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Punch Drunk Love, Catch me if you Can, both really good big movies. All the rest I would recommend Netflix probabaly won't have. hmm, maybe Human Nature? (Micheal Gondy is god)
But if you get a chance, check out these as well:
RUSSIAN ARK. Greatest movie ever. 90 minutes... one take. Beautiful and full of Russian history.
WONDERFUL DAYS. From Korea, some of the best animation I've EVER SEEN. It'll be hard to get, unless your DVD player is region fee... but try and see this... you won't regret it.
I'm a animation/film major that works at a video store. i have tons of other recommendations. Oh yeah, if you haven't seen Amelie, Spirited Away, or Citizen Kane... you might want to see those as well... heh.
Posted by Psychomelody at January 7, 2004 09:49 AM
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American Splendor.
I'm really not a movie buff, so that's
about the only movie I've seen worth
watching at all last year.
Posted by John at January 7, 2004 10:22 AM
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Already seen "Wonderful Days," and I've gotta agree with you. I've read the book "Catch Me if You Can" was based on, kind of incredible.
"Amelie," "Spirited Away," seen 'em too. but I added all the rest to the queue. Thanks a lot, guys....
Posted by spike at January 7, 2004 10:25 AM
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blargh. couple more..
Millenium Actress
Perfect Blue
Minority Report
The Count of Monte Cristo
From Hell
American Psycho
A.I.
Proof of Life
..although I don't doubt you've seen
many of these already. Worth a shot.
Posted by John at January 7, 2004 10:39 AM
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From a fellow Netflix junkie:
American Movie
Grave of the Fireflies
His Girl Friday
French Connection
City of Lost Children
Seventh Curse
Posted by Bill at January 7, 2004 11:21 AM
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American Splendor, definitely. Also try to check out the Castle. It's an Australian flick I think you'll enjoy. Plus, there's always Seasons 1-5 of the Family Guy ;)
Posted by Zack at January 7, 2004 11:51 AM
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Try out these movies, They were sleepers and I never would have heard, no less watched them. I had a good friend who forced me to watch them. & they are damn good.
Boondock Saints
Which covers 2 brothers fight against the mob (its funny violent & quirky)
Wasabi
A French film by the same guy who ceated the 5th Element. It's quite possibly the greatest French-Language, English-subtitled, Japanese action-comedy. Course it's the only one I've ever heard of.
Stars Luc Besson
Posted by Tom at January 7, 2004 12:47 PM
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Sorry, a slight mistake, It doesn't star Luc Besson (he's the creator) It stars Jean Reno
Posted by Tom at January 7, 2004 12:53 PM
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I warn you now, some of these I recommend because they're good movies, and others I recommend cuz they're brainfucks.
Whalerider - Just damn cool.
Chocolat - Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp... and that chick that plays Trinity in the Matrix but looking like a woman for once
Casablanca the extended edition
Bend it like Beckam - (hey I liked it)
Meet the Feebles (it's a Peter Jackson flick)
Paradise Road - Made awhile ago, movie about some women captured by the Japanese during WWII and put in a sort of concentration camp. Pretty fucking bleak.
The Pianist - if you HAVEN'T seen it you SHOULD.
Anything Jean Cocteau (his short films are cah-razy...I seriously wonder if Svankmajer was inspired by him)
Sex and Zen - for its outrageousness
Posted by Karen K. at January 7, 2004 01:22 PM
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If you haven't seen em already....
Anime-
Akira
BubbleGum Crisis Tokyo 2040
Serial Experiments Lain
Chance Pop Session [anime about wannabe pop stars :) It's quite cute, melodramatic, and fun]
Haibane Renmei
Revolutionary Girl Utena
[i checked, they have em, and lot's more too....]
Scary but True
They have Saved by the Bell, Season 1 and 2
Posted by Andre at January 7, 2004 02:32 PM
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Pi
Dogma
Anything MST3k Related
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Posted by Rich at January 7, 2004 03:42 PM
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I LOVE (and own) Carnival of Souls so you can trust me now. Sort of.
Run Lola Run - German Art House Action Film.
The Sweet Hereafter - Slow, sad, unforgettable
Fight Club - Way underrated
Boogie Nights - Altman on Crystal Meth
O' Brother Where Art Thou - Beautiful, Funny, Insane -- includes Sirens, Cyclops and Horny Toads
Better Luck Tomorrow - Fear cute asian guys AND Orange County. A fascinating sharp, uncategorizable movie.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - I met him! He looks like Ron Rege
Donnie Brasco - Depp's Best
DONNIE DARKO!! - I, I, I... Words fail.
Ed Wood - Depp's other best.
Watch them and you will thank me.
Or curse me.
Or both.
Posted by Scott M at January 7, 2004 04:00 PM
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I can tell you folks have taste, because we've already seen and loved a whole lot of the stuff you're suggesting. So I'm ordering a whole lot of the stuff we -haven't- heard of right now. Thanks!
But you know, even though I'm a big Chow Yun-Fat fan, I'd never heard of The Seventh Curse before Bill recommended it. It looks hugely, retardedly fun, but I think I'd end up watching it alone...
Posted by Matt at January 7, 2004 05:00 PM
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Lord of the Rings
Don't know if you enjoy musicals, but both Chicago and Mulan Rouge were great visually...and very enjoyable.
I second the O Brother Where Art Thou, Bend it Like Becham, Minority Report, and Dogma suggestions...but other than the Jay and Silent Bob movies stay away from anything with Ben Affleck in it. (Ok Shakespeare in Love was good, but he wasn't in it much).
Have fun!
Posted by Jeff at January 7, 2004 07:53 PM
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Knew I would forget one... Identity is one of the better recent psychological thrillers.
Posted by Jeff at January 7, 2004 07:54 PM
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A Waking Life
Requiem for a Dream
Donnie Darko
Ferris Buellers Day Off
All must sees.
Posted by Crack at January 7, 2004 09:16 PM
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For newlyweds who enjoy weird animation, I can't think of a better choice than Bill Plympton's "I Married a Strange Person", but good luck on finding it! "Ghost World", "Y tu mama tambien", "Far from Heaven" and "Talk to Her" are also good choices that no one's suggested yet.
Posted by Rob T. at January 8, 2004 12:36 AM
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Snatch.
It's awesome. It's got a guy who feeds people to pigs. A guy who was shot four times in the head, and killed the guy who was shooting him. British gangsters with swords. Brad Pitt as a gypsy in a tiny leather hat. Also featuring Boris the Blade, the Sneaky Fucking Russian. Ohhh, yeah. See it today.
Posted by The Bloated Camel at January 8, 2004 02:45 AM
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Jeebus, look at this response.
Thanks a lot, everybody. Everything I haven't seen, I've added to the list over at Netflix. Even Bend it like Beckham, suspiscious as I am of it.
And Scott, you've MET Hedwig?! I love that movie, I drove Matt insane with the soundtrack for months and spent a couple of weeks breaking out into "Origin of Love" in publc places...
Posted by spike at January 8, 2004 10:35 AM
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Yeah, it was at the Lake Placid Film Festival. At dinner, I was sitting next to this guy who looked like Ron Rege and we were chatting for a while until I found out it was John Cameron Mitchell. Very nice guy. Doesn't look *anything* like his Hedwig character until you look really closely.
It was "Mitchell" night I guess, 'cause across the dinner table was NYTimes film critic Elvis Mitchell (a total comics fan as it turns out-- he was talking to me about sexual tension in my later Zot issues!). Elvis got a few in him during dinner and did a magnificient monologue on why the first five minutes of ConAir was the greatest (ie., most preposterous) five minutes in Hollywood History.
Posted by Scott M at January 8, 2004 10:50 AM
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Human Traffic
(hilarious UK drug/rave pic about working-class partiers trying to sort out life- very funny, great performances, sweet love story)
The Fast Runner
(Weird and hypnotic story of Inuit Culture, Canadian Film Board sponsored, Ice ice ice ice plus sex, violence, weird rituals and a lot of seal meat)
Cowboy Bebop - Movie or Series
(Stylish Jazz-fueled anime about mercenary freelance detective/bounty hunter/enforcer types out saving the universe and trying to make a buck)
Ghost In The Shell
(Futuristic Anime about cyborg police force - government conspiracy, robots, gunplay and karate, plus the usual anime dose of woo-woo existencial philosophy about the nature of being)
Posted by nanojath at January 8, 2004 12:34 PM
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oKay... most of the movies I would have suggested have already been... soooo lets seee.....
Dead Or Alive - This was a dubbed Japanese film my friend Brett ordered on accident... made NO SENSE AT ALL, but it was totally INSANE. Especially at the end.
Adaption - Stars Nick Cage... it's a little slow at first, but the end is craziness.
Time Bandits - MIDGETS MIDGETS MIDGETS!!! And whackiness. Good movie definately. With a little lick of Monty Python.
Go - Was a pretty good movie... some funny stuff in it.
Four Rooms - This movie is freaking hilarious.
Memento - Someone probably metioned this one already too, but I'm too lazy to go back and read everything again... This movie was twisted.
Yar... I can't think of any more movies right now... but if any more happen to pop up in my head, I'll post a few more.
Posted by Shannon at January 8, 2004 02:17 PM
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I don't know if you like the tear jerking stuff, but Life Is Beautiful was a damn good movie. Just remembered that one.
Posted by Shannon at January 8, 2004 02:19 PM
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Regular stuff
Romancing the Stone
and sequel:
The Jewel of the Nile (fun, unpretentious series...great for couples)
now for insanity
I'll second-
Time Bandits...(also Brazil, 12 Monkeys, & Baron Von Munchausen are all must sees)
The Forbidden Zone -an insane musical (think Rocky Horror but with Danny Elfman and Tattoo from Fantasy Island!)that defies description... You have to get it on eBay because it was never released to video stores
Animation
Anything by Ralph Bakshi (unless you've seen them all??) I think is mandatory
Gimme Gimme Octopus...(look it up) Japanese Gumby that was made by speed freaks in the 60's. Yes, the Japanese were seriously screwy long before tentacle rape porn! They just released a DVD somewhere...I know *I* can't pass it up.
Good Luck!
Posted by Nate at January 8, 2004 08:25 PM
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I have found the best thing about NetFlix to be getting completely random movies, the absolute worst that could happen is you get a boring movie. I mean bad movies, can be fun, but don't go and rent something that will bore you enough to pull out your hair, but hey you'll always have another either home or on its way there. Here are some I've seen recently, not great but random...
Holes - oddly fun
The Kid Stays in the Picture - about as good as a documentary film, with nothing but photos can be.
Annie Hall - Sorry but I like that pedophile Woody Allen
Iron Monkey - Disappointing, but Matt would like it.
Chicago - Interesting, and well you live there.
The Count of Monte Cristo - I was suprised this was a decent movie
The Eye - Not very good, but weird, and you like that.
Down With Love - This will probably make you throw up, I liked it though.
A Mighty Wind - If you've seen best in show, if not, rent that first.
Bend It Like Beckham - I liked it.
Some more...
28 Days Later, Requiem for a Dream, 25th Hour, Signs, Hole, Camp, Amile, Happenstance...
Enjoy, I am glad to read that my gift was worth mentioning. Congrats again, hope you had a good week of being married.
-Keith
Posted by Keith Sheridan at January 9, 2004 11:52 AM
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Gummo -- directed by the writer of Kids; much stranger than that film and better. Completely unique.
Dead Man -- western directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Johnny Depp as an accountant named William Blake. Lots of deadpan humor, Robert Mitchum talking to a stuffed bear, Iggy Pop in drag, plus a stark Neil Young soundtrack. Oddly, much of the film has an almost mystical feel to it.
Biggie and Tupac -- very trashy and bottom-feeding documentary that proposes Suge Knight offed both rappers and actually offers some compelling evidence. Fun and a little creepy.
Honeymoon Killers -- low budget flick from 70s about two lovers who pose as brother and sister to kill loneyheart widows for their money. Manages the neat trick of being trashy and arty at the same time. A classic of its kind.
Ratcatcher -- growing up poor in Scotland in 80s during a garbage strike; very lyrical and absorbing, striking images and performances and not overly grim.
Trouble in Paradise -- an amoral and still funny and provocative comedy from 30s about a pair of grifters. A perfect 80 minute movie.
The Long Goodbye -- Philip Marlowe transplanted from 40s LA to 70s LA, starring Elliot Gould and directed by Robert Altman. Fun and quirky, it's reminiscent of the best of the Coen Brothers.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God -- Spanish conquestadors try to invade the Amazon and go insane. Shot on location by the insane Werner Herzog, it offers some of the most amazing images ever and a memorably maniacal performance by Klaus Kinski. Not easily forgotten.
Posted by jxbuster at January 9, 2004 12:36 PM
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Hey, Keith! Thanks again for the DVD player and the Netflix account. Both gifts seriously, seriously rule.
Oh, and we saw Iron Monkey a few weeks ago. And, much to my shock--and even moreso to hers--Charlie actually dug it. It's not the best piece of Hong Kong kung fu out there, but it's fun, good-natured stuff. And, as Charlie found herself remarking repeatedly, the Matrix guys were obviously heavily influenced by its fight choreography.
Posted by Matt at January 9, 2004 06:10 PM
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you guys should check out BAD SANTA, although, i guess, it's probably not available on netfliks (or however you spell it) yet. you should go see it anyway. it was totally mis-marketed. well, not "mis" marketed, because marketing departments don't give a shit about what the film is really like, they are just into the "wideset demographic possible" deal. so they played up the crude factor. don't get me wrong, it is a crude film, pretty funny when it is crude, too, but this film has SO much heart that you are gonna want to cry watching it. i'm telling you.
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