<p>I would describe Freaks and Geeks as a funny drama. Very heartwarming, and several of today’s big stars started out on this show. It was written by Judd Apatow.</p>
<p>I seem to remember the last time this came up that a few of us were fans of the BBC’s version of North and South, which I just rewatched on netflix streaming for about the seventh time the other day.</p>
<p>I like independent and foreign films and I watched a few nice ones recently. “Dear Frankie”, Far From Heaven and Skin, some not in the memory bank yet. : )
I also saw The Red Violin for the first time and liked it very much.</p>
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<p>Oh, yeah! :D</p>
<p>I’ve mostly been watching tv series on streaming netflix. Right now I’m watching Battlestar Galactica, which is great. </p>
<p>If you like Gilbert and Sullivan and haven’t seen it, Topsy Turvy is very good.</p>
<p>Mathmom: Queen of Versailles is not too wierd at all! Not arty or terribly subtle, very watchable. It’s funny, provocative (well, it provoked me anyways) and somewhat sad.</p>
<p>2 Days in Paris and 2 Days in New York both have quite a bit of French dialogue in them, and the humor is largely about French/American culture clash.</p>
<p>Thinking of movies in French, I saw ‘Paris’ on Netflix recently - I liked it but it’s definitely a bit artier than the 2 Days…movies. Moving, beautiful and sometimes puzzling (in the sense that I needed to re-watch certain scenes to figure stuff out).</p>
<p>I watched the documentary about Jiro, the master sushi chef and it was good.</p>
<p>I also had not seen The Pianist until last weekend and really recommend that on streaming if you haven’t seen it.</p>
<p>I watched Goats last night - watchable and weird, but pretty good.</p>
<p>Watched Tiny Furniture - pretty good too!</p>
<p>Bill Cuningham, September Issue, Shall We Dance,Dorothy and Herb (or Herb and Dorothy), Eames, The Rape of Europa, The Children of Chambrod (spelling?), Queen of Versailles, Margin Call,</p>
<p>For Ny Lovers; I like Killing Flies, The Guide, The Chelsea Hotel.</p>
<p>Environmentalists- Bag It</p>
<p>Foodies- El Bulli, slow moving but enriching</p>
<p>saw Tiny Furniture, big Lena Dunham fan, but ehhhhhh, impressive talent though
saw Goats----ugh, detested, hated this one…</p>
<p>anyone care to list suggested movies / tv by category ???</p>
<p>I second both Dear Frankie and Rape of Europa. Let’s not forget Man on Wire, if we’re mentioning documentaries.</p>
<p>Waving at SJCM.</p>
<p>“I, Claudius”</p>
<p>A 12 part BBC TV production from 1976. The series chronicles the lives, murders and excesses of some of the first Roman Emperors and the family intrigue that comes with unlimited wealth and power. It’s wonderfully done, historically accurate and not dated at all. You’ll notice a few well known present-day senior actors plying their trade while in their youth. </p>
<p>We watched it on Amazon Prime.</p>
<p>Big Wave back to Ignatius-</p>
<p>Man on Wire - a movie you suggested and I loved!</p>
<p>Add to NY movies - Man on Wire ;)</p>
<p>Jiro Dreams of Sushi is very good, and just last week I watched Monsieur Lazhar, an absolutely wonderful, very poignant and extremely well-acted Canadian movie (in French, with subtitles). I think it was nominated for the best foreign film Oscar last year and it just blew me away.</p>
<p>Yeah, I can see hating Goats - I think I was able to relate to the CT boarding school (as I went to one) and the SW lifestyle a bit (since I spent so much time in Santa Fe, NM and still have family there), BUT BUT BUT - the mother was almost so bad and hard to watch that without relating to other parts, I can see disliking greatly.</p>
<p>.I watched “Queen of Versailles” last night but didn’t like it as much as I thought. I didn’t feel a connection to the family and found myself disliking David Seigel although it was done well. It was a good character study and of the times but I watched it after he sued for the “reality show” staging of some scenes and making them seem less well off than they were at the end. He seems to be building again and had wanted the film makers to put a different post script at the end of the movie.
I’m glad I watched it, before, all I heard about him was the memos he wrote to his employees about not voting for Obama in October.</p>
<p>“I second both Dear Frankie and Rape of Europa. Let’s not forget Man on Wire, if we’re mentioning documentaries”</p>
<p>Ignatius I also think Rape of Europa is worth watching and my daughter just watched “Dear Frankie” and liked it more than she thought she would.
I have “Man of Wire” and the “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” in my queue now.</p>
<p>^^^ Everyone in the family liked Man on Wire, even those I thought might not. Enjoy!</p>
<p>I plan to watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Monsieur Lazhar. I like this thread. :)</p>
<p>We recently watched (and liked) Today’s Special. From Netflix: "This movie is quirky/feel-good. I’d agree with that description.</p>
<p>Jiro Dreams of Sushi will make you head out to the nearest sushi joint. The fish auction market scene is amazing. I want to go to Japan for that alone.</p>
<p>I go to [instantwatcher.com</a> - Streaming Movies and TV to watch instantly on Netflix](<a href=“http://instantwatcher.com/]instantwatcher.com”>http://instantwatcher.com/) when I want to see what’s newly added to Netflix. They also categorize by what’s hot, critics choice, etc.</p>
<p>Thanks for that link, ccreader. I tend to watch TV shows on Netflix but DH likes movies and is always asking for suggestions.</p>
<p>I’m finding a better option than netflix is TMC in HD. I gather the HD is relatively new. Last night was a film noir special of films picked because they aren’t well known. The best was 99 River Street with John Payne and Evelyn Keyes. Terrific. Next best was Tomorrow is Another Day with Steve Cochran. Great reveal in that one: you see the guy being counted out $22.50 and you don’t know why, then see him wandering around this town, eating in a diner which isn’t owned any longer by the guy he names, getting a job as a welder and then opening a newspaper to see his picture with the headline State’s Youngest Murderer Returns along with a story about how at age 13 he killed his abusive father. </p>
<p>They’ve been running early Loretta Young movies all month. Funny thing is she’s barely 20 in most of them but she’s shown as a tough dame, smoking and drinking and in one as the tough broad single mother of a 7 year old. It’s weird because she really is just a kid. And when she’s not “emoting” she’s very good and absolutely lovely. Terrific movie with her and Spencer Tracy called Man’s Castle. Set in a Depression shantytown and, in a strange mirror of what was to come in real life, she gets pregnant. Tracy is so completely natural: method before method.</p>
<p>Again, old movies in HD beat netflix.</p>
<p>Great thread. We’re newbies to Netflix streaming video and your suggestions are so helpful. So far we’ve only watched the first two seasons of The Walking Dead. However, I watched Jiro last night and loved it. By pure luck, my sister got a seat in the son’s restaurant recently. I await details of what must have been a fabulous meal. I’m dreaming of sushi now, and think I’ll head to the nearest place tonight with S :-)</p>