Netflix recommendations

[gravy boat]

Hi folks,
I have a long vacation coming up and want to spend a lot of it watching movies with the wife-- I always work too late now for this. So I want to stock up on a bunch of movies.

The "Dear Zachary" documentary mentioned in the General Movie thread looks right up our alley. I had never heard of this till just now. If anyone else have recommendations for little-publicized dark or interesting movies and documentaries, please share.

We appreciate any help. Thanks!

[Bryan]

Hi folks,
I have a long vacation coming up and want to spend a lot of it watching movies with the wife-- I always work too late now for this. So I want to stock up on a bunch of movies.

The "Dear Zachary" documentary mentioned in the General Movie thread looks right up our alley. I had never heard of this till just now. If anyone else have recommendations for little-publicized dark or interesting movies and documentaries, please share.

We appreciate any help. Thanks!

A few weeks ago I trawled through the "General Movie" thread and the "Criterion Does It Again" thread and added a bunch of stuff to my queue.

I recently saw Assault on Precinct 13 (another John Carpenter classic!) and Smile. I strongly recommend both of them. They both exceeded my hopes. If you've never seen The Parallax View, you should check it out. It's one of my faves.

[Martin]

I don't know what you've seen, but these films are some of my all-time favorite documentaries. Some are darker than others, some perhaps more obvious than others, but all of them are great:

Grizzly Man
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Slasher
Dark Days
Crumb
Of Time and the City
Surfwise
Scratch
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Fata Morgana
God's Angry Man
RIP Rest in Pieces
The Dancing Outlaw
American Dream
Harland County USA
Trouble the Water
Capturing the Friedmans
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Pumping Iron
Gates of Heaven
Why We Fight
The King of Kong
Shoah
F for Fake
The Fog of War
American Movie
Lessons of Darkness
Hearts and Minds
Salesman
Gimme Shelter
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (and its devastating sequel, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations)
The Thin Blue Line
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Four Little Girls
The Corporation
The White Diamond


I vouch for all of them!

[Trotskie]

Another good documentary is Ross McElwee's "Sherman's March". 

[Chris L]

Check out Errol Morris' series First Person as well.

[sonicdork]

I enjoyed Grey Gardens (the Maysles documentary) the other night from Netflix.

[yesno]

One of the things that Netflix does for me is relieve me of the burden of remembering what my opinions are.  I rate as soon as I watch, and then I have no idea anymore what I've seen and what I thought of it.  So you can just friend me, I think my name there is also "yesno."

Don't judge the B movies my wife always streams.

[hugman]

It's in their database but in the SAVE category for now, but I highly recommend Driver 23/Atlas Moth.  I've only seen Driver 23, but it chronicles the FIVE (I believe) YEAR process of a deliveryman with OCD's band, Dark Horse, recording a record.  It's epic.  Atlas Moth is the follow-up. 

Waltz with Bashir looks pretty awesome.

Beautiful Losers is a great doc about artists Ed Templeon, Barry McGee, Mike Mills and others.

You're Gonna Miss Me. The Roky Erickson doc.

I also recommend you watch the entire Party Down series as well as Zach G Live and any Katt Williams they have on there. seriously.

[Cotton]

I've finally gotten around to watching Party Down. I had somewhat low expectations (for some reason I thought it was a college romp show or something) and was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed it.

I recently saw Assault on Precinct 13 (another John Carpenter classic!) and Smile. I strongly recommend both of them. They both exceeded my hopes. If you've never seen The Parallax View, you should check it out. It's one of my faves.

I watched Assault on Precinct 13 not too long ago for the first time in a decade, and I still gasped at that one scene in the beginning. I still can't bring myself to see the remake.

[fonpr]

Brazil.

[sonicdork]

You're Gonna Miss Me. The Roky Erickson doc.

I second the Roky Erickson doc. It's great!

[masterofsparks]

If you're looking strictly for documentary recommendations, Man on Wire is great. If you're looking for something music-based, Tom Dowd and the Language of Music is impressive and will appeal to the music geek in you.

[sonicdork]

MOOG is also a great music related documentary.

[Joe Rogaine]

Finally got around to watching this one and it was fantastic.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID51kpZ9iK4 [/youtube]

[Joe Rogaine]

It's in their database but in the SAVE category for now, but I highly recommend Driver 23/Atlas Moth.  I've only seen Driver 23, but it chronicles the FIVE (I believe) YEAR process of a deliveryman with OCD's band, Dark Horse, recording a record.  It's epic.  Atlas Moth is the follow-up. 

Waltz with Bashir looks pretty awesome.

Beautiful Losers is a great doc about artists Ed Templeon, Barry McGee, Mike Mills and others.

You're Gonna Miss Me. The Roky Erickson doc.

I also recommend you watch the entire Party Down series as well as Zach G Live and any Katt Williams they have on there. seriously.

Waltz with Bashir is awesome.