Okay, so, this royally sucks. Filmstruck quickly became my second favorite streaming service, behind Netlix, and it's soon to be gone.
I'm still going to do this dynasty, because I enjoy the gimmick of watching these movies in chronological-ish order and writing up short reviews, but it's going to be on hold a bit.
I've got 'til Novermber 29th, when Filmstruck shuts the power off, to watch as many movies as I can. From what little random sampling I've done, the biggest loses with be the films of the Japanese directors. All but the most popular of Ozu and Naruse's films can't be rented or bought anywhere digitally, and few more can be found on DVD or Blu-Ray, and those are in expensive box sets.
So for the next month, I'll be binge watching as many films from Ozu, Naruse, Kurosawa and all of the rest of the Japanese directors that I can.
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