Netflix Queue 2: Electric Boogaloo

I realize that posting entries of your Netflix Queue is probably one of the stupidest things to do with your blog. It is like one of those three-in-the-morning-after-a-night-of-drinking ideas that seem brilliant at the time, but in the light of day, just make you cringe. (Hey! I’ve got a great idea! I’ll just list a bunch of movies and people will know that I’m interested in silent films and documentaries! That way, I won’t have to write an entry about how much I like silent films and documentaries!)

Still, so many of my conversations wander around to movies. After three years managing a video store, I’m known as a “movie guy” and people tend to listen to (if not necessarily respect – cough cough – Filmspotting – cough cough) my opinion.

Truth of the matter is, I don’t know that much about the movies and more often than not, I just bluff my way through more than half of my movie conversations. There are tricks to sounding smarter about movies than you really are, but that is another blog entry.

I will share this little tidbit about my early relationship with the movies - I made up entire movies based on the commercials of existing movies. Take, for example, The Shining. When that movie was in theaters, I was 7, and there was no way my parents would take me to see it. I became obsessed with the commericals, though. So I made up my own version of The Shining incorporating all of the images from the commercials. I would spend entire afternoons entertaining myself with wild speculation. What was chasing the kid through the maze? Was the shining a gateway to another world? It was like I created a personal version of The Shining each day. When I finally got around to seeing the film years later, I was a little disappointed.

On to the movie list!

Currently in the Netflix Queue at approximately the 100 to 200 positions:

• For All Mankind
• October
• God Said Ha!
• Kurosawa: A Documentary
• Xerxes: Handel
• Sanjuro
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 10
• Landmarks of Early Film #2: Magic Melies
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 11
• Nanook of the North
• National Geographic: The Photographers
• Strike
• Mozart: Don Giovanni: Teatro Alla Scala
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 12
• Great Animation Studios: Fleischer Studios
• San Francisco Opera: Vivaldi
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 13
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
• Alexander Nevsky
• Hitchcock: Bon Voyage / Aventure Malgache
• Amarcord
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 14
• Snow Falling on Cedars
• Monty Python: The Life of Python: Vol. 1
• Monty Python: The Life of Python: Vol. 2
• Chaplin's Essanay Comedies: Vol. 1
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 15
• Annie Get Your Gun
• A Streetcar Named Desire: Andre Previn
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 16
• Nabucco: Verdi: Teatro Di San Carlo
• I, Claudius: Disc 1
• I, Claudius: Disc 2
• I, Claudius: Disc 3
• I, Claudius: Disc 4
• High Plains Drifter
• I, Claudius: Disc 5/The Epic
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 17
• Like Water for Chocolate
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 18
• Lost Horizon
• Albino Alligator
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 19
• Walkabout
• Jamaica Inn
• Rollerball
• Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 20
• Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars: Disc 1
• Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 21
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Black Orpheus
• Nosferatu
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 22
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 23
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 24
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 25
• Rage Against the Machine: Revolution USA
• Hitchcock: Blackmail and Easy Virtue
• Murder!
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 26
• Anchors Aweigh
• Camelot
• Carousel
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 27
• Going My Way / Holiday Inn
• South Pacific
• State Fair
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 28
• Victor / Victoria
• Wages of Fear
• On the Town
• Drugstore Cowboy
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 29
• Diva
• Swingers
• Head: The Monkees
• The Great Escape
• Bullitt
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 30
• Papillon
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Platoon
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 31
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 32
• Civil War Films of the Silent Era
• The End of the Affair
• The Dead Zone
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 33
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Reap the Wild Wind
• Way Down East
• Orphans of the Storm
• America
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 34
• Sally of the Sawdust
• The Battle of the Sexes
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Barry Lyndon
• Nashville
• Chaplin Mutuals: Vol. 1
• Paths of Glory
• The Twilight Zone: Vol. 35
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Dracula
• The Saphead (Silent)