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Revanche, a little-known German-language film about guilt and revenge in Vienna, is the surprise top choice of Ottawa Public Library patrons using the library’s new streaming video service of classic, hard-to-find movies.
Maybe viewers are lured by the director’s “tense, existential, and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption” — or maybe it’s the picture of the naked prostitute on its cover — but the Oscar-nominated Revanche is the most streamed film from Kanopy, a film lover’s playground that the library unveiled in January.
Hankering for some Herzog? Craving a Kurosawa? Critically acclaimed films by these directors and hundreds of other rare and obscure films are available free if you have an Internet connection and an Ottawa Public Library card.
“It’s a unique collection,” said Ann Archer, the library’s manager of content services. “People may have taken Film 101 at university. They know Jean Renoir or (François) Truffaut or Ingmar Bergman.”
Kanopy went online in mid-January, streaming its Criterion Collection of classic films, including art house favourites like Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, Akira Kurosawa’s Rashoman and Jean Luc Goddard’s landmark film Breathless — “There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless,” its reviewer raves.
There are cult favourites like Quadrophenia and Down by Law, documentaries like For All Mankind, a stunning look at the Apollo Moon missions, and music films like Gimme Shelter and D. A. Pennebaker’s classic Don’t Look Back, which follows Bob Dylan on his 1965 British Tour.
Ottawa Public Library is the second library in Canada, after Vancouver, to subscribe to Kanopy.
Revanche, a German-language film from Austria is, curiously, the most streamed film from the Ottawa Public Library’s Criterion Collection.
“We had a pretty good sense that our public would like it,” Archer said. “There’s quite a crowd that goes to the ByTowne, for instance. And a lot of that crowd will come to the library.”
Some of the films are controversial. I Am Curious Yellow was banned in parts of the U.S. when it was released in 1969, though it seems quaint compared to today’s deluge of online pornography. On the other hand, the 1976 Japanese film, In the Realm of the Senses (the No. 6 most-streamed film from the OPL) is extremely graphic, with un-simulated oral sex, ejaculation and vaginal penetration.
The content doesn’t faze Archer and Kanopy isn’t available with a minor’s library card. Nor does the library track or record individual’s movie-watching habits.
“It turns out Ottawa has adult tastes!” she said.
“We’re quite happy with what’s there. It’s all highly regarded film. And we don’t shy away from controversial material at a public library. We believe in access to good quality material.”
OPL negotiated a one-year deal with Kanopy for unlimited access to movies. Archer wouldn’t say how much the deal is worth, but said the cost per use decreases as the number of views go up. In the first six months of the service, the library has had 2,500 movies watched and 8,000 visits to the website.
Kanopy CEO and founder Olivia Humphrey started the company in 2008 in Western Australia as a DVD licensing company for universities. The company is now based in San Francisco and has added public libraries along with its academic customers.
“It’s a very interesting model,” Humphrey said. “We’re streaming this wonderful collection of films to a non-paying audience. There’s no advertising. Our revenue is literally from the libraries themselves.”
Humphrey said the company offers its client a sophisticated “back end” that gives the libraries’ full transparency on what movies are being watched and what viewers are saying about them. Kanopy staff attend major film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Hot Docs and Sundance to find new movies to licence.
The Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa is thought by many to be the finest movie ever made. You can watch it for free with your library card.
“To be able to create a really viable channel for films that might otherwise struggle to get an audience, that’s one of the things that gets us out of bed in the morning,” she said.
Kanopy is just the most recent streaming service that Ottawa Public Library offers, Archer said. Hoopla carries more mainstream movies such as The Shack, Manchester by the Sea, and The Bachelorette. Lynda.com is an online training site, while Freegal and Naxos are music streaming sites.
Those who don’t have access to the Internet are welcome to watch on one of the library computers, she said.
“This is the way we’re going, but we’re not giving up on physical material either,” Archer said. “We are always still about ‘the Book’.”
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
Ottawa Public Library staff picks from the Criterion Collection:
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Maybe viewers are lured by the director’s “tense, existential, and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption” — or maybe it’s the picture of the naked prostitute on its cover — but the Oscar-nominated Revanche is the most streamed film from Kanopy, a film lover’s playground that the library unveiled in January.
Hankering for some Herzog? Craving a Kurosawa? Critically acclaimed films by these directors and hundreds of other rare and obscure films are available free if you have an Internet connection and an Ottawa Public Library card.
“It’s a unique collection,” said Ann Archer, the library’s manager of content services. “People may have taken Film 101 at university. They know Jean Renoir or (François) Truffaut or Ingmar Bergman.”
Kanopy went online in mid-January, streaming its Criterion Collection of classic films, including art house favourites like Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, Akira Kurosawa’s Rashoman and Jean Luc Goddard’s landmark film Breathless — “There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless,” its reviewer raves.
There are cult favourites like Quadrophenia and Down by Law, documentaries like For All Mankind, a stunning look at the Apollo Moon missions, and music films like Gimme Shelter and D. A. Pennebaker’s classic Don’t Look Back, which follows Bob Dylan on his 1965 British Tour.
Ottawa Public Library is the second library in Canada, after Vancouver, to subscribe to Kanopy.
Revanche, a German-language film from Austria is, curiously, the most streamed film from the Ottawa Public Library’s Criterion Collection.
“We had a pretty good sense that our public would like it,” Archer said. “There’s quite a crowd that goes to the ByTowne, for instance. And a lot of that crowd will come to the library.”
Some of the films are controversial. I Am Curious Yellow was banned in parts of the U.S. when it was released in 1969, though it seems quaint compared to today’s deluge of online pornography. On the other hand, the 1976 Japanese film, In the Realm of the Senses (the No. 6 most-streamed film from the OPL) is extremely graphic, with un-simulated oral sex, ejaculation and vaginal penetration.
The content doesn’t faze Archer and Kanopy isn’t available with a minor’s library card. Nor does the library track or record individual’s movie-watching habits.
“It turns out Ottawa has adult tastes!” she said.
“We’re quite happy with what’s there. It’s all highly regarded film. And we don’t shy away from controversial material at a public library. We believe in access to good quality material.”
OPL negotiated a one-year deal with Kanopy for unlimited access to movies. Archer wouldn’t say how much the deal is worth, but said the cost per use decreases as the number of views go up. In the first six months of the service, the library has had 2,500 movies watched and 8,000 visits to the website.
Kanopy CEO and founder Olivia Humphrey started the company in 2008 in Western Australia as a DVD licensing company for universities. The company is now based in San Francisco and has added public libraries along with its academic customers.
“It’s a very interesting model,” Humphrey said. “We’re streaming this wonderful collection of films to a non-paying audience. There’s no advertising. Our revenue is literally from the libraries themselves.”
Humphrey said the company offers its client a sophisticated “back end” that gives the libraries’ full transparency on what movies are being watched and what viewers are saying about them. Kanopy staff attend major film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Hot Docs and Sundance to find new movies to licence.
The Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa is thought by many to be the finest movie ever made. You can watch it for free with your library card.
“To be able to create a really viable channel for films that might otherwise struggle to get an audience, that’s one of the things that gets us out of bed in the morning,” she said.
Kanopy is just the most recent streaming service that Ottawa Public Library offers, Archer said. Hoopla carries more mainstream movies such as The Shack, Manchester by the Sea, and The Bachelorette. Lynda.com is an online training site, while Freegal and Naxos are music streaming sites.
Those who don’t have access to the Internet are welcome to watch on one of the library computers, she said.
“This is the way we’re going, but we’re not giving up on physical material either,” Archer said. “We are always still about ‘the Book’.”
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
Ottawa Public Library staff picks from the Criterion Collection:
- 8 ½ – Fellini’s masterpiece
- Breaker Morant – A breakout Australian film from the 80s by Bruce Beresford
- Belle de Jour – Catherine Deneuve and French cinema at their best
- An Angel at My Table – A literary bio-pic of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, by the great Jane Campion
- A Hard Day’s Night – Classic Beatles! Everyone will love this raucous romp with a fabulous soundtrack
- Breaking the Waves – Lars von Trier’s first hit with Emily Watson
- Heart of a Dog – The inimitable Laurie Anderson’s personal and philosophical film with her own dog as inspiration
- Black Orpheus – Orpheus at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro: this film kicked off the Bossa Nova craze
- My Dinner with Andre – Louis Malle’s introspective and intellectual film of a conversation – a classic
- The Red Balloon – Nostalgic for this film of the elusive Red Balloon from your childhood? Here’s your chance….
- In the Mood for Love
- Breathless
- Bicycle Thief
- The Official Story
- 400 Blows
- Revanche
- In the Mood for Love
- Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
- Love in the Afternoon
- In the Realm of the Senses
- I am Curious, Yellow
- Seven Samurai
- A Hard Day’s Night
- La Haine
- Valerie and her Week of Wonders
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