Netflix

[cellio]

For my birthday I received a gift subscription to Netflix (I'd been considering it but never did anything about it on my own). This is excellent. I've populated my queue with enough stuff to get rolling, but I figure suggestions are always good. Here is your invitation to evangelize DVDs you think I'd like.

Recent TV I've enjoyed has included Merlin, Pushing Daisies, and Journeyman (last year, short-lived). I enjoyed West Wing, the first three seasons of LOST (more now on the way), Firefly, and the first season of Heroes. I'm a big B5 fan and have seen all the modern Star Treks. I don't get out to movies very often; the profiling there is likely to be unsurprising. If you're reading this, you probably have some other clues about me. I can of course pour all that data into automated suggestion generators; I'm providing it here for a bit of context in case it matters.

Anyway, fire away. :-) (A hint about why you think I'd like something would be much appreciated.)

Comments

[fauxklore]

Given that you like science fiction and Jewish thought, what about Pi? It's got an interesting subplot about the Kabbalah, but is still moderately geeky. (I should add the disclaimer that, while I thought it was wonderful, Robert hated it.)

[cellio]

Pi: Faith in Chaos, 1996?

[fauxklore]

It's 1998, not 1996 and I didn't know it had a subtitle, but it looks like it does. It was Darren Aronofsky's first film and it was interesting hearing him speak about it at the Edinburgh film festival. (Where it was part of a double feature with Cube, a movie I liked considerably less. My favorite of the festival, Tano da Morire, is not, alas, available on DVD in the U.S.).

[cellio]

Whoops, misread the date. (In smaller fonts the digits I am most likely to have problems with are 6 or 9 vs 8.) Thanks.