You can go through this thread and pretty much tell which posters don't know what The Criterion Collection is.
Canary in the coal mine.
You can go through this thread and pretty much tell which posters don't know what The Criterion Collection is.
I wish I had known about the special. What kind of discount was offered?Ha. And this just after Apple ran a Criterion movie special and I bought a bunch of Criterion movies through Apple TV. Still, there is some superb content available here that can free us from the traditional Hollywood flicks.
Oh how I long for the days when my Hulu subscription included a huge selection of Criterion films at no extra cost.
People wanted A La Carte. Studios are now giving it to them. So..... they should be happy.
Believe it or not, just a few generations ago, humans lived their entire lives with only the content available in the few books they had access to, if they were literate. Fortunately, they had their own imagination, and the natural beauty that surrounded them, to keep them happy. Tell the media to piss off and go for a walk.
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Image via The Criterion Channel/Variety
Closer to the truth is the fact that until very recently, people worked six or seven days a week for twelve hours and simple had no real free-time....
It's an outstanding collection of films for sure, but I'm not sure it's worth $11/month, on top of all the other monthly subscription fees I'm paying already. I'll probably just buy cheap used Blu-ray copies of the titles I want to watch.
You’re misinformed about what Criterion is. It’s not a studio, they don’t create or produce anything. They distribute and subtitle worldwide art ( mostly ) films in the US, with special bonus material , restorations of old masterpieces from around the world,etc. Those are films that you’re not likely to see anywhere on a regular chanel or even a movie theater in the US. They’re doing a great job. I would totally pay 11$ for that.Every studio, producer, creator, tom, dick, and harry now wants to charge for access to their own content and remove it from being consumed anywhere else. The decline in piracy is about to shift.
That's a pretty fair description of Criterion.You’re misinformed about what Criterion is. It’s not a studio, they don’t create or produce anything. They distribute and subtitle worldwide art ( mostly ) films in the US, with special bonus material , restorations of old masterpieces from around the world,etc. Those are films that you’re not likely to see anywhere on a regular chanel or even a movie theater in the US. They’re doing a great job. I would totally pay 11$ for that.
The entire argument going on here about subscriptions doesn’t apply at all in the case of Criterion.
I hope these are the same quality or better than bluray as in 50GB+ per movie. Otherwise its seems like a waste.
Given that Critereon has always been about doing high quality film releases, does anyone know if they plan to offer the movies streamed at a higher bitrate than other options?
For example, a typical Netflix HD stream is 6-7Mbps. Pushing it up to 15mbps or so would result in astoundingly good quality for those with Internet connections that can handle it.
I wish I had know about the special. What kind of discount was offered?
I like Criterion. However, a lot of their movies are really obscure, one time watch (if one can make it through) movies.
Through the power of reading the thread, (post 24), I was able to learn that this was Irene Jacob from Red.At first look, I thought this was Sophie Marceau.
Then I wondered if it might be Jennifer Lawrence.
Through the power of Google Images, I find it's Irène Jacob from Krzysztof Kieślowski's Trois couleurs: Rouge. (Kieślowski's Dekalog is a masterpiece, if anyone cares to look it up.)
The background picture is from a old movie from the 90s that I liked, Red with Irene Jacobs (Three colours series) Not seen it in a long time, brought back memories.
You’re misinformed about what Criterion is. It’s not a studio, they don’t create or produce anything. They distribute and subtitle worldwide art ( mostly ) films in the US, with special bonus material , restorations of old masterpieces from around the world,etc. Those are films that you’re not likely to see anywhere on a regular chanel or even a movie theater in the US. They’re doing a great job. I would totally pay 11$ for that.
The entire argument going on here about subscriptions doesn’t apply at all in the case of Criterion.
You’re misinformed about what Criterion is. It’s not a studio, they don’t create or produce anything. They distribute and subtitle worldwide art ( mostly ) films in the US, with special bonus material , restorations of old masterpieces from around the world,etc. Those are films that you’re not likely to see anywhere on a regular chanel or even a movie theater in the US. They’re doing a great job. I would totally pay 11$ for that.
The entire argument going on here about subscriptions doesn’t apply at all in the case of Criterion.
I'm pretty sure the only thing that'll be exclusive are the Criterion versions of movies. You'll still be able to watch non-Criterion versions of they exist—e.g., probably All the President's Men, probably not The Double Life of Veronique. Kanopy will probably lose their Critereon titles.So based on these 2 facts:
1) The Criterion Collection contains films that are currently available to be streamed on Netflix and other subscription sources.
2) Per their statement: "The Criterion Collection will be EXCLUSIVELY available to stream on the Criterion Channel."
Thus the result is I will no longer be able to stream the movies from #1 that are available on various sources I already pay for, because they will be taken off of those sources and I'll now need to pay yet another source (Criterion's app) to view them.
This is the point of contention. I don't care what technical role Criterion plays in the process, the fact remains that content they provide openly on other platforms right now will be taken away from those platforms and placed behind yet another paywall solely consisting of their own content.
This is very helpful information; thank you.The problem here though is that it’s Criterion’s “streaming library”, not their entire catalog of movies. I had the Criterion channel with Filmstruck, and it was advertised exactly the same. There were some good movies of course, and with many of the extras too, but it was mostly not so good really boring movies that would quickly put me to sleep. I used to borrow many great Criterion movies from the library, so I was excited when Filmstruck came along and offered the Criterion channel add-on. But nearly every movie I searched for wasn’t available. We can cross our fingers and hope that this attempt will be better, but I doubt it, since it’s probably all related to streaming rights.