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We have a podcast thread, but a quick search doesn't turn up anything on YouTube.

Anyone have any good channels to recommend? I'm not normally one for sitting around and watching things on my computer (I put money into a decent home theater for a reason!) but over the last few months have been enjoying a couple of channels mentioned on this forum, namely the video game focused Errant Signal and film show Every Frame a Painting. What is everybody else watching?

The only thing I watch with any regularity besides clips of Colbert, Stewart and Letterman is the Kevin Pollak Chat Show. That's a bit hit and miss with me, but not too much.

One service that I've really enjoyed lately is Qello.

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This ~2 minute YouTube horror film is definitely worth watching (especially at night when no one else is home, of course). There's a whole culture of little style exercises in horror like this cropping up on YT, but this one especially gets at and exploits an elemental (if admittedly silly) fear a lot of people have and does it with an unnerving simplicity in execution

DP/30 is great for long form interviews with a lot of prominent filmmakers/actors/etc. It's depressing to me how low the views on that channel are a lot of the time, actually, given the caliber of people that come on regularly. Much of what succeeds on YouTube is kind of despair-inducing.

domino harvey wrote:This ~2 minute YouTube horror film is definitely worth watching (especially at night when no one else is home, of course). There's a whole culture of little style exercises in horror like this cropping up on YT, but this one especially gets at and exploits an elemental (if admittedly silly) fear a lot of people have and does it with an unnerving simplicity in execution

God knows how many times I've frightened myself silly imagining the same sort of thing late at night in bed. I am very happy I'm not sleeping alone tonight. Impressive little movie.

Considering my bedroom is similarly situated at the end of a long hallway, that video has done nothing for my sanity on late nites! The same team also made this short, which is pretty clever conceptually even if the final jolt doesn't quite work as well as the build up

I really like this one. Pulled off a concept in fourteen seconds that The Conjuring never quite managed over three separate tries.

This may not be exactly what the OP was asking for in terms of original content (and perhaps this would be more appropriate in the Animation List thread), but this channel features some great, vintage Russian animation that as far as I know is probably not available on home video outside of Russia (if even there).

The construction of this 3 minute video is really impressive and is full of Edgar Wright-style rapid-fire puzzlejokes.

I've been loving this guy's self-made music videos using movie clips. While everyone and their brother tries their hand at this, this person really has a knack for matching tone, lyrics, and the visual rhythm of the original films.

These are my favorites:

Night Things - "Sleeping Beauty," set to clips from Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Navvi - "Speak," set to clips from Repulsion (pretty spoilerific if you haven't seen the movie)

King Krule - "Border Line," set to clips from various classic Hollywood musicals (check out that nifty balloon popping sync-up at 1:58)

domino harvey wrote:This ~2 minute YouTube horror film is definitely worth watching (especially at night when no one else is home, of course). There's a whole culture of little style exercises in horror like this cropping up on YT, but this one especially gets at and exploits an elemental (if admittedly silly) fear a lot of people have and does it with an unnerving simplicity in execution

Hey, this guy is making a feature film version produced by James Wan. Here's hoping it's just two hours of Teresa Palmer flipping a light switch on and off

jindianajonz wrote:[...]but over the last few months have been enjoying a couple of channels mentioned on this forum, namely the video game focused Errant Signal[...]

A bit late here, but I recently discovered this channel and it's been my go-to for game criticism, along with Super Bunnyhop and Feminist Frequency. YouTube has really done wonders for bringing critical thinking to the medium and as a someone who spends the bulk of his free time playing video games, it's nice to see people pushing the envelope. What's more, it's become a sort of preservation tool for forgotten games from decades past with the sheer amount of let's play channels, exposing younger generations to games that even at the time weren't well-known. Did You Know Gaming is another channel worth checking out to anyone as interested in game history and production as myself - each video brings up some fan theory or industry knowledge that I never would've known or thought about otherwise (such as Bethesda once thinking about doing an open-world Game of Thrones game).

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domino harvey wrote:This ~2 minute YouTube horror film is definitely worth watching (especially at night when no one else is home, of course). There's a whole culture of little style exercises in horror like this cropping up on YT, but this one especially gets at and exploits an elemental (if admittedly silly) fear a lot of people have and does it with an unnerving simplicity in execution

Hey, this guy is making a feature film version produced by James Wan. Here's hoping it's just two hours of Teresa Palmer flipping a light switch on and off

Here's the trailer, looks like it may very well be two hours of Teresa Palmer flipping a light switch on and off

Disney just announced that they are creating their own streaming service in 2019 and an ESPN one next year. I'm getting really tired of the fragmenting of all this content through different streaming services. Might as well pay for cable instead.

LA and New York City library cardholders can now view thousands of movies from respective catalogs, included the entire Criterion Collection, via the Kanopy streaming service.

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Some kinks to work out but, overall, it's not bad for a free service.

ando wrote:LA and New York City library cardholders can now view thousands of movies from respective catalogs, included the entire Criterion Collection, via the Kanopy streaming service.

Details

Some kinks to work out but, overall, it's not bad for a free service.

I signed up for this today (NYPL) and this is just incredible. You only get 10 movies a month, but it's such a valuable resource I implore all locals to check it out. I also think the Brooklyn PL is offering the same deal so if you have a card for each, conceivably you have 20 a month (I have both so I'll be looking into this).

They have a particularly great selection of silent films but probably the best collection they have in the sense that it is otherwise so hard to get a hand on is California Newsreel.

ando wrote:LA and New York City library cardholders can now view thousands of movies from respective catalogs, included the entire Criterion Collection, via the Kanopy streaming service.

Details

Some kinks to work out but, overall, it's not bad for a free service.

Also, most academics and college students have access to this. My wife teaches at UGA, while I teach at a smaller public college in Georgia, and we both have access to Kanopy through our respective schools. We've got it synced up to our Roku. Looks like they have about half of the Criterion Collection available to stream.

jbeall wrote:Looks like they have about half of the Criterion Collection available to stream.

Yeah, it seems that way. The CC titles don't stream with the resolution equal to that on Filmstruck but it's a nice alternative.

For those who aren't in either LA or NYC, do check anyway - as your library might subscribe to Kanopy. My town is part of the service, but we only get 5 titles per month.

There's probably an easier way to do it, but I went to the LA County Kanopy link, then chose "Add a new Library" - type in your library and then it should show up as a choice if they subscribe. Create an account, enter library card #, confirm email and there you go.

That worked perfectly for my Roku in the bedroom. Thanks. But, I see that they still haven't developed an app for Apple TV (of course, I know I can screen mirror). Hope that is coming soon just for 1st world convenience problems.

Kanopy's available in Baltimore County but not Baltimore City. Carcetti would never have done this to us

jbeall wrote:

ando wrote:LA and New York City library cardholders can now view thousands of movies from respective catalogs, included the entire Criterion Collection, via the Kanopy streaming service.

Details

Some kinks to work out but, overall, it's not bad for a free service.

Also, most academics and college students have access to this. My wife teaches at UGA, while I teach at a smaller public college in Georgia, and we both have access to Kanopy through our respective schools. We've got it synced up to our Roku. Looks like they have about half of the Criterion Collection available to stream.

Kanopy is moving into the UK too - I set it up at my last workplace, but then moved to another place that doesn't have it!

Kanopy is also available in Australia.