The 50 Best Movies on Hulu Plus

Narrowing down the 50 best movies on Hulu Plus was actually more difficult than similar lists we've done for Netflix Instant and Amazon Prime thanks to Hulu's deal with Criterion.  read more

Pina

German director Wim Wenders’ latest film, a 3D documentary tribute to the German dancer, choreographer and teacher Pina Bausch, began in the mid-eighties when he saw Bausch’s Café Müller for the first time. Afterwords, he suggested to her that they one day make a film together. It was not until 2009, however, that this dream really began to take shape. After working with Bausch for almost half a year, and just days before they were supposed to begin shooting the first 3D rehearsal, Bausch suddenly and unexpectedly died. After a mourning period, and encouraged by friends and family of Bausch,...  read more

Paris, Texas Review

DVD Release Date: Jan. 26 Director: Wim Wenders Writer: Sam Shepard, L.M. Kit Carson Cinematographer: Robby Müller Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell Studio/Run Time: Criterion Collection, 147 mins. Cinematic masterpiece reminds of Wenders’ bleak, unique vision of America “You look like 40 miles of rough road,” esteems Walt Henderson (Dean Stockwell) after picking up his estranged brother in a Texas border town. That rutted, haggard visage belongs to Harry Dean Stanton’s Travis Henderson, who has stumbled out of the desert after abandoning his family four years earlier....  read more

Wings of Desire (The Criterion Collection)

DVD Release Date: Nov. 3 Director: Wim Wenders Writers: Wenders, Peter Handke Cinematographer: Henri Alekan Starring: Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Solveig Dommartin Studio/Run Time: Criterion, 127 mins. Wim Wenders’ masterpiece illuminates the sublime in everyday existence In this 1987 Wim Wenders classic (finally getting the Criterion treatment this month), two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, watch over a divided Berlin. Sometimes they observe from lofty perches, but mostly they move freely through the ordinary lives of the city’s inhabitants, observing and documenting what they see. Occasionally, an angel will put an intangible arm around someone to offer subtle...  read more