Title pretty much says it all. I need some good movies to add and I have run clean out of ideas.

What's on YOUR Netflix list? What are you looking forward to seeing?

Wow, we always have close to 100! But then we like action adventure types usually. So I don't know whay you might like. If you like this catagory you might add Alias or 24 TV shows if you haven't seen them.

Sex and the City?

Have you seen Sea Biscuit?


The next five on my queue:

Batman Begins
Monster
Bewitched
A Very Long Engagement
Garfield: The Movie

Yes to Seabiscuit.

I have a penchant for artsy sort of movies. I don't much watch mainstream unless they are really good. Don't like violence, even fake violence, so action movies are pretty much out of the question.

The last 5 movies I saw that I enjoyed were:

A Very Long Engagement (although in the war bits I had my eyes closed)
The BBC Pride And Prejudice
Sideways
Donny Darko
Napoleon Dynamite

It's worthwhile to go through and rate movies on Netflix; then they suggest movies based on your ratings. Even if you didn't rent it from them, you can rate it if you've seen it. One day I went through and rated a whole bunch and got some good suggestions. I dislike mainstream movies for the most part. It seems like it's really hard for anyone to make a good movie. I am also similar to you in that I can't stand violence of any kind.

Some of my absolute faves:

-Amelie (#1 fave of all time)
-Zero Effect
-Secretary
-Lost In Translation
-Royal Tenenbaums
-Office Space
-Born Yesterday

I would recommend any one of these highly!!!

I suggest QUEEN BEE, HUMORESQUE, BUTTERFIELD 8, WOMAN'S WORLD, FROM THE TERRACE, 10 NORTH FREDERICK, THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, SORRY, WRONG NUMBER, TOPKAPI, PEYTON PLACE, PILLOW TALK, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, ALL ABOUT EVE, THE LITTLE FOXES, THE LETTER, THE HEIRESS, SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER, THE V.I.P.S, WATERLOO BRIDGE, THE LEMON DROP KID, AUNTIE MAME . . . more, later . . .

Flowerlady I adore Tenenbaums. I have seen and own all of Wes Anderson's films, Tenenbaums being one of my favorite films of all time. Have you seen his others? (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Life Aquatic). I also loved Amelie.

I will put in a plug for my forever no. 1 film of all time which if you are artsy inclined you might like-- The Piano. A very powerful, beautiful, surprising film set in New Zealand. Unique. If you have never seen it I hope you will all add it to your list! Starring Holly Hunter.

Hi, Teacake! I did see Rushmore and Life Aquatic and liked both. I especially loved the Life Aquatic soundtrack; David Bowie songs sung in Portuguese!

Hey we just watched one called "7 Times Lucky" about scammers, it was pretty good. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364656/

I have Tenebaums in my collection (because we live so far from town we have a rather extensive dvd collection) - my kids bought it for my birthday. I have Life Aquatic on my list.

I have seen The Piano - saw it at the cinema many years ago and agree it is outstanding.

Have you seen Whalerider? Since I don't have cable, I'm currently watching Sex and the City. It is very funny but also for adults only.

I loved Motorcycle Diaries.

Need they be recent? Here are some overlooked masterpieces from the 1980's:


PRICK UP YOUR EARS

THE LONG WALK HOME

THE YOUNG POISONER'S HANDBOOK

One from the 90's:

SECRETS AND LIES

A totally overlooked American film of brilliance is 1965's SECONDS, starring Rock Hudson.

The most moving film I've seen in years has to be FINDING NEVERLAND... (Forget three-hankies; try three cartons of Kleenex)

Janie, as an Aussie, you've seen, I'm sure, those two great Oz films, HEAVENLY CREATURES and PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK... ?

Five great, great, great documentaries:

CRUMB

NICO/ICON

I JUST WASN'T MADE FOR THESE TIMES

LET'S GET LOST

42 UP

I don't know how old you are, but Ken Russell's 1975 film TOMMY is a tour-de-force that still packs a wallop; the film was a veritable rite-of-passage for people my age back in the 70's.

Ever seen Ken Russell's earlier biopic of the life of Pyotr Ilyich Thaikovsky, THE MUSIC LOVERS (1971), starring Glenda Jackson? It's amazing and very artsy, to say the least.

Armanis's Netflix suggestions are great. I have rented Humoresque, Room at the Top, Butterfield 8, Suddenly Last Summer and Barefoot Contessa at his suggestion and have not been dissapointed.

I like to watch movies about people misbehaving, so....

British adultery threesome
1. Brief Encounter (David Lean directed/Noel Coward script- Leslie Howard is in it. Great use of Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto - old fashioned, but fantastic. I saw this last night and watched it twice.)
2. End of the Affair (Neil Jordan version with Julianne Moore)
3. The Heart of Me

French marriages that break down
1. La Peau Douce aka The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut's best movie, IMO- bang!)
2. 5x2 (Francois Ozon- great use of Paulo Conte song)
3. Madame Bovary- (Claude Chabrol)

Movies about pop/rock that are actually good
1. Sid and Nancy
2. The above mentioned Nico/Icon. (Alain Delon lost a lot of points with me after that one)
3. 24 Hour Party People

Movies that capture their cities really well
1. Death In Venice
2. Bad Timing (best film set in Vienna since the Third Man. Art Garfunkel's in it and plays a jerk. Schiele-esque love scenes)
3. Sweet Smell of Success - (New York back when people smoked).

Speaking of Art Garfunkel... the film CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (1971) is just amazing from beginning-to-end.
Did you know that Garfunkel has taught advanced mathematics at the collegiate level? Very smart Scorpio, he.

Yes, Alain Delon was un vrai espece d'ordure, n'est-ce-pas?

Yes, Luchino Visconti's DEATH IN VENICE was fab. How gorgeous was Marisa Berenson?

My favorite Truffauts are SMALL CHANGE, LA NUIT AMERICAINE and MISSISSIPPI MERMAID.

A great French comedy/tear-jerker about a family raising a gay child is MA VIE EN ROSE. A very truthful picture.

Ever seen that strange, compelling German film from 1981, MARIANNE AND JULIANE ? To this day, every time I run my electric coffee-mill I remember that film.

I lu-u-urve the early films of Wim Wenders, such as ALICE IN DEN STÄDTEN. What a mood is created!

What about that elegiac, creepy Spanish film, EL ESPIRITÙ DE LA COLMENA ?

And I'm an ardent fan of Japan's Yasujiro Ozu... his masterpiece TOKYO STORY is another three-hankie number.

Fellini's early picture MAMMA ROMA is long (3.5 hours...) but it is so moving and beautiful and truthful.

I contend that Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE is a mini-masterpiece.

When was the last time you saw Kubrick's LOLITA ?

I had no idea Art Garfunkel taught math. He is a total Scorpio in "Bad Timing." I have never seen Carnal Knowledge and must put it on the queue. I think I have seen a lot of movies, but there's always another oldie I've missed.

I don't think Marisa Berenson was ever in a movie where she played a plain jane. She was gorgeous in Barry Lyndon as well. When it's a hot day in New York and my makeup is streaking, I always think of poor Dirk Bogarde in that beach chair in Death in Venice.

The only Truffauts I haven't seen are THE Wild Child and Small Change and I haven't seen TOKYO STORY or MAMMA ROMA either, but I can't rent those, because I need to watch them in a theater. Hopefully they will come to a theater in New York sometime. Missippi Mermaid used to be my favorite Truffaut, but it's still in my top five. Did you see the remake of the Woolrich novel on which MM was based -- Original Sin starring Banderas and Jolie? I don't have time to see it, because I heard it's pretty bad. It's worth reading the novel, Waltz into Darkness, because it's suspenseful, and the male protagonist is such a putz, and the male actors who've portrayed him are these attractive-types.

I saw Ma Vie En Rose, and thought it was good. Another tear-jerker is the Swedish film LILJA 4EVER by Lukas Moddyson, which tells a terrible story about a young Russian girl and was my favorite 2002 film.

I last saw the Kubrick Lolita in 2000, I think, and Mulholland Drive is Lynch's best movie, I think. Even better than BLUE VELVET.

Romy Schneider had a rather disastrous relationship with Alain Delon too. He was in so many great movies, and was a babe when he was young, but what a yucky guy in real life, and he has aged badly.

I finally signed up for a Netflix free trial yesterday, after Mr. Wind Song hooked up my DVD (it was a bit complicated, seeing as how the TV is ancient. I could have figured it out, but... it was a honey-do kinda thang...)

I wonder if we should start a POL "friends" network on Netflix?

Anyway, here's what I have so far:

• Auntie Mame (the original, with Rosalind Russel)
• The Notebook
• Carmen Jones
• A Star Is Born (the original, not the seventies remake)
• Les Girls
• Marjorie Morningstar (one of my favorites)
• Damn Yankees (love Gwen Verdon)
• Kiss Me Kate (ditto)
• Love Affair (the original version of An Affair to Remember)
• Spanglish

The Last Wave
Purple Noon
The Tenant
Nowhere
Resident Alien - doc abt the late Quentin Crisp

Just picked a few more...

"Mesmer"
"Visitors"
"Cleopatra's Second Husband"
"The Skeleton Key"
"The Woman in White"
"The Machinist"