As nice as it is to have the Daily Show back on Hulu, the latest announcement from the online video site not only has us excited, it has us actually contemplating spending $7.99-per-month on the Hulu Plus service. Why? Because it is now home to the Criterion Collection. Currently the site boasts 150 Criterion flicks, but that number should soon swell to include nearly their entire library—so the next time you've got a hankering for some Fellini, Kurosawa or Truffaut, you won't even have to leave your computer. Of course, this being the ultimate film snob collection going online, not everyone is jumping for joy the way we are.
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The Brothers Weinstein are working on their own specialty DVD label to go up against the Criterion Collection; not that it's related, but remember Talk?
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Hulu Plus Adds Some Of The Greatest Movies Ever
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The Cinecultist's Weekly Repertory Pick: M For Murderer Edition
Museum of the Moving Image, through Sept. 30
Ingmar Bergman Dies at 89
Only 2 weeks after his 89th birthday, Swedish film and theater director Ingmar Bergman passed away at his home on Fårö Island this morning, the Associated Press reports. "Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, confirmed the death, and Swedish journalist Marie Nyreröd said the director died peacefully during his sleep. Bergman never fully recovered after a hip surgery in October last year, Nyreröd told Swedish broadcaster SVT."
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: War-like Edition
makes nice with the stylized visuals giving us the most lush, chiseled, half-naked warriors and warrior wives ever depicted on screen. In particular the actors playing the Spartan queen and king, Lena Headey and Gerard Butler look like they were carved from stone. Word to the wise though, the flick is long on gratuitous, baroque violence and short on three dimensional characters.
Shirts for Cineastes
If you're a foreign film fan or DVD fiend, if you've ever had a heated discussion about auteur theory, or insisted that seeing all of Fanny and Alexander was the right way to spend an evening, this might be the most perfect t-shirt for you: The Criterion Collection, which puts out stunning and comprehensive DVDs of films from around the world and from the past and present (two recent favorites of Gothamist: Their editions of The 400 Blows and Metropolitan), now has an online store where you can buy not just Criterion but also Janus Films gear. There are baseball caps and t-shirts, perfect for letting your film snob freak flag fly!
Spellbound
Yay! Spellbound finally opens at Film Forum today! Gothamist has been following this spelling bee documentary for a while, and will try to make it to West Houston today to see it. A.O. Scott loves the film, and mentions, one contestant, "Harry, a voluble boy from New Jersey, who struggles with an Anglo-Saxon plural noun (to write it would be to spoil one of the film's most excruciating and hilarious moments) referring to a religious practice he's never heard of." Harry is from Glen Rock, where I spent my 0-12 years.
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