Warner Archive Instant Streaming

[Luscious]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 9:27am

Very Excited! I'm probably late to the party, but I just heard about this streaming service. They're offering a 2-week free trial. And only $10 per month, thereafter. Some really great rare and hard-to-find movies and televison! Many in HD. Especially loving the pre-code classics! Anyone else given it a try?



Warner Archive Instant

Updated On: 9/5/13 at 09:27 AM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 9:38am

sold! - - - movie lover's paradise!!

buh-bye netflix!

[Addison D.]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 11:54am

Thanks for posting this--I'm eager to check it out.

I'm perplexed by the list of "Most Watched Movies", though.

Out of the collected archives of MGM, Warner Bros, RKO, etc. the *most watched* films are 'Avalanche Express', 'the Man in the Brown Suit', the Colossus of Rhodes' and 'Red Headed Woman'?

Perhaps they are difficult to find in any other format.

Whatever. I'm looking forward to diving in--especially, as you suggest, the pre-code and silent selections.

[Luscious]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 12:21pm

Apparently, the service officially launched in April. Don't know why it's taken me this long to discover it. Perhaps because the channel was only recently added to ROKU.

Addison...don't know how they measure "most watched" either, but one of the first movies I watched was RED HEADED WOMAN. Loved it!

Today, I'm in a "post 60's comedy" kind of mood. Just finished watching the truly awful PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW. If anyone comes across something they'd like to recommend, I'd personally welcome any and all suggestions.

Updated On: 9/5/13 at 12:21 PM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 3:11pm

Doesn't this require some special piece of hardware or something?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 3:19pm

If you want to watch it on your television you will need a Roku player, but you can still watch it on your computer without anything (you may need to download Silverlight, which is the video client they use, but that's also what Netflix uses so if you have that you'll be all set).

I would imagine that if it continues to grow in popularity they will continue adding what devices you can use it on.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 10/30/13 at 1:41pm

Warner Instant has added a slew of new titles. I'm going to have me a Cinema Cheese-fest this weekend:

A SUMMER PLACE
SUSAN SLADE
A DISTANT TRUMPET
PARRISH
ROME ADVENTURE
THE SINS OF RACHEL CADE
THE HONEYMOON MACHINE
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK
WHERE THE BOYS ARE

is PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND not too far behind?

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 10/30/13 at 1:47pm

This sounds wonderful but ROKU is the worst. I used to have one. Biggest waste of money spent, in my personal opinion. I wish Netflix would offer a Classics genre. It's very frustrating.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 1/4/14 at 5:42pm

Warner Instant Archives now has an iPad App...you can stream on your iPad or connect your 'pad to your TV and watch it that way. No Roku needed! Quality is excellent! I am now watching "Fortune and Men's Eyes"...I've never seen it.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 1/5/14 at 9:19pm

You've seen the photos of Don Johnson and Sal Mineo in Fortune on stage, right, Carlos?


I need The Babymaker on Instant!

"And yet against that you can balance a scene where people are picketing against war toys, and you think for a moment the scene has collapsed into banality, and then it surprises you with a hilarious switch in tone. Or, most stunningly, the childbirth scene, played so luminously by Barbara Hershey that there are tears in the audience, and that's unusual because they're tears of joy, not sorrow."

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-baby-maker-1970

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 1/6/14 at 3:29pm

You've seen the photos of Don Johnson and Sal Mineo in Fortune on stage, right, Carlos?

Of course I have! What kind of a homosexual do you think I am? L O L

For a film that was made in 1970 it really went "out there". It was disturbing and I don't doubt what was depicted happens in prisons. I just found the character of "Queenie" laughable and a little unrealistic. He wouldn't have had that much pull in the prison system, He would have gotten the crap beaten out of him from day one.

I liked Wendell Burton's performance but again I had a hard time believing that in the end he overpowered "Rocky" and makes him submit. I could see it if Smitty were being played by an actor who didn't look like he came out of a "Leave It To Beaver" re-run.

I'm glad I've finally got to see it after hearing so many (good and bad) things about it.