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Criterion Channel streaming is live today

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Posted on April 8, 2019 at 10:44:10
tunenut
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 Looks a lot like Filmstruck.

So at first glance it is great. A collection of Columbia noir, and I've only seen one of those, so that's one I'm ready to dig into.

OTOH, on filmstruck, I got into an Ozu kick for a while, and they either had all of his movies or nearly all of his movies, going back all the way.

On this channel, the inventory is 6 or 7 right now, just a small subset. So we will see how this develops. At the very least, I think there will always be something interesting to watch.

 

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Supposed to support 4K so I've heard. nt, posted on April 9, 2019 at 10:32:58
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For ultimate Film Noir experience! :), posted on April 9, 2019 at 10:53:08
Victor Khomenko
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 Recently I was totally impressed with the quality of some old films - how did they manage to preserve the material that well?

Gorgeous, smooth and deep Black and White... probably not at 4K resolution, but who cares?

We are talking about 80 year old films, for Pete's sake! I don't think any restoration is going to give such result.


 

RE: For ultimate Film Noir experience! :), posted on April 10, 2019 at 07:27:14
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 I'm always impressed by a good print. They (often) did such a good job on audio back then too.


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I agree, posted on April 10, 2019 at 08:01:55
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 Sound quality on some of those films is simply superb, clean, easy to understand.


 

We're signed up; looking forward to finding time for it next weekend... N/T, posted on April 8, 2019 at 20:36:26
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Will be trying tonight, posted on April 8, 2019 at 13:27:02
Victor Khomenko
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 I hope it works between AppleTV and iPad.


 

RE: Criterion Channel streaming is live today, posted on April 8, 2019 at 11:10:07
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 Mrs. S is already popping the popcorn getting ready for Criterion viewing later this evening. Very happy to have Filmstruck back even under a different name.

 

holy cow! so much Ozu! :) nt, posted on April 9, 2019 at 11:17:42
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RE: holy cow! so much Ozu! :) nt, posted on April 9, 2019 at 19:14:52
tunenut
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 What seems to be missing, at least now, are the commentary tracks. On filmstruck, I listened to Roger Ebert's commentary on Floating Weeds and it really sharpened my appreciation of what was going on with this director, who has often been accused of making the same movie over and over.

So as filmstruck was going away, I watched a few more. Part of a film education that I never had before.

It was quite interesting to note the echoes of Ozu's style in last year's First Reformed, not all that surprising as Paul Schrader has written analyses of his movies.

 

correction of above, posted on April 8, 2019 at 10:49:41
tunenut
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 After doing a search, I found all the Ozu movies. They just were not in the top level collection "In Search of Ozu."

So that problem turned out to be user error, not a small film inventory.

 

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