Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

the short nature films of Jean Painlevé.

I just bought the Criterion DVD collection of these this weekend! I admit I am like the streaming skeptic big guy with the wall of discs upthread. Although I have zero copies of Boondock Saints and three different editions of the Wicker Man.

<3 my friend

maybe i should buy the dvd too. speaking of antiquated nature films, when will criterion discover ken middleham?! i want to see his stuff collected ASAP, before the filmstrips deteriorate!

Hm. Looking through Kanopy I see a bunch of good stuff that comes via the Cohen Collection as well, which collection I had been unaware of

Here we go

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6044-new-independent-criterion-channel-to-launch-spring-2019

https://www.criterion.com/channel

The best news and the scariest news at once.

Well, trying to sign up as a charter member didn't go well, and doesn't bode well.

Huh. Went easy for me, then again I might have snuck in before the crush.

Worked for me. It'd be nice to think they got such a deluge of signups it broke the site for a few minutes.

This is a little worrisome, though:

Our library will also be available through WarnerMedia’s new consumer platform when it launches late next year, so once both services are live, Criterion fans will have even more ways to find the films they love.

After the Warner site launches, will people leave the CChannel to maximize their dollar? Presumably the CChannel will be the only place to get supplements and curated programming and the Bordwell/Thompson/Smith stuff, but will that be enough? The exclusive content will have to be very enticing.

Guess we'll have to see. Unless Warner offers a full streaming TCM at last, can't say I'm immediately interested in what they have to offer.

Yay!

https://trueclassics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/strangers-on-a-train-bruno.png

forgot to add
Criss Cross

are they still gonna be on kanopy

I wasn't a Filmstruck subscriber but reading about it in the wake of the cancellation announcement made me want to sign up. Glad they're continuing this kind of programming.

Signed up!

Me too. This, along with the new video store in town, will keep me very busy in 2019. I do still buy a lot of physical media, but as Morbius said upthread, I've gotta scale it back to the essentials: certain boxes, movies I know I'll watch multiple times, will go thru the supplements and essays. Does Filmstruck provide any of the essays/liner notes for the CC films they put up?

No, but aren't the essays usually available on the product pages at the Criterion website?

The liners for Bad Timing are not here: https://www.criterion.com/films/744-bad-timing

Not sure about more recent releases/movies that have been upgraded. I just wanted to read the booklet again because I lent out my copy of Bad Timing and like always have had a very hard time getting it back!

The Painleve shorts were a big discovery for me as well. “Daphnia“ was my favorite of those, the microscopic views functioned almost as hyonoticslly beautiful abstract imagery.

Didn’t dig the Farewell Video that much

The liners for Bad Timing are not here: https://www.criterion.com/films/744-bad-timing

yeah they are https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/385-bad-timing-the-men-who-didn-t-know-something

it is missing the garfunkel interview though

right

It’s still there.

Time of death, 8:12 a.m. I was about 15 minutes into The Awful Truth.

:( I watched a few minutes of Still Walking to see if I could just now, must have stopped right before they pulled the plug

Gonna miss this. Went out with an accidental double feature of The Last Seduction and Body Heat (both first time--had no idea it was basically the same movie!) last night.

Only signed up very recently, maybe two months ago (I suppose I could look up thread but tl;dr!) and never got fully into the swing of watching things from beginning to end although I did revisit the beginnings of many old favorites. The last thing I watched to completion, on Wednesday, was Naked for some reason.

And today I heard somebody accidentally quote the security guard from that so I guess it was worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XDmasbARtE

Without the beginning cut off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXgpoLhEBa0

Prior version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJfP6G0LSEA

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.

i took at look at this via one of my (MANY) university employers' library websites, maybe the local public library too, and was discouraged, but going in straight through the kanopy site i was delighted to find that it offered to find my university and offered an immediate authentication using my university login. so, that was cool.

can't find anything definite about a watch limit, maybe i don't have one.

Watch limits are set by the library, not by Kanopy - so if you don’t see one (eg top right in the phone app), you’re probably unlimited.

yeah that's what i figured - there's nothing like a number in any prominent location at all - just hard to believe my cheapass state university system would ever cover such a thing : )

Want to say I am jealous. But it is possible if you have multiple libraries attached that you could be in a state of being “between” libraries in which no watch limit is shown

Feel like we should have a Kanopy watching thread so we can synchronize our three days if we choose or at least exchange suggestions of what we are watching and discuss.

I might just start one myself

I have unlimited Criterion and 4/month non-Criterion through my public library, and so far I haven't had a month where I ran out of credits. It's so nice.

Done. kanopy: thoughtful entertainment. what are you watching now?
(Almost jealous of your unlimited subscriptions, but I can’t really watch that much anyway)

A new year's email:

All of us at the Criterion Collection wanted to start the year off by thanking you for signing up to become a Charter Subscriber of the Criterion Channel.

We’re excited to report that we are still on track for a spring launch in the U.S. and Canada, on the web and Amazon Fire, Roku, Android, and Apple devices. In the next few weeks we’ll be announcing our launch date and sending along instructions for making your subscription official.

Hopefully "Apple devices" means Apple TV as well as iOS.

https://hyperallergic.com/481111/in-march-a-much-needed-streaming-service-for-arthouse-films-will-launch/

Enter OVID, a recently announced partnership between academic documentary service Docuseek and six independent film distribution companies. Together, these partners — Bullfrog Films, Distrib Films US, Grasshopper Film, Icarus Films, KimStim, and First Run Features — control the rights to thousands of different documentary, arthouse, independent, and international titles. OVID will be an on-demand subscription service offering selections from these various catalogues.
OVID is planned to launch in March, at which point its slate will consist of hundreds of documentary titles. Fiction titles will be added in the summer, and further curated selections will be made available on a monthly basis. The site stresses that many of these films will be unavailable to see anywhere else. It promises to feature filmmakers Chantal Akerman, Chris Marker, Bill Morrison, Jean Rouch, Wang Bing, Bi Gan, Pedro Costa, Claire Denis, Bruno Dumont, Cheryl Dunye, Eric Rohmer, Raul Ruiz, and Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.

Word is out, if you signed up as a charter subscriber:

The Criterion Channel, our new streaming service for movie lovers, will launch April 8 in the U.S. and Canada.

As a Charter Subscriber, you can start watching right now with our Movie of the Week series, featuring a new surprise every Wednesday from now until the official site launch.

We are so grateful to all of you who have signed up to be Charter Subscribers. Now it’s time to make it official and lock in your benefits, including an extended 30-day free trial (starting April 8) and reduced pricing for as long as your account stays active.

$90 a year, $10 a month btw



The Criterion Channel will launch April 8 in the US and Canada and will be available on desktop, iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, Roku, and Android devices.

Charter film appears to be Mikey and Nicky

cool, gonna try this out and see if I can deal with the inevitably shitty streaming quality. does anyone else live in a city with shit internet?

xpost -- that it is.

Part of the reason I originally got an Amazon Fire TV was that Filmstruck was on there, now Criterion Channel won't be.

^me too