Prime in September: Bolero, Gutland, Jack Ryan, and There Will Be Blood
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 6:01PM Time to play Streaming Roulette. Each month, to survey new streaming titles we freeze frame the films at random places with the scroll bar and whatever comes up first, that's what we share! (in case you missed it we did Netflix earlier)
What does Amazon Prime offer us for free viewing this month? (Hulu will have the bulk of these, too, as their contracts are always very similar). Let's survey...
Just because we fucked three times, now you think you own me?
Gutland (2017)
Did Phantom Thread make you curious about Vicky Krieps? Here she is in a noir from her home country of Luxembourg. The guys she's arguing with in this skinny-dipping scene is Frederick Lau, who gave a fine performance in that continuous shot German movie Victoria a few years ago.
ding ding ding. It looks like we have a winner
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Season 1 (2018)
Jeez, how many actors have played Jack Ryan already? Now it's Mr. Emily Blunt's turn in a new Prime series. I guess they're skipping their 'pilot testing with audiences' phase and going straight to series like most of their competitors now.
Chinatown, the 2007 Oscar race, and more after the jump...
- Let's drop the whole thing. Sugar? Lemon? or Both?
- Both. Mrs Mulwray?
- Yes, Mr Gittes?
- I don't want to drop it.
Chinatown (1974)
Faye = Fabulous.
You know what happens to people who lose their happy thoughts?
The Dark Half (1993)
Some forgotten George Romero horror movie starring Timothy Hutton going insane or something? That's Rutanya Alda in the phone about to meet a sorry demise. Poor Rutanya! You might remember her as the bride at the beginning of The Deer Hunter or as Joan Crawford's maid in Mommie Dearest -- she recently wrote a memoir about it!
Angel, Angel, I have the rich lady! I have the rich lady!
Bolero (1984)
Bo Derek movies are so ridiculous. As in her hilariously awful version of Tarzan, in this one she plays a rich virgin who wants to discover how to sex with the aid of a beautiful dumb hunk (this time it's a Spanish bullfighter instead of the Lord of the Apes).
We want to thank the men of Cel Block C, affectionately known as the Citrus State Cheerios
The Longest Yard (1974)
Burt Reynolds prison football movie. I guess Adam Sandler remade this?
Come here. It's over. It's over.
There Will Be Blood (2007)
You know it's weird. I remember some images of this movie so very vividly and so many other parts of it are a lost blur. Is that because it's so mammoth? That Best Picture lineup was such a dream (This + Juno, Michael Clayton, Atonement, No Country for Old Men). Not my top five exactly but all 5 were great movies and you really cannot ask for anything more than that when the word "best" is invoked each year.
Also streaming on Prime this month
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise
- A Field in England
- A Good Woman
- All You Can Eat Buddha
- A Love Song for Bobby Long
- A Murder of Crows
- The Amityville Horror (1979)
- Asylum, season 1
- A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures
- A Turtle’s Tale 2: Sammy’s Escape from Paradise
- Bandits
- Beowulf
- Beirut (9/4)
- Big Top Pee-wee
- Blow Out
- The Blue Rose, season 1
- The Broker’s Man, seasons 1–2
- Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police
- Cool It
- Crescent (9/4)
- Double Impact
- DragonHeart
- Dressed to Kill
- The Eagle
- Fall Time
- The Field of Blood, seasons 1-2
- Fighting Temptations
- For Colored Girls (9/22)
- From Paris with Love (9/8)
- Ghostbusters
- Ghostbusters II
- Going Overboard
- Golden, season 1
- The Great Outdoors
- Hard Rain
- Harry and Paul’s History of the 2s
- Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
- Hot Summer Night (9/22)
- Hotel for Dogs
- House of D
- Hustle & Flow
- Jerry Maguire
- Joyride (1997)
- The Kevin Bishop Show, season 2
- Kill Me Again
- Lea to the Rescue
- London Irish, season 1
- Miami Vice
- On Chesil Beach (9/15)
- Over the Top
- The Palace, season 1
- Parents, season 1
- Paycheck
- The Perfect Weapon
- Pistorius (9/6)
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side
- Prancer
- Primal Fear
- Pumpkinhead
- Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
- Resurrecting the Champ
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Rocket’s Island, seasons 1–3
- Roger Dodger
- Rustlers’ Rhapsody
- Sam’s Game, season 1
- Senorita Justice
- The Score
- Sleepless in Seattle
- Small Town Saturday Night
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Stealth Fighter
- Strangers Prey at Night (9/4)
- Stronger (9/8)
- Texas Rising, season 1
- The Triangle, season 1
- Trust, season 1
- Westside, seasons 1–3
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
- Wild at Heart, seasons 1–8
Reader Comments (4)
Chinatown is such a good movie. And the reveal was unexpected (at least for me).
The actor Andrea Occipinti in Bolero is quite beautiful. Quite.
Did Phantom Thread make you curious about Vicky Krieps?
Absolutely. She was the best part of the film and, though she doesn't seem like the type to pursue a huge Hollywood career, I hope she gets to continue making interesting choices.
And FUCKYEAH Chinatown! Faye Dunaway is so, so good. *swoon*
Yeah, Chinatown. Masterpiece. As soon as the New Hollywood buried The Old One, became nostalgic about it with movies like Chinatown, The Sting, etc.
Faye deserves a biopic like Crawford. Like the Baby Jane star she is such a character; her relationship with Polanski would make a great Feud like Bette x Joan.