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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 27, 2018 3:34:04 GMT
this news does indeed suck Kanopy is a good alternative. They partner with public libraries and universities so if you have a student ID or library card you can get free access to hundreds of films and documentaries. I think it's only for the US and their selection is quite a bit smaller, but they add stuff every week. Main catch is that you only get to stream 10 things a month but that's better than nothing. They do have quite a few Criterion films and some stuff that's even more obscure/harder to find (Lina Wertmüller for example). They also have Mysteries of Lisbon and several other recent foreign films that I've been trying to see for ages ( Winter Sleep, Mustang, Beats Per Minute, Blancanieves, etc). Even with the 10-a-month limit I'm sure people will find more than enough to keep occupied. My watchlist is already in the hundreds. Check 'em out
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 27, 2018 3:39:08 GMT
this news does indeed suck Kanopy is a good alternative. They partner with public libraries and universities so if you have a student ID or library card you can get free access to hundreds of films and documentaries. I think it's only for the US and their selection is quite a bit smaller, but they add stuff every week. Main catch is that you only get to stream 10 things a month but that's better than nothing. They do have quite a few Criterion films and some stuff that's even more obscure/harder to find (Lina Wertmüller for example). They also have Mysteries of Lisbon and several other recent foreign films that I've been trying to see ages (in addition to Winter Sleep, Mustang, Beats Per Minute, Blancanieves, etc). Even with the 10-a-month limit I'm sure people will find more than enough to keep occupied. My watchlist is already in the hundreds. Check 'em out My library also has Hoopla, which is the same sort of deal. Crappy selection, though. Never heard of Kanopy, gonna have to check it out. Edit: My library doesn't have Kanopy, so I'll have to order it. Damn. Luckily, my second library (work address) is the one with Hoopla, and my home library system doesn't have anything. Maybe I can ask for it.
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Post by Deceit on Oct 27, 2018 3:41:29 GMT
Kanopy is also in Canada, although our limit is only up to five streams a month.
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Post by Joaquim on Oct 27, 2018 3:46:51 GMT
Just saw my email & came to see if the news was posted ... and I'm gonna have to ditto Viced's words. Fucking bullshit. No other streaming service has matched this in terms of the quality of its film selection. I still have 115 movies in my watchlist, for chrissakes! I can't watch all of 'em in a month! This fucking blows Not impossible.
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Post by mhynson27 on Oct 27, 2018 5:04:59 GMT
We also have Kanopy here in the land of Oz
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Post by taranofprydain on Oct 27, 2018 7:54:04 GMT
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Post by akittystang on Oct 27, 2018 15:05:51 GMT
I didn't even know this was a thing? I wish I had.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 27, 2018 16:10:49 GMT
Just saw my email & came to see if the news was posted ... and I'm gonna have to ditto Viced's words. Fucking bullshit. No other streaming service has matched this in terms of the quality of its film selection. I still have 115 movies in my watchlist, for chrissakes! I can't watch all of 'em in a month! This fucking blows Not impossible. Don't tempt me.
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Post by akittystang on Oct 27, 2018 16:49:49 GMT
Do it. Get your money’s worth!
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Post by Joaquim on Oct 27, 2018 21:16:14 GMT
The temptation is already there. I don’t have to do anything. You’re gonna watch all those movies.
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 27, 2018 22:06:33 GMT
My library also has Hoopla, which is the same sort of deal. Crappy selection, though. Never heard of Kanopy, gonna have to check it out. Edit: My library doesn't have Kanopy, so I'll have to order it. Damn. Luckily, my second library (work address) is the one with Hoopla, and my home library system doesn't have anything. Maybe I can ask for it. I found out about Hoopla today and it has a pretty great selection... or does it depend on your library? I haven't found much (in film) that is available. At least, not that I've looked for. They have a lot of MST3K episodes, and I've seen The Bedroom Window and Return to Oz through their streaming. But a lot of classic Criterion type stuff hasn't shown up for me.
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 28, 2018 19:19:54 GMT
Here's a big ol' list of stuff I recommend that are still on the site -
These are in my Top 50 of all time: McCabe & Mrs Miller (#1) il Posto Life is Sweet Scarecrow Stroszek
Bonafide essential cinema: Close Up Safety Last! The Ascent The Cremator High and Low My Brilliant Career A Taste of Honey A Man Escaped Danton
More favorites: Baby Doll Dark Passage Hobson's Choice Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven 71 Fragments of a Chonology of Chance Meantime
Hmmm a few more: Osaka Elegy Beauty and the Beast '46 The Firemen's Ball The American Friend A Special Day
and some Welles: Othello Chimes at Midnight The Immortal Story F for Fake
Two special mentions bc I don't think these are available anywhere else - L'assassin habite au 21 (1942) The Plumber (1979)
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 28, 2018 19:35:18 GMT
Just a special shout out for Mother Kusters Goes To Heaven which is one of my favorites films to discuss. A 30 year old Fassbinder made it at the height of his offhanded genius - for most directors it would be their peak achievement, for him it's the 2nd best film he made that year. Not only is it a rarity - a great socio-political film - it's also gloriously wise and complex and pissed off, guaranteed to annoy the left and the right. Even more impressively the film actually has 2 endings one "happy" and one "sad" without compromising anything that came before it with either one.
There's a lot of great Fassbinder movies but very few that are as Punk rock, F-You and empathetic as that one is. No one could have made it but him, and when you watch it now it's uncannily relevant.
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Post by quetee on Oct 28, 2018 19:38:41 GMT
So was it like TCM?
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 28, 2018 21:31:41 GMT
Well, FilmStruck was actually part of TCM, owned by them I think. And later partnered with Criterion and others. But its titles were predominantly rare, foreign, or cult classics. Their image quality on the streaming service was almost always very crisp, they offered special features under many of the titles, and were adding new movies (highlighting certain themes or actors or directors) every week. Actually..... WatchTCM is now the next best thing. They upgraded their service (which is FREE - on their site and as an app) just a few months ago: image quality much better than ever before, and they're streaming most of the films right after they air, instead of just some of them like before.
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Post by DeepArcher on Nov 30, 2018 20:49:59 GMT
Well, it's finally dead ... Anyone do anything special as a sendoff? My last viewing was a long overdue re-watch of 8 1/2, which was well worth it. Had a fantastic time with it and it felt like such a fitting conclusion to my subscription. Anyway, out of sadness and futility I made this list to rank all the stuff I watched on FilmStruck during my 18-month subscription. Thanks for all the great shit, FilmStruck. RIP. Upside is, I'm already a charter subscriber for the new Criterion service. I have high hopes!
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