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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Film / Teh Internets Next Up in the Slog Netflix Streaming Movie Club: The Imposter

Posted by on Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:04 PM

Netflix Streaming is the streaming video service ready to shoot several thousand movies onto your TV and/or computer screen. The film selection is a gloriously random array of "Hollywood hits!," beloved classics, and off-brand delights. For the Slog Netflix Streaming Movie Club, we'll all watch the same film on Netflix Streaming, then discuss it here on Slog.

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Hot on the heels of the highly rewarding TV movie Someone I Touched comes the second installment of the Slog Netflix Streaming Movie Club. Our second film: The Imposter, the deeply intriguing 2011 documentary about an insane real-life mystery involving a 13-year-old boy who vanishes in Texas and shows up three years later in Spain, looking different and speaking with an accent. It's an amazing story, one that blew minds at last year's Seattle International Film Festival and was previously the subject of an essay in The New Yorker. What makes the documentary special (besides the amazing source material): Unlike in The New Yorker, we get to see the faces of the central characters, which is crucial to the mind-fuckery.

You can watch The Imposter anytime you want on Netflix Streaming, and we will be discussing it here on Slog this coming Monday at 11 am PST.

 

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Cato the Younger Younger 1
This doesn't look as good as Someone I Touched. I was really hoping for corny-cheezy movies.
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on March 20, 2013 at 2:27 PM
pg13 2
Great choice! And one I've already watched and wished I'd had more people to talk to about it.

Dreams DO come true! Thank you, The Stranger!
Posted by pg13 on March 20, 2013 at 2:42 PM
3
Haven't seen it yet myself but here is the fascinating NYer piece:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/…
Posted by T-Kins on March 20, 2013 at 2:57 PM
4
This documentary is extremely well done and everyone should watch it.
Posted by Amanda on March 20, 2013 at 4:35 PM
David Schmader 5
1: Man (and woman) cannot live on corny cheese alone.
Posted by David Schmader on March 20, 2013 at 4:36 PM
ArtBasketSara 6
I'm not sure why this isn't the new Katy Perry documentary Netflix has so graciously added for me....
Posted by ArtBasketSara on March 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM
Tracy 7
I love this streaming movie club idea so much, not least because it's going to cause small blips of weirdness in Netflix's data.
Posted by Tracy on March 21, 2013 at 9:13 AM
8
It would be great if this movie club had its own hashtag, so it could be bookmarked.
Posted by namrog on March 24, 2013 at 7:46 AM

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