Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

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

Yes, I'm loving the Morrison. Were you at Big Ears the year they showed The Great Flood with Bill Frisell and band doing the score live? I don't remember if that was this year or 2015 or earlier.

That's a shame WilliamC, I thought Desert Hearts was really nice. Loved Shaver especially, but both leads were quite brave and sweet IMO

WMC - No! I didn't see that!! Dang

We have watched 3-4 of them so far, and Porch is the only one I was unmoved by. It was fine but not essential.

The UK version, Filmstruck Curzon, is up and running.
https://www.filmstruck.com/uk/#

FilmStruck, Turner’s streaming service for movies, is partnering with Warner Bros. Digital Networks (WBDN) and adding some new features that will expand its film library to some Hollywood classics. As part of the venture, Warner Archive will sunset its service effective immediately, with current subscribers being transitioned to a FilmStruck subscription.

Beginning today, FilmStruck subscribers in the US will get hundreds of new movies and streaming access to films from the Warner Bros. classic film library, including Casablanca, Rebel Without a Cause, Singin’ In the Rain, Citizen Kane, The Music Man, Bringing Up Baby, The Thin Man, Cat People, A Night At The Opera, An American In Paris, and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

http://deadline.com/2018/02/filmstruck-adds-warner-bros-films-as-warner-archive-sunsets-1202301824/

Awesome, how about Leone?

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"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).

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

bookmarked, thanks!

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.

There are plenty of Criterion movies that aren't there, but they get rotated in and out. Same for WB.

Yeah, I know. I just haven't seen them rotated in for a long, long while.

Spinal Tap Criterion is out of print, which might mean they don't have the rights anymore

Criterion Spinal Tap is literally why I bought a DVD player way back when.

Why don't you watch your DVD then?

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.

You can currently rent it from Apple, Microsoft, Vudu or the PlayStation Store

Or you can get some nerds to act out all the scenes for you

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.

The reason you pay for Filmstruck and Netflix is that culture started priding convenience over quality

Not your fault, obviously, but we should all temper our expectations to this new reality if we're going to help fund it

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

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Kanopy -- which is free if you have a library card -- just added most (or maybe all?) of Fred Wiseman's documentaries.

Anybody got Filmstruck UK? Been thinking of ditching Mubi for it and wondered what selection was like.

i get kanopy through my employer (public university), but it requires vpn so i can't chromecast it. it's a bummer.

FWIW I don't use VPN and I do use Chromecast.

Watched "Hospital" last night. Some haunting stuff in there.

yah my employer requires the vpn to access it, not kanopy.

wait which library did you use to access it? maybe i'm not trying hard enough.

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?

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. :(

if You Gotta Move is still on there, i think everyone should watch it
i visited the school after seeing the movie -- that's how good it was

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

Launching in France and Spain.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/time-warners-movie-streaming-service-filmstruck-launch-france-spain-1114568

The Other Side of Hope coming June 29th

Bill Morrison docs are leaving soon I hear -- and I was wondering if anyone else has trouble with them? Like staggering video?

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.

so nothing on the morrison films? someone else i asked said that she did have issues. i wonder what the problem is?

maybe it's like only for roku users or something
god i hate companies so much

so to watch in browser you need to enable adobe flash?

fraid so

Okay, since Criterions mostly dried up from Kanopy, finally going to have to give this a try.

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."