Streaming Services
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
Re: Streaming Services
tubi's been a great option for me lately; the free classics, mostly (no ads w/my blocker). Midnight Cowboy tonight. Nice doc.
- knives
- Joined: Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:49 pm
Re: Streaming Services
It is really great. Been an excellent source for my Corman watches.
- FrauBlucher
- Joined: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:28 pm
- Location: Greenwich Village
-
- Joined: Wed May 01, 2013 1:27 pm
Re: Streaming Services
Not great news for physical media.
- cdnchris
- Site Admin
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:45 pm
- Location: Washington
- Contact:
Re: Streaming Services
I'm of the hope since they're licensing titles to Criterion they see the benefit of the practice. I'm sure they have to honor previous agreements and if they can get some money from it, or see money in it, they may well continue.
That's my hope at least.
That's my hope at least.
-
- Joined: Wed May 01, 2013 1:27 pm
Re: Streaming Services
Yeah one can hope but currently we've gotten only 3 titles, only from Criterion, and all of those have been newer releases if I'm not mistaken.
Also from my understanding MGM has been one of the easiest studios to work with.
- FrauBlucher
- Joined: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:28 pm
- Location: Greenwich Village
Re: Streaming Services
Right, but the three titles you’re talking about are Amazon Studio productions. That has nothing to do with MGM, but it’s a sign that Amazon’s relationship with Criterion is a good one. I don’t see why Amazon wouldn’t continue to deal with Criterion. Maybe the Kino deals are the ones jeopardy.
-
- Joined: Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:50 pm
Re: Streaming Services
The Prime app is so ugly and unintuitive that I forget I even have it. I’m not sure that even this would bring me to use it for more than very specific titles.
-
- Joined: Wed May 01, 2013 1:27 pm
Re: Streaming Services
I don't really care about the Criterion relationship (I'm not buying any of these or the Netflix ones so far). I'm worried about the MGM titles. Given there release schedule it would still be a big loss if they were the only ones dealing with Amazon.FrauBlucher wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 12:58 pmRight, but the three titles you’re talking about are Amazon Studio productions. That has nothing to do with MGM, but it’s a sign that Amazon’s relationship with Criterion is a good one. I don’t see why Amazon wouldn’t continue to deal with Criterion. Maybe the Kino deals are the ones jeopardy.
- TMDaines
- Joined: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:01 pm
- Location: Stretford, Manchester
Re: Streaming Services
I noticed that Klassiki have a few Muratova films available and apparently in HD! Does anyone have a subscription to confirm their HD-listed films are just that?perkypat wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:56 amKlassiki Online is free to everyone until 4 April. After that, for £5.99/month you get the full selection, plus a new film each week(Pick of the Week), though some of the permanent collection remains free. I assume they will add films to the paid service as time goes on. Looks like a pretty decent selection.
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
Re: Streaming Services
Glad Peacocktv's extended its Hitchcock run. I like this grouping in particular.
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
Re: Streaming Services
National Jazz Appreciation Month. Checking out various films across the web. A few recommended picks: Jazz On A Summer's Day on Criterion, Ken Burns' Jazz (among other notable selections) on Hoopla (decent kanopy alternative for public library card holders) and a handful of free jazz docs on PLEX, including The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (2015).
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
- Reifferschizzle
- Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:54 pm
Re: Streaming Services
Have seen almost no chat about this in cinephile circles, really interested in what kind of deal went down between the Swedish Film Institute and Netflix. Dozens of Swedish classics available throughout Europe, from the silent era to stuff from the 1980's! It's pretty surreal that the only pre-1960 content on Netflix right now is a bunch of Swedish films.thirtyframesasecond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:06 pmNetflix UK has just had loads of Swedish films added - including some Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller's 'Sir Arne's Treasure'!
They also have the works of Youssef Chahine and some old Belgian films (though to my knowledge a spottier selection than the Swedish stuff).
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
Re: Streaming Services
I might have said that 15 years ago but Netflix has long converted the cineaste shop.Reifferschizzle wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 5:43 amIt's pretty surreal that the only pre-1960 content on Netflix right now is a bunch of Swedish films.
Leaving The Criterion Channel on May 31st.
- Reifferschizzle
- Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:54 pm
Re: Streaming Services
Well, this from a UK perspective - those movies are literally the only pre-1960 content on Netflix UK.
- thirtyframesasecond
- Joined: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:48 pm
Re: Streaming Services
Netflix UK has the series on Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, which I think is the set of films Kino Lorber released. These are mostly from the 1910s and has films by Alice Guy-Blanche and others. But that's about it. It might've had the series on African-American filmmakers but seems to have gone if it was there.
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
Re: Streaming Services
Not very impressed with The First Lady, currently on Showtime, but the costumes and set designs stand out and Michelle Phiffer's performance as Betty Ford (imo) is effective. She was also given the best material in a generally unremarkably written series. See it for her. Other Showtime May selections of interest are the new Man Who Fell To Earth series, I Love That For You, all 3 seasons of Penny Dreadful and The Green Knight (2021 film). If they beefed up the number of monthly classic film features it might be worth the 10 bucks a month but I'm not sure I'll extend past the trial at this point.
-
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:09 pm
- Location: here and there
Re: Streaming Services
Both the criterion channel and Arrow’s streaming service (which share the Vimeo platform) are having problems tonight. The recently played lists are missing in action. Criterion’s had been visible before tonight but has not been working correctly since the beginning of the month… This is the second extended period that this has been the case. What an amateur hour this Vimeo thing is. I can’t speak for computer setups but on the fire TV stick and Apple TV platforms this is the case. Arrow briefly had the problem of recently played titles not being added to that recently played list but fixed it… Criterion channel doesn’t seem to have a clue and it’s been a mess for a long time.
- Matt
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:58 pm
Re: Streaming Services
I’m perplexed why Criterion Channel continues to have problems like this. I don’t think they’ve added any new features or functionality since it launched, yet the app keeps getting updated with new bugs introduced. I don’t want to appear ungrateful—I’m happy the service exists at all—but (after 3 years) at minimum I’d like to be able to browse by country or language or sort my watch list by running time.
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
Re: Streaming Services
Sorry to hear about the Criterion bugs - I haven't had a single issue with the channel since I updated my drivers. It's really been my default streaming option (though tubi is a close second, lately). Seems to be a location issue for most with problems.
- dekadetia
- was Born Innocent
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:57 pm
- Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Re: Streaming Services
Not to pile on to Criterion, but I watched The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp on the Channel earlier this month and found the subtitles so littered with OCR errors as to be practically unusable. To their credit, they had it fixed about a week later, but it was surprising to realize that they are literally over there ripping subs from the bluray's PNG images back to SRT/VTT. So if you see something like this, let them know, they'll amend!
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
Re: Streaming Services
468 film titles loaded on Showtime yesterday. And in the middle of the month, too. Odd. The Andromeda Strain is first in the queue.
- dekadetia
- was Born Innocent
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:57 pm
- Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Re: Streaming Services
This may not be news, but Kino Lorber's YouTube account has been posting feature films on an almost daily basis, including Blue, Adieu au Langage, Filmworker and Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, among others.
- Computer Raheem
- Joined: Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:45 pm
Re: Streaming Services
Before I add almost all of these to my watchlist, is Goodbye to Language still worth watching even without the 3D? Given what I know about how it utilizes the format, I feel like I'd be missing out on something if I first watched it on YouTube in 2D.dekadetia wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:11 amThis may not be news, but Kino Lorber's YouTube account has been posting feature films on an almost daily basis, including Blue, Adieu au Langage, Filmworker and Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, among others.