After a few days of uninstall, reinstall hell with chrome, adobe flash, and filmstruck chat help, I've settled on a third browser - Firefox. Chrome stopped working with plugin (adobe flash) not available errors, so I started a few chat sessions with Filmstruck tech support, and got it to finally work, then it stopped working. With Chrome, for whatever reason, you have to uninstall then install adobe flash using Internet Explorer, so it's a back and forth with the two browsers.

Now for the last couple days Firefox has been running like a dream - no spinning wheel buffering issues. Hope it lasts.

Using Windows 7 Professional on a PC.

Any news on new platforms being supported besides PC/Mac, IPhone, IPAD, and Amazon Fire TV/Stick?

You can now sign up for email notifications of when they add specific devices/platforms.

If you're asking about streaming devices, they added Chromecast a little while back.

Thank you very much. Really enjoyed the free 3 mos but I will await the PS4 or ROKU filmstruck apps to watch it on a bigger screen. I know I can just connect my PC via HDMI but I prefer the above better. This is also the corrected link to sign up .

Criterion Channel adds:

Tatsuya Nakadai on Five Japanese Masters short

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Adventures on the New Frontier

Criterion Live at the Metrograph - filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, writer Frank Rich, and expert Jill Drew joined us at New York’s Metrograph theater to celebrate The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates.

Antichrist added, with commentary and 16 supplements.

Added to the Criterion Channel:

“Cinéastes de notre temps”: Jean Vigo

Zatôichi Meets Yojimbo
Zatôichi Goes to the Fire Festival
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

2 supplements added to L'Eclisse

Watched Queen to Play the other day, and I was trying to place the actress - Sandrine Bonnaire, who played opposite Kevin Kline, and of course I'd seen her in Agnes Varda's Vagabond. Was looking for another film to watch and chose Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie, and there's Sandrine again. Then I realized that Chabrol coauthored my favorite film book - Hitchcock: The First Forty-Four Films with Eric Rohmer.

Criterion Channel Aki Kaurismaki adds:

Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

shorts:

Those Were the Days
Thru the Wire
L.A. Woman
Rocky VI
These Boots

Not sure if this is the place for this but I just got a press release that reads:

Filmstruck and Film Society of Lincoln Center present
a Criterion Live! event for...
SPLIT SCREEN
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking independent-film television series on Wednesday, May 10,
at 7:00pm at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Host-creator John Pierson in conversation with Richard Linklater, Miranda July, Kevin Smith and more!

*Limited press tickets available*

Pierson will host an evening of clips and conversation with in-person appearances from Split Screen collaborators, including filmmakers Richard Linklater (BOYHOOD), Kevin Smith (CLERKS), Miranda July (ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW), Chris Smith (AMERICAN MOVIE), Daniel Myrick (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), and surprise guests!

Created and hosted by indie film pioneer and author John Pierson, SPLIT SCREEN gave viewers an insider's look at the world of independent film and the fringes of the cinema-loving community in the late 1990s, when Pierson and his band of cinephiles roved the U.S. seeking pockets of movie madness. With material ranging from intimate encounters with mavericks such as John Waters and Herschell Gordon Lewis, to the premiere of the first footage of what would become THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, to the opening of the world's most remote movie theater in Fiji, this irreverent and clever series was like nothing else on television at the time and remains a candid portrait of a turning point in American cinema.

You can stream SPLIT SCREEN on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck, along with the largest library of indie, arthouse and foreign films. For more info, check out FilmStruck.com.

DATE: May 10 at 7:00pm
LOCATION: The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater,
165 W. 65th St.

Remember when Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater's names were uttered in the same sentences on a regular basis? I still wonder why that guy hit his ceiling so fast and was so unmotivated to break through it.

Filmstruck adds:

Grand Illusion
La Chienne *
La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes
Whirlpool of Fate +
Nana +
Picnic on the Grass +

* opened with Criterion logo
+ Studio Canal

A Goal in Mind theme page:

The Colors of the Mountain
Vasermil
The Great Match
Cup Final

Criterion Channel add:

Wedding Rehearsal

Criterion Channel add:

Miracles of Thursday

Criterion Channel adds:

The Castle

This is the first news of Criterion having anymore Haneke since Code Unknown was released. It was implied they had the rest of the former Kino films, but it was odd that its been several years since we had any news in one way or another (Brian C's worries should now be calmed)

The other former Kino titles would include:
The Piano Teacher
Funny Games
Benny’s Video
The Seventh Continent
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange added to Filmstruck.

Great news!

Tuesday's Criterion Channel short & feature:

Alice Colomer-Kang's J.M. Mondesir,

double billed with Rashomon.

Criterion sent a press release with information about all of its new Filmstruck offerings for May. While there's other info (adventures in filmgoing w/ Guillermo Del Toro, for instance), I've copied what really matters below.

Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel this month:

May 1
Bitter Victory, Nicholas Ray, 1957

May 2
The Sea Horse, Jean Painlevé, 1933

May 3
Blow Out, Brian De Palma, 1981

May 5
The Element of Crime, Lars von Trier, 1984
Europa, Lars von Trier, 1991
The Marriage of Chiffon, Claude Autant-Lara, 1942
Douce, Claude Autant-Lara, 1943
Sylvia and the Phantom, Claude Autant-Lara, 1946

May 9
Borom sarret, Ousmane Sembène, 1963

May 10
The Secret of the Grain, Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007

May 12
Nacional III, Luis García Berlanga, 1982
Barrios altos, Luis García Berlanga, 1987
La boutique, Luis García Berlanga, 1967

May 16
Butter Lamp, Hu Wei, 2013

May 17
Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold, 2009

May 19
Katzelmacher, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969
Chinese Roulette, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976
Satan's Brew, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976
Querelle, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982

May 23
Next Floor, Denis Villeneuve, 2008

May 30
Cailleach, Rosie Reed Hillman, 2014

Latest word on Roku availability (per help desk chat a few minutes ago) is "late May to mid-June."

Criterion Channel add: The Tree of Wooden Clogs (+ 6 supplements)

Commentary added to Life is Sweet

Added to Filmstruck:

Romanzo Criminale: Season 2, episode 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, & 10 (I'm sure they're uploading the rest right now)

EDIT: Filmstruck help says that's all the episodes we get for Season 2:

"You are correct, those are the only episodes that we currently have for Romanzo Criminale: Season 2. I will be sure to pass along your concerns to the appropriate parties for review."

EDIT #2:

Romanzo Criminale: Season 2 now has all episodes 1 through 10, and

Romanzo Criminale: Season 1 has all episodes 1 through 12

Criterion Channel adds:

An Ideal Husband
The Private Life of Don Juan
The Trip, 1 supplement
The Trip to Italy, 1 supplement

EDIT: more Criterion Channel adds:

The Rise of Catherine the Great
Tom Jones
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
Under the Volcano commentary and 8 supplements added

EDIT: more Filmstruck adds:

A Man of No Importance

L'opéra-mouffe added to the Criterion Channel

Criterion Channel add:

Bitter Victory (Columbia opening), + 1 supplement

Criterion Channel Tuesday short added:

Jean Painlevé's The Sea Horse

EDIT:

also

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