#100 - September Netflix

List of Netflix for September - so I can count them towards total.

Blue Velvet - Weird-ass movie. Laura Dern is kind of hot. Does make me want to see more David Lynch though.

Spellbound - Documentay about 8 kids competing in the National Spelling Bee. Interesting to watch - the kids are fascinating and the parents are fun to watch as well. Surprisingly none of the parents seem hyper-competitive. Mostly the kids push themselves. And you want them all to win.

Windtalkers - Pretty good war movie. Not a lot of depth, but nicely done battle scenes.

The Hours (Oscar) - Good Oscar pick though I'm not sure Nicole Kidman was that good (other than make-up). The character I really remember was Ed Harris as the gay friend of Meryl Streep.

The Thin Red Line - Didn't like this one too much. Set in the American invasion of Guadalcanal during WWII it was a very slow-moving and very mystical. Which just didn't work for me. Also, it is a big ensemble piece and hard to keep track of everybody. Though bits of it are memorable and I think some performances like John Cusack's and Nick Nolte were really good.

Adaptation - Mind-bender about a screenwriter who writes himself into his screenplay while trying to adapt an un-adaptable book. Pretty good and more brilliant writing from Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind).

Monster (Oscar) - Charlize Theron as a female serial killer. Definitely created a character you won't soon forget.

The Secret Lives of Dentists - An excellent little movie with Hope Davis and Campbell Scott.

American Splendor - Chronicle of the life (or lack of same) of Harvey Pekar - creator and star of the underground comic American Splendor. Coincidentally another Hope Davis - great actress - movie. Good work by Paul Giamatti as Pekar, a depressed, frustrated little guy.

Election - Entertaining satire/dark comedy with Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. Witherspoon is perfect as a overachiever obsessed with winning student body president.

Also, since I don't want to write a separate post: Network which is an Oscar winner not through Netflix. Excellent movie, every time I see Faye Dunaway in a movie I remember that I had forgotten what a good actress she is - this, Bonnie & Clyde, Three Days of the Condor, The Thomas Crown Affair, etc. Oh, and Chinatown. William Holden is perfect as always, and the movie itself holds up well as a satire even though the infotainment complex of today has surpassed it in some respects.

FeedFliks is at $1.31 per movie over last 3 months.