I love Netflix for discovering the obscure classics and masterpieces forgotten in the age of shallow trendy special effects, juvenile twaddle, mediocre remakes and gross revolting slasher flics.

However even with a claimed 60K inventory they only have approx half the great films I tend to seek after reading about the actors, sceenplays, reading original novels and the biogs of directors etc.

Two major media shifts in the last generation, from film to VHS, from VHS to DVD then? At each shift, more great films are abandoned to obsolete media formats. There is no quick profit in restoration of great movie art. There is quick profit in the production of meaningless tripe. Which gets the most attention?

One certain symptom of decadence is the arbitrary discontinuation, the loss of cultural works through simple lazyness, ignorance, incompetence, and stupidity.

Bill C