It was announced this morning that WarnerMedia is going to be discontinuing FilmStruck – the streaming service devoted to the best in classic, international, and art cinema – on November 29 of this year. That gives us just over a month to view as much of their carefully curated collection as we can before the library is, effectively, scattered to the winds.
This news is, of course, a great blow to fans of classic and international film. When FilmStruck was first announced back in 2016, cinephiles everywhere were elated. No longer would those seeking great movies have to deal with the fickle, ever-mutating online catalogues of services like Netflix that filled up their archives with a spate of brand new original releases and, often, unknown B-movies of dubious quality (not that there is anything wrong with said original programming, or even with unknown B-movies, but when on the prowl for classic cinema, it did tend to get in the way). Now we could simply subscribe to a service that offered the best of the Criterion Collection and Turner Classic Movies instantly. FilmStruck was essentially delivering on the promise that online streaming services originally made: complete, easy, instant access to a collection of the best movies in the world.
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This news is, of course, a great blow to fans of classic and international film. When FilmStruck was first announced back in 2016, cinephiles everywhere were elated. No longer would those seeking great movies have to deal with the fickle, ever-mutating online catalogues of services like Netflix that filled up their archives with a spate of brand new original releases and, often, unknown B-movies of dubious quality (not that there is anything wrong with said original programming, or even with unknown B-movies, but when on the prowl for classic cinema, it did tend to get in the way). Now we could simply subscribe to a service that offered the best of the Criterion Collection and Turner Classic Movies instantly. FilmStruck was essentially delivering on the promise that online streaming services originally made: complete, easy, instant access to a collection of the best movies in the world.
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