Dead Wife. which cynically steals the title of one of his best-known songs in the hopes of attempting to lure people into watching one of the most boring and insipid movies ever made.
But don't forget to check out Sex, Food, Death, and Insects, just in case you missed it on the Sundance Channel.
I can't remember if I mentioned Let the Right One In, but it'll make you forget about all of the crap vampire flicks that keep getting pumped out.
I'll toss this one out there. Low-budget, dark rom/com. Not horror at all. I imagine it was done by a group more used to stage productions, as it comes off as a filmed play. I'd be curious to hear what others think.
A Band Called Death
My Netflix rec is for "Still Bill" a documentary about the life and times of Bill Withers. Very powerful and interesting.
Man this thing had me crying when they showed Bill speaking to a group of kids who stutter (Bill Withers stuttered as a kid).
Anywhoo, I was looking for a link to the Netflix splash page and found a free Hulu Link to the full movie here enjoy.
Sunday night is "House of Cards" night in my house
Very recommended
Sorry about soaking up all the bandwidth
You paid for it. It's yours.
The Criterion Collection, which is at Hulu, as numerous documentaries about music, particularly Blues musicians. I'd also recommend one called Trances, concerning a group from Morocco.
Anyway, anyone seen Derek? Despite starring Ricky Gervais, it isn't quite a comedy or a drama. Somewhere in the middle. It's only seven episodes, but a season 2 is enroute.
"Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony"
It's a charming documentary. Not snarky, also not all fanboy either. Well, maybe kind of fanboy. I wasn't aware of this subculture at all. My wife had some of the ponies as a kid, and still loves anything that combines ponies and rainbows. Her mind was blown when she walked into the room and saw it on. She had just left the room previously because I was watching the series finale of Breaking Bad, and, well, there was plenty of violence. Fifteen minutes later, she re-entered the room, and there were two animated ponies on the screen saying something about cupcakes and 20% cooler.
In any event, aside from being introduced to another social group I'd been previously unaware of, I appreciated the challenges to what defines masculinity and the typically immediate ostracization of men who reveal any qualities that don't involve things like, well, the kinds of characteristics the dudes on Breaking Bad display.
For Star Trek TNG fans, the voice of the dragon Dischord is performed by the same dude that played Q on TNG... and, apparently, when the show's creators brought him in, they basically wanted him to be Q... just as a dragon is all.
This made me think about it and Breaking Bad is really pretty misogynistic; bad things happen to a lot of guys but most of them deserved it, or at least chose jobs where it was not unlikely. A lot of bad things happened to women who didn't do anything wrong.
The Star Wars Clone Wars series just showed up and I'm really enjoying them. Probably more than I "should" but whatever. I'm a sucker for Star Wars.