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Thanks for the update, Joe. I’ll work on putting the new titles on the list tonight.
Wow, they really added a ton of great stuff today. Well, they were supposed to add them anyway. I was able to stream Yojimbo (and any movie that was supposed to go live 12/21/09, for that matter) earlier today, but for some reason I can’t stream it now. I’m going to guess it’s just an error or process lag or something. Is this a problem for anyone else?
haha @ the spam posts.
Hey everyone, I just wrote up a post on http://criterioncast.com on all of the additions from today. It is complete with links for all of the films, check it out when you have a chance. http://criterioncast.com/2009/12/21/criterion-on-netflix/
Updated the list. Hopefully I caught all of the new ones. I also saw a couple I didn’t notice on other people’s lists. Anyway, as always, if anyone sees any omissions/mistakes let me know.
I didn’t see Kicking and Screaming on the list… it’s available now
I’m not sure if this was mentioned already, but Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas is also available to watch instantly.
L’avventura too.. looks like they have a pretty big admirer of Criterion on the payroll
I added Kicking and Screaming to the list.
I didn’t make Fear and Loathing part of the original list because it doesn’t look like it is the Criterion release of the movie. I can make non-Criterion releases of Criterion movies part of the list if people demand it but for now I have left them off.
L’avventura is already on the list. It should be #77 or around there.
Kicking and Screaming is in the wrong aspect ratio :( It’s showing the pan-and-scan version.
More Coming Soon…
The 400 Blows
Tout Va Bien
Tokyo Story
Picnic at Hanging Rock
M
Wages of Fear
Diabolique
Tokyo Drifter
Richard III
Fanny and Alexander
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Samurai Rebellion
Do the Right Thing
Playtime
The Battle of Algiers
Umberto D
Rules of the Game
Ugetsu
Pandora’s Box
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
The Earings of Madame de…
The Last Emperor is now available to stream.
Are all of these titles still for sale as retail DVDs?
A handful of new titles have been added. I’ll update the list after I sort through the additions.
I just wrote up a post for criterioncast.com with all of today’s additions, with linked images to their Netflix pages, along with a few trailers.You can find the post at http://criterioncast.com/2010/01/22/more-criterion-on-netflix/ Hopefully you’ll find it a useful post to bookmark.
The 400 Blows
Here is an alphabetical order of the list (Available Now and Streaming Soon) as of Jan 27th, 2010.
400 Blows
8 1/2
Ararcord
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Ballad of a Soldier
Battle of Algiers
Beauty and the Beast
Black Narcissus
Black Orpheus
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Branded to Kill
Burden of Dreams
Carnival of Souls
Cleo from 5 to 7
Closely Watched Trains
Cria Cuervos
Diabolique
Do the Right Thing
Earings of Madame de…
Elevator to the Gallows
Europa
Eyes Without a Face
Fanny and Alexander
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
For All Mankind
General Idi Amin Dada
Gomorrah
Grey Gardens
Harland County, USA
Heart and Minds
Hidden Fortress
High and Low
Hoop Dreams
Hopscotch
I Vitelloni
Ikiru
Jules and Jim
Kicking and Screaming
Knife in the Water
La Bete Humaine
La jetee
La Strada
Last Emperor
Le Corbeau
Lord of the Flies
Lower Depths
L’Avventura
M
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Mala Noche
Man Bites Dog
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Mon Oncle
Most Dangerous Game
Murderous Maids
My Life as a Dog
Nos Amours, A
Nous la Liberte, A
Onibaba
Overlord
Pandora’s Box
Paris, Texas
Passion of Joan of Arc
Peeping Tom
Pickpocket
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pierrot Le Fou
Playtime
Rashomon
Ratcatcher
Red Balloon
Revanche
Richard III
Rome Open City
Rules of the Game
Samurai Rebellion
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai
Seventh Seal
Shoot the Piano Player
Sisters
Slacker
Smiles of a Summer Night
Spirit of the Beehive
Summertime
Thief of Bagdad
Thieves Highway
Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Story
Tout Va Bien
Ugetsu
Umberto D
Vampyr
Vanishing
Virgin Spring
Wages of Fear
Walkabout
White Mane
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
Yojimbo
Z
Netflix added another 11 Criterion films today to Watch Instantly. Included among them is todays DVD/Blu-ray release: Revanche, as well as the newly restored print of the Red Shoes! I wrote up a post about the additions over at CriterionCast.com: http://criterioncast.com/2010/02/16/netflix-watch-instantly-adds-some-more-criterion-films-powell-and-pressburger-david-lean-laurence-olivier-and-gotz-spielmann-criterion-on-netflix/
It would be nice if Watch Instantly had better picture quality but I suppose do anything about it
You can’t sort only Criterion titles, but http://instantwatcher.com/ is definitely helpful in perusing the Netflix library. Much friendlier navigation than the actual Netflix site.
Is it me or is the Instant Watch library in general expanding at an exponential rate? I almost feel like the hard-copy discs will be unavailable within a year.
—PolarisDiB
That’s why the homepage for Netflix is an Instant Watching interface. They’re very slowly making the transition. I’m sure it’ll take them at least a few years to make a full transition. It’s too bad the rumors of Instant on playable systems(Roku, 360, PS3, etc.) going to 1080p later this year were false.
The list has been updated.
@charles, the picture quality is improving all the time. i recently watched paris, texas on instant and it’s quality was incredible. they’re going to be working on 5.1 surround sound and captioning later this year too.
@jarrod, thanks for the update. i’m gonna organize my instant queue and get the criterion movies at the top.
It looks like they snuck Oliver Twist in there over the past few days, since the latest announcement. I’m updating the post on CriterionCast right now.
This Sporting Life and Green For Danger are available right now as well.
Napoleon Blownapart, thanks for that link: http://instantwatcher.com/
There are a lot of films on that list that I didn’t know were available on Netflix.
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