MestnyiGeroi commented on…
TSPDT - 1000 Greatest Films - The Titles Netflix Doesn't Carry
Great list! — 3 years ago
Also, from the TOP 100:
Madame de …
Voyage in Italy
Last Year at Marienbad
Greed
Letter from an Unknown Woman — This last one they had listed as requiring a long wait. I put it at the top of my queue and waited. After months, they finally sent it to me and even though the listing was for the Ophuls film, they sent me a recent Asian film of the same title. I sent it back to them and alerted them to the mistake, and their response was to change the status of the Ophuls film to unavailable!
Also:
Napoleon
A Woman Under the Influence
Faces
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Opening Night
(These Cassavetes films are particularly frustrating as they ARE currently available on North American DVD. Netflix had them as status unknown, but recently shifted that status to unavailable (translation: we haven’t bought them yet, and we don’t plan to). To me these movies represent a sea change at Netflix, a decision to scale back somewhat, not to buy all the art-house releases, even if they are major U.S. milestones, but to take a step in the direction of the safer, mountains-of-mediocrity, traditional approach of Blockbuster.)
Shoeshine
Blood Simple
Human Condition trilogy
Les Vampires
Do Bigha Zamin (Is that on TSPDT?)
Perceval
Room at the Top
Shame (This they had listed as available until it reached the top of my queue, whereupon it switched to unavailable!)
Triumph of the Will
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Many, many others.
Comments
Thanks for the Help! Yay!
I would double check on the Cassavetes films. I’m showing them as available. I have found that sometimes a different version will come out for a movie and Netflix will just create a new entry for that movie. This happens when a movie switches to a new distributer or has some new feature.
This is just an astounding coincidence. Really, just take this in: these Cassavetes movies have been on my Netflix list for at least two years or more. As I explained, for most of that time they were listed as “Unknown.” About four months ago, that status changed to “Unavailable.” Well, I whine about this to you, and you tell me to re-check as you have those films as available. Right? I did check and they were still listed as unavailable, with Netflix showing no other versions. Well, just NOW — i.e., half a day after our conversation — my Netflix list has a message at the top telling me that new versions of these Cassavetes films are available. I have to delete the old ones, but then I can add these new versions, whatever they are. Anyway, it’s just the timing of this that astounds me. Nothing happens for years; I have a conversation about it and someone tells me he has them on his list; and then within a few hours they change status and become available for my list.
Anyway, thanks for the tip!
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