New on Kanopy This Week: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, HUMANE, THE SEEDING
We’re big fans of Kanopy here at When To Stream, so we’re starting a new feature to highlight the notable titles added each week to the streaming service. Many are non-exclusive, but some are making their ‘SVOD’ debuts (though Kanopy is not a subscription service).
If you’re unfamiliar with Kanopy, it’s an on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows, educational videos and documentaries. The service is free for end users, but libraries pay fees on a pay-per-view model, from which content owners and content creators are paid.
All you need for full access is a library card through your local library. Kanopy can be viewed on a computer, mobile device, or television via a web browser supporting HTML video or the Kanopy app for Amazon Fire Tablet and Fire Stick, Android, Apple iOS, Chromecast and Roku.
All movies and television series are streamed ad-free, and no monthly subscription is required. To sign up, go to kanopy.com. It’s a fantastic deal.
Here’s what’s new on Kanopy this week:
After escaping from an island prison where he spent 14 years for being wrongly accused of state treason, Edmond Dantès returns as the Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on the men who betrayed him.
Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to get it out. Massoud leads a group of increasingly-confused tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his mother. Time, geography and personal identities crossfade, interweave and collide into a surreal comedy of disorientation.
A global environmental collapse forces world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce Earth's population.
A hiker lost in the desert offers to help a child search for his missing parents. Instead, he is led to a canyon where he takes refuge with a woman living alone in a broken-down shack. He soon begins to suspect that she might not be there willingly. After a failed escape attempt, he realizes he is trapped and at the mercy of a sadistic cult with a mysterious agenda.
INTERSTELLAR
From director Christopher Nolan comes the story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history. Academy Award-winner Matthew McConaughey stars as ex-pilot-turned-farmer Cooper, who must leave his family and a floundering Earth behind to lead an expedition traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING THIS EVENING
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body.
BLOW-UP
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
MANIAC COP
Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself marked as the chief suspect after his wife is murdered.
Los Angeles, 1930. A street-wise, down on his luck detective, Philip Marlowe, is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance unearths a web of lies, and soon Marlowe is involved in a dangerous, deadly investigation where everyone involved has something to hide.
LAWLESS
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.
HEARTS IN ATLANTIS
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
It’s like Cars…but they’re shoes…