"Beginning today, FilmStruck subscribers in the US will get hundreds of new movies" is an error in Deadline's story. Filmstruck's Tumblr has this: "We’re also adding hundreds of classic films over the next few months."
Today's additions are a 22-film TCM Select bundle, a 23-film Bette Davis bundle, and the complete Astaire-Rogers (10 films).
― WilliamC, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
When the TCM Select stuff rolled out this week, I decided it was too much to keep updating my spreadsheet, which I was adding to line by line. Providence (and Reddit) sent along some guy who knows his web-scraping shit and created this a couple of days ago: hxxp://www.disobey.com/wiki/FilmStruck
― WilliamC, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
bookmarked, thanks!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 2 March 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
Again and again lately I'm thwarted by Filmstruck. Decalogue's not there, and there's no Spinal Tap; both are ostensibly Criterion, both currently AWOL. Then they get the big WB collection, but no Treasure of the Sierra Madre, no Sergio Leone, no etc. Obviously there are tons of other options there, but still bummed.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 April 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link
There are plenty of Criterion movies that aren't there, but they get rotated in and out. Same for WB.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 16 April 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I know. I just haven't seen them rotated in for a long, long while.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
Spinal Tap Criterion is out of print, which might mean they don't have the rights anymore
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
Criterion Spinal Tap is literally why I bought a DVD player way back when.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
Why don't you watch your DVD then?
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
No longer own a DVD player. Well, it's somewhere, but I don't know where it is. I think So: laziness/convenience. And not wanting or needing DVDs is why I subscribe to Filmstruck/Netflix in the first place.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
You can currently rent it from Apple, Microsoft, Vudu or the PlayStation Store
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
Or you can get some nerds to act out all the scenes for you
― President Keyes, Monday, 16 April 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
It's really not that complicated. I know it's not gone forever from every place. The reason I pay for Filmstruck and Netflix is to watch movies on Filmstruck and Netflix.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
The reason you pay for Filmstruck and Netflix is that culture started priding convenience over quality
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
Not your fault, obviously, but we should all temper our expectations to this new reality if we're going to help fund it
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
Netflix= Stuff you probably wouldn't have paid for back in the video store days but hey there it is
Filmstruck= This is easier than riding a bike to the library all the time
― President Keyes, Monday, 16 April 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
whiney otm in last 2 posts
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 16 April 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Kanopy -- which is free if you have a library card -- just added most (or maybe all?) of Fred Wiseman's documentaries.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 16 April 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
Anybody got Filmstruck UK? Been thinking of ditching Mubi for it and wondered what selection was like.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 16 April 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
i get kanopy through my employer (public university), but it requires vpn so i can't chromecast it. it's a bummer.
― wmlynch, Monday, 16 April 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
FWIW I don't use VPN and I do use Chromecast.
Watched "Hospital" last night. Some haunting stuff in there.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
yah my employer requires the vpn to access it, not kanopy.
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
wait which library did you use to access it? maybe i'm not trying hard enough.
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
Alfred, if you find the idea of browsing 1500 titles to be just too much, here's a thing I maintain: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TWx8-b5fbqenVr6r64hf3GktufPAgc61akPIvKoV2XA/edit#gid=556920267
― WilliamC, Saturday, November 4, 2017 5:17 PM (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is great but what does the color coding mean?
― na (NA), Friday, 18 May 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
The yellow and blue fields were for films I've seen. Red was for films that had expired and weren't available anymore. Every now and then there's a bit of green for films that I started, really hated, and quit watching before the end. I haven't updated that spreadsheet in more than 2 months -- when the huge amount of TCM Select stuff went live I gave up. I thought that spreadsheet at disobey.com (linked upthread) would be a good replacement, but it hasn't been updated in over a month. :(
― WilliamC, Friday, 18 May 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
if You Gotta Move is still on there, i think everyone should watch iti visited the school after seeing the movie -- that's how good it was
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
sorry it is GOT TO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Got_to_Move
Filmstruck added The Night of Truth, Kabala, Hyenas, Guelwaar, Dreams of Dust, Sembene, Xala, and Yeelen today— &rew (@hedgetheater) May 18, 2018
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 18 May 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
Launching in France and Spain.https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/time-warners-movie-streaming-service-filmstruck-launch-france-spain-1114568
― WilliamC, Friday, 25 May 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
The Other Side of Hope coming June 29th
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
Bill Morrison docs are leaving soon I hear -- and I was wondering if anyone else has trouble with them? Like staggering video?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
I've been blessedly free of playback problems since the service started. I see loads of frustrations on places like Criterionforum.org and their Facebook page, but I've had pretty smooth sailing. Maybe one or two glitches.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
so nothing on the morrison films? someone else i asked said that she did have issues. i wonder what the problem is?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
maybe it's like only for roku users or somethinggod i hate companies so much
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
so to watch in browser you need to enable adobe flash?
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 June 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link
fraid so
― WilliamC, Sunday, 3 June 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
Okay, since Criterions mostly dried up from Kanopy, finally going to have to give this a try.
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 June 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
I had high hopes for the King Kong audio commentary, but there's not much to it really. Harryhausen and Ralston chat while watching the film but don't have much to say beyond "ahh, that's a terrific matte painting there." Merian Cooper and Fay Wray's contributions are cut in from other talks, and almost an hour into it, Wray's only contribution so far is "One nice thing about the picture is that we all remained friends."
― WmC, Saturday, 13 October 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
I love the long overture or original music that's included at the beginning of "Kong." I wish more prints of vintage movies would include those if available.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 15 October 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
Filmstruck now launching in the UK. Free 14 day trial, approx. £6 a month depending on whether you pay monthly or annually. Looking at the UK website so far, the Criterion titles are restricted to those that have been issued on blu ray in the UK, and even then it's not every title. They've also got a deal w/ Curzon/Artificial Eye to include some of their titles too. All in all, a much bigger selection than on MUBI, but MUBI often has films that are otherwise unavailable to view in the UK, whereas there don't seem to be anything that out of the ordinary on Filmstruck so far (plus I get a free subscription to MUBI as part of my Glasgow Film Theatre membership).
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 19 October 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
Was going to dump Mubi for Filmstruck earlier this month when my annual sub ran out, however they offered a year for £22.99 so am sticking with them, at least for another year. Will probably get Filmstruck soon. but hoping their library gets a bit deeper.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 19 October 2018 11:13 (five years ago) link
RIP: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/filmstruck-shutdown-warnermedia-turner-1202998364/
shutting down at the end of november
pretty pissed about this
― na (NA), Friday, 26 October 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
Well, shit.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 26 October 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
what the fuck
― maura, Friday, 26 October 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
Aww. Well, I guess that saves me a few bucks each month. I wish I had more time to watch stuff while it lasted.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 October 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
farewell to the films truck
― ciderpress, Friday, 26 October 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
fuuuuuuuck
― WmC, Friday, 26 October 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
goddammit
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 26 October 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
at least i have shudder the only other good streaming service? this fucking sucks
this makes me very sad
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 26 October 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link