Has anyone here (personally) compared the performance of Roku and Chromecast?

Filmstruck adds:

Icons: Romy Schneider theme page

Sissi
Sissi: The Young Empress
The Story of Vickie
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
Christine
Boccaccio '70
Forever My Love
The Trial
Good Neighbor Sam
Les Choses De La Vie
César et Rosalie
Le Train
That Most Important Thing: Love
Une Femme à sa Fenêtre
Death Watch (1980)
La Banquière

Actors as Directors theme page

Sling Blade
The Crossing Guard
Albino Alligator
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Life is Beautiful
Dawn

Tulpan

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (Criterion opening)

Does anyone know if there is an Instantwatcher equivalent for Filmstruck?

Their recent article (updated every Friday, apparently) lists quite a number of notable deletions for the next couple of months.

Criterion Channel adds:

Tuesday short: Butter Lamp, paired with Yi Yi - short + feature theme page
Only One Night (1939)

I have a feeling some of those will come back, and perhaps sooner than later. This happens with Netflix a lot, an old movie will be there for a few months than come back around.

For something like Filmstruck, though, that purports to be an [eventually] fully featured Criterion catalog, "cycling" and removing films like this is an unfortunate decision.

As the article clearly states, the titles that are marked as on the Criterion Channel do not disappear from the Criterion channel, as that is *not* a rotating catalog

There are Criterion titles leaving as well, though. On the other hand, titles like Under The Sun of Satan, which have not been available on disc are a refreshing find.

The ones Criterion released on disc that are leaving are presumably ones they don't have the streaming rights to, like Blow-Up, Blow Out and the Qatsi films. Generally speaking, they probably don't have the rights to the U.S. and British films on the Leaving Filmstruck list.

This came out from Cohen last year

Do you have it? Nice package?

Too rich for my blood. I'm fine with my MOC DVD, but Cohen's release got good reviews if I recall

Fish Tank added with 7 supplements.

I started beta testing the Roku app. It shows promise and it's a nice looking design, but it's still not fully functional yet. I'm looking forward to when it's (truly) ready!

Filmstruck add:

La Marseillaise

EDIT

Criterion Channel add:

Blow Up of “Blow-Up”

Criterion Channel adds:

Querelle
Katzelmacher
Chinese Roulette
Satan's Brew

Ah, Querelle! Must say, the book is so much better. The studio sets give the film a fantasy-like feel while the book's strengths are in its stark, almost brutal depiction of sexuality. Odd for Fassbinder, who always seemed like a realist to me - but certainly in line with his stylized work from the early 80s like Lola and Veronika Voss.

Filmstruck adds:

U-Boat Classics theme page:

The Spy in Black
49th Parallel
Les Maudits
Das Boot
Behind the Door

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Vengeance is Mine commentary and 3 supplements added.

Zéro de Conduite commentary and 2 supplements added.

All 3 of The Complete Jean Vigo set present.

Next Floor added to the Criterion Channel's Tuesday short.

Don't have Chromecast, but since Roku's still in the beta testing phase and has some bugs, it wouldn't be a fair comparison.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory, + 3 supplements added to the Criterion Channel.

Criterion Channel adds:

Yotsuya Kaidan, Part One
The Young Rebels
Boyhood (1951)
Yotsuya Kaidan, Part Two

Criterion Channel:

commentary and 2 supplements added to Ashes And Diamonds

Filmstruck adds:

Directed By Nicholas Ray theme page

They Live by Night
In a Lonely Place
On Dangerous Ground
Bigger Than Life
Party Girl
Don't Expect Too Much (Susan Ray)
We Can't Go Home Again

Going South theme page

South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition
With Byrd at the South Pole
Scott of the Antarctic
Dirigible

added to Cinema Passport: Poland theme page

Knife in the Water (EDIT Criterion, probably not new)
In Darkness
The Big Animal

added: Observations on Film Art No.7: Staging in "The Rules of the Game", Kristin Thompson