so is this gargantuan "The Story of Film: An Odyssey" thing as good as it sounds?
on a more typical note, "FDR: American Badass" just showed up (Werewolf FDR fights nazi werewolves) and I am STOKED
― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
I like Story of Film. Hemming and Hawing over it can be found here: Mark Cousins' The History of film: An Odyssey
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
sometime ilxor Jeff LeVine has praised Film: An Odyssey to the skies on facebook.
― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Has anyone seen Cleanflix? Looks interesting, wondering if it's worth checking out.
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Friday, 14 December 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
Ginger Baker in Africa
― Kickboyface, Saturday, 15 December 2012 09:07 (eleven years ago) link
Queen of Versailles is an amusing watch.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 15 December 2012 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
just noticing seasons 3 + 4 of being human are up
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 15 December 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't had Netflix in a few months but if you like anime and want to see some crazy stuff, they had lots of "Sgt. Frog" streaming.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 December 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
I'm afraid it might just make me furious.
― JCL, Saturday, 15 December 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
It won't. If anything it's a lot of schadenfreude.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 16 December 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
ya thats what i asked my friend when she recommended it... do i get to see this ppl suffer
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Sunday, 16 December 2012 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
these
She comes off as quite sweet if often totally unaware. The husband is a right dick, though.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 16 December 2012 06:12 (eleven years ago) link
Why had I not watched Sherlock? I have been living life wrong.
― mh, Sunday, 23 December 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 December 2012 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
Dammit, why is Kind Hearts & Coronets or Badlands not streaming?
Is there some service I can pay for that's effectively just "Streaming Film School"?
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
Hulu+
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
What's the library like?
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:13 (eleven years ago) link
I don't have it myself, but Criterion has a deal with them so all their movies are streamed on there. That's as close to a film school library you can get, I think.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:13 (eleven years ago) link
important to note that the Criterion movies on Hulu don't have commercials dropped into them
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
hmmmmm
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
mubi.com is pretty cool, don't use it now but they have 30 films at a time, add one daily and drop the oldest to keep the count
― mh, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:22 (eleven years ago) link
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a Criterion, and Badlands will be in a few months. I don't know if it'll be streaming (I don't know how their rights deals work) but because of those rights deals it's going to be impossible to get every film you want in one place (or anywhere at all).
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:24 (eleven years ago) link
I doubt Badlands will be available to stream. I've been semi-obsessed with Hulu's terrible website and slow-loading Criterion page -- you have to look at miles of thumbnails to browse titles, with no straight text list available, so I did something about it. Crossposted from one the Hulu thread and one of the Criterionn threads a month ago:
Finally got fed up with their crappy search function and having to look at pages and pages of slow-loading images instead of a text list.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdEd2blozRllOSjlqSVpLd1MxbkNUTVE
All the "Criterion"s streaming on Hulu, 716 films. Doesn't include DVD/Blu-ray releases for which Hulu doesn't have streaming rights, and doesn't include Netflix streaming titles. A/An/The messes up sorting by title, and directors aren't last-name-first. Still, the file has some utility.
For all your Bulldog Drummond and Zatoichi streaming needs.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
Really shame on Netflix for not having "Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas" this week.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Wednesday, December 26, 2012 12:51 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
badlands is coming out on criterion in the spring, might be the reez
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
i watched emmet otter last year for christmas and uh idk it might be better to leave your childhood memories of it intact
― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
no way man, emmett otter rules. I watch it at least every other year. NB I actually never saw it when I was kid...
― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
like lots of movies i saw as a child, i think i built up a large imaginary tapestry of stuff that had happened in the movie and was super cool over the years, so yeah, that might be a contributing factor
― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
now YOU have to make that superenhanced jugband christmas movie.
― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
Never saw Emmett Otter as a kid, just discovered it a few years ago. The tunes are top-notch. Sweet at honeysuckle on the vine!
We did watch "Polar Express", which i thoroughly enjoyed for the first time. Not a bad movie, some really great 3D rollercoaster scenes, plot stays simple and more-or-less true to the book. I was scared at some point it would be revealed that the lead kid is THE CHOSEN ONE to save Christmas or something. Only issues i had were the elves were a bit creepy looking and the whole Santa Claus naught/nice giant batcave full of TVs watching every kid in the world sleeping. But then again Santa Claus is a creepy mofo anyways so that's not the movie's fault.
On Xmas Eve me and my bros watched "Ernest Saves Christmas", which is on youtube at the moment, not sure about Netflix. That movie still cracks me up. Particularly the part where he's pretending to be a snake handler.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
Plz Wes Anderson stay away from an Emmett Otter reboot.
We watched Emmet Otter this year like always. Paul Williams wrote all the songs. The weasel in the rock band is playing Bootsy Collins' star bass.
At least _Days of Heaven_ is available, but I've already seen that plenty.
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
kind hearts & coronets isn't one of the Criterion releases that is available online via Hulu Plus. sorry.
― get it on smang a gong (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
now YOU have to make that superenhanced jugband christmas movie.― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, December 26, 2012 4:51 PM (37 minutes ago)
― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, December 26, 2012 4:51 PM (37 minutes ago)
never sure whther to start with this or the version of Phantasm with the heist caper, time travel, talking dog (?!), laser security grid, and 7 different shock reboot endings.
― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
i think i watched like 12 episodes of parenthood yesterday. season three. such an amazing season! now one of my fave t.v. seasons ever. i already want to watch it again. i'll watch it with maria. and i noticed that regular free hulu has season four episodes and i might have to watch them now instead of waiting. (we got rid of cable when we moved so i'm behind on new shows) i'll have to watch the season 4 eps before i can go look at the parenthood thread.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
xpost i think i'm on board for both projects, let us become the powell and pressburger of youtube
― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
Can't think of many things that are cooler than the River Bottom Nightmare Band. Plus "Barbecue"!
― Moodles, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
Which phantasm is that? #4? All I know is also there's no Phantasm on NF streaming either...
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
I like how they put effort into detail; like having the dude put a smaller synth atop his jazz organ
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081215152919/muppet/images/0/05/RiverbottomNightmareBand.jpg
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
ha dude, that is phantasm #theinsideofmycrazy11yearoldhead
― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
oh shit, I could have sworn one of them did have a talking dog--at least 2 of them had time travel tho'.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
THE GRASS DOES NOT GROWON THE PLACES WHERE WE STOP AND STAAAAAND
― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
All of The West Wing
― Gukbe, Thursday, 27 December 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
How to Survive a Plague
― Gukbe, Thursday, 27 December 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
west wing is up??!!
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 27 December 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
According to Instantwatcher it is.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 27 December 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
then what are we doing here??
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, 28 December 2012 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
the forest for the trees expires in like a day but it's really good fyi
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 29 December 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
not sure of the last like 3 mins when it becomes an indie rock video? but that aside
i also watched the lee atwater doc which was ok/good i guess
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 29 December 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link