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Mr Lojban - 2008-03-17 16:27:32
Prime! I hope you enjoy it.
N.Z.: Culturally overrepresented? Discuss.
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2fs - 2008-03-17 16:46:19
Wow - I've never had to wait for anything in my Netflix queue - even popular TV show discs. Then, I go through very few discs...must be something to that "low users favored" paradigm.
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Paula - 2008-03-17 20:56:04
Mr L:
NZ was certainly the indiepop capital of the world about 10 years ago, but I think Wales is gonna be the Next Big Little Country.
2fs, I go through vids pretty fast, making Netflix a total bargain and miraculous joy. But right now I have 8 titles in my queue marked "long wait" and "very long wait." That includes a couple of Oscar nominees and I guess a few obscurish ones.
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Greg - 2008-03-18 04:52:01
Proving once again, I guess, that the medium is the message... or at least that consumption is directly related to the means of delivery, Netflix has altered my relationship with my television. I've indulged quite a few whims in the last few months, obsessing over TV shows and picking movies on a dare... items I wouldn't have wanted the hassles of walking back to the shop... or that I might not have sat through were they on cable. That I'd taken the trouble to have it delivered was JUST enough impetus to watch it. No duds so far except for The Science of Sleep which I found tedious, even if I might have liked it in a series of 10 minute shorts. As far as 30 minute sitcoms I've found that I'd much rather watch 4 episodes at once than on single show once a week. I've missed entire series simply because I won't submit to being in the right place at the right time weekly. So in any event... Yeah, I like Netflix. And the key word in New Zealand is "Zeal." I have great zeal for New Zealand bands.
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Paula - 2008-03-18 07:01:57
I agree, Greg--Netflix has changed the way I consume videos. I, too, am willing to take more chances on things that, in a video store, might not appeal. And since you're basically just making a shopping list for later, you can get into an interesting "playlist" mentality, too--"I'll watch every movie that Joyce Bulifant ever appeared in!"
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Greg - 2008-03-18 08:32:54
Playlists!!! I've just worked my way through the earlier Werner Herzog catalog! Twisted me up. I've got pretty much the entire Mike Leigh catalog in my queue as well.
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Mr Lojban - 2008-03-18 09:55:32
Paula,-- I did not know that; I think I was thinking about Peter Jackson and Lucy Lawless. The list of NZ bands on Wikipedia turns up a lot of unfamiliar names.
When I lived in Scotland there was a self-exiled New Zealand band that practiced in the youth hostel. They were called June Frost. And of course the great Gazoogle answers the 'Where are they now?'
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what about who? - 2008-03-18 14:49:08
Hey P, there's my e-mail... tried getting it to you via rcn.com, but kept getting Delivery failure notification.
Re NZ, Chris Knox's "Meat" is about 8/25 prime, if any of y'all see it in a used CD bin. Well worth grabbing.
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Sharon - 2008-03-18 15:01:58
Paula- Can't wait to get your reaction to Flight of the Concords! Don't want to spoil anything, but one of the things I love is how their apartment actually looks like a real New York apartment...and you'll never pronounce the name Brett in the same way again. Oh, Paula, I wish I had a lot of money and time (and talent). I think life with your bandmates, teaching yoga, and taking pictures of waffles would make a great tranche de vie TV show.////
I don't know anything about Netflix and many other marvels of modern day life! But I'm looking for a made-for-TV-film I saw in the early seventies about the Chicago Seven Trial. (The guy who played Jerry Rubin was the same actor who played Mr. Apple in a corny short-lived 1970s family drama called Apple's Way.) I think it was a BBC/PBS production? Would Netflix have something like that? Or could any of you cineastes out there steer me in the right direction? I wonder if it is as brilliant as I remember it. A memorable scene was when Abbey Hoffman gives a comedic-cosmic rambling monologue on each of the Presidents, their portraits hanging in the courtroom. Could that have actually happenend? It must have been a dramatic device? I'd like to see it again before I see the new cartoon version, Chicago Ten...
///Looking forward to the show tomorrow.
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grigorss - 2008-03-18 22:35:05
Sharon -- the actor you're referring to is Ronny Cox -- but the IMDb doesn't list any credit for him like the one you're referring to (which doesn't mean he didn't do the role -- the IMDb is notoriously incomplete/inaccurate when it comes to credit listings). Maybe, though, that's enough of a clue that somebody else will figure it out...
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Bina - 2008-03-18 23:10:56
Sharon, the movie you're looking for is the 1975 PBS TV drama "The Trial of the Chicago Seven". Hope this helps.
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Paula - 2008-03-19 10:13:49
Sharon:
one of the things I love is how their apartment actually looks like a real New York apartment.
That is one of the first things that I appreciated about episode one, in fact! The only other accurate representation of an NYC apt on stage or screen that I can think of is in the otherwise semi-awful movie In the Cut, wherein freelance writer Meg Ryan lives in an appropriately tiny studio apartment on the LES.
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Sharon Craig - 2008-03-19 13:52:15
Bina and grigorss, many thanks!
Paula- There is also Joe's Apartment. Actually my sister worked on that at Blue Sky Productions. It's a terrible movie. .. you can imagine the family screening with old aunts and uncles during the scene when the cockroaches do a cha-cha routine on Joe's toilet. Jeez Louise, Cindy! Every family anecdote of mine ends the same way!!!
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