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Ten Criterion Collection Movies to Watch on Hulu Plus

The Criterion Collection is known for distributing some of the world's greatest films in the highest quality with special features that enrich the appreciation of cinema...  read more

Criterion Collection Comes to Hulu Plus

If there wasn’t already a reason to sign up for Hulu Plus, there most certainly is now. The Criterion Collection has recently uploaded some 150 of the important classic and contemporary films in their catalog to the streaming video site....  read more

Six Pop-Culture Gift Ideas Worth Sleeping In For

You may be reading this bleary-eyed after your 3am Black Friday excursion, but for those who enjoyed their post-Thanksgiving morning slumber, here are some gift ideas for your pop-culture-loving friends and family....  read more

Criterion Announces November Inductees

Criterion Collection once again aids in satisfying our cultural appetite by plucking out worthy titles of our viewing pleasure with inclusion of The Night of the Hunter, Modern Times and Antichrist....  read more

Walkabout Review

Release Date: Available Now Director/Cinematographer: Nicolas Roeg Writers: James Vance Marshall (novel), Edward Bond (screenplay) Starring: Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Lucien John Studio/Runtime: Criterion, 100 min. After the 1990 Anjelica Huston vehicle The Witches, British director Nicolas Roeg slid into a netherworld of episodic TV fare and direct-to-video oblivion. But the man deserves a nod, if only for the heady run from his 1970 collaborative directorial debut Performance through 1980’s harrowing Bad Timing. (Just ask Wilco producer, former Sonic Youth guitarist and cinephile Jim O’Rourke, who has three solo albums that namecheck Roeg’s oeuvre.) But the director stands...  read more

Film Friday: Your DVDs Are Rotting

Like the autumn tomato left on your window sill or the miniature pumpkin forgotten on the mantel until November, your DVD collection is rotting. Maybe not physically deteriorating like fall fruit (although some people worry about that, too) but deteriorating in the way that all media seems to: by sitting still as technology marches past. You can’t easily play the video games of your youth, peruse a defunct web site, listen to an 8-track tape found in the attic, or, at this point, even play an audio cassette or a VHS video in many households. The DVD is headed for...  read more

Y Tu Mama Tambien , Che, More Coming to Criterion Collection

Thanks to a new pact with IFC Films, Che, A Christmas Tale, Christopher Nolan’s Following, Y Tu Mama Tambien and a host of other films will have new Criterion editions in the coming months. ...  read more

The Seventh Seal

It’s fitting that for Criterion’s sterling new edition of...  read more

Criterion offers streaming movies for $5

As streaming films became more commonplace online, the drive was to offer the highest-profile titles possible to entice consumers to the new format. But Netflix and other providers seem to have concluded that the titles themselves are only half the allure, and have also focused on new platforms—streaming video for TiVo users, in one instance....  read more

Rhymes With Five: Judging films by their covers

In addition to the staggering visual impression of their full catalog, I was struck by just how many great films I'm wildly unfamiliar with-- so, in celebration, here are my five favorite Criterion covers of movies I've never seen (that I probably should soon). What are yours?  read more