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Judy Garland and James Mason in A Star Is Born.
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Dry your tears, all ye who mourned the untimely death of FilmStruck: a fix is reportedly on the horizon. According to Deadline, WarnerMedia-the company that owns the service and originally made the decision to shut down in late October-is apparently plotting a way to create a new version of FilmStruck.
No details have been revealed just yet, but the streamer, which houses the classic movies and the Criterion Collection, will become part of a package of streaming services that WarnerMedia plans to launch in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Per Deadline, the decision might have been hastened by the public outcry from moviemakers like Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, who reached out directly to Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich and asked him to keep FilmStruck going. Then, a large group of industry figures-including Barry Jenkins, Barbra Streisand, Guillermo del Toro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and more-signed Emmerich, hammering the point home.
"The FilmStruck service was (IS) the best streaming service for all types of cinema: classic studio movies, independent cinema, international treasures," the letter reads. "Without it, the landscape for film fans and students of cinema is especially bleak. There's a reason there was a huge outpouring of artists and fans over it being shuttered; they were doing the movie God's work. "
Warner's upcoming streaming plan, adding that "FilmStruck should not be a conflict of interest. In this day and age, there is much room for the production of films, which is very important and important for film production. "
WarnerMedia C.E.O. John Stankey has discussed the future of the market, noting that the strategy is all about bundling. "My job is not to build another Netflix," he said at Vanity FairNew Establishment Summit last month. "Our job is to build a compelling offer of content."
MovieStruck is compelling! It is also happy! Alas, all fans can do now is wait and see what happens next.
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Metropolis
Fritz Lang's 1927 German expressionist classic has influenced countless movies, not least because it's a timeless paean to the Art Deco movement. Set in 2026, Metropolis Imagines a world of bright lights, towering buildings-like Manhattan on steroids and impossibly chic robots.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick's legendary 1968 film about humans traversing the universe lived up to the gargantuan promise of the word "odyssey," starting with the daring opening scene set to "Thus Spoke Zarathustra." Everything was immaculately designed, from the pristine spaceship with its glowing red emergency hatch, to the impressively rendered space walks.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg's sci-fi classic, which is just about to turn 40, gave us some of the most enduring alien-adventure imagery of our time. From the Lite-Brite Flying U.F.O. zipping across the starry sky, to the table of workers set against the stunning desert landscape, Encounters is one for the ages.
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E. T. was not a looker, but the movie sure was. Steven Spielberg grounded the film with looming, exterior shots of Culver City, then flung Elliott's adventures deep into the sun-dappled heart of the ethereal Redwood National Park.
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Star Wars IV
Let us now pay homage to the movie that started a billion-dollar franchise and begat a cottage industry of lesser copycats. From the rosy, double-mooned desert landscape of Tatooine, to the eternal image of the Millennium Falcon, s_tar Wars_ set the stage for an incredibly novel universe.
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Blade Runner
Ridley Scott's original adaptation of Philip K. Dick's story of rogue replicants presented in a deliciously claustrophobic city with neon lights, inspired by the urgency of Hong Kong. Much of the film's gargantuan feel can be attributed to ingenious special effects and models painted to look like a life-sized dystopian hellscape.
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The Matrix
Perhaps the most enduring thing The Matrix is not its mind-melting plot, but its perfectly curated futuristic-goth aesthetic. Tea Wachowskis brilliantly baked Neo's world in dark green settings, a moody backdrop for the leather-clad cyberpunks waging a physical and philosophical war against their enemies.
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Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón scooped up the best-director Oscar for this 2013 movie for good reason. The tense, space-bound thriller is widely composed of special effects, with a gorgeously rendered vision of the Earth in all its breathtaking splendor.
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Under the Skin
Few movies are as darkly disarming as Jonathan Glazer's 2014 thriller, filmed half in Scotland's bustling city streets, half in its surreal natural landscapes. Scarlett Johansson's Alien man-eating also includes a deep-sea bass with a deep pool, like something truly out of a nightmare.
From Everett Collection.
Ex Machina
Alex Garland's 2015 stunner takes place largely in one home-but what an unbelievably gorgeous home it is, a high-tech wonderland nestled deep into a verdant forest. The brilliant design extends to everything from the luxury-yet-minimalist decor, to the aesthetic of the hand robot (played by Alicia Vikander), her translucent body only partially sheathed in skin.
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Arrival
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