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📚 The "Library Card" Superpower
Your local library is often a gateway to premium streaming.
• Kanopy / Hoopla: If you're in the US, UK, or Australia, your library card gives you free access to Criterion-level films.
• MLOL (MediaLibraryOnLine): The go-to for those in Italy. 🇮🇹
Public libraries are the ultimate "hack" for high-brow cinema without the subscription fatigue. 📖🎥
#Libraries #PublicEducation #Kanopy

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Ricardo Harvin Mar 21

Coppola's stuck in a past way of thinking that provides the absolute worst part of what is otherwise a potential masterpiece.

I loved the visual and technical artistry in Megalopolis, and outside of plot and dialogue, it IS a masterpiece.

Overall, it's a mess.

There is a quote in Megadoc that rightly notes that movies are visual art.

As that, Megalopolis succeeds.

#Megadoc #Megalopolis #Documentary #movie #movies #film #cinema #tv #television #Kanopy #library #libraries #Hoopla #streaming

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Ricardo Harvin Mar 21

There are a couple of clips and quotes, along with a bit of the monologue towards the end, that highlight where Megalopolis ultimately fails: Coppola's grand notion of throwing out the old, stale notions of the past are betrayed by his dialogue informed by his beliefs which are now literally the old, stale notions he mistakenly thinks he's destroying.

#Megadoc #Megalopolis #Documentary #movie #movies #film #cinema #tv #television #Kanopy #library #libraries #Hoopla #streaming

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Ricardo Harvin Mar 21

Megadoc is available to stream for free in the U.S. with a valid library card from a system that provides the Kanopy service.

It's a good documentary on the making of Megalopolis that further confirms my opinion that the movie is, and will eventually be considered, a beautiful love letter to the art form, despite its gaping flaws.

#link: https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/16114191

#Megadoc #Megalopolis #Documentary #movie #movies #film #cinema #tv #television #Kanopy #library #libraries #Hoopla #streaming

Mark Ramsey ♿📺📽️🎙️⚽🌮☕Mar 11

📽️🎬🍿 Watching Oh, God! from 1977 directed by Carl Reiner on #Kanopy

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Cassandra Mar 10

Someone on Bluesky posted about it being on #Kanopy. That's what it took. I am weirdly bad at watching movies, even ones I really want to see. Why? Who knows!

Deadline Mar 3

Marc DeBevoise, Former ViacomCBS Chief Digital Officer, Tapped As President Of Kanopy Parent OverDrive
#Executives #News #CBSInteractiveMediaGroup #Kanopy #MarcDeBevoise #OverDrive #ViacomCBS

https://deadline.com/2026/03/cbs-marc-debevoise-president-kanopy-overdrive-1236742720/

Marc DeBevoise, Former ViacomCBS Chief Digital Officer, Tapped As President Of Kanopy Parent OverDrive

Seasoned digital exec Marc DeBevoise has been tapped as president of OverDrive, whose school- and library-focused assets include the Kanopy streaming service.

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@IanAMartin HAS MOVED!Feb 27

The modern history of African nations is, to say the least, clouded by those who seek to protect their perceived innocence and/or non-involvement. This film is a curative.

The Democratic Republic of Congo was a Belgian colony, then gained its independence, then was seen by western influences as important, and so was ‘soft-colonized,’ to coin a term.

Those in the Black Community, including Abby Lincoln and other jazz artists, were not having any of it. So they caused a disturbance in the UN General Assembly chamber.

This is the story of how that came to pass. It is complicated, but the events leading to its conclusion are nonetheless horrifying due to that complexity.

You won’t see Dulles, Eisenhower, or Khrushchev in the same way again.

Highly recommended.

★★★★★

#review #CineMastodon #Kanopy #VPL #documentary

MFennVT has moved Feb 22

Tonight's #movie was a lot of fun: 2010's Burke and Hare w/Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis. It's a dark comedy that attempts to make B&H sympathetic heroes, which they weren't, by a long shot. They were scumbag murderers. But it was clever and had a good cast including Tim Curry, and a bonus Christopher Lee cameo (!). Watched on #Kanopy.