Are there enough Obner's that stream from Netflix to warrant a thread?

A few of my recent views (that i've enjoyed):

Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
Filmmaker Werner Herzog takes you on a wild and woolly journey to the South Pole in this Oscar contender -- from the National Science Foundation's headquarters on Ross Island to some of Antarctica's most remote and dangerous terrain. With a keen eye for the wonders and sometimes hilarious peculiarities of this icy land's animal and human inhabitants, Herzog offers an astounding look at the world's most inhospitable landscape.

The 400 Blows (1959)
After young Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) runs away, life on the streets of Paris leads to nothing but trouble and guilt in this gritty feature film debut from legendary director François Truffaut. Though he turns to petty crime to survive, Antoine's remorse often leads him to try to return things he's stolen -- with disastrous results. The film was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Wild China (2008)
This six-part series from the BBC uncovers some of the most exotic and uncharted natural habitats hidden within the vast and diverse topography of China, including Yunnan's forests, the Tibetan plateau, the Silk Road and the Mongol steppes. Through high-definition and other cutting-edge camera technologies, the footage presented here captures stunning wildlife sequences, along with a plethora of breathtaking landscape photography.

Watching tonight...

NewsRadio: Seasons 1 and 2 (1995)

i started this recently to catch up on some television:

LOST - 1/3rd of the way through the 2nd season
Dexter - will start as soon as i finish LOST
Jericho - started this, but realized it was really shitty

lessee..the last couple movies i watched on stream:

A Boy and His Dog - 70s post-nuke holocaust film. low-budget, but with a really insane ending.
Surf Nazis Must Die - shitty, even by troma standards
Heavy Metal - pretty damn amazing
Eraserhead - see above
The Short Films of David Lynch: Lumiere, The Cowboy and the Frenchman, The Amputee, The Grandmother, Six Men Getting Sick - captivating, annoying and horrifying, depending on which one you watch

I hook up the bluray to the internets...and voila....

I stream rockumentaries .... recently hmmm, heavy metal baghdad, the roky erikson docu, hmm the Scott Walker one (30th century man)...

they also have cheap kungfu flicks by the gross...

because of these genres, I leave the heavyweight movies in the queue....

point me towards a few titles.

hard boiled is one


also, a lot of cheap 70s slasher is up on the stream thing

Actually I thought they had more.. I pretty much watched all of them.. anyway

Young Tiger
They have a lot of the 'Crash Masters' series
Shaolin Tiger Claw
And in the classic 'vs.' genre, they have Ninja vs. Mafia


They also Kurosawa's samurai movies: seven samurai, hidden fortress, yojimbo, sanjuro etc

I have a hard time finding stream content so let's keep this thread rolling.

i watched the first 3 seasons of Friday Night LIghts on there.

You made it through S2? Bra-vo.

We had this for a little while, but we never had time to take advantage of it so we scaled back our plan. I think the only movie we watched on it was Rachel Getting Married, and we watched an episode or two of No Reservations, 30 Rock, and some SNL thing. The streaming quality of the movie was pretty bad, but the shows looked fine.

But, like, why couldn't you just discuss these same movies in the movies thread?

I mean it's one thing if you want to talk about TV shows you're watching via streaming or DVD. That would deserve its own thread.

unlimited streaming comes with just about every plan

I need to update some firmware or something. Mine stopped working a while back and I've been too lazy to try to figure out how to get it going again.

They have the House of Cards trilogy which is pretty fantastic. I can't imagine Bloor and GAR not going nuts over it.

I haven't watched them but I have a bunch of Ken Burns' docs (Huey Long, The Congress, Brooklyn Bridge, etc) in my queue for whenever i get my system up and running again.

Also, a ton of early years SNLs.

Not the $5 one.

Just finding the time to watch 1 movie a week has gotten really difficult for us for some reason. Hope that changes soon.

I should probably do that plan too. I don't even have the streaming working and it usually takes months for me to get around to watching what they send.

some that I've watched that I'd recommend:

Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip
The 39 Steps - also a bunch of other Hitchcock
The Edge of Heaven
This is England
Born into Brothels
La Vie En Rose
Big Fan

Thanks for the tip on the House of GARds thing.

See, this is why this thread is useful, Drinkster.

I unfortunately don't have a lot of recs. as this is more my wife's thing but I have watched Man On Wire and Athens Georgia Inside Out as streams.

OK, yeah. Makes sense as a heads up kind of thing.

Right, so I can add more stuff to my queue that I have no chance of ever seeing.

Oh right, I forgot that this was available via stream. I'd recommend it, too.

I am pretty obsessive about keeping up with what is currently available on Netflix Instant. Here are some recent additions and/or standouts:

Raising Arizona
American Movie--Just recently re-watched this and enjoyed it immensely.
Scanners
Cape Fear
Food Inc.
Dead Snow
Un Chien Andalou
Touch of Evil
The Seventh Seal
M
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Mongol
The Searchers
Heat
Tears of the Sun
The Goonies-Watched this recently too and enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.
Dr. Strangelove
Hope and Glory
Synecdoche NY
Rising Son: Christian Hosoi--If you haven't seen this Dalen, I would start here
The Proposition
Eraserhead
Manda Bala--amazing documentary about Brazil. Highly recommended
Inside Deep Throat
Audition
Brick
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
A Tale of Two Sisters
Hoop Dreams
This American Life: Seasons 1 and 2
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Night of the Living Dead
Word Wars
Ninja Scroll
Altered States
Bottle Shock
Capturing the Friedmans--another must-see
Cool Hand Luke
Pan's Labyrinth
Miller's Crossing

I have my instant queue filled to capacity with stuff and I check for new additions every day. If I find something I think others might like I'll post it here.

see, plenty of shit i haven't seen. going to add some stuff tonight.

You guys want a real cool original movie?

Watch Ink, excellent small indie movie

A bunch of Criterion titles were added in December. Might be more now.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/21/cri ... a-netflix/

High and Low
Jules and Jim
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai
Summertime
The Vanishing
Walkabout
Yojimbo
My Life as a Dog
For All Mankind
Cleo from 5 to 7
Sisters
Closely Watched Trains
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Rashomon
I Vitelloni
Wild Strawberries
L’Avventura
Hidden Fortress
General Idi Amin Dada
Man Bites Dog
The Lower Depths
Ikiru
Onibaba
Le Corbeau
Overlord
La Bete Humaine
Pickpocket
Elevator to the Gallows
Cria Cuervos
Mala Noche
Europa
Wings of Desire
Z
The Seventh Seal

Here's my (and my roommate's) current queue. I will bold the ones I watched that I highly recommend (note: there are many I have yet to watch)

A to Zeppelin
Amadeus
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: 1
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: 2
Ballast
Beer Wars
Big Fan
Breaker Morant: Masterworks Edition
Buena Vista Social Club
Caddyshack
Californication: Season 1
Capturing the Friedmans
Chai Lai Angels: Dangerous Flowers
Confessions of a Superhero
Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious
Delicatessen
Desperado
Dexter: Season 1
Dexter: Season 2
District B13
Donnie Brasco
Doubt
El Mariachi
Elegy
En la Cama
Food, Inc.
For All Mankind
Ink
Inside Deep Throat
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Jesus Camp
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
Kama-Sutra
Labyrinth
Lady Vengeance
Lisa Lampanelli: Long Live the Queen
Manda Bala
Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
Noise
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Out Cold
Pan's Labyrinth
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side: Interviews
Red Sonja
Righteous Kill
She's the One
Side Out
Sin Nombre
SNL: The Best of Chris Farley
SNL: The Best of Christopher Walken
SNL: The Best of Commercial Parodies
SNL: The Best of John Belushi
SNL: The Best of Will Ferrell
SNL: The Best of Will Ferrell 2
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Spirit of the Marathon
Step Brothers
Sunshine Cleaning
Swimming Pool
Synecdoche, New York
Tan Lines
The Big Lebowski
The Black Dahlia
The Botany of Desire
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Constant Gardener
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Education of Charlie Banks
The Freshman
The Insider
The Jacket
The Last Emperor
The Last Game
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Taking of Pelham 123
The Usual Suspects
Toy Soldiers
Traitor
Two Days in April
Tyson
Unmistaken Child
Vertigo
Water Drops On Burning Rocks

Oh ya, and this website is a MUST

http://instantwatcher.com/