Soon after however The Criterion Collection announced it would launch its own service, The Criterion Channel will have similar offerings and marked April 8, 2019, as its launch date.
The Criterion Channel, like the home media distributor it spawned from, is carefully curated.
Criterion Collection editions will let fans dig deep into individual films.
Movie fans the world over were disappointed when the streaming service Filmstruck shuttered its virtual doors in fall 2018.