Cinephilia in the Time of COVID-19

Here is a surfeit of links to streaming sites for discerning filmgoers in isolation. Feel free to make suggestions.

Update: I've just been apprised of this insanely thorough resource courtesy of Regina Longo which subsumes much of the below. It's a Google doc listing TONS of streaming sites. Wow!!!

And I've received word that "Starting Friday, 3/27, Pedro Costa's VITALINA VARELA will be available to stream on [Grasshopper Films'] site." Check back here next week to stream this masterpiece. I gush about it here. 

Get your avant-garde on with UbuWeb, the long-running (and oft-controversial) repository for experimental film (music and writing and more too!).

Here's a Google doc called CABIN FEVER: Coping with COVID-19 playlist of online experimental films & videos, a list of avant films to stream mostly on Vimeo.

The divine Rarefilmm:The Cave of Forgotten Films is Netflix for Karagarga abusers (or those who long to be). I strongly suggest You Can Succeed, Too (Eizô Sugawa, 1966) which I gushed about here.

Open Culture has an epic list of 1,150 Free Movies Online. Some links are dead. But masterpieces and obscurities abound.

The Danish Film Institute plans to digitize over 400 silent Danish films. Currently, over 61 titles are streaming here.  

Screen Slate, the indispensable NYC film listing aggregator, has pivoted to "Stream Slate" mode. Even if you don't live in NYC, you should sign up for streaming goodies. 

Film at Lincoln Center has partnered with Kino Lorber to stream my vote for the greatest film of the year so far, Bacurau! Stream it here. I rave here. 

The Ann Arbor Film Festival will happen online as a free, live-streamed, six-day event March 24 - 29th. Info here.   

Collectif Jeune Cinéma have made some of their (mostly experimental) films available for free on Vimeo here.

Don't forget the Internet Archive is a cavernous repository for films including the Prelinger Archives. And while there, check out my favorite Christmas movie, The Holly and the Ivy.

Finally, for those who have already seen Contagion, I've made a list on Letterboxd of pre-1967 films about viruses, epidemics, outbreaks, plagues, quarantines, etc.