Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

scott - chromecast. get it. no computer necessary.

i find their practice of using b/w photos for color movies really distracting
idk why they would do this

we watched Norma Rae recently and it was great

Scott, a roku box is really cheap... like, one wall record cheap.

We got kanopy like a month after we subscribe to filmstruck. There are some hoops to jump through for the former though. I think you can only watch 10 movies a month, and you have to watch them within 3 days.

Yes, it's not straightforward, but again, free.

Sadly, it's been a very long time since a 10 movie/month limit would be a problem for me!

i've got kanopy through the university, but it requires a vpn which then makes chromecasting impossible.

Kanopy is great tho how many plays you get depends on the deal struck by your library/institution. However the Roku app, at least on my Roku TV, is complete garbage - buggy as hell, awkward to navigate (tho not as bad as nu-Hulu) and the subtitle tracks are like 15 seconds in advance of the film, rendering all foreign films unwatchable. They've told me by email they're working on it. :-/

Romanzo Criminale is leaving on Sept 29, FYI. I check this page periodically: https://www.filmstruck.com/us/coming-soon

The Ross McElwee docs are leaving in a week, you don't want to miss those. They are unique.

"(tho not as bad as nu-Hulu)"

OMG, this is one of those cases where i really think a company is doing something to fuck with me personally. like they know it will drive me insane.

i will look into chrome/roku. i probably don't need more ways to watch hours of t.v. but i do miss having criterion at my fingertips even if i often ended up watching more episodes of Nikita when i meant to watch some chantal akerman movie i hadn't seen.

xpost yeah what in the fuck is wrong with them? i had only recently gotten oldHulu installed cause spotify just declared I had a free subscription (tho with such an obscene quantity of commercials that watching TV shows isn't worth fucking with), had fun loading up my watchlist with MOR blockbuster rental quality stuff, and then like three days later it morphed into this unbrowsable monstrosity

was wondering about the TCM content and looking at the website i can't help but notice that there are only five westerns listed. which is kinda sad.

i don't know why companies feel the need to do that. hulu wasn't perfect but jesus there wasn't anything really wrong with how it looked and it was easy to use. i'm guessing they made it more phone-friendly in some way that escapes me? i don't watch stuff on phones.

i think everyone i know had the same reaction to nu-hulu. i think it's an result of people needing to keep their jobs and ABC (always be creating) -- sometimes a thing just needs maintenance, not innovation. this is the world we live in i guess.

http://criterioncast.com/news/all-of-the-films-joining-filmstrucks-criterion-channel-this-october

I've been having trouble with streaming on my Roku TV recently. Tried to watch "Tabloid" but the sound wouldn't synch and the picture kept breaking up. Everything streams fine on my AppleTV.

crikey...

https://www.britbox.com/

oh.. i guess i should have read this thread a couple days ago.
now how do i see the end of romanzo criminale??

hulu SUCKS i want to cancel it honestly.

also anytime i try to go to the homescreen from filmstruck i'm still getting a reset..

I had that problem on my Roku but it seems to have been fixed in the last 2-3 days.

Also in the "classy" movie-streaming market: has anyone tried Fandor? They're doing some promotion through MoviePass to try and hook me on $2/month... that's pretty cheap so I probably should just say what the heck, but I already feel like with Kanopy I do have a reasonable number of "good movies" on easy tap...

I have fandor and filmstruck but never watch either because I'm busy.

however, fandor is great, more cult and avant garde type stuff. midnight movies, experimental film etc.

Some great stuff on filmstruck right now. I had totally forgotten about A Boy and His Dog, which I have somehow never seen. Boy, George Miller sure borrowed a lot from this. Unless it's all in the novella.

couldn't get more than a few minutes into that one when my friend and I tried it a while back :-/ liked the setting and stuff but the sexual violence was very jarring and jarringly handled, for us.

FilmStruck & Shudder -- I need nothing else to subsist!

xpost The sexual violence is one of the things George Miller took.

They're adding Twin Peaks: FWWM on Nov. 16th as a CC Edition, and it will include The Missing Pieces.

http://onvideo.org/criterion-channel-announces-nov-programming/

Imamura's The Pornographers is one I was just checking for the other day; nice to see it will be available soon.

I couldn't get my Filmstruck Roku app to load today ...

Even though the more canonical arthouse films tend to be on Filmstruck, I've watched more things on Fandor more for some reason. Maybe its eclecticism is more inviting. It probably helps that I've never had issues with Fandor on the Roku, where Filmstruck wasn't on it for quite a while; just a few days ago I needed to log in to the Filmstruck app again.

cool, thanks y'all! I'll mull it. though tbh the moviepass itself keeps me busy enough so maybe this shd just be a year of hitting the theater as much as possible

filmstruck takes fucking forever to load lol

FilmStruck & Shudder -- I need nothing else to subsist!

My man

FilmStruck and Shudder exist and are totally affordable but the media elite is tweeting about spending their weekends watching 8 hours of "Guys, E.T. Rubiks Cube Toto"

shudder is such an incredible deal

I'm in. Just watched only my second Naruse.

filmstruck takes fucking forever to load lol

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40)

this is a problem yeah

Sympathies to everyone who's had that problem, but it zips along for me. Even when it crashed my Roku whenever I used the app, it loaded fine and let me finish watching something first.

the Henson shorts are super enjoyable
Drum West especially, but all the ones I watched were good.

I just finished a work production deadline and am looking forward to diving in to a lot of Henson. And Haneke, but probably not at the same time.

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

Ian, it looks like Romanzo Criminale is back for about five weeks.
https://www.filmstruck.com/us/watch/bundle/1520000202

18 Bill Morrison films yessss

thanks for the spreadsheet william ... this is nice!

My pleasure! It was a case of "if you want Filmstruck to do something right, you've got to do it yourself." Probably obvious, but red = expired and blue/yellow = I've seen. Light green = started it, hated it, bailed early.

haha now I want to see what you light greened

Not too many. Track 29, Desert Hearts and Rendez-vous were real cases of 'ugh, crap." With Sweet Movie it was a case of "ok, interesting hammer but could you stop hitting me with it?" and I just didn't have the stomach to stay with Benny's Video last week, the USA has my nerves on edge.

You didn't like Desert Hearts? I enjoyed that one.

When I saw Sweet Movie i was in a class called The Films of Dusan Mackavejev being taught by an expert on eastern european cinema, and his giving us a thorough background and understanding of yugoslavian history made Sweet Movie a lot more enjoyable.

Mainly I thought the acting was terrible -- kind of baffled at the praise for Shaver in the lead. xp

I think I would have enjoyed Sweet Movie with added history/context.

Have really been enjoying the Bill Morrison collection!! Who By Water especially because 1) Vuh-y score and 2) people basically nonstop staring in the camera https://vimeo.com/48669901