{"id":6160,"date":"2007-03-28T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2010-07-16T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T14:22:20","slug":"netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6160","title":{"rendered":"Netflix …."},"content":{"rendered":"

Netflix has changed how I look for movies. The majority of the movies on my queue are ones I have never seen before – or are movies I saw when I was 12 and never saw again for this or that reason. Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/a><\/i>. You know how when you rent movies at a local video store – you are limited by their selection – and most of the movies at, say, a Blockbuster are either movies I have no interest in seeing – or they have a bazillion copies of Spiderman 2<\/a><\/i> and no Charlie Chaplin. Not that there’s anything wrong with Spiderman 2<\/i> – it’s just that variety is the spice of life, and it’s so awesome now to be able to expand my viewing into movies you can’t find at Blockbuster. Some of them are famous movies, with great performances – like The Bad and the Beautiful<\/a><\/i> … others are more obscure, but with great international reputations. And I lose track of what is on my queue and I purposefully don’t look at it too much so that when movies arrive they are a bit of a surprise. It’s so much fun!! I went to certain sites like AFI and the great Film Site<\/a> and looked at lists of “100 Greatest Movies Ever Made” – and put on the queue ones I hadn’t seen. Some of my choices are just old favorites that for whatever reason Blockbuster and Hollywood Video don’t carry. Like War Games<\/a><\/i>. Oh, and Marisa inspired me recently to put Some Kind of Wonderful<\/a><\/i> on the queue – a movie I’ve seen, but not since I was a teenager.<\/p>\n

The two movies coming my way as we speak are 2 I have not seen yet: The Terrorist<\/a><\/i> – a movie about a female Sri Lankan suicide bomber – which I really feel I need to see. It sounds fantastic, and terrifying. And also The Fall of the House of Usher<\/a><\/i> – I am extremely excited to see that one. Never seen it!! Ebert has it on his “Great Movies” list – and I love how he opens his review:<\/p>\n

The great hall in Jean Epstein’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of the most haunting spaces in the movies. Its floor is a vast marble expanse, interrupted here and there by an item of furniture that seems dwarfed by the surrounding emptiness. An odd staircase rises from one distant corner. It is not impossible that this vision, in one of the best-known French surrealist films, inspired the designers of the great hall of Xanadu in “Citizen Kane.” In both films, shadows are made to substitute for details that are not really there, and a man and a woman, their lives ruled by his obsession with her, move like wraiths through the haunted space.<\/p>\n

The hall is not simply cold, enormous and forbidding, but has surrealistic details. “Leaves blow ominously across the floor,” writes the critic Gary Morris, and the long white curtains “flutter menacingly, as if the house is under constant, quiet, insidious siege by a vengeful nature.” This is not a room for human habitation, but a set for a surrealist opera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can’t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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