John Latchem
May 7, 2018
Prestige movie label Cohen Media Group has launched a subscription video on demand service on Amazon Channels. The new Cohen Media Channel includes selections from the company’s vast Cohen Film Collection of classic and landmark titles, as well as from its catalog of Award-winning independent, arthouse and foreign films.
The selection includes films from such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Abbas Kiarostami, Costa-Gavras, Ken Loach, Claude Chabrol, Luis Buñuel, the Taviani Brothers, Buster Keaton and Jean-Luc Godard. Recent acclaimed films such as Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film The Salesman, François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend and Marina Willer’s Red Trees also will be available.
Selling points for the channel include curated selections; introductions by film experts and historians; features and short films; classic restorations as well as newer releases; exclusive introductions created just for the channel; films that can be seen nowhere else; and extras and bonuses attached to many films.
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