Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

Honestly I fully don’t get the appeal of smart TVs when you can get a Roku for like $50 that will be way speedier, more stable, have way more channels, etc

My smart tv is a top of the line Vizio from 2017 and it CRASHES!! Like it will freeze and I have to turn it off and back on and it takes like 30-60 sec!

30-60 sec!

Sacre bleu!

Like my dedicated Roku was ever particularly reliable.

I didn't get a smart TV because it was a smart TV, I got a new TV that happened to be a smart TV (see also: 4K, HDR, etc, features that will have next to no bearing on what and how I watch but which are pretty much the default as of late). We'll see how it goes with crashes and stuff, but so far Plex at the least seems to work faster than it did via dedicated Roku.

AppleTV is great, just fyi.

I'm gonna plug an ethernet cable directly into this sucker; hope i'm not seeing the issues y'all are describing.
will keep apple tv in mind but i tried it years ago and was sorta meh. Then again i'm a devoted tivo guy so don't trust me.

okay, so I got one of these:
https://www.tclusa.com/products/home-theater/4-series/tcl-43-class-4-series-4k-uhd-hdr-roku-smart-tv-43s425
and on day one, it's great! set up netflix, hulu, prime, plex, mubi, criterion, youtube, pbs, spotify for streaming easily and without a hiccup; tivo/switch/ps4 are more quickly accessible than they've ever been.picture quality seems fine, but i'm going to have to tinker. all in all, fixed the problems with a reasonably cheap entry point... presuming it don't bust shortly.

asked and answered

https://films.criterionchannel.com

Very nice.

Sacre bleu!

American TV shows are 19 minutes long: if your TV just decides to turn itself off and takes 60 seconds to turn back on, you've missed over 5% of the programme.

not missing much

xp, full film list not yet on the app tho'

Nope. And in the filter function, they created a button for the 1900s (0 results) but forgot the button for the 1910s. You can do that manually in the URL and get yr 13 results.

Looks like the full film list won't come to the app or iOS. From the email they sent out this afternoon --

The number one request was for an “all films” list, and just in time for your viewing pleasure here it is! This desktop-only feature will allow you to see all the films on the Criterion Channel and organize them by title, director, year, and country. We hope this helps you navigate the more than 1,500 titles available now on the service!

i imagine the app will improve over the upcoming month. Even so, they've rolled out kinda haphazardly tbh.

I mean, this is a boutique proposition, and for clearing the rights on this library alone, it’s cool. I was able to send off my Friday with Querelle and I was very happy.

Is there a reason why some Criterion titles are apparently not available to stream? I subscribed to Filmstruck from the start and never saw The Harder They Come pop up, and it's not listed on the new channel, either.

Prickly rightsholder one presumes.

Same reason Netflix or Prime don't have things, they don't own the streaming rights.

The All Films list is nice, but its usefulness is limited in that there is no way to use it to add films to one's own list, even by clicking through to the film.

I noticed that, very frustrating.

enjoyed the bonus features for Wanda today
the documentary was kinda boring (all about acting!) but i enjoyed the interviews and hearing a little more from Barbara Loden herself

May 2019 lineup: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6314-coming-attractions-the-criterion-channel-s-may-lineup

HOLY SHIT THAT CUKOR LINEUP!!!

"Our Betters" is WONDERFUL and iirc never even made it to VHS (let alone DVD or Blu)

yeah really excited for that--I've only seen Gaslight out of that whole list

B-b-but have you see the original Gaslight?

I have not! I didn't even know it existed until you posted that, but I do love Walbrook

screening on VHS at my house next week

"Our Betters" was pretty delightful--thanks for repping it Stevie. It's basically a filmed play but Constance Bennett and, especially, Violet Kemble-Cooper are such fun. And I don't know what to say about the last five minutes.

Also, I'm not one to swoon over women's fashion, but Bennett looks phenomenal in every scene:

https://pre-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/OurBetters26-650x493.jpg

I have to say, having spent the last five years in Canada at a loss for how to see classic/arty/etc cinema, this service has been a godsend. If only they'd put a My List link in the top nav.

oh, ERNEST

Had no idea Criterion was currently hosting a ton of Godzilla!

yeah filmstruck was too, seemed like part of their marketing strategy

So the Channel will have the full edition of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, supplements and such, three and a half weeks before the disc release, as in tomorrow. That's a pretty nice trick.

July titles. Sorry it's an image, that's how I found them and I don't want to retype it.

https://i.imgur.com/8FrbOE1.jpg

* = not available in Canada
** = limited engagement, leaves end of July

Nice, re: Diary of a Chambermaid

CC expirations, July through November, via some Facebook group person who saw it on reddit.

Leaving end of July 2019:

A Woman's Face (George Cukor, 1941)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky, 1969)
Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, 1996)
Camille (George Cukor, 1936)
Dinner at Eight (George Cukor, 1933)
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969)
Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944)
Girlfriends (Claudia Weill, 1978)
Little Women (George Cukor, 1933)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
Moonrise (Frank Borzage, 1948)
Mother (Albert Brooks, 1996)
Our Betters (George Cukor, 1933)
Robin and Marion (Richard Lester, 1976)
Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor, 1935)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
The Women (George Cukor, 1939)
Two-Faced Woman (George Cukor, 1941)
Uptight (Jules Dassin, 1968)
What Price Hollywood? (George Cukor, 1932)
White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949)

Leaving at end of August 2019:

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990)
Christopher Strong (Dorothy Arzner, 1933)
Craig's Wife (Dorothy Arzner, 1936)
Damn the Defiant! (Lewis Gilbert, 1962)
Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940)
Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg, 1973)
My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985)
Our Man in Havana (Carol Reed, 1959)
Performance (Donald Cammell & Nicholas Roeg, 1970)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981)
Something Wild (Jack Garfein, 1961)
The Card (Ronald Neame, 1952)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicholas Roeg, 1976)
The Prisoner (Peter Glenville, 1955)
The Scapegoat (Robert Hamer, 1959)

Leaving at end of September 2019:

A Room with a View (James Ivory, 1985)
Adua and Her Friends (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1960)
After the Wedding (Susanne Bier, 2006)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan, 2015)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
Othello (Orson Welles, 1952)
Quiet as Kept (Charles Burnett, 2007)
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960)
Room at the Top (Jack Clayton, 1959)
Several Friends (Charles Burnett, 1969)
Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, 2012)
The Final Insult (Charles Burnett, 1997)
The Horse (Charles Burnett, 1973)
The Widow Couderc (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1971)
When it Rains (Charles Burnett, 1995)

Leaving at end of October 2019:

Archipelago (Joanna Hogg, 2010)
Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)
Daddy Longlegs (Safdie Brothers, 2009)
Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, 2013)
I Killed My Mother (Xavier Doland, 2009)
Kaos (Tavania Brothers, 1984)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)
Padre Padrone (Tavania Brothers, 1977)
River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo, 2011)
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)
The Night of Shooting Stars (Tavania Brothers, 1982)
The Pleasure of Being Robbed (Josh Safdie, 2008)
The Shooting (Monte Hellman, 1966)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam, 1981)
Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)

Leaving at end of November 2019:

The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016) (LEAVES NOVEMBER 7TH)
Viva (Anna Biller, 2007) (LEAVE NOVEMBER 7TH)
Battle in Heaven (Carles Reygadas, 2005)
Cemetary of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris, 1983)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
The Captain's Paradise (Anthony Kimmins, 1953)
The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris, 1981)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Penelope Spheeris, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (Penelope Spheeris, 1998)
The Hours and Times (Christopher Munch, 1991)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, 1951)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1947)
The Maids (Christopher Miles, 1975)
The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951)
The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen, 1982)
The Tales of Beatrix Potter (Reginald Mills, 1971)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé, 1987)

Ugh. Too much pressure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf7v1iWc4tk

watched girlfriends, elevator to the gallows, and the wicker man (rewatch) this weekend, all great

> elevator to the gallows

in england we call this 'Lift To The Scaffold'.

i really enjoyed that one (no matter what you call it), a noir subverted by french irony

yes. cool and tense.

Most of the July titles added today (Bondarchuk War & Peace to come later) and I'm in hog heaven. Gonna pingpong between Fred & Ginger and Bruno Dumont.

Correction, War & Peace is up as well. https://www.criterionchannel.com/war-and-peace-1

Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel in August:

24 Frames Per Century, Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2013
Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Werner Herzog, 1972
America America, Elia Kazan, 1963
American Gigolo, Paul Schrader, 1980
And You Act Like One Too, Susan Seidelman, 1976
Angst Isst Seele Auf, Shahbaz Noshir, 2002
Aria Diva, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2007
Ars, Jacques Demy, 1959
Attenberg, Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010
Baby, D. A. Pennebaker, 1954
Baby Face, Alfred E. Green, 1933
Ballad of the Little Soldier, Werner Herzog, 1984
Beauty and the Devil, René Clair, 1950
Best Offer, Lisa Krueger, 1993
Bezhin Meadow, Sergei Eisenstein, 1937
Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979
Blackmail, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929
Blancanieves, Pablo Berger, 2012
The Capsule, Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2012
Cassis, Jonas Mekas, 1966
A Chairy Tale, Claude Jutra and Norman McLaren, 1957
Champagne, Alfred Hitchcock, 1928
Chevalier, Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2015
Chiefs, Richard Leacock and Noel E. Parmentel Jr., 1968
Close to Home, Erik Skjoldbjærg, 1994
Cobra Verde, Werner Herzog, 1987
Creative Nonfiction, Lena Dunham, 2009
Crisis, Ingmar Bergman, 1946
Diary of a Country Priest, Robert Bresson, 1951
Diary of Yunbogi, Nagisa Oshima, 1965
Dog, Andrea Arnold, 2001
The Emigrants, Jan Troell, 1971
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, Werner Herzog, 1974
Entr’acte, René Clair, 1924
Europa—The Faecal Location, Thomas Gislason, 2005
Even Dwarfs Started Small, Werner Herzog, 1970
Ever in My Heart, Archie Mayo, 1933
The Face, Piotr Studzinski, 1966
A Farewell to Arms, Frank Borzage, 1932
The Fat and the Lean, Roman Polanski, 1961
Fata Morgana, Werner Herzog, 1971
Fatherland, George Sikharulidze, 2017
Female Trouble, John Waters, 1974
Fit, Athina Rachel Tsangari, 1994
Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog, 1982
For Me and My Gal, Busby Berkely, 1942
Forbidden, Frank Capra, 1932
The Fountain, Lena Dunham, 2007
Gambling Lady, Archie Mayo, 1934
Geometria, Guillermo del Toro, 1987
A Girl’s Own Story, Jane Campion, 1983
Godard 1980, Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen, 1980
The Hall Runner, Guy Maddin, 2014
Hare Krishna, Jonas Mekas, 1966
Heart of Glass, Werner Herzog, 1976
Hooker on Campus, Lena Dunham, 2007
Illicit, Archie Mayo, 1931
The Immigrant, Charlie Chaplin, 1917
Interlude in the Marshland, Jan Troell, 1965
Jamaica Inn, Alfred Hitchcock, 1939
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days, Ken Jacobs, 2009
L’amour existe, Maurice Pialat, 1960
La luxure, Jacques Demy, 1962
La villa Santo-Sospir, Jean Cocteau, 1951
Ladies of Leisure, Frank Capra, 1930
Ladies They Talk About, Howard Bretherton, 1933
Land of Silence and Darkness, Werner Herzog, 1971
Le coup du berger, Jacques Rivette, 1956
Le sabotier du Val de Loire, Jacques Demy, 1956
Les escargots, Rene Laloux and Roland Topor, 1966
Les horizons morts, Jacques Demy, 1951
Les temps morts, Rene Laloux and Roland Topor, 1965
Lessons of Darkness, Werner Herzog, 1992
Letter to Jane, Jean-Luc Godard, 1972
Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Werner Herzog, 1997
Lost Lost Lost, Jonas Mekas, 1976
Louis Riel for Dinner, Guy Maddin, 2014
M le maudit, Claude Chabrol, 1982
Mammals, Roman Polanski, 1962
The Manchurian Candidate, John Frankenheimer, 1962
Man’s Castle, Frank Borzage, 1933
Manny & Lo, Lisa Krueger, 1996
Marseille, Marcel Pagnol, 1935
Max by Marcel, Marcel Ophuls, 2009
Milk, Andrea Arnold, 1998
The Miracle Woman, Frank Capra, 1931
Murder, Roman Polanski, 1957
Murder!, Alfred Hitchcock, 1930
The Musicians, Kazimierz Karabasz, 1960
My Best Fiend, Werner Herzog
Near Winter, Erik Skjoldbjærg, 1993
The New Land, Jan Troell, 1972
Nice and Friendly, Charlie Chaplin, 1922
A Night in the Show, Charles Chaplin, 1915
Night Nurse, William A. Wellman, 1931
No C4 for Daniel-Daniel, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoit Poelvoorde, 1989
No Greater Glory, Frank Borzage, 1934
Nosferatu the Vampyre, Werner Herzog, 1979
Notes on the Circus, Jonas Mekas 1966
On purge bébé, Jean Renoir, 1931
Only Dream Things, Guy Maddin, 2012
Open the Door, Lena Dunham, 2007
Paradise: Faith, Ulrich Seidl, 2012**
Paradise: Hope, Ulrich Seidl, 2013**
Paradise: Love, Ulrich Seidl, 2012**
Physical Pinball, David Gordon Green, 1998
Pleasant Grove, David Gordon Green, 1996
Police Story 1, Jackie Chan, 1985
Police Story 2, Jackie Chan, 1988
Pressure, Lena Dunham, 2006
The Purchase Price, William Wellman, 1932
Report from Millbrook, Jonas Mekas, 1966
Rich and Strange, Alfred Hitchcock, 1931
The Rink, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Sacrilège, Christophe M. Saber
Sculptures by Sofu—Vita, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1963
Shall We Go to Your or My, Place or Each Go Home Alone?, Lasse Hallström, 1973
Sinclair, Guy Maddin, 2010
The Skin Game, Alfred Hitchcock, 1931
The Slow Business of Going, Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2000
So Big!, William A. Wellman, 1932
Spanky: To the Pier and Back, Guy Maddin, 2008
Stereo, David Cronenberg, 1969
Stroszek, Werner Herzog, 1977
Teeth Smile, Roman Polanski, 1957
Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel, Jonas Mekas, 1969
Trainspotting, Danny Boyle, 1996
Travel Songs, Jonas Mekas, 1981
The Triplets of Belleville, Sylvain Chomet, 2003**
True Stories, David Byrne, 1986
Two Men and a Wardrobe, Roman Polanski, 1958
Viva Maria!, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2010
Waiting Women, Ingmar Bergman, 1952
Walden, Jonas Mekas, 1968
When Angels Fall, Roman Polanski, 1959
Where the Green Ants Dream, Werner Herzog, 1984
Wild Reeds, André Téchiné, 1994
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Jonas Mekas, 2003
The Witnesses, André Téchiné, 2007**
Women of the Resistance, Liliana Cavani, 1965
Woyzeck, Werner Herzog, 1979
You Can’t Do Everything at Once, But You Can Leave Everything at Once, Marie-Elsa Sgualdo, 2013
Yours Truly, Andrea G. Stern, Susan Seidelman, 1979
Zorgon: The H-Bomb Beast from Hell, Kevin Feman, 1972

**Not available in Canada

Well of course they put up all the Herzog AFTER my free trial ended...

The Herzog movies are on various film streaming sites.

finally the pent-up demand for Lena Dunham's juvenilia will be sated

I hate to be that guy, but I was thinking about getting the Jackie Chan set before the end of the B&N sale and now I won't.

Why just those two Chan films? I demand Supercop!