Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

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."

I love the long overture or original music that's included at the beginning of "Kong." I wish more prints of vintage movies would include those if available.

Filmstruck now launching in the UK. Free 14 day trial, approx. £6 a month depending on whether you pay monthly or annually. Looking at the UK website so far, the Criterion titles are restricted to those that have been issued on blu ray in the UK, and even then it's not every title. They've also got a deal w/ Curzon/Artificial Eye to include some of their titles too. All in all, a much bigger selection than on MUBI, but MUBI often has films that are otherwise unavailable to view in the UK, whereas there don't seem to be anything that out of the ordinary on Filmstruck so far (plus I get a free subscription to MUBI as part of my Glasgow Film Theatre membership).

Was going to dump Mubi for Filmstruck earlier this month when my annual sub ran out, however they offered a year for £22.99 so am sticking with them, at least for another year. Will probably get Filmstruck soon. but hoping their library gets a bit deeper.

RIP: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/filmstruck-shutdown-warnermedia-turner-1202998364/

shutting down at the end of november

pretty pissed about this

Well, shit.

what the fuck

Aww. Well, I guess that saves me a few bucks each month. I wish I had more time to watch stuff while it lasted.

farewell to the films truck

fuuuuuuuck

goddammit

at least i have shudder the only other good streaming service? this fucking sucks

this makes me very sad

it never came to canada AFAIK but I'd have checked it out. feeling better and better about stockpiling physical media tbh

put everyone who talks like this out on ice floes for the sake of humanity pic.twitter.com/44BFCSYSSg

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) October 26, 2018

@ brad - depending on your needs, fandor is like $7/month or something, not a filmstruck-level library but if you watch a few things a month you can think of it like having a video rental place w a reasonably fun indie/foreign/cult section.

kanopy, if your local library has a contract with them, if free and has great collections (difft lineups for different libraries, kind of confusing) but absolutely garbage software/interface.

I love Mubi, but that's obviously not an extensive library

physical media forevah

Ugh. Where will the Criterions play?

Nowhere, for the moment.

@ brad - depending on your needs, fandor is like $7/month or something, not a filmstruck-level library but if you watch a few things a month you can think of it like having a video rental place w a reasonably fun indie/foreign/cult section.

this is great to know, thank you!

Don’t dig Fandor that much, sorry

I don't see the Hulu deal restarting or Netflix shelling money for this library, and Criterion doesn't have the pockets to do a standalone service. They need a big partner and the big partners are drying up.

seems a bad situation-- art film streaming service is not profitable enough for a huge corporation, and a smaller company doesn't have the money to license all these art films

physical media forevah

piracy forevah

This is sad, I was also waiting for it to launch in Canada. Before Filmstruck, Criterion had licensed a big chunk of its library to other streaming services that had a big institutional subscriber bases - libraries, universities - and maybe it'll return to that in the meantime?

Kanopy and AlexanderStreet are two of these which, independently of Criterion/Filmstruck, I'd recommend anyone to check out if they haven't heard of them. If your municipal library is signed up, all you need is an active library card to login and have access on your computer/device.

ymmv on fandor obv - i def haven't used it as much as i might cause it came free with moviepass for some reason, and at the time, moviepass was still usable so obviously i instead went and saw fandor-type movies at the theater, like velvet goldmine. and now it's competing with sinemia and kanopy time i guess. but i've watched some of yr bof-standard silent-film canon (caligari, the general) and some fun cult classic type stuff on it like Death Race 2000 and Dark Star and a bunch of jim henson stop motion shorts from the 60s. not sure where else i would have streamed The Point!. etc.. and sooner or later i'll sit down and take in the careers of bava and argento, some of the herzog classics, etc.

that's just to sketch it out (you can browse the whole catalog on the web w/o subscribing) and by no means does it occupy the same niche as filmstruck. in terms of lineup, kanopy is way closer. but depending on your tastes it might be nice to have.

I've been using Kanopy cuz it's free through my university.

hope criterion comes back to hulu

my household is super bummed about this
even the dogs

so much streaming garbage out there, i will miss u filmstruck
goddamn companies

Mmmmmmmaybe they'll make a deal to be a part of the HBO/Warner/Turner streaming service coming next year, but I'm not holding my breath.

I haven't seen this much collective mourning on my twitter feed since ... well, ever.