Letterboxd – a movie tracker app and the one good social community – introduced a Letterboxd Video Retailer on the Competition de Cannes on Tuesday. Not like a standard video-on-demand service, Letterboxd Video Retailer will supply “restricted festival-style home windows” when you may stream “pageant favorites, underseen gems, international cinema, and rising voices” in cinema.
The service is even exploring restricted runs of movies that haven’t but scored widespread distribution, which might make your dream watchlist that extra attainable.
When does it launch? What are the primary choices? Which territories will or not it’s accessible in? Will or not it’s that compromised by Trump’s wacky tariff concepts? We don’t but know. However Letterboxd does promise that the choices will probably be curated by the Letterboxd group leveraging “behavioral perception” gathered from the 20 million customers logging, reviewing, and discoursing on its service.
On condition that Letterboxd’s movie weblog Journal is sweet truly, I belief this mix of non-public curation and “neighborhood enthusiasm.” It’s a welcome addition to the curated streaming service area the place Criterion and Mubi dwell, for these of us with Netflix fatigue and a yet-undetermined quantity of greenbacks to spare.