Letterboxd – a movie tracker app and the one good social community – introduced a Letterboxd Video Store on the Festival de Cannes on Tuesday. Unlike a conventional video-on-demand service, Letterboxd Video Store will provide “restricted festival-style home windows” when you’ll be able to stream “competition favorites, underseen gems, world 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 alternatives? Which territories will or not it’s obtainable in? Will or not it’s that compromised by Trump’s wacky tariff concepts? We don’t but know. But Letterboxd does promise that the alternatives will probably be curated by the Letterboxd crew leveraging “behavioral perception” gathered from the 20 million customers logging, reviewing, and discoursing on its service.
Given that Letterboxd’s movie weblog Journal is sweet really, I belief this mixture of non-public curation and “group enthusiasm.” It’s a welcome addition to the curated digital movie house the place Criterion and Mubi stay, for these of us with Netflix fatigue and a yet-undetermined quantity of greenbacks to spare for the video-on-demand, a la carte alternatives.
