Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

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

okay, seems like they worked it out because Amazon Fire is listed in supported tech now

Happy to learn today from the Bordwell blog that VHX is a temporary platform and that the Channel will have dedicated apps for the streaming devices at the April launch.

That does make much more sense. I'm fine with VHX for my own setup but it seemed kinda weird.

Criterion's next preview movie is Chungking Express, oh darn.

Stalker is up

A very good choice, that.

Is the Roku app active yet? I searched for it but didn't see it.

none of the apps are up until the official launch on april 8, per their messaging

Yeah pretty much you have to use the VHX workaround until then.

Should this thread title get changed?

i'm trying to figure out if this will be basically the same criterion movies that were in filmstruck or if it'll be more complete. their website says "access to Criterion’s entire streaming library of more than 1,000 important classic and contemporary films from around the world" but what is their "streaming library"? presumably excludes some movies they don't hold streaming rights for?

sparked by me wondering if i'll be able to rewatch Head on this thing

xp yeah they have just under 1,000 titles in the collection but that includes OOP stuff like Citizen Kane, Do the Right Thing, Third Man, etc. I'd be surprised if they have their entire in print collection available to stream tbh.

The streaming library includes a fair amount of non-disc stuff like Bulldog Drummond movies and minor films by directors who have better-known films on CC disc. (Basil Dean, Anthony Asquith, Masahiro Shinoda, Keisuke Kinoshita, et al)

> Masahiro Shinoda

Silence and Assassination turned up in the post today. what else is on CC?

The Channel had (and presumably will have) A Flame At the Pier, Assassin, Ballad of Orin, Double Suicide, Gonza the Spearman, Himiko, Killers On Parade, Love Old and New, Moonlight Serenade, One Way Ticket to Love, Our Marriage, Pale Flower, The Petrified Forest, Samurai Spy, The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan, Silence, Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees, With Beauty and Sorrow, and Youth In Fury. I think they had his Sapporo Winter Olympics segment from the Olympic Films box. Only 4 of those are available on disc iirc.

Woah!

very nice

Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger is this week's freebie.

I'm impressed with their commitment to bringing new disc releases to streaming! This week it's Barbara Loden's Wanda.

They may have had the newer titles' streaming rights all wrapped up, unlike older titles.

Maybe they'll have 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days up when the channel starts for real. Less than 5 weeks!

wanda is so so good and ahead of its era btw, see it if you haven't

yeah it's a hell of a movie. a tough watch too. CW for abusive relationships and sexual assault.

Wanda is phenomenal, saw it at a theater last fall. that final shot makes it

April lineup announced: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6253-the-criterion-channel-announces-launch-lineup

Damn, if you sign up as a charter subscriber w the annual subscription it's only $7.50 a month. Now that Hulu is free w/ Spotify I might actually jump on this

I am seriously tempted. And then if Disney+ programming includes the 20th Century Fox films they just acquired, I am going to die seriously broke but happy.

Fuck Disney.

I'm just going for the yearly subscription option -- prefer those one-shot setups over a monthly drip in combination with a lower overall price.