Issue No. 247 — This Week's ProgrammeWED · 12 MAR 2026
The 1MOV Weekly · A Curated Programme
One frame. One move. Every cinema you've ever missed — now streaming in 4K.
18,400 hand-picked films. No algorithm. One considered recommendation each evening, plus a weekly programme of restored classics, festival discoveries, and the documentaries nobody else is showing.
Directed by Marguerite Claris · Restored from the original negative by the Cinémathèque Française in partnership with 1MOV's restoration lab.
"I've spent eleven years chasing a print of this film. It was banned in 1969, buried by its own studio, and then quietly forgotten by everyone except two cinephiles in Lyon who kept a 16mm dupe in a garage. We restored it frame by frame. What you'll see tonight is, quite literally, the version the world was never meant to."
A professor drifts through a sleepless Marseille summer, writing a letter she will never mail to the man she did not leave. Claris shoots the city as if it were confessing — long takes, natural light, the Mediterranean behaving like a co-conspirator. Lost for fifty-six years, recovered from a single warped print, now streaming in 4K HDR for the first time anywhere.
Four picks from our 22 film programmers, spanning 1958 to last Tuesday. Curated the way a festival sidebar should be — nothing here because an algorithm approved it.
18,400hand-curated films — the largest independent streaming catalogue in North America.
A note from the editor
"An algorithm has never lost a print in a garage for fifty-six years. It has never argued with a cinematheque over a nitrate scratch. It has never sat in a darkened screening room at nine in the morning, watching a film it loved, deciding that tonight, after twenty-two years of programming, this was the one it wanted the world to see. Curation is an act of stubbornness, not data. 1MOV is, and will remain, a stubborn place."
Anika Sølver · Editor-in-ChiefFormer TIFF programmer · Variety's "10 Tastemakers Shaping Cinema" (2025) · 22 years in festivals
Section 04 · A colophon of trust
Why cinephiles trust 1MOV
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412 university film programs stream with us
NYU, USC, AFI, the London Film School, and 409 others build syllabi around our catalogue. When a graduate seminar on Taiwanese New Wave needs a print, we ship it in 4K the same afternoon.
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Awarded "Best Streaming Service for Film Lovers"
Three years running — by The Verge (2023), Vulture (2024), and IndieWire (2025). We did not brief any of them.
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94-minute sessions. The longest in streaming.
Per Nielsen's 2025 State of Streaming report. The industry benchmark is 27 minutes. Our subscribers sit down for a film — and stay for it.
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2,100 classic films restored to 4K HDR since 2019
In partnership with the Library of Congress and the Cinémathèque Française — the first streaming platform to ship 4K HDR masters for pre-1970 catalog titles.
