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Re: Filmstruck

#976 Post by D50 » Thu Aug 03, 2017 8:31 am

Eva added to the Criterion Channel (Kino opening)

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Re: Filmstruck

#977 Post by D50 » Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:41 am

Criterion Channel adds + Putney Swope
all Criterion openings
albucat wrote:Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel for

August 4
Bullshot, Dick Clement, 1983 + 1 supplement
Cold Duck Soup, Alan Metter, 1990
Checking Out, David Leland, 1989
Five Corners, Tony Bill, 1987
The Raggedy Rawney, Bob Hoskins, 1988
Water, Dick Clement, 1985

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Re: Filmstruck

#978 Post by Ribs » Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:58 pm

New non-Criterion additions:

Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Crumb
Art School Confidential
Louie Bluie

The Artistry of Alexandre Trauner
Othello (Welles)
Remorques (Gremillon)
Hotel du Nord (Carne)
The Apartment (Wilder)
Les Portes de la nuit (Carne)
The Man Who Would be King (Huston)
Children of Paradise (Carne)
Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Carne)

Life in Tel Aviv
Yana's Friends (Kaplun)
Or (My Treasure) (Yedaya)
Out in the Dark (Mayer)
For my Father (Zahavi)
Jellyfish (Geffen/Keret)
Alila (Gitai)

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Re: Filmstruck

#979 Post by DRW.mov » Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:27 pm

D50 wrote:Criterion Channel adds + Putney Swope
all Criterion openings
albucat wrote:Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel for

August 4
Bullshot, Dick Clement, 1983 + 1 supplement
Cold Duck Soup, Alan Metter, 1990
Checking Out, David Leland, 1989
Five Corners, Tony Bill, 1987
The Raggedy Rawney, Bob Hoskins, 1988
Water, Dick Clement, 1985
It's nice to see the rest of the Handmade titles coming in but I really don't think Criterion is ever going to put The Missionary, Checking Out, or Bullshot out on disc any time soon if ever. But I really hope they do put Five Corners out again. I'm pretty sure the laserdisc had a commentary with Tony Bill and getting new interviews with Robbins and the rest of the cast would be lovely. It's such a gorgeous and underrated film with a tone something more akin to Local Hero and Housekeeping than to the Scorsese thrillers it always gets billed with.

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Re: Filmstruck

#980 Post by D50 » Mon Aug 07, 2017 7:49 am

commentary and supplement adds:

They Live by Night + 3 supplements
Bigger Than Life + 4 supplements
In a Lonely Place + 5 supplements

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Re: Filmstruck

#981 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Tue Aug 08, 2017 2:27 pm

Has Toni or other Renoirs been removed yet?

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Re: Filmstruck

#982 Post by Ribs » Tue Aug 08, 2017 2:49 pm

You do not need an account to see what's on Filmstruck. The website is free and open to use: here's a link.

That said, they've established a rhythm that each Friday one of the 3 new categories added is a "Directed by..." subsection, which then remain up for six months following that date. If you navigate to the page for that subsection, you'll see the list of them, in order of when they were added (most recent first). You can therefore count up to determine when one particular director's offering will be pulled; for example, Renoir is seven from the top, so it'll be pulled seven weeks from Friday. Toni will likely stay up on the Criterion Channel past that date, however.

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Re: Filmstruck

#983 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Tue Aug 08, 2017 2:51 pm

Thanks, Ribs. I've been putting off that free trial for too long!

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Re: Filmstruck

#984 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Aug 08, 2017 6:30 pm

Would love to see Art School Confidential rescued by Criterion.

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Re: Filmstruck

#985 Post by fdm » Tue Aug 08, 2017 8:19 pm

Tried out streaming a movie on an Apple TV 4, the other day. (It was the one last Romy Schneider film (Max and the Junkmen) I wanted to get to before my two month free beta expired, but didn't manage to.) As opposed to what I had experienced with the Roku 3, which was pretty smooth sailing just about always (while the movie was actually playing), I noted a hiccup (a lost frame or two), every several seconds on the Apple TV. I switched to watching it on a Roku Premiere+ and no hiccups. (I think the subtitling issue I was also seeing was happening on both (seems like some were missing here and there).)

Yes, I bought some new toys to go with the receiver I had to replace. Very preliminary but it seems the Roku Premiere+ is not an issue free environment either, as I can easily get it to crash when trying to exit Filmstruck for one example. But playback is the key, so it would appear that Roku is going to remain the place where I stream it for the time being. Probably will hold on to the Premeire+ and return the (refurb) Apple (even though it is perkier by far compared to the old Apple TV 3 I have) and see what Apple comes up with for the 5 (which I suspect is coming pretty soon).

Oh, unless somebody knows a way to make the hiccups go away on the Apple TV... then I might reconsider the return.

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Re: Filmstruck

#986 Post by D50 » Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:29 am

albucat wrote:Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel for August:

August 9
Tampopo, Juzo Itami, 1985

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Re: Filmstruck

#987 Post by TMDaines » Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:27 am

Ribs wrote:New non-Criterion additions:

King Vidor (!!!)
The Big Parade
Bardelys the Magnificent
Stella Dallas
The Crowd
Cynara
The Wedding Night
The Fountainhead
Are these in HD?

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Re: Filmstruck

#988 Post by Ribs » Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:39 am

TMDaines wrote:
Ribs wrote:New non-Criterion additions:

King Vidor (!!!)
The Big Parade
Bardelys the Magnificent
Stella Dallas
The Crowd
Cynara
The Wedding Night
The Fountainhead
Are these in HD?
Filmstruck doesn't easily label things as HD-ready, but going by eye, I think only Big Parade and Stella Dallas are in HD, with the rest looking pretty dated (the Crowd especially).

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Re: Filmstruck

#989 Post by TMDaines » Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:08 am

Makes sense. Stella Dallas has life online has a fairly decent HDTV rip. The Fountainhead might be in HD too. That's floating about online in 720p from a web source.

Would be great to be able to buy these on Blu-ray.

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Re: Filmstruck

#990 Post by D50 » Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:59 pm

albucat wrote:Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel for August:

August 10
White Material, Claire Denis, 2009
+ 6 supplements

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Re: Filmstruck

#991 Post by headacheboy » Fri Aug 11, 2017 7:18 pm

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:Has Toni or other Renoirs been removed yet?
The Renoirs, including Toni, are still available for your viewing pleasure.

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Re: Filmstruck

#992 Post by headacheboy » Fri Aug 11, 2017 7:26 pm

While I'm thinking about the Renoir films: they have Nana and the running time is listed as 2 hours 30 minutes (150 minutes). I have that Lionsgate/ Studio Canal 3 disc set from 2007 and the running time for Nana is listed as 130 minutes. I've yet to watch the Filmstruck version and I'm uncertain perhaps if the Lionsgate/Studio Canal set has an incorrect running time listed. It's been a decade since I last saw it and I'm uncertain which running time is correct. Imdb lists the running time as 150 minutes as well.

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Re: Filmstruck

#993 Post by Ribs » Fri Aug 11, 2017 7:48 pm

Filmstruck's listed running time has no correlation to the actual posted films; they're just copied over from IMDb. Nana is 130 minutes.
Last edited by Ribs on Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:16 pm, edited 2 times in total.

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Re: Filmstruck

#994 Post by Ribs » Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:15 pm

Friday non-Criterion additions:

Director of the Week: Richard Lester
A Hard Day's Night
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Bed Sitting Room
The Three Musketeers
The Four Musketeers

(Greg Proops has introductions for four of them, fwiw)

Eighties Indies
Marvin & Tige (Weston)
Losing Ground (Collins)
Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Babenco)
Eddie and the Cruisers (Davidson)
Mona Lisa (Jordan)
Scanners (Cronenberg)
Inside Moves (Donner)
Miss Firecracker (Schlamme)
Moonlighting (Skolimowski)
Something Wild (Demme)
Eating Raoul (Bartel)
Blood Simple (Coen)
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (Young)

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Re: Filmstruck

#995 Post by D50 » Fri Aug 18, 2017 6:55 am

Filmstruck adds:

Carry on Cleo
Carry on Spying
Carry on Screaming!
Carry on Cabby
Carry On Nurse
Sunrise
City Girl
Tabu
Faust
The Last Laugh
Nosferatu
Phantom
Finances of the Grand Duke
A Boy and His Dog
Rollerball

Criterion Channel adds:

Sudden Fear
Daisy Kenyon
Jubilee + 2 supplements
Fantastic Planet + 6 supplements
albucat wrote: August 18
All My Good Countrymen, Vojtech Jasny, 1969
Palermo Shooting, Wim Wenders, 2008
The Passionate Friends, David Lean, 1949
The Masseurs and a Woman, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938
supplements added to

World on a Wire: Part 1, 2 added
World on a Wire: Part 2, 1 added

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Re: Filmstruck

#996 Post by davidhuxley » Sat Aug 19, 2017 8:42 pm

D50 wrote:
Criterion Channel adds:

Sudden Fear
Daisy Kenyon
Jubilee + 2 supplements
Fantastic Planet + 6 supplements
Actually, JUBILEE, although Criterion-branded, is not on the Criterion Channel, but only on the FilmStruck channel. Also FANTASTIC PLANET and its supplements have been on the Criterion Channel for a while now. It has just been made available for FilmStruck-only subscribers.

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Re: Filmstruck

#997 Post by D50 » Sat Aug 19, 2017 8:54 pm

davidhuxley wrote:Actually, JUBILEE, although Criterion-branded, is not on the Criterion Channel, but only on the FilmStruck channel.
It opens with Criterion branding, and there's this:

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Re: Filmstruck

#998 Post by Magic Hate Ball » Sun Aug 20, 2017 12:08 pm

Oh nice, Jubilee is amazing - how's the transfer?

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Re: Filmstruck

#999 Post by Lowry_Sam » Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:21 pm

I liked Jarman's output when they came out, but upon revisiting I find many to be overindulgent. The Jarman titles I'd like most from Criterion are Blue, Caravaggio, Edward II, & a music video collection. For me, Jubilee is one of his worst & I'm perplexed why Criterion chose it.

Nice to see more Joan Crawford, hopefully this portends more Criterion blu-rays. I can't think of a Criterion release I'd like more than a Joan Crawford box set (except for maybe a Bette Davis box set depending on the titles included) & I was disappointed to see Criterion not release Sudden Fear & that Kino released Daisy Kenyon. Anyone know if the transfers are the same as the recently-released blu-rays? What's with Criterion only getting online distribution for these? Could they be waiting for restorations?

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Re: Filmstruck

#1000 Post by Ribs » Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:38 pm

I'd imagine Kino et al's licenses don't include digital, and so they're open to licensing from other parties.

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