Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

watched let the fire burn on pbs last week, holy shit so good

europa report was good, once you get past the stock characters and that terrible australian woman from the first season of in treatment.

The Source Family is good fun if you're into documentaries about creepy 1970's cults.

started Top of the Lake (jane campion tv series kinda twin peaksy). Two episodes in and liking it quite a bit.

yeah i liked that one! holly hunter is kind of amazing in it.

we're watching that attenborough Life of Birds series now. Birds are amazing.

fucking birds, man! Tell me about it! I've been obsessed with noticing them and their doings since I was a little kid. They're probably the most intense animal life on earth in terms of being like symbols/aliens/robots/living art/super simple brutes all at once. Birds!

yes!
thoughts I had while watching:
- birds really do not give a fuck!
- are there any birds who are just not good at being birds?
- birds are perfect!

See i prefer the mammals.

idk i have sometimes thought the killdeer was kind of an imbecile for building its nest right on the ground in the open. That's the only example I can think of rn though.

xpost to tyler question # 2

Feel like A Bug's Life really nailed the quiet brutality of birds

<3 birds, need to watch this show!

Museum Hours, which I'm excited to finally see

Three that are among my favorite films of the past year or two:
Leviathan
Child's Pose
I Used To Be Darker

and Escape From Tomorrow, which is terrible but maybe worth skimming just for shits and giggles. maybe not honestly.

museum hours owns.

been wanting to see leviathan for a while

oh i used to be darker was good? huh

leviathan is honestly way more of a theater experience i think

ok fine i wont watch it

i'm gonna try small screen leviathan

I thought I Used to Be Darker was a very honest look at adult working musicians... i think it'll help if you're a fan of Palace as that's who the lead is.

I will because I have a projector deal with THAT

recently bought a proper tv to replace our shitty old crt and leviathan was one of the first movies i watched on it. it was incredible!

oh no man you gotta watch it on CRT

watched it a 2nd time just spinning the dvd in the sun.

i can kinda relate to needing to see leviathan on a big screen,but it's more so you can zone out in harmony with the film rather than because you need to cower at its magnificance, imo. it's a really spacey film, kinda arrhythmic & lulling.

its spacey like k-pax

saving k-pax for optimal screening conditions

i couldn't be in harmony w/ Leviathan on all the Dramamine there is

Some people can dose off blissfully to techno music, others can't.

yeah, i did drowse in certain parts of leviathan

there's a lovely rosenbaum line about your mind wandering but wandering to interesting places

just got netflix, mostly at our daughter's request, but i've kind of fallen for it, too. i wish the homepage were better, but that's quibbling.

because it should be posted here every once in a while: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/visual

I prefer this link http://instantwatcher.com/titles/new

you say tomato

The Institute documentary (in the mind fuck genre)

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/new?view=synopsis&popups=1&infinite=0 my favorite. Best of both worlds.

just got netflix, mostly at our daughter's request, but i've kind of fallen for it, too. i wish the homepage were better, but that's quibbling.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, June 9, 2014 6:27 PM (Yesterday)

there's this women in prison show you might be interested in

The Great Muppey Caper!

Muppey Muppet

lol

there's this women in prison show you might be interested in

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, June 10, 2014

i have never seen this show but i am ready to offer a PhD dissertation on it.

you can stream both seasons on netflix

it totally screwed-up my sleep schedule, but i've now watched every episode (seasons one -- two).

I'm gonna do that with House of Cards at some point.

Ishtar is up!

FINALLY

"The Bride" - extremely odd, unhurried New Romantic take on the bride of Frankenstein with Sting as the doctor, fun bit parts from alexei sayle and a young Timothy Spall, one of the little people from time bandits in a focal role. A damned thing.

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

only halfway thru but this ruuuuuuuules. i love harry dean.

Oh shit thank you for reminding me that that is up!

Stories We Tell, the Sarah Polley family doc, is also up, been meaning to watch that.