I might just start one myself
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
Done. kanopy: thoughtful entertainment. what are you watching now?(Almost jealous of your unlimited subscriptions, but I can’t really watch that much anyway)
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
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.
― Juul Haalmeyer Dancers washout (WmC), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
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.
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
$90 a year, $10 a month btw
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
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?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
xpost -- that it is.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
Part of the reason I originally got an Amazon Fire TV was that Filmstruck was on there, now Criterion Channel won't be.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
^me too
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
okay, seems like they worked it out because Amazon Fire is listed in supported tech now
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
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.
― ILX Moderator: It's Like a Pressure Wash for Your Insides (WmC), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
That does make much more sense. I'm fine with VHX for my own setup but it seemed kinda weird.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
Criterion's next preview movie is Chungking Express, oh darn.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
Stalker is up
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
A very good choice, that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
Is the Roku app active yet? I searched for it but didn't see it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
none of the apps are up until the official launch on april 8, per their messaging
― na (NA), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
Yeah pretty much you have to use the VHX workaround until then.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
Should this thread title get changed?
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
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?
― na (NA), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
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)
― ILX Moderator: It's Like a Pressure Wash for Your Insides (WmC), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
> Masahiro Shinoda
Silence and Assassination turned up in the post today. what else is on CC?
― koogs, Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
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.
― ILX Moderator: It's Like a Pressure Wash for Your Insides (WmC), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
Woah!
― koogs, Friday, 22 February 2019 04:16 (five years ago) link
very nice
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 February 2019 04:47 (five years ago) link
Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger is this week's freebie.
― ILX Moderator: It's Like a Pressure Wash for Your Insides (WmC), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
I'm impressed with their commitment to bringing new disc releases to streaming! This week it's Barbara Loden's Wanda.
― 27 Discounts ILXors Get Only If They Know (WmC), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
They may have had the newer titles' streaming rights all wrapped up, unlike older titles.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
Maybe they'll have 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days up when the channel starts for real. Less than 5 weeks!
― 27 Discounts ILXors Get Only If They Know (WmC), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
wanda is so so good and ahead of its era btw, see it if you haven't
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
yeah it's a hell of a movie. a tough watch too. CW for abusive relationships and sexual assault.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
Wanda is phenomenal, saw it at a theater last fall. that final shot makes it
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
April lineup announced: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6253-the-criterion-channel-announces-launch-lineup
― WmC, Friday, 22 March 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
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
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 22 March 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
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.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Friday, 22 March 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
Fuck Disney.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 22 March 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
xp IF Disney makes available the Fox films from the 1920s and 1930s that have been lingering in the vaults, I will forgive them a great many sins. Unfortunately I fear it's going to be a case of moving those films from the Fox archives into the vault where Song of the South is sequestered.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Friday, 22 March 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
A few have pointed out that Disney has been notoriously bad about letting stuff out of their vaults for repertory screenings. So there's that to maybe look forward to, as well.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 22 March 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
the more mergers, the fewer films we see: fact
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 March 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
Well, for sure the fewer (new) films I see.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 22 March 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
Goes live today!
(I downloaded the iOS app though it appears to be only partially working so far.)
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 8 April 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
Looks like content just showed up, hooray
― Jared Kushner's Blows Against the Empire — C/D (WmC), Monday, 8 April 2019 12:51 (five years ago) link
Hmm, the app and the site don't seem to be communicating well yet. I'm logged in on the app but it wants me to pick a plan and set up billing, something I did weeks ago on the site. Also the full streaming library isn't showing yet.
― Jared Kushner's Blows Against the Empire — C/D (WmC), Monday, 8 April 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link