Netflix winds up with a lot of art house/indie stuff, but some of it takes a long, long, long time because of distribution deals (or lack thereof). There are some alternative distribution mechanisms now that let the actual creator determine when, where, and how the film gets distributed. John Sayles had a film come out a few years ago called "Amigo" that got almost no theatrical distribution, was available on DVD for a very limited time, but now is available for streaming only on Hulu.

I've wound up with streaming subscriptions to Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu just because of situations like this. Amazon has some things that Netflix doesn't have, and Hulu has some things (like the ENTIRE CRITERION COLLECTION) that the other two don't. Hulu kind of sucks for TV shows because they put commercials in it to "keep their costs down."

BTW, did I mention that Hulu has the ENTIRE CRITERION COLLECTION? Not bad for $7 or $8 bucks a month. Some of Netflix's DVDs use the Criterion print, but it's hit and miss and hard to know which print you're getting.

So to go back to Andrea's request, here are some films on NF Streaming I'd recommend: The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson Rampart - Story by James Ellroy about a despicably corrupt LA cop Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - Hard to describe this one Safety Not Guaranteed - Very quirky Mark Duplass film Donnie Darko - If you haven't seen this you should Jeff, Who Lives at Home The Grey - Really cool, moody action movie about plane crash survivors Capote Conan O'Brien Can't Stop - Conan's year off between the Tonight Show and his new show Jiro Dreams of Sushi - Great doc about a sushi chef in Tokyo Particle Fever - Doc about the large hadron collider and the search for the god particle Side By Side - Great doc about digital vs analog video. Way more entertaining than it sounds The Story of Film: An Odyssey--a multi-part overview of the history and breadth of the film industry. The narrator/documentarian can get a bit too much occasionally, but he gets in to things most film classes don't Ken Burns' The War (In fact, most of Burns' stuff is on NF)