FilmStruck

[jwd5275]

They have only one of the three parts of Three Daughters on Filmstruck. Hulu had all three segments.

[Noiradelic]

And it is a question of stuff that Criterion simply doesn't have the right to distribute online, so the chances of stuff not on iTunes showing up on FilmStruck simply doesn't exist???

No, but Criterion doesn't own online distribution rights to most of their American films, British films and many contemporary foreign films whose rights are held by the studios. The selection on Hulu gave a general idea, though Criterion hadn't added new films to Hulu in a long time and deliberately held back some films (like the second two films in Wender's Road Trilogy).

[Ted Todorov]

No, but Criterion doesn't own online distribution rights to most of their American films, British films and many contemporary foreign films whose rights are held by the studios.

Right, that's what I meant, and you are confirming what I suspected. So if I want a Criterion "All That Jazz" I have no choice but to buy the BD, it will never appear online.

[KirkG]

Is anyone experiencing problems with their FilmStruck subscription this morning? It keeps saying mine is no longer valid, though when I check my account data at filmstruck.com, it shows I have an annual subscription. Using the support chat in the app, I was told it was a "trending issue" and I should check back every hour but it could take 3 days to fix.

[flyonthewall2983]

Any clue on what the window is allowed by Criterion to show films they license from major studios? I suspect that Criterion directly owns the extras but of course not the film itself.

[Buttery Jeb]

Is anyone experiencing problems with their FilmStruck subscription this morning? It keeps saying mine is no longer valid, though when I check my account data at filmstruck.com, it shows I have an annual subscription. Using the support chat in the app, I was told it was a "trending issue" and I should check back every hour but it could take 3 days to fix.

I had the same problem earlier today, but it seems to have cleared up since then.

[mfunk9786]

Has anyone tried the Kindle Fire TV app? How is the interface/how much information is given on each film, etc? Or is it very clearly a slapdash first effort?

[rrenault]

So my initial glance at FilmStruck CC films (as opposed to non-CC films) is that HD transfers not available on iTunes are also not available on FilmStruck. Is that correct? And it is a question of stuff that Criterion simply doesn't have the right to distribute online, so the chances of stuff not on iTunes showing up on FilmStruck simply doesn't exist???

It doesn't seem to be quite that cut-and-dry. Lola Montes for instance is not on itunes, and the only one of Rohmer's Moral Tales on itunes is Love in the Afternoon. Also, there's no Dreyer on itunes period.

[Ribs]

That wasn't what Ted was saying - he was saying, of the films available on iTunes and Filmstruck, if there's no HD version on iTunes that means there's no HD version on Filmstruck. We're just seeing Filmstruck be filled with almost everything Criterion has any kind of streaming rights for, which means a lot of titles (Colonel Blimp & 49th Parallel two examples added today) that have never been on Hulu though they've been available in HD from other platforms.

[davidhuxley]

I have everything on davidhuxley's list as missing from Filmstruck plus:

Ask Father - 1919 Hal Roach
Billy Blazes Esq - 1919 Hal Roach
A Boring Afternoon - 1964 Ivan Passer
Get Out and Get Under - 1920 Hal Roach
I Passed But... - 1929 Yasujiro Ozu
The Junk Shop - 1964 Juraj Herz
Mikey and Nicky - 1976 Elaine May
Number Please? - 1920 Fred C. Newmeyer, Hal Roach
The Samurai Saga - 1959 Hiroshi Inagaki
A Straightforward Boy - 1929 Yasujiro Ozu
Three Daughters - 1961 Satyajit Ray (2 of 3 parts)

I didn't include short films on my list. You're correct to list MIKEY AND NICKY, which was Hulu exclusive, but had been removed from Hulu several years ago, so I missed it. Also, I mistakenly thought that THE SAMURAI SAGA had been ported to FilmStruck. It hasn't. Thanks.

[MaxBercovicz]

Is anyone using the new (Gen 3, released Oct 2016) Amazon Fire stick for wi-fi streaming; and have you compared it to running your computer/browser through your TV?

Since there's no timetable on Playstation availability and no guarantee of access for PS3, I'm thinking about getting a Fire stick. It's not expensive but it sounds like results (at least during beta, for users of the previous Gen 2 model) have been patchy. A FS beta notice indicated that Fire stick users might be experience problems due to GPU limitations, but it looks like the Gen 3 stick has the same GPU as the Gen 2.

Minor edit after posting.

Has anyone tried the Kindle Fire TV app? How is the interface/how much information is given on each film, etc? Or is it very clearly a slapdash first effort?

These questions interest me. Current PS3 user with no plans on getting FilmStruck to watch on my computer, so it's either wait for the Play Station app (which may or may not happen) or buy a Fire Stick.

[MaxBercovicz]

Also, what is the non-criterion content looking like? Is it just more arthouse/foreign selections? At first I thought it would be TCM like programing with lots of classic Hollywood, but reading a few pages back that appears not the case. If so, what exactly is TMC bringing to the table? The early press releases made it seem like a partnership between TMC programming and Criterion content.

[Andrew_VB]

you can browse the selection here: https://watch.filmstruck.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[FrauBlucher]

Peter Becker talks about Filmstruck and more.

We’re still going to be making gorgeous, definitive editions on Blu-ray for a long time.

[jwd5275]

Looks like they might have all of Athina Rachel Tsangari's films. Up now are:

Attenberg
The Slow Business of Going
24 Frames Per Century
The Capsule

[movielocke]

Wow this is such a massive downgrade from Hulu. Tried it after hours at work while waiting on traffic to die down and on a hardline connection with screaming speed got constant stuttering, audio dropouts and audio hits and three spinning circles in the first ten minutes. Not even fullscreened. Only other active task on the finder is a file copy in the bg.

Awful.

Just ran an internet speed test to confirm 257/316 Mbps so I don't think bandwidth is an issue.

Get the spinning circle every thirty seconds now.

Just tried flipping to the iPad and discovered that 4x3 films are pillarboxed inside a 1.85:1 frame which makes no sense as an iPad is 4x3. So that's about 50% the area of the screen being used on 4x3 films. Ironically it's running without trouble on wifi and the iPad.

[Roger Ryan]

Also, what is the non-criterion content looking like? Is it just more arthouse/foreign selections? At first I thought it would be TCM like programing with lots of classic Hollywood, but reading a few pages back that appears not the case. If so, what exactly is TMC bringing to the table? The early press releases made it seem like a partnership between TMC programming and Criterion content.

Looking at the current selection, the only TCM-related content appears to be the Criterion-licensed films that have aired on the TCM channel. Only On A Clear Day You Can See Forever and the two Edward G. Robinson/Fritz Lang films seem to fit the standard TCM fare that is not associated with Criterion. A fine "art house" selection, but no more "classic Hollywood"-oriented than Criterion has been the past few years.

[repeat]

Looks like they might have all of Athina Rachel Tsangari's films. Up now are:

Up where exactly? None of these turns up with either the browse or search functions.

[doh286]

Looks like they might have all of Athina Rachel Tsangari's films. Up now are:

Attenberg
The Slow Business of Going
24 Frames Per Century
The Capsule

Becker stated in the article that Criterion was licensing the Tsangari films to stream on their FilmStruck channel for a limited time. All of these listed films have not been added to the Criterion channel yet.

[Ribs]

No, Attenberg is up...

[repeat]

The link works, but how did you find it? Searches for "tsangari" and "attenberg" give no results, even clicking on her name on the Attenberg page gives nothing.

[Ribs]

Literally plugging in random numbers into the address bar. Add/remove a number to see the other Tsangari films.

[repeat]

Alright, now this got even more interesting Thanks!

[D50]

Literally plugging in random numbers into the address bar. Add/remove a number to see the other Tsangari films.

Thanks.

1300004437 The Capsule (2012)
1300004439 The Slow Business of Going (2001)

Can't find 24 Frames Per Century. Won't stop me from watching them, but they don't seem to add to the watchlist.

damn, they're not playing.

[albucat]

On a related note, anyone else frustrated that the "recently added" section is complete nonsense?