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There is still good cinema and television, it's just shockingly difficult to find.

The first person who figures out how to sort the wheat from the chaff and does so with no interior motive could be a millionaire immediately.

>>Loughl+(OP)
"could be a millionnaire immediately" is precisely the kind of techbro ulterior motive that creates these situations in the first place.

>>rchaud+D2
Exactly. Value extraction posing as value creation :)

>>Loughl+(OP)
This App Store review makes Mubi sound promising:

"MUBI IS TERRIBLE! *---- 6y ago • Nick2866 MUBI is terrible there's no good action or horror films it's crazy because almost all of the movies on the app I haven't even heard of and I'm a big movie buff. So just don't waste your time with MUBI just get Netflix or amazon prime."

>>Loughl+(OP)
You mean like the $ million given for the Netflix Prize ?

https://m.slashdot.org/story/122585

>>emptie+D9
Mubi has a truly fantastic art house selection along with a few more accessible films like the recent critically acclaimed horror, The Substance.

It’s worth checking out on trial, or at least browsing the catalog, but the collection was too esoteric for me to keep a subscription. If you like art house, though, and especially if you’re cool with diving into unknown titles, it’s pretty impressive.

>>geoele+lK
Where else but in MUBI can you discover the works of Andrea Arnold and her most recent film, Bird? The same goes for countless other directors whose oeuvre was unknown to me, someone who was introduced by my Father to Bergman and Kurosawa when I was barely seven.

There is also The Criterion Channel where I saw La Jetée for the first time after years of reluctance to immerse myself in a film essentially made of still photos. I have now gone back and watched it three more times, both in French and English. That’s how large of an impact it’s had on me. And I originally meant to get through it quickly (28 minutes duration), in preparation to rewatch 12 Monkeys.

Netflix does show some films that cater to a non mainstream audience, but may take more effort to find them. I recently saw Aftersun directed by Charlotte Wells, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. You will sob quietly.

>>Loughl+(OP)
*ulterior motive