Graham Davies and Catherine Millar

Netflix, the online DVD rental service, looks like a complete winner on paper and has gained popularity in the last few years. The disks arrive is small red envelopes and can be kept for as long as required or returned the next day with no monthly maximum on most plans. With free shipping it makes sense to turn those babies around and maximize your disks per dollar. Recently we've been getting a little behind and so I decided to cancel - or at least put the account on hold. Despite sending most disks back the next day the stats are quite suprising. We signed up almost two years ago and rented 222 movies at a total cost of $457.54 or $2.06 per disk. I hate to think how much it would work out as if you casually kept them for days at a time. For my own posterity, here is the list of rented films - nearly all were worth watching - but a few of my hidden gems are highlighted.

Vertigo
Dial M for Murder
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Opposite of Sex
Howards End
The Crying Game: Collector's Edition
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
The Celebration
Ben-Hur: Collector's Edition: Disc 2
Ben-Hur: Collector's Edition
Yi Yi
Out of Africa
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Corpse Bride
Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0: Disc 3 (3-Disc Series)
The Aristocrats
A Passage to India
To Kill a Mockingbird
Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0: Disc 2 (3-Disc Series)
Harold and Maude
My Own Private Idaho
My Life as a Dog
Lovely & Amazing
Kramer vs. Kramer
How to Marry a Millionaire
Spartacus
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Graduate
Fanny and Alexander (Theatrical Version)
The Deer Hunter
All About Eve
Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0: Disc 1 (3-Disc Series)
March of the Penguins
Farewell My Concubine
The Cider House Rules
Living in Oblivion
You Can Count on Me
The Polar Express
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Shrek (Full-screen)
The Bourne Identity
Shrek 2
Dazed and Confused
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Shanghai Triad
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Special Edition
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1: Disc 4 (4-Disc Series)
What the #$*! Do We Know!?
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Stepford Wives
Hotel Rwanda
The Tin Drum
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Crash
War of the Worlds
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1: Disc 3 (4-Disc Series)
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1: Disc 2 (4-Disc Series)
Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries
The Company of Wolves
The Girl in the Cafe
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1: Disc 1 (4-Disc Series)
Sex and Lucia
Million Dollar Baby
Rosemary's Baby
The Story of Qiuju
Gandhi
Midnight Cowboy
Tron
To Catch a Thief
Audition
Man Bites Dog
Oldboy
In the Mood for Love
Strange Days
Paycheck
Adrenaline Drive
A Better Tomorrow
Sin City
The City of Lost Children
Wasabi
Ghost in the Shell
Shiri
Breaking the Waves
Primer
Impostor
Kung Fu Hustle
A Very Long Engagement
The Grapes of Wrath
Au Hasard Balthazar
Sylvia
Freaks & Geeks: The Complete Series: Disc 1 (6-Disc Series)
Jacob's Ladder
The Straight Story
Elephant
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
National Lampoon's Animal House: Double Secret Probation Edition
Fahrenheit 451
Equilibrium
Scenes from a Marriage
Silent Running
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
I, Robot
Iris
Chungking Express
Drunken Master
Wings of Desire
Lilya 4-Ever
Hilary and Jackie
Firefly: Disc 4 (4-Disc Series)
Firefly: Disc 2 (4-Disc Series)
Firefly: Disc 3 (4-Disc Series)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Firefly: Disc 1 (4-Disc Series)
Naked Lunch
North by Northwest
Kinsey
Old School
The Five Obstructions
The Aviator
Team America: World Police
House of Flying Daggers
Gunga Din
Lawrence of Arabia
Heavenly Creatures
Underground
The Third Man
Vera Drake
Short Cuts
Riding Giants
Closer
Dr. Strangelove
Rear Window
The Long Goodbye
Dancer in the Dark
Dogville
Sideways
Elling
Pleasantville
American Movie
Napoleon Dynamite
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Drugstore Cowboy
Army of Darkness
Deliverance
White
Pi: Faith in Chaos
Donnie Darko
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring
This Is Spinal Tap
Garden State
Shaun of the Dead
Hero
GoodFellas: Special Edition
The Return
The Bourne Supremacy
Mean Girls
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
Monsieur Ibrahim
Dirty Pretty Things
The Magdalene Sisters
Election
Barfly
Dog Day Afternoon
Blue
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
In the Bedroom
Like Water for Chocolate
21 Grams
Yojimbo
El Bola
Swingers
Glory
Rashomon
East/West
Happenstance
Monster
Kalifornia
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Seven Samurai
Casablanca
Bon Voyage
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
The Limey
House of Sand and Fog
Veronica Guerin
Burnt by the Sun
Big Fish
Titus
The Last Samurai
Dark City
The Duellists
All About My Mother
Touching the Void
Little Otik
Iron Monkey
Grand Illusion
Amadeus
Babette's Feast
Waiting for Guffman
Sunset Boulevard
Chinatown
Miller's Crossing
Red
Barton Fink
All Quiet on the Western Front
Citizen Kane
sex, lies, and videotape
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
No Man's Land
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Vanilla Sky
Ran
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Fog of War
Amores Perros
The Italian Job
Cinema Paradiso: Director's Cut
L'Auberge Espagnole
Talk to Her
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Happiness