All the Kurosawas are leaving the Filmstruck side after this coming Friday, but Ran is the only one not on the Criterion side as well.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Monday, 16 January 2017 03:46 (seven years ago) link
I worry by the time this thing is actually available on Roku or Chromecast it will have completely lost momentum and be on the brink of folding
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 16 January 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
I was going to watch Ran tonight but it's already gone — all the Kurosawas were taken down from the Filmstruck side sometime during the day today.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Friday, 20 January 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
Somebody on criterionforum.org figured out that the URL of Filmstruck's bundles/banners ended with steadily increasing numbers, so they counted ahead and found this for the next Tuesday Short + Feature:https://watch.filmstruck.com/#!/bundle/1520000290
So I kept going and found what looks like the next Friday Double Feature, two Dirk Bogarde films:https://watch.filmstruck.com/#!/bundle/1520000292
And the next Observations on Film Art, Kristin Thompson on landscape in Kiarostami:https://watch.filmstruck.com/#!/bundle/1520000293
I tried posting about those last two at the Criterion Forum, but as a noob, my first five posts have to be approved by a moderator, and this one was disapproved because it "does not make a contribution to the ongoing discussion."
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Saturday, 21 January 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link
The bundle placeholders are there for the next month's worth of Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday specials, but I won't spoil anything unless y'all want me to.
One intriguing thing was something called the "C.R. Barker Collection." The only thing google brought up for that name was co-author of a biography of Erich Maria Remarque.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Friday, 27 January 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
oh hey chromecast
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 February 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link
Contemporary Israeli Cinema, John Ford in the 30s, and Chantal Akerman are leaving the Filmstruck side later this week. Which films in those are must-not-miss?
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
Akerman's News From Home is pretty fascinating.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
Fortunately that one's staying on the Criterion side.
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
Neo-noir, Animation for Adults, Made for the U.N., Seventeen Moments of Spring banners leaving this week. Ace in the Hole leaves early next week. BTW, films leave at midnight GMT of the date listed, which means 7 p.m. EST on the day before. Sneaky fuckers.
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Monday, 20 February 2017 13:34 (seven years ago) link
Roku?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 February 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
"spring"
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Monday, 20 February 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link
are they still having massive buffering issues?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 February 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
I haven't had any myself, but I've been reading about them. I get a lot of hangups at the login process, but if I open a new tab and retry it, I always get in the 2nd time.
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Monday, 20 February 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
I have HBO, PBS, Sundance, etc., and FilmStruck streams better than any of them on Apple TV.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 00:58 (seven years ago) link
added Putney Swope which is a lot of fun
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
Watched it tonight -- great.
Spoiler: tomorrow's Criterion Collection Edition is going to be Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg.
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:31 (seven years ago) link
+ 15 supplements, holy shit
https://watch.filmstruck.com/#!/bundle/1520000315
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
Roku pushed back to May.
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
Interest in this service pushed back even further. Why the delay?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 13:44 (seven years ago) link
Isn't Roku just a delivery vector?
I have no idea why, and good luck prying any info out of them. Fuckers. I bought a Roku instead of Apple TV because I thought "oh a couple of months delay between device rollouts won't be too big a deal."
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
you still made the right choice
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
This is handy.http://criterioncast.com/news/all-of-the-films-joining-filmstrucks-criterion-channel-this-april
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Thursday, 30 March 2017 11:32 (seven years ago) link
Finally watched Come and See. Caring for a newborn it took me about two weeks of watching it in 5 to 20 minute chunks. Not ideal, but wow, what a movie.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 1 April 2017 14:24 (seven years ago) link
Per help desk chat a few minutes ago, Roku availability is now "late May to mid-June."
― 20-lol pileup (WilliamC), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
I was irritated that Happy Together disappeared from Amazon before I had a chance to see it, but Filmstruck is starting a program of LGBTQ films on June 2nd that includes it.
A JIHAD FOR LOVEPARTING GLANCESWORD IS OUTTHE TIMES OF HARVEY MILKBORN IN FLAMESTHE WATERMELON WOMANJEFFREYANOTHER COUNTRYSTEAM: THE TURKISH BATHQUERELLEWILD REEDSVICTIMHAPPY TOGETHER
― 20-lol pileup (WilliamC), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
The Roku channel is live.
― a warm bowl of soap (WilliamC), Monday, 5 June 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
lmao it's amazing how little I've grown to care about this. I still never even signed up for a free trial. Have the buffering issues improved? I wonder how they're doing business-wise.
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
i signed up a couple weeks ago, and I'm really enjoying it. I haven't had any issues with buffering at all.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
No buffering problems for me. Once a week or so it'll hang up on me moving from one part of the service to another, like from Criterion main screen to my watchlist, but overall it's pretty smooth. I wish their color scheme wasn't so black/white/gray – they could use the red from their logo to indicate selection and it would be a lot easier to navigate.
The biggest problem with this service is that there's too damn much to choose from. Between the Filmstruck side and Criterion side, they have about 1700 films, enough choice to be paralyzing. Which is great, but coming up with navigation strategies other than just looking at their featured banners is on the viewer – they don't make things any easier.
― a warm bowl of soap (WilliamC), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
Of all the apps I use on Apple TV, FilmStruck streams the best; rarely have I had any buffering issues. The interface is also gorgeous and well-organized.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_music
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 June 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
Ha, whoops. So it's finally available for Roku. Is it still hemorrhaging content beyond the Criterion Collection?
I'm not sure what you mean. On the Filmstruck side, every Thursday a 2-3 banners are dropped, and every Friday 2-3 banners are added. They said from the beginning that films would be rotated in and out; they stay steady at ~500 films, and the Criterion channel is up to ~1200.
― Mr. Crackpots (WilliamC), Sunday, 25 June 2017 03:03 (six years ago) link
Gotcha. Just wanted to make sure that was the strategy rather than a struggled to show there's value in Filmstruck beyond the CC. When I looked at the site yesterday (since it just became available for Roku and I'm out of the country I haven't signed up yet) I saw this long list of movies leaving Filmstruck, and I was bummed, because as great as the CC is (and honestly there's little more a film fan needs), there was all sorts of good stuff leaving. So as long as new good stuff comes in and not, say, a bunch of shit, I'm cool with rotation.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 June 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
There is a huge amount leaving in the next month, it's true – Resnais, Sayles and Errol Morris alone in one week.
― Mr. Crackpots (WilliamC), Sunday, 25 June 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
Guess I should buy a subscription!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 June 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
Better hurry, those three banners (plus the "Behind the Iron Curtain" banner that includes Petzold's Barbara and the Cinematography by Rudolph Mate banner) are leaving this Thursday evening; 26 films total, 8 of which will stay on the Criterion side. https://help.filmstruck.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000301047-Movies-Leaving-FilmStruck
― Mr. Crackpots (WilliamC), Sunday, 25 June 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link
I'm loving this. Cancelled cable (which I mostly had for TCM). Various bugs exist but they are obvious & will be ironed out. After dealing with the screaming red hell of Netflix it's so nice to have a soothing gray-colored adulty service, a fairly curated list where nearly everything is good.
― The Thnig, Sunday, 25 June 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
OK, signed up. Confused, though - it's not the complete Criterion Collection? They have pretty much everything from Kieslowski, for example, but not Dekalog, which is a bummer.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 June 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
Yeah things cycle in and out. I thought that would bum me out -- how incredible it would be to have all 800 of those. But the curation has worked out really well; I don't go scrolling for choices for 2 hours. The key might be bookmarking this link:
https://www.filmstruck.com/coming-soon
― The Thnig, Monday, 26 June 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
Pretty good July coming on the Criterion side. http://criterioncast.com/news/all-of-the-films-joining-filmstrucks-criterion-channel-this-july
― Mr. Crackpots (WilliamC), Monday, 26 June 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
I think we may have answered this before but does anything ever *leave* the Criterion Channel?
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 26 June 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Not unless they lose the rights.
― Chris L, Monday, 26 June 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
Some stuff is added for very short streaming engagements. Sometimes they make note of it on the film's banner (Downhill Racer, Ace in the Hole, Heaven's Gate, Safe, the 1961 Something Wild) and sometimes they don't (Bitter Victory, the 1986 Something Wild). Flight of the Red Balloon and Blow Out came and went but I can't remember if they had a "limited engagement" note.
Tourneur's Cat People is leaving Friday but there's no note on the banner. 12 Angry Men is leaving on 7/31 but there's no note. I think the trick is to look for things that are leaving on the last day of the month no matter what day of the week that is -- those tend to be the few films leaving the Criterion channel.
― Mr. Crackpots (WilliamC), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the quick cycling in and out has forced me to forgo the whole "100 movies in my queue om nom nom" aspirational viewing habit that streaming has helped create in me, and just enjoy something they have at the moment. It was annoying at first but now ultimately feels a little liberating?
― Sutcliffe Juugin' (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
And you can always lie about watching it!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
xpost Though all I've really watched recently is 'Blood Simple' :/
― Sutcliffe Juugin' (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
i'm into this! last night i watched Peter Weir's THE PLUMBER and it was great
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link