Make your situation known to filmstruck support. Sometimes I think that it fixes itself from their end and nothing I do is anything but spinning my wheels - and poof - I get to watch a film all the way through (Boy and Coup de Grâce today).

Yeah, I'm pestering their email but no reply yet. Incredibly frustrating to have a movie cut up into thirty second chunks.

Just to check, I played 10 min of A Brief History of Time a bit ago without a glitch. Watching Stalker now and it's behaving (knock on wood). So clear - seeing things I never noticed the first couple times I saw this.

Thankfully, I was able to get things going by wiping my browser cache, disabling adblock, and restarting the computer. Frustrating to have to do that, though. Still having troubles airstreaming from my iPhone - can't seem to get subtitles to turn off.

I also had the spinning wheel (=buffering) problem, but after updating Adobe Flash I was able to watch Cairo Station without any problems (on MacBook with Firefox).

I keep waiting for this to come to Roku and then I'll give the free trial a spin. Any idea when this may happen. For months, the website has just said "Coming Soon" (or something to that effect).

No one knows, but rest assured: it'll be buggy as hell when it does

These are some of the more interesting titles in the forthcoming Filmstruck-side sections (the entries have been added to the site, but the films aren't available just yet (probably tomorrow or next week)):

Jean Jacques Beineix
Betty Blue (also on Criterion Channel)
Diva
The Moon in the Gutter
Locked-in Syndrome

Bergman
All of the Early Bergman titles
Hour of the Wolf (also on Criterion Channel)
The Passion of Anna (also on Criterion Channel)
Scenes from a Marriage (also on Criterion Channel)

Getting Home (Zhang Yang)

There's also another new placeholder section for "Directed by Costa-Gavras," which I'm curious to see if it will extend beyond the three Criterion titles already up (to add Missing, maybe, or more?)

Commentaries added to Yojimbo, M, and Walkabout.

Diva is long overdue. This used to be one of those ubiquitous foreign films that always existed in a video stores selection. Its currency may have fallen, but it remains a great film.

Moon in the Gutter was actually out on BD in the worst tranfer you could imagine, literally could not get worse.

Would love some physical releases.

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? added to The Channel.

Started watching Diva this morning and couldn't stop until I'd watched both back to back.

Added to Filmstruck:

added to Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix:

Betty Blue - 115
Betty Blue (Director's Cut) - 185

Charmers from China:

Getting Home
Shake Hands with the Devil
The Piano in a Factory

Movies of the IRA

Five Minutes of Heaven
Hidden Agenda
Hunger
Michael Collins
Off Man Out
Ronin
Shake Hands with the Devil
The Crying Game

Criterion Channel add..., Tuesday's Short Feature: A Story for the Modlins, double billed with Rosemary's Baby. There's even a trailer on youtube.

My Winnipeg added to The Channel (+ 15 supplements).

The Long Good Friday went up recently. I presume that the transfer that was used, having just read the reviews for the Arrow release, isn't from a recent 2K restoration?

i watched it in january, actually, and it was at least not a non-anamorphic transfer, but it didn't seem like a sparkling new harvest.

Added to The Criterion Channel, silent Ozu:

The Lady and the Beard
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Walk Cheerfully
Woman of Tokyo
Dragnet Girl
I Graduated, But...

also added:

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

more added to the Channel:

Henry V - Laurence Olivier (+1 supplement, commentary)
Conquest of the Air
The Entertainer
La Main du diable



just added to Filmstruck:

Jesus of Nazareth, Part One
Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two
War Requiem
The Boys From Brazil
The First Beautiful Thing
Perfect Understanding
Child's Pose
Beautiful Girls

Youth in Fury added to The Criterion Channel.

also, additions to The Criterion Channel films already listed:

High and Low (commentary and 5 supplements)
Late Spring (commentary and 1 supplement)
Winter Light (3 supplements)
Elena and Her Men (2 supplements)

added to Filmstruck's Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix banner / theme page:

Otaku

Criterion Channel add - Tuesday short: Superbia, double billed with Miss Julie.

Initially got excited about Otaku since the runtime is listed at the full 2h 48m only available on unsubtitled foreign language releases. Alas, playback revealed it to be the shorter 1h 17m version.

Man I had such trouble last night trying to stream big deal on madonna street that I eventually gave up and left it unfinished. Buffering, constant out of sync problems that got progressively worse until you restarted the computer (like five seconds out of sync and then sudden bursts of fast motion as it tried to correct only to still be a second or two off.

I wish the service worked like a modern streaming company rather than a vintage 2007 approach to streaming where trying to stream is as inconvenient as possible.

Knock on wood - my last 3 showings this morning have played straight through without a spinning wheel buffer - Superbia (short), Otaku, and This Sporting Life. In aggregate, it's still a hit and miss type situation.