Streaming Roulette, June: Martha Marcy May Titanic

We never know which films to cover since there are so many channels so please note that we welcome comments and requests for more in-depth coverage of new-to-streaming titles.  June is looking very strong (nice change of pace) for streaming fun so we'll have so much to discuss.

Okay, time for this month's streaming roulette. You know the rules. We highlight new-to-streaming movies and an occasional TV series by freezing them on the scroll bar at entirely random places and just sharing what pops up. No cheating*!

The hulls not designed to deal with that pressure so what happens [SOUND] she splits, right down to the keel. And the stern falls back level. Then as the bow sinks, it pulls the stern vertical and then finally detaches... 

TITANIC (1997) on Netflix
Do you also forget about the long prologue to Titanic? I do. One of my fondest memories of moviegoing with my family is watching my dad fall in love with this movie...

He complained on the way to the theater but absolutely loved all the historical and science bits like this. It truly was an "all-quadrant" crowd-pleaser. The whole family loved it but everyone had different favourite parts. We'll be discussing this modern classic for Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Thursday June 16th) and for the 1997 Supporting Actress Smackdown (currently undated but toward the end of June or early July).

-How do you like it?
-Well... I don't know much about all this. But with the lights and all it's kind of exciting.

SUMMER STOCK (1950) on Criterion Channel
Gene Kelly credited Judy Garland with teaching him how to act for the camera (his film debut was in one of her pictures, For Me and My Gal after he'd broken out on Broadway) and they made three films together. This was their final picture together and for a while it threatened to be Judy's last picture. We'll discuss it soon on the Judy @ 100 Centennial special.

I said Monday at 8 PM, baby. Now don't be naughty!

KLUTE (1971) on HBOMax
Okay so here's the apologetic scoop. We were going to do a giant thing for Klute's 50th anniversary last year (it was released in June '71) and I biffed it. As penance, we're having a "Klute week" from June 20th-23rd culminated in the season finale of Hit Me With Your Best Shot. If you've never seen it or haven't seen it in years and year now is REALLY the time. 

c'mon I dont have any pictures of you. You're gorgeous. It's really rather irritating.

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (2011) on Hulu
Memories of this one are so tied to Elizabeth Olsen's emergence -- god, she was wonderful and haunting in this -- that I'd completely forgotten that Sarah Paulson and Hugh Dancy are in it until streaming roulette landed here. My most specific memory of this movie's release is meeting Olsen during a luncheon for her Oscar campaign and we chatted about... Michelle Pfeiffer (since we're both enormous fans). 2011's Best Actress lineup will never not be frustrating due to how many amazing performances were in the mix and what we ended up with instead. 

Consider all the lead actresses in the mix in 2011 and what they were up for (*indicates win. I've included our own Film Bitch Awards to be cheeky)... how to even choose? And would you choose differently today then you did back then? 

• Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy - Film Bitch Award nom. Cannes win the year before.
• Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs - Oscar, Globe, & SAG nominations
• Olivia Colman, Tyrannosaur - BIFA win
• Viola Davis, the Help - Oscar, Globe, SAG*, BAFTA, Critics Choice*, and Film Bitch Awards* noms. 
• Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia - Film Bitch Award nom. Cannes & NSFC wins.
• Jodie Foster, Carnage - Globe nom
• Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Oscar, Globe noms.
• Adepere Oduye, Pariah - Spirit nom.
• Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene - Spirit & Critics Choice noms
• Anna Paquin, Margaret
• Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady - Oscar*, Globe*, SAG, BAFTA*, & Critics Choice noms. NYFCC win
• Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin - Globe, SAG, BAFTA, BIFA, & Critics Choice noms. NBR win
• Charlize Theron, Young Adult - Globe, Critics Choice, & Film Bitch Awards noms
• Mia Wasikowsa, Jane Eyre - BIFA nom
• Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids - Globe nom
• Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn - Oscar, Globe*, SAG, BAFTA, Spirit*, & Critics Choice noms. 
• Kate Winslet, Carnage - Globe nom
• Yun Jeong-hie, Poetry - Film Bitch Awards nom. LAFCA win.

Unless somebody has a better idea, we'll proceed with Dallas' plan

ALIEN (1979) on Hulu
Hulu has ALL of the Alien movies this month. Even the Alien vs Predator installments. So if you want to spend June with Lieutenant Ellen Ripley (and assorted other Alien franchise characters), you can!

🎵 but my goodness me it's a great big world 🎵

THE HARVEY GIRLS (1946) on HBOMax / Criterion Channel
The problem with doing a Judy Garland Centennial is we really want to discuss every single movie and not just 12 of them. Not sure we're getting to this one but it's fun. Angela Lansbury steals some scenes as a saloon owner but in a Judy Garland movie it's always The Judy Show. Spotlit from within so naturally the spotlight also wanted in.

[GASP]

POLTERGEIST (1982) on Shudder
When Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opened there was a mini-kerfuffle about its PG-13 rating due to some of its violence. Some (including me) felt it should have been rated R. This is not because i am sensistive but because I think very violent movies should always be rated R (nobody cares about children seeing violence anymore, though, so they're almost always PG-13). One of the rebuttals was always "have you seen some of the 80s movies that were PG?"  and this was one of them that was often cited. Poltergeist isn't really gory apart from that one face-tearing bit but it is a great "scare" movie. Love this non-cheap jump scare above which uses no cuts or music tricks for its jolt. JoBeth Williams walks into her 100% normal non-spooky daylit dining room, bends down to open a cupboard in the kitchen and when she pops back up to reenter the dining room the chairs are all jenga'ed up on the table. It's a great "how did they do that" movie moment because it's so fluid and fast and because the setting and supernatural happening are both so mundance.

I've got to stop him, though. I have to. I created him. 

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012) on Netflix
When Spider-Man No Way Home opened in December there was A LOT of retconning of Garfield's two movie run, trying to claim that they were actually good movies; They weren't. Good Spidey casting alone does not make a good Spider-Man movie. Nevertheless nostagia cares not for quality so a lot of people will probably be rewatching this now that Garfield is having a major career moment.

Telegrams from Milan, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam.

VICTOR AND VICTORIA (1933) on Criterion Channel
Victor/Victoria (1982) is one of those movies that was so well loved and successful on its own that a lot of people didn't even realize it was a remake. It was based on this Weimar Era German film that Criterion is showing as part of their overall emphasis on queer films in June for Pride Month. 

So what (else) is streaming in June? 
MORE STREAMING TITLES FOLLOW

★ indicates movies or series of note though sometimes hidden gems have no buzz until you see them.
🔸 Indicates that the movie was Oscar-nominated in some category or another

also new to streaming on Netflix

• The Amazing Spider-Man
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• The Boy
• Dear John
• 🔸★ The Departed (2006) - BEST PICTURE WINNER
• Dumb and Dumber
• ★ Edge of Seventeen - they have both of the movies with this title but we're not sure which is "new" to netflix. Both movies are worth seeing if you haven't, one a 1998 gay coming of age film set in the 80s and the other a contemporary high school film from 2016. 
• Eraser
• 🔸★ The Fighter (2010) - BEST PICTURE NOMINEE
• The Girl Next Door
• His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
• 🔸★ The Hurt Locker (2009) - BEST PICTURE WINNER
• Léon: The Professional
• Life as We Know It
• Love + Death + Robots SEASON 3
• ★ Mission: Impossible
• Mission: Impossible II
• ★ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Mr. Bean’s Holiday
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
• The Player's Club
• Soul Plane
• 🔸★ Steel Magnolias
• ★Stranger Things SEASON 4
• Troy
• Vegas Vacation
• We Are Marshall

Later this Month (a sampling)

• Hustle (2022) - 6/8 Adam Sandler film
• First Kill SEASON 1 - 6/10
• ★ Closet Monster (2015) - 6/10 - Connor Jessup stars in this wonderful queer Canadian film
• Peaky Blinders SEASON 6 - 6/10

 

★ COLLECTIONS now streaming on Criterion Channel

• 🔸100 YEARS OF JUDY GARLAND - 12 films starring the World's Greatest Entertainer for her Centennial. We'll be discussing some of these for our own 12 film celebration here at TFE. Watch along with us.
• MICROBUDGET MOVIES -32 films made for $150,000 or less including classics like Pather Panchali, Night of the Living Dead, Eraserhead, Smithereens, and The Honeymoon Killers
• DIRECTED BY TERENCE DAVIES  -10 films including Distant Voices Still Lives  and The Deep Blue Sea
• DIRECTED BY ULRIKE OTTINGER - 10 films including Freak Orlando
• 🔸BILLY WILDER'S 1940S -  4 films including Double Indemnity
• LGBTQ+ SHORTS - for Pride Month

INDIVIDUAL FILMS

• ★ Zero Patience (1993) John Greyson's eyebrow raising AIDS musical
• ★ Lilting (2014) a lovely gay drama starring Ben Whishaw 
• 🔸 Round Midnight (1986) jazz musician biopic
• ★🔸 Seconds (1966) Rock Hudson in a seminal thriller from John Frankenheimer

Later this Month - a Sampling

• Charlatan (2020) the Czech Oscar submitted gay biopic 6/8
• Chameleon $treet (1990) seldom seen Sundance winner. 6/14
• ★ Head On (1998) aggressively carnal Greek drama 6/29

also streaming now

• The Sixth Day (2000)
• 50 First Dates (2004)
• 🔸 ★ Alien - all films including the Predator crossovers (1979-2007)
• The American (2010)
• Bewitched (2005)
• 🔸 ★ Bridesmaids (2011)
• ★ Burn After Reading (2008)
• Cabin Fever (2003)
• Compadres (2016)
• Country Strong (2010)
• 🔸 ★ Devil Wears Prada (2006)
• ★ Dick (1999)
• Die Hard - all films (1988-2013)
• 🔸 ★ An Education (2009)
• Dilemma (2011
• Disturbing the Peace (2020)
• ★ Don Jon (2013)
• The Duff (2015) 
• ★ Fifth Element (1997)
• Fred Claus (2007)
• Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
• Get Low (2010)
• Girl Next Door (2004)
• Go For It (2011)
• Gridiron Gang (2006)
• 🔸  Happy Feet - both films (2006-2011)
• 🔸 ★ In the Line of Fire (1993)
• Last Tourist (2021)
• Lemon (2017)
• ★ Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
• Masterminds (2016)
• Muppets from Space (1999)
• ★ Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
• New Year's Eve (2011)
• Nutty Professor -both films (1996-2000)
• Pineapple Express (2008)
• Predator - all films including the Alien crossovers (1987-2010)
• ★ The Professional (1994)
• ★ Prometheus (2012)
• Push (2009)
• Reign Over Me (2007)
• Results (2015)
• Robots (2005)
• RV (2006)
• 🔸 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• The Smurfs - both films (2011-2013)
• There's Somthing About Mary (1998)
• Tomcats (2001)
• Try Harder! (2021)
• Tyler Perry's Meet the BRowns (2008)
• Untraceable (2008)
• vacancy (2007)
• Wedding Planner (2001)
• Weekend at Bernies (1989)
• When a Stranger Calls (2006)
• White God (2014)
• Your Highness (2011)

later this month - a sampling

• Fire Island (2022) - 6/3 WE'LL BE DISCUSSING THIS ON "HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT"
• Indemnity (2021) -6/9
• 🔸 ★ Worst Person in the World (2021) - 6/13
• ★ Love Victor SEASON 3 -6/15
• ★ Good Luck to You Leo Grande (2022) - 6/17
• Motherland Fort Salem SEASON 3 -6/22
• ★ Only Murders in the Building SEASON 2 -6/28

also streaming on Prime...

• 🔸★ Black Swan (2010)
• The Brady Bunch Movie (!995)
• 🔸★ Call Me By Your Name (2017)
• The Cutting Edge - three films (1992-2008)
• 🔸 Doctor Dolittle (1967)
• 🔸★ Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
• The Fighting Temptations (2003)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957)
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
• The Honeymooners (2005)
• 🔸★ Juno (2007)
• The Love Letter (1999)
• The Nanny Diaries (2007)
• Night Sky SEASON 1 (2022)
• Not Without My Daughter (1991)
• 🔸Philadelphia (1993)
• 🔸★ Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• The Sandlot (1993)
• Snake Eyes (1998)
• Switchback (1997)
• 🔸 The Time Machine (2002)
• 🔸 Top Gun (1986)
• The Transporter (2002)
• Twilight --all movies (2008-2012)
• Walking Tall (1973)
• ★ Whip It (2009)
• White Men Can't Jump (1992)
• 🔸 The Wiz (1978)
  
  

later this month - a sampling 

• ★ The Boys SEASON 3 (6/3)
• No Time To Die (6/10)
• Wolf of Wall Street (6/13)

• Glee (all seasons)
• Obi Wan Kenobi Part III

later this month - a sampling

• Hollywood Stargirl (6/3)
• Ms Marvel SEASON 1 (6/8)
• Love Victor (6/15)
• Trevor: The Musical (6/24)

later this month - a sampling

• Physical (6/3)
• For All Mankind SEASON 3 (6/10)
• ★ Cha Cha Real Smooth (6/17)

 

• ★ Alligator (1980) 
• Alligator II (1991)
• ★ Daughters of Darkness (1971)
• Eye of the Cat (1969)
• Mary, Mary Bloody Mary (1975)
• Queer Horror Collection - various films for Pride Month
• Tetsuo The Iron Man (1989)

later this month -a sampling 

• Back Country (?) - 6/6
• Wild Boys (2017) 6/6
• Offseason (2022) - 6/10
• All About Evil (2010) - directorial debut of Peaches Christ - 6/13
• Clovehitch Killer (2018) - 6/13
• ★ Mad God (2021) - 6/16 - Elisa's interview with Phil Tippet
• Grizzly (1976) - 6/20
• Revealer (2022) - 6/23
• The Long Night (2022) - 6/30

also streaming 

• 13 Going on 30 (2004)
• 300 (2006)
• 🔸★ A Star is Born (2018)
• Abduction (2011)
• Across the Universe (2007)
• 🔸 The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) Fredric March stars
• The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)
• Angels & Demons (2009)
• The Ant Bully (2006)
• Assassination Nation (2018)
• Babylon A.D. (2008)
• The Bank Job (2008)
• ★ Beach Rats (2017)
• Bee Movie (2007)
• Blue Bayou (2021)
• 🔸★ Border (2018) 
• Colossal (2017)
• Caro Comes Out (2019)
• Chef (2014)
• The Con Is On (2018)
• 🔸 ★ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
• Damsel, 2018 (HBO)
• ★ Dark Passage (1947) - Bogie & Bacall
• Day Breakers (2009)
• The Da Vinci Code (2006)
• Domino (2005)
• Extraction (2020)
• 🔸 The Firm (1993)
• 🔸 ★ The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• Gridiron Gang (2006)
• Guess Who (2005)
• ★ Hairspray (2007)
• Highlander (1986)
• Horsemen (2008)
• How Do You Know (2010)
• How They Got Over (2017)
• 🔸 ★ How to Survive a Plague (2012)
• The Holiday (2006)
• I Know What You Did Last Summer - 3 movies (1997-2006)
• ★ I’ll See You In My Dreams (2015)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
• The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
• John Grisham’s the Rainmaker (1997)
• The Last Movie Star (2017)
• Life Partners (2014)
• Macbeth (2015)
• Major League II (1994)
• Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
• 🔸 The Mask (1994)
• McQueen (2018)
• My Boss’s Daughter (2003)
• My Days of Mercy (2017)
• My Dead Dad (2021)
• The One I love (2014)
• Papi (2020)
• ★ Paris Is Burning (1990)
• Rambo - first 3 movies (1982-1988)  
• Religulous (2008)
• Remember Me (2010)
• Ride Along (2014)
• ★ Ride the High Country (1962) - Sam Peckinpah western starring Randolph Scott
• Sabotage (2014)
• Sleepers (1996)
• Soul Surfer (2011)
• Spring Awakening: Those You've Known (2022) 
• Stepmom (1998)
• Suite Francaise (2014)
• The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
• 🔸 ★  Total Recall (1990)
• Unfinished Song (2012)
• Un padre no tan padre (2016)
• W. (2008)
• Watchmen (2009)
• What Happens In Vegas (2008)
• 🔸 ★ The World According to Garp (1982)
• The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)

later this month - a sampling

• Irma Vep MINISERIES - 6/3 Alicia Vikander stars with Olivier Assayas remaking his own film
• The Janes (2022) - 6/8
• Father of the Bride (2022) - 6/16
• Westworld SEASON 4 - 6/24

also streaming in June

• Alive
• All the Right Moves
• Along Came A Spider
• 🔸 As Good As It Gets
• The Babysitter
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
• ★ Boxcar Bertha (1972) - early Martin Scorsese starring Barbara Hershey
• ★The Brady Bunch Movie
• Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
• Coach Carter
• Cocktail
• 🔸 ★ Dead Man Walking (1995) Best Actress win for Susan Sarandon
• Desperate Hours
• 🔸 ★ Dragonslayer (1981)
• Easy Money
• 🔸 ★ Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) -Early Ang Lee film
• 🔸 ★ Fences
• The Fighting Temptations
• The Fortune Cookie
• Four Brothers
• Friday The 13th
• Get Rich or Die Tryin'
• The Getaway
• Good Burger
• ★ Harold and Maude (1971)
• The Honeymooners
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• 🔸 ★ In & Out (1997)
• 🔸 ★ Interview With the Vampire
• Invasion U.S.A.
• Juice
• ★ Kalifornia (1993) - Brad Pitt & Juliette Lewis as dangerous lovers... back when they were a couple
• King Solomon's Mines
• Last Holiday
• 🔸 Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events
• Loch Ness
• Looks That Kill
• 🔸 ★ Magnolia
• ★ Mermaids
• The Mod Squad
• Necessary Roughness
• Not Without My Daughter
• Office Space
• ★ Paths of Glory
• The Preacher's Wife
• Presidio
• Save the Last Dance
• Scream 4
• 🔸 ★ Selma
• 🔸 ★ Sideways
• ★ Smoke Signals (1998) - Sundance winner
• Snake Eyes
• Snatch
• Spy Kids (all 3 movies)
• Stealth
• ★ Step Up
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• ★ Untamed Heart
• Walking Tall
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
• White Men Can't Jump
• 🔸 ★ Witness (1985)
• ★ Zoolander

* People never believe this but it's (mostly) true. The only exceptions are when the image is too fast to look good in still frame (we usually use a gif in those cases) or if it's too transitional (dissolves, fadeouts, etcetera) or an establishing shot of a building or something... the other secret to why the images are often good is that we just dont use that particular film if we land on something that's too dull. 

Comments

[Mr Ripley79]

I do remember the Titanic prologue due to Gloria Stuart and the always reliable Bill Paxton.

In 2011 I wish the Academy had fallen in love with Olivia Colman as she is very deserving of it in Tyrannosaur,Olsen,Theron and Dunst deserved nominations too,i'd only keep Viola and Meryl from the Oscar line up.

I think Poltergeist is an undervalued horror film and it has many scary moments far better then the face ripping scene,JoBeth Williams and Craig T Neslon who are both fantastic and sell the hokey premise have an easy rapport they together create the feeling these 2 have been married for years.

Judy is always the main focus of any Judy movie,will you be discussing A Child Is Waiting for her centennial,she is really great in it.

[Pam]

Daayyyuuum. 2011 was a good year for actress performances. Forgot about Carnage. Though last year's Mass was better with a more devastating catalyst (and a much nicer human for a director). And what's Mia Wasikowsa up to these days?

Really looking forward to the Judy Garland retrospective.

[Finbar McBride]

I watched Tyrannosaur.

When the pit bull attacks the young boy, the camera must look through the legs of three men struggling to rescue the boy. The audience is spared the brutality.

When James is killed, we only see the aftermath with the bloodied body covered in flies. The audience is spared the slaughter.

When the pit bull is killed, a brick wall prevents the camera from recording the blows that crush the dog’s skull. The audience is spared the violent death.

But when Hannah is anally raped, the camera pulls in close. We see Hannah drunkenly taunt James. We flee up the stairs with her to wait in the bedroom. The image and sound cut to a shocking entry that startles the audience. We watch James rip open his pants, spit on his hand and wet his penis. We see him shove Hannah onto her face. The camera moves in for a tight close up to watch her pain, degradation. 

Why is this necessary? I contend that we as a society fail to see women as deserving the dignity we give a man or a child or even a dog. A violent act upon a woman is entertainment. We are voyeurs who watch. This film is the textbook definition of abuse porn. It certainly didn't deserve the prestige of Oscar recognition.