I'm a big fan of "Video On Demand", but it is a difficult nut to crack. I love a bit of high-brow and a bit of low-brow, but mostly my taste lies somewhere in between. Middle-brow, I suppose - the middling bit of a unabrow. Entertaining but challenging. Sadly iTunes and its competitors do not really provide much to my taste. Then there's Mubi which is great, but veers a bit too much to the challenging for my liking. Just when I was about to climb a mountain and proclaim VOD to be DOA, I experienced a new player in town.
Peter Strickland's "Berberian Sound Studio" definitely falls in the European arthouse section of the video store and I enjoyed it thoroughly for it's unabashed cinephilic creepiness and lack of driving narrative. It's a masterpiece of analogue sound, a mind-bending companion to "The Conversation". If you like your film cooked up weird, it's a must-see. Best of all you can stream it from the Curzon website, which is the point of this ramble. The Curzon is an irritatingly uncomfortable and expensive cinema, but its on-demand section has a banquet of high and mid brow films to choose from. I will be using it again, yes indeed. That is all.