Thanks :)
I’ve been really wanting to check out some of these!
@Captain
OPENING NIGHT and ORDET…. cannot wait to see ’em (by the way, have ’em on my to-watch list.) Thanks.
I am not going to go back and check to see if all the titles I listed without expiration dates are still available, but am assuming they are (So you should still be able to watch Opening Night Scorpio…but sorry, no more Ordet)
Also just realized that Hulu/Criterion chooses what they show for free by theme. All of the films with 2 days left are comedies, and everything with 9 days left is programmed according to the theme of “Dark Knights” (interesting choice. I’m guessing that was Hulu’s call, not Criterion’s, but who knows :)
2 Days (Comedies)
Mr. Freedom – William Klein, 1969
Simon of the Desert – Bunuel, 1965
Three Resurrected Drunkards – Oshima, 1968
The Great Dictator – Chaplin, 1941
Seduced and Abandones – Germi, 1964
9 Days (Dark Knights)
The Seventh Seal – Bergman, 1958
The Virgin Spring – Bergman, 1960
La Haine – Kassovitz, 1995
Throne of Blood – Kurosawa, 1957
Andrei Rublev – Tarkovsky, 1966
Les Visiteurs du Soir – Marcel Carne, 1942
Currently without an expiration date
Babette’s Feast – Axel, 1987
All right…
BABETTE’S FEAST, LA HAINE, MR. FREEDOM, SIMON OF THE DESERT, and LES VISITEURS DU SOIR all do sound good to me (especially LA HAINE).
Thanks again, Captatin.
Kino Lorber also just put up a handful of films on Hulu, here , including Metropolis and Scarlet Street (Lang), The General (Keaton), and The Blue Angel (von Sternberg). Also a documentary called Two In The Wave about the relationship between Godard and Truffaut that might be interesting.
@Captain
Cool. Lang’s METROPOLIS (1926) is a classic! So is Buster Keaton’s THE GENERAL (1927). :)
Kino Lorber does some pretty good stuff, hope to see some of Jean Rollin’s films on Hulu.
Missed last week, but this week it’s all about Vivien Leigh…
Expires in 6 Days
That Hamilton Woman
Anna Karenina
Fire Over England
21 Days
And not on Criterion, but a documentary I’ve been meaning to check out, The Cruise. Also Scorcese’s doc on Bob Dylan, No Direction Home
And I am also assuming that all of the previous “no expiration date” titles are still available
Jesus, maybe I should stop paying for Hulu.
I know it’s for free, and that a lot of “Criterion-worthy” titles aren’t meant to be sliced up, but man I wish they could find better spots to put those ads.
Anyways, the theme this week is “Appetites for Self-Destruction”. But even though they just became available for free yesterday, they expire tomorrow. Not sure what that’s about. Maybe Criterion will only be offering free films on Hulu on the weekends now?
Expires in 1 Day (Appetites for Self Destruction)
Under The Volcano (Huston)
Pale Flower (Shinoda)
The Fire Within (Malle)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Oshima)
Deprisa, Deprisa (Carlos Saura)
Expires in 2 Days (Vivien Leigh)
That Hamilton Woman
Anna Karenina
Fire Over England
21 Days
As always, I am assuming that all of the previously listed “no expiration date” titles are still available (Except for Deprisa, Deprisa, which will expire tomorrow as noted)
Ughhh, am not a fan of the new Hulu layout. I guess I’ll get used to it, but change is never a good thing ;)
Also, I just noticed that every single one of the most popular Criterions (that are not free), are about sex. Premiers Desirs, Realm of the Senses, Sing a Song of Sex, Je Tu Il Elle, and the list goes on. Maybe Criterion should create a subsidiary that focuses exclusively on sex :)
Anyways, the theme about to wrap up is “The Art of the Heist”, and the new one is “Girls Raising Hell”
Expires in 2 Days The Art of the Heist
Cruel Gun Story (1964, Turukawa)
Black Lizard aka Kurotokage (1962, Inoue)
The League of Gentlemen (1960, Basil Dearden)
Intimidation (1960, Kurahara)
Endless Desire (1958, Imamura)
Expires in 9 Days Girls Raising Hell
Daisies (1966, Chytilova)
Pandora’s Box (1929, Pabst)
Summer With Monika (1953, Bergman)
The Match Factory Girl (1990, Kaurismaki)
A Nous Amours (1983, Pialat)
and a few other things I saw that look interesting
Dogtooth (2009)
As It Is in Heaven (2004)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
War Requiem (Derek Jarman)
No Subtitles Necessary (documentary about Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond)
and Toxic Avenger 1-3 :)
captain
No dough but want something to watch? Here are some of the Criterion films currently available for free on Hulu. They are constantly changing, so note expiration dates, and feel free to help update, as I am a lazy bag of bones :)
(Yes, any films for free on Hulu will have commercials throughout them, sometimes placed in the middle of a scene. I believe that if you register with Hulu, they still have commercials, but are restricted to the beginning. At any rate, this is a thread for penny pinchers like myself)
Expires in:
24 hours
Ordet – Carl Dreyer, 1955
Umberto D – Vittorio De Sica, 1952
1 day
The Vanishing – Sluizer, 1988
Au Revoir Les Enfants – Malle, 1987
Sansho the Bailiff – Mizoguchi, 1954
Ikiru – Kurosawa, 1952
7 days
Mr. Freedom – William Klein, 1969
Simon of the Desert – Bunuel, 1965
Three Resurrected Drunkards – Oshima, 1968
8 days
The Great Dictator – Chaplin, 1941
Seduced and Abandones – Germi, 1964
Currently without an exp. date
Eraserhead – David Lynch, 1977
Shadows – Cassavetes, 1959
Opening Night – Cassavetes, 1976
Faces – Cassavetes, 1968
A Woman Under The Influence, Cassavetes, 1974
Stagecoach – John Ford, 1939
Hoop Dreams
For All Mankind – 1989
Quadrophenia – 1979
The Beales of Grey Gardens – 2006
Hopscotch – 1980
Deprisa -Carlos Saura, 1981
The Devil and Daniel Webster – Dieterle, 1941
I Married A Witch – Rene Clair, 1942
General Idi Amin Dada, 1975
To Be Or Not To Be – Lubitsch, 1942
The Haunted Strangler – 1957
A Day in the Country – Jean Renoir, 1946
Breaker Morant – 1980
Foreign Correspondent – Hitchcock, 1940
The Ruling Class – 1972
The Long Voyage Home – John Ford, 1940
History is Made at Night – Frank Borzage, 1937
Sweet Sounds – 1976
Room At The Top – Jack Clayton, 1959
Mikey and Nicky – Elaine May, 1976
Fishing With John (different episodes)
Zatoichi (many, many of these)