Big Red N Queue (Jan 2004)

Submitted by ZackT on Mon, 01/19/2004 - 12:50
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  • Capturing the Friedman's
  • Audition
  • The Virgin Suicides
  • The End of the Affair
  • Whale Rider
  • Baraka
  • Y Tu Mama Tambien
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  • Crash
  • The Piano Teacher
  • Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
  • 8 Mile
  • Ginger Snaps
  • Billy Elliot
  • The House of Mirth
  • 8 1/2 Women
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Under the Sand
  • Open Your Eyes
  • The Gleaners and I
  • Quiz Show
  • Central Station
  • The Thin Red Line
  • Videodrome
  • A Real Young Girl
  • The Housekeeper
  • Perfect Love
  • Romance
  • Storytelling
  • The Opposite of Sex
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Before Night Falls
  • Election
  • You Can Count on Me
  • Code Unknown
  • Vanilla Sky
  • Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
  • Amores Perros
  • Night Porter
  • Naked Lunch
  • Talk to Her
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence
  • The Way of the Gun
  • Roger Dodger
  • Rear Window
  • The Birds
  • North by Northwest
  • Sabotage
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much Notorious
  • The 39 Steps
  • The Lady Vanishes
  • Murder!
  • Shadow of a Doubt
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • Hitchcock: Blackmail and Easy Virtue
  • Brute Force
  • The Naked City
  • D.O.A. The Naked Kiss
  • GoodFellas
  • The Bicycle Thief
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • The Green Mile
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Lulu on the Bridge
  • The Fifth Element
  • Dark City
  • Citizen Kane
  • Body and Soul
  • Kiss Me Deadly
  • L.A. Confidential
  • Breathless
  • Gilda
  • Silly Symphonies: Disc 1
  • Silly Symphonies: Disc 2
  • Full Frontal
  • Bound
  • Fight Club
  • Morvern Callar
  • Changing Lanes
  • The Cat's Meow
  • Last Orders
  • Pumpkin
  • Raising Cain
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  • Waking Life
  • Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
  • Taboo
  • The Pledge
  • Tape
  • Three Kings
  • The Decalogue: Disc 1: Films I - III
  • The Decalogue: Disc 2: Films IV - VII
  • The Decalogue: Disc 3: Films VIII - X
  • Dead Man
  • The Wind Will Carry Us
  • What Time is It There?
  • The Hole: 2000 Seen By ...
Author Comments: 

After the first 10 or so, order means nothing! It's like the big stack of tapes I carry around the local Blockbuster, reluctant to decide. Mood, whim, gossip ... they all enter in. Definitely NOT a "best" of anything, or even a "favorite."

celtchic01/19/2004

I have Baraka and it is one of my all time favorites! Also, you'll just LOVE Whale Rider, it's THE favorite movie of mine. Might I also recommend Himalaya? I saw it at a foreign film festival and it just gripped me. You have to tolerate subtitles, though. My husband really liked Ghost Dog and is always looking for new Forest Whitaker movies. Have you seen some of these movies already or are they all going to be a first for you?

Some more notes: I really liked A.I. but don't be surprised if you find others who disliked it. I thought it was a great film, and knowing that it was one of Kubrick's last influences made it even better. Virgin Suicides is another one I enjoyed. I couldn't really get in to Erin Brochovich. Vanilla Sky is another that had mixed reviews that I really enjoyed. Please let me know what you think of Rabbit-Proof Fence because I liked the soundtrack by Peter Gabriel! I also really want to see What's Eating Gilbert Grape because that has Johnny Depp in it, right? The Royal Tenenbaums is weird, interesting but weird. Saving Private Ryan, better grab a box of Kleenexes and be prepared for some blood footage. The Fifth Element should be a classic! Looks like you're a fan of Alfred Hitchcock. I need to see The Birds again, it's been so long but I remember it freaked me out. Fight Club is another winner in my book.

You have quite an interesting list here, and even some titles that sound interesting by themselves that I think I will have to go look up. The Piano Teacher is just one of those. I've never heard of it but it sounds interesting. There are so many more that I would like to mention or that I would like to look up, but I'd take up too much room!

ZackT01/19/2004

celtchic: this is a real gumbo of a list, which is one of the great things about Big Red N -- seen, unseen, new, old, classics, trash all jumbled together.

Lots of these I've seen ... just about all the Hitch and a large percentage of the "noirs" and the Hollywood mainstream films. Some I just want to see again and some I want to see in DVD widescreen (aka tinyscreen) having suffered through scan-and-pan tape versions. And it'll be a first time for some of the mainstream movies I missed and a lot of indies.

Thanks for browsing in my goody bag. I'll keep your recommendations in mind and let you know if any of these is unusually outstanding.

celtchic01/19/2004

Pardon my seeming ignorance, but just what does "Big Red N" mean? Big Red is a soda that is popular in my part of the country, or it could stand for the Indiana Hoosiers, or the Big Red chewing gum, but I'm clueless on this one!

ZackT01/19/2004

Gee, celtchic, to paraphrase a line from "Oh, Brother" -- We thought you was a Netflix member ; )

celtchic01/19/2004

Ha Ha, Smartypants! Seriously, what is Big Red? Is Netflix nicknamed "Big Red" because their big red ads are all over the internet?

ZackT01/20/2004

Celtchic: You said it; I didn't : )

"I won't talk ... No, I won't. I don't care what you do to me, I will not say it. ... Please ... Oh, you wouldn't. ... Please don't .... Nooooooooo ..."

irijew03/12/2004

Is it just me, or was Storytelling pretty disturbing?