{"id":37147,"date":"2017-06-06T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=37147"},"modified":"2017-06-06T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:31:39","slug":"filmstruck-and-criterion-now-roku-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/06\/filmstruck-and-criterion-now-roku-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"FilmStruck and Criterion: Now Roku-ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KT<\/a><\/p>\n

DB here:<\/p>\n

Soon after Kristin posted the seventh\u00a0installment in our Criterion series, there came the big news.\u00a0FilmStruck<\/a>\u00a0and the Criterion Channel are now available for streaming via\u00a0Roku.\u00a0Some details are in this Variety<\/em> story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These streaming services had already been available on Apple TV, Chromecast, and other devices, but getting to Roku is a big boost. As of January, Variety<\/em>\u00a0says<\/a> there are 13 million active Roku accounts. Roku capability is built into many smart TVs, and the\u00a0set-top devices are reasonably\u00a0low-priced<\/a>. As a result, and as an early mover in the market,\u00a0Roku\u00a0has twice the penetration of its rivals.<\/p>\n

Kristin, Jeff Smith, and I\u00a0hope that subscribers will check out our monthly comments on films both classic and modern. Before or after our discussion, you can watch the films on the Criterion channel. We’ve regarded these short items as extensions of our blog, our research, and our textbook, Film Art: An Introduction<\/em>. We try to make them clear and engaging.<\/p>\n

If you subscribe to\u00a0FilmStruck, you can log in and go straight to all our\u00a0offerings. A synoptic page is here<\/a>. Before Kristin’s entry on The Rules of the Game<\/em><\/a>, we put up\u00a0Jeff on the score of Foreign Correspondent<\/em><\/a>, me on editing in Sanshiro Sugata<\/em><\/a>, Kristin on landscape in two films by Abbas Kiarostami<\/a>, Kristin on the child’s viewpoint in The Spirit of the Beehive<\/em><\/a>, me on staging in L’Avventura<\/em><\/a>, and Jeff on camera movement in Kie\u015blowski’s\u00a0Red<\/em><\/a>. Whether or not you have\u00a0FilmStruck, you can read\u00a0blogs expanding on four\u00a0of those entries here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coming up: Jeff on La C\u00e9r\u00e9monie<\/em> and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul<\/em>, Kristin on The Phantom Carriage<\/em> and M<\/em>, and me on Monsieur Verdoux<\/em>, Brute Force<\/em>, and Chungking Express<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And of course both FilmStruck and the Criterion channel offer\u00a0a dizzying array of features, shorts, interviews, and bonus material.\u00a0If you had told me just a few years\u00a0ago that such a bounty would be so easily available, I’d have doubted it. Nothing beats seeing films on the big screen, but as a person who grew up with movies on TV (in small, degraded images and sound), I know that they retain some of their\u00a0power in a lot of circumstances.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0monthly subscription equals\u00a0the cost of three of Starbuck’s\u00a0Cinnamon Dolce Lattes (Venti)<\/a>, whatever they are. Surely this is a great bargain. You can keep up with what’s coming along at Criterion’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To those of you who have signed up and have followed our efforts: Thanks! Keep watching!<\/p>\n

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