Do you save your queue for Cinema Chatter picks, or do you have some other must-sees or guilty pleasures on your list? Some of my queue: "The Abominable Dr. Phibes," a Miss Marple TV movie collection, "Night Porter," "Alice, Sweet Alice," "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Martha's Spring Gardening."
Also, I noticed that Netflix lists "Dr. Strangelove" among local favorites for Lawrence. Do you think our requests put it on the list?
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I use my queue as a list of movies I want to see, somewhere to stash a title so I don't forget about it. It isn't very long, though, right now. I have the $5 per month deal, though, so I mainly use it for CC picks, which I move up to the top of the list.
I didn't get Strangelove off Netflix. I'm guessing it's a local favorite in many university towns.
Some titles in my queue: Crazy Mama, Burnt Money, Fogi is a Bastard, Come Undone, Offside.
KC, I haven't heard of any of those! I need to look them up now.
My brother does the Netflix account, so I give him titles and he puts them in. And he adds some titles that he finds on his own. So I’m never sure exactly what is in there.
I always have Criterion releases to watch. Right now I’m waiting for “Ace in the Hole”, If....”, “The Milky Way”, and “Woman in the Dunes”. And I wanted to watch other treatments of “Beauty and the Beast”, so I have in Disney’s ’91 version which I’ve never seen, and Burton’s “Edward Scissorhands” which I haven’t seen lately. Then there is another Wilder, “The Front Page” and a classic anime, “Akira”. Oh, and kc, I put in “A Room for Romeo Brass”.
For the film club I mostly go to our local store so that I can have it here the days I want and not just when Netflix happens to send it. This works most of the time, but sometimes the store hasn’t bought the DVD if they already have it on tape. “The Lavender Hill Mob” was an old tape.
Oh, I've read a synopsis for "Woman in the Dunes" from a couple of different places, and I've meant to see it. It sounds really intriguing.
I also use my Netflix queue as a stash of movies I'd like to see eventually. There's a lot of stuff in there. I have realized in the past year how many movies I haven't seen, especially classics. So my queue has things like "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Rear Window," "Dial M for Murder," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "On the Waterfront," etc., plus a handful of other newer stuff I meant to see but never did.
I considered picking “Woman in the Dunes” for the club. I saw it years ago on VHS. It was the only Hiroshi Teshigahara movie available at the time and for a long time. Criterion now has three of his movies from the mid-60s, “The Face of Another”, “Pitfall”, and “Woman in the Dunes”. “Face” and “Pitfall” are available separately, but “Woman” is offered only as part of a boxed set of all three. That is one reason why I didn’t pick it. (I hope Netflex actually does offer the set, I haven’t asked my brother if they did.)
It has been long enough that I don’t remember “Woman” clearly, but I remember being impressed. I have just watched the other two and thought they were good. They have an experimentalism or ‘modernism’ that you found in some films of the mid-60s such as Bergman’s.
So “Pan’s Labyrinth” is out on DVD? What did you think of “The Devil’s Backbone”?
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