- The Washington Post. Post-FilmStruck, Criterion to Bow Movie Service Under WarnerMedia Pact. On the heels of the news that FilmStruck, the movie-streaming subscription service aimed at cinephiles, will be ceasing at the end of November, Criterion Collection announced a new deal with WarnerMedia to launch a separate streaming service in 2019. FilmStruck, operated by Turner and Warner Bros.
Digital Networks, has been the exclusive U.S. home for Criterion’s catalog of critically acclaimed contemporary and classic films. FilmStruck is ending operations effective Nov. 29. In the spring of 2019, Criterion Channel will launch as a standalone service, which “will be a rich and curated experience,” WarnerMedia and Criterion said. In addition, Criterion’s film collection will be part of WarnerMedia’s broad direct-to-consumer streaming service slated to launch in the fourth quarter of 2019, which will include content from HBO, Warner Bros., Turner, and potentially third-party sources.
The Criterion Channel will be regularly priced at $10.99 per month or $100 for an annual subscription. We’re Not Mad Enough About the End of FilmStruck. Everything we know about the 'Downton Abbey' movie. Downton Abbey, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Imelda Staunton, Laura Carmichael, Maggie Smith. Los Angeles Times. Filmrestaurierung: VAMPYR (1932) – Some notes on the restoration (Part 1)
Vampyr (1932) Movie Review from Eye for Film. 'Vampyr' Is the Best Vampire Movie You’ve Never Seen. Horror Classic The Old Dark House Is Getting a Blu-Ray Release. 35 Scariest Halloween Movies of All Time - Best Classic Horror Movies. The changing season means many things—fall foliage, chunky knit sweaters more pumpkin-flavored items than any sane person could possibly desire—but it also means it's almost Halloween, and so it's time for scary movies.
Thanks to streaming video services, there are now almost as many ghoulish and gory options as pumpkin snacks to easily consume. But too many offerings are of a cheesy, B-movie grade. For a truly terrifying time, the classics are the way to go. In this spirit, we present 35 surefire bets and how to watch them right now. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Parade. At 50, 'The Graduate' remains the best-directed comedy ever made.
WASHINGTON — It changed Hollywood — and America — forever, opening the bedroom door to a sexual revolution, capturing coming-of-age themes of youth alienation, and stoking Baby Boomer rebellion against “plastic” 1960s parents: “I’ve had this feeling ever since I graduated … that I have to be rude all the time. … It’s like I’ve been playing some kind of game, but the rules don’t make any sense to me.
50 years later, 'The Graduate' is a study in the power of obsession. Seeing "The Graduate" again decades after an initial viewing is, appropriately enough, like attending a college reunion.
Films are in a sense like old friends, and revisiting them years later inevitably raises the question of whether what you once enjoyed still brings you pleasure. With "The Graduate," which will play theatrically across Los Angeles on April 23 and 26 in a new 4K digital restoration presented by Fathom Events as part of the TCM Big Screen Classics series, the results are mixed. MORE: 50 years after 'The Graduate,' restless Benjamin Braddock still speaks to young men — and women There is no question that from a film history point of view "The Graduate" deserves this kind of 50th anniversary respect.
The result was a major box office success, nominated for seven Oscars including best picture and acting nods for stars Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross, plus an Oscar victory for Nichols. Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson: why The Graduate unites warring generations 50 years on. The Making of "The Graduate" Any good movie is filled with secrets.
—Mike Nichols Imagine a movie called The Graduate. Skiptrace · Film Review Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville battle the ravages of age in Skiptrace · Movie Review. Readers' Poll: The 25 Best Cult Movies of All Time Pictures. 30 Cult Movies That Absolutely Everybody Must See. 400 Greatest Cult Movies - a list by blackstatic. 10 Classic Cult Movies That Everyone Should See. What’s your favorite cult movie?
Although the qualities that define a cult movie are somewhat amorphous, generally speaking, films that have inspired an unusually devoted group of fans are labeled as cult movies. And while some film critics have argued that the label should only be applied to lesser-known, underground films, nowadays, there are many mainstream big-budget films that are widely regarded as cult movies due to their lasting popularity with committed groups of fans. Perhaps the only distinguishing trait everyone can agree upon is that cult movies have some type of unusual aspect that sets them apart from most other movies. In short, cult movies are weird. With no widely agreed-upon definition and with legions of passionate fans ready to argue the merits of their particular favorites, any top 10 list of cult movies is pretty much guaranteed not to please everyone.
13 Cult Films About Cults. Here at The Playlist, where we pray to our benign Leader every time we hit "publish," abstain from all sexual activity, grow our own vegetables and pause in our tasks thrice daily to face due East and chant our mantra "Kurosawa, Kurosawa, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Ommm," we'd obviously know better than to get ourselves caught up in any sort of cult.
Vogue Editors Choose Their Favorite '90s Cult Movies. One night in the late ’90s, I went to a party at a Manhattan nightclub to celebrate the release of Emancipation, a three-hour album by the artist formerly known as Prince, then known as a symbol, then as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, and finally as Prince again.
There was a memorable moment as he walked across a floor crowded with fellow African-American royalty (Quincy Jones, Spike Lee, Savion Glover), a handful of random white pop stars such as Billy Corgan and Marilyn Manson, and a major contingent of bodyguards appropriate to this high density of celebrity. Prince, dressed in red, happened to be headed directly toward Lenny Kravitz, whose monumental Afro was barely contained by his enormous knit cap. The two came face-to-face in a meet-and-greet. Ride the Wild Surf. "In Hawaii there's a place known as Waimea Bay/ Where the best surfers in the world come to stay.
" That promising line is heard in the opening theme song for Ride the Wild Surf (1964), a surprisingly fun and authentic surf outing that should lay to rest ideas of bad beach movies. Ride the Wild Surf teams Fabian and Tab Hunter with future soap opera actor Peter Brown (Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless) as California surfing buddies who head out to Hawaii to catch some of that great Pacific action. They quickly find more than just crankin' waves in the forms of Barbara Eden, Shelley Fabares and Susan Hart. Events reach a fever pitch when the surfers enter a competition and find themselves against the all-but-unstoppable reigning champ, James Mitchum (Robert's son). Ride the Wild Surf was originally planned as a much different film. The 10 Biggest Cult Films of the Netflix Era.
The 10 Biggest Cult Films of the Netflix Era By Dustin Rowles | Netflix Movies and TV | July 5, 2015 | Comments (87 View You can trace cult films back for decades, but they didn’t really begin gaining traction until the advent of the VCR, which allowed us to revisit and resurface films that were otherwise ignored at the box office.
