Bye Bye Greencine

After considerable deliberation -- seriously a month at least -- I have finally decided to cancel my Greencine subscription.  A significant influence on that decision is my recent re-subscription to Netflix to get the Watch Now instant streaming feature which is almost all I need, especially when you add Boxee the mix.  Did I mention Boxee rules? Well it does. Go get it now!  True Greencine does have some foreign and obscure films that Netflix doesn't and some movies that Netflix will never have. But Boxee (with the Boxxxee app installed) has more than enough of the latter, for free no less.  And Greencine was getting slow to ship discs probably because over the years I ended up with a queue top loaded with 50+ movies that were all hard to get.  Still, I had Greencine because they were supposed to have those hard to get movies.

That said, Greencine is an excellent resource with a great staff and community and I will definitely continue to visit their site regularly to read reviews and peruse lists.  I may give Nicheflix a try if Netflix can't satisfy my need for obscure foreign films.

I  have to admit I'm quite curious as to whether every movie I've rented from Greencine over the past 4 years (listed below) is available on Netflix but I haven't gotten around to writing a script to check.  I have been wanting and excuse to play with the Netflix API and I've just started to learn Ruby using this excellent tutorial so this might be, uh,  the proverbial stone that kills two birds.

My GreenCine rental history after the jump...





...And God Created Woman (Criterion Collection) (1956)
10,000 B.C. (2008)
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
2046 (2004)
3 Women (Criterion Collection) (1977)
3-Iron (2004)
6ixtynin9 (1999)
8 1/2 (Criterion Collection) (1963)
8 1/2 Women (1999)
A Fishy Story (1990)
A Good Year (2006)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
A.F.R.I.K.A. (2002)
Able Edwards (2004)
Acacia (2003)
Address Unknown (2001)
Alexander (Director's Cut) (2004)
Angel-A (2005)
B. Monkey (1998)
Bad Guy (2001)
Badlands (1973)  
Bandidas (2006)
Batman Begins (Special Edition) (2005)
Belle De Jour (1967)
Best Laid Plans (1999)
Bloodrayne (Unrated) (2006)
Bloody Ties (2006)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Boarding Gate (2007)
Body of Lies (2008)
Borat (2006)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Brotherhood of Wolf (Director's Cut) (2001)
Bulletproof Monk (2003)
Cadillac Records (2008)
Caprica (2008)
Catwoman (2004)
Children of Dune (Disc 1 of 2) (2003)
Children of Dune (Disc 2 of 2) (2003)
Chinese Box (1997)
Chunhyang (2000)
CJ7 (2008)
Cocaine Cowboys (2006)
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1997)
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Crank (2006)
Cyber Wars (2004)
Cypher (2002)
Dante 01 (2008)
Daredevil (Director's Cut) (2003)
Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972)
Days of Being Wild (1991)
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless To Confess (1971)
Die Another Day (2002)
District 9 (2009)
District B13 (2004)
Ditto (2000)
Doggy Poo (2003)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993)
Eastern Promises (2007)
El Topo (1971)
Elektra: Unrated Director's Cut (2005)
Eragon (Special Edition) (2006)
Eros (2004)
Faces (Criterion Collection) (1968)
Fantastic 4 (2005)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
Fireworks Wednesday (2006)  
Flesh Gordon 2 - Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989)
Floating Weeds (Criterion Collection) (1959)
For Bad Boys Only (2000)
God Is Brazilian (2003)
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
H (2003)
Happiness (1998)
Happy End (2000)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002)
Hellboy (2004)
Honey (2003)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
I Love Maria (1988)
I, Robot (2004)
Ichi (2008)
Idiocracy (2006)
Ikiru (Criterion Collection) (1952)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
In the Realm of the Senses (Criterion) (1976)
Infernal Affairs 2 (2003)
Inferno (1980)
Inland Empire (2006)
Irreversible (2002)
Island Fever 3 (2004)
Island Fever 4 (Disc 1 of 2)
Jackie Brown (1997)
JSA: Joint Security Area (2000)
Kaidan (2007)
Kamikaze Girls (2004)
Kite (1998)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Lady in the Water (2006)
Lady Vengeance (2005)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Land of the Lost (2009)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Lathe of Heaven (2002)
L'Avventura (Criterion Collection) (1960)
Lies (1999)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Maison Plaisir (2004)
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Matchstick Men(200)
Matrix: Revolutions (2003)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Memories of Murder (1990)
Miami Vice (Unrated Director's Edition) (2006)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
Mirrormask (2005)
Moon Over Tao (1997)
Motel Cactus (1997)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Nil by Mouth (1997)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Nuns of Saint Archangel (1973)
Oasis (2002)
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Out of the Past (1947)
Outsourced (2007)
Pan's Labyrinth (Special Edition) (2006)
Paradise Villa (2001)
Paranoia Agent Vol. 1: Enter Lil' Slugger (2003)
Paranoia Agent Vol. 2: True Believers (2003)
Paranoia Agent vol. 3: Serial Psychosis (2003)
Paranoia Agent vol. 4: Sayonara Maromi (2003)
Paris, Je T'Aime (2006)
Paris, Texas (Criterion) (1983)
Peppermint Candy (1999)
Perhaps Love (Special Edition) (2005)
Pickup on South Street (Criterion Collection) (1953)
Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Special Edition) (2006)
Planetfall (2005)
Portland Street Blues (1998)
Queen Margot (1994)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Raise the Castle! (2005)
Real Fiction (2000)
Reign of Fire (2002)
Revolver (2005)
Romance and Cigarettes (2005)
R-Point (2004)
Samaritan Girl (2004)
Samurai Fiction (1999)
Sanjuro (Criterion Collection) (1962)
Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis (2004)
Save the Green Planet (2003)
Saxondale: The Complete Seasons 1 and 2 (Disc 1 of 3) (2008)
Saxondale: The Complete Seasons 1 and 2 (Disc 2 of 3) (2008)
Saxondale: The Complete Seasons 1 and 2 (Disc 3 of 3) (2008)  
Scarlet Diva (2000)
Second Time Around (2001)
Serenity (2005)
Seven Swords (2005)
Sex & Fury (1973)
Sex Is Zero (2002)  
Shadows (Criterion Collection) (1959)
She's On Duty (2005)
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Shusaku Vol. 1: The Man's Paradise (2001)
So Close (2002)
Sorum (2001)
Spaced: The Complete Series (Disc 2 of 2) (1999)
Sparrow (2008)
Spider Forest (2004)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2003)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Sunflower (2005)
Sunshine(2007)
Sword in the Moon (2003)
Swordfish (2001)
Take Care of My Cat (2001)
Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)
Teknolust (2002)
Tell Me Something (2000)
Temptress Moon (1996)
Terminal USA (1993)
Terror Taxi (2004)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Battle of Algiers (Criterion Collection) (1966)
The Belly of An Architect (1987)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969)
The Bow (2005)  
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
The Burning (2008)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
The Chinese Feast (1996)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Special Edition) (2005)
The Church (1989)
The Crimson Rivers (2000)
The Dark Knight (Special Edition) (2008)
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
The Earthsea Trilogy (2004)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
The Five Obstructions (2003)
The Foul King (2000)
The Ghost (2004)
The Girl from Monday (2005)
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2004)
The Hidden Fortress (Criterion Collection) (1958)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
The Incredible Hulk (Special Edition) (2008)
The Iron Giant (Special Edition) (1999)
The Island (2005)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
The Matrix: Reloaded (2003)
The One (2001)
The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976)
The Pillow Book (1996)
The President's Last Bang (2005)
The Promise (2005)
The Quiet American (2002)  
The Quiet Earth (1985)
The Red Shoes (2005)
The Science of Sleep (2005)
The Secret (2007)
The Sleeping Dictionary (2002)
The Soul Guardians (1998)
The Stendhal Syndrome (Special Edition) (1996)
The Story of Qui Ju (1992)
The Swindle (1997)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
The Time Machine (2002)
The Uninvited (2003)
The Way Home (2002)
The White Countess (2005)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Tideland (2005)
Timeline (2003)
To Live (1994)
Transporter 2 (2005)
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
Tube (2003)
Twentynine Palms (2004)
Unleashed (2005)
Untold Scandal (2003)
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)
Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2004)
Weekend (1967)
When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2002)
Whispering Corridors (1998)
White Dog (Criterion Collection) (1982)
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
Wishing Stairs (2003)
Withnail and I (Criterion Collection) (1987)
Woman is the Future of Man (2004)
Woman on the Beach (2006)
Y.P.F. (2007)
Yellow Flower (2002)
Yesterday (2002)
Zeiram II (1994)
Zero Woman Returns (1999)
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game (1998)
Zero Woman: Final Mission (1995)
Zombie Strippers (Special Edition) (2008)