Today is Filmstruck's final day, its library contained over 700 films, all classics

Sadly the best library in streaming goes dark.There is a silver lining, Criterion will be back next year with its own service and Warner Media claims they'll have a Warner Archive/Criterion channel in whatever monstrosity they hobble together to battle Netflix.It's been a wonderful two years, you could basically pick any given film out of a hat and be satisfied with a truly great piece of cinema you'd never heard of. Filmstruck didn't have a bunch of Z list schlock to pad its numbers like Amazon and Netflix, just the best of the Golden Age of Hollywood and a smattering of foreign and indie classics.You could listen to audio commentaries, disc extras, originally produced extras, host intros, director, actor and even cinematographer retrospectives. From high brow to low brow, they had art cinema, grindhouse cinema, and studio cinema. Each curated without prejudice.I loved being able to watch Zatoichi, Humphrey Bogart films, and random discoveries every day, but for now farewell Filmstruck. Hopefully next year it will be back, better than ever.Nothing can sum things up better than this final promo video via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2DPrFPR