Prime/Hulu in July: Breakfast on Mulholland Dr with a Manchurian
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 8:00AM
NATHANIEL R in Amazon, Bound, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Hulu, Jennifer Tilly, Oscars (60s), The Manchurian Candidate, streaming

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 -- no cheating!  

Which of these films will you be streaming this month for the first time or as a rewatch? Do tell us in the comments. Ready for our game? Okay let's  go...

Everyone thought he was dotty the way he gorged himself on peanut butter. But he wasn't dotty. Just sweet and vague and terribly slow. Poor Fred. 

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) only on Prime
Everyone knows that Audrey Hepburn is wonderful/funny/elegant in this picture... though some think she's miscast. Less often noted but worthy of careful inspection: the smoking hotness of George Peppard as her conflicted gigolo neighbor. [5 Oscar nominations and 2 wins, both for Henry Mancini's music]

[no dialogue]

Mulholland Dr (2001) only on Prime
A handshake. Teehee. They'll eventually get less formal with each other. And then some. Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Haring are both so ridiculously perfect in this surreal classic. I love how stiff wooden, you might even say, the body language and line readings are until suddenly they're in a different register, but one that's no less oddly funny or discomfiting... just in entirely new ways. I haven't seen this in a really long time now. Perhaps due for a rewatch? [1 Oscar nomination only --  Best Director. Incredibly David Lynch accomplished this weird Oscar stat twice in his career, first with Blue Velvet (1986)... a nomination from his own branch while the entire rest of the Academy ignored his newest masterpiece]

I'm sorry Violet. I wanna trust you. I hope you understand. I don't have any other choice.

Bound (1996) on Hulu only
The Wachowski siblings debut! I OBSESSED over this movie in 1996. A justly famous sex scene, super fun plotting, and a perfect example of how you can make a great cinematic movie on a small budget with locations so few it could've been a play instead. Best of all it had Jennifer Tilly being incredible again (just after Bullets Over Broadway). The Wachowskis obviously made other famous and beloved films and TV series after this but strangely they've never again shown this gift for tight pacing and economy of storytelling.

[no dialogue. Someone's getting revenge]

Get Real (1999) on Hulu only
I know I saw this gay coming-of-age movie in 1999 or whenever it came out in the states but I do not remember a single thing about it. Anyone? 

It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her -- when I was a child I only kind of disliked her."

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) on Hulu only
This scene is so amusing. I know that Laurence Harvey gets a lot of flack for being a wooden actor but I think he's just right for this classic role. And he plays drunk really well. Anyway, what a movie this is! If you've never seen it, correct that! I haven't watched it recently but I wonder how its feverish fiction plays now in our scary end times with an actual Russian puppet in the White House destroying our democracy? [2 Oscar nominations only. ROBBED!] 

Gimme a light. C'mon Cisco, we've all seen the ad, a Bud Light!

21 Jump Street (Seasons 1 and 2) only on Prime 
Johnny Depp back in April 1987... when he was just an exceptionally pretty new star on television. He was just 24 years old. He'd had a few small film roles but this was the star-making gig. If not quite the revelation of his talent. The latter happened once he'd parlayed that undercover-20something-cops-posing-as-highschoolers hit into big screen leads with the one-two punch of Cry Baby and Edward Scissorhands in 1990. His last episode of 21 Jump Street aired in July 16th, 1990 inbetween the releases of those two films.

*sniffle* I'm still thinking about that Rolling Stone profile. 

ALSO STREAMING ON PRIME IN JULY (If it has an asterisk it's also on Hulu)

SELECTIONS FROM LATER THIS MONTH ON PRIME

HULU ONLY FOR JULY

SELECTIONS FROM LATER THIS MONTH ON HULU ONLY

 

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