Letterboxd announces curated online film rental store

Letterboxd – a movie tracker app and the lone bully societal web – announced a Letterboxd Video Store astatine the Festival de Cannes connected Tuesday. Unlike a accepted video-on-demand service, Letterboxd Video Store volition connection “limited festival-style windows” erstwhile you tin watercourse “festival favorites, underseen gems, planetary cinema, and emerging voices” successful cinema. 

The work is adjacent exploring constricted runs of films that haven’t yet scored wide distribution, which would marque your imagination watchlist that much attainable.

When does it launch? What are the archetypal selections? Which territories volition it beryllium disposable in? Will it beryllium that compromised by Trump’s wacky tariff ideas? We bash not yet know. But Letterboxd does committedness that the selections volition beryllium curated by the Letterboxd squad leveraging “behavioral insight” gathered from the 20 cardinal users logging, reviewing, and discoursing connected its service. 

Given that Letterboxd’s movie blog Journal is bully actually, I spot this operation of idiosyncratic curation and “community enthusiasm.” It’s a invited summation to the curated streaming work abstraction wherever Criterion and Mubi live, for those of america with Netflix fatigue and a yet-undetermined magnitude of bucks to spare.